{"id":9315,"date":"2018-06-20T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T21:23:17","slug":"rafters-look-for-fifth-home-win-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wisconsin-rapids-rafters\/2018\/06\/20\/rafters-look-for-fifth-home-win-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafters Look For Fifth Home Win In A Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lakeshore Chinooks come to Witter Field for game two of series. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. \u2013 The Rafters return home after a ninth inning rally fell short yesterday against the Lakeshore Chinooks. Wisconsin Rapids fell 9-4 against Lakeshore in game one of the home and home series. The Rafters are now 11-9 on the season placing them fifth in the South Division Standings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cranberry and gold take on the Chinooks at Witter Field tonight. The Rafters have won the last four of their home games completing a sweep of the Wisconsin Woodchucks and Kenosha Kingfish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the mound for the Rafters this evening is Rafters resident MLB draftee, Charlie Ruegger (Stevens Institute of Technology). Ruegger currently leads the Rafters with 23 strikeouts in 16 innings pitched. Despite his 0-2 record he has a 2.81 ERA and has only walked nine batters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pitching for the Chinooks is Austin Jones. The righty from UW-Whitewater currently has an 8.48 ERA in three games. He has struck out nine and gave up 11 hits in 11.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m. at Witter Field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>###<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Now in its 25th anniversary 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.\u00a0A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff,\u00a0190\u00a0former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball,\u00a0including 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 (TOR).\u00a0\u00a0All league games are viewable live via the\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\">Northwoods League portal<\/a><\/em><em>. For more information, visit\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raftersbaseball.com\/\">www.raftersbaseball.com<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Rafters as your favorite team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeshore Chinooks come to Witter Field for game two of series. \u00a0 &nbsp; Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. \u2013 The Rafters return  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9316,"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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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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