Published On: June 5th, 2015

6-15 pre game Cropped (1)Madison, Wis. (June 15) – On Monday, the Madison Mallards (9-10) will resume their longest road trip of the 2015 season when they take on the Battle Creek Bombers (8-11) at C.O. Brown Stadium. 

Tonight will be the first of two matchups in as many days between the South Division opponents. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. CT.

Mallards field manager Donnie Scott will send Nate Hoffmann (Middle Tennessee State) to the mound in the series opener. Hoffman, a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher from Sun Prairie, Wis., is 1-0 with a 4.00 ERA and 0.78 WHIP across two starts this summer, totaling a strikeout-per-inning average (9 K, 9 IP). Opponents are batting .129 against him.

To counter, Battle Creek will call upon Min Hsia (National Taiwan Sports Univ.) to make his seventh appearance of the 2015 season today against the Mallards. The 6-foot-2 right-hander holds true to a 1-1 record and 2.10 ERA over 21.1 innings this season. His June 10 outing against Wisconsin yielded one earned run across six innings with four strikeouts.

  • Matchup History – Tonight will be mark the nineteenth regular-season matchup with Battle Creek for the Mallards under Scott (since 2013) and first of the 2015 Northwoods League season. Madison is 13-5 (.722) overall in the previous 18 contests and 6-3 (.667) within the confines of C.O. Brown Stadium.
  • Gonsolin Goes Yard – Anthony Gonsolin (St. Mary’s College) laced his team-leading second home run of the season in Sunday’s 7-2 loss. The effort was enough to lift the 6-foot-2 corner outfielder’s OPS to .835 and runs created mark to 9.94, each of which are also team-best marks so far this summer.

The Mallards will return home on Friday, June 19 against the Kenosha Kingfish. Next Friday will be Valpak Great Outdoors Night at the Duck Pond, featuring a Pepsi Outdoorsman Maynard Bobblehead Giveaway presented by WKOW TV. For tickets, call the Mallards ticket office at 608-246-4277 or visit MallardsBaseball.com.

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The Madison Mallards are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 22nd season of summer collegiate baseball in 2015, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 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, more than 120 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (OAK). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League Website.  For more information, visit www.MallardsBaseball.com.

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