PAGE 1 TAKE A GANDER! Rochester Honkers | Northwoods League Mayo Field - 403 E. Center St. Rochester, MN 55904 Jordan Lank, Director of Media Relations - (507)-289-1170 ROCHESTER HONKERS (6-23) @ WATERLOO BUCKS (22-12) Game #30 — Wed., August 13, 2020 — Waterloo Riverfront Stadium — 6:35 p.m. CST LHP Tanner Cunha (0-2, 7.24 ERA) vs. RHP Jordan Nelson (0-0, 0.00 ERA) ABOUT SUNDAY NIGHT... MINNESOTA/IOWA POD STANDINGS In all-too-familar fashion, the Honkers stayed competitive for a majority of Sunday’s game against the Mankato MoonDogs before the TEAM W L PCT GB STR L10 bullpen malfunctioned to give up nine runs en route to an 11-1 Roch- ester loss. As has become commonplace for the Honkers, left-hander Waterloo 22 12 .647 -- W1 6-4 Larson Kindreich (Biola) was sensational through 5.1 innings, allowing St. Cloud 21 12 .636 0.5 L1 8-2 just two runs on five hits. Kindreich struck out five, but left the bases loaded for Ben Byom (Wisconsin-La Crosse), who walked all three Willmar 19 16 .543 3.5 L1 3-7 runners home before being pulled. By the time it was all said and Mankato 15 20 .429 7.5 W1 5-5 done, Mankato plated seven runs in the bottom of the sixth, pinning Kindreich with his first loss of the season. The Honkers mustered just Rochester 6 23 .207 13.5 L1 2-8 six hits in the ballgame, the eighth time that Rochester collected six or less hits in its last 10 games. Ryan Wrobleski (Dallas Baptist) was A MYRIAD OF MINNESOTANS the lone Honker to post a multi-hit night, picking up a run-scoring sin- With nine recent departures, Rochester has brought in local talent to fill empty gle and a ninth-inning double to cap off his last game in a Rochester positions. Seven of the team’s newest faces are native Minnesotans. Relief pitcher Damon Rademacher (Princeton, MN; Gustavus Adolphus) impressed in his soph- uniform. omore season (2019) with the Golden Gusties, appearing 17 times and accumu- lating a 3.20 ERA over 25.1 innings and striking out 23. Rademacher’s teammate, WOLFPACK BOUNCEBACK! two-way man Michael Anderson, joins the team after throwing eight innings in The Honkers will send left-hander Tanner Cunha (Nevada-Reno) to the Outfielder Mitch Olson (Eden Prairie, MN; St. Scholastica) tore up the competition mound today in hopes that he can replicate his last outing against in 2020, hitting .464 in nine games while driving in 10 runs. the Bucks, which was also his most recent appearance. Cunha was the best he’s been all season in that Wednesday afternoon matinee, taking 7.1 innings of three-run ball look easy on 76 pitches. Tonight will RAZOR SHARP: A TOP-10 TALENT be the fourth appearance of the season against the Bucks for Cunha. Honkers infielder Robert Moore (Arkansas) has been a top-10 performer on offense Each of Cunha’s last three starts have come against Waterloo, in for the entirety of the 2020 season. In the Minnesota-Iowa Pod, the rising sopho- which he has combined for 13.1 innings of work, allowing 11 runs (nine more currently sits eighth in batting average (.314), seventh in hits (33), tied for sixth in walks (17, Kyle Manzardo, Willmar), seventh in on-base percentage (.411) earned) on 19 hits, three walks and two strikeouts. and first in stolen bases (17-20). Moore also places seventh in OPS at .868,. PREYING ON THE FIRST PITCH Nearly one third of the hitters Cunha faced in his 7.1-inning appear- A CORE-IO PART OF THE OFFENSE IS SCUFFLING Taison Corio (Cal Poly) had a 17-game on-base streak snapped last Friday night, ance against the Bucks swung at the first pitch. Cunha threw nine and has since reached just once in three games. Sunday night against Mankato first-pitch strikes. Eight of those were swung at, with the lone called marked just the third time all season that Corio didn’t reach in a game. Corio’s pre- strike coming against John Wuthrich in the seventh