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PAGE 1 TAKE A GANDER! Rochester Honkers | Northwoods League Mayo Field - 403 E. Center St. Rochester, MN 55904 Contact: Jordan Lank, Director of Media Relations (623)-755-7798 ROCHESTER HONKERS (4-18) vs WILLMAR STINGERS (17-10) Game #23 — Monday, August 3, 2020 — Mayo Field — 6:35 p.m. CST LHP Larson Kindreich (1-0, 2.37 ERA) vs. RHP Trevor Divinski (0-0, 5.79 ERA) LAST TIME OUT... MINNESOTA/IOWA POD STANDINGS It was one of the toughest nights of the Honkers’ losing streak last night as they fell at the hands of the Willmar Stingers TEAM W L PCT GB STR L10 14-4. Rochester starting pitcher Chris Stefl was tossed around Waterloo 18 9 .667 -- L1 8-2 for his worst outing of the season, surrendering seven runs over 3.2 innings en route to his third loss. Stefl has now been Willmar 17 10 .630 1.0 W1 5-5 the losing pitcher in three of his last four starts, giving up 19 St. Cloud 15 10 .600 2.0 W5 7-3 runs in that span. Rochester native and RCTC Yellow Jacket T. Mankato 10 17 .370 8.0 L4 5-5 Palmer Mickelson was hit hard, allowing six additional runs on four hits and two walks before he recorded an out. Rochester 4 18 .182 11.5 L11 0-10 BREAK THE SKID On the brighter side, the Team in Teal collected four runs on Rochester’s loss last night set a new franchise record for consecutive nine hits, the highest hit total for the Honkers since July 25th losses in a season with 11 Rochester has struggled mightily in the second vs. Mankato (3 runs on 11 hits). Two Rochester hitters went for half of the skid, scoring just 14 times and collecting 30 hits. In the first three-hit nights: Pearce Howard (3-for-5, 2 2B, R) and Robert five games of the streak, Rochester scored 21 runs and collected 44 hits. Moore (3-for-4, 2B, RBI, R). Connor Denning and Logan Sanders The Honkers has been outscored 77-35 in those 11 games. The previous re- each drove in a run as well, on a sac fly and an RBI single, cord of 10 games was initially set in 2011 (6/25-7/6) and matched in 2016 respectively. (6/16-6/26), but was broken with Rochester’s 7-5 win over the Thunder Bay Border Cats. LEANIN’ ON LARSON Rochester looks to left-hander Larson Kindreich to end the losing streak in Kindreich’s first home start of 2020. Kindreich J-Z: BULLPEN STATE OF MIND has been lights-out all season, pitching through five innings Honkers relief pitcher Jack Zalasky added to an impressive 2020 cam- in three of his four starts. The rising junior at Biola University paign last night, tossing an inning of scoreless relief while striking out was masterful in his last start in Mankato, giving up one run two against the Stingers to extend his scoreless innings streak to 9.2 on four hits while striking out a team-high seven batters. innings over seven outings. The Sacramento State righty’s streak started Kindreich has appeared twice against the Stingers, pitching against the Stingers on July 15, when Zalasky went an inning in relief masterfully his first time out (7/4) by hurling five shutout in- and struck out two. Jack was dinged up against the Stingers in his first nings, giving up just one hit and striking out five. The second outing of the year, though, going two innings and giving up three earned time around Willmar figured Kindreich out, collecting three runs. Zalasky has struck out at least one batter in each outing he’s made runs on five hits over his four innings pitched.Kindreich leads for the Honkers, and struck out the most hitters in one outing against the the Honkers starting and relief staff in strikeouts with 23, and Stingers (4) on July 4. has allowed the least amount of hits (13) of any of Rochester’s regular starters. HOWARD’S HOT Outfielder Pearce Howard has been red hot lately, nabbing hits in each of RELEASE THE KRAGEN! his last four games. Howard is hitting .438 in that span. Howard has five hits against the Stingers in three games, three of which are XBH (2 2B, Dallas Baptist right-hander Kragen Kechely has been sensa- 3B) tional for the Honkers. The Rochester relief arm has thrown 12 innings of one-run ball, allowing zero earned runs while walking just two and striking out 10 so far this season. Kechely has only faced the Stingers once, but went two innings and K’d three, the most he’s struck out in his eight outings. COMING UP THIS WEEK... WATCH THE HONKERS