ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Three Quad Cities pitchers combined on a 4-hit shutout of the Timber Rattlers. Elvis Hernandez pitched the first five innings and allowed just three hits for the win. Kyle Sadlowski worked the next two innings and Kyle Mura finished off the Rattlers. Christian Lopez capped a four run second innings with a three-run home run off Rattler starter Ricky Orta.
BAD HABIT: Wisconsin has been shutout six times this season. Swing pitchers are responsible for three of those shutouts.
THE HITS KEEP COMING: One of the four hits for the Rattlers last night was a third inning single from Juan Diaz. He extended his current hitting streak to nine games with that single. This is the second nine-game hitting streak for Diaz since joining the Rattlers.
CHANCES WERE: The game was scoreless in the top of the second inning and the Rattlers had runners at first and second against Hernandez. The Swing starter got out of the jam with a pair of grounders.
SECOND ACT: Orta walked the first two batters of the second inning. Both walks came on full counts. Donovan Solano singled in the first run of the game. Lopez followed with the three-run homer to right.
PUTTING IT AWAY: Quad Cities scored four more times in the fourth inning. Christian Reyes greeted Rattler reliever Brian Kappel with a run scoring sacrifice fly. Tim Dorn tripled in two runs and scored later in the inning on a single by Jaime Landin.
SOUNDS FAMILIAR: The Seattle Mariners selected Tim Dorn as a pitcher out of East Los Angeles Junior College in 14th round of the 2003 draft. He spent two seasons pitching for the AZL Mariners before being released in April of 2005. Dorn started the 2007 season with the Southern Illinois Miners of the Frontier League and had 12 home runs in 34 games for the Miners before being signed by the Cardinals and assigned to the Swing.
SOMETHING TO WATCH FOR: The previous two times Quad Cities shutout the Rattlers, Wisconsin beat the Swing the next day.
OUT OF THE DRAFT: Steven Hill, the 13th round pick of the Cardinals in the 2007 draft, joined the Swing yesterday. Hill was selected out of Stephen F. Austin University where he hit 38 homers (including 24 in his last season there) over two seasons.
OPPOSING STARTER: Tyler Herron was the 46th player picked in the 2005 draft. The supplemental first round selection out of Wellington (FL) High School was 5-10 with a 4.67 in 27 starts over two seasons as a professional. He started the 2007 season 0-4 in his first seven appearances. Since then he is 7-0 with a save over eleven appearances (six starts). He has faced the Timber Rattlers three times (one start) and is 1-0 with a save. Herron has pitched 10-2/3 innings against the Rattlers and has allowed seven runs (six earned) on thirteen hits with no walks and fifteen strikeouts. In his last start, Herron picked up a win at Clinton. On June 26, he pitched four shutout innings in relief and gave up three hits with a walk and a strikeout.
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