Chiefs blow out Kernels 16-6 to close out homestand, sit at .500 through 20 games
PEORIA, Ill. (Peoria Chiefs/WMBD) – With a five-RBI outing, including an early three-run blast, Won-Bin Cho powered the Chiefs to a 16-6 win over Cedar Rapids on Sunday at Dozer Park to take the series five games to one. Peoria starter Nate Dohm set the tone, tossing four innings while allowing just one unearned run while striking out five and walking none.
In the first, Rainiel Rodriguez walked and later scored on a wild pitch by Michael Ross for a 1-0 Chiefs lead. Cho connected on a three-run homer in the second inning to extend Peoria’s advantage to 4-0. Cedar Rapids answered in the third on a Marek Houston sacrifice fly to score Jay Thomason and to cut the deficit to 4-1.
The Chiefs continued to pour it on in the bottom half when Ian Petrutz brought in Jalin Flores and Josh Kross on an RBI single. Two batters later, Cho drove in Jesús Báez and Petrutz on a single, extending Peoria’s lead to 8-1. Peoria kept the line moving in the fourth on a Kross RBI single, plating Flores, and a Cade McGee double to score Kross to take a 10-1 advantage.
Nolan Sparks tossed 2. 1 innings, throwing a scoreless fifth and sixth, to end up with his second win. Cedar Rapids made its move in the seventh.
Jaime Ferrer recorded an RBI base hit to bring in Miguel Briceno. Eduardo Tait brought in Thomason with an RBI groundout. Brandon Winokur capped off a five-run seventh with a three-run blast to left field to cut the deficit to 10-6.