{"id":3324,"date":"2019-07-14T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:10:54","slug":"nelson-goes-the-distance-vander-wal-homers-to-split-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/2019\/07\/14\/nelson-goes-the-distance-vander-wal-homers-to-split-doubleheader\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson goes the distance, Vander Wal homers to split doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">By Cory Berberian<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">LOVES PARK, Ill. \u2014 With the bats having gone cold earlier in the day and the largest crowd on hand this season, the Rockford Rivets (4-8) surged past the Kokomo Jackrabbits (5-7) in game two of the doubleheader Saturday, 6-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">Rockford\u2019s offense failed to produce a run in game one, tallying only six hits and striking out seven times against a combination of Kokomo\u2019s Creede Jeffers and Joey Haass on the mound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">The Jackrabbits sent out Blaine Traxel, Northwoods League All-Star and the league\u2019s strikeout leader for game two. By the end of the third inning, Traxel had already fanned 5 Rivets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">Kokomo\u2019s 1-0 lead in the fourth inning would not last for long. Easton Murrell (Texas Tech) led off the frame by reaching on a throwing error, and Jake Vander Wal (Long Beach State) launched a ball to the party porch off of Traxel for his 3rd home run of the season. One bat flip later, the Rivets led 2-1 for their first advantage of the twin bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">With Vander Wal, who finished with 3 runs batted in, having delivered the punch in front of a crowd of 2,157 at Rivets Stadium\u2014the largest attendance number of the season\u2014The Rivets offense followed him up with a 4-run 5th inning to give starter Jordan Nelson (Dubuque) a comfortable lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">After allowing 4 runs on 10 hits his last start, Nelson worked quickly through the Jackrabbits\u2019 lineup. The 6-foot-5 right-hander struck out a season-high 8 batters over 7 innings, going the distance for his second win of the year. Nelson joins Brad Littleton (Lewis) as the second Rockford hurler to throw a complete game on the campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">Right-handed pitcher Nathan Schneiderman is Sunday\u2019s probable starter for the Rivets. Game time against the Kokomo Jackrabbits is slated for 1:05 P.M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The Rockford Rivets are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 25-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 22 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, over 200 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, 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 All league games are viewable live via the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><i>Northwoods League portal<\/i><\/a><i>. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockfordrivets.com.com\/\"><i>www.rockfordrivets.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rivets as your favorite team.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cory Berberian \u00a0 LOVES PARK, Ill. \u2014 With the bats having gone cold earlier in the day and the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":3325,"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":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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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