{"id":5465,"date":"2016-08-06T02:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2016-08-06T02:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:59:08","slug":"moondogs-drop-final-game-of-homestand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2016\/08\/06\/moondogs-drop-final-game-of-homestand\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Drop Final Game of Homestand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMankato, Minnesota&mdash;Wrapping up a seven game home stand, the Mankato MoonDogs took on the La Crosse Loggers at Franklin Rogers Park, and were defeated by a score of 3-2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe La Crosse pitching staff would keep the MoonDogs bats at bay for most of the night, allowing Mankato to get just four hits all night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe MoonDogs staff was fairly effective themselves, allowing just three runs on eight hits,&nbsp;but it was not enough to bring down the Loggers tonight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tStarter Dalton Lehnen gave Mankato five innings on the bump, allowing just one run while striking out five.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLehnen would be relieved by Kenny Varnell who would go 1.2 innings, striking out four but allowed the final two Logger runs in the sixth, receiving the loss.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMankato had a prime opportunity to at least tie the game in the seventh, when Jordan Washam led things off with a triple.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe would be out at the plate on fielders choice, leaving Drew Fearing to score the lone MoonDog run of that inning when he was driven in by Eric Peterson.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlvaro Rubalcaba would score the only other MoonDog run, coming in the third, and it was Jake Shepski who would drive Rubalcaba in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTomorrow the MoonDogs will travel to St. Cloud to take on the Rox in a battle of the first and second place teams in the North Division.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYou can catch all the action live at 1230 AM The Fan Mankato, the iHeart Radio app, or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mankatomoondogs.com\">www.mankatomoondogs.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t###\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Mankato MoonDogs are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 23rd season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 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, more than 150 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (CHC). All league games are viewable live via the<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><em>Northwoods League portal<\/em><\/a><em>. For more information, visit<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mankatomoondogs.com\/\"><em>www.mankatomoondogs.com<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<em>or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store and set the MoonDogs as your favorite team.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. The 22-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 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, more than 150 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (CHC). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\/\"><em>www.northwoodsleague.com<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<em>or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankato, Minnesota&mdash;Wrapping up a seven game home stand, the Mankato MoonDogs took on the La Crosse Loggers at Franklin Rogers  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5410,"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":[25,27,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-announcements","category-archives","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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