Winnipeg Goldeyes Daily Clippings Thursday, July 29 , 2021
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WINNIPEG GOLDEYES DAILY CLIPPINGS THURSDAY, JULY 29th , 2021 - Explorers Even Series on Goldeyes—Winnipeg Goldeyes (Steve Schuster), 7/28/21 - July 28 th Game Highlights (Video Link)—Winnipeg Goldeyes (Jason Young), 7/28/21 - Jonah Smith and X’s Offense Hook Goldeyes—Sioux City Explorers (Connor Ryan), 7/28/21 - Challenges Continue as Goldeyes Head Home—Winnipeg Free Press (Taylor Allen), 7/28/21 - Sioux City Explorers Hanging on to Playoff Hopes—Sioux City Journal (Terry Hersom), 7/28/21 - Jose Sermo Breaks Sioux City Explorers All-Time Home Run Record—Sioux City Journal (Shane Lantz), 7/28/21 - Goldeyes Absolutely ‘Ecstatic’ About Return to Shaw Park—Winnipeg Sun (James Snell), 7/26/21 - WATCH NOW: Sioux City Explorers Prep for Final Push of Regular Season—Sioux City Journal (Zach James), 7/24/21 - Goldeyes Sign Rookie Right-Hander Burns—Winnipeg Goldeyes (Steve Schuster), 7/24/21 - Goldeyes Return to Shaw Park Aug. 3—Winnipeg Free Press (Joseph Bernacki), 7/24/21 - Goldeyes Finally Returning Home, Will Play Games at Shaw Park—Winnipeg Sun (Ted Wyman), 7/24/21 - Goldeyes Will Return to Winnipeg, Home Opener August 3 rd —Winnipeg Goldeyes (Steve Schuster), 7/22/21 EXPLORERS EVEN SERIES ON GOLDEYES STEVE SCHUSTER – WINNIPEG GOLDEYES – WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 th SIOUX CITY, IA – The Winnipeg Goldeyes (31-32) lost 11-1 to the Sioux City Explorers at Lewis and Clark Park on Wednesday night. The Explorers (36-28) took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning on a two-out, two-run home run to left-centre from Sebastian Zawada. Sioux City broke the game open with a six-run bottom of the third. LT Tolbert singled home Chris Clare and was followed by an RBI double from Seamus Curran. Lane Milligan hit a three-run home run to centre field. Zawada then went back-to-back with Milligan with a solo homer to right-centre. Tolbert hit a two-out, RBI single in the bottom of the fourth. Curran made it 10-0 with an RBI double to centre. Wes Darvill put the Goldeyes on the board with a two-out, RBI single in the top of the sixth. Sioux City’s final run came on a two-out, RBI single from Curran in the bottom of the eighth. Jonah Smith (1-2) started for the Explorers and picked up his first career professional win, allowing one earned run on nine hits in seven innings. Smith walked one and struck out five. Jorge Gonzalez (2-4) started for the Goldeyes and took the loss, allowing eight earned runs on eight hits in three innings. Gonzalez walked one and struck out four. Jose Vasquez was signed before the game and made his professional debut, pitching three innings of long relief and fanning Jose Sermo in the third for his first career strikeout. Eduard Reyes struck out two in the bottom of the seventh in his first relief appearance of the season. Tyler Hill finished with three hits for the Goldeyes. Harris robbed Darvill of a home run with a leaping catch at the top of the centre field wall with one out in the top of the second. The series concludes Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. Dylan Burns (0-0, 3.38) starts for the Goldeyes. The Explorers go with right-hander Zach Hedges (5- 4, 5.09). All the action can be heard locally on CJNU 93.7 FM and worldwide at www.cjnu.ca Advanced tickets are on sale now by visiting www.ticketmaster.ca . For more information about the Winnipeg Goldeyes’ 2021 remaining schedule, ticket options, and the Goldeyes’ comprehensive COVID-19 readiness plan, visit www.goldeyes.com VIDEO: JULY 28 th GAME HIGHLIGHTS JASON YOUNG – WINNIPEG GOLDEYES – WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 th LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-6FsOij3IY&feature=youtu.be JONAH SMITH AND X’S OFFENSE HOOK GOLDEYES CONNOR RYAN – SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS – WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 th Sioux City, IA (July 28, 2021) – The Sioux City Explorers got a fantastic seven innings out of Jonah Smith and ten runs in a three inning span to down the Winnipeg Goldeyes 11-1 to even up the three game series. Jonah Smith (1-2) earned his first professional victory shutting down the powerful Goldeyes offense over seven frames allowing only a single run in the sixth inning, he scattered nine hits, all of them singles while walking only a single batter and striking out five while tossing a career high 114 pitches. Smith was buoyed by the Explorers offense who saw