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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 (4-21) vs ST. CLOUD ROX (16-10) Game #26 — Thursday, August 6, 2020 — Mayo Field — 6:35 p.m. CST RHP Charles Harrison (0-1, 10.95 ERA) vs. RHP Nick DeSalvo (0-1, 7.88 ERA) ABOUT LAST NIGHT... It was more of the same and less of the same in yesterday afternoon’s MINNESOTA/IOWA POD STANDINGS 4-3 walk-off loss to the Waterloo Bucks for the Rochester Honkers, TEAM W L PCT GB STR L10 who showed vast improvement from recent games in this historic 14-game skid, but ultimately couldn’t hold on. Tanner Cunha hurled Waterloo 20 10 .667 -- W2 7-3 his most impressive start of the season, dealing through 7.1 innings St. Cloud 16 10 .615 2.0 W6 8-2 and allowing just three runs. Cunha made it look easy, throwing only 76 pitches to get 22 outs before he was pulled by Deskaheh Bomberry Willmar 18 12 .600 2.0 L2 4-6 in the eighth with two on and one out. Jack Zalasky came on and did Mankato 12 17 .414 7.5 W2 5-5 what he does best: got out of the inning and stranded both runners. But, after coming back out for the ninth, Zalasky grooved a first-pitch Rochester 4 21 .160 13.5 L14 0-10 fastball to slugging first baseman Peyton Williams, who promptly deposited a walk-off home run over the right-center field wall. LOSING STREAK’S GETTING HISTORIC... Rochester’s loss last night set a new franchise record for consecutive losses in a season with 14, and the team has been outscored 91-40 in that span. The previous CHUCK WAS NASTY VS. ST. CLOUD record of 10 games was initially set in 2011 (6/25-7/6) and matched in 2016 (6/16- Charles Harrison’s last outing (7/29 @ STC) was a resounding rebound 6/26), but was broken in the latter instance with Rochester’s 7-5 win over the Thun- from his previous appearance against Waterloo (7/23). After surren- der Bay Border Cats. With a loss tonight, the Honkers would tie the mark for the dering a season-high seven runs (five earned), Harrison bounced back longest losing streak in NWL history at 15 games. The Dubuque Mud Puppies with his best effort of the summer. Though his pitch count eclipsed initially set the mark in 1995, and it was matched by Thunder Bay in 2006. 70 pitches in the fourth inning, Harrison tossed 3.2 innings of one-run ball and allowed four hits. The lone run Charlie allowed came un- I TAWT I TAW THE BASEBALL WELL earned after the Rox tallied the run on back-to-back wild pitches. Sacramento City College catcher Tanner Tweedt has swung a hot bat over his last four games. Prior to going 0-for-4 yesterday, the rising junior was 5-for-14 (.357) In two combined starts against the Rox, Harrison has gone 4.2 innings, with three extra-base hits in that span, including a two-double night on Monday allowing three runs (one earned) on five hits, while striking out two against Willmar. Tweedt broke the Waterloo shutout attempt two nights ago with and walking five. Charlie’s first outing against St. Cloud came in the an RBI single in the sixth. home opener, in which Harrison reached the 35-pitch-per-inning limit, dubbing him ineligible to continue into his second inning of work. DEFEATED THE KRAGEN CAMPBELL DEFROSTING IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Honkers right-handed reliever Kragen Kechely had been nearly unstoppable all Two-way talent AJ Campbell, out of Frostburg State, has begun to season before Monday night, when Willmar hung a pair of runs on the Dallas turn things around after a rough patch on the hill and at the plate last Baptist product in the seventh inning. Only one was earned, but it ended a streak week. Campbell has combined for 4.2 scoreless innings in his last two of 12 consecutive innings of shutout pitching. The righty still holds a minute 0.64 outings after a 2.2 inning performance last night against the Bucks. ERA, but was blemished with his first loss last night. Against Waterloo, Kechely has The right-handed hitter went 1-for-4 at the plate on Monday against logged one inning and has walked one. the Stingers with an RBI double as well. At the plate against St. Cloud, Campbell is 4-for-9 (.444) with an RBI single. On the hill, Campbell has JACK OF ALL K’S... EXCEPT FOR YESTERDAY yet to appear vs. the Rox. Despite his blemishing home run in yesterday’s game, Honkers relief pitcher Jack Zalasky has been one of the more dominant arms out of the Rochester bullpen in CORE-IO PART OF THE OFFENSE? MOORE OF THAT, PLEASE! 