{"id":9356,"date":"2022-05-13T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2022-05-13T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:28:05","slug":"the-duke-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2022\/05\/13\/the-duke-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duke is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignleft wp-image-9384\" src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Benge_Duke-150x150.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Benge_Duke-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20100%20100%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27100%27%20height%3D%27100%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Benge_Duke-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Benge_Duke-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>\u00a0A special Friday player announcement, and a thank you for being an active military member to one of our players this year. This player is Duke Benge! Duke will be playing for \u00a0for the MoonDogs, after being an All-Star last season for the Mud Puppies. In his All Star season Duke had a 2.66 ERA in 23.2 innings pitched for the Mud Puppies! Only allowing seven runs all season, along with 17 strikeouts. Duke is currently enrolled in the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Duke in his second season for the Falcons has been solid for them throwing 20 innings, and fanning 16 batters. Duke is originally from Lakeville Minnesota! Nothing better than having a homestate kid in Mankato! Give a big MoonDog welcome home to Duke! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A special Friday player announcement, and a thank you for being an active military member to one of our players  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9385,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"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>The Duke is Back! - 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\/2022\/05\/13\/the-duke-is-back\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Duke is Back!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0A special Friday player announcement, and a thank you for being an active military member to one of our players [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2022\/05\/13\/the-duke-is-back\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mankato MoonDogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T15:22:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-13T18:28:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Benge_Duke-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"702\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin-mankato\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin-mankato\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2022\/05\/13\/the-duke-is-back\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2022\/05\/13\/the-duke-is-back\/\",\"name\":\"The Duke is Back! 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