This Date in Timber Rattlers History: May 7
Here is a look at the Timber Rattlers games that were played on May 7.
1995: The Rattlers beat Beloit 5–0 at home. Marino Santana pitched a complete-game, five-hit shutout.
1996: The Rattlers lost 5–2 to Rockford at home.
1997: The Rattlers home game with Beloit was suspended. It will be completed on May 8
1998: The Rattlers beat Kane County 2–1 in ten innings at home. Mike Marchiano had the RBI, walkoff single for Wisconsin. Matt Erickson was 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI for Kane County.
1999: The Rattlers beat Lansing 6–1 at home. The game was shortened for 5–1/2 innings by rain.
2000: The Rattlers won 10–5 at Burlington.
2001: The Rattlers won 8–4 at Cedar Rapids. Wisconsin broke a 4–4 tie with four runs in the top of the ninth inning. Jamie Bubela had a three-run double with two outs to put the Rattlers in front. John Castellano followed with an RBI double.
2002: The Rattlers were swept in a home doubleheader with Kane County. The Cougars won game one 9–3 and game two 6–2.
2003: The Rattlers lost 4–0 at Lansing.
2004: The Rattlers beat Battle Creek 11–6 at home. Brent Metheny had three hits and three RBI for Wisconsin.
2005: The Rattlers lost 6–2 to Dayton at home. The Dragons scored five runs in the first inning. Wisconsin starter Casey Abrams issued six walks in 3–2/3 innings.
2006: The Rattlers lost 6–5 at Cedar Rapids.
2007: The Rattlers lost 9–3 at South Bend. The Silver Hawks scored four runs in the first and added single runs in the second and third inning.
2008: This was a scheduled off day.
2009: The Rattlers lost 12–8 to Burlington at home. The Bees broke a 4–4 tie with six runs in the fifth inning and added two runs in the seventh. Nick Van Stratten went 4-for-6 with seven RBI for Burlington. Wisconsin got homers from Brock Kjeldgaard, Michael Vass, and Cutter Dykstra. The Rattlers defense committed four errors and seven of Burlington’s twelve runs were unearned.
2010: The Rattlers lost 6–1 to Cedar Rapids in a home game played at Miller Park. The attendance was 12,667.
2011: The Rattlers lost 1–0 to Quad Cities at home. Oscar Taveras drove in the only run of the game with an RBI single in the top of the eighth. Carlos Martinez made his US MiLB debut in this game and pitched four no-hit innings with one walk and six strikeouts.
2012: The Rattlers swept a home doubleheader from Cedar Rapids. Wisconsin won game one 2–0 and game two 3–2. In game one, Andy Moye and Jacob Barnes combined on a three-hit shutout. In game two, Jason Rogers hit a two-run homer and Matt Miller allowed one run over six innings for the win.
2013: This was a scheduled off day.
2014: The Rattlers won 5–3 at Kane County. David Denson broke a 3–3 tie with an RBI single in the ninth and Angel Ortega followed with a squeeze bunt to add an insurance run. Tyler Alexander escaped from a jam with runners at the corners and one out in the bottom of the ninth with two strikeouts.
2015: The Rattlers lost 4–1 at Quad Cities. Jacob Nottingham had a pair of RBI for the River Bandits.
2016: The Rattlers won 10–2 at West Michigan. Wisconsin had 18 hits in the game. Jake Gatewood drove in six runs in the game for the Rattlers. Gatewood had a two-run, inside-the-park homer in the eighth and a grand slam in the ninth. Gatewood, Mitch Ghelfi, and David Denson each had three hits in the game.
2017: The Ratttlers lost 3–2 to Dayton at home.
2018: The Rattlers beat Lansing 6–5 at home. Payton Henry tied the game with a two-out, RBI single in the eighth. A throwing error on a sacrifice bunt allowed the winning run to score in the bottom of the ninth.
2019: The Rattlers won 3–2 beat Fort Wayne at home. Jesus Lujano brought Wisconsin back from a 2–1 deficit with a two-run single in the bottom of the ninth.
ALSO:
Julio Mateo (Timber Rattlers 1999, 2000) made his MLB debut on May 7, 2002 for the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays. Mateo allowed one hit and had one strikeout in a scoreless eighth inning as a reliever for James Baldwin. He inherited two runners from Baldwin, but got the first batter he faced (Raul Mondesi) to ground into a 5–3 double play.
