ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The Rattlers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but the Bees wound up winning 5-4. Ryan Di Pietro pitched 5-1/3 innings for the win. Chris Hayes worked 3-2/3 for the save. Alex Liddi and Leury Bonilla both had three hits and an RBI for the Timber Rattlers. Bonilla scored three runs for the Wisconsin.
BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK: Wisconsin took a 2-0 lead on three straight one out doubles in the bottom of the first inning. Kuo Hui Lo, Bonilla, and Carlos Peguero had the doubles in the inning for the Rattlers.
RIGHT BACK AT YOU: The Bees scored three times in the top of the second inning. A two-out, two-run single by Kurt Mertins gave Burlington a 3-2 lead. The Bees padded that lead to 5-2 with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth.
STINGING THE RATTLERS: Mertins is 5-for-7 with a homer, a triple, three walks, four RBI, and three runs scored in two games against Wisconsin.
OUCH!: Peguero was hit by pitches twice in last night’s game.
MISSED OPPORTUNITY: The Rattlers scored a run in the bottom of the sixth inning off Di Pietro on an RBI single by Liddi. On the play, Peguero took third and Liddi wound up on second. Di Pietro walked Gerardo Avila to load the bases. Hayes entered the game and retired the next two batters on a strikeout and a pop out to end the inning without another run scoring.
MEET THE NEW GUY: Infielder Trevor Lawhorn joins the Rattlers today. Lawhorn was a 9th round pick of the Cincinnati Reds out of East Carolina in the 2004 draft. He played for Dayton in 2005 and Sarasota in the Florida State League in 2006. After the season, he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays as the player to be named later in a trade for Scott Schoeneweis. The Blue Jays released Lawhorn before the start of the 2007 season. Lawhorn hooked up with the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Independent baseball. The Mariners purchased his contract on May 25. Lawhorn was hitting .286 with four homers and ten RBI in fewer than 20 games with the Canaries. Lawhorn takes the spot of Carlos Triunfel, who went on the disabled list today.
OPPOSING STARTER: Everett Teaford was the 12th round pick of the Royals in the 2006 draft out of Georgia Southern. In his final season – his junior year – at Georgia Southern, Teaford was 10-4 with a 3.96ERA and led the Southern Conference in innings pitched (120-1/3) and strikeouts (122). After signing with the Royals, Teaford pitched for Idaho Falls in the Pioneer League and went 5-1 with an ERA of 3.71 in 15 games (two starts). In his last start for the Bees, he lost at Clinton on May 27. Teaford allowed four runs on five hits over five innings with one walk and four strikeouts. Teaford has lost five straight decisions and went 0-3 with a 6.43ERA in May. This is his first appearance against the Timber Rattlers and his first appearance against an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.
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