Written By: Tyler Kuch<\/p>\n
Photo By: Kenzie Schmidt<\/p>\n
A day after being on the wrong side of a lopsided score, the Mankato MoonDogs turned the tables on the Bismarck Larks, splitting the two-game series with an 11-5 victory at ISG Field.\u00a0 This marked the first victory of the season for the Dogs where they didn\u2019t score first.<\/p>\n
The two teams traded a couple of scoreless innings before the Larks tagged MoonDogs starter Kolby Kiser<\/strong> with a pair of unearned runs.<\/p>\n The deficit was short-lived, however, as the Dogs got the bats going in the bottom of the fourth inning.\u00a0 A single and a couple of walks led to a bases loaded fielder\u2019s choice for Brendan Hord<\/strong> for the first run for the home team.\u00a0 After a Nolan Tichy<\/strong> RBI double, catcher Hunter Faildo<\/strong> drove in two more with another single.\u00a0 By the time the Larks stopped the bleeding, the MoonDogs led 4-2 heading into the fifth inning.<\/p>\n After his unlucky third inning, Kiser kept the Larks off the board before giving way to Mitch Casperson<\/strong> with two outs in the fifth, who kept the door closed through the eighth inning.<\/p>\n But the MoonDogs were just getting started at the plate.\u00a0 Hord drove in two with a single in the fifth, and Kip Fougerousse<\/strong> smashed a solo home run in the seventh to extend the lead to 7-2.\u00a0 The string of unanswered runs kept going in the eighth when leadoff hitter Mikey Gottschalk<\/strong> dropped a liner in front of a diving Jackson Beaman<\/strong> in center field, and circled the bases for an inside-the park home run, his first in his three-year MoonDog career. A Larks error gave the Dogs one more run, and heading into the ninth inning, they led 11-2.<\/p>\n The Larks showed signs of life in the ninth, scoring three runs off MoonDogs pitcher Caleb Guisewite<\/strong>, but it was too little, too late.\u00a0 The 11-5 win meant that the MoonDogs would split their fifth two-game series of the season to pull their record even at 5-5.\u00a0 The Dogs will head to Willmar on Thursday for the start of a home-and-home series with the Stingers. First pitch is at 7:05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written By: Tyler Kuch Photo By: Kenzie Schmidt A day after being on the wrong side of a lopsided score, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15746,"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":[27,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-archives","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\n