{"id":22105,"date":"2026-06-15T22:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/?p=22105"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:34:33","slug":"eau-claire-stays-hot-rides-15-hit-night-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/eau-claire-express\/2026\/06\/15\/eau-claire-stays-hot-rides-15-hit-night-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Eau Claire stays hot, rides 15-hit night to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Eau Claire, Wis.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 Following a series victory over Thunder Bay, the Trains rolled into Carson Park with a new sense of confidence, securing a 9-1 victory over La Crosse Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eau Claire Express Postgame Recap:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a night full of errors for the Loggers, the Express capitalized, earning the first run of the night after an error on the Loggers&#8217; third-base man, Jake Busson, who, up to bat, advanced to first base, with Cade Palkowski crossing home plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staying in the lead, the Express secured their second run on the night in the bottom of the second inning when Sawyer Stein was up to bat and was thrown a wild pitch, leaving Jaxon Schumacher the opportunity to advance to third base, then home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up by two, the Loggers secured their first run of the night off a Joey Senstock home run. However, the Trains retaliated, gathering four runs in the bottom of the third inning, to secure their lead and starting with Stein up to bat and hitting a single near left field to bring home Busson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quickly after, Adam Salazar was up to bat and was walked, bringing home Philip Cheong. JP Pennella continued the momentum, hitting a single near center field to bring home Schumacher to secure a 6-1 lead in the third inning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the top of the fifth, the Loggers earned their second run of the night, which was quickly overshadowed as the Express secured their own run with a Schumacher single to left field, bringing home Cheong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With both teams going two innings without either scoring, Eau Claire added another run to the stat sheet with Pennella hitting a single to center field, allowing Salazar to cross home plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly after, in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Express put up their last run of the night with Schumacher crossing home plate due to Salazar being walked and bases loaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite La Crosse putting up two runs in the ninth inning to try and make a comeback, they were no match for the Trains, losing 9-4 in Eau Claire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Express led the game with 15 hits and zero errors, compared to the Loggers&#8217; eight hits and three errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the mound, the Express found success when Riley Fisher pitched for five innings, showcasing five strikeouts and four hits, allowing only two runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following its success, Eau Claire will look to finish its series with La Crosse at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday back in Carson Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">##<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Eau Claire Express is a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Having completed its 27<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 22 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires, and front office staff, over 250 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and World Series Champion Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and World Series Champion Chris Sale (BOS). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and MLB Gold Glove finalist and 2019 Second Team All-MLB shortstop Marcus Semien (TOR). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. All league games are viewable live via the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northwoods League portal<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For more information, visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eauclaireexpress.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.eauclaireexpress.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or Google Play and set the Booyah as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eau Claire, Wis. \u2013 Following a series victory over Thunder Bay, the Trains rolled into Carson Park with a new  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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