Wingnuts

The Wichita Wingnuts won their fifth game in a row, beating the Amarillo Sox 6-2 at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Ben Graham pitched six strong innings to earn the win.  Juan Richardson homered and finished with four hits and three RBI to lead the offense. Ryan Khoury led off the bottom of the first with a walk.  After Jake Kahaulelio singled to center, Khoury took third on a groundball double play.  Richardson singled to center field on a full count to drive in Khoury with the game's first run. Amarillo took their only lead of the game in the top of the second.  Tim Alberts lined a single to left leading off and went to second when Alberto Espinosa reached on an error charged to Khoury at shortstop.  Van Pope blooped a single into shallow left-center to drive in Alberts with the tying run.  Amarillo went in front when Espinosa scored on Chuck Lofgren's groundout to first.

The Wichita Wingnuts made two additions to their lineup on Friday, re-signing outfielder Josh Workman, and signing catcher Angel Flores. Workman helped anchor the Wingnuts' lineup last season, appearing in all 100 of the team's contests.  An alumnus of Wichita State University, Workman set career-bests in nearly every offensive category, including batting average (.325), runs scored (66), doubles (29), home runs (10), and RBI (68).  The Atchison, KS native drew 44 walks against only 68 strikeouts, and finished with a .398 on-base percentage.  The left-handed hitting Workman hit safely in 73 of 100 games, and totaled 36 multi-hit contests--11 of which were for three hits.  Unfazed by same-handed pitching, Workman hit .361 against southpaws in 97 at bats.  Workman was also a model of consistency, and went consecutive games without a base hit just four times the entire season.

The Wichita Wingnuts have announced their 2013 schedule.  The 'Nuts will play 100 games starting this coming May at home against the Kansas City T-Bones.  Wichita will play 15 different teams and 11 of those teams will play a series at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.   Click here to view the schedule.

The Wichita Wingnuts defeated the El Paso Diablos 1-0 in the game one of their double header on Monday night to clinch the American Association Central Division.   Steve Stanley drove in the game-winning run with a two-out, RBI single to center in the bottom of the seventh.   Josh Lowey earned the win with a complete game, two-hit shutout. The win was Lowey's 15th of the season to set an American Association single-season record. It was also Lowey's first career regular season complete game.

The Wichita Wingnuts (51-38) lost 14-9 to the El Paso Diablos (44-43) at Cohen Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Wichita had an 8-3 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth before the Diablos scored 11 unanswered runs over the fourth through eighth innings.  In the fourth, Jermy Acey drew a leadoff walk, took third on a double to left-center from Zane Chavez and scored on Daniel Nelson's sacrifice fly to right.  Chavez took third on...

The Wichita Wingnuts finish up their homestand tonight with a final game against the Shreveport-Bossier Captains.  The Wingnuts hold a 2-1 advantage in the series after a 5-0 victory last night. In his first start since returning to the Wingnuts, pitcher Derek Blacksher went 8 innings giving up just 2 hits, 3 walks and striking out 6.  Juan Richardson and Josh Workman both hit home-runs for Wichita.  Richardson finished 2-4 with 3 RBI. Junior Guerra will get the start tonight for Wichita.  Game time is set for 7:05 at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.

The Wichita Wingnuts squandered a 5-2 lead, allowing four runs in a fateful 8th inning in a 7-6 loss. The 'Nuts had a chance to move to within 1 1/2 games of the division lead, instead they start the weekend 2 1/2 back of front running Gary, IN which comes into town on Friday for the first of three games over the weekend. The Wingnuts are down to their last eleven games of the season, they continue to lead in American Association's wildcard race.

Nothing like coming home, especially when your house has a new coat of paint on it.  Or in the Wingnuts case, a new field to play on. The Wichita Wingnuts open up the new Lawrence Dumont Stadium today against El Paso. Wichita comes home after losing to Fort Worth, 8-1 but winning the series with the Cats. Manager Kevin Hooper said before the beginning of the season that he liked all the players on his roster, especially his pitching staff. He should, considering he hand picked all of them during a two week spring exhibition.

The Wichita Wingnuts lost 5-2 to the Lincoln Saltdogs at Haymarket Park on Saturday night. Lincoln used a four-run fourth inning to break a scoreless tie and take control of the game.  After Wingnuts' starter Ryan Hinson retired the first 10 batters to face him, Curt Smith hit a line drive home run that just cleared the left-center field fence to give Lincoln a 1-0 lead.  Phil Hawke drew a four-pitch walk and then scored when Jon...

The Wichita Wingnuts beat the El Paso Diablos 10-0 on Monday night at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.  The highlight of the game came in the bottom of the fourth inning with the Wingnuts already leading 6-0.  Brent Clevlen sent a shot to center field and the center fielder misjudged the ball, missing it as he dove.  The ball rolled to the wall allowing Ryan Patterson to score easily from first base.  Just behind him came Clevlen, without a...