In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for June 16, 2019. The highlights include Taylor Jordan tossing seven shutout innings as the Sioux City Explorers completed their sweep of the Cleburne Railroaders and the Lincoln Saltdogs pounded the Sioux Falls Canaries. This, plus transactions and notes.
Cleburne, TX – After the first two games went to extra innings the X’s and Railroaders were looking to play a normal nine inning affair on Sunday but instead went the other way finishing the game in only eight innings due to rain as Sioux City won their fifth straight game in shut out fashion […]
CLEBURNE, Texas (June 16, 2019) – Taylor Jordan struck out 12 over seven scoreless innings, and the Sioux City Explorers shut out the Cleburne Railroaders 4-0 on Sunday night at The Depot. The game was called after eight innings due to rain. Jordan (2-4) allowed just four hits, three of which were singles. Cleburne (13-16) […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Luke Westphal delivered a solid start, Trey Vavra homered, and the Chicago Dogs held on for the 5-4 victory over the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks on Father’s Day at Impact Field. Westphal (W, 5-0) was sharp once again, racking up seven strikeouts while allowing two earned runs on five hits over five innings. Brandon […]
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – Daniel Herrera hit his first two professional homers and drove in a season-high five runs, and the ‘Dogs ended a four-game skid with a 12-1 over the Sioux Falls Canaries at Sioux Falls Stadium on Sunday afternoon. BOX SCORE Herrera hit a two-run homer to make it 7-1 in the […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD — The Sioux Falls Canaries (17-11) lost to the Lincoln Saltdogs (15-15) 12-1 on Sunday at the Birdcage. Adrian Nieto hit his fifth home run in the second inning, but the Birds couldn’t get their offense going the rest of the game. Canaries starting pitcher Keaton Steele went through the lineup one […]
Grand Prairie, TX – The T-Bones have been on a roll in Texas, ending the series with a 7-1 win against the Airhogs and moving to 7-1 against southern division opponents. Kansas City (14-14) pitchers only gave up a total of two runs in the first game of what was supposed to be a double-header, but […]
GARY, IN (June 16, 2019) – The St. Paul Saints pitching staff is running on fumes these days. They needed a solid start out of Ryan Zimmerman and he delivered striking out a career tying high seven. The offense took a while to get going, but when they did the bottom of the order came […]
GARY, IND. — Two hitless innings from Nick Floyd in his professional baseball debut and the first professional home run from Tom Walraven wasn’t enough for the RailCats on Father’s Day at U.S. Steel Yard as Gary lost to the St. Paul Saints, 4-2, in the rubber game on a cool and windy afternoon. Gary […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for June 15, 2019. The highlights include the Sioux Falls Canaries scoring six runs in the ninth to earn the walk-off win and the Sioux City Explorers defeating the Cleburne Railroaders in 10 innings for the second straight night.
Cleburne, TX – For the second straight night the game between the Sioux City Explorers and the Cleburne Railroaders could not be decided by the usual nine innings that a baseball game is suppose to be played in. And for the second straight night the Explorers came up with the plays needed in that fateful […]
Grand Prairie, Texas – The Kansas City T-Bones played game two of four with the Texas AirHogs Saturday night. They came to Texas ready to inch back towards .500, beating the AirHogs once again with a score of 7-2. However, it was a slow start for both teams with neither one of them scoring until […]
CLEBURNE, Texas (June 14, 2019) – The Cleburne Railroaders left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and the tying run at third in the bottom of the tenth, as they fell 6-5 in 10 innings to the Sioux City Explorers on Friday night at The Depot. The Railroaders (13-14) led 5-3 into […]
The St. Paul Saints could have easily written the game off, trailing by five runs in a ballpark that doesn’t give up many of those leads. They stormed back to score six in the seventh inning, but in the end they lost 8-7 to the Gary SouthShore RailCats on Saturday night at the U.S. Steel […]
Lemond came out of the gate strong retiring the first six batters he faced, and striking out two of them to keep the T-Bones scoreless through the first two innings. Unfortunately thought the KC bats woke up in the 3rd innings as the AirHogs lost 7-2. In the third inning Lemond ran into trouble as […]
