In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 21, 2019. There were seven games in the American Association on Wednesday, including the Kansas City T-Bones sweeping the Lincoln Saltdogs in their double-header, and the Sioux Falls Canaries ending their skid.
During their last seven games the St. Paul Saints trailed for a total of one inning. In 63.0 innings of baseball they fell behind in just two, half innings only to take the lead in their next at bats. On Tuesday night at the U.S. Steel Yard the Saints fell behind the Gary SouthShore RailCats […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 20, 2019. There were five games in the American Association on Tuesday, including the Sioux City Explorers moving back into second place in the South with a victory over the Kansas City T-Bones. In Texas, Tao Zhang tossed seven one-hit innings against Lincoln in the AirHogs 3-1 win.
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 19, 2019. There were six games played on Monday, including the Sioux City Explorers snapping the Kansas City T-Bones 12 game winning streak. In other action, Keon Barnum tied the American Association record for homeruns in a season when he homered in the 10th to give the Chicago Dogs a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Milkmen.
The St. Paul Saints watched every contending team go on a long winning streak at some point during the season. They now have theirs. For the seventh straight game the Saints got a victory as they knocked around Winnipeg Goldeyes starter Kevin McGovern early and held on for an 8-5 victory at Shaw Park on […]
In today’s edition of American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 18, 2019. There were six games played on Sunday, including the St. Paul Saints crushing the Winnipeg Goldeyes and the Kansas City T-Bones doubling up the Sioux City Explorers.
The 12-hour bus ride from Lincoln to Winnipeg didn’t seem to bother the St. Paul Saints on Sunday evening. They arrived in town just four and a half hours before game time, but the offense was as fresh as if they had an entire day off. All nine starters collected a hit, six with a […]
In American Association Daily, Robert Pannier previews the two great series in the American Association starting Sunday. This includes the Winnipeg Goldeyes welcoming the St. Paul Saints and the Kansas City T-Bones traveling to take on the Sioux City Explorers.
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 17, 2019. There were six games played on Sunday, including the Cleburne Railroaders sweeping the Sioux City Explorers, and the Winnipeg Goldeyes avoiding being swept behind another stellar outing by Mitch Lambson.
Not the 2004 championship team. Not the 74 win 2015 team or the 61 win 2016 team. None of the St. Paul Saints teams since they had battled it out with the Lincoln Saltdogs in 29 previous series at Haymarket Park since 2001 had swept a series in Nebraska. The 2019 club has now accomplished […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 16, 2019. There were seven games played on Friday night, including the Kansas City T-Bones extending their winning streak to 10 with a double-header sweep and the Cleburne Railroaders down the Sioux City Explorers for the second straight night.
The St. Paul Saints and Lincoln Saltdogs have been playing since 2001. Only one time have the Saints won a series at Haymarket Park in back-to-back years. You can now make it twice. Jordan Jess went 6.2 impressive innings and Chesny Young homered for the second consecutive game for the first time in his career […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 15, 2019. There were five games in the American Association on Thursday, including the Cleburne Railroaders battering the Sioux City Explorers and the Chicago Dogs taking a bite out of the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
There won’t be one easy game for the St. Paul Saints over the final two and a half weeks of the season as they try to make the playoffs for the fourth time in five years. Even when they play a team that is out of the race as they did on Thursday night at […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 14, 2019. There were five games in the American Association on Wednesday, including the Kansas City T-Bones completing their sweep of the Cleburne Railroaders and the St. Paul Saints downed the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
The St. Paul Saints hadn’t beaten Kevin McGovern since 2017. The Saints were just 3-11 in games in which he started against them in his career. With the Saints and Winnipeg Goldeyes fighting for a playoff spot the Saints became the first team to win back-to-back games in the series. They got a thrilling 5-4 […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 13, 2019. There were seven games played on Tuesday, including the St. Paul Saints evening their series with the Winnipeg Goldeyes and the Kansas City T-Bones winning their seventh straight game. Daily Recaps: August […]
After being shutout in the series opener 8-0, the St. Paul Saints responded with a blowout win of their own. They defeated the Winnipeg Goldeyes 10-2 in front of 10,631, a single-game franchise attendance record at CHS Field. The victory pushes the Saints to 48-33 and back into sole possession of second place in the […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 12, 2019. There were five games played on Monday, including Mitch Lambson and the Winnipeg Goldeyes blanking the St. Paul Saints and the Kansas City T-Bones winning a slugfest with the Cleburne Railroaders.
For the second consecutive game the St. Paul Saints fell behind big early and couldn’t climb out of the hole. A seven-run fourth inning by the Winnipeg Goldeyes coupled with a sensational start from All-Star lefty Mitchell Lambson spoiled the first game of the crucial three-game set between the two rivals. The Goldeyes handed the […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 11, 2019. There were six games in the American Association on Sunday, including the Chicago Dogs getting two homers and seven RBI from Kelly Dugan in their 14-7 victory, and the Sioux City Explorers downing the Cleburne Railroaders.
The St. Paul Saints dug themselves a 6-0 hole, but came all the way back to tie the game at seven going into the ninth. Unfortunately, they gave up their fourth home run of the night and lost 11-7 to the Gary SouthShore RailCats on Sunday evening at CHS Field in front of 9,190. The […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 10, 2019. There were six games in the American Association on Saturday, including the St. Paul Saints clipping the Gary Southshore RailCats late, and the Lincoln Saltdogs winning their sixth straight at home.
The St. Paul Saints are more than accustomed to playing one run games in 2019. They hope playing all these tight games will pay off as they make a push for the playoffs over the next three weeks. Josh Allen’s eighth inning RBI single was enough to get the Saints a 3-2 victory over the […]
The St. Paul Saints slugged three home runs and Landon Beck was tremendous for 4.2 hitless innings out of the bullpen. The Saints needed to hang on at the end as they defeated the GarySouthShore RailCats 9-7 on Friday night at CHS Field in front of 9,211. The RailCats got on the board first in […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 8, 2019. There were six games scheduled in the American Association on Thursday, including the St. Paul shutting out the Sioux City Explorers and the Kansas City T-Bones winning the rubber match of their series with Cleburne.
For one night the St. Paul Saints can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Their five game losing streak is a thing of the past and the pitching staff, along with Chesny Young on the offensive side, were a big reason why. Four Saints pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout of the Sioux City Explorers […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 7, 2019. There were six games scheduled in the American Association on Wednesday, including the Sioux City Explorers edging the St. Paul Saints in walk-off fashion and the Winnipeg Goldeyes putting up 19 hits for the second straight night.
The St. Paul Saints had their ace on the mound. He pitched like an ace. The Saints offense, unfortunately, collected just one hit from the fourth inning on. The Sioux City Explorers got a walk off sacrifice fly from Sebastian Zawada as the Saints lost for their season tying high fifth consecutive time 3-2 […]
The St. Paul Saints had numerous opportunities with runners in scoring position, but managed just two hits in those situations and only one of those hits produced a run. The biggest hit of the game was a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth by former Major Leaguer Jeremy Hazelbaker and the Saints lost […]
