Today in Lugnuts History

1 – Brad Mumma (1981)

2 – Brad Glenn (1987), Rodrigo Orozco (1995), Fitz Stadler (1997)

3 – Philip Brua (1989)

4 – Raul Barron (1986), Conor Fisk (1992), Conner Greene (1995)

5 – Chris Dorsett (1975)

6 – Jack Murphy (1988), Griffin Glaude (1992)

8 – Kevin Nelson (1981), Ryan Hissey (1994)

9 – Ryan O’Malley (1980), Brandon Berl (1988), Ryan McBroom (1992)

10 – Jonathan Diaz (1985), Richard Guasch (1998)

11 – Jonathan Jaspe (1985), Ryan Schimpf (1988), Anthony Phillips (1990), Cavan Biggio (1995), Nick Podkul (1997), Samad Taylor (1998)

12 – Tomas Medina (1975), Jeff Wallace (1976), Shane McGuire (1999)

13 – Luke Hetherington (1983), Welinton Ramírez (1987), Luke Mann (2000)

14 – Matt Ramagli (1973), Ben Harrison (1984), Alex Pepe (1987), Micah Dallas (2000)

15 – Allen Sanders (1975), Danny Jansen (1995)

16 – Wesley Stone (1987), Angello Infante (1999), Joelvis Del Rosario (2001)

17 – Kumar Nambiar (1998), Naswell Paulino (2000)

18 – Henderson Álvarez (1990), Anthony DeSclafani (1990)

19 – Curtis Thigpen (1983)

20 – Ryan Gripp (1978), Yorman Mayora (1987)

21 – Jordan Romano (1993)

22 – Adam Tidball (1982), David Leal (1997)

23 – Brent Kaysner (1974), Oliver Dominguez (1989), Zach Logue (1996)

24 – Dan DiPace (1975), Carlos Beltrán (1977), Joel Collins (1986), Brad McElroy (1986), Carlos Ramírez (1991)

25 – Chris Holguin (1986), Daniel Norris (1993)

26 – Kevin Ahrens (1989), Pierce Rankin (1989), Austin Davis (1993), Ridge Smith (1995)

27 – Orber Moreno (1977), Mark Carter (1980), Michael Barbara (1985), Yeyfry Del Rosario (1994), Connor Law (1994)

28 – Rafael Lantigua (1998)

29 – Griffin Moore (1976), Matt Gunderson (1977), Billy Petrick (1984), Chris Carlson (1991), Jose Escorche (2002)

30 – Aaron Sams (1976), Wilton Chávez (1981), Seth Overbey (1984), Jesús Tinoco (1995)

April 3

· 1996: The very first game played at Oldsmobile Park, Michigan vs. Michigan State. The Wolverines win in ten innings, 5-4.

· 2007: The first Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance. The Lugnuts defeat the Spartans, 4-3, with Julio Pinto striking out Kyle Hurtt with the tying run on-base, stopping a last ditch MSU two-run rally. The game is nine innings in length, lasting 2:33 in front of a crowd of 6,223.

· 2008: The Lugnuts opened the season at Fort Wayne against the Wizards, falling 7-1. Justin Jackson went 3-for-4 and scored the Nuts’ lone run in the defeat.

· 2014: The 8th Annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance sees Michigan State commit three errors leading to two unearned runs, pushing the Lugnuts to a 3-2 nine-inning victory before a crowd of 4,455.

April 4

· 2008: Kevin Ahrens and Johermyn Chavez each went 4-for-5 in a 9-1 win at Fort Wayne featuring 18 Lugnuts base hits. Kyle Ginley gave up one run in six innings, striking out four, and Cody Crowell struck out five in two perfect innings of relief.

· 2014: The Lugnuts opened at Lake County with an 8-2 win, behind four innings of 7-strikeout ball by reliever Alberto Tirado, working in a piggyback with Jairo Labourt (3 1/3, 4 BB, 4 K).

· 2019: 2018 Northwest League Pitcher of the Year Josh Winckowski struck out seven batters in five innings, but shortstop Jordan Groshans’s throwing error helped Fort Wayne break a scoreless tie in the sixth with two unearned runs, and the TinCaps beat the Lugnuts on Opening Night at Parkview Field, 3-0.

April 5

· 1996: The Lugnuts play their first ever game, drawing 9,318 despite temperatures in the 30s. A dropped popup in the ninth inning, however, forces extras, and the Rockford Cubbies triumph in the tenth, 9-5. The starting lineup including 18-year-old switch-hitting outfielder Carlos Beltran.

· 2011: The Spartans win the 5th Annual CTSD, 2-1, before a crowd of 7,212. Future MLBer Drew Hutchison started for the Lugnuts and allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits and four walks in four innings, striking out four. The Nuts scored a run in the ninth but came up short. Lansing leadoff hitter Markus Brisker drew four walks in the loss.

· 2012: A stadium record crowd of 12,997 watches the Lugnuts’ 7-0 shutout of the MSU Spartans in the 6th Annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance. The nine-inning game is televised by the Big Ten Network, with Eric Collins on the call. Lansing scores seven runs on six hits in the seventh inning for the win. Aaron Sanchez starts for the Nuts (one inning scoreless inning, two walks, two strikeouts), with Roberto Osuna (three strikeouts) and Daniel Norris (two strikeouts) pitching perfect innings in relief).

· 2014: Dickie Joe Thon hit a grand slam in Game 1 of a doubleheader, helping the Lugnuts build a 5-0 lead with a five-run third inning, but Lake County scored seven unanswered for a 7-5 win at Classic Park. In Game 2, Jordan Milbrath tossed a 2-hit shutout in 5-0 Captains win. The game was completed in 1:29.

· 2018: Opening Day! The Lugnuts crush the Great Lakes Loons at Dow Diamond, 12-1, and Yennsy Diaz strikes out 10 batters in 5 2/3 innings of one-hit scoreless work.

· 2019: Johnny Aiello stole home in the sixth, Alejandro Kirk stole home in the seventh, and Reggie Pruitt stole second base three times in a 7-3 win at Fort Wayne. Joey Murray whiffed five in five innings while allowing two unearned runs in his Lugnuts debut, earning the win.

April 6

· 1996: The Lugnuts notch their first ever victory, steamrolling the Rockford Cubbies, 18-3.

· 2008: A massive game for LF Johermyn Chavez, who hit a three-run homer in the 6th and a two-run homer in the 10th for a 6-4 Lugnuts victory at Fort Wayne. Chavez also stole his first base of the year.

· 2012: Opening Day at Cooley Law School Stadium saw Noah Syndergaard strike out six in three scoreless innings, Anthony DeSclafani strike out four in three scoreless innings, Great Lakes starter Jarret Martin commit three throwing errors (leading to two unearned runs), and Kevin Patterson’s RBI single in the eighth inning push the Lugnuts to a 3-2 win over the Loons. It was the first of seven straight wins to open the Lugnuts’ season.

· 2022: The Crosstown Showdown returned for the first time since 2019, 947 days since the last time that the Lugnuts had met the Spartans. The result: a 3-2 Nuts victory, their ninth straight in the series, improving Lansing to 12-2 against MSU. Jack Winkler delivered a two-run double in the second inning and Euribiel Ángeles provided insurance with a sacrifice fly in the third inning. Nuts starter Joey Estes tossed four innings, allowing a solo home run to Peter Ahn, before Osvaldo Berrios pitched the final three innings. Tyler Soderstrom went 1-for-2 with a double and a walk. 3,117 attended the game on a cold night at Jackson Field.

April 7

· 2011: Due to field conditions, the Lugnuts had Opening Day postponed against West Michigan at Cooley Law School Stadium – the first of three straight games that would be postponed due to swampy field conditions because of the melting of permafrost.

· 2012: The Lugnuts swept a doubleheader at home against Great Lakes, 4-2 and 4-3. In Game 2, Bryson Namba’s RBI single walked off the Loons in the eighth inning. Fun fact: Namba went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored in the game, starting at first base and batting cleanup – and never played another game professionally. The Blue Jays released him soon thereafter due to character issues.

· 2013: 18-year-old Roberto Osuna made his Lugnuts debut, allowing one run (a Leonardo Castillo solo HR) on two hits in five innings, striking out eight, in a 7-1 victory at Lake County.

· 2017: In their Lugnuts debut, on a snowy day at Great Lakes, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., and Bo Bichette both hit oppo homers to help the Nuts beat the Loons, 6-3, in Game 1 of a season-opening doubleheader. In Game 2, Tayler Saucedo (2 2/3) and Geno Encina (4 1/3) combined on a four-hit shutout in a 2-0 victory.

· 2018: In their home opener, the Lugnuts held an Opening Day Block Party beginning with Meet The Team, gave out scarves, and then draw 12 walks (10 in the first two innings!), broke up a no-hitter in the seventh inning on Ryan Noda’s leadoff double, and beat the Great Lakes Loons, 6-4, in 31-degree temperature at Cooley Law School Stadium. Loons starter Riley Ottesen’s night was cut short after walking six of the first seven batters. The 12 total walks drawn was two away from tying the Lugnuts’ franchise record for walks in a game.

· 2019: The Lugnuts rallied from deficits in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings to beat Fort Wayne, 5-4, on Johnny Aiello’s bases-loaded hit-by-pitch in the bottom of the ninth at Cooley Law School Stadium. Trailing 1-0 in the seventh, the Lugnuts tied the game on a Hagen Danner solo homer. Trailing 3-1 to the eighth, Otto Lopez (whose throwing error had helped the TinCaps retake the lead) drilled a two-out game-tying two-run homer. And after Tucupita Marcano’s RBI single gave Fort Wayne a 4-3 lead in the top of the ninth, Carlos Belen loaded the bases with none out, tossed a run-scoring wild pitch to tie the game, and drilled Aiello to give the Nuts the win. It was the second time in the game that Aiello had been hit by a pitch.

April 8

· 2010: On Opening Day at Fifth Third Field, the Dayton Dragons walked off with a 6-5 win on Mariekson “Didi” Gregorius’s two-out RBI single in the 11th.

· 2014: In the Cooley Law School Stadium home opener, the Lugnuts broke out for four runs in the sixth inning (including a D.J. Davis home run and a Santiago Nessy two-run single), blew a 4-2 lead in the eighth, and then walked off triumphantly on a Dickie Joe Thon RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.

· 2018: Making up a snow-postponement from April 6th, the Lugnuts were swept in a doubleheader by the Great Lakes Loons at Cooley Law School Stadium, 11-6 and 5-2. Ridge Smith hit a two-run homer in Game 1 and Kacy Clemens blasted a two-run homer in Game 2 in the losing cause.

· 2019: First pitch was thrown at 6:07 p.m. By 8:01 p.m., it was over. Otto Lopez hit an RBI single in the sixth inning, and Cobi Johnson (5 innings) and Fitz Stadler (4 innings) combined on a three-hit shutout in a 1-0 win over West Michigan in one hour, 54 minutes.

April 9

· 2009: Opening Day against the newly renamed Fort Wayne TinCaps (previously the Wizards) ended in a 4-0 loss at Oldsmobile Park. 18-year-old Henderson Alvarez allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits in four innings, striking out four, to suffer the defeat.

