Link continues to dominate for Wingnuts
Scouts from three major-league franchises were in attendance to watch Wingnuts right-hander Jon Link pitch Monday night, and the prevailing thought is that Link is ready to return to affiliated baseball.
The “day-night” aspect of the Wingnuts doubleheader with Gary SouthShore on Tuesday could barely contain two games, as Game 2 nearly stretched into early Wednesday morning.
Scouts from three major-league franchises were in attendance to watch Wingnuts right-hander Jon Link pitch Monday night, and the prevailing thought is that Link is ready to return to affiliated baseball.
After a weekend of getting battered by Wingnuts hitters, St. Paul finally threw in the towel Sunday.
The Wingnuts signed pitcher Josh Stone on Friday, and a little more than 24 hours later he became the latest of Wichita’s dependable relievers.
A few more favorable bounces or an additional clutch hit here and there, and the Wingnuts could be running away with the American Association Central Division.
John Rodriguez had one hit in seven at-bats during the Wingnuts’ doubleheader with St. Paul on Friday, mostly showing the effects of a strained hamstring that has had him at limited capacity for more than a week.
Several Wingnuts players have been injured recently, but at least they’ve made it easy on the trainer.
The Wingnuts grabbed a quick three-run lead but never built on it, and lost to the Goldeyes 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon in the final game of their series in Winnipeg.
Abel Nieves and Jared McDonald each homered and drove in four runs as the Wingnuts beat the Goldeyes 11-0 on Tuesday night in Winnipeg.
The Wingnuts failed to protect a four-run lead, losing to the Goldeyes 7-6 on Monday night in Winnipeg.
The Wingnuts scored seven runs to back another effective out from starter Roy Hinson in a 7-2 win over the Saints on Saturday night in St. Paul, Minn.
The St. Paul Saints beat Wingnuts 8-7 on Friday night in St. Paul, Minn.
The difference between the hits allowed by Wingnuts starting pitcher Jon Link on Thursday night and the outs he recorded was that sometimes groundballs found their way through the infield and sometimes they didn’t.
The only difference between Wednesday and the previous two games in which the Wingnuts scored a lot of runs is that, well, they didn’t score a lot of runs.
Anthony Capra was ready to take his success as a reliever into the Wingnuts starting rotation and he would do it, he thought, without his curveball.
Wingnuts starting pitcher Ryan Hinson set the bar for his season two starts ago, when he struck out 13 and allowed one run in eight innings against New Jersey. It’s the performance to which the rest of Hinson’s outings will likely be compared.
American Association baseball teams aren’t afforded the same number of bullpen spots as most affiliated teams, but that hasn’t stopped Wingnuts manager Kevin Hooper from building his relief corps in the mold of many major-league teams.
The Wingnuts overcame an early three-run deficit and beat the Canaries 7-5 on Saturday night in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Jared McDonald tells the young baseball players he coaches in the offseason that batting in the No. 9 spot can be just as important as batting in the middle or top of the order. For proof, those players can look at McDonald himself.
Cole Armstrong hit his second homer of the season in the second inning.