Madison, WI – A day trip to Madison saw the Chinooks playing day and night before finally returning home to Mequon for a weekend series against the traveling Mud Puppies. Lakeshore came off a pair of tough games to the league-leading, Wausau Woodchucks, and looked to jump on the Mallards right away.

In game 1, Michigan outfielder, AJ Garcia took a one-out, 2-0 pitch over the wall out in right field where he finds himself defensively. The lead is a place of familiarity as of late for Lakeshore, but hanging onto them has been troublesome.

No time was wasted by the Mallards as they scored 3 in the bottom of the frame. It came in a bigger way. After Sam Bryan walked the first two batters he faced, Munroe took his pitch over the wall in left field setting the Chinooks behind 3-1 early.

Complimentary to the way the day would go, a pair of home runs were sent for Lakeshore. The second coming in the second inning off the bat of Mason Schwalbach, his third in just seven games. But again it was just solo, however, cut the lead to one for Mad-Town.

Runs were exchanged by the Mallards and Chinooks in the third and fourth. For Madison it came on a triple and groundout. The Chinooks’ via a wild pitch after Brady Counsell led off the inning with a hustle-double to center.

A few baserunners would reach in the innings that followed, but Lakeshore couldn’t push across a run as the Mallards stretched their lead.

The first three reached for Madison in the fifth, and on a single and fielders choice, they maintained their atvantage, this time up to 3, 6-3.

Stretch-time brought us to the final score, 7-3, as a ground out scored Justin Best who reached on a hit by pitch to begin the inning.

Errorless baseball has been a theme for the Chinooks’ as of late, but the free passes have come around to do damage.  Lakeshore was only outhit 7-5, but it felt much greater. The two home runs outdid the strong offense of the Mallards, but the solo-shots wouldn’t be enough.

Game 1 Final 7-3 Mallards.

Dropping four in a row after a three game win streak, the Chinooks’ looked to reset their streak-driven season with a win in the nightcap.

On both sides, offense was hard to come by through three innings. Finally, in the top of the fourth Lakeshore broke through after aggressive base-running by Brady Counsell. The newly committed Jayhawk singled to left and pressured a bad throw to advance to second. He then caught the infield sleeping and took third before coming into score on a fielders choice that ended in an interference call. Two pitches later, Gene Trujillo skied a ball into right field that never died, putting the Chinooks up 3-0.

With one out in the fifth, a single and walk put pressure on Mitch Alba and the Lakeshore defense. An early battle with Rassmussen was lost on a single into center field that scored the speedy Shai Robinson.

A scoring opportunity emerged for the ‘Nooks in the sixth, with the bases loaded and one out, but Ravelo was able to pitch himself out of the inning. That included inducing a ground ball to first that he covered for the final out.

After Alba was replaced following six innings of one-run ball, Ryan Karst found himself in a jam. He allowed three runners to reach while struggling to find the zone and getting just one out. Two wild pitches to Robinson scored a run and made the lead just one for the Chinooks. Replaced by Mitch Mueller, Karst’s baserunner Robinson would score on a single to right field that saw Nerat gun out Rasmussen at third. The damage was held there by a Mueller strikeout as the game was tied up in the seventh.

Mitch Mueller would go on to strikeout seven straight Mallards before his night ended with the end of the ninth.

18-innings wasn’t enough for the day as the teams went to extras into the night.

Lakeshore was retired in order keeping the game at 3-3 before Sullivan took the mound in the bottom of the 10th. A groundout to the right side advanced the runner on second. Setting up a double-play ball, Hamilton was intentionally walked bringing up Munroe. On the eighth pitch of the at bat, in a 3-2 count, he sent a hard ground ball to the left side of the field that went past an outstretched Roessler for the walk-off single.

Game 2 Final/10 4-3 Madison. 

It’s the first time Lakeshore has lost in extra-innings this season. The Chinooks fall t0 10-13 and drop their fifth-straight game going 1-5 on the road stretch. Returning back home for a matchup with the Mud Puppies, the ‘Nooks look to emerge from the streak and get back on track for a push in the last month of the first-half.