· 2010: The Dragons walked off the Lugnuts for the second straight day to start the year, winning 4-3 on a throwing error by 3B Oliver Dominguez. The Lugnuts committed seven – count ‘em, seven – errors in the loss. Yikes. 3B Mark Sobolewski made two, P Matt Fields made two, and there was one apiece on 2B Ryan Schimpf, C Karim Turkamani and 3B Oliver Dominguez, plus a passed ball charged to Turkamani. The miscues led to three unearned Dragons runs, including the game winner. (Note that this is not the franchise record. That’s nine errors, committed 6-13-03 vs. Fort Wayne.)

· 2012: Justin Nicolino pitched three hitless innings, striking out five, followed by three innings of one-hit/four-K ball from Aaron Sanchez, and the Lugnuts shut out Dayton, 8-0, at Fifth Third Field.

· 2015: The last Crosstown Showdown in April before 2022 saw the Lugnuts roll to a 9-4 seven-inning win in front of 4,883. Three players homered – MSU’s Ryan Krill amid a three-run 1st inning, and the Lugnuts’ Richard Ureña and Ryan McBroom as the Nuts responded with a torrent of runs. Ureña, McBroom, Danny Jansen and Josh Almonte each collected two hits; Ureña and McBroom scored three runs apiece; and Tellez, McBroom and Boomer Collins each drove in two runs.

· 2016: After the first two games of the year were postponed in Lansing, the Lugnuts finally got the season going with a 5-4 loss at Great Lakes. The most notable occurrence: Loons outfielder Jordan Paroubeck fouled a ball back into the broadcast booth that broke Lugnuts radio broadcaster Jesse Goldberg-Strassler’s computer.

· 2017: Catcher Ryan Hissey slugged a grand slam in the fifth inning and a two-run go-ahead single in the eighth, lifting the Lugnuts to a 10-9 victory over the Great Lakes Loons at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Loons’ Carlos Rincon hit a 455-foot home run in the loss.

· 2018: Piggybacking reliever Donnie Sellers struck out 12 Fort Wayne TinCaps in five innings, and the Lugnuts opened up a four-game series at Parkview Field with a 10-1 win. The TinCaps’ only run came from their first batter of the game, Jeisson Rosario, who hit an inside-the-park home run off Maverik Buffo. Kevin Smith and Cullen Large homered for the Nuts in the victory.

· 2022: An Opening Day doubleheader, following a postponement from the day before, saw the Lugnuts swept at home by Lake County, 3-0 and 7-5. In Game 1, Cleveland first-rounder Gavin Williams pitched four hitless innings with six strikeouts in his professional debut, outdueling Grant Holman (4 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 K). In Game 2, Nuts starter Diego Granado recorded only one out and gave up six runs; David Leal followed with seven strikeouts in three scoreless innings.

April 10

· 2011: In their first game of the season, held at West Michigan, the Lugnuts blew a 12-7 lead in the 7th (and a 12-9 lead in the 8th), falling in a walkoff to the Whitecaps, 13-12.

· 2012: Jesse Hernandez tossed a gem, allowing one hit in seven scoreless innings, striking out eight, in a 6-2 win at Dayton.

· 2015: Chase De Jong struck out nine batters in 4 2/3 innings and the Lugnuts waited out a 55-minute rain delay before opening up their 20th season with a 3-2 win over Lake County at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2018: The Lugnuts came back from 2-0, 4-2 and 5-4 deficits, taking a 6-5 victory at Fort Wayne on Ryan Noda’s go-ahead two-run single in the seventh off eventual All-Star Travis Radke. The game ended on a brilliant game-saving catch by right fielder Chavez Young with the tying run aboard, hauling in a Gabriel Arias drive on the warning track, falling to his left, crashing into the wall, and ending up on the ground – with the ball secured.

· 2022: Tyler Soderstrom's first Lugnuts hit was an RBI double, and the Nuts beat the Captains at home, 6-5, for Phil Pohl's first career managerial victory. Starter Jeff Criswell struck out four in 4 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits and two walks.

April 11

· 2010: It was the Lugnuts’ first win of the year, an offensive outburst that saw Lansing score four runs in the seventh and five runs in the eighth inning to wipe away a seemingly commanding 7-1 Great Lakes lead. Kevin Nolan supplied the crowning blow with a two-run single, delivering the Nuts a sensational 10-8 victory at Dow Diamond.

· 2018: The Fort Wayne TinCaps beat the Lugnuts at Parkview Field, 9-4, thanks to an eight-run seventh inning off reliever Dany Jimenez, capped by a Carlos Belen grand slam to left field.

April 12

· 2010: The Great Balbino Fuenmayor went 5-for-5 with a solo home run in a two-run eighth, and the Lugnuts overcame a 3-0 deficit for a 4-3 win at Great Lakes.

· 2011: Drew Hutchison made his season debut with 11 strikeouts in seven scoreless three-hit innings, and the Lugnuts wiped out a 2-1 deficit with three runs in the 9th for a 4-2 victory at South Bend.

· 2012: The Lugnuts win their seventh straight game to start the season, a new team record, with closer Ajay Meyer stranding the potential game-tying run at third base in a 3-2 win against West Michigan.

· 2013: In their season home opener following seven games on the road (at Lake County and Bowling Green), the Lugnuts walked off South Bend in 12 innings, 5-4, on a Gustavo Pierre two-out RBI single.

· 2015: Tim Locastro’s two-strike, two-out RBI single forced extra innings, and Danny Jansen’s sacrifice fly gave the Lugnuts a 4-3 win in 10 innings at Fort Wayne. The TinCaps starter was future Major Leaguer Dinelson Lamet, making just his third professional appearance; in just the second inning alone, Lamet hit a batter, walked two, tossed two wild pitches and committed two balks.

· 2018: A day after allowing eight runs in the seventh inning at Fort Wayne, the Lugnuts exploded for 11 runs in the seventh to blow out the TinCaps, 13-4. The first 12 Nuts all reached base in the inning, six against reliever Henry Henry and six against reliever Spencer Kulman, including seven walks and two Henry balks. The Nuts drew 13 walks in total. It was the third time in franchise history that the Lugnuts had scored 11 runs in an inning.

· 2022: Pinch-hitter Jonny Butler's RBI single in the ninth had forced extra innings at West Michigan, and then Butler struck again with a tie-breaking single in the 11th to spark a four-run rally, seemingly pushing the Nuts to a thrilling victory at their archrival. But the Whitecaps tallied five runs in the bottom of the 11th against Daniel Martinez, winning the game on a Wenceel Pérez two-run double, 11-10.

April 13

· 2010: With the score tied at 1-1 in the top of the ninth inning at Great Lakes, the Lugnuts called upon slugger Brad Glenn to pinch-hit. Glenn came through with a tie-breaking home run to give the Lugnuts a three-game sweep at Dow Diamond with a 2-1 win.

· 2012: The Lugnuts suffer their first loss of the year, falling to 7-1, on a Dany Vasquez two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth that lifted West Michigan to a 5-4 win.

· 2018: Seventh-inning magic strikes again: The Lugnuts (6-3) scored four runs in the seventh to beat the West Michigan Whitecaps (6-2), 4-2, in a battle of Eastern Division powerhouses at Cooley Law School Stadium.

April 14

· 2012: The resilient West Michigan Whitecaps rallied back from three different deficits to tie up the Lugnuts, squaring the score for the third time in the bottom of the 11th inning. Andy Burns was unconcerned, crushing a home run in the 12th to put the Lugs up for good in a 5-4 victory at Fifth Third Ballpark.

· 2013: South Bend’s Kyle Schepel threw a seven-inning no-hitter, striking out nine, in a 1-0 Game 1 win in Lansing. Only a walk to Santiago Nessy denied a perfect game. In Game 2, the Silver Hawks completed the sweep, 8-2. Future Major Leaguers Roberto Osuna and Daniel Norris started the doubleheader for the Lugnuts.

· 2015: In his Midwest League debut, 19-year-old Sean Reid-Foley struck out six batters in three innings and the Lugnuts won at Fort Wayne, 6-4.

· 2017: Shane Bieber turned the Lugnuts into Beliebers, striking out 11 batters in six innings to help the Lake County Captains win at Cooley Law School Stadium, 5-2.

· 2022: On a windy day in West Michigan (so windy that the American flag blew off the pole during the first inning!), the Nuts split a doubleheader with the Whitecaps, winning 8-5 and losing 6-0. In the nightcap, Grant Holman struck out nine batters in five innings with an immaculate fourth: nine pitches, three strikeouts, vs. Mike Rothenberg, Ben Malgeri and Trei Cruz. But the Whitecaps' pitching trio of Wilmer Flores, Gio Arriera and Bryce Tassin were better, with only an Euribiel Ángeles two-out double in the fourth inning preventing a perfect game.

April 15

· 2000: Ryan Gripp sets a pair of team records, bashing three homers and driving in eight runs. (The RBI mark was tied by D.J. Davis in 2015.)

· 2008: Kyle Ginley struck out 10 Burlington Bees in 6 2/3 shutout innings, scattering eight hits and a walk, in a 5-1 Lugnuts victory at Community Field.

· 2015: It was a bad night for Great Lakes second baseman Jimmy Allen, who committed three errors – and the third allowed the tie-breaking run to score with two outs in the ninth, giving the Lugnuts a 2-1 win at Dow Diamond.

· 2017: Jose Medina hit three homers, the last in the ninth inning – touching off a benches-clearing brawl that led to multiple suspensions – and the Lake County Captains blasted the Lugnuts, 17-5, at Cooley Law School Stadium. The game included a ten-run Captains fourth inning.

· 2022: Pat Day, the Lugnuts' general manager from 2007-2012, passed away at age 47 from a heart attack while working at home in Arizona.

April 16

· 2009: 12,992 fans watch Michigan State pick up its first CTSD win, routing the Lugnuts 12-2 in the 3rd Annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance. The Nuts commit four errors in the loss, two by left fielder Kenny Wilson. The game lasts nine innings.

· 2015: Rowdy Tellez’s 16th-inning two-run home run of Great Lakes first-baseman-turned-emergency-pitcher Josmar Cordero gave the Lugnuts 4-2 win at Dow Diamond. The game lasted four hours and 51 minutes and ended one inning shy of tying the franchise record for most innings played.

April 17

· 2015: In the bottom of the 11th, Mark Biggs hit Michael Ahmed and Kelvin Ramos, loading the bases and then forcing in the game-winning run to give the Great Lakes Loons a 5-4 walk-off victory at Dow Diamond.

· 2017: The Dayton Dragons knocked out Andy Ravel in the first inning, scoring seven runs for a 7-1 lead at Fifth Third Field, only to see Bradley Jones belt a game-tying three-run homer in the seventh and then another three-run homer in the eighth for a 13-9 Lugnuts victory at Fifth Third Field.

