Beloit WINS Series and Season Series over Quad Cities
DAVENPORT, IA - Beloit jumped out to an early lead and never looked back to clinch the season series victory by winning 8-3 over Quad Cities tonight. The Snappers pounced all over the River Bandits with an 11-hit attack and 8 runs in route to securing the series win.
DAVENPORT, IA - Beloit jumped out to an early lead and never looked back to clinch the season series victory by winning 8-3 over Quad Cities tonight. The Snappers pounced all over the River Bandits with an 11-hit attack and 8 runs in route to securing the series win.
Beloit struck first in the contest pushing across a run right out of the gates to get the scoring started.
That would not mark the end of the scoring for Beloit too, as the Snappers would push across three more in the third to retake the lead. This time it would courtesy of the longball.
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The Beloit bats would then erupt in the sixth inning exploding for 4 runs and extending the lead even further. However, it would not come easy as the Snappers would do all their damage with two outs in the frame.
Beloit would get runners on first and second with two outs cueing the fun to start in the inning.
Beloit would not be done there as just one batter later, Max Schuemann would trade places with Pena hitting his 26th double of the year and scoring Pena to take the 7-1 lead. To cap the inning off, Devin Foyle would hit the Snappers third straight double to drive in Pena and conclude Beloit's impressive inning with the 8-1 lead heading to the bottom half.
That would be all Snappers pitching would need taking the way from there on out to secure the victory for Beloit. Snappers pitching held Quad Cities to just 3 runs, while giving up just a mere 7 hits on this evening.
Beloit will now make the trek back home to Beloit to open up a 7-game homestand at Pohlman Field. Tomorrow will be our second to last fireworks night of the year presented by Kerry and we will also have a T-Shirt giveaway courtesy of UW-Whitewater at Rock County. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30.
The Beloit Snappers are a member of the Midwest League and have been the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. For more ticket information, contact the Snappers office at (608) 362-2272 or visit our website, www.snappersbaseball.com