the first five men to the plate retired before a Lane Milligan double with two gone in the second was followed by a Sebastian Zawada two run home run to put Sioux City on top 2-0. The X’s bats then exploded in the third plating six runs. It began with one out in the inning and runners at first and second. A LT Tolbert base hit to right field pushed the X’s lead to 3-0 and the end of the play resulted in runners at second and third. Seamus Curran collected his first hit as an Explorer with a double down the left field line, scoring one. And Lane Milligan on a full count homered to center fielder to break it open for Sioux City making it 7-0. Immediately following Milligan was Zawada with his second home run of the night to cap the rally for the X’s at an 8-0 score. Sioux City would push the lead to double digits in the fourth, scoring multiple runs in three consecutive innings with Tolbert and Curran once again driving in runs to make it 10-0. The four consecutive bats in the order of Tolbert, Curran, Milligan and Zawada drove home all eleven runs of the night for the X’s while six of the nine bats in the lineup collected a multi hit game and now over their last three games the Sioux City offense has scored 34 runs. Taking the loss for Winnipeg was Jorge Gonzalez (2-4) who allowed eight runs on eight hits in three innings, while striking out four and walking just one. The Goldeyes plated a run in the sixth on a Wes Darvill single, and the X’s finished off their scoring in the eighth with an RBI single from Curran who had a three hit, three RBI night in just his second game with Sioux City. The Explorers and Goldeyes will meet for the rubber game of the series on Thursday night at 7:05 pm with Zach Hedges (5-4, 5.09) on the bump for Sioux City and righty Dylan Burns (0-0, 3.38) opposing him for the Goldeyes. CHALLENGES CONTINUE AS GOLDEYES HEAD HOME TAYLOR ALLEN – WINNIPEG FREE PRESS – WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 th Ask Winnipeg Goldeyes manager Rick Forney how challenging it's been playing away from Shaw Park for the past two seasons and he'll begin to chuckle. Where to even begin? "Well, it starts in the offseason when you're trying to put your team together and you're calling players and telling them who you are and who you work for," Forney said in a phone interview. "Players know that the Canadian border is closed. Just the fact that you're trying to build a team without a place to play, you don't even know what to tell them or where you're going to play. It's very difficult." It was determined the Fish would play this season in Jackson, Tenn., until the Canada-U.S. border situation allowed for them to return to their downtown Winnipeg ballpark. The Goldeyes, who were 30-31 heading into Tuesday night's contest in Sioux City against the Explorers, went 18-15 at The Ballpark at Jackson despite averaging a league-worst 579 fans per contest. "We had a home schedule playing in Jackson, but it's not our home. You're playing in an empty ballpark and it's a grind," Forney said. "You just don't get excited for it every day. Players need that little adrenaline boost every night. When you're playing every day, it can be exhausting mentally, physically, and emotionally on you. You need that little boost from someone rooting you on and we've been without that for the past couple years." The Goldeyes have already said their goodbyes to Jackson as their final game there took place Sunday. After their current six-game road trip, the Fish will make their triumphant return to the Manitoba capital next week and play their real home opener Tuesday evening against Sioux City. There's no capacity limit but fans must be fully vaccinated to attend. The Goldeyes have 20 home games left on the schedule and started selling single-game tickets Tuesday. Returning to The Great White North doesn't come without it's own fair share of obstacles, though. "Some of the people that have been on your team all year aren't coming because they're not vaccinated," said Forney. "You're going through a little bit of a clubhouse breakup as well… No one's team is fully vaccinated and that includes mine. I'll probably have 22-24 guys but they won't be the guys that I've been playing with." And just how hard is that going to be? "I guess we'll find out," Forney said. "It's not going to be good." Forney has already lost his hitting coach Kash Beauchamp as the 58-year-old from southwest Missouri left the team last week as he's not vaccinated and didn't want to follow the American Association's new mask mandate.