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This Date in Timber Rattlers History: May 29

Thornburg with a 9-inning CG in KC in 2011, Extra-inning win at Dayton in 2000
Tyler Thornburg as a Timber Rattler in 2011 (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers/Ann Mollica)
May 28, 2021

May 29, 2011: The Rattlers won 2–0 at Kane County. Tyler Thornburg pitched a nine-inning, complete-game, five-hit shutout with no walks and eight strikeouts. Tyler Roberts hit two solo homers to provide for both Wisconsin runs.

May 29, 2011: The Rattlers won 2–0 at Kane County. Tyler Thornburg pitched a nine-inning, complete-game, five-hit shutout with no walks and eight strikeouts. Tyler Roberts hit two solo homers to provide for both Wisconsin runs.

May 29, 2000: The Rattlers won 7–4 in ten innings at Dayton. Wisconsin scored three runs in the top of the tenth inning to break a 4–4 tie. Chris Snelling hit a homer in the first inning off Mark Wohlers, who was making a rehabilitation start for the Cincinnati Reds in Dayton. In the tenth, Gorky Estrella drove in the go-ahead run with a single. Shawn McCorkle followed with an RBI single. Estrella scored the final run of the inning on a wild pitch.

Click here for the results of every Timber Rattlers game played on May 29.

Appleton Professional Baseball alumni to make their MLB debut on May 29:

Les Norman (Foxes, 1992)

Dean Crow (Foxes, 1994)