April 18

· 2014: Kendall Graveman, who would eventually go from Lansing on Opening Day to Toronto by the end of the season, pitched 8 1/3 no-hit innings at Beloit before No. 9 hitting catcher Jose Chavez reached on an iffy infield single to shortstop. Griffin Murphy relieved Graveman and allowed a single to Chih Fang Pan before wrapping up a Lugnuts 5-0 victory with a double play, ending the Nuts’ seven-game losing streak. The game finished in 2:18. Because of broadcast difficulties at the ballpark, broadcasters Jesse Goldberg-Strassler and Trey Wilson called the game by talking directly into his laptop computer’s microphone.

· 2018: Playing through on and off hail showers, the Lugnuts defeated Lake County at Cooley Law School Stadium, 7-2. First pitch was moved up two hours because of worries about worse weather later in the night.

· 2019: The Golden Cycle. Ryan Gold went 4-for-5 with a first-inning single, a third-inning two-run triple, a fourth-inning RBI groundout, a sixth-inning grand slam, and – after Dayton third baseman Juan Martinez dropped a foul pop – an eighth-inning double, becoming the seventh Lugnut to hit for the cycle in franchise history in a 12-4 victory over the Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium.

April 19

· 2010: Catcher A.J. Jimenez went 4-for-5 with three doubles, two runs scored and two RBIs, and the Lugnuts battered Bowling Green with 18 hits in a 9-3 victory at Cooley Law School Stadium, finishing a three-game sweep. This was the Hot Rods’ first ever visit to Lansing, in their first season in the Midwest League since moving up from the South Atlantic League with Lake County before the year.

· 2015: In an unusual shutout – and a brilliant relief appearance – Justin Shafer relieved Sean Reid-Foley (2 2/3 innings) and blanked the Dayton Dragons for the final 6 1/3 innings in a 4-0 win at Cooley Law School Stadium. Shafer struck out Gavin LaValley to escape a bases-loaded jam in the third inning and was never seriously threatened afterward, allowing four singles and whiffing five.

· 2019: For the first time since September 4, 2017, the Dayton Dragons won in Lansing, 9-4 – ending a 12-game losing streak in Lansing.

April 20

· 2013: The Lugnuts scored eight runs on 14 hits, but still were steamrolled by Fort Wayne, 17-8, as the TinCaps rolled up 21 hits against five Nuts pitchers. Future Major Leaguers Roberto Osuna (3 2/3, 3 R, 4 K) started against Fort Wayne’s Max Fried (4 IP, 4 R, 5 K).

April 21

· 2003: Justin Jones, Westin O’Brien and Mark Carter combine to throw the Lugnuts’ first no-hitter, blanking Dayton 15-0 – and Donny Hood hits for the cycle in the same game, the first time in pro baseball history that a cycle and no-hitter were achieved in the same game.

April 22

· 2010: A.J. Jimenez hit a clutch one-out game-tying three-run homer off Stiven Osuna in the top of the 9th, and the Lugnuts scored four runs in the 10th (capped by a Brad McElroy three-run triple) to win at Fort Wayne, 11-8.

· 2013: Dayton starter Ismael Guillon walked six batters in 1 2/3 innings and gave up a second-inning grand slam to Gustavo Pierre in an 8-5 Lugnuts win.

· 2015: In a night featuring piercing wind, flurries of snow and temperatures in the mid-30s, Richard Ureña had a two-run sacrifice fly to right field after Franmil Reyes fell down while making the catch, allowing Tim Locastro to score from third and Anthony Alford to score from second. Still, Fort Wayne won at Lansing, 9-4, thanks to 19 hits.

· 2017: Bowling Green scored three runs in the 2nd and five in the 3rd, bringing an 8-0 lead to the bottom of the 6th, but the Lugnuts scored six runs in the 6th, four in the 7th, and two in the 8th for a 12-10 victory at Cooley Law School Stadium. The final two runs were scored off of position player Robbie Tenerowicz, which proved key when Bowling Green rallied for two runs in the 9th against Jackson McClelland.

· 2018: Left-handed-hitting Christian Williams homered twice to left field (a solo shot in the 2nd and a two-run shot in the 4th) off South Bend Cubs southpaw Brendon Little, the 27th overall pick in the 2017 draft, lifting the Lugnuts to a 4-2 victory at Four Winds Field.

· 2019: Joey Murray struck out 10 in 6 2/3 innings, but the South Bend Cubs beat the Lugnuts, 13-10, in ten innings in Lansing. Murray left with two runners aboard and a 4-1 lead in the seventh – but Cole Roederer’s two-run single and Andy Weber’s three-run homer gave the Cubs a sudden 6-4 lead. The Lugnuts countered in the bottom of the seventh on Jake Brodt’s three-run homer, taking a 7-6 lead. In the top of the eighth, the Cubs scored three more runs for a 9-7 lead, only to see the Lugnuts answer with two in the home half to knot the score. A four-run tenth inning for the visitors proved enough, however.

April 23

· 2006: In four hours and 50 minutes, the Lugnuts outlasted the Beloit Snappers at Olds Park, 4-3, in 17 innings, thanks to Joey Metropoulos two-out RBI single. The score was tied 1-1 at the end of nine innings, with each team scoring runs in the 12th and 13th innings (including a two-out game-tying Anthony Garibaldi home run in the bottom of the 13th). Aaron Tressler fired the final five innings, allowing one run, to earn the victory.

· 2008: The Lugnuts scored two runs on a two-out, two-run single by Raul Barron in the bottom of the 8th to beat Peoria, 2-1. Chiefs C Josh Donaldson went 1-for-4 with a double and finished the three-game series 2-for-12.

· 2009: The Lugnuts were swept in a doubleheader at home against South Bend, 9-5 and 5-4. Game 2 was a particularly bitter loss, as left-hander Chuck Huggins struck out 10 batters in six innings, allowing three hits and one run, but relievers Hunter Moody and Mike Barbara gave up four runs in the 7th to blow a 4-1 lead.

· 2011: The Lugnuts and West Michigan Whitecaps combined to set a professional baseball record with 10 double plays, six by Lansing and four by West Michigan. The Nuts won, 6-1, wrapping up the victory when Rob Brantly lined into an unassisted double play to first baseman K.C. Hobson.

· 2014: Speaking of D.J., the Lugnuts’ center fielder nearly defeated the Lake County Captains by himself two weeks later. Trailing 4-0 in the fourth, Davis delivered a three-run triple and scored the tying run on a Mitch Nay single. In the seventh, D.J. Davis provided a fifth Lugnuts run on an RBI grounder. And in the bottom of the ninth, there he was again, whacking a game-winning single down the right field line. In total, it was a 6-5 Lugnuts win, with the 19-year-old Davis driving in five runs and scoring the sixth. Captains starter Adam Plutko struck out 10 in 4 2/3 innings in a no-decision.

· 2018: Brock Lundquist launched a first-inning grand slam against 2017 No. 2 pick Hunter Greene and Chavez Young followed shortly thereafter with a three-run homer, capping an eight-run first and sending the Lugnuts to a 10-7 victory over the Dayton Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium. Greene faced nine batters, recorded two outs, struck out one, and was tagged for seven of the eight runs.

· 2022: The Fort Wayne TinCaps crushed seven home runs in a doubleheader sweep in Lansing, 13-9 and 6-2. Game 1 saw Oakland Athletics No. 1 prospect Tyler Soderstrom drill his first two home runs of the year in the losing cause.

April 24

· 2008: The 2nd Annual CTSD saw the game shortened to seven innings. A run-scoring error and run-scoring wild pitch helped the Lugnuts break a 2-2 tie and win 4-2 in just one hour and 37 minutes. Moises Sierra homered for the Nuts in the victory, played in front of 12,862.

· 2010: Ride the rollercoaster: The Lugnuts scored three runs in the bottom of the 8th to take an 8-6 lead over Dayton, watched the Dragons tie the score against Brian Slover in the 9th, and then walked off in the 10th on an Oliver Dominguez one-out RBI double, 9-8. It was all part of a three-game home sweep of Dayton, turning the tables after the Dragons swept the Lugnuts in three games at Fifth Third Field to start the year.

· 2012: The Chiefs scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth, capped by a Paul Hoilman grand slam, to beat Ajay Meyer and the Lugnuts, 6-2. Starter Aaron Sanchez struck out seven batters in three scoreless innings in a no-decision.

· 2017: Edward Olivares hit for the cycle, finishing with a two-run triple in the eighth, and the Lugnuts beat the South Bend Cubs, 11-5, at Cooley Law School Stadium. It was the first cycle for a Nut since 2010 (Brad Glenn) and the third consecutive game that the Nuts had scored at least 11 runs.

April 25

· 2013: Future Astros teammates met, as the Lugnuts’ Roberto Osuna whiffed the River Bandits’ Carlos Correa three straight at-bats in Davenport, Iowa. Osuna struck out eight total in five innings, allowing one hit and one run, while Correa finished 0-for-5 with four strikeouts in a 6-2 Lugnuts victory.

· 2018: Kevin Smith laced three doubles and the Lugnuts scored at least two runs in five of the first six innings to romp past the Dayton Dragons, 13-2, on a Winning Wednesday at Cooley Law School Stadium. On the down side, center fielder Reggie Pruitt was sent to the Disabled List after being hit in the nose by a Dauri Moreta pitch.

· 2019: The Lugnuts did not fare well in their first meeting with Bowling Green super-prospect Wander Franco, who lined out (on a diving catch by third baseman Johnny Aiello) before singling off the top of the left field wall and homering twice over the left field wall, both oppo shots, in a Bowling Green 6-5 victory. The Lugnuts had the potential tying run at third base in Reggie Pruitt with two outs in the ninth, only to see Jordan Groshans ground out to pitcher Chris Muller to end the game.

April 26

· 2008: Future Major Leaguer Neftali Feliz struck out eight Lugnuts while allowing two hits and one walk in five scoreless innings, but the Lugnuts scored five runs in the 8th to win at Clinton, 6-1. Nuts starter Kyle Ginley turned in another gem, allowing one unearned run in 7 2/3 innings and striking out six. The game took two hours and eight minutes.

· 2010: The Lugnuts score five runs in the fifth inning to defeat the Spartans in the 4th Annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance, 5-4. The game lasts nine innings, with 6,778 in attendance. The game was originally scheduled to be played on April 7th but was postponed due to rain.

· 2011: SS Gustavo Pierre committed a franchise record four errors (two throwing, one missed catch, one fielding) and went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in a 5-3 loss at home to Great Lakes. The bad day brought Pierre’s error total to 15 errors in 17 Lugnuts games.

· 2014: The Bowling Green Hot Rods arrived in Lansing with rising momentum, routing the Lugs 9-3 in the opener before bringing a 4-1 lead to the bottom of the ninth, looking for the series victory. Aaron Griffin was entrusted in the save opportunity; it did not go well for him. Jason Leblebijian’s two-run single narrowed the deficit to one, Dawel Lugo’s RBI single tied the game, and Derrick Loveless softly served a game-winning single to right to complete a 5-4 comeback win.

· 2016: It took two hours and 11 minutes for the Lugnuts to win 1-0 at Beloit, thanks to Jake Anderson beating out an RBI infield single with two outs in the top of the ninth, scoring Gunnar Heidt. Francisco Rios struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings and Josh DeGraaf and Colton Turner set down the final ten batters to complete a three-hit shutout.

