DAVENPORT, Ia. – Third baseman Davis Diaz delivered a sequence of four stunning plays – a go-ahead three-run homer, a runner-deceiving deke, an unassisted double play, and a two-strike, two-out, game-tying RBI single in the ninth – only to see the Quad Cities River Bandits (7-7) walk off the Lansing Lugnuts (6-10), 6-5, in a Wednesday matinee at Modern Woodmen Park.
For the first eight and a half innings, Diaz and Quad Cities catcher Ramon Ramirez played a game of “Can you top this?”
Ramirez gave Quad Cities a 1-0 lead in the fourth with an RBI double…