Wallace’s Four-RBI Night Leads Quad Cities to First Second-Half Win  

Davenport, Iowa – The Quad Cities River Bandits snapped a six-game skid and scored double-digit runs for the first time in over two weeks on Friday—including a four-RBI performance for Cayden Wallace—as they topped the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 10-4 at Modern Woodmen Park.

The River Bandits wasted no time taking an early lead against Rattlers’ starter, Tyler Woessner, who opened the bottom of the first with a four-pitch walk of Javier Vaz. The next man up, Herard Gonzalez, tripled in the opening salvo, before Gavin Cross plated him with an RBI single. Cayden Wallace then gave the Bandits a 4-0 lead with four batters, smacking a two-run homer to left field.

While Wisconsin responded with Ernesto Martinez’s solo homer in the second and an RBI ground-out from Terence Doston in the third, the Bandits quickly got the runs back for starter Adrian Alcantara, as Shervyen Newton plated a pair with a towering shot to right in the fourth.

Robert Moore cut Quad Cities lead to 6-3 in the top of the fifth, grounding a two-out, two-run single into right-center, but the Bandits struck for a second four-spot against Woessner, as Wallace walloped a two-triple, just before Cater Jensen chased Woessner from the game with Quad Cities’ third long-ball of the night, a two-run shot to make it 10-4.

Alcantara returned to the hill for the sixth and completed his longest start of the season, stranding a one-out walk for a 6.0-inning night, including a pair of strikeouts.

The Timber Rattlers snuck across their game’s fifth run against Eric Cerantola using a passed ball in the seventh, but it would be the final run they would score, as Anderson Paulino threw back-to-back scoreless frames to close out the contest.

Ryan Brady tossed a season-high 4.0 innings of relief for Wisconsin, not allowing a run with the help of four strikeouts.

The win marks Alcantara’s (1-3) first of the season as a River Bandit, while Woessner (5-4) was tagged with the loss for the T-Rats, surrendering 10 runs on nine hits and one walk in 4.0 innings.

Quad Cities will look to even the series at two wins apiece on Saturday night, as David Sandlin (0-1, 4.50) is slated to make his second-career High-A start against Wisconsin’s Edwin Jimenez (2-1, 3.74). First pitch at Modern Woodmen Park is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.