· 2019: Josh Winckowski struck out eight in seven scoreless innings, Jackson Rees handled the final two frames, and the Lugnuts blanked the high-scoring Hot Rods, 4-0, at Bowling Green Ballpark.

April 27

· 2010: 1st-rounder Chad Jenkins fired eight shutout innings, allowing six hits and one walk while striking out nine, and Evan Crawford wrapped up a seven-hit Lugnuts 6-0 victory at West Michigan.

· 2016: The Lugnuts extended their scoreless streak to 24 innings, as Angel Perdomo (5 IP, 7 K) combined with two relievers on a four-hit 6-0 shutout at Beloit.

· 2018: Cullen Large went 5-for-5 and scored the game-winning run on a Norberto Obeso RBI single in the bottom of the ninth, helping the Lugnuts complete a four-game home sweep of the Dayton Dragons with a thrilling 8-7 win. (Obeso, added to the roster earlier in the day from Extended Spring Training, wore eyeblack that read “I’m back.”) The Lugnuts had lost a 4-2 lead and entered the seventh trailing 7-4, but Ryan Noda singled in Large in the seventh, Kacy Clemens tied the score with a two-run single in the eighth, and Obeso won it in the ninth with a seemingly routine fly to left-center that fell between LF Narciso Crook and CF Miles Gordon.

April 28

· 2008: Brad Mills struck out 11 Quad Cities River Bandits in just 4 2/3 innings, but Justin Roberson capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the 9th with a game-winning RBI single, pushing the Bandits to a 4-3 victory. It was the second straight game that the Lugnuts had been walked off. The game was played at Veteran Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids due to flooding in Davenport, with the next two games held in Clinton and Iowa City.

· 2011: During warm-ups before the start of the third inning in Game 2 of a doubleheader Lugnuts 3B Bryson Namba, taking grounders, got into a fight with Whitecaps pitcher Bruce Rondon, in the dugout. Both players were ejected. The Lugnuts swept the doubleheader, 4-0 and 4-2.

April 29

· 2001: Aaron Krawiec sets a franchise record with 17 strikeouts in eight shutout innings, allowing two hits and no walks, as the Lugnuts defeated the South Bend Silver Hawks, 2-0. 2000 Cubs third-rounder Krawiec struck out 14 of the first 18 batters and pitched 6 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball. The gem earned him the honor of Midwest League Pitcher of the Week.

· 2008: The Lugnuts had 14 hits, the Quad Cities River Bandits had eight, and yet it took only two hours and six minutes for the Nuts to win, 3-1, at Clinton’s Alliant Energy Field. Randy Boone tossed six scoreless innings, striking out four. This was the second game of a three-game series played in three different Iowa cities due to the Mississippi River flooding around the ballpark

· 2009: Another gem from Chuck Huggins: six shutout innings, one hit, one walk, seven strikeouts in a 2-1 win at Kane County.

· 2014: Justin Atkinson went 5-for-5 with four singles and a double, scoring one run in the Lugnuts’ 7-5 win at Dayton. (Note that The game was suspended and then finished on April 30 the next day.)y.

· 2022: Ángel Martínez lined a two-run walk-off homer to right, catapulting the Lake County Captains to a 4-3 victory over the Lugnuts. In the losing cause, starter Hogan Harris recorded four strikeouts in two perfect innings.

April 30

· 2008: For the second straight day, the Lugnuts and River Bandits played a game in two hours and six minutes. This one featured 18 hits (nine apiece) in a 4-3 Quad Cities victory, played at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City, home of the Iowa Hawkeyes, the third stadium (and third city) to host the Lugnuts/Bandits following flooding in Davenport.

· 2010: The Fort Wayne TinCaps turned a 4-2 deficit into a 10-4 win with eight runs in the top of the 8th at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2022: Jeff Criswell came three outs from a no-hitter, settling for a one-hitter in a doubleheader split at Lake County's Classic Park:

1 – A.J. Jiménez (1990), Marcus Stroman (1991), Denzel Clarke (2000)

3 – John Tamargo, Jr. (1975), Ryan Dempster (1977)

4 – Mike Dzurilla (1978), Ryan Cook (1993), Ryan Gridley (1995), Max Castillo (1999)

5 – Julio García (1960), Mike Redmond (1971), Cameron Masterman (1999), Diego Barrera (2000)

6 – Jordy Alexander (1977), Kevin Collins (1981), Chuck Huggins (1986), Francisco Rios (1995), Brennan Milone (2001)

7 – Christian Snavely (1982), Matt Wright (1987), Roberto Espinosa (1992), Ángel Perdomo (1994), Reggie Pruitt (1997), LJ Talley (1997)

8 – Mike McDade (1989)

9 – Oscar Montero (1978)

10 – Carlos Paredes (1976), Aaron Mathews (1982), Rene Pablos (1982), Ben White (1989), Mark Biggs (1993)

11 – Leo Torres (1976), Euribiel Ángeles (2002)

12 – Roberto Miniel (1980), Jonathan Davis (1992), Sean Rackoski (1995)

13 – Matthew Hines (1981), Jason Leblebijian (1991)

14 – Luis Medina (1979), Daniel Susac (2001)

15 – Michael De La Cruz (1993)

16 – Brian Poldberg (1957), Eugenio Vélez (1982), Carlos Mejía (1983)

17 – Jason Layne (1973), Kenderick Moore (1973), Josh Sowers (1983), Leonardo Jimenez (2001)

18 – Jon Del Campo (1988)

21 – Mark Quinn (1974)

22 – LB Dantzler (1991), Lazaro Armenteros (1999)

23 – Tony Miranda (1973), John Webb (1979), Matt Lane (1984), Owen Spiwak (1995)

24 – Carlos Febles (1976), Chuck Hickman (1981), Shawn Griffith (1987), Luis Báez (1991)

25 – Brent Powers (1989), Carl Wise (1994)

26 – Matt Johnson (1988), Andrew Deramo (1995), Brandon Grudzielanek (1995), Jack Owen (1998)

27 – Jason Wylie (1981), Scott Silverstein (1990), Danny Young (1994)

28 – Ryan Klosterman (1982)

29 – Nathan Starner (1984)

30 – Jae-Kuk Ryu (1983), Will McAffer (1997)

31 – Casey Kopitzke (1978), Matt Shannon (1995), Grant Holman (2000)

May 1

· 2010: Before an electric crowd of 8,212, the Lugnuts dramatically achieved their 1,000th all-time win in Lansing, 3-2, thanks to a Chris Hopkins walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 9th against Fort Wayne.

· 2011: In front of a Saturday night home crowd of 8,212, Chris Hopkins lined a one-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth, driving in Oliver Dominguez, to defeat the Fort Wayne TinCaps, 3-2, and capture the Lugnuts’ 1,000th all-time victory. The win came 5,138 days after the Lugnuts’ first victory as a franchise.

· 2013: An attendance of 11,619 took in the 7th Annual Crosstown Showdown Presented by Auto-Owners Insurance. Dwight Smith, Jr. went 4-for-4 with two singles, a double, a triple and a walk, scoring three runs and driving in two, to help the Lugnuts win a seven-inning 10-2 rout. Chris Hawkins homered for the Nuts, who blew the game open with six runs in the fourth inning. The game took one hour, 54 minutes to play.

· 2014: Aroldis Chapman made a rehab start for Dayton, striking out D.J. Davis and Jason Leblebijian and retiring Mitch Nay on a flyout to left before departing. The game turned into a pitcher’s duel before L.B. Dantzler’s grand slam highlighted a six-run seventh inning, and the Lugnuts won, 9-6, at Fifth Third Field.

· 2018: With Roger Clemens in attendance, son Kacy Clemens drilled an oppo grand slam onto Home Run Hill in left, but the Lugnuts lost to the Kane County Cougars, 6-5.

May 2

· 2008: RF Moises Sierra had a rocket arm, as Wisconsin’s Juan Diaz discovered. In the top of the 4th, Diaz singled to right but Sierra threw him out trying to stretch it into a double. In the 6th, Diaz walked and attempted to score on a Joseph Dunigan double, Sierra threw him out at the plate. Diaz was tagged out again on the bases in the 8th, thrown out by catcher Matt Liuzza trying to steal second base. The Timber Rattlers did win, 5-2.

· 2011: With a fire alarm going off at Cooley Law School Stadium in the bottom of the 10th inning, Jake Marisnick stayed calm against Lake County closer Clayton Ehlert. Marisnick lined an RBI single off the glove of third baseman Giovanny Urshela, lifting the Lugnuts to their first walk-off victory of the year, 4-3.

· 2015: Tim Locastro hit a three-run inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the 9th, but the Lugnuts lost to Bowling Green, 10-4.

· 2018: Kevin Smith, Kacy Clemens, Brock Lundquist and Chavez Young all hit solo home runs in a 6-2 Lugnuts victory over the Kane County Cougars at Cooley Law School Stadium.

May 3

· 2009: The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers collected 17 hits plus three walks, yet only managed six runs in an 8-6 Lugnuts victory in Appleton. Rattlers starting 2B Brett Lawrie went 4-for-5.

· 2011: Michael Goodnight started for Lake County, and he had a good night in Lansing. K.C. Hobson’s RBI single in the first inning was the Lugnuts’ only hit all game in a 2-1 loss.

· 2013: Utter disaster: The Lugnuts blew an 8-2 lead at home against Wisconsin, allowing a run in the eighth and five in the ninth. The Timber Rattlers completed the rally with two runs in the 10th for a 10-8 victory. The magnificent Damien Magnifico earned the win with five innings of relief for the T-Rats.

· 2016: The Lugnuts bullpen’s scoreless streak ended at 38 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings on an A.J. Murray two-out home run in the top of the seventh, lifting the Cedar Rapids Kernels to a 3-0 win over the host Lugnuts.

· 2017: The Peoria Chiefs set a Midwest League single game record by hitting six Lugnuts with pitches, matching the most single-game HBPs for one team in MLB history to boot (1913, NY Yankees vs. Washington Senators). The Lugnuts scored seven second-inning runs and beat the Chiefs 9-7 at Cooley Law School Stadium. Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. hit his fourth home run of the year, a two-run shot below the LF video board that capped the second-inning rally.

· 2018: Rainy controversy! The Lugnuts entered the sixth inning trailing the Kane County Cougars, 5-3, before loading the bases and creeping within one run on a Chavez Young sacrifice fly – that also brought rain. Umpiring crew Steven Jaschinski and Kyle Nichol called for the tarp, but were talked out of it, keeping the game going through the rain, and the Lugnuts took advantage with a Kevin Vicuña two-run single for a 6-5 lead. As soon as the inning ended, the game went into a 29-minute rain delay. When the game resumed, the score remained the same: A 6-5 Lugnuts win at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2019: The Lugnuts lost two stars in the same day, with catcher Alejandro Kirk promoted to Dunedin and shortstop Jordan Groshans placed on the Injured List. They were replaced by infielder Rafael Lantigua and outfielder Tanner Kirwer. Then the Lansing Locos, part of Minor League Baseball’s Copa de la Diversión, take the field in gem-blue and marigold, routing the Beloit Snappers, 10-5, in front of 8,625. It is the first of five games for the Lansing Locos.

