BELOIT, WISCONSIN (June 25, 2021) — Fueled by 14 hits and runs in the first five innings, the Quad Cities River Bandits trounced the Beloit Snappers on Thursday as they came away with a 10-3 victory for their second win in-a-row at Pohlman Field.
The Bandits wasted no time jumping on starting Bryan Hoeing early on and got their first home-run of the night thanks to Vinnie Pasquantino, whose solo blast made it 1-0 in the first.
Fresh off of throwing six shut-out innings in a combined no-hitter, Zach Haake stranded a pair of singles in the bottom-half and saw Jake Means whack his third home-run of the season in the second. After a Jimmy Govern walk and a Logan Porter double, Tucker Bradley cracked into the RBI column for the first of five times on that night and plated Govern with a groundball.
Offense continued to pour off of the Bandits’ bats in the third and made the game 4-0 when Tyler Gentry singled in Pasquantino, who tripled five pitches earlier.
Still working in the ballgame, Hoeing’s night got even worse in the fourth, when Govern and Bradley both tagged him for solo shots and extended the Bandits’ lead to 6-0, while Haake kept the Beloit offense quiet by posting a one-two-three inning with two punch-outs in the bottom-frame.
Quad Cities blew the open and finally chased Hoeing with a four-run fifth and got RBI efforts from John Rave, on a single, and Tucker Bradley, who unloaded the bases with a three-run triple against newly-entered Brady Puckett to extend his club’s lead to 10-0.
Yohanse Morel took picked up right where Haake left off in the sixth and retired the Snappers in order. But in the seventh, Beloit finally broke through with a trio of runs stemming from an RBI triple from Nic Ready and then a two-run homer from Marcos Rivera.
With Quad Cities leading 10-3, Zack Phillips closed things out in the eighth and the ninth and didn’t allow a base-runner while striking out a pair in the former en route to the Bandits’ league-best 29th win.
On top in the series two games to one, Quad Cities will send Anthony Veneziano (1-1, 3.91) to the mound in game four, while Beloit will roll with Kyle Nicolas (3-1, 5.13) for a 6:35PM CT first pitch on Friday at Pohlman Field.
ABOUT THE BANDITS: The 2021 season marks the River Bandits’ first year as a new Advanced-A major-league affiliate. As such, the team will be offering higher-quality baseball than has ever before been played in the Quad Cities. Additionally, the Bandits will welcome a new MLB affiliate to the Quad Cities, the Kansas City Royals. The River Bandits anchor the Quad Cities sports-market, which The Sports Business Journal named the top minor-league sports-market in the country in 2015 and second-best minor-league market in its 2017 follow-up ranking. In 2015, 2017, and again in 2019, the River Bandits earned Ballpark Digest’s award for “Best Charitable Works” in Minor League Baseball, the only club to win that coveted award three times. For more information, visit www.riverbandits.com or contact General Manager Joe Kubly at (563) 333-2768
