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The Explorers play game three of a four-game set against the Winnipeg Goldeyes tomorrow. The first pitch for is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The game can be heard on radio at KSCJ 94.9 FM and 1360 AM and the video stream will air on aabaseball.tv.
Playoff tickets for home playoff game number one are on sale now at the Lewis and Clark Box Office or online at xsbaseball.com. Tickets for all remaining Explorers home games are also available at the ticket office or by going online. For more information, please call the Explorers’ front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
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The Explorers open a six-game seven-day homestand beginning Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. against the Winnipeg Goldeyes Ticket packages for the 2025 season are on sale now, including Full and Half-Season Tickets as well as 10-, 15-, and 25-game Flex Packs. For more information, please call the Explorers front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
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The Explorers conclude the series with Fargo-Moorhead on Thursday at 7:02 p.m. Ticket packages for the 2025 season are on sale now, including Full and Half-Season Tickets as well as 10-, 15-, and 25-game Flex Packs. For more information, please call the Explorers front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
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‘The Explorers are off tomorrow and start a new three-game series against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks Tuesday. First pitch for all three games is set for 7:02 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday at 4:05 p.m. Ticket packages for the 2025 season are on sale now, including Full and Half-Season Tickets as well as 10-, 15-, and 25-game Flex Packs. For more information, please call the Explorers front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
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The Explorers conclude this three-game weekend series against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks on Sunday. First pitch is set for 4:05 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday at 4:05 p.m. Ticket packages for the 2025 season are on sale now, including Full and Half-Season Tickets as well as 10-, 15-, and 25-game Flex Packs. For more information, please call the Explorers front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
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The Explorers conclude this series with Kansas City on Thursday before heading on the road for a three-game series against the Lincoln Saltdogs. First pitch for Thursday is 7:05. Ticket packages for the 2025 season are on sale now, including Full and Half-Season Tickets as well as 10-, 15-, and 25-game Flex Packs. For more information, please call the Explorers front office at 712-277-WINS. Stay tuned to the Explorers’ social media channels and the club’s website, xsbaseball.com, for all our news and updates.
SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 817.739.3693
Website: xsbaseball.com
September 14, 2023
Dan Vaughan Jr.
KANSAS CITY MOVES ON TO THE FINALS
EXPLORERS PEN FALTERS
KANSAS CITY, Kansas – The Sioux City Explorers (3-2) had everything going their way into the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday night at Legends Field. Leading 6-3 and needing just nine more outs, the entire night and postseason hopes went south in a disastrous bottom of the seventh. The Kansas City Monarchs (4-1) erased the lead scoring four runs on one hit to go ahead and never look back in a 9-6 series clinching win. The Monarchs will head to the American Association Championship Series and play for the Miles Wolff Cup against the Chicago Dogs, while the Explorers will ponder how they let it all slip away.
Sioux City got off to a good start getting an RBI single from Scott Ota in the first off Kansas City starter Hogan Miller to take a 1-0 lead. The X’s got two more in the third on a single and an error in center for Kansas City and a sac fly to make it 3-0. Sioux City rang the run register again in the fourth with an RBI single from Daniel Lingua and it was 4-0.
A solo home run for Wilfredo Gimenez in the top of the fifth made it 5-0 Sioux City. Kansas City would begin their comeback in the bottom of the fifth. Trenton Toplikar would get the start and go 2.2 innings. Max Kuhns would come in to stop a base loaded threat in the third and work a 1-2-3 fourth. In the fifth the right-hander ran into trouble. He would walk the bases loaded and force the X’s to turn to lefty Carlos Diaz. Kansas City would score a pair of runs on a wild pitch, a balk and double for Jan Hernandez.