May 4

· 2010: Trailing 5-2 to South Bend, Ryan Goins singled and scored in the bottom of the 8th and then capped a two-run game-tying rally in the 9th with an RBI single. It went for naught, though, as the Silver Hawks scored two runs in the 11th for a 7-5 win. South Bend DH Matt Davidson went 4-for-5 with a single, a double, and two homers off starter Ryan Shopshire, scoring three runs and driving in four.

· 2015: Magic Man! The Lugnuts appeared on the verge of blowing a 7-2 lead, but second baseman Tim Locastro made a ridiculous diving stop on a Franklin Navarro potential RBI single sizzler that hopped off the pitcher’s mound with a headlong lunge, popped to his feet, raced to second for a force, and whipped a throw to first base to end the game. The Nuts beat the Whitecaps 7-6 at Cooley Law School Stadium.

May 5

· 2009: Rebel Ridling slugged a three-run go-ahead home run in the 9th, and the Peoria Chief rallied from deficits of 5-2 and 6-4 for a 7-6 victory at Oldsmobile Park.

· 2016: The Quad Cities River Bandits piled up 10 hits and limited the Lugnuts to a bloop single, but the Lugnuts still won 1-0 at Cooley Law School Stadium, earning 2015 1st-rounder Jon Harris his first professional victory. The Nuts only run came via three walks and a Juan Kelly double-play grounder in the third inning, scoring Aaron Attaway. The Bandits collected two hits in the fifth and exactly one hit in every other inning.

May 6

· 2010: South Bend C Errol Hollinger’s single leading off the 5th was the Silver Hawks’ only hit in a 5-0 Lugnuts shutout victory at Cooley Law School Stadium, thanks to the combined efforts of Evan Crawford (5 IP), Matt Wright (2 IP) and Dustin Antolin (2 IP). Leadoff hitter Ryan Schimpf went 4-for-5 for the Nuts in the win.

· 2015: 20-year-old Jesus Tinoco made his Lugnuts debut with four scoreless innings in Game 1 of a doubleheader and the Lugnuts beat West Michigan, 7-2, before losing Game 2, 6-2, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2016: On his 21st birthday, Francisco Rios set a career high with 10 strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings, and the Lugnuts blanked the Quad Cities River Bandits, 6-0, in front of 9,816. Rios was promoted to A-Adv. Dunedin three days later.

· 2018: The Quad Cities River Bandits completed a three-game sweep of the Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium, 2-0, ending Kevin Smith’s 16-game hitting streak and 27-game on-base streak.

· 2019: Due to flooding in Davenport, Iowa, the Lugnuts opened a three-game series with the Quad Cities River Bandits at the University of Iowa’s Duane Banks Field in Iowa City. The Lugnuts lost, 4-2, due to Austin Hansen’s seven shutout innings and 10 strikeouts.

May 7

· 2009: When Henderson Álvarez was on the mound, magical things had a way of happening. On this day, the 19-year-old fired a nine-inning complete game against Peoria in two hours and one minute, allowing four hits, one walk, one run, and one strikeout in a Lugnuts 4-1 victory.

· 2010: The Lugnuts collected seven doubles and one triple – The Great Balbino Fuenmayor had two doubles and one triple by himself – in a 9-4 victory at Fort Wayne. No. 9 hitter Chris Hopkins led a 16-hit attack by going 4-for-5 with a steal. Chad Jenkins tossed seven innings, allowing only Nate Freiman’s two-run homer in the 4th.

· 2011: Lake County built a 6-0 lead with a run in the 1st, a run in the 2nd and four runs in the 3rd, but the Lugnuts responded with seven unanswered (two in the 3rd and five in the 7th) for a 7-6 victory.

May 8

· 2010: The Nuts brought a 4-0 lead to the bottom of the 9th at Parkview Field, but the TinCaps rallied to tie the game thanks to errors by 2B Ryan Schimpf and 3B Sean Ochinko and a passed ball by A.J. Jimenez. In the 10th, a surprise storm blew in, causing Casey Beck to throw back-to-back wild pitches with a wet ball, bringing in Jonathan Galvez with the winning run in a frustrating 5-4 TinCaps win. Less than ten minutes after the game had ended, the sky was clear and blue again.

· 2011: Revenge against Michael Goodnight! Goodnight had dominated the Lugnuts on May 3rd, but this time the Nuts knocked him out with seven runs in the 2nd inning on their way to beating Lake County, 9-6, at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Captains committed five errors and a passed ball.

· 2013: A battle of top prospects in Dayton was determined decisively: The Nuts’ Daniel Norris allowed eight runs (six earned) in 1 1/3 innings, while the Dragons’ Robert Stephenson struck out nine batters in six scoreless innings, allowing three hits, in an 11-4 Dragons win.

May 9

· 2010: Fort Wayne committed five errors – three by SS Jonathan Galvez and two by RF Rymer Liriano – but still beat the Lugnuts, 7-5, at Parkview Field.

· 2013: Johnny Cueto made an MLB rehab start for the Dayton Dragons, throwing three innings, allowing four hits and one run, striking out four, and Ismael Guillon struck out nine in four innings of relief to help the Dragons beat the Lugnuts, 9-6, at Fifth Third Field. Future Major League pitcher Carlos Ramirez hit a two-run homer for the second straight day for the Lugnuts.

· 2015: Fort Wayne had scheduled Saturday night postgame fireworks, and so the TinCaps shot them off as soon as the game ended… which came after a one-hour, 38-minute rain delay before first pitch and then a three-hour, 48-minute game that concluded after midnight. Edwin Moreno’s suicide squeeze in the bottom of the 10th inning (against a five-infielder infield, as directed by manager Ken Huckaby, bringing right fielder J.D. Davis into the infield) brought Nick Torres in with the winning run for a 5-4 Fort Wayne victory. Anthony Alford reached base five times in the loss, with two hits and three walks.

· 2018: Brock Lundquist homered twice and the Lugnuts scored nine unanswered runs from the 5th inning onward to stop the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 9-4, at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium. It was the fourth straight season that the Lugnuts won two of three games against Wisconsin.

· 2019: Nick Podkul stole home to end a 22-inning scoring drought, but the Lugnuts lost at Kane County, 3-1. The Nuts entered the series having been shut out 6-0 and 6-0 by Quad Cities in the final two games of a three-game sweep – and things would get worse, as this series-opening loss set the tone for a three-game sweep at Kane County, concluding an 0-6 road trip.

May 10

· 2016: After Josh Almonte was called out at the plate to end the top of the 7th inning at Bowling Green, Lugnuts manager John Schneider was ejected by home plate umpire Jose Matamoros. Schneider took his time leaving, walking across the field to the clubhouse, located beyond the left-center field wall… and then discovered that the outfield gate was locked. He was locked in. At last, the Bowling Green bullpen in left field allowed Schneider to use their exit, and the game was able to resume. David Rodriguez homered in the bottom of the 9th to force extra innings, and Zacrey Law’s RBI single in the bottom of the 11th off Josh DeGraaf lifted the Hot Rods to a 4-3 win.

May 11

· 2017: Justin Maese tossed a nine-inning complete game, striking out seven and allowing five hits, one walk and a second-inning run on 103 pitches (69 for strikes) in a 4-1 victory at Kane County. It was Maese’s second complete game of the year (following a six-inning effort in April) and the Lugnuts’ 1,499th victory as a franchise.

May 12

· 2009: The Lugnuts started right-hander Ryan Koch (pronounced “Cook”) against South Bend right-hander Ryan Cook (pronounced “Cook”). Johermyn Chavez and Brian Van Kirk hit back-to-back solo home runs in the 7th, but those were the only runs allowed by Cook in a 6-2 Silver Hawks win at The Cove.

· 2010: Evan Crawford, used primarily as a reliever, was excellent in eight innings, allowing four hits and one run, and the Lugnuts defeated West Michigan, 7-1, in two hours and eight minutes at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2012: Kevin Pillar, batting sixth in the order, tied both the Midwest League and the Lugnuts franchise records, going 6-for-6 with a ninth-inning grand slam and six RBIs in a 16-4 rout at Fifth Third Field against the Dayton Dragons. Noah Syndergaard picked up the win in relief, striking out seven Dragons in four innings.

· 2013: It was a bad day for Ben White (the self-proclaimed “Heartbeat of the Lugnuts”) and the defense, as White gave up nine runs, seven unearned, in 4 1/3 innings in a 10-0 loss at home to Great Lakes. The Nuts committed four errors to sabotage their own chances.

· 2016: 2014 1st-rounder Max Pentecost had a smashing debut, starring in his first game in 16 months: a first-pitch RBI single in the first inning, an oppo solo home run

May 13

· 2010: The Lugnuts and Bowling Green Hot Rods played 13 innings at Bowling Green Ballpark before Balbino Fuenmayor’s sacrifice fly gave the Nuts a 5-4 win. (13 innings on the 13th? No, it wasn’t a Friday the 13th – it was a Thursday the 13th.) The game took four hours and one minute.

· 2011: The 2011 Lugnuts were a team loaded with dramatic comebacks, perhaps never more so than the Lugs’ finish in mid-May against Great Lakes. The game was suspended from May 13 due to rain in the third inning, so… to be continued!

· 2015: Rowdy Tellez hit three doubles and a two-run homer, going 4-for-5 to power the Lugnuts to a 6-4 win at South Bend.

· 2017: Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., went 0-for-4 in a 6-4 loss at Kane County, ending his 29-game on-base streak.

May 14

· 2011: …resumed after being suspended due to rain in the third inning, the Loons took a 6-3 lead to the bottom of the ninth only to see Markus Brisker line a two-run single to cut the lead to one, Gustavo Pierre steal home (in a combined double steal with Brisker) to tie the score, and Marcus Knecht line a game-winning double to left for a 7-6 win.

· 2012: With the Lugnuts leading 4-0 at Dayton in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Dragons put runners at first and second with none out. Ryan Wright attempts to lay down a sacrifice bunt, but popped it up. Catcher Carlos Perez grabbed it out of the air (one out), fired to second baseman Jon Berti to double off Juan Perez (two outs) and Berti relayed to first baseman K.C. Hobson (three outs). The Nuts won the game, 4-2, to improve to 26-11.

· 2015: It was the Jonathan Davis and Starlyn Suriel show in South Bend: Davis was 3-for-4 with a walk, four runs scored, three steals and two diving catches in the outfield, Suriel allowed one run on three hits in 6 1/3 innings of relief, and the Lugnuts won, 8-6. Davis, who batted .408 (20-for-49) and scored 13 runs in 13 games with the Lugnuts, was promoted to A-Advanced Dunedin the next day, ending the Nuts’ OF pairing of J.D Davis and D.J. Davis.

· 2018: Kevin Smith followed up a 12-for-24 road trip to Wisconsin and Beloit, earning his second MWL Player of the Week honor, with a superstar performance to beat the Dayton Dragons – delivering a game-tying solo home run in the eighth and then a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth for a 4-3 win. He finished 3-for-4, raising his batting average to .387.