portal.stretchinternet.com/nwlhonkers @RochHonkers 8/4 vs. WAT Ferro (0-1, 7.71) vs. TBA LISTEN TO THE HONKERS @honkersbaseball 8/5 @ WAT Cunha (0-2, 9.00) vs. TBA mixlr.com/honkersbroadcast 8/6 vs. STC Harrison (0-1, 10.95) vs. Albright (1-1, 1.69) FOLLOW THE HONKERS Rochester Honkers 8/7 vs. STC TBA vs. TBA rochesterhonkers.com Baseball PAGE 2 ABOUT TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER TODAY’S HONKERS HURLER BIOLA (2019-PRES) 2020 • Named PacWest Pitcher of the Week three times over the first three weeks of the season 25 • Earned NCBWA West Region Pitcher of the Week honors on February 20 LARSON KINDREICH • Set NCAA-Era program record for ERA with LHP | SO. | BIOLA UNIVERSITY zero earned runs over 30 innings pitched • Struck out a career-high 15 in a sev- 6-4 | 210 | CENTRAL POINT, OR en-inning shutout of Colorado Springs on February 14 REPERTOIRE: 4SFB, CH, CB • Posted four quality starts with at least eight strikeouts in all four outings • Recorded 48 strikeouts compared to just 2020 WITH ROCHESTER five walks and a 3-1 record ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER • Started the season with 25.2 consective 2.37 1-0 4-4 0 0 0 19.0 13 8 5 scoreless innings, setting a new NCAA-Era BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA program record 2 23 1 2 2 0 1 74 0.79 .188 • **2020 season canceled after 14 games due to COVID-19 pandemic** 2020 GAME-BY-GAME 2019 DATE OPP RES DEC IP H R ER BB SO • Named PacWest Freshman of the Week 7-26-20 @ MAN L, 5-1 ND 5.0 4 1 1 0 7 on April 29 after striking out nine in seven 7-19-20 @ STC L, 9=4 ND 5.0 3 4 1 1 6 shutout innings at Concordia 7-14-20 @ WIL L, 5-1 ND 4.0 5 3 3 1 5 • Finished top-five in the PacWest with 72 7-4-20 @ WIL W, 11-4 W 5.0 1 0 0 0 5 strikeouts • Started 11 times and threw 52.2 innings 2020 WITH BIOLA UNIVERSITY • Finished with six strikeouts or more in six ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER starts 0.00 3-1 5-5 1 1-0 0 30.0 15 2 0 • Had a 3-2 record BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA 5 48 5 0 0 3 2 112 0.66 .143 CRATER HIGH SCHOOL (OR) • Prepped four varsity seasons at Crater HS, graduating in 2018 LEXICON ON LARSON • Won the 5A state title with the Comets in In 2018, Larson Kindreich joined an exclu- During Kindreich’s 37-inning hitless streak 2018, throwing seven shutout innings in the sive club by being named the Sport Oregon for the Comets, the lefty struck out 20 op- championship game Prep Baseball Player of the Year. Nestled posing hitters in back-to-back seven-inning • Had a streak of 37 no-hit innings during between top Baltimore Orioles prospect appearances. his senior season Adley Rutschman (2016-2017’s winner) and • Appeared twice as a pitcher on all-league 2020 Philadelphia Phillies draftee Mick Kindreich has three siblings, Honus, Damon and all-state teams Abel (2018-2019’s winner), Kindreich is the and Hayden, and enjoys designing cars in • Struck out 116 while surrendering only 11 only 5A player to win the award in the eight his spare time. His family has a particularly hits during 53 innings in 2018 seasons the honor has been given out. athletic background, with his father having • Hit .505 with 20 extra-base hits as a senior played baseball at Concordia Irvine and his mother playing volleyball at Southern Oregon. PREVIOUS COLLEGIATE STATS YR SCHOOL/TEAM ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA 2019 BIOLA UNIVERSITY 7.01 3-2 13-11 1 1-0 0 52.2 43 46 41 34 72 5 1 6 7 10 248 1.46 .223 PAGE 3 HONKERS ROSTER UPDATED: AUGUST 3, 2020 PITCHERS # NAME POS YEAR B/T HT WT SCHOOL HOMETOWN 8 Sal Ferro LHP R-SO L/L 5-8 200 Long Island University Middle Village, NY 9 MacGregor Hines RHP R-SR R/R 6-0 205 Univ. of Houston College Station, TX 14 Charles Harrison RHP SO R/R 6-1 175 UCLA Canyon Country, CA 19 Garrett Kellogg-Clarke RHP JR R/R 6-3 190 University of Nevada Cypress Woods, TX 21 Tanner Cunha LHP JR L/L 5-10 175 University of Nevada Sacramento, CA 22 Kragen Kechely RHP SR R/R 6-0 220 Dallas Baptist University Austin, TX 23 Jack Zalasky RHP JR R/R 6-1 186 Sacramento State University Elk Grove, CA 24 Evan Gray RHP SO R/R 6-4 195 University of Arkansas Swansea, IL 25 Larson Kindreich LHP JR L/L 6-4 210 Biola University Central Point, OR 26 Stone Churby RHP SR R/R 6-3 190 Sacramento State University Brentwood, CA 27 T.