Peoria, IL - Behind Mike O'Reilly's seven scoreless innings and Matt Fiedler's second home run of the year, the Peoria Chiefs defeated the Beloit Snappers on Wednesday night in a pitcher's duel 1-0. The Chiefs improve to 9-5 in the second half and 39-44 overall as they look for the
Peoria, IL - Behind Mike O'Reilly's seven scoreless innings and Matt Fiedler's second home run of the year, the Peoria Chiefs defeated the Beloit Snappers on Wednesday night in a pitcher's duel 1-0. The Chiefs improve to 9-5 in the second half and 39-44 overall as they look for the series sweep of the Snappers on Thursday with a 7:00 pm first pitch.
The game was scoreless into the bottom of the fifth inning when the Chiefs struck against Beloit starter Zack Erwin to take a 1-0 lead. Matt Fiedler homered, his second of the season since becoming a member of the Chiefs on June 22, to right field with no outs to give Peoria the first lead of the game 1-0.
In the seventh inning, O'Reilly's final inning of work, he struck out the side to give him nine strikeouts, one shy of his career high 10, in back-to-back outings. Dewin Perez entered on the mound for the Chiefs in the bottom of the ninth inning looking for his first save of the season. After allowing a one-out walk to Edwin Díaz, Perez got pinch-hitter J.C. Rodriguez to ground into a double play to end the game.
O'Reilly (7-2) earned the win allowing only four hits over seven scoreless innings with nine strikeouts and one walk. Bryan Dobzanski tossed one hitless inning giving up just one walk. Perez recorded his first save of the year throwing one hitless inning in the ninth.
Notes… Tonight was the third time the Chiefs have won a game 1-0, O'Reilly has started all three of those games… He has started four of the Chiefs shutout wins this year… O'Reilly's scoreless innings streak is up to 17 2/3 innings, the most by any Chiefs pitcher this year… Jordan Hicks previously held that mark with 14 straight scoreless innings to start the 2017 season… O'Reilly has struck out nine batters in back-to-back outings… It was the third time this year he's struck out at least nine… The Chiefs are 14-13 in one-run games this season… They are 36-1 when leading entering the ninth inning… Jose Martinez has started at short for 15 consecutive games… Brian O'Keefe extended his hit streak to five games, which is the longest current streak on the Chiefs… Vince Jackson extended his hit streak to four games… Danny Hudzina's second-inning double was his sixth extra-base hit in the last nine games… Peoria will play the final game of the three-game set at Dozer Park against Beloit on Thursday…The Chiefs send LH Ian Oxnevad (2-8, 4.48) to the mound against Beloit's RH Miguel Romero (0-0. 9.00) at 7:00 p.m.… It's Brewers Distributing Beer & Brat Thirsty Thursday featuring $2 12 oz domestic cans and soda plus $3 16 oz Craft drafts and Margaritas and $3 Brats…All tickets are $5…Thursday is Taco Bell Live Mas Thursday where fans can show a Taco Bell receipt showing a purchase from within the last seven days to receive a buy one get one FREE ticket (Limit 4 free tickets per transaction)… The broadcast can be heard, starting with the Pre-Game Show at 6:45 p.m. on www.peoriachiefs.com/listenlive which also has downloads for a free app on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android…The broadcast is also available on the Peoria Chiefs Network in the Tune-In Radio App.