GARY, IND. —The Gary SouthShore RailCats split a two-game set on Saturday evening after losing to the St. Paul Saints, 5-4, in the resumption of Friday’s suspended game before hanging on to win Saturday’s originally scheduled game, 8-7. The lights went out twice over a 30-minute span in the bottom of the eighth inning on […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD — The Sioux Falls Canaries (17-10) beat to the Lincoln Saltdogs (14-15) 7-5 in dramatic fashion. Canaries catcher Adrian Nieto hit a grand slam to tie the score at 5 in the bottom of the ninth, and Clint Coulter hit a walk-off two-run home run two batters later. “He threw me a […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — D.J. Snelten dominated, Larry Balkwill scored thrice, and the Chicago Dogs defeated the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, 4-2, on a breezy Saturday night at Impact Field. Snelten (W, 3-0) was spectacular, allowing just one earned run on three hits, walking two and striking out six over 7.1 innings of work. It was his fourth […]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Ivan Marin had two more hits and his sixth multi-hit game of the year, but the ‘Dogs gave up nine unanswered runs in a 9-2 loss to the Explorers Thursday night at MercyOne Field. BOX SCORE The ‘Dogs scored twice in the 1st after Auggie Francis and Christian Ibarra walked to […]
The St. Paul Saints went to bed on Friday night clinging to a 5-3 lead. After a second power outage the game resumed on Saturday and the Saints hung on for a 5-4 win over the Gary SouthShore RailCats at U.S. Steel Yard. The win improves the Saints to 18-8 on the season. With the […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for June 14, 2019. This includes the Milwaukee Milkmen defeating the Winnipeg Goldeyes and the Sioux City Explorers downing the Cleburne Railroaders in extra innings.
Cleburne, TX – Back and forth the Explorers and Railroaders went on Friday night. For the third straight four game series opener the Explorers played in an extra inning game. For the second straight series came away with an extra inning victory, this time with a 6-5 win over the Cleburne Railroaders. Kyle Wren lead […]
Grand Prairie, Texas — The Kansas City T-Bones, (12-14), bats came alive Friday night as they downed the Texas AirHogs, (6-20), 13-6 in Grand Prairie. Roy Morales, Casey Gillaspie and Daniel Nava each collected multiple RBI on the night, and the offense put up 13 runs on a season high 21 hits. Everybody in the […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD — The Sioux Falls Canaries (16-10) beat the Lincoln Saltdogs (14-14) 4-3 after a couple of solo home runs, a sacrifice fly and a great play to end the game. The Saltdogs scored two runs before Canaries starting pitcher Taylor Hill even recorded an out. Christian Ibarra reached on an error by […]
CLEBURNE, Texas (June 14, 2019) – The Cleburne Railroaders left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and the tying run at third in the bottom of the tenth, as they fell 6-5 in 10 innings to the Sioux City Explorers on Friday night at The Depot. The Railroaders (13-14) led 5-3 into […]
The AirHogs offense had plenty of early answers for the defending champs, but in the end the T-bones just had to much offense as the AirHogs fall 13-6. Sean Stutzman ran into trouble early against the T-Bones after allowing 4 runs to cross in the first inning. After getting the leadoff man to popout Stutzman […]
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Victor Roache extended his on-base streak to 21 games, but the Chicago Dogs couldn’t muster enough offense as they fell to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, 8-1, on a rain-shortened Friday night at Impact Field. Dogs starter Austin Wright (L, 0-4) started solid, allowing just one run through five innings, before running into trouble […]
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – Ivan Marin tied a franchise-record with five hits, but DonAndre Clark was thrown out at the plate trying to score on Marin’s 9th-inning single, and the ‘Dogs fell 4-3 to the Sioux Falls Canaries at Sioux Falls Stadium on Friday night. BOX SCORE Marin is now 10-for-16 on the roadtrip […]
KOKOMO, IN – The Winnipeg Goldeyes (16-11) lost 2-1 to the Milwaukee Milkmen at Kokomo Municipal Stadium on Friday night. Box Score Cesar Valera drove in the game’s first run with a two-out, RBI double in the bottom of the third. Milwaukee (12-16) took a 2-0 lead in the fifth on a two-out, RBI double […]
This Week in the Association is a program that gives fans insights from around the American Association, Independent Baseball’s premier league. Hosted by Kevin Luckow and Robert Pannier, the show not only examines the happenings with the St. Paul Saints, but also looks at events going on throughout the league.
