Sanabria nearly perfect in Bandits win

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The River Bandits took game one of three in Cedar Rapids with an 8-2 win over the Kernels on a warm Tuesday night at Perfect Game Field. Carlos Sanabria tossed six perfect innings before Cedar Rapids cracked the hit column in the seventh. Five Bandits had multi-hit games.

Marcos Almonte  singled home a run in the first for the Bandits (26-24). In the fourth, Osvaldo Duarte  cracked a single to left to make it 2-0 Quad Cities. The Bandits scored four times in the fifth off Cedar Rapids' (29-23) starter Eduardo Del Rosario . Duarte and Ronnie Dawson  both doubled to drive in runs and Taylor Jones  recorded a two RBI single, widening the lead to 6-0 Quad Cities. A pair of runs in the eighth stretched the advantage to 8-0 Bandits.
Sanabria (1-2) cruised through six innings, setting down 18 straight to start his outing. Ariel Montesino  ended the perfect game with a leadoff double in the seventh. The next batter, Jermaine Palacios, ended the shutout with a two-run homer to right. Sanabria was pulled with two outs in the seventh. The right-hander finished with a career-high seven strikeouts, including a string of five in a row.
Del Rosario (4-3) took the loss for Cedar Rapids. He allowed six runs, ten hits, walked four and struck out six in his start. Abdiel Saldana  and Lucas Williams  teamed up to shutout the Kernels over the final 2.1 innings of relief for the Bandits.  
Game two of the three game series is Wednesday night. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. from Perfect Game Field. Connor Onion has you covered with the pregame show beginning at 6:20 p.m. on riverbandits.com and 1170 AM KBOB.