Arms Dazzle, Quad Cities One-Hits Cubs For Third-Straight Win

South Bend, Indiana – On the heels of a 2-0 win in their series-opener Tuesday, the Quad Cities River Bandits followed up their shutout effort by holding the South Bend Cubs to one hit and one run in a 2-1 victory at Four Winds Field.

With Edgar Alvarez’s seventh-inning solo shot as their lone blemish Wednesday, the River Bandits have now held their opposition to just two runs and seven hits over their last three ballgames.

Kicking off a scheduled bullpen game, Nicholas Regalado set the tone in his second High-A start, tossing 3.0-scoreless, no-hit innings with a pair of strikeouts.

Tyler Davis (4-2) followed and earned his fourth win of the season, striking out a career-high six over a 3.0-inning outing of his own.

Quad Cities broke the scoreless tie in the top of the sixth courtesy of Callan Moss, who launched a two-run blast off Cubs’ starter Erian Rodriguez. The first baseman’s seventh of the season also lifted Moss’s league-leading RBI total to 70, good for the top mark in High-A.

Rodriguez (4-4) matched a season-high with his second 7.0-inning effort of the season, but wound up on the hook for the loss.

Alvarez cut the Bandits’ lead to 2-1 with the solo shot off Dennis Collern in the seventh, but the right-hander would return to the mound with a scoreless eighth, before Juan Martinez pitched a perfect bottom of the ninth en route to his third save of the season.

Quad Cities returns to Four Winds Field for game three of the six-game set Thursday and sends Felix Arronde (3-5, 2.59) to the mound opposite South Bend’s Kevin Valdez (0-0, 0.00). First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. ET.