This Date in Timber Rattlers Baseball: September 14

September 14, 2005: The Rattlers lost 4–1 at South Bend in Game Two of the Midwest League Championship Series. The Silver Hawks took a 1–0 lead on a Cesar Nicolas home run in the bottom of the second. Wisconsin tied the score 1–1 on an RBI grounder by Jeff Clement in the top of the fourth. The Silver Hawks loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh and an error on what could have been an inning ending double play allowed the go-ahead run to score. The Silver Hawks added two more runs in the inning. Wisconsin had two on with one out. However, Ross Ohlendorf got his eighth strikeout of the game for the second out and Hippolito Guerrero got the final out of the inning. Wisconsin went down in order in the top of the ninth and the Silver Hawks were up 2–0 in the series.

1999: The Rattlers lost 8–2 at Burlington in Game One of the Midwest League Championship Series. Wisconsin tied the game 2–2 on a two-run home run by Craig Kuzmic in the top of the sixth inning. Geronimo Mendoza, Burlington’s starting pitcher, struck out eleven as he pitched a complete-game and picked up the win when the Bees snapped the tie with six runs off the Rattlers bullpen in the bottom of the eighth. Kuzmic was 3-for-4 with a single, triple, and homer for the Rattlers. Kuzmic had three of Wisconsin’s five hits.

These were the only two games played by the Timber Rattlers on September 14.

LaMarr Hoyt (Foxes, 1978) made his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox in a game against the Oakland Athletics on September 14, 1979.

Mike Fiers (Timber Rattlers, 2009) made his MLB debut with the Milwaukee Brewers in a game against the Colorado Rockies on September 14, 2011.