By Jack Ankony First baseman K.C. Hobson’s leaping attempt drew leather, but didn’t halt Dylan Kelly’s line drive in the first inning. As the ball trickled into right field, the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks jumped out to a 1-0 lead in game two of the North Division Championship Series. It wasn’t the first-inning performance Dogs ace Jordan [...]
By Jack Ankony After fending off five foul balls in a row, Chicago Dogs second baseman Joey Terdoslavich waited patiently for a mistake. He turned on a fastball from Luke Lind and cut Fargo-Moorhead’s lead to one run with a home run over the right field wall in the bottom of the seventh inning. Terdoslavich’s [...]
By Jack Ankony Facing a 3-1 count with two runners on, it was time for T.J. Bennett to get picky. Brennan Metzger started the game with a walk, and Michael Crouse followed Metzger’s lead with a single. Together, the two saw nine pitches that revealed the game plan of Sioux Falls starter Blake Svoboda. Bennett [...]
By Jack Ankony The Dogs capped off a series victory in Cleburne with a 6-1 win over the Railroaders on Wednesday night. With this win, the Dogs move into sole possession of second place in the North division in what promises to be a heated playoff race until the final day of the regular season. [...]
By Jack Ankony Michael Crouse wouldn’t let the Dogs go down easily after trailing by five runs in the seventh inning, Crouse battled through an 0-2 count and crushed a three-run home run over the left field wall. Cutting the deficit to one run, the Dogs seemingly had life. But Cleburne responded with three runs [...]
By Jack Ankony The Dogs' bats were hot upon arrival in Sioux Falls. For the second straight game, the Dogs scored three runs in the first inning. After a Michael Crouse single and a walk from Danny Mars, K.C. Hobson scorched a line drive down the first base line. Ryan Lidge followed that up with [...]
By Jack Ankony Grant Kay ignited a Dogs rally by lining a single to left field to tie the game in the sixth inning. When he dug into the batter’s box in the eighth inning, Kay ripped an eerily-similar RBI single to left field to cut into the Kane County lead. But with each clutch [...]
By Jack Ankony For the second time this season, the Dogs lost at Newman Outdoor Field to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks by a score of 17-5. Jordan Kipper took the mound for the Dogs and had been cruising during his last two starts, but Tuesday was a different story. Kipper gave up just four earned runs [...]
By Jack Ankony When Jordan Kipper faced the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks on May 26, he allowed seven earned runs. But it was a completely different story on Wednesday night against the RedHawks thanks to a new pitch he developed over the offseason. Kipper trained with former MLB pitcher David Aardsma to develop a slider, which has [...]
By Jack Ankony Like all younger brothers, Connor Grey always wanted to be like his older brother. So when Grey’s brother started throwing curveballs when he was 11, the 9-year-old Connor followed suit. And ever since, it has been the pitch he has used to devastate opposing hitters. “It’s the only pitch that my grip [...]