inning. Only one vious streak was the longest of any Honkers player this season, surpassing Robert of them resulted in a hit, a second-inning single by Dalton Shuffield. Moore’s streak of 12 consecutive games. MAJOR LOSS OF STAR POWER The Honkers have lost significant pieces of their team over the lsat REVENGE OF THE JACK few days with nine regular contributors heading back to school. Pitch- Relief pitcher Jack Zalasky gave up his first run in 10.1 innings (July 15 vs. Willmar) ers Kragen Kechely (Dallas Baptist), MacGregor Hines (Houston) and in his last appearance againt the Bucks (8/5). The run came as a first-pitch walk- Chris Stefl (St. John’s), infielders Bryce Matthews (Arkansas) and AJ off homer to Peyton Williams in Zalasky’s 10th outing of the year, and the first in Campbell (Frostburg State), outfielders Connor Denning (Campbell), which the Sacramento State righty did not tally a strikeout. Kyle Huckstorf (Iowa Western CC), Pearce Howard (New Orleans) and catcher Ryan Wrobleski (Dallas Baptist) have all departed Roches- TONIGHT’S UMPIRES ter. The six hitters combined for 58 of the Honkers’ 104 RBIs in 2020 HP: Alex Perry (55.76%), and picked up 106 of the team’s 201 hits (52.73%). The pitch- 1B: Travis Brewer ing trio combined for 57 innings of work, compiling a 5.84 ERA (26G). 3B: Jordan Shepherd COMING UP THIS WEEK... 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OF NEVADA nings of work, striking out five batters 6-1 | 176 | SACRAMENTO, CA and only allowing two hits … Made his first start in the Silver & Blue at Saint REPERTOIRE: 4SFB, CH, CB, SL Mary’s (3/11), tossing 4.1 innings with three earned runs and one strikeout … 2020 WITH ROCHESTER Struckout six batters on the year and ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER never surrendered a double. 7.24 0-2 8-5 0 0 0 27.1 40 25 22 BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA SACRAMENTO CITY COLLEGE 12 9 7 0 5 3 4 135 1.90 .351 Competed in the Big 8 Conference … Helped his team reach back-to-back 2020 GAME-BY-GAME Final Four State Championships … DATE OPP RES DEC IP H R-ER BB-HB SO BF-P-S Made 13 appearances in 2018, tossing 8-5-20 @ WAT L, 4-3 ND 7.1 5 3-2 2-2 0 28-76-38 27.2 innings with a 3.90 ERA … In 2019, 8-2-20 vs. WIL L, 14-4 ND 2.0 5 1-1 0-0 0 11-30-21 made 11 starts and 19 appearances 7-28-20 vs. WAT L, 8-7 ND 2.0 5 3-3 0-0 1 11-49-34 throwing 75.2 innings with a 6-3 record 7-22-20 vs. WAT L, 10-6 L 4.0 9 5-4 1-0 1 22-67-46 and 56 strikeouts. 7-18-20 @ STC W, 8-6 ND 3.2 3 2-2 2-0 2 17-50-30 7-15-20 @ WIL L, 5-1 L 3.1 6 5-4 3-2 1 21-57-29 CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HS 7-4-20 @ WIL L, 13-2 ND 2.0 2 3-3 3-0 2 10-38-21 Lettered in baseball from 2016-17 … 7-2-20 @ STC L, 7-6 ND 3.0 5 3-3 1-0 2 15-46-33 Competed in the San Joaquin sec- BOLD INDICATES GAME STARTED tion of the Capital Athletic League … Helped his team win the sectional and 2020 WITH UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA conference championships in 2017 as ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER they were voted the best Division III 3.52 3-1 3-1 0 0-0 0 7.2 6 3 3 team in the state by Cal-Hi Sports … BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA Earned first-team All-Conference and 4 6 0 1 1 0 0 28 1.30 .261 named Pitcher of the Year from 2016-17 and first-team All-State in 2017 … From TANNER TIDBITS 2016-17, posted a 1.36 ERA with a 17-4 Cunha is one of the more superstitious Tanner twirled a six-inning perfect game for record, 113 innings pitched, 125 strike- players on Rochester’s roster. The outgoing Christian Brothers High School in his senior outs and even pitched a perfect game. righty always gets dressed the same way season. The perfecto featured 11 punchouts before each game: sliding shorts, left sock, and was a 10-0 drubbing of Rio Americano.