{"id":12267,"date":"2019-08-05T03:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=12267"},"modified":"2019-08-05T03:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:27:16","slug":"rox-rout-honkers-to-earn-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2019\/08\/05\/rox-rout-honkers-to-earn-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Rox Rout Honkers to Earn Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>St. Cloud, MN<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trying to catch first-place St. Cloud, the Honkers needed to rack up as many wins as possible against the Rox, but St. Cloud proved why they\u2019re a first-place team by beating Rochester 8-0 on Sunday, August 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Cloud\u2019s offense immediately got its first run when Hance Smith deposited the first pitch he saw over the center field wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rox tacked on another first-inning run against Rochester starter Mike Lopez (Cal State-San Marcos) when Jack Kelly hit an RBI single.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2-0 lead was plenty for St. Cloud\u2019s starting pitcher Nick Desalvo as he brought his \u201cA+\u201d game. He retired the first nine batters he faced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rochester got their first hit in the top of the fourth inning when Evan Berkey (Cal State-Bakersfield) lined a double down the third-base line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Desalvo bounced back by retiring the next three batters to strand Berkey on second base.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Cloud added to their lead in the bottom of the fourth when Ulises Caballero and Luke Ira hit back-to-back RBI singles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now up 4-0, Desalvo once again retired the first three batters he faced in the fifth inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Honkers finally got multiple hits in an inning in the sixth when Aaron Simmons (Wisconsin-Stevens Point) and Henry George (Minnesota-Duluth) hit back-to-back singles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, Desalvo got Berkey to hit a fielder\u2019s choice and retired Kyler McMahan (Oregon State) and Andy Armstrong (Oregon State) to end the inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rox struck again in the bottom of the sixth inning when Ira hit another RBI single, Smith hit an RBI sacrifice-fly, and Gus Steiger made it three straight runs with an RBI single.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the 7-0 lead didn\u2019t last long as St. Cloud made it 8-0 in the seventh inning when Ben Carew lined an RBI single into the outfield.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rochester faced a new pitcher, Justin Wick, in the eighth inning, but he followed Desalvo\u2019s lead by allowing just one base runner, George, who reached on a walk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Strassman (Rochester Community &amp; Technical College) provided one of the Honker\u2019s few highlights when he retired the side in the bottom of the eighth inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the top of the ninth inning, Wick gave up walks to McMahan and Ryan Wrobleski (Dallas Baptist), but he didn\u2019t surrender any hits and struck out A.J. Miller (Oregon) to end the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 8-0 loss decreases the Honker\u2019s second-half record to 16-15, five and a half games behind the first-place Rox with six games left in the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henry George was named the Profile Sanford Player of the Game for going 1-2 with a walk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Flock return home on Monday, August 5, when they host the Willmar Stingers at 6:35 p.m. Rochester\u2019s final home game is Wednesday, August 7, when they conclude their series against the Stingers at 6:35 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season tickets and new all-you-can-eat ticket packages are available for purchase right now at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.RochesterHonkers.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or by calling the Honkers front office at 507-289-1170.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rochester Honkers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Now in its 26<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">over 200\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (MIA).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All league games are viewable live via the\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.emailsrvr.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=Md8hbkEjI7D-eltphWRtYyD6k44HY4TRag2yDAokxO5a5iHFlCjWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fportal.stretchinternet.com%2fnwl%2f\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northwoods League portal<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.rochesterhonkers.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Honkers as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">####<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; St. Cloud, MN \u2013\u00a0 Trying to catch first-place St. Cloud, the Honkers needed to rack up as many wins  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12072,"comment_status":"closed","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":[34,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepagenewsslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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