ST. CLOUD ROX vs. MINOT HOT TOTS<\/b><\/p>\n
August 7 – August 8<\/span><\/p>\n Joe Faber Field (St. Cloud, Minnesota)<\/span><\/p>\n St. Cloud Rox – 40-27, 16-15 second half<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Minot Hot Tots – 26-42, 13-19 second half<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Friday, August 7 \u2013 7:05 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pitching: <\/b>TBA vs. TBA<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Watch: <\/b>FloSports<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Listen: <\/b>93.9FM\/1390 AM Granite City Sports Radio<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Promotion: <\/b>Friday Night Fireworks + Launch-A-Ball. (Baseball\u2019s version of Chuck-a-Puck) Fans will have an opportunity to purchase balls to toss on the field after the game for a chance to win $200 in Scheels gift cards. Proceeds benefit Sauk Rapids Youth Baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n Saturday, August 8 \u2013 6:35 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pitching: <\/b>TBA vs. TBA<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Watch: <\/b>FloSports<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Listen: <\/b>93.9FM\/1390 AM Granite City Sports Radio<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Promotion: <\/b>Fan Appreciation Night. Great Prizes Will Be Given Away Throughout the Game. First 75 active Military Members or Veterans with valid ID or Military discharge papers who purchase a ticket to the game will receive a Rox hat. (Advance ticket purchase only, not day of game). Presented by the Vein Center<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Follow the Game<\/b> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n St. Cloud vs. Minot<\/b><\/p>\n Recounting Mankato<\/b><\/p>\n The Rox completed a four-game series with the Mankato Moondogs.<\/span><\/p>\n St. Cloud was victorious in game one in dominating fashion, winning 14-5 and ushering out starter Kaeden Guida in less than an inning. The Rox starter, Emerson McKnight, earned his third Northwoods League Pitcher of the Night honor, striking out a season-high 11 in five innings, with two runs under his watch. The next day, the battle moved to ISG Field, where the Moondogs found their revenge with an 11-8 win. St. Cloud found themselves down 9-3 entering the bottom of the seventh, and rallied with a bat-around to put the lead within one, topped off with a Nolan Geislinger steal home. Mankato tacked on two more runs in the next frame, and held on for the win. Wednesday pitted the two back at the Rockpile, with Mankato finding another margin, this time 9-6. The Rox used six arms that evening, but on the offensive end, Aidan Mouton was a triple away from the cycle, ending 3-6 with two runs, a double, a home run, and an RBI. The Moondogs closed the series with a 5-2 win on Thursday.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Stingers Set In Stone<\/b><\/p>\n With a win against the Badlands Big Sticks on Wednesday, the Willmar Stingers have clinched a playoff berth, meaning they will take on the Rox in the first round of the postseason. The Rox won seven of their twelve games against the bees within the regular season.<\/span><\/p>\n Rox against the Northwoods League<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Rox close out the regular season among the top of these statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n Offense<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pitching<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Torching the Tots<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0Multiple Rox have found offensive success against the Hot Tots, including;<\/span><\/p>\n Rox Records<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With six games to play for St. Cloud, there are multiple records that are within reach for the Rox to potentially match or even break. The Rox broke their single season runs record and walks mark in consecutive days, both against Mankato on August 3 and 4. The records listed below do include statistics recorded in playoff games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recchio\u2019s Records<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Utility man Tanner Recchio is known for his speed, and his speed has killed opponents in their game planning. He looks to continue to make his mark on the Rox record books, seven runs away from breaking the league single season runs record, 80 from Mason McCoy in 2015, an accolade whose career-long counterpart already belongs to Recchio.<\/span><\/p>\n In the late game of the July 23 double-header against Thunder Bay, Recchio stole his 67th base of the 2026 season, officially tying him with <\/span>Larry Edwards<\/span><\/a>\u2019 mark that he set last season. Recchio accomplished the feat in 51 games, while Edwards needed 69 to reach it last year. One day later, on July 24, Recchio officially took the record for himself when he stole second base in the sixth inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After setting the new Rox single-season stolen base record at 34 last season, Recchio surpassed that number on July 3 by taking his 35th base of the season. He needed 44 games to steal 34 bases in 2025 and needed just 35 games this year to take 35 bases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He broke the NWL stolen base mark on June 21, swiping his 91st career bag against the Minot Hot Tots. Recchio stole 34 bases apiece in 2023 with the Minnesota Mud Puppies and in 2025 with St. Cloud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recchio has become the third St. Cloud player to be in the Northwoods League record book. Chris DeMara recorded four shutouts in 2001, and Britt Carmicheal pitched 80 games from 1997 to 1999.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Rox Break Team Records<\/b><\/p>\n Known for running their opponents into the ground by using their speed, the Rox are in pursuit of positioning themselves as one of the fastest teams ever in the Northwoods League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Rox broke the single-season stolen base record for one team in the Northwoods League on July 26 with their 252nd stolen base, clinched against the Mankato MoonDogs. St. Cloud only needed 58 games to break the record, averaging 4.5 stolen bases per game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 2024 Willmar Stingers previously held the top spot on their own with 251 steals back in 2024, one-upping their previous record of 247 in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n St. Cloud is on pace to not just break the Stingers\u2019 record, but shatter it. The Rox are currently projected to finish with close to 300 stolen bases by season\u2019s end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Rox to the Pros<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 2026 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft was held on July 11 and 12 for eligible high school and college prospects to enter the professional ranks. A total of seven former Rox players were drafted by one of the 30 MLB teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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