American Association Insider: June 27, 2025

 A full slate of games on a Friday throughout the Association with a couple of nail biters, and a few offensive explosions. 

Chicago 3 Kane County 2

A seventh inning single by Dogs' Max Moris was the difference as the Dogs took the first game of the weekend set at Northwestern Medicine Field. Jacob Teter went 2-2 with two walks and drove in the other two Dogs runs. Jeff Lindgren picked up his fourth win pitching seven innings and allowing two runs. Chris Mazza threw well allowing three runs, two earned in seven innings also, but picked up the tough loss. Armand Upshaw was 3-4 for the Cougars.

Lake Country 4 Cleburne 0

The DockHounds may have found a gem with Imanol Vargas. Vargas homered in the second on the back end of back to back homers after Ryan Hernandez went deep. Vargas connected again in the eighth, a two run shot to give the DockHounds a four run cushion. Vargas went 3-4 for the night and now has three home runs in his three games with Lake Country. Brett Conine shut down the Railroaders in six shutout innings allowing two hits to pick up his first win. 

Gary SouthShore 8 Kansas City 5

In what was easily the shocker of the night, the Railcats scored three runs in the eighth innning to break a 5-5 tie, highlighted by a two run L.G. Castillo double to defeat the Monarchs at Legends Field. Castillo was 3-5 for the night with three runs driven in. I like to think that drawing up comparisons to the Houston Apollos and Salina Stockade was bulletin board material for the RailCats, if so, you're welcome. Dawson Lane picked up the win with 1.2 scoreless innings. 

Sioux City 10 Sioux Falls 4

You can tell who had the one hour trip and who drove back from Chicago, as the Explorers jumped on the Canaries for eight runs in the first three innings and didn't look back in a big win at the Birdcage. I was surprised to see veterans Abdiel Layer and Nick Shumpert in the last two spots in the batting order. Maybe both of them were too as Layer went 2-3 with a home run and three runs batted in and Shumpert went 3-4 with two home runs and five runs batted in. There were positives for the Canaries as Calvin Estrada extended his hitting streak to 23 games and Ryan Zimmerman continues his comeback after a start that had a blogger prematurely writing his pitching obituary going five innings and allowing two runs out of the Canaries bullpen.


Photo courtesy of Tim Tushla, Sioux City Explorers

 

Lincoln 15 Fargo-Moorhead 7

The Saltdogs put up 13 runs in the first four innings in cruising to an eight run victory over the RedHawks. The Saltdogs have won four of five against the RedHawks at Haymarket Park this season and are the hottest team in the league winning eight of their last 10 games. Danny Bautista Jr. (seems like I'm typing that name every night lately), Clint Coulter and Drew DeVine all collected three hits with DeVine driving in three runs. Yusniel Diaz homered and drove in three. And don't look now but Rolando Espinosa is making a run for the home run lead hitting two home runs and now has 11 for the season after hitting five in his last six games. 

Winnipeg 7 Milwaukee 4

A Jacob Robson two run double broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth inning as the Goldeyes defeated the Milkmen at Blue Cross Park (I almost typed Shaw Park and am now wondering how many times I've done that without noticing). Robson drove in three while Matthew Warkentin and Ray-Patrick Didder both homered for the Goldeyes. Glenn Santiago went 3-4 and raised his batting average to .323.









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