9-8 win moves home streak to 10
DAVENPORT, Iowa – The River Bandits won their 10th straight home game with a 9-8 win over the Peoria Chiefs on Wednesday night at Modern Woodmen Park. Salvador Montano earned the win in relief. Ronnie Dawson hit his team-leading 14th homer of the year.
Peoria (27-25, 57-64) scored two 2nd inning runs on Matt Fiedler’s two-run scoring single. The Bandits (34-18, 71-49) responded for five in the bottom of the inning. Ray Henderson drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly. Luis Payano recorded an RBI double. A second run scored on the play when Dylan Carlson over ran the ball in left field, committing an error. With the Bandits up 3-2, Dawson banged a two-run homer to right. Abraham Toro-Herndandez’s solo homer started a four-run rally for the Bandits in the 3rd, who took a 9-2 lead. Dylan Carlson’s two-run homer was part of a three-run flurry for Peoria in the fourth. The Chiefs made it a 9-8 game in the sixth with five straight batters reaching on four hits and a walk.
Montano (6-3) tossed 1.2 innings of scoreless and hitless relief. Yohan Ramirez followed with four innings out of the pen to earn his first save, surrendering three runs on five hits with five strikeouts. Frederis Parra took the loss. Parra (3-5) yielded nine runs on six hits over 2.2 innings.
Game four of the four-game series is Thursday night at 6:35 p.m. RHP Ronel Blanco (5-3, 3.49) toes the rubber for the Bandits. Jake Levy and Connor Onion have coverage beginning at 6:20 p.m. on 1170 AM KBOB and riverbandits.com.
