ABOUT SATURDAY: The Wizards scored five times in the top of the second inning on their way to a 9-3 win over the Rattlers. Sam Carter hit a two-run homer, Tom King drove in a pair with a double, and Cedric Hunter knocked in the final run of the inning. Fort Wayne knocked out fifteen hits in the win.
IT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY: After Carter’s home run, Timber Rattler starting pitcher Tony Butler got the next two outs and the Rattlers were only down 2-0. The next batter was Matt Stocco, the ninth hitter in the Fort Wayne lineup. Stocco was hitting .083 going into yesterday’s game. Butler walked Stocco on a 3-2 pitch. Javis Diaz followed with a double. King doubled in both runners, and Hunter singled in King to run the score to 5-0.
SCATTERED: Fort Wayne starter Andy Underwood allowed seven hits, walked two, and hit one in his six innings. But, the Rattlers scored just twice off Underwood.
TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A STREAK: The Rattlers have followed up each of their four wins this season with a loss. Each loss after a Rattler victory has been followed by at least one loss.
HALMAN UPDATE: Greg Halman had a pair of singles on Saturday to extend his hitting streak to eight games. Halman is 11-for-34 during the streak. He has also collected at least one hit in thirteen of his last fourteen games.
GOING THE EXTRA MILE: Kalian Sams doubled and tripled in Saturday’s game. Sams has ten hits this season – four of them are for extra bases.
CLEAN SHEET: The Rattlers did not commit a fielding error yesterday. The game was just the fourth in which Wisconsin was not charged with an error this season.
HOME WOES: The Rattlers have started the season 2-6 at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. That was the exact same home record they had after eight games here in 2006. Last season’s Rattler team was 29-40 at home.
OPPOSING STARTER: Orlando Lara was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Padres out of Mexico in 2005. He was 2-1 in sixteen games (ten starts) for Eugene in the Northwest League in 2006. In his last start for the Wizards, Lara took the loss against Quad Cities. Lara allowed three runs on nine hits in four innings. This is his first appearance against the Timber Rattlers. He faced Everett, Seattle’s Northwest League affiliate, four times (three starts) in 2006. He had no record and an ERA of 2.31. Lara struck out sixteen and walked three in 11-2/3 innings against the Sox last season.
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