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Madison once again used a big inning to pull away from the Rafters. The Mallards started the scoring in the third. After loading the bases, Tyler Plantier delivered a grand slam to make it 4-0 Mallards. Two more runs came in on an RBI double and an RBI groundout. The Rafters scored their lone run in the fifth. Ty Duvall (Vanderbilt) scored on a double play. Madison hit their second home run of the game in their fifth frame as Jake Randa went yard.<\/p>\n<p>Rain came through prior to the eighth inning getting started and game was called after a half hour delay. Tyler Giovinco (2-1, 4.09 ERA) was given the loss. Ryan Kutt (3-2, 4.58 ERA) earned the win allowing just one run in five innings. The Rafters continue the road trip tomorrow traveling to Battle Creek for a two-game series. First pitch is 6:05 pm CT.<\/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>Wisconsin Rapids dropped a rain-shortened game to Madison in the series finale Box Score\u00a0 Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. \u2013 The Wisconsin  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9574,"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":[15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker-all-categories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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