
Kalamazoo Growlers Sweep Wisconsin Rapids Rafters
KALAMAZOO, MI – The Growlers completed their sweep of the Rafters tonight in a shutout. Kalamazoo wasted no time in starting their scoring, tallying two runs going into the top of the second. Joey Loperfido (Duke), hit an RBI sac fly to score Ivan Johnson. Then in the very next at [...]
Kalamazoo Growlers Win in Another Walk-off
KALAMAZOO, MI – Another walk-off hit for Niko Kavadas (Notre Dame) carried the Growlers to their third win in a row. Kavadas was the player of the night, tallying all three of Kalamazoo’s RBIs against the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters including the walk-off to center field. Starting pitcher Kyle Virbisky was dealing [...]
Kalamazoo Growlers Sweep Series with Wisconsin Woodchucks
KALAMAZOO, MI – The Growlers swept the series against the Woodchucks tonight, finishing the game on a walk-off double from Niko Kavadas (Notre Dame). After tonight’s win the Growlers are now 10-2 against teams that are below them in the South Division and are 10-6 overall. The Woodchucks scored their [...]
Growlers Spring Back to Beat Woodchucks
KALAMAZOO, MI – Starting pitcher Jack Nelson picked up his league-leading fourth win tonight. Nelson and the Growlers beat the Wisconsin Woodchucks 6-2 and advanced to 9-6 on the season. Nelson pitched 6.0 innings only allowing two runs on four hits. But the pitching wasn’t the only side of the story [...]
Growlers Shutout Bullfrogs to Earn Fourth Straight Win
KALAMAZOO, MI - The Kalamazoo Growlers completed their second game in the series against the Green Bay Bullfrogs 3-0, thanks to pitchers Jeff Burch and Tommy Sommer. The Growlers improved their record to 8-4 on the season while the Bullfrogs dropped to 4-8. Paw Paw native Burch pitched three back-to-back strikeouts [...]
Growlers Overcome Late Tie to Win Against Bullfrogs
KALAMAZOO, MI – The Kalamazoo Growlers finished their first game against the Green Bay Bullfrogs with a walk-off win thanks to returning captain Jason Sullivan. Kalamazoo ended the game’s scoring drought with Sam Faith (Tennessee) early in the fifth inning. Faith, who arrived today, hit his first home run today [...]
Growlers Stay Undefeated on Road, Sweep the Kingfish in Extra Innings.
KENOSHA, WI- The Kalamazoo Growlers needed 11 innings to finish off the Kenosha Kingfish by a score of 7-5 and complete a key early-season sweep of their South division rival. A game that was deadlocked at five from the sixth inning on finally hit its breaking point in the 11th [...]
Growlers Shutout Kingfish in Series Opener
KENOSHA, WI – Jack Nelson led the charge for the Kalamazoo Growlers on Wednesday night for pitching 5 innings en route to his league leading third win. The Growlers notched their first shutout of the 2018 campaign with a 7-0 victory. They improved to 5-4 while the Kenosha Kingfish dropped [...]
Kalamazoo Gets Swept in First Series Against Madison
KALAMAZOO, MI – After a pitching duel, the Kalamazoo Growlers dropped another game to the Madison Mallards on the second Stryker STEM Education Day of the season. Starting pitcher Derek Carr from Ohio University went 5.0 innings pitched with one run on four hits in front of around 3,000 [...]
Growlers Comeback Falls Short Against Mallards
KALAMAZOO, MI - The Growlers drop a game to the Madison Mallards 7-4 despite a bottom of the ninth rally. With thirteen runners left on base, the Growlers just could not string the hits together until the bottom of the ninth when Kalamazoo scored three runs to make a run [...]
Shinabery pitches Growlers past Battle Creek in 6-3 win
KALAMAZOO, MI – The Growlers might be wishing they played at C.O. Brown Stadium more often after they defeated their I-94 rival Battle Creek 6-3 on Sunday afternoon, completing a 3-1 series win against the Bombers. Mason Shinabery stole the show for Kalamazoo with a dominant performance in relief of [...]
Growlers Top Bombers Behind Kavadas’ Big Day
KALAMAZOO, MI. – The Kalamazoo Growlers (3-2) erupted for four runs in the top of the seventh inning at C.O. Brown Stadium en route to beating the Battle Creek Bombers 9-3 on Saturday. Niko Kavadas led the way for the Growlers going 2-for-3 with 4 RBI and Kalamazoo’s first double [...]
Season-high Crowd not enough for Kalamazoo in 7-1 defeat.
KALAMAZOO, MI- In the first five innings the Battle Creek ‘Daves’ could only muster one hit against the Kalamazoo ‘Jakobs’, but seven runs in the final four innings gave Battle Creek their first win of the season by a final of 7-1. The I-94 rivals came together to rename their [...]
Growlers Top Bombers Behind Daniels Grand Slam
KALAMAZOO, MI. – A six run fourth inning propelled the Kalamazoo Growlers to a 9-4 win over the Battle Creek Bombers in the first game of the 2018 I-94 rivalry. Five Growlers drew walks in the fifth inning which was capped by a Zach Daniels grand slam to centerfield. It [...]
Chinooks’ big ninth leads them to win in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI- The Kalamazoo Growlers were hoping a comeback was in the cards for a second straight night against the Lakeshore Chinooks, but a dominant ninth inning from Lakeshore ended those hopes, as the Chinooks defeated Kalamazoo 12-2 at Homer Stryker Field on Wednesday. It looked as if Kalamazoo and Lakeshore [...]