{"id":6962,"date":"2022-08-06T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/fond-du-lac-dock-spiders\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2022-08-07T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T05:58:13","slug":"dock-spiders-start-road-trip-in-wausau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/fond-du-lac-dock-spiders\/2022\/08\/06\/dock-spiders-start-road-trip-in-wausau\/","title":{"rendered":"Dock Spiders Start Road Trip in Wausau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOND DU LAC, WI &#8211; The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders (34-29, 15-14) are set to begin a four-game road trip with a two-game series at Athletic Park against the Wausau Woodchucks (31-31, 14-12). First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m., with coverage beginning at 5:50 p.m. on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mixlr.com\/dockspidersradio\/\">Dock Spiders Radio Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TODAY&#8217;S STORYLINES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>ALLOW ME TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF<\/b><\/span><b>:<\/b> With 19 runs on Friday night against the Green Bay Rockers, the Dock Spiders set a new Northwoods League record for the most runs scored in a single-season, at 476&#8230; The Dock Spiders broke the previous record of 475, set by the 2017 Wisconsin Rapids Rafters and 2019 Bismarck Larks&#8230; This season, the Dock Spiders have scored at least 10 runs in 21 of 64 games (33%)&#8230; The Dock Spiders have scored 24 more runs than the Kalamazoo Growlers (452), who have scored the second-most runs in the NWL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>GRAND SLAMMIN&#8217; IT<\/b><\/span><b>:<\/b> On Friday night, <b>OF Kemp Alderman <\/b>and <b>OF Nolan Tichy<\/b> both smashed a grand slam in a 19-4 win over the Green Bay Rockers\u2026 The pair became the first Dock Spiders duo to both tally a grand slam in the game\u2026 Prior to Friday, <b>INF Branden Comia<\/b> had been the only Dock Spider to hit a grand slam this year, doing so on July 27 against the Madison Mallards in a 14-6 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>WINNING THE SERIES<\/b><\/span><b>:<\/b> With a win on Friday against Green Bay, the Dock Spiders won the season series for the third straight year, and the fifth time in franchise history (since 2017)\u2026 If the Dock Spiders win today, they will clinch the season series against Wausau for the sixth straight season\u2026 The Dock Spiders have never lost a season series against the Woodchucks, and are 39-19 (.672) all-time against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>AWARD WINNING NIGHT<\/b><\/span><b>:<\/b> <b>OF Nolan Tichy<\/b> was named the Northwoods League Player of the Night on Friday after he went 2-4 with a grand slam and set a career-high with five RBI\u2026 In 11 games with the Dock Spiders, Tichy has tallied a hit in 10 games and has reached base in all 11\u2026 Tichy has also smashed seven extra-base hits, with five doubles and two home runs\u2026 Tichy became the fifth different Dock Spider to earn an NWL nightly award this season, joining <b>OF Nick Mitchell <\/b>(May 30, July 12),<b> INF Branden Comia<\/b> (July 27), <b>RHP Reed Gallan<\/b>t (July 3) and <b>RHP David Hagaman<\/b> (June 9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>PATH TO THE PLAYOFFS<\/b><\/span><b>:<\/b> If the season ended today, the Dock Spiders would make the playoffs, as they enter today with the second-best overall record in the Great Lakes West Division, two and a half games ahead of the Lakeshore Chinooks and Wausau Woodchucks with eight games remaining&#8230; If the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters win the second-half division title, the final playoff spot in the division will go to the next-best overall record&#8230; A Rafters win and a Woodchucks loss would clinch the second-half title for the Rafters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TODAY&#8217;S STARTING PITCHING MATCH-UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>RHP GAGE SMITH (FDL) <\/b>is set to make his first start since May 4, 2022, at Milwaukee Area Tech against Olive-Harvey&#8230; In two appearances this year, Smith has yet allow an earned run in 1.1 innings\u2026 Smith struck out 50 in 31.2 innings this past spring.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>RHP JACK WENNINGER (WAU) <\/b>will make his 10th start of the summer for the Woodchucks\u2026 He makes his first start since he struck out four in two innings at the Major League Dreams Showcase on Tuesday in La Crosse.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOND DU LAC, WI &#8211; The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders (34-29, 15-14) are set to begin a four-game road  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":6735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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