MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com- Geneva, IL–The Peoria Chiefs blew another lead on the road, rallied to tie the game and lost 4-3 on a walk off error to the Kane County Cougars on Tuesday night. The Chiefs are now 1-4 on the second half and 39-35 on the regular season.

After the Chiefs tied the game with two runs in the top of the ninth inning, Kane County rallied for a 4-3 win. With one out David Thomas doubled off reliever Manolin DeLeon. Dusty Coleman hit a grounder up the middle and off the glove of shortstop Ryan Flaherty. The ball bounded into center and Thomas scored the game-winning run without a throw.

Trailing 3-1 into the ninth the Chiefs rallied against Cougars closer Justin Murray. After Nelson Perez struck out, Michael Brenly singled. Pinch-runner Jose Made scored on a Drew Rundle double to cut the deficit to 3-2. Rundle moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Junior Lake sacrifice fly to tie the game 3-3.
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The Chiefs jumped on Cougars starter Kenny Smalley in the top of the first inning. Josh Harrison led off with an infield single to shortstop and moved to second on a wild pitch. David Macias reached on an infield single to second to put runners on the corners for Rebel Ridling. Ridling put the Chiefs on top 1-0 with a broken-bat groundout to short as Harrison scored easily. Smalley escaped further damage as Kyler Burke flew out to deep center and Flaherty struck out swinging.

Cubs’ reliever Angel Guzman made a quick rehab appearance as he retired the Cougars in order in the bottom of the first. The right-hander threw 11 total pitches, nine strikes and recorded two strikeouts and a groundout.

Marcus Hatley came out of the bullpen after the Guzman rehab appearance and cruised through five innings. The Cougars got just one hit and one runner past first base against Hatley as the Chiefs kept a 1-0 lead into the seventh.

The Cougars broke through against Kevin Kreier in the bottom of the seventh. Jeremy Barfield led off with a single and with one out Mike Spina singled to left. Steve Parker loaded the bases with a single and Barfield scored on a sac fly to tie the game. Kane County took a 2-1 lead on a single to left by Dusty Napoleon. Thomas ended Kreier’s night with a RBI single to center. Erik Hamren came in out of the bullpen and walked Coleman to load the bases before Jason Christian grounded out to end the frame.

Guzman struck out two in his perfect inning of work. Hatley allowed one hit and walked two over five shutout innings but did not record a strikeout. Kreier blew a save after allowing three runs on five hits over just 2/3 of an inning. Hamren did not allow a run on two hits and a walk over 1 1/3 inning. He stranded two runners in the seventh and struck out one. DeLeon (3-2) took another tough loss on an unearned run on one hit over 1/3 of an inning.

Casey’s General Store Player of the Game – Marcus Hatley (RHP) –Hatley, who was expecting to start before the Guzman rehab, came out of the bullpen and posted five scoreless innings. He allowed just three baserunners on one hit and two walks. Hatley took a no-decision after the Chiefs gave up three runs in the seventh.

Notes…Josh Harrison now has a six game hit streak…Brenly now has a five game hit streak…Peoria has lost two games on this road trip on walk-off errors with DeLeon taking the loss both times…The Chiefs have led in ten of the last 13 road games but won just twice…Guzman is the first Cubs player to rehab for the Chiefs this season. The rehab list since the affiliation change in 2005 includes: Nomar Garciaparra, Kerry Wood (2005, 2006 & 2007), Mark Prior, Juan Mateo, Wade Miller, Scott Williamson, Henry Blanco, Scott Eyre and Jon Lieber…Guzman pitched twice for the Chiefs at the end of the 2005 season before he made his MLB debut…Kreier has allowed at least one run in five straight outings…Perez struck out four times for the second time this season, the other was June 11 at Clinton…Lake has struck out at least once in 17 straight starts…The blown save was Kreier’s second of the season, the second of the road trip for the Chiefs and the 12thof the season…The Chiefs are 2-6 against Kane County this season and 1-4 at Elfstrom Stadium…The Chiefs finish June with a 14-12 record overall but just 2-11 on the road…The Chiefs hit 32 homers in 29 May games but had just 14 longballs in their 26 June contests…Peoria is 22-20 when scoring first….The Chiefs are now 11-11 in the opening game of a series, 4-8 on the road…The Chiefs are 9-4 on Tuesday’s, their most wins on any day of the week, they also have 12 homers on Tuesday’s, more than on any other day…The four-game series continues on Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. when the Chiefs send RH Justin Bristow (3-3, 4,47) to the hill against LH Pedro Figueroa (8-2, 3.39)…The broadcast can be heard live beginning with the pregame show at 11:45 a.m. on 96.5 FM ESPN Radio andwww.peoriachiefs.com.

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