American Association Insider- May 22, 2025

 It was getaway day for the American Association as all 12 teams were in action wrapping up their series, getting ready for the big Memorial Day weekend.

Lake Country 1 Sioux Falls 0 Game 1 (8 innings)

The first game of the day was a school kids special at Kamp Oconomowoc. Tanner Brown for the Canaries and Jacob Nix of the DockHounds both threw seven shutout innings with Brown allowing just one hit. The Canaries left the bases loaded in the eighth but the DockHounds cashed in on their ghost runner, advancing him to third on a sac bunt then scoring on a Nicholas Northcut single. The Dockhounds won in spite of having as many hits as a Vanilla Ice concert. 

Sioux Falls 2 Lake Country 0

The Canaries turned the tables on the DockHounds in game two in shutout fashion behind a complete game shutout by Thomas Dorminy. Dorminy has now thrown 14 shutout innings in a row against two good hitting teams in Chicago and Lake Country. DockHounds pitching combined to give up only one earned run (two total) in game #2. 3020 school kids enjoyed day camp at Kamp Oconomowoc.

Milwaukee 7 Winnipeg 4

The Milkman stopped a four game losing streak and made the long drive back home to Franklin a little happier with a win on Thursday afternoon. After spotting the Goldeyes to a 1-0, the Milkmen bounced back for four unearned runs in the second inning. Tied at four in the fifth inning, the Milkmen scored another pair and made it hold the rest of the way. Frankie Bartow hung in after a rough start and gave the Milkmen six innings and got the win. 5437 fans still dealing with Jets hangover filled Blue Cross Park.

Cleburne 1 Kane County 0

One run was all it took for the Railroaders to take down the Cougars for the third time in a row this week. Mike Shawaryn (seven shutout innings) outdueled Chris Mazza (one earned run in seven innings). A Korey Howell sacrifice fly in the fifth inning accounted for the only scoring. 1309 at La Moderna Field got deprived of another beer as the game wrapped up in two hours and 12 minutes. Oh, and will someone feed Brad Allred and Tommy Portela in the Press Box?

Chicago 4 Sioux City 0

The Dogs took the rubber game at Newman Outdoor Field tonight. Brock Bell who was the victim of the Sioux Falls outburst last Friday night, bounced back and threw five shutout innings to earn the victory. 2486 saw it at Newman Outdoor Field.  Bell received support in the form of a Clint Coulter fielder's choice RBI and a run scoring Alex McGarry single. Reggie Pruitt Jr. homered in the second to stake Bell to a 3-0 lead. A called strike three to Coulter later in the game resulted in an ejection and possible additional discipline as Coulter made contact with the plate umpire with his helmet.

                                        
                                                     Photo courtesy of Jennifer Andreachi

Kansas City 3 Lincoln 1

The first place Monarchs have now won every series this season after defeating the Saltdogs at Haymarket Park on Thursday night. Five Monarchs pitchers combined to keep the Saltdogs off of the board until the last of the ninth. Alvaro Gonzalez homered for the Monarchs in the third inning to give the Monarchs a 1-0 lead that they would never relinquish. Danny Bautista Jr. had three of the six hits for the Saltdogs. 

Sioux City 6 Gary SouthShore 5 (10 innings)

It seems appropriate that the bookend game to the first game of the day would also be decided in extra innings. You felt the Explorers were going to cruise to a sweep of the hapless RailCats, but give Gary credit, they would bounce back after spotting the Explorers to a 5-0 lead. Zach Willeman was on cruise mode, but the RailCats scored three in the fifth inning and tied the game with single runs in the eighth and ninth. Willeman struck out 12 in six innings of work for the X's. 17 RailCats struck out for the evening. In the 10th with the bases loaded a bad hop smash off the the bat of Joshua Day got through the infield to walk off the RailCats. 


                                                      Photo courtesy of Kati Brewer


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