{"id":17623,"date":"2026-06-10T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?p=17623"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:28:36","slug":"missed-opportunities-cost-rafters-in-series-opener-against-battle-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2026\/06\/10\/missed-opportunities-cost-rafters-in-series-opener-against-battle-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed Opportunities Cost Rafters in Series Opener Against Battle Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Luc Carter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BATTLE CREEK, Mich &#8212; The 2-6 Wisconsin Rapids Rafters continued their road trip, hitting the halfway point with game<br \/>\nfour of eight in Battle Creek, MI on Thursday night, taking on the 6-5 Battle Creek Battle Jacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Rafters ran into trouble in the bottom of the first inning after Spencer Lanz walked the first two<br \/>\nbatters he faced and an error from shortstop Jax LeGrand loaded the bases. AJ Lucas would<br \/>\nthen hit a fly ball to right field that would be deep enough to score one run on a sacrifice fly and<br \/>\nthen a throwing error from Zach Gingrich on the throw home would bring home another run<br \/>\nputting the Rafters in a 2-0 hole early.<\/p>\n<p>Battle Jacks starter Keagen Kohloff struggled with command issues today, walking eight Rafters and<br \/>\nhitting one with a pitch. However the Rafters also struggled to get hits. The Rafters offense had two<br \/>\ngolden opportunities in both the 3rd and 4th innings loading the bases and both times they were<br \/>\nunable to get the big hit.<\/p>\n<p>In the 5th inning Zach Gingrich drew a walk and advanced to second on a fielder&#8217;s choice. Then<br \/>\nhe would steal third base. Kohloff would then throw a pitch to the backstop and Gingrich would<br \/>\ncome home to score on the wild pitch to cut the Battle Jacks lead in half 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Battle Jacks immediately answered back in the bottom half of the inning when Thomas<br \/>\nCooper, who reached base on an error and moved up to 3rd base on a wild pitch, would score on<br \/>\na sacrifice fly from Brady LaViolette.<\/p>\n<p>Rafters starter Spencer Lanz who pitched 5.1 innings giving up 3 runs (1 earned) 4 walks and 4<br \/>\nhits and striking out 3 would exit the game in the 6th inning after giving up a leadoff double to<br \/>\nJake Stedman in the sixth and walking Christian Lopez with one out.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Raradin would make his Rafters debut in relief of Lanz inheriting 2 runners. He was able<br \/>\nto get the next 2 batters out and keep it a 1 run game heading into the 7th.<\/p>\n<p>The Rafters offense still could not find the big hit as they would leave 13 runners on base in the<br \/>\ngame tonight. They were also caught stealing twice. The rafters finished the game with just 2<br \/>\nhits.<\/p>\n<p>Battle Creek would score 1 more run in the 7th on a wild pitch to make the score 4-1. In the top<br \/>\nof the 9th inning the Rafters would bring the tying run to the plate with 1 out after Dylan Frank<br \/>\nand Zach Gingrich both drew walks, but the motif of the day of the Rafters not being able to get<br \/>\nthe clutch hit with runners on continued as Jacob Janisko struck out Nico Defazio and Harrison<br \/>\nEngskov to win the game for Battle Creek and earned his second save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rafters came into Thursday\u2019s game with the least errors committed in the Northwoods<br \/>\nleague with 6. Today they committed 5, a very uncharacteristic day for Wisconsin Rapids.<br \/>\nThe Rafters fall to 2-7 and the Battle Jacks improve to 7-5. Game 2 of the series will begin at<br \/>\n7:05 tomorrow with Sam Neal scheduled to start the game. Neal has a 1.29 ERA making his<br \/>\nsecond start of the season. He is 1-0 after his fantastic start last Saturday at Wausau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luc Carter BATTLE CREEK, Mich &#8212; The 2-6 Wisconsin Rapids Rafters continued their road trip, hitting the halfway point  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[775,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-stories","category-team-news"],"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>Missed Opportunities Cost Rafters in Series Opener Against Battle Jacks - Wisconsin Rapids Rafters<\/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\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2026\/06\/10\/missed-opportunities-cost-rafters-in-series-opener-against-battle-jacks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Missed Opportunities Cost Rafters in Series Opener Against Battle Jacks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Luc Carter BATTLE CREEK, Mich &#8212; 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