{"id":12914,"date":"2018-06-14T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?p=12914"},"modified":"2018-06-14T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T03:14:25","slug":"shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, Wis. \u2013 \u00a0The Madison Mallards picked up their 12<sup>th<\/sup>straight win on Thursday night at the Duck Pond, this time a 5-1 victory over the Green Bay Bullfrogs that was secured by strong pitching performances and timely hitting in the late innings. \u00a0Madison starter <strong>Sean Leland <\/strong>(Illinois) hurled a gem, allowing only one run on four hits. Leland pounded the strike zone and pitched to weak contact all evening as the righty needed only 74 pitches to last 7.0 innings and earn the win. Meanwhile, the Mallards spotted him two runs on RBI knocks by <strong>Jake Randa <\/strong>(NW Florida State) and <strong>Drew Ober <\/strong>(UNC Charlotte) in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Turning Point<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mallards reliever <strong>Jonah Smith <\/strong>(Creighton) entered for Leland in the eighth inning with Madison holding a 2-1 lead. Smith quickly found himself in a jam, facing Alejandro Gonzales with runners on second and third with one out. Smith struck out Gonzales before inducing an inning-ending pop-up to preserve the one-run lead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mallards carried the momentum into the bottom of the eighth as <strong>Jake Randa <\/strong>(NW Florida State) ripped a leadoff double into the right field alley. After <strong>David Vinksy <\/strong>(Northwood) reached on a fielder\u2019s choice when the Bullfrogs failed to record an out, Madison centerfielder <strong>Jayse McLean <\/strong>(NDSU) ripped a two-run triple down the right field line, stretching the Madison lead to three. <strong>Jesse Forestell <\/strong>(Western Michigan) added an RBI single and Madison held a 5-1 lead heading to the ninth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Top Mallards<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Madison first baseman <strong>Jake Randa <\/strong>racked up a pair of hits including his key double to lead off the eighth inning. Randa was the only Mallards to collect multiple hits in the win.<\/li>\n<li>Mallards shortstop <strong>Jack Blomgren <\/strong>(Michigan) worked a number of strong at bats in the victory, drawing two walks and ripping a base hit.<\/li>\n<li>Mallards reliever <strong>Nicholes Morales <\/strong>(San Jose State) entered with one out and two men on in the ninth inning then picked up two strikeouts to seal the win. Morales earned his first save of the season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Quoteables<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Field Manager Donnie Scott on his confidence in the team\u2019s bullpen\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unreal what they\u2019re doing. I have confidence in all of them. But if we do run into a little trouble, there\u2019s somebody to back them right up. We\u2019ve got a bunch of guys who can finish the ballgame for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>On Sean Leland\u2019s strong start\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just fills up the strike zone. He turned it up a couple notches whenever he needed to but I mean, 75 pitches in seven innings, that\u2019s pretty good, and I think that\u2019s where he landed. Very efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Next Up<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mallards take on the Green Bay Bullfrogs tomorrow night at 7:05 PM at the Duck Pond looking for their 13<sup>th<\/sup>straight win. The game will feature the Zooperstars! and gates will open at 5:30 PM. For tickets and more information visit mallardsbaseball.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Madison Mallards are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 23-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 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 170 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM). \u00a0All league games are viewable live via the<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><em>Northwoods League portal<\/em><\/a><em>. For more information, visit<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mallardsbaseball.com\/\"><em>www.mallardsbaseball.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Bullfrogs as your favorite team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, Wis. \u2013 \u00a0The Madison Mallards picked up their 12thstraight win on Thursday night at the Duck Pond, this time  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":12915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"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>Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win - Madison Mallards<\/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\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madison, Wis. \u2013 \u00a0The Madison Mallards picked up their 12thstraight win on Thursday night at the Duck Pond, this time [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Madison Mallards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-15T03:14:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"602\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"347\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin-madison\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin-madison\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/\",\"name\":\"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win - Madison Mallards\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-15T03:14:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/46b43d0ad20fd9ed52a4e903985bbc7e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png\",\"width\":602,\"height\":347},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/\",\"name\":\"Madison Mallards\",\"description\":\"Official Home of Your 9-Inning Vacation!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/46b43d0ad20fd9ed52a4e903985bbc7e\",\"name\":\"admin-madison\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6ea235f7a270a99181441184c7825bc91a9c4de8cb4e5993ee68714304fdfcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6ea235f7a270a99181441184c7825bc91a9c4de8cb4e5993ee68714304fdfcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin-madison\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/author\/admin-madison\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win - Madison Mallards","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win","og_description":"Madison, Wis. \u2013 \u00a0The Madison Mallards picked up their 12thstraight win on Thursday night at the Duck Pond, this time [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/","og_site_name":"Madison Mallards","article_published_time":"2018-06-15T03:14:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":602,"height":347,"url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"admin-madison","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin-madison","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/","name":"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win - Madison Mallards","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png","datePublished":"2018-06-15T03:14:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/46b43d0ad20fd9ed52a4e903985bbc7e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/06\/6.14Recap_Web.png","width":602,"height":347},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2018\/06\/14\/shut-down-bullpen-seals-12th-straight-win\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shut-down Bullpen Seals 12th Straight Win"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#website","url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/","name":"Madison Mallards","description":"Official Home of Your 9-Inning Vacation!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/46b43d0ad20fd9ed52a4e903985bbc7e","name":"admin-madison","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6ea235f7a270a99181441184c7825bc91a9c4de8cb4e5993ee68714304fdfcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6ea235f7a270a99181441184c7825bc91a9c4de8cb4e5993ee68714304fdfcc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin-madison"},"url":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/author\/admin-madison\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}