{"id":6957,"date":"2018-07-21T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T01:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2018-07-21T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T01:56:28","slug":"moondogs-defeat-express-with-all-around-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2018\/07\/21\/moondogs-defeat-express-with-all-around-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonDogs Defeat Express With All-Around Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mankato MoonDogs knocked off the Eau Claire Express Saturday with solid pitching and timely hitting, plating seven runs in a 7-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>The MoonDogs scored one run in the first inning on a solo homerun by Jake Shepski (Xavier) to give the MoonDogs an early advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The scoring halted until the fourth inning, as Express starter Reece Dietrich began to settle into a groove. In the fourth, Josh Elvir (Houston) singled to drive in CJ Huntley, who advanced with a double.<\/p>\n<p>The game was broken open in the following frame, when Kyle MacDonald (Arkansas State) clubbed his league leading 13<sup>th<\/sup>homerun of the season to score three more. MacDonald scored Shepski and Austin Bull (Grand Canyon), giving the MoonDogs a commanding lead they would not relinquish.<\/p>\n<p>Mankato added an insurance run in the seventh, as MacDonald collected his fourth RBI of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Jarod Wright (Southern Mississippi) collected his best start of the season, throwing seven shoutout innings. Wright scattered four hits while walking two, striking out three in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Ludwig (Minnesota State) and Brandon Pfaadt (Bellarmine) combined for two innings of relief, giving the MoonDogs a win in their return to Mankato.<\/p>\n<p>RJ Teijeiro (UCLA) added two hits of his own, while Kenton Crews (Evansville) plated a run with a double.<\/p>\n<p>The MoonDogs wrap up their series with Eau Claire Sunday, with first pitch slated for 3:05 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mankato MoonDogs knocked off the Eau Claire Express Saturday with solid pitching and timely hitting, plating seven runs in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6623,"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-6957","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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