Conroy leads Wingnuts’ outburst
Mike Conroy had three doubles and a triple, sparking the Wingnuts’ offense in a 9-6 win over the Pheasants on Saturday night in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Mike Conroy had three doubles and a triple, sparking the Wingnuts’ offense in a 9-6 win over the Pheasants on Saturday night in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Wingnuts pounded Amarillo for 15 runs and won their fifth straight game, beating the Sox 15-10 on Wednesday night in Amarillo.
Mike Conroy and Jared McDonald had four hits apiece and Josh Lowey pitched seven solid innings, leading the Wingnuts to a 10-5 win on Tuesday night at Amarillo.
Tied 2-2 in the top of the fourth, the Wichita Wingnuts exploded for six runs to defeat the Amarillo Sox on Monday at Amarillo, Texas.
Derek Blacksher threw eight-plus innings for the victory and Mark Wagner chipped in with four RBIs as the Wichita Wingnuts defeated the Laredo Lemurs on Sunday night at Laredo, Texas.
The Wingnuts, in first place in their division but struggling to keep the lead, have re-acquired outfielder Greg Porter, who led them to their first playoff appearance in 2009.
The Wingnuts start their longest road trip of the season Friday night in Laredo, and on Thursday they played like they thought the bus might leave without them.
When it was mentioned to Wingnuts manager Kevin Hooper that his team had two consecutive walkoff wins, Hooper thought simply two straight victories of any nature were noteworthy.
As the Wingnuts were completing a comeback 6-5 win over Amarillo on Tuesday night, the team closest to them in the American Association Central was finishing off a rally of its own.
Wingnuts starting pitcher Anthony Capra found former Wichita State teammate Aaron Shafer near the first base dugout Sunday afternoon and the two ex-Shockers walked together toward their clubhouses before hugging goodbye.
The connections between Wingnuts pitcher Josh Lowey and first baseman-outfielder Gerardo Avila go beyond their contributions to a 6-1 win over Fargo-Moorhead on Saturday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
The Wingnuts are trying just about everything to pull themselves from a three-week funk.
When the Wingnuts lost several important players to injury and defection about three weeks ago, they were prepared for the worst. They were also prepared for the worst to end at some point.
Two of the American Association’s division leaders begin a four-game series at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium tonight. And that’s where the similarities come to a striking halt.
The Laredo Lemurs scored six unanswered runs and beat the Wingnuts 7-3 on Tuesday night in Laredo to wrap up a three-game series.
The Wingnuts lost for the 10th time in the last 12 games, falling to the T-Bones 5-2 on Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas City T-Bones scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth and beat the Wingnuts 9-8 on Friday night in Kansas City, Kan.
Wingnuts manager Kevin Hooper said that "little mistakes" were a big part of Wichita’s recent 1-7 road trip, but such miscues are magnified for a team trying to emerge from a tumultuous stretch.
Jared Simon has pitched in more than half of the Wingnuts’ games this season, and some of those 28 appearances are second chances.
With young players struggling to prove their worth and veterans waiting for a possible roster turnover, the Wingnuts are enduring their most difficult stretch of the season.