SIOUX FALLS CANARIES BASEBALL VS 34-47 53-29 5th in South, 12.5 GB 1st in North CANARIES INFORMATION LAST TIME OUT Sioux City 12, Canaries 5 ON THE MOUND STAFF The Birds came up short against #32 / RHP General Manager: Duell Higbe the Sioux City Explorers Tuesday, splitting the two-game midweek se- Mark Field Manager: Mike Meyer ries between the two teams. Clint Seyler Pitching Coach: Ben Moore Coulter hit his third home run in as Height: 6-2 many games in the defeat. Weight: 190 Hitting Coach: Mitch Glasser DOB: Feb. 2, 1994 Canaries starter Alex Boshers com- Hometown: Ballpark: Sioux Falls Stadium pleted seven innings, allowing four Agoura Hills, CA Address: 1001 N. West Ave. runs on eight hits. Boshers struck out a season-high eight Explorers. Sioux Falls, SD 57104 It’s the third time this season Bosh- 2019 STATISTICS Phone: 605-336-6060 ers has struck out eight batters. The bullpen wasn’t as dominant. G/GS Rec. ERA WHIP BAA They allowed eight runs in the last 19/11 3-6 7.23 1.77 .334 two innings. Listen to the Canaries LIVE... Kevin Taylor bounced back from IP H BB K HR Monday’s 1-for-4 performance with 79.2 112 29 44 12 a 4-for-4 afternoon. 2019 CANARIES ROSTER ...on KWSN and KWSN.com Watch the Canaries LIVE! AmericanAssociationBaseball.tv FOLLOW THE BIRDS! Sioux Falls Canaries @Canaries Canaries_baseball LEAGUE STANDINGS (Top two in each division make the playoffs) BIRDS STORY LINES DAKOTA RIVALS MEET AGAIN NORTH W-L GB The Birds are making their first trip to Fargo of the 2019 season today. The Fargo-Moorhead 53-29 -- lateness of the trip is due to the Birds’ move to the South Division; Sioux Falls St. Paul 49-33 4 plays Fargo for just two series this year after meeting for four last season. The Chicago 47-34 5.5 Canaries are looking for their first win of the year against Fargo after being Winnipeg 47-35 5.5 swept at home in four games by the RedHawks June 24-27. Gary SouthShore 33-49 20 Milwaukee 32-50 21 NO STREAKING ALLOWED SOUTH W-L GB The Canaries are in a slump at the moment, struggling to put together momen- tum. The Canaries have not won consecutive games since a four-game sweep Cleburne 47-35 -- of the Texas AirHogs July 8-11. Since then the Birds are 7-23. They’re 0-7 Sioux City 45-35 0.5 when coming off a win, with an average margin of defeat of 4.4 runs. Kansas City 43-37 3 Lincoln 36-45 10.5 ONE RUN AWAY Canaries 34-47 12.5 The Canaries have had tough luck in one-run games as of late, but appear to Texas 22-60 25 be turning things around. At one point on the Birds’ two-week road trip to start this month they had lost nine out of 10 one-run games. But the Birds have now TALE OF THE TAPE won two of their last three, including a dramatic 11-10 win over Sioux City at Full stats at sfcanaries.com/stats the Birdcage Monday night. Birds BATTING F-M FROOM OUT FOR THE YEAR The Canaries lost a piece of their starting rotation Friday. Right-hander Ryan 434 (5th) 474 (2nd) R Froom was released from the team with a season-ending elbow injury. Froom, .284 (3rd) AVG .296 (1st) who joined the Birds out of South Dakota State Univerity, threw five innings of .361 (3rd) OBP .370 (1st) three-run ball in his final start of the year Tues August 6 at Texas. .422 (5th) SLG .455 (2nd) FOUR THE WIN 73 (5th) HR 84 (3rd) The Birds are in the first weeks of a new four-man rotation. Keaton Steele,Alex 62 (9th) SB 67 (8th) Boshers, Mark Seyler, and Tyler Herron will take turns getting starts for the Canaries, with Mark Seyler moving to the bullpen. The move to the four-man Birds PITCHING F-M is largely due to a shortage of arms around the league; the Canaries didn’t 5.49 (11th) ERA 3.71 (1st) employ a four-man rotation at all last year. 1.57 (11th) WHIP 1.38 (2nd) GLASSER TRIUMPHS WITH TEAM ISRAEL 561 (9th) SO 640 (4th) Canaries hitting coach and third baseman Mitch Glasser is back with the Birds after another sucessful trip across the Atlantic. Glasser joined the Israeli Na- STAT OF THE GAME tional baseball team this past weekend for an importnat playoff series against Zero Zeroes Lithuania. Israel dominated, winning game one 12-2 and game two 15-0. The Canaries are the only team in the American Association with- Glasser led off both games, going a combined 3-for-6 with a solo home run out a shutout victory this year. and three walks. Israel earned a berth to baseball’s European Championship The league average