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The Wichita Wingnuts may be independent, but playing at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium has quickly become a fast track to affiliated baseball. RHP Omar Bencomo has become the fourth 2015 Wingnut to be sold, as he is headed to the Minnesota Twins organization. The Twins plan to assign him to the Class A Advanced Fort Myers Miracle...Read More

Kansas City 5, Joplin 3 (Completion of suspended game from June) – Box The Kansas City T-Bones held off a late push from the Joplin Blasters to win 5-3 in a completion of a suspended game from back in June. The T-Bones had taken a commanding 5-1 lead in the eighth inning with a C...Read More

Independent Baseball Insider by Bob Wirz With St. Paul winning at a .765 pace (52-16), it hardly seems possible anyone else in the American Association would be close. But with one more week like the last one Steve Montgomery’s Sioux City Explorers could even surpass the Saints, a feat somewhat unlikely when one considers that...Read More

Laredo 6, Sioux Falls 3 – Box  DH Dvontrey Richardson’s single in the bottom of the eighth kicked off a crazy sequence that ended up in two lemur runs and a Laredo victory. Richardson singled to the second baseman, whose error resulted in 2B Kevin Taylor scoring from third and LF Chris Elder scoring from...Read More

Sioux City 2, Grand Prairie 1 – 10 innings — Box Score The Sioux City Explorers walked off on the Grand Prairie AirHogs 2-1 in the bottom of the tenth inning when LF Tim Colwell scored on a fielder’s choice by 1B Brock Kjeldgaard. Colwell led off the bottom of the tenth by drawing a...Read More

Wichita Wingnuts RHP Dakota Watts has appeared with two different American Association clubs in 2015, and now gets to add yet another destination for his career: Adelanto, Calif. Watts has been sold to the Texas Rangers, who will assign him to the Advanced-A California League’s High Desert Mavericks. The Mavericks continue a road series with...Read More

DURHAM, NC- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that St. Paul Saints 1B Angelo Songco (pictured) has been named this week’s Pointstreak Player of the Week for the week ending August 2. Songco had a hit in all five games he played in this week, going 11-for-24 (.458) with five doubles,...Read More

DURHAM, NC- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that Winnipeg Goldeyes LHP Nick Hernandez (pictured) has been named this week’s Pointstreak Pitcher of the Week for the week ending August 2. Hernandez claimed the American Association’s Pitcher of the Month award for July, and previously was named Pitcher of the Week...Read More

Sioux City 8, Grand Prairie 0 – Box Sioux City starting pitcher Patrick Johnson and two relievers combined on a five-hit shutout as they beat Grand Prairie, 8-0. Johnson tossed another gem as he went seven innings allowing three hits and three walks while fanning nine batters. The University of North Carolina product is now...Read More

Kansas City 2, Winnipeg 1 – Box Kansas City CF Jacob Hayes scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth inning as the T-Bones edged the Winnipeg Goldeyes, 2-1. Hayes and DH Jake Blackwood each had two hits in the contest while LF Adam Bailey added a seventh inning...Read More