This Date in Timber Rattlers History: August 5

Augustt 5, 2013: The Rattlers beat Beloit 6–5 at home. Matt Olson hit a three-run home run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to put the Snappers up 5–1. Beloit starting pitcher Dakota Bacus held Wisconsin to one run on four hits over eight innings and went back out for the ninth. Victor Roach hit a lead-off homer for Wisconsin in the bottom of the ninth and Garrett Cooper followed with a single to chase Bacus from the game. Tyler Vail relieved Bacus and got a strikeout, but threw a pair of wild pitches to let Cooper take third base. Max Walla followed with an RBI single and the scored was 5–3. Chris McFarland followed with a single and Orlando Arcia doubled to score Walla and get McFarland to third with the tying run. Alfredo Rodriguez hit a grounder to short and McFarland was caught at the plate. That brought Michael Reed to the plate and the result was one of the crazier finishes in Rattlers history. (Not the craziest….that one is coming up in a few days). Reed singled to left to score Arcia. Rodriguez saw that no one was covering third base and he just kept going. Vail raced over to cover as the throw was on the way from Ryan Mathews, but the ball went into the Wisconsin dugout and the Rattlers celebrated an unlikely walkoff win.

2007: The Rattlers won 19–10 at Fort Wayne. Joe White hit a grand slam in the first inning and Leury Bonilla (one night after picking up the save) drove in six runs for Wisconsin. The Rattlers outhit the Wizards 20–12. Bonilla had a three-run homer in the third, a two-run single in the sixth, and an RBI single in the eighth. The game was not a complete blowout. The Wizards scored a run in the bottom of the first, Wisconsin scored a run in the top of the second, and Fort Wayne tied the game with five runs in the bottom of the second to tie the game. The Rattlers scored three runs in the third, but Fort Wayne scored a run in the third and three runs in the fourth to take a 10–9 lead. The Rattlers tied the game with a run in the fifth and pulled away with four runs in the sixth. Ron Garth had four hits, scored three runs, and homered for Wisconsin.

2003: The Rattlers beat Quad City 2–1 in twelve innings at home. Wisconsin trailed 1–0 until Gary Harris tied the game with a two-out, RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. TJ Bohn scored from third in the bottom of the twelfth on a wild pitch by TJ Prunty.

2000: The Rattlers won 1–0 at Peoria. Matt Thornton allowed two hits over six scoreless innings with six strikeouts for the win. Wisconsin took the lead when Shawn McCorkle scored on a two-out error in the top of the fourth inning. The final pitch Thornton made in the game induced a 1–4–3 double play off the bat of Albert Pujols.

1996: The Rattlers beat Kane County 5–4 at home. Mike Hickey’s bad-hop, RBI single in the bottom of the ninth knocked in the winning run for Wisconsin. Karl Thompson had two hits and two RBI in the game for the Rattlers.

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Britt Burns (Foxes, 1978) made his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox in a game against the Detroit Tigers on August 5, 1978.

Brett Lawrie (Timber Rattlers, 2009) made his MLB debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in a game against the Baltimore Orioles on August 5, 2011.

Isan Diaz (Timber Rattlers, 2016) made his MLB debut with the Miami Marlins in a game against the New York Mets on August 5, 2019.