May 15

· 2010: Mark Sobolewski’s three-run double in the 8th inning erased a Bowling Green 3-0 lead. Two batters later, Sean Ochinko’s RBI grounder capped a four-run rally for a 4-3 victory at Bowling Green Ballpark.

· 2018: The Lugnuts beat the Dragons in a walk-off for the second straight day, capturing their seventh straight win, 10-9, on Yeltsin Gudiño’s RBI single off Ryan Nutof in the bottom of the tenth. It was also the Lugnuts’ third straight walk-off victory over the Dragons dating back to April 27th’s series finale. The Lugnuts had blown a 9-3 lead, allowing six runs in the eighth inning.

· 2019: 19-year-old catcher Gabriel Moreno was a smash in his Lugnuts debut, homering in his first at-bat, delivering a two-run single in the fourth inning, tripling in the eighth and finishing 3-for-5, and Rafael Lantigua drew a bases-loaded, four-pitch walk in the bottom of the ninth in a 7-6 win over West Michigan.

May 16

· 2008: The Lugnuts split a doubleheader at West Michigan, losing Game 1, 6-3, before winning Game 2, 5-0, behind a three-hit CG from Randy Boone, who walked one and struck out seven.

· 2019: The Lugnuts lost their ninth straight road game, tying a franchise record, in a 9-0 rain-shortened loss to Fort Wayne. 19-year-old TinCaps starter Joey Cantillo faced the minimum in six innings, striking out six, and allowing one runner: a Rafael Lantigua second-inning single that was wiped out one pitch later by a caught stealing. Infielder Nick Podkul went 0-for-2, ending his Midwest League best 24-game on-base streak. The game was halted two pitches into the seventh inning by rain.

May 17

· 2009: The Lugnuts and Dragons went to the 12th inning in a scoreless tie, but Dayton snapped the deadlock with three runs against Jonas Cuotto for a 3-0 win. The game was played in three hours and 19 minutes. (This was a bad year for the Lugnuts in extra innings: They went 1-14, losing their first 12 extra-inning games of the year.)

· 2012: The Nuts topped Fort Wayne, 5-1, at Cooley Law School Stadium, thanks to four hitless innings from starter Noah Syndergaard (striking out three) followed by four innings of two-hit, one-run ball from Anthony DeSclafani (striking out eight).

· 2018: The Lugnuts extended their winning streak to nine with their second four-game home sweep of the year against the Dayton Dragons, 4-1, at Cooley Law School Stadium. The game was played in two hours and 12 minutes. Turner Larkins led the way with six scoreless innings, striking out seven. The Dragons’ only run came with two outs in the ninth on a Stuart Fairchild RBI single off Brody Rodning.

· 2019: The Lugnuts lost a franchise record tenth straight road game, 3-2 at Fort Wayne, after Cobi Johnson allowed three first-inning runs, including a Justin Lopez two-run homer. Sam Keating struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings, with Henry Henry recording his second save with two scoreless innings of relief.

May 18

· 2013: DH Kevin Patterson drove in six runs with a three-run double in the 1st and a three-run homer in the 7th, driving the Lugnuts to a 9-2 home win over Great Lakes. Daniel Norris struck out seven batters in four innings in a no-decision, allowing one run.

· 2014: In a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, Dayton Dragons reliever Evan Mitchell attempted to complete an intentional walk to Jorge Saez with runners at first and third, but catcher Brandon Dailey’s passed ball on Ball 4 brought Justin Atkinson in from third with the winning run in a 4-3 Lugnuts win.

· 2016: Jon Harris struck out 11 in seven scoreless innings and Ryan Hissey delivered a pinch-hit RBI single in the 10th for a 1-0 victory at Fort Wayne. Harris lowered his ERA to 1.05 and extended his scoreless streak to 21 consecutive innings.

· 2017: The Lugnuts win their 1500th game all-time, winning 5-1 at South Bend’s Four Winds Field. Patrick Murphy carried a perfect game bid into the sixth inning, outdueling top prospect Dylan Cease. The Lugnuts had lost five straight games before finally reaching the milestone.

· 2019: Josh Winckowski scattered 10 hits in seven innings and the Lugnuts snapped a franchise record 10-game road losing streak, 7-1, at Fort Wayne. The TinCaps came up with two hits apiece in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, but went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position.

· 2023: Jake Garland delivers a stunning debut, coming up from Stockton to strike out 10 Lake County Captains in seven innings while allowing one run on two hits in a 5-2 Lugnuts win.

May 19

· 2012: Lake County out-hit the Lugnuts, 10-2, but the Lugnuts beat the Captains, 2-1, at Classic Park. In the sixth inning, Kevin Pillar’s sacrifice fly and Andy Burns’s RBI double supplied all of the scoring the Lugnuts needed. The Caps left 12 runners on base and went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position.

May 20

· 2004: With all eyes on him and a Thursday night crowd of 9,823 in attendance, rehabbing Mark Prior made his first appearance since the 2003 National League Championship Series, beginning his road back to the Majors. Prior faced the minimum in three innings, striking out five and issuing one walk – to Drew Macias, who was then caught stealing by catcher Jake Fox to end the second inning. The Lugnuts defeated the Fort Wayne Wizards, 2-1, on two runs in the bottom of the ninth. Brian Dopirak tied the game with a two-out RBI double. Three batters later, Fox drew a walk-off walk to bring in Dopirak. Future Major Leaguer Carlos Marmol picked up the win, allowing one run in six innings and striking out eight.

· 2009: Mike McDade hit a game-tying three-run homer in the 8th at Clinton, and Johermyn Chavez’s RBI single in the 9th carried the Lugnuts to a come-from-behind 5-4 win.

· 2010: Ryan Tepera pitched 8 1/3 innings (6 H, 2 R, 0 BB, 6 K) and Steve Turnbull recorded the final two outs in a 3-2 win at Dayton. Brad McElroy’s tie-breaking solo home run in the 4th supplied the winning margin.

· 2012: Sanchelino! Justin Nicolino pitched four scoreless innings (2 H, 3 K), Aaron Sanchez followed with four scoreless innings (1 H, 1 BB, 5 K), and Ajay Meyer wrapped up a perfect ninth in a 2-0 Lugnuts win at Lake County. The game lasted just two hours and one minute. Nicolino lowered his ERA to 1.16 and Sanchez lowered his own ERA to 0.58. The Lugnuts had already played games with durations of 2:03, 2:04, 2:06, 2:07, 2:10, 2:11 and 2:16.

· 2016: Ryan Borucki tossed his first professional complete game, going six innings in a 6-3 Game 1 loss at Dow Diamond, before the Lugnuts took the nightcap from Great Lakes, 3-1, with starter Patrick Murphy (Borucki’s Thunder Buddy) pitching a career high three innings.

· 2017: The Lugnuts sent ten batters to the plate in a four-run first inning, knocking out South Bend starter Tyson Miller, but the Cubs responded with an 11-run third inning for an 11-7 rain-shortened six-inning victory at Four Winds Field. Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. went 3-for-3 with a walk and three RBIs (one for each hit) in the loss.

· 2019: The Lugnuts stole seven bases against Great Lakes, giving them a league high 62 steals, and rallied back from a four-run seventh inning deficit, but lost 8-7 in ten innings. Romer Cuadrado’s two-out RBI single provided the decisive blow for the Loons. In the bottom of the tenth, bonus runner Otto Lopez was called out on appeal for not properly tagging up on a Jake Brodt flyout, erasing the potential game-tying run in scoring position.

May 21

· 2008: Justin Jackson scored four runs on two hits and two walks, Kevin Ahrens went 3-for-6 with four RBIs, and the Lugnuts topped the Dragons in Dayton, 11-8. John Tolisano set the franchise record with five strikeouts in five at-bats in the victory at Fifth Third Field.

· 2011: Bowling Green scored seven runs in the 2nd inning for a 7-2 lead, but the Lugnuts rallied past the Hot Rods, 13-9, with a 20-hit attack (and going 10-for-24 with RiSP, plus 12 runners left on base). 1-2-3 hitters Markus Brisker, Carlos Perez and Kevin Nolan each collected three hits, and Nolan drove in four runs. This was the start of three straight overwhelming Lugnuts offensive performances against the Hot Rods at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2013: 3B Gustavo Pierre went 3-for-4 with 5 RBIs (a three-run double in the 3rd and a two-run double in a four-run 8th) in an 8-5 win over Lake County at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2015: The Lugnuts wrapped up a four-game home sweep of South Bend with a 17-2 rout, the most runs scored by the Nuts in a game since they plated 18 on 8-26-13 vs. Dayton. Chase De Jong threw 8 2/3 innings (5 hits, 2 runs, 5 K’s, 0 walks), one out shy of his first complete game. The Nuts broke the game open with eight runs against MSU Spartan David Garner in the sixth inning. The Lugnuts had eight extra-base hits, seven of them doubles.

· 2018: With the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the seventh inning, right fielder Chavez Young turned into Superman, laying out in the deep right-center gap to rob Jhonny Bethencourt and send the Lugnuts onward to a 2-1 victory over the South Bend Cubs at Four Winds Field.

May 22

· 2011: The Lugnuts’ hitting spree against the Hot Rods continued with a 13-hit 14-1 victory in two hours and 15 minutes at Cooley Law School Stadium. Lance Durham, Marcus Knecht, Markus Brisker and K.C. Hobson all homered for the Nuts.

· 2018: Kyle Weatherly dubiously tied the Midwest League record, committing three balks in the bottom of the seventh inning in a 9-1 loss at the South Bend Cubs.

May 23

· 2010: The Lugnuts at one point trailed Great Lakes 4-0, but Lansing chipped away at the lead. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Mark Sobolewski slugged a game-tying home run off of Loons relief ace Steve Smith. An inning later, Eric Eiland lined a walk-off single against fireballer Luis Vasquez for a thrilling victory.

· 2011: 13 more hits and a 12-7 win for the Lugnuts, capping a three-game stretch against Bowling Green with 46 hits and 39 runs at Cooley Law School Stadium. Thank goodness for the offense, because the defense committed five errors (including three fielding errors by SS Gustavo Pierre), causing all seven Hot Rods runs to be unearned. Pierre now has 27 errors, and the Lugnuts have played only 43 games. The legendary Steve Hiscock gave up four runs on six hits in 1 2/3 innings of relief for Bowling Green, which went 2-for-18 with runners in scoring position.

· 2012: The Dayton Dragons had scored five runs in the eighth inning to take an 8-5 lead, but the Lugnuts struck back with four runs in the bottom of the ninth, winning 9-8 on Carlos Perez’s two-out, two-run double.

· 2013: Daniel Norris struck out 10 in four shutout innings, allowing three hits and two walks, and the host Lugnuts beat Lake County, 6-1. It was the Lugnuts’ eighth straight victory (with the streak ending the next game, May 25, at South Bend).

· 2014: An ugly one at Parkview Field: The TinCaps built a 6-1 lead with three runs in each of the first two innings, gave up four runs in the third (including an L.B. Dantzler three-run homer) to narrow the score to 6-5, and then broke the game open with a six-run bottom of the third that saw starter Matt Dermody and manager John Tamargo, Jr., get ejected after Dermody drilled Dustin Peterson purposefully, followed by a member of the TinCaps in the home dugout shouting at Dermody as he walked past on his way back to the clubhouse (the path to the clubhouse leads directly past the dugout at Parkview). Tamargo got involved, shouting back, and the two sides needed to be separated. The TinCaps went on to romp, 17-6, scoring in seven of their eight at-bats (blanked in only the sixth).

