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The Mallards (19-11, 42-24) will host the Willmar Stingers (19-11, 37-29) on Monday night, marking Madison’s second inter-division matchup of the summer. The Mallards currently sit in second place in the South in both the second half and overall standings, with Willmar finding themselves in third place in the North in the second half and fourth overall.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe contest will see the first start of 2016 from newly acquired Drew Slade (Ripon College), who earned a four-inning save in his first and only appearance of the year. Slade, a 5’9,”160-pound left-hander from Pardeeville, Wisconsin, just finished his sophomore year at Ripon where he earned all-conference honors. He led the Red Hawks in wins (3), strikeouts (50) and ERA (2.39).\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Stingers will hand the ball to Corey Binger (Nebraska-Omaha), who has been a part of Willmar’s rotation since day one. The right-hander is 3-4 with a 5.22 ERA on the summer, striking out 34 batsmen in 50 frames in 2016. Binger is coming off of his best start of the year, where he pitched eight innings of three-hit baseball in a win over St. Cloud.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Mallards enter Monday on a seven-game win streak, their longest of the season. They’ve been getting huge contributions from the bats, as Madison is hitting .376 as a club in their last ten outings. In that period, the Mallards have eight guys hitting over .350, most notably Josh Stowers (Louisville), Cameron Frost (Washington State) and Zach Jarrett (UNC-Charlotte) who are hitting .487, .442 and .432 in that span, respectively.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMonday’s game against the Willmar Stingers will get underway from the Duck Pond at Warner Park at 7:05 pm. The game will feature a trading card giveaway. There will also be a Dean & St. Mary’s An Apple A Day giveaway. An appearance will be made by former 4-time MLB All-Star and 1949 American League Rookie of the Year Roy Sievers. It will be PITCH Night at the ballpark, with postgame catch on the field followed by premier pilot episode of FOX's new hit show, "PITCH." It will be Red Wing Night as well as Dentistry for Madison: Dr. Jay Hazen Star Wars Night. The Mallards will wear Darth Vader themed jerseys to be auctioned off during the game to benefit DAIS. Eli Crogan and Earl Lochner will also be inducted into the Mallards Wall of Fame. Tickets are available for purchase by visiting MallardsBaseball.com, calling the Mallards ticket office at 608-246-4277, or stopping in the ticket office at 2920 N Sherman Ave.\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Madison Mallards <\/em>are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 23rd season of summer collegiate baseball, 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 150 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 (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (CHC). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League portal<\/a>. For more information, visit www.mallardsbaseball.com<\/a> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store and set the Mallards as your favorite team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mallards (19-11, 42-24) will host the Willmar Stingers (19-11, 37-29) on Monday night, marking Madison’s second inter-division matchup of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9503,"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":[30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-information","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\n