Here is how the Rattlers have fared on April 30…since 2000
2000: The Rattlers beat Kane County 4-2 at home. Craig Anderson got the win. Chris Snelling drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly and a two-run homer.
2001: The Rattlers split a doubleheader with Quad City at Black Hawk Community College. Wisconsin won game one 6-1. The Bandits won game two 7-6. John O'Donnell Stadium had been flooded out since the start of the season.
GAME ONE: Jamal Strong, Chuck Lopez, and Jamie Bubela each had three RBI and Kevin Olore allowed one run on six hits for the win.
GAME TWO: The Rattlers had a 6-3 lead after the top of the fifth inning. John Castellano had a couple of RBI for the Rattlers. BUT, Justin Morneau – yes, that Justin Morneau – homered in the fifth off Tim Burton to start a comeback for the River Bandits. The game was tied 6-6 in the bottom of the seventh and got the walk-off win on a Luis Maza RBI single. Burton set a record for the longest water cooler toss after the game.
2002: Another doubleheader with the River Bandits? Yep and this one at John O’Donnell Stadium was a sweep for the QC. Quad City beat the Rattlers 3-2 in 12 innings and 2-0.
GAME ONE: The game was tied 2-2 after the Rattlers scored twice in the bottom of the fifth on RBI singles by Miguel Villilo and Shin-soo Choo. Mike Kesten tossed five innings of scoreless relief, but back-to-back doubles in the twelfth gave the Bandits the win.
GAME TWO: Colby Miller, the Rattler Killer, pitched a 4-hit complete game shutout. Joe Mauer was 3-for-3 with an RBI in the game.
2003: The Rattlers game at Clinton was rained out.
2004: The Rattlers won 6-3 in 17 innings at Fort Wayne. Wisconsin took a 2-1 lead with two runs in the top of the eighth on a two RBI single by Oswaldo Navarro. But, in the top of the eighth, Brian Wahlbrink homered in the bottom of the eighth……………Hey, in the 14th, Eval Bastida-Martinez drove in Chris Collins for a 3-2 lead, but Rattler closer Brian Stitt allowed a two-out walk and an RBI double in the bottom of the inning…………….to the 17th! Adam Jones – yes, that Adam Jones – drove in a run with a two-out single and Chris Collins blasted a two-run homer. Bryan Heaston, the eighth Rattler pitcher of the game, worked a scoreless bottom of the inning and a Rattler win!
2005: The Rattlers won 3-0 at South Bend. Aaron Jensen got a complete game 4-hit win. Yung Chi Chen, Brandon Green, and Mike Wilson drove in runs for the Rattlers.
2006: The Rattlers and the Whitecaps were rained out in Grand Chute.
2007: The Rattlers lost 3-1 to Dayton at home. This was one of the weirder endings to a game…ever.
Dayton was up 3-1 with two outs and a runner at first. Leury Bonilla was at the plate with an 0-1 count as the tying run. He took a called strike and did not like the call by home plate umpire Alex Ortiz. Bonilla stepped out of the box to collect himself. Problem! The new rule instituted at the start of the season called for the umpire to call a strike on the batter if they stepped all the way out of the box without calling time. Ortiz enforced the rule and called strike three on Bonilla to end the game.
The Rattler record on April 30 is 4-4…since 2000. There are plenty of weird games and events in here to make this a great day in Rattler history.
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