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 (5-22) vs MANKATO MOONDOGS (16-11) Game #28 — Saturday, August 8, 2020 — Mayo Field — 6:05 p.m. CST RHP Jeremy Klick (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Jake McMahill (0-1, 5.14 ERA) ABOUT LAST NIGHT... MINNESOTA/IOWA POD STANDINGS After a night in which the Honkers’ bats couldn’t be stopped, the Rox pitching staff stepped up and absolutely stymied TEAM W L PCT GB STR L10 Rochester’s offensive efforts. The Team in Teal was no-hit Waterloo 21 11 .656 -- L1 7-3 through 7.2 innings of play before Jacob Shaver lifted a single into shallow right field to break up the no-no. St. Cloud right- St. Cloud 17 11 .607 2.0 W1 8-2 hander Luke Albright dazzled, blowing through Rochester’s Willmar 18 12 .600 2.0 L2 4-6 lineup for five no-hit innings, striking out 10 Honkers hitters Mankato 13 18 .419 7.5 W1 4-9 in 18 batters faced. Albright issued two baserunners, both on walks, before being pulled after 82 pitches. Rochester 5 22 .185 13.5 L1 1-9 TOP-10 TALENT While it was St. Cloud’s staff who headlined for the victory, Robert Moore has been sensational at the plate for Rochester this year, Rochester’s pitching was no slouch either. MacGregor Hines and it’s shown in the Minnesota-Iowa Pod leaderboard, where he consis- matched Albright pitch-for-pitch, also turning in five strong tently places top-10 in major offensive categories. Moore is fifth among innings of two-hit, shutout ball. Hines walked four and struck active players in hits (31), tenth in on-base percentage (.397), ninth out three, and turned things over to Chris Stefl in the sixth. in OPS (.847) and leads the pod in stolen bases with 16, and has been The St. John’s product was equally as good in his two innings, caught just three times. striking out four and walking two en route to a no decision. CORE-IO PART OF THE OFFENSE The game was scoreless until the eighth inning, when St. While infielder Taison Corio did not extended his on-base streak to 18 Cloud broke the tie with a safety squeeze to push across the games last night, thus ending the longest on-base streak of the season first run of the night. The Rox tacked on one more in the ninth for any Honkers player, he has still been an important piece for Rochester. on a Rochester wild pitch, and they would hold that 2-0 cush- Corio has now reached in 19 of the 21 games he’s appeared in this season. ion in the bottom of the half of the inning to wrap up the win. WOUNDING THE KRAGEN NEW KIDZ ON THE HONK Thursday night against St. Cloud marked the first time this season that The Honkers will send right-hander Jeremy Klick to the hill relief pitcher Kragen Kechely allowed multiple hits in back-to-back ap- tonight for his first appearance in a Rochester uniform. The pearances. The junkballer had been nearly unstoppable all season before rising sopohomore out of the University of St. Thomas in St. Monday night, when Willmar tallied four hits and hung two runs on the Paul pitched just two thirds of an inning this season for the DBU product. Last night, St. Cloud got to Kechely and put up four runs on Tommies, striking out both batters he faced in a 14-2 win four hits, the most damage any team has done against the right-hander against Park University in March. all season. PREVIOUSLY AGAINST THE MOONDOGS... Rochester’s success against Mankato ran dry the last time JACK’S STREAKS ENDING these two teams met on July 26. It was tonight’s starter, Jake Jack Zalasky has been one of the more dominant arms out of the Roches- McMahill, that dealt against the Honkers the last time out, ter bullpen in 2020. His 10th outing of the year, Wednesday afternoon was striking our six and walking five through five innings pitched. the first appearance in which the Sac State righty did not tally a strikeout. McMahill allowed the only two hits that Rochester would mus- Zalasky’s streak of 10.1 scoreless innings was broken by a Peyton Williams TONIGHT’S UMPIRES ter that night at Franklin Rogers Park, throwing 102 pitches be- walk-off homer. fore receiving a no decision. The Honkers lit up the hit column HP: Bryce Brewer in the previous game against Mankato, tallying three runs on 1B: David Saball 11 hits in an eventual 6-3 loss on July 25. 