is just under with the series win. The top five teams from the European Championship, four. The RedHawks have six held this September in Germany, advance to that region’s Olympic qualifying tournament. shutout wins this season. NEXT GAMES UP Call 605-336-6060 for tickets! RECENT CANARIES TRANSACTIONS - Thu Aug 15 at Fargo-M’head, 7pm Aug 9: Released RHP Ryan Froom (elbow injury) - Fri Aug 16 at Fargo-M’head, 7pm July 31: Signed RHP Connor Leedholm Acquired RHP Tyler Herron from High Point (Atlantic League) for a PTBNL - Sat Aug 17 at Fargo M’head, 2pm July 31: July 30: Activated IF Mitch Glasser, signed RHP Harrison Cooney, released RHP Trevor - Sun Aug 18 vs. Cleburne, 6pm Jaunich, released RHP Adam Stockwell - Mon Aug 19 vs. Cleburne, 7pm July 26: Sold the contract of RHP Taylor Hill to AAA Durango (Mexican League), signed - Tue Aug 20 vs. Cleburne, 7pm RHP Adam Stockwell and RHP Tyler Lesley - Wed Aug 21 vs. Texas, 7pm July 25: Released RHP Luke Wilkins - Thu Aug 22 vs. Texas, 7pm July 24: Placed Mitch Glasser on the Inactive List, released RHP Reilly Hovis July 17: Activated OF Mike Hart from the disabled list, released LHP George Faue MORE STORY LINES... HERRON JOINS BIRDS’ ROTATION The newly-acquired Tyler Herron just joined the Birds’ rotation, and has already made an impact. Herron threw seven innings of one-run ball in his debut start against Cleburne. Herron comes to Sioux Falls from the Atlantic League’s High Point Rockers, completing a trade between the two clubs from this past offseason. Herron brings plenty of vet- eran experience to the Canaries. A first-round draft pick by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2005, the 32-year-old has nine years of minor-league experience as well as seven in indy ball. The Melbourne, FL resident spent time in the Cardinals, Pirates, Nationals, and Mets systems over his minor-league career, pitching in Triple-A as recently as 2016. In all he owns a 4.61 ERA over his minor-league career, making 2018 apperances. Herron is no stranger to the American Association, having suited up for Fargo-Moorhead, Lincoln and Winnipeg over his career. Herron made 17 starts with High Point in 2019, posting a 6.05 ERA and 1.59 WHIP. He struck out 57 and walked 21 in 93.2 innings. LEEDHOLM ARRIVES WITH THE BIRDS Leedholm started the 2019 season with the Sonoma Stompers in the California-based PacificAssociation. The right- hander put up some impressive numbers, posting a 3.31 ERA and 1.00 WHIP in 16 relief appearances. He walked just three batters in 19 innings of work. 2019 is Leedholm’s second season of professional baseball; he joined the Frontier League’s Gateway Grizzlies as a true rookie in 2018. The Lakewood, Colorado native made 15 relief appearances for the St. Louis-area club that sea- son, recording a 4.86 ERA. Leedholm pitched at the University of Northern Colorado from 2014 to 2018. He made a career-high 26 appearances his senior year with a 3.37 ERA. COONEY JOINS THE BIRDS The Canaries’ pitching staff just got a much-needed boost. Right-hander Harrison Cooney signed with the Canaries on Tuesday ahead of their matchup with Kansas City. Cooney, a former Angels and Red Sox farmhand, spent the first part of the season with the Association’s Winnipeg Goldeyes. Cooney was originally drafted in the sixth round in 2013 by the Los Angeles Angels out of Florida Gulf Coast Univer- sity. He made it as high as AA Arkansas in the Angels’ system two years later. He missed most of 2016 due to injury before the Red Sox selected him in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 Draft that December. He spent 2017 and 2018 in Boston’s system, making it as high as AA Portland in 2018 Cooney owns a 5.02 career ERA in minor-league ball over 106 appearances (46 starts). HILL HEADED FOR TRIPLE-A IN MEXICO Birds pitcher Taylor Hill has been the class of the American Association since May. Now, he’s heading up to Triple-A ball. Hill has signed with Los Generales de Durango in the AAA Mexican League. Hill is the sixth Canary to have his contract purchased by an MLB or Mexican League team since July of last year. Hill had an outstanding 2019 season with Sioux Falls, leading the American Association in ERA at 2.52 entering play on Friday. He suited up for the South Division in the American Association All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 23.