In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for August 22, 2019. There were six games in the American Association on Thursday, including the Chicago Dogs blanking the Winnipeg Goldeyes and the St. Paul Saints winning their ninth straight game on the road. Plus, the Sioux City Explorers edged the Cleburne Railroaders in extra innings.
St. Paul Saints manager George Tsamis has seen a lot in his managerial career. On Thursday night at U.S. Steel Yard he was at the helm for his 2,000th game in his career and his team gutted out a 3-2 victory over the Gary SouthShore Railcats for their ninth consecutive victory. It was also the […]
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 […]
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 […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for July 31, 2019. There were seven games played on Wednesday, including the Sioux City Explorers extending their winning streak to 12 games and the Texas AirHogs and the Cleburne Railroaders splitting a double-header in Grand Prairie.
A couple of All-Stars faced off on the mound, but it wasn’t much of a contest as Eddie Medina hurled 7.0 shutout innings and the St. Paul Saints chased T.J. House getting six runs off of him. The Saints won for the third straight time with an 8-1 victory over the Milwaukee Milkmen at Routine […]
In American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the first half of the 2019 American Association season for the St. Paul Saints. This includes a recap of what has gone right and wrong for the team, as well providing the top pitcher and player to this point. Plus, a prognosis of what to expect in the remaining two months is included.
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for July 19, 2019. There were seven games in the league on Saturday, including the Chicago Dogs sweeping a double-header from the Gary Southshore RailCats and the Texas AirHogs winning their third straight game.
The St. Paul Saints got the Eddie Medina of old on Saturday night at Newman Outdoor Field. Battling through a couple of different injuries, Medina hadn’t looked like himself over his last four starts, but he returned to form against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks. He didn’t allow a hit until there were two outs in the […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for July 7, 2019. There were six games on Sunday, including the Cleburne Railroaders blanking the Gary Southshore RailCats and the Milwaukee Milkmen defeating the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in 10. Daily Recaps: July 7, 2019 Milkmen Down RedHawks […]
The St. Paul Saints didn’t allow the doubts of Saturday night’s blown lead to creep into their minds on Sunday afternoon. The Saints closed the door this time in the ninth and hung on to defeat the Winnipeg Goldeyes 3-2 at Shaw Park. With the win the Saints improved to 31-17 on the season. The […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for June 8, 2019. The highlights include Eddie Medina setting a St. Paul Saints franchise record and the Texas AirHogs shutting out the Lincoln Saltdogs. Daily Recaps: June 8, 2019 Ballew, Stutzman Combine to Blank Saltdogs Travis […]
Eddie Medina wasn’t Johnny Vander Meer on Saturday night at CHS Field, but he did etch his name once more into the St. Paul Saints record book. With 5.0 scoreless innings Medina set the franchise record for most consecutive scoreless innings and the offense set a season high in runs and tied a season high […]
In American Association Daily, the Minor League Sports Report names their Pitcher and Player of the Week for Week 3 of the 2019 American Association season. This week, the St. Paul Saints Eddie Media repeats as Pitcher of the Week, while the Chicago Dogs Victor Roache is chosen as the Player of the Week.
In American Association Daily, the Minor League Sports Report and This Week in the Association have named their Player and Pitchers of the Month for May in the American Association. The Chicago Dogs Luke Westphal and the St. Paul Saints Eddie Medina will share the Pitcher of the Month honors. The Cleburne Railroaders Chase Simpson […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for May 31, 2019. This includes the St. Paul Saints Eddie Medina tossing the second no-hitter in franchise history and the Winnipeg Goldeyes nearly blowing an eight run lead. Plus, notes and transactions from around the league.
May 31, 2019 won’t go down in the St. Paul Saints history books as just game number 14 of the season. It will go down as the night Saints ace, Eddie Medina, threw just the second no-hitter in franchise history joining Joe Miller who accomplished the feat on August 25, 1996 against the Thunder Bay […]
In American Association Daily, the Minor League Sports Report names their Pitcher and Player of the Week for Week 2 of the 2019 American Association season. This week, the St. Paul Saints Eddie Medina earns Pitcher of the Week honors while the Chicago Dogs Tony Rosselli is named as the top player. Rosselli, Medina Honored […]
The St. Paul Saints know they have a distinct home field advantage in the American Association. With the large hometown crowds, the Saints can ride that energy on most nights. They did that and more during their longest opening homestand since 2005, finishing off a 10-game stint with a three-game sweep of the Sioux City […]
In this American Association Daily, Robert Pannier examines the highlights, transactions and news from the American Association for May 22, 2019. This includes the St. Paul Saints and the Kansas City T-Bones each sweeping double-headers. Get recaps from all seven games plus transactions. T-Bones Outslug, Outpitch Saltdogs to Sweep Double-Header The Kansas City T-Bones […]
Early on in the 2019 season the St. Paul Saints pitchers have been at the top of their game. In game one of a doubleheader, on Wednesday, Eddie Medina showed why he was the ace of the staff last season tossing 6.0 shutout innings as the Saints blanked the Chicago Dogs 4-0 at CHS Field. […]
The St. Paul Saints finished two games shy of winning the American Association Championship in 2018. The man that stood on the mound for Game 2 and hurled 8.0 masterful innings will hope his team can finish the job in 2019. The Saints ace from a remarkable season, Eddie Medina, will toe the rubber once […]
In American Association Daily, the Minor League Sports Report and This Week in the Association name the third team all-stars for the American Association from the 20o18 season.
In American Association Daily, the Minor League Sports Report and This Week in the Association name Kansas City T-Bones starter Tommy Collier American Association Pitcher of the Year, edging out the Wichita Wingnuts Travis Banwart and the St. Paul Saints Eddie Medina for the award.
On Tuesday night, the St. Paul Saints were only able to hold the Kansas City T-Bones off the scoreboard in three innings, as their pitching staff was pounded for 11 runs and 20 hits. On Wednesday night, Eddie Medina accomplished that feat in just three innings as he dominated Kansas City by allowing three hits […]
A night after watching Chris Nunn blank the Gary Southshore RailCats, right-hander Eddie Medina was trying to replicate the feat, putting his team just one victory away from reaching the American Association championship series. It looked like he would fall short, as two early runs staked the RailCats to the lead, but Medina was brilliant, […]
The St. Paul Saints traveled to Sioux Falls on Monday night looking for their fourth straight victory over the Canaries, and thanks to five home runs and seven outstanding innings from Eddie Medina they would walk away with a 9-5 victory. Dante Bichette, Jr. homered twice in the contest and both he and Brady Shoemaker […]
The biggest series of the year for both the Gary Southshore RailCats and St. Paul Saints got underway at CHS Field on Friday night as the two playoff contenders were looking to make a statement that would vault one closer to the playoffs while crushing the hopes of the other. Thanks to seven outstanding innings […]
For the second time the season, St. Paul Saints starter Eddie Medina got to face his old team, and this time he was even more impressive, blanking the Wichita Wingnuts over 6.1 innings, leading his team to a 5-0 victory. The victory was the fifth of the year for Medina, tying him for the team […]