· 2016: Jon Harris struck out 11 in seven scoreless innings for the second straight start, and the Lugnuts won at Dow Diamond, 3-0. In Harris’s season debut, Opening Day on April 9 at Great Lakes, he had allowed three runs in 2/3 of an inning. In five starts since then, he had allowed one unearned run in 25 innings.

· 2018: In an hour and 56 minutes, the South Bend Cubs beat the Lugnuts, 1-0, on a Miguel Amaya leadoff home run in the bottom of the eighth at Four Winds Field. Nuts starter Zach Logue pitched eight innings, striking out four, and used only 90 pitches, 69 for strikes. The Cubs’ Brendon Little allowed three hits in seven innings, striking out five.

May 24

· 2008: Game 1 of a doubleheader in Lansing went 10 innings before John Tolisano tripled and Eric Eiland singled him in for a 1-0 win over South Bend. The Nuts completed the twinbill sweep with a 4-2 victory in Game 2.

· 2009: An hour and 46 minutes for a nine-inning game?! Yes indeed. The Lugnuts’ Henderson Alvarez (7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 4 K) and the Cedar Rapids Kernels’ Will Smith (8 IP, 5 H, 6 K) breezed right through a 1-0 Kernels victory in Cedar Rapids. The game featured zero walks and a combined seven runners left on base.

· 2010: Ryan Goins went 5-for-5 with four singles and a double, but the Lugnuts lost at home to Great Lakes, 10-7. Lugnuts pitchers gave up 12 hits and 10 walks in the loss.

· 2011: It was looking like a tight one – until the Lugnuts scored seven runs in the bottom of the 8th to beat Fort Wayne, 8-4. TinCaps ace Keyvius Sampson had allowed one run in 6 1/3 innings, but things sure changed when he exited.

· 2014: Dawel Lugo and Jason Leblebijian tripled in the 10th inning (separated by a pair of strikeouts) to lift the Lugnuts to a 4-3 win at Fort Wayne.

· 2017: With time running out due to intensifying rainstorms that progressed from an early mist in the early innings to a steady drizzle in the middle innings to utterly pouring by the end, the Lugnuts rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh to beat Lake County (who were furious that the game wasn’t called sooner), 5-4. Broadcaster Jesse Goldberg-Strassler called the game from The Outfield apartment complex and was thoroughly drenched. Justin Maese set a career high with 12 strikeouts in seven innings, his league-leading third complete game of the year (6 IP, 7 IP, 9 IP).

· 2018: Maverik Buffo struck out nine batters in six innings, but the South Bend Cubs scored three runs in the eighth to take a 4-3 lead to the ninth at Four Winds Field. Ah, but Brandon Grudzielanek slugged a two-run go-ahead double to center, keying a three-run rally, and launching the Lugnuts to a 6-4 victory.

· 2019: Will Benson homered twice, including a three-run homer that knocked out Josh Winckowski in a five-run fifth, to lift Lake County to a 7-2 victory in Lansing. Otto Lopez and Jake Brodt homered in defeat.

May 25

· 1999: Franklin German tied the Midwest League record and established a Lugnuts franchise record (since tied) with six hits in one game.

· 2009: Another outstanding Chuck Huggins appearance was wasted by the Lugnuts. Huggins struck out nine batters in four scoreless innings at Cedar Rapids, but the Lugnuts blew a 5-0 lead by giving up three runs in the 6th, one run in the 7th and an Adam Younger walk-off two-run double in the 9th for a 6-5 defeat.

· 2015: Anthony Alford tied the franchise record with four walks and scored four runs, and the Lugnuts blasted Fort Wayne, 11-5, on Memorial Day at Cooley Law School Stadium. Rowdy Tellez had four RBIs and Richard Ureña also scored four runs to back Sean Reid-Foley’s professional high five innings / seven strikeouts.

May 26

· 2010: The Lugnuts scored eight runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning and beat West Michigan, 9-5.

· 2017: Down 7-1 to Great Lakes entering the bottom of the 6th, Bo Bichette bashed a two-run homer, Christian Williams hit a three-run homer and J.B. Woodman lofted a game-tying oppo homer directly down the left field line – but it was all for naught as the Loons promptly replied with five in the 7th. Bradley Jones led off the bottom of the 7th inning with yet another home run, but the Lugnuts fell 12-8. Weirdly, the Lugnuts had hit only three home runs all month before breaking out.

· 2018: The Lugnuts were trailing the Fort Wayne TinCaps, 10-3, into the late-going, and down 10-5 going to the bottom of the 9th, but scored five runs to force extra innings, and then came back from an 11-10 deficit in the bottom of the 10th to walk off with a 12-11 win on a walk-off error on second baseman Esteury Ruiz.

May 27

· 2012: The Lugnuts opened up a three-day hitting romp against Lake County with an 18-hit barrage in a 10-1 victory at Cooley Law School Stadium. Jon Berti, Kevin Pillar, K.C. Hobson and Shane Opitz each notched three hits.

· 2014: The South Bend Silver Hawks piled up 21 hits and blew out the Lugnuts, 14-4, in South Bend.

· 2019: 19-year-old Gabriel Moreno capped a three-run come-from-behind eighth inning with a two-run homer, giving the Lugnuts a 5-4 home victory over Lake County on Memorial Day.

May 28

· 2012: The Lugnuts’ ridiculous hitting against Lake County continued with 19 more hits in a 14-7 romp over the Captains, opening with a six-run first inning, and cruising from there. Jon Berti and Kevin Pillar led the way, each going 4-for-6.

· 2013: The Lugnuts blew a 4-1 lead in the 8th and a 5-4 lead in the 10th, falling at Fort Wayne, 6-5, on a walk-off two-out two-run double by Diego Goris.

· 2016: Jon Harris’s 30 1/3 scoreless innings streak ended in the third inning, and the South Bend Cubs scored six runs in the fifth and eight in the eighth in a 17-3 victory at Four Winds Field.

· 2017: With two outs in the bottom of the 12th, Bo Bichette chopped an RBI single through the open right side of the infield, bringing in J.B. Woodman to walk off the Great Lakes Loons, 1-0, in a thriller. Patrick Murphy pitched seven scoreless innings, Jackson McClelland blanked the Loons in the eighth and ninth, and Tayler Saucedo held the visitors at bay from the 10th-12th. It was the Lugs’ second walk-off win in a four-day span.

May 29

· 2012: The Lugnuts compiled 12 hits, giving them 49 total hits in three days against Lake County. K.C. Hobson’s three-run homer was part of a five-run fourth inning, pushing the Lugnuts into a 10-7 lead, and they held on tight for a 10-9 victory over the Captains at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2015: Catcher Danny Jansen suffered a hand injury, getting called for catcher’s interference, putting him on the shelf until August 18th. In 33 games, Jansen was batting .209. Colton Turner’s three innings of relief helped the Lugnuts hold off Dayton at Fifth Third Field, 5-4. Anthony Alford led off the game with a single, going 1-for-4 to extend his on-base streak to 32 games.

· 2016: Eloy Jimenez led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run to left, and the South Bend Cubs walked off the Lugnuts, 1-0. Angel Perdomo allowed a first-inning infield single in seven innings, but the 19-year-old Jimenez crushed a 1-0 pitch from Starlyn Suriel to end the game.

· 2017: Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., blew his top, and the Lugnuts lost at home to the Loons, 5-3, on two Great Lakes runs in the ninth. Bo Bichette had tied the score at both 2-2 and 3-3 with RBI singles in the fifth and seventh innings respectively. After Keibert Ruiz and Gersel Pitre provided RBI singles for the Loons in the ninth, the Nuts put the tying runs at the corners for Vladdy, but Christian Stolo struck out the 18-year-old on the 11th pitch of an at-bat to end the game. Guerrero and his teammates argued that he had foul-tipped the pitch, which was smothered in the dirt by catcher Stevie Berman, who was then inadvertently struck in the head by Guerrero’s backswing and crumpled in a heap. The game’s final image saw the Lugnuts swarming and shouting at home plate umpire Tanner Dobson, who hurriedly made his exit, while the downed Berman received medical attention. Why did Ruiz not have to tag Guerrero on a strike-three in the dirt? Rule 6.06©: “If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing before the catcher has securely held the ball, it shall be called a strike only (not interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner shall advance on the play.”

· 2019: His 50-game suspension over, 2018 second-rounder Griffin Conine joined the Lugnuts and delivered a tie-breaking RBI single in the sixth inning for his first Midwest League hit, and Josh Winckowski posted seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts in a 3-1 victory at Dayton.

May 30

· 2008: Justin Jackson led off the bottom of the 1st inning with a double, moved to third on a John Tolisano single, and scored on a Matt Liuzza RBI groundout - and that was it for the scoring in a 1-0 Lugnuts victory over Great Lakes. The Loons collected 10 hits against Marc Rzepczynski (5 IP, 6 K) and Edgar Estanga (4 IP, 1 K) but were held off the scoreboard. The Nuts finished with only four hits, with Tolisano going 3-for-3.

· 2011: In 93-degree heat in Kentucky, the Lugnuts pounded nine extra-base hits (6 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR) among 15 total hits in an 11-7 win over the Hot Rods.

· 2012: The Lugnuts scored two runs without benefit of a hit in the top of the 9th, taking a 4-2 lead at Bowling Green – only to see Todd Glaesmann and Josh Sale hit back-to-back home runs force extra innings. In the 10th, the Lugs responded with a Kenny Wilson two-run triple, triumphing 6-4 at Bowling Green Ballpark.

· 2015: Sean Reid-Foley struck out 10 Dayton Dragons in 5 2/3 innings of one-hit ball, and the Lugnuts blanked the host Dayton Dragons, 4-0. Anthony Alford went 1-for-4 to extend his on-base streak to 33 games. The streak ended the next day.

· 2018: Ryan Noda’s first home run of the year was a dramatic go-ahead two-run tape-measure blast into the Chevy Terrace in the bottom of the eighth, and the Lugnuts beat the Lake County Captains at Cooley Law School Stadium. Teenage starter Maximo Castillo struck out nine in five innings in a no-decision.

· 2019: Griffin Conine doubled twice and homered twice, in that order, to lead the Lugnuts to a rainy 9-4 thumping of the Dragons in Dayton.

May 31

· 2011: The Chicago Cubs drafted right-hander Hayden Simpson 16th overall in 2010 out of Southern Arkansas University. Well, he was a bust, and the Lugnuts helped show why: Simpson faced seven batters, tossed two wild pitches, walked three, gave up two hits and five runs and departed quickly in a six-run 1st inning that included a Carlos Perez two-run HR and a Bryson Namba three-run HR. The Lugnuts beat the Peoria Chiefs, 8-4. Simpson was in independent ball by 2013 and out of baseball by 2014.

