{"id":3366,"date":"2013-06-17T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"moondogssweptinwaterloolosethirdstraight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2013\/06\/17\/moondogssweptinwaterloolosethirdstraight\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Swept in Waterloo Lose Third Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span stylefont-size=\"\">WATERLOO, IOWA &#8211; The Mankato MoonDogs offensive struggles continued, suffering a 4-2 loss against the Waterloo Bucks Monday night at Riverfront Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\"><op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">The Mankato Offense has struggled in the late innings this season.&nbsp; When leading after five innings, the Dogs are 8-2 , but when trailing after six innings, they are just 1-8.&nbsp; <op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">The MoonDogs managed to piece together their two runs on five hits, but ran out of gas offensively after taking a 2-1 lead in the top of the fourth inning.&nbsp; Mankato held on to the one run lead into the bottom of the sixth inning, but starting pitcher, Cameron Giannini (Southern Miss) gave up a Marcos Calderon two-out, two run double to give the Bucks a 3-2 lead.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Giannini (2-1) was solid over the first five innings, but ran out of stream in the sixth, giving up the go ahead run on his 103rd pitch of the day.&nbsp; Overall, the right-hander gave up three runs on six hits while walking three batters, striking out five over 5.2 innings.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Mike Nowak (Dixie State) made his sixth relief appearance of the season for Mankato, giving up the fourth and final Waterloo run in the 7<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The southpaw gave up one run on two hits while walking a pair of Bucks batters over 1 inning of work.&nbsp; Zack Hobbs (Navarro JC) worked the final 1.1 innings, shutting down the Waterloo offense with no runs and no hits, while striking out two.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Josh Fuentes (Saddleback College) led the Mankato offensive attack in his first start of the season.&nbsp; Fuentes finished the night 2-for-2 at the plate with a walk and a pair of runs batted in.&nbsp; Chase Simpson (Wichita State) went 1-for-4 with a double in his final at bat of the night, and has now reached base safely in 10 straight road games.&nbsp; Zach Zehner (Cal-Poly) finished the night 0-for-2 with a walk and two runs scored.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">The MoonDogs are now 9-10 on the season, and 3.5 games back in the Northwoods League North Division first half standings.&nbsp; Mankato wraps up their four game road trip with a two game series in St. Cloud starting Tuesday evening before The MoonDogs return to the Frank on Thursday, June 20 to play a pair of seven inning games against the Willmar Stingers.&nbsp; Game one will start at 605pm, and game two will start shortly after the conclusion of game one.&nbsp; Thursday will be T-Shirt Giveaway Night presented by HickoryTech, with the first 500 fans in attendance receiving&nbsp; a free MoonDogs t-shirt. <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; 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