{"id":20124,"date":"2025-07-05T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/green-bay-rockers\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:23:37","slug":"daniels-blast-ignites-late-rally-as-rockers-take-game-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/green-bay-rockers\/2025\/07\/05\/daniels-blast-ignites-late-rally-as-rockers-take-game-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel\u2019s Blast Ignites Late Rally as Rockers Take Game One"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Bay storms back in the eighth to top Wausau 6-5<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ASHWAUBENON, Wis. \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Green Bay Rockers clawed their way to a dramatic 6-5 win over the Wausau Woodchucks on Saturday night, using a clutch eighth-inning rally to steal game one of the weekend series at Capital Credit Union Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xaige Lancaster got the Rockers on the board early with a second-inning home run that cracked the game open, but Wausau stayed within striking distance. The Woodchucks plated a run in the third and then surged ahead in the sixth, stringing together a three-run frame to take a 5-3 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wausau added a solo shot in the top of the eighth to pad their advantage, but the Rockers refused to go quietly. Caleb Daniel jumpstarted the comeback with a leadoff homer, and the offense fed off that momentum\u2014piling on three runs to flip the script and take a 6-5 lead heading into the final frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the game on the line in the ninth, reliever Sam Brummund shut the door to secure the win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Bay will look to make it three straight on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m., and fans are invited to stick around after the game for Catch on the Field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Green Bay Rockers are 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. Entering its\u2019 32nd season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in history with 24 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, nearly 2400 NWL alums have been drafted and over 380 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 (TOR), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford and World Series Champion Chris Sale (ATL). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2023 World Series Champion, MLB All-Star, MLB Gold Glove, two-time Silver Slugger winner and two-time All-MLB first team shortstop Marcus Semien (TEX). League games are viewable live on Northwoods League+ (at watch.northwoodsleague.com), ESPN+, and the Northwoods League Network.\u00a0 Learn more and find complete streaming schedules at watchnwl.com. For more information, visit www.greenbayrockers.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rockers as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Bay storms back in the eighth to top Wausau 6-5 ASHWAUBENON, Wis. \u2014 The Green Bay Rockers clawed their  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":20125,"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":[49,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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