{"id":13353,"date":"2022-07-08T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2022-07-08T23:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:43:27","slug":"rafters-ride-ross-to-5-2-win-in-rockford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2022\/07\/08\/rafters-ride-ross-to-5-2-win-in-rockford\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafters Ride Ross to 5-2 Win in Rockford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ROCKFORD, IL &#8211; Sometimes at night, there will be a shooting star that shoots across the sky.\u00a0 For just a second or two, it can be seen jetting off the horizon.\u00a0 Well, on a day when the 2022 Northwoods League All-Stars were announced, perhaps the brightest star, Ben Ross, outshined the competition again.\u00a0 He carried the Rafters to a 5-2 win over the Rockford Rivets. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rats bats were held silent in the top half of the first inning.\u00a0 However, the Rivets came ready to play in the bottom half.\u00a0 Rockford put two on the board on Rafters All-Star starting pitcher, Grant Manning, to put them ahead, 2-0.\u00a0 However, Rafters All-Star Garrett Broussard had an RBI single in the top half of the second to cut the deficit in half, 2-1.\u00a0 Manning threw a 1-2-3 bottom half of the second to retire the Rivets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rafters had a major scoring opportunity to begin the third.\u00a0 After singles from Chris Conniff, Ben Ross, and McKinley Erves to lead off the inning, the bases were loaded with none out.\u00a0 However, Rivets starter, Ross Thompson, pitched out of the jam without allowing a run.\u00a0 Grant Manning threw a scoreless bottom half of the third to end his night.\u00a0 He gave up two runs on two hits, allowed three walks, and struck out two.\u00a0 Michael Lindsey entered the game for the Rafters in the fourth, as he threw two innings of scoreless baseball in the fourth and fifth.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the top half of the sixth, the Rats bats finally came to life.\u00a0 After a leadoff double from Jacob Igawa and a single from Garrett Broussard, Nate Nankil hit an RBI single to tie the game up at 2-2.\u00a0 After a Rockford pitching change, Harry Owen and Seth Stroh were retired for outs one and two.\u00a0 Chris Conniff drew a two-out walk, which brought up Ben Ross with the bases loaded and two outs.\u00a0 Ross doubled on the left field wall, which cleared the bases and gave the Rats a 5-2 lead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connor Kurki and Tanner Chafin each threw a scoreless inning in the seventh and eighth.\u00a0 Alec Burnett struck out the side in order in the bottom of the ninth to earn his third save of the season.\u00a0 Michael Lindsey earned his second win of the season to move him to 2-0.\u00a0 Ben Ross finished 3-for-5 with three RBI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rafters (32-6) will play in Rockford again tomorrow against the Rivets (18-21) at 6:35 pm.\u00a0 Tune in at 6:20 pm on the home of Rafters Baseball, 1320 AM\/97.5 FM, with Brett Loftis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Having completed its\u2019 28th season, the Northwoods 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 280 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time All-Star and 2016 Roberto Clemente Award winner Curtis Granderson, three-time Cy Young Award winner and World Series Champion Max Scherzer (NYM), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and World Series Champion Chris Sale (BOS). As well as 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2019\/2021 Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso (NYM) and 2021 All-Star, MLB Gold Glove winner and 2019 Second Team All-MLB shortstop Marcus Semien (TEX). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. League games are viewable live at watchnwl.com. For more information, visit www.raftersbaseball.com or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rafters as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, IL &#8211; Sometimes at night, there will be a shooting star that shoots across the sky.\u00a0 For just a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":13354,"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":[718,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","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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