Diaz would get out of the inning leading 6-3 and work a scoreless sixth inning. Sioux City got a long ball from John Nogowski to make a 6-3 lead going into the bottom of the seven. The good vibes changed quickly in the bottom of the seventh. Diaz got a strike out of L.J. Hatch then hit Odubel Herrera to put two runners on base. Brandon Brosher came in and walked Justin Wylie to put runners at first and second. Sean Rackoski would come into the game and would walk Chris Herrmann to load the bases. Rackoski then issued back-to-back walks to Jan Hernandez and Micker Adolfo to bring in two runs and make it 6-5. Parker Caracci would then enter the game and strike out Brian O’Grady for the second out of the inning. Taylor Snyder grounded to third, but the X’s Kyle Kasser bobbled the ball to allow the tying run to score. With the bases loaded and Jacob Robson at the plate Caracci then uncorked a wild pitch to bring home the go ahead run and take a 7-6 lead. The Monarchs would take the lead with only one swing of the bat in the inning.
Sioux City would get two on in the eighth, but the offense stalled in their comeback attempt. Sioux City has now lost their last two elimination games to Kansas City. The X’s won the season series 9-3 against Kansas City but the Monarchs were able to take the series two games to one scoring the last six runs. The Explorers lost despite out hitting the Monarchs in the game 10-5. The real killer was the 11 walks issued by Sioux City. he bullpen that came into the game not allowing an earned run in four postseason games but nine walks and eight earned runs ended that streak. Kansas City will play for the league crown for the second time in three seasons.
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Stay tuned to the Explorers website and social media channels throughout the offseason for updates on the Sioux City Explorers.
SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 817.739.3693
Website: xsbaseball.com
September 13, 2023
Dan Vaughan Jr.
KANSAS CITY TAKES GAME TWO
EXPLORERS HELD IN CHECK
KANSAS CITY, Kansas – The Sioux City Explorers (3-1) ran into a buzz saw Wednesday night in the form of former Big Leaguer Ashton Goudeau of the Kansas City Monarchs (3-1) in a 5-0 shut-out loss. The win for Kansas City will force a third and final game Thursday night in Kansas City. The winner will move on to the American Association Championship Series and the right to play for the Miles Wolff Cup.
Goudeau (2-0) went eight innings, holding the Explorers to just five hits on the evening. The right-hander retired Sioux City in order in five of the eight innings, and the Explorers only had a runner reach second twice in the game.
Mitchell Verburg (1-1) was charged with the loss despite holding the high-powered Kansas City offense to just six hits. Two of those hits came from Jan Hernandez, who hit a solo home run in the bottom of the second and another in the fourth, to make it 2-0 Kansas City.
The Monarchs would put the game away in the sixth inning. With one out, Justin Wylie would double off Verburg, and Chris Herrmann would work a walk to put runners at first and second. Verburg would walk Hernandez to load the bases. The X’s would bring in Parker Caracci into the game to face Micker Adolfo. Adolfo hit a ground ball to second that went under the glove of Daniel Lingua for an error, scoring two runs. Adolfo would get credit for one RBI on the play. With runners at the corners, a wild pitch would score the fifth run, and the lead was 5-0.
Sioux City could not get any traction off Goudeau in the game. The X’s got two on with back-to-back hits from John Nogowski and Matt Lloyd in the top of the seventh but would be retired 1-2-3 behind them with a pair of strikeouts and a fly to center. The next nine Sioux City batters would be retired on the way to the 5-0 shutout.
The X’s hope to clinch a trip to the finals will come down to a 7:00 p.m. first pitch Thursday night in Kansas City. RHP Trenton Toplikar will make the start while Kansas City will throw RHP Miller Hogan. The Explorers still need one more victory to clinch the series and to move on to the American Association Championship series and play for the Miles Wolff Cup.
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Game three is set for Thursday night, September 14 at 7:00 p.m. from Legend Field in Kansas City, Kansas. Tickets for the postseason can be purchased online at XSBaseball.com, in person at the Lewis and Clark Park Box Office or by calling 712-277-WINS. You can catch all the X’s action on aabaseball.tv and on radio at KSCJ 94.9 FM and 1360 AM with the pregame beginning 30 minutes prior to first pitch.
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