{"id":17063,"date":"2025-07-01T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:23:25","slug":"the-moondogs-take-a-win-to-start-the-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2025\/07\/01\/the-moondogs-take-a-win-to-start-the-second-half\/","title":{"rendered":"The MoonDogs Take A Win To Start The Second Half!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs took the first win of the second half tonight, defeating the Big Sticks 6-5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs starter tonight was returner Tate Marland (Cedarville University). Marland would pitch for 6 innings of work, facing 23 batters and striking out 4 of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Big Sticks were the first ones to get onto the scoreboard in the top of the third inning, 2-0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs got onto the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth inning, tying the score at 2! Corey Nunez (UC Santa Barbara) would score on a Sean Griggs (University of Alabama) sac fly. Caleb Koskie (Indiana University) would hit an RBI single, driving in Nico Libed (San Diego) to score.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first reliever for the MoonDogs, making his debut, was Cayden Hansen (St. Cloud State University). Hansen would take the mound for 1.1 innings of work, facing 8 batters and striking out 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs&#8217; last arm out of the bullpen tonight was Ian Culver (University of Utah). Culver would finish the game with 1.2 innings of work, facing 6 batters and striking out 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs would fire again in the bottom of the seventh inning, putting up 4 runs! Josey Williamson (University of Alabama) would score on a walk. Nunez would hit an RBI single, scoring Koskie. Brandon Vlcko (Minnesota State University, Mankato) would hit a sac fly, bringing in Adrian Beltre Jr. (San Diego) to score. Griggs would then get walked, scoring Cannon Peery (Grand Canyon University)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Big Sticks would try to get their lead back, scoring in the top of the seventh and eighth innings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MoonDogs would walk away with the win tonight, 6-5!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MoonDogs took the first win of the second half tonight, defeating the Big Sticks 6-5. &nbsp; The MoonDogs starter  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17064,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"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>The MoonDogs Take A Win To Start The Second Half! 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