By Jim Scott
May 6, 2021 | 8:27 AM
GRAND CHUTE, WI â The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers scored six times in the bottom of the third inning to break a 3-3 and cruise to a 10-4 win over the Beloit Snappers Wednesday night at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. The Rattlers stole five bases in the game for their second straight win to open the season.
The Timber Rattlers (2-0) took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the first inning. Garrett Mitchell started the rally when he beat out a slow roller to third for an infield single. Then, Mitchell stole second. David Hamilton lined a triple to the corner in right to score Mitchell for a 1-0 lead. Nick Kahle followed with an RBI grounder and Wisconsin was up 2-0.
94-98 / 101
I was too low on Meyer before the draft. I saw him up to 101 mph in his first start of the year when he threw a lot of well-located sliders in the 89-92 mph range and struck out several Oregon Ducks. But his stuff and command waned later in the outing, which gave me relief-risk concern, though I should have realized the context for the look (it was his first outing of the season) was likely at play. He proceeded to dismantle TCU (10 K in 5.2 IP), North Carolina (CG, 1 BB, 14 K), and Utah (8 IP, 15 K) in the following three weeks before the shutdown, mostly with the fastball/slider combo, though he did flash a good changeup on occasion, too. Fold in some of the peripheral projection elements I like to bet on (Meyer was also an important offensive player in college, he’s a great on-mound athlete, and he’s coming from a cold weather school) and you can go nuts projecting on the things (mostly the changeup, command, and in-start stamina) that complete what could be a fro
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