2020. His 10th outing of the year, last night was the first appearance in which the Infielder Taison Corio extended his on-base streak to 16 games on Sac State righty did not tally a strikeout. Zalasky’s streak of 10.1 scoreless innings Tuesday night with a first-inning single against the Bucks. It is the was broken by the Williams walk-off homer. longest on-base streak of the season for Rochester, surpassing Robert TONIGHT’S UMPIRES Moore’s previous streak by six games. Moore, however, leads the HP: Pearson Tahuka-Nunez team in on-base percentage at .398, placing him ninth among active 1B: players in the Minnesota-Iowa pod after the departure of Oraj Anu and Paul Craddock Xane Washington (Waterloo) from the NWL earlier this week. 3B: Perry Swartz COMING UP THIS WEEK... WATCH THE HONKERS portal.stretchinternet.com/nwlhonkers @RochHonkers 8/7 vs. STC Hines (0-3, 7.85) vs. Albright (1-1, 1.69 LISTEN TO THE HONKERS @honkersbaseball 8/8 vs. MAN Stefl (0-3, 8.16) vs. TBA mixlr.com/honkersbroadcast 8/9 @ MAN Kindreich (1-0, 1.80) vs. TBA FOLLOW THE HONKERS Rochester Honkers 8/12 @ WAT Ferro (0-2, 9.37) vs. TBA rochesterhonkers.com Baseball PAGE 2 ABOUT TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER TODAY’S HONKERS HURLER UCLA (2020) Made three relief appearances in his debut season with UCLA ... Didn’t have a record and posted a 0.00 ERA ... Had no strikeouts and one walk ... Faced the minimum for the 14 season - the one runner he allowed (via a walk) was thrown out by catcher Noah CHARLES HARRISON Cardenas trying to steal second base ... In RHP | SO. | UCLA his collegiate debut, induced a groundout to first to get the Bruins out of a two- on, 6-1 | 175 | CANYON COUNTRY, CA two-out jam in the sixth inning against UC Riverside on Feb. 16 ... Pitched the entire REPERTOIRE: 4SFB, CB, SL, CH eighth inning against TCU on Mar. 7, getting a pair of fly- outs and a caught stealing, in his longest outing of the year ... Named to 2020 WITH ROCHESTER the Director’s Honor Roll for fall (quarter ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER GPA of 3.0 or higher and pass at least 12 10.95 0-1 5-4 0 0 0 12.1 19 19 15 units). BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA WEST COAST LEAGUE (2019) 14 8 3 0 1 5 1 68 2.68 .365 Played for the Walla Walla Sweets of the West Coast League in the summer of 2019 2020 GAME-BY-GAME ... Pitched in two games, allowing just one DATE OPP RES DEC IP H R-ER BB-HB SO BF-P-S earned over four innings. 7-29-20 @ STC L, 2-1 ND 3.2 4 1-0 3-0 1 18-71-39 7-23-20 @ WAT L, 7-3 L 4.1 7 7-5 2-0 1 21-65-37 CANYON HIGH SCHOOL 7-16-20 vs. MAN W, 7-6 ND 3.0 6 5-5 4-1 5 17-64-34 Earned four varsity letters at Canyon High 7-5-20 @ WIL L, 10-4 ND 0.1 1 4-4 3-0 0 5-21-7 School in Santa Clarita, Calif. ... Ranked as 7-3-20 vs. STC L, 13-2 ND 1.0 1 2-1 2-0 1 7-40-18 the No. 78 RHP in California ... Recorded a BOLD INDICATES GAME STARTED 3.64 ERA with 61 strikeouts over 50 innings as a senior ... Posted a 3.56 ERA and struck 2020 WITH UCLA out 72 batters in 63 innings pitched as a ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER junior ... Two-time All-Foothill League First 0.00 0-0 3-0 0 0-0 0 1.2 0 0 0 Team choice ... Named Canyon’s Most Valu- BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA able Pitcher as a junior in 2018. 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.60 . CHUNKS ON CHARLIE Affectionately referred to as “Chuck Nazty” by his Tonight, Harrison will become the first Honkers teammates, the right-handed hurler was Honkers starter to face the Rox a third once an impressive high school hitter for Canyon time. Relief pitcher Kragen Kechely is High in California. Harrison swung the stick rem- the only Rochester arm to have already iniscent of his nickname’s namesake during his faced the Rox more than twice.