{"id":3443,"date":"2013-07-27T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"moondogsdropseriesfinaleinwaterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2013\/07\/27\/moondogsdropseriesfinaleinwaterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Drop Series Finale in Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span stylefont-size=\"\">WATERLOO, IOWA&#8211; After winning at home last night, 4-3, the Mankato MoonDogs embarked on a five game, six day road trip Saturday night with a pit stop in Waterloo to wrap up their three game series with the Bucks.&nbsp; &nbsp;Waterloo once again scored runs in bunches, hitting their way to a 10-4 victory over the Mankato MoonDogs at Riverfront Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\"><op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">MoonDogs starting pitcher, Kahana Neal (U. of the Cumberlands) had been among the Northwoods League&#8217;s best during the month of July, going 17.2 innings without allowing an earned run in three starts in the month of July, but struggled Saturday night, allowing a season high six runs (five earned runs) on seven hits over four innings.&nbsp; The Hawaiian born right-hander struggled with his command for most of his four inning, walking three batters without a strikeout.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Waterloo&#8217;s starting Pitcher Landon Simpson (Arkansas) was dominant over his first five innings, allowing just two hits while striking out five MoonDogs batters.&nbsp; The freshman RHP ran into trouble in the sixth&nbsp;inning though, allowing four runs on three hits, but managed to leave the game with a 7-4 lead.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">The bullpen combination of Dresen Johnson (Illinois) and Adam Dian (Temple) silenced the MoonDogs offense over the final three innings, retiring the final nine batters in order.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Chase Simpson (Wichita St) paced the MoonDogs offensively Saturday night, going 2-for-5 with a double and two RBI.&nbsp; Matt Jones also had a good night, going 2-for-4 with a run scored.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Mankato opens up interleague play Sunday night with a two game series against the Madison Mallards.&nbsp; Cameron Giannini (Southern Miss) takes the mound for Mankato in game one.&nbsp; First pitch is schedule for 5:05 p.m. at Warner Park.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Mankato returns to Franklin Rogers Park on Friday, August 2 to kick off a season-ending eight game homestand. &nbsp;Next Friday is the Baseball Card Giveaway night presented by Sports PiX and Hot 96.7.<op><\/op><\/p>\n<p classmsonormal=\"\">Great seats are available to all remaining home games, on sale at the MoonDogs office located at 1221 Caledonia Street in Mankato, as well as over the phone at 507-625-7047.&nbsp; To stay up to date, Like the MoonDogs on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter (@MoonDogsBall), or visit the website at www.mankatomoondogs.com<op><\/op><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATERLOO, IOWA&#8211; After winning at home last night, 4-3, the Mankato MoonDogs embarked on a five game, six day road  [&#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-3443","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 Drop Series Finale in Waterloo - 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\/07\/27\/moondogsdropseriesfinaleinwaterloo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MoonDogs Drop Series Finale in Waterloo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WATERLOO, IOWA&#8211; 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