{"id":3359,"date":"2013-06-13T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"moondogsstunginwillmarlose3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2013\/06\/13\/moondogsstunginwillmarlose3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Stung in Willmar Lose 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<span stylefont-size=\"\">Willmar, MN- &#8211; The Mankato MoonDogs had their three game winning streak snapped Thursday night, losing to the Willmar Stingers 3-1 at Bill Taunton Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\"><op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Brock Dykxhoorn (West Virginia) took the loss for Mankato, allowing three runs on six hits over six innings, striking out five Willmar batter while walking two.&nbsp; Dykxhoorn avoided the big inning on several occasions, but gave up all three Stingers runs with two outs on the board.&nbsp; <op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Willmar plated home their first run in the bottom of the second after Tyler Leffler reached base on a two-out walk, scoring a batter later on a Danny Brennan RBI double.&nbsp; Dykxhoorn was stung again in the bottom of the third, with Alec Sole scoring on a Max Kuhn RBI single.&nbsp; The Stingers got an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth inning, on a two-out, solo home run (2) off the bat of Stingers first baseman Marc Flores, extending the Willmar lead to 3-1.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Mankato made it a 2-1 game in the top of the fifth after Alex Polston (Seminole State) walked to lead off the inning.&nbsp; Polston reached third after advancing on a passed ball and a balk, and later scored on a Krysthian Leal (Maryland) RBI sac-fly.&nbsp; The MoonDogs had plenty of chances offensively Thursday night, but never quite got the bats going.&nbsp; In all, the &#8216;Dogs left seven men on base over nine innings, five of those seven were stranded at third.&nbsp;&nbsp; Zach Zehner (Cal-Poly) led the team offensively, going 3-for-4 with a double and a pair of singles, bumping his season batting average up to .365.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Chris Kubitz (St. Cloud State) improved to 2-1 on the year, giving up just the one run on three hits, while striking out six MoonDogs batters over &nbsp;5.2 innings.&nbsp; Bret Dahlson picked up his second save of the summer, striking out two batters in a quick 1-2-3 ninth inning.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">The MoonDogs are back home Friday June 14<sup>th<\/sup> taking on the Alexandria Blue Anchors who are managed by world series champion, and former Minnesota Twin Al Newman.&nbsp; Friday night&#8217;s game is MAYBA\/MAGFA Night presented by Hot 96.7.&nbsp; All kids wearing their MAYBA or MAGFA jerseys get in free with a paid adult.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Season and single game tickets are on sale at the MoonDogs office located at 1221 Caledonia Street in Mankato.&nbsp; For more information visit the teams website at www.mankatomoondogs.com or call the office a 507-625-7047.<op><\/op><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Willmar, MN- &#8211; The Mankato MoonDogs had their three game winning streak snapped Thursday night, losing to the Willmar Stingers  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-news"],"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>MoonDogs Stung in Willmar Lose 3-1 - Mankato MoonDogs<\/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\/mankato-moondogs\/2013\/06\/13\/moondogsstunginwillmarlose3-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MoonDogs Stung in Willmar Lose 3-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp;Willmar, MN- &#8211; 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