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• Pitcher Change: Wily Peralta replaces Daniel Meadows.
• Terry Serrano called out on strikes.
• Luis Nunez strikes out swinging. Wild pitch by pitcher Wily Peralta. Luis Nunez to 1st.
• With Scott Savastano batting, Luis Nunez steals (9) 2nd base.
• Scott Savastano walks. Luis Nunez caught stealing 3rd base, catcher Sean McCraw to third baseman John Delaney.
• With Kris Sanchez batting, Scott Savastano steals (9) 2nd base.
• Kris Sanchez strikes out swinging.

• Corey Kemp grounds out, shortstop Ogui Diaz to first baseman Scott Savastano.
• John Delaney walks.
• Brock Kjeldgaard triples (3) on a fly ball to right fielder Denny Almonte. John Delaney scores.
• Jose Duran reaches on a fielder's choice out, first baseman Scott Savastano to catcher Fleming Baez. Brock Kjeldgaard out at home.
• Pitcher Change: Greg Moviel replaces Blake Nation.
• With Sean McCraw batting, Jose Duran steals (4) 2nd base.
• Sean McCraw walks.
• Offensive Substitution: Pinch hitter Michael Vass replaces Derrick McPhearson.
• With Michael Vass batting, wild pitch by Greg Moviel, Jose Duran to 3rd. Sean McCraw to 2nd.
• Michael Vass walks.
• Juan Sanchez pops out to second baseman Luis Nunez.

Wisconsin (38-38 overall, 4-2 second half) took a first inning lead with three straight two-out doubles. Brett Lawrie started the rally with a double to left. Corey Kemp drove in Lawrie with a double down the third base line. John Delaney made the score 2-0 by doubling to the gap in right-center.

But, the LumberKings (43-33, 3-3) chipped away with single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to take the lead. Kris Sanchez lined a homer to right with two outs in the third inning.

In the fourth, Clinton had a runner at second and two outs against Wisconsin starting pitcher Evan Frederickson. Ogui Diaz sent a slow grounder wide of first and the ball was fielded by Kemp at first. Diaz beat Frederickson to the bag and the runner from second scored without a play as no one was covering home.

Clinton took a 3-2 lead in the top of the fifth as Sanchez tripled in the go ahead run against reliever Daniel Meadows.

The Rattlers fought back to tie the game with a two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth. Derrick McPhearson drew a two-out walk and stole second base. Juan Sanchez hit a grounder to third that was booted for an error to put runners at the corners. Pete Fatse drove in the tying run with a seeing-eye single to right.

Brock Kjeldgaard gave the Rattlers a lead in the bottom of the seventh. Delaney drew a walk -- the sixth of the game by Clinton pitchers -- with one out. Kjeldgaard lined a triple off the wall in right and Delaney scored easily for the 4-3 lead.

Wisconsin would load the bases later in their half of the seventh, but could not push across an insurance run.

Peralta, who had entered the game in the top of the seventh inning, walked a pair of runners in the top of the eighth inning. An error put runners at second and third with one out and Wisconsin hanging on to that one run lead. Peralta struck out pinch hitter Jake Shaffer for the second out and got Diaz to ground out weakly to second to keep the Rattlers in front.

In the ninth, Peralta retired the side in order, including a pair of strikeouts to finish off Clinton. The Wisconsin hurler struck out six over three innings of relief to get his third win of the season. Peralta now has 83 K's on the season and is the new Midwest League leader in that category.

Game three of the series is Thursday night. Dan Merklinger (1-2, 3.18) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Clinton counters with Bobby LaFromboise (5-2, 3.38). Game time is 7:05pm.

Wisconsin box score
As we talked about above, nice games for Wily Peralta and Brett Lawrie, who put together one of the double-and-triple combos he seemed to manage about every week or so in April. No other Rattlers had more than one hit, but Corey Kemp did double and walk twice; Sean McCraw also had a hit and two walks. Derrick McPhearson still looking for his first A-ball hit after two strikeouts today, though he did walk once and stole a base. Drafted as a 2B, Pete Fatse played CF, which we saw him do down in Helena too--if he can hack it out there, that adds a lot to his value.

Wisconsin play-by-play
I pointed out a couple PBP events that caught my above.