{"id":26277,"date":"2026-07-29T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/kalamazoo-growlers\/?p=26277"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:32:05","slug":"growlers-swept-amid-pitching-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/kalamazoo-growlers\/growlers-swept-amid-pitching-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Growlers Swept Amid Pitching Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KALAMAZOO, Mich. &#8212; The Kalamazoo Growlers (30-32, 9-17) struggled on the mound, falling to the Royal Oak Leprechauns (36-26, 17-9) on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Leprechauns scored early and often, taking a 9-0 lead through the first four innings. The highlight for Royal Oak was their first two runs, scored off a <strong>Mason Barth<\/strong> home run.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo got on the board in the fifth inning, but only mustered two runs, trailing 9-2 following five innings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Callan Royce<\/strong> threw two scoreless innings for the Growlers in the fifth and sixth inning. However, in the seventh inning, he allowed a two-out, two-run double. <strong>Patrick Ilitch\u00a0<\/strong>then hit an RBI single to put the Leprechauns up 12-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the eighth inning,\u00a0<strong>Trevor Johnson<\/strong> hit his 11th home run of the season, kickstarting Kalamazoo. Four additional runs scored on five more hits, moving the Growlers within five runs.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless bottom of the eighth inning, Kalamazoo failed to score in the ninth inning, falling 12-7.<\/p>\n<p>The Growlers earned 13 hits on the day, eight of which came from the trio of Trevor Johnson,\u00a0<strong>Phillip Thigpen<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Chase Thomas<\/strong>, who hit fourth, fifth and sixth in the batting order.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo heads home for two games against the Richmond Flying Mummies beginning Thursday night at 6:35 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KALAMAZOO, Mich. &#8212; The Kalamazoo Growlers (30-32, 9-17) struggled on the mound, falling to the Royal Oak Leprechauns (36-26, 17-9)  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"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":[74,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-recaps","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Growlers Swept Amid Pitching Struggles - Kalamazoo Growlers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/kalamazoo-growlers\/growlers-swept-amid-pitching-struggles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Growlers Swept Amid Pitching Struggles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KALAMAZOO, Mich. &#8212; 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