Midwest League Action (Games of 5/20)

May 20 scoreboard.

Happy Lines Pulled from the Stories Day

@Cedar Rapids 11, Wisconsin 6:

The Kernels hit virtually everything Tuesday afternoon in an 11-6 win over Wisconsin before a season-high crowd of 3,162 at Memorial Stadium. That includes mascot Mr. Shucks. Shortstop Andrew Romine smoked the mascot on its big red shoe with a line drive in the seventh inning.

Shucks, who was standing on the visitor's dugout entertaining fans at the time, played up the, ahem, injury by rolling around on the dugout in mock pain. Shucks refused comment and is day to day, according to the Kernels' training staff.

Fort Wayne 6, @Great Lakes 5: There were plenty of highlights for Great Lakes in Tuesday morning’s game at Dow Diamond. Unfortunately for the Loons, holding leads wasn’t one of them.

West Michigan 10, @South Bend 4: West Michigan pitcher Paul Nardozzi didn't have to worry Tuesday night about getting offensive support from his teammates.

@Burlington 4, Kane County 2
@Burlington 5, Kane County 3:

As arid as the driest desert. That has been the Burlington Bees' recent drought.

Dating back to the start of May, the Bees had won just five of the 17 games they had played. They had lost four in a row until Saturday's win over the Quad Cities, but then dropped their last two contests.

And things were not promising against the Kane County Cougars, owners of the Midwest League's best pitching staff. Things went that way Monday night as Cougars ace Craig Italiano shut the Bees down.

Tuesday, though, was a story with a different ending.

Lansing 2, @Dayton 1 (11 innings):

Imagine the Reds looking around for pitchers and finding a bunch of them in their backyard, their own minor-league system.

Unfortunately for them and their Class A-affiliate Dragons, pitching isn't the only part of the game — as Dayton found out Tuesday, May 20, in an 11-inning 2-1 loss to Lansing at Fifth Third Field.

@Clinton 4, Beloit 2: A night after watching a two-run ninth inning lead evaporate against a scrappy Beloit club, this time the Clinton LumberKings held on, winning 4-2 over the Snappers.

Peoria 10, @Quad Cities 6 (10 innings): “That was a heckuva way to lose a game,” Quad-Cities manager Steve Dillard said. “It was a pretty strange one all the way around.”