Peoria 1
Wisconsin 8
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The first pitch for Tuesday’s game is in less than 12 hours.

Kyle from Brew Crew Ball was at the game and filed this report with quotes and features and details.  Head over there, please.

Sleep fast, everyone.  See you in the morning. 

Monday’s Highlights:

Peoria 4
Wisconsin 3
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Wes Darvill was due against Wisconsin.  He had a two-out RBI single in the eighth inning to drive in a big insurance run.  Why do I say he was due?  This tweet from @PeoriaChiefs answers: Wisconsin had retired Darvill 32 straight AB dating to 4/13 before RBI single, which came off the only LHP on Wis roster. 4-2 Chiefs in 8th.  Darvill is now 2-for-40 in ten games against the Timber Rattlers.

This is a picture taken with Ben McMahan at the plate in the ninth inning:

Five minutes later, it was pouring rain. Fifteen minutes later, there was hail. Thirty minutes later, the sun was shining and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

Apologies for the brevity of these postgame reports of late.  If you have been listening for the last week, you will know that I am fighting a horrible cold/cough.  Plus, I drove to Beloit on my own and there’s a combo of night game, day game, night game, day game with very little time for sleep.

The machine does break down occasionally.  Trying to fine tune it for the last few regular season games and the postseason.

Sunday’s Highlights

Chiefs 9
Rattlers 2
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A few thoughts.

Peoria scored six of their nine runs with two outs.

Here’s a sneak peek for the game notes tomorrow (and a hat tip to the Rattlers official scorer for this):

TRIPLE DOUBLE:  Ben McMahan hit his 11th triple of the season on Friday night.  McMahan also has 20 doubles and 11 home runs this season.  He is the second Rattler to have double digits in doubles, triples, and homers for a season.  The other player to record a “triple-double”  in those three offensive categories is Chris Colton.  In 2004, Colton had 18 doubles, 11 triples, and 12 homers.

Looking back at some old Appleton Foxes seasons on Baseball-Reference.com, we couldn’t find any players who had reached double digits in doubles, triples, and homers.

Colton had 15 stolen bases in 2004.  McMahan has eight steals this season.  Keep your eye on that one.

Not making the game notes tomorrow, but obvious on the results for the night, but Jorge Soler is pretty good.  4-for-5, long homer, rocket double, stolen base, two RBI.

Get them tomorrow.

Saturday’s Highlights