3B: Andrew Girard (CC) COMING UP THIS WEEK... WATCH THE HONKERS portal.stretchinternet.com/nwlhonkers @RochHonkers 8/9 @ MAN Kindreich (1-0, 1.80) vs. TBA LISTEN TO THE HONKERS @honkersbaseball 8/12 @ WAT Ferro (0-2, 9.37) vs. TBA mixlr.com/honkersbroadcast 8/13 vs. WAT Cunha (0-2, 7.24) vs. TBA FOLLOW THE HONKERS Rochester Honkers 8/14 vs. WAT TBA vs. TBA rochesterhonkers.com Baseball PAGE 2 ABOUT TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER TODAY’S HONKERS HURLER UNIV. OF ST. THOMAS Pitched only two thirds of an inning in his collegiate career thus far... struck out two batters in his college debut against Park University (AZ) on March 2, his lone performance of the season to help preserve an 11-2 lead 33 JEREMY KLICK PERSONAL Lists his major highlight of his time at St. Thom- RHP | SO. | UNIV. OF ST. THOMAS as as being able to talk to his teammate, Chan- dler Shaefbauer... chose St. Thomas because 6-2 | 165 | MAPLE GROVE, MN of its string business and baseball programs... Majoring in Entrepreneurship... Aspires to own REPERTOIRE: 2SFB, SL, CH his own business one day... Son to Wade and Deb Klick... Jeremy’s father, Wade, wrestled colle- giately at Augsburg 2020 WITH ROCHESTER ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER KLICK BAIT 0.00 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 Klick lists basketball and gold as two things he BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA does to get himself ready to pitch. Normally, he 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 .000 plays either sport with friends the day before he takes the mound to loosen up. 2020 GAME-BY-GAME The right-hander out of St. Thomas has been DATE OPP RES DEC IP H R-ER BB SO BF-P-S listening to the same pre-game playlist since FIRST APPEARANCE WITH HONKERS he was in high school. Klick says the playlist BOLD INDICATES GAME STARTED isn’t long, but the genres on it are broad — any- where from classic Green Day to Juice WRLD to country, Klick’s pre-game tunes get him ready to 2020 WITH ST. THOMAS pitch. ERA W-L G-GS CG SH SV IP H R ER 0.00 0-0 1-0 0 0-0 0 0.2 0 0 0 Klick will appear as the eighth Honkers pitcher to start a game this season, and will likely assume BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HB BF WHIP BAA a role in the rotation for the remainder of the 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 .000 2020 season. DAY-BY-DAY RESULTS ABOUT LAST NIGHT: GAME RECAP DATE OPP RESULT RECORD WIN LOSS SAVE TIME Despite Result, Pitchers Duel Delights Mayo Field Crowd 7-2-20 @ STC L, 7-6 (11) 0-1 Stelzer (1-0) Churby (0-1) -- 4:00 ROCHESTER, MN — Unable to recapture last night’s magic, the Rochester Honkers 7-3-20 vs. STC L, 13-2 0-2 Myhre (1-0) Kellg.Clrk. (0-1) -- 3:21 7-4-20 (1) @ WIL W, 11-4 1-2 Kindreich (1-0) Wilkinson (0-1) -- 2:47 (5-22), were challenged in each inning by St. Cloud Rox (16-11) pitching staff, only 7-4-20 (2) @ WIL L, 13-2 1-3 Barnum (1-0) Stefl (0-1) -- 3:17 mustering five baserunners on the night while striking out 13 times in the 2-0 7-5-20 @ WIL L, 10-4 1-4 Scott (1-0) Hines (0-1) -- 2:58 loss at home. 7-6-20 @ MAN W, 5-4 2-4 Zalasky (1-0) Theriot (0-1) Kechely (1) 3:12 7-GAME HIATUS DUE TO SUSPENSION Rox starter Luke Albright was rolling through four innings, retiring the Honkers in 7-14-20 @ WIL L, 7-4 2-5 Gorrell (2-0) Campbell (0-1) Scott (2) 2:55 order each time up. Were it not for a leadoff walk by Tanner Tweedt (Sacramento 7-15-20 @ WIL L, 5-1 2-6 Zigan (1-0) Cunha (0-1) -- 2:22 7-16-20 vs. MAN W, 7-6 (10) 3-6 Kechely (1-0) Taylor (0-2) -- 3:48 City) in the Fifth, each of the five frames Albright tossed would have gone down 7-17-20 vs. MAN L, 13-5 3-7 Pender (1-0) Hines (0-2) -- 3:42 as 1-2-3 innings. 7-18-20 @ STC W, 8-6 4-7 Zalasky (2-0) Peterson (0-2) Churby (1) 3:20 7-19-20 @ STC L, 9-4 4-8 Stock (1-0) Gray (0-1) -- 3:09 The Flock finally knocked Albright out in the Sixth, though, when Jacob Shaver 7-22-20 vs.