{"id":17399,"date":"2026-06-22T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=17399"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:47:56","slug":"moondogs-split-doubleheader-with-stingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2026\/06\/22\/moondogs-split-doubleheader-with-stingers\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Split Doubleheader with Stingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mankato MoonDogs earned a split in Monday&#8217;s doubleheader against the Willmar Stingers, falling 4-2 in the opener before bouncing back with a 2-1 win in Game 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first game, Drew McConnell (University of Evansville) led the offense by going 2-for-3 with a solo home run and an RBI. Willmar scored three runs in the second inning and added another in the sixth to hold off the MoonDogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mankato responded in the nightcap behind strong pitching and timely hitting. Tanner Kern (University of San Diego) drove in the first run with an RBI double in the fifth inning before Evan Rolbiecki (University of Hawaii) delivered the game-winning solo home run in the seventh. Rolbiecki scored both MoonDogs runs in the victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krish Gandhi (Belmont University) tossed four scoreless innings, Kaeden Guida (Minnesota State University) earned the win with four strikeouts in relief, and Wyatt Thornbury (Fresno State University) recorded his third save.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Mankato MoonDogs will face the Stingers again at ISG Field Tuesday; the first pitch is at 6:35 pm.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Northwoods League is the proven leader in developing elite college baseball players. Having completed its\u2019 32nd season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in history with 26 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, over 410 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and two-time World Series Champion Max Scherzer (TOR), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford and World Series Champion Chris Sale (ATL). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2023 World Series Champion, MLB All-Star, MLB Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winner and two-time All-MLB first team shortstop Marcus Semien (NYM).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mankato MoonDogs earned a split in Monday&#8217;s doubleheader against the Willmar Stingers, falling 4-2 in the opener before bouncing  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17400,"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-17399","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) - 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