Quad City River Bandits at Dayton Dragons
April 20th, 2004
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4 |
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1 |
0 |
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5 |
6 |
2 |
| Dayton |
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3 |
0 |
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0 |
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1 |
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4 |
5 |
2 |
E-Taylor, Gomon, Olmstead, Thigpen, LOB QC-8, DAY-9, 2B-Moses, Phillips, Garcia, Fry, SACF-Pattee, Garcia, SB-Taylor, Spataro, Dickerson, GIDP-Himes
HB-Smith (Meek), Dickerson (Culpepper), Moses (Noriega), BK-Thigpen
U-Robert Price, Dixon Struman
T-3:02, A-7,621
Dayton Daily News
by Marc Katz
From the Quad Cities River Bandtis to the pendulum of the Dayton Dragons, it was quite a back and forth Class A Midwest League game at Fifth Third Field Tuesday night.
Not much worked out for the Dragons, who lost the use of their outfield fence advertising panels for a few innings, the use of the scoreboard video for the ninth and ultimately, the game, 5-4 to the Bandits.
It may be the only team in baseball to use burnt orange (think Texas Longhorns) for its road jerseys and socks, with baby blue lettering and numbers.
Dayton starting pitcher Josh Thigpen was treated to three runs in the first on four walks, a hit batter, two wild pitches and a single, but after two superb innings, crashed in the third as the Bandits swung best on the way to victory.
Because of a late afternoon rain, several hundred of a crowd of 7,621 stayed home, but it was a happy gathering when Ryan Fry's single in the first knocked in Dayton's third run.
After that, the Dragons went cold at the plate, collecting just two hits over the next six innings while the Bandits scored four in the third and one in the eighth.
Dayton added a run in the eighth, but left the bases loaded thanks to two Quad Cities errors with only one out.
"There's a lack of execution," Dayton manager Alonzo Powell said. "We're not getting runs in th when we're supposed to get runs in. That's the story of our year."
The Dragons put two on with one out in the fifth and didn't score, and two on with one out in the seventh and didn't score. They put four battlers on base (two hits, two errors) in the eighth with one out and scored only once.
Quad Cities meanwhile, overcame a rough start by Evan Meek, a top pitching prospect for the parent Twins, who walked the first three batters he faced and hit the fourth. He did get a ground out double play, but gave up Ryan's hit and another walk before being relieved.