· 2012: In a scoreless game at Bowling Green Ballpark in the bottom of the 10th, LF Markus Brisker’s two-base fielding error put Cameron Sweitzer aboard and Brandon Berl threw away Juniel Querecuto’s sacrifice bunt, giving the Bowling Green Hot Rods a 1-0 win. Two batters, two errors, and the game’s only run.

· 2013: 16-year-old Great Lakes Loons southpaw Julio Urias, in his second professional appearance, gave up six hits and one run in 3 2/3 innings, striking out two in a no-decision. The Lugnuts won at Great Lakes, 5-3.

· 2015: Ryan McBroom went 5-for-5 with three RBIs, but Luis Gonzalez’s walk-off RBI single in the 10th gave the Dayton Dragons a 6-5 victory. Anthony Alford went 0-for-5, the first day that Alford had not reached base in a game that he had started in 2015; the 0-fer ended his on-base streak at 33 games.

· 2018: Down 5-1 going to the bottom of the ninth to the Lake County Captains, the Lugnuts forced extra innings with a four-run rally, came back from a 7-5 deficit in the tenth on a Brock Lundquist two-run homer, and then walked off on a Norberto Obeso RBI single, 8-7.

· 2019: In his third game with the Lugnuts, Griffin Conine went 3-for-4 with an RBI single, an RBI double and a triple in home debut, and the Lugnuts beat Bowling Green, 5-2. The Hot Rods had taken an immediate 2-0 lead on a Ford Proctor walk and a Wander Franco home run, but were blanked the rest of the way. Conine’s first three games with the Nuts: 8-for-13 with six extra-base hits.

1 – Carlos Zambrano (1981), Dan Lietz (1994)

2 – Matt Smith (1976), Edward Baram (1997)

3 – Steve Smyth (1978)

5 – Jeremy Affeldt (1979), Alberto García (1983), Robinson Chirinos (1984)

6 – Trystan Magnuson (1985), Josh Wells (1987)

7 – Juan Lebron (1977), Paul Franko (1984)

8 – Adam Morrissey (1981), Aaron “A.J.” Wideman (1985), Brayan Buelvas (2002)

9 – Monte Rowden (1977), Buck Coats (1982), Chase Lirette (1985), Sean Shoffit (1985), Sam Strickland (1987), Rafael Kelly (1997), Luis De Los Santos (1998)

10 – Brian Slover (1988), Patrick Murphy (1995)

11 – Travis Silver (1978), CJ Ebarb (1983), Max Schuemann (1997), Jesus Severino (1997), Troy Watson (1997), Colin Peluse (1998)

12 – Jeramy Gomer (1979), Alex Maldonado (1991), Bradley Jones (1995), Hunter Breault (1999)

13 – Boomer Collins (1989)

14 – Tony Schrager (1977)

15 – Anderson Mejía (1982), Garrett Acton (1998), Wander Guante (2000)

16 – Miguel Burgos (1995)

18 – John Corbin (1977), Cory Patton (1982), Tayler Saucedo (1993)

19 – Frank Viola III (1984), David Jacob (1995)

20 – Chi-hung Chen (1985), T.J. Schofield-Sam (2001)

21 – César Martín (1979), Marcus Knecht (1990), Kade Morris (2002)

22 – Kevin Bass (1979), Patrick McColl (1997), Michael Guldberg (1999)

24 – Kevin Hodges (1973), Jandin Thornton-Murray (1981), Juan Peralta (1983), Jordan Barrett (1995), Brett Harris (1998), Ryan Lasko (2002)

26 – Cre Finfrock (1996)

27 – Tom Robson (1993), J.C. Cárdenas (1994)

28 – Ron Witmeyer (1967), Josh Winckowski (1998)

29 – Mariano Ricciardi (1998), Caeden Trenkle (2001)

30 – Luis Silva (1995)

June 1

· 2008: For the second time in three days, the Lugnuts won 1-0. This one came at South Bend, with Trystan Magnuson tossing four scoreless innings, Chi-Hung Cheng pitching the next three, and Joe Wice and Cody Crowell handling an inning apiece to combine on a six-hitter. The only run came in the top of the 8th, thanks to a Justin Jackson two-out RBI single.

· 2010: The Cedar Rapids Kernels arrived in Lansing with a certain Mr. Mike Trout playing CF and batting leadoff. Trout went 2-for-4 with a home run and two steals as the Kernels beat the Nuts, 5-4. The game was tense till the end, with Ryan Goins hitting a three-run double in the bottom of the 9th to draw the Lugnuts within one run. Following an intentional walk to Brad McElroy, Sean Ochinko reached on an error by SS Jon Karcich. Goins wheeled around third base and attempted to score, but was thrown out at the plate to end the game.

· 2017: A day off for the league’s leading hitter, Bo Bichette, but the Nuts’ offense still flew high. Trailing 6-1 at Lake County after four innings, they scored four in the 5th and eighth in the 6th on their way to a 21-hit 15-9 win over the Captains. Every batter reached base at least twice, and Edward Olivares and Christian Williams each homered.

June 2

· 2010: Mike Trout went 4-for-5 and threw out A.J. Jimenez at home, but the Lugnuts still beat Trout and the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 8-6, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2012: A rare poor appearance for Noah Syndergaard, who gave up six runs in 2/3 of an inning, part of a seven-run 5th for the South Bend Silver Hawks at Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium in an 11-1 South Bend win.

· 2019: The Lugnuts were silenced by two first-rounders on Sunday, with Shane Baz striking out seven in five shutout innings in a Bowling Green Hot Rods 7-0 victory (resumed from the previous night’s suspension in the middle of the first due to rain; Sean Wymer pitched that top of the first inning and allowed a Wander Franco homer – so he took the hard-luck loss), and Matthew Liberatore fired six innings, striking out five and allowing only Reggie Pruitt’s steal of home in the sixth inning in a 4-1 Bowling Green win.

June 3

· 2006: The Lugnuts won a 17-inning marathon for the second time in 2006, pulling out a 5-3 victory at the South Bend Silver Hawks. The score was tied at 2-2 through seven innings, with both teams scoring a run in the 15th. Nuts manager Ken Joyce was ejected in the 11th and center fielder Luke Hetherington was ejected in the 17th. The game took four hours and 36 minutes to complete, decided by a two-out, two-run triple from Jacob Butler.

· 2010: Oh, this was ugly. The Lugnuts committed five errors and lost to Cedar Rapids, 11-5. Starter Dave Sever gave up nine runs in two innings plus three batters, but only one of the runs was earned. A ninth unearned run came in against reliever Scott Gracey. Meanwhile, Mike Trout went 1-for-4 to lower his batting average to .373, scored three runs and stole his 29th base; Jean Segura went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBIs; and Kernels reliever Tyler Kehrer walked nine batters in just 2 1/3 innings, walking the first four batters he faced in the 6th, two of the first three in the 7th, and then three of the first four in the 8th before he was pulled from the game. He faced 17 total batters and walked nine of them. He also struck out four and gave up one hit and three runs. Kehrer was the 48th overall selection in the 2009 draft. He spent 2010 and 2011 with Cedar Rapids and 2012 with Inland Empire before he was out of baseball for good. In his career, he walked 166 and struck out 257 in 257 1/3 innings.

· 2012: The Lugnuts recovered from blowing a 6-1 lead in the bottom of the 9th to score three runs in the 10th for a 9-6 win at South Bend. K.C. Hobson hit a two-out, two-run single to key the rally, with Kevin Pillar scoring the third run when he collided with catcher Roidany Aguila during a rundown and was awarded home due to obstruction. It also ended the Lugnuts’ season high three-game losing streak, pushing the Nuts’ record to 39-17.

· 2017: 19-year-old Bo Bichette went 4-for-5 with two singles, a double and a triple, to raise his batting average to .390 in a 7-3 loss at West Michigan.

June 4

· 2011: Drew Hutchison’s last three innings entering this start were scoreless. On this day, he began a stretch of four consecutive starts with six shutout innings (24 IP, 3 BB, 35 K), allowing two hits and striking out nine Burlington Bees in a 6-0 Lugnuts win at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2014: 1B Matt Dean and 3B Mitch Nay were named All-Star starters, OF Derrick Loveless was named a reserve and closer Griffin Murphy was named among the pitchers to the 50th MWL All-Star Game on June 17th at West Michigan.

· 2015: Four Lugnuts – 1B Rowdy Tellez, CF Anthony Alford, DH Ryan McBroom and P Shane Dawson – were named MWL Eastern Division All-Stars for the 51st Midwest League All-Star Game, hosted by Peoria on June 23rd. The next day, SS Richard Ureña will be named to the All-Star Team, replacing Bowling Green infielder Coty Blanchard.

· 2017: No one had found a way to score against West Michigan ace closer Jason Foley – until the Lugnuts scored three in the top of the ninth inning, including a tie-breaking Rodrigo Orozco squeeze (in Orozco’s Lugnuts debut, no less!), to beat the Whitecaps, 8-6. It was the fireballing Foley’s first blown save of the year. The game had seen the Nuts score five runs in the top of the first inning to knock out Eudis Idrogo, followed by four Whitecaps runs in the home half against Lansing starter Denis Diaz.

· 2019: The Lugnuts homered in each of the first four innings, including two Hagen Danner home runs, and Josh Winckowski fired six shutout innings in an 8-0 win at first place Great Lakes (who had entered the game averaging 5.7 runs per contest). Jake Brodt belted a two-run homer in the first inning and Griffin Conine blasted off in the third, swatting a Robinson Ortiz curve ball off the Dow Diamond video board.

June 5

· 2009: The Lugnuts and TinCaps were tied at 1-1 going to the 8th in Fort Wayne – but the Lugnuts scored four runs in the 8th (including a Justin McClanahan two-run homer) and four more in the 9th (including a Chris Emanuele two-run homer) for a 9-2 victory. CF Emanuele finished 4-for-5.

· 2019: Five Lugnuts – pitchers Cobi Johnson and Josh Winckowski, starting first baseman Jake Brodt, catcher Ryan Gold and infielder Nick Podkul – were named Midwest League Eastern Division All-Stars. In the matinee game that afternoon, Hagen Danner, Griffin Conine and Nick Podkul all homered, but the Lugnuts lost at Great Lakes, 6-5.

June 6

· 2012: An 11-inning game in two hours and 44 minutes, pre pitch clock? Sure! Kevin Patterson’s RBI single in the bottom of the 11th gave the Lugnuts a 5-4 victory over Bowling Green.

June 7

· 2008: Kevin Ahrens forced extra innings with an RBI single in the bottom of the 9th, and Manuel Rodriguez hit the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th over the right field wall for a 7-6 victory over Fort Wayne. Rodriguez finished the game 3-for-5

· 2014: Five Lugnuts errors (LF Derrick Loveless 2, 3B Mitch Nay 2, 2B Jason Leblebijian 1) led to eight Great Lakes Loons unearned runs in a 12-10 Loons 11-inning win in Lansing. Each team collected 17 hits in the game.

· 2016: 1B Juan Kelly, OF Andrew Guillotte and P Jon Harris, Dusty Isaacs and Angel Perdomo were all named Eastern Division All-Stars.

June 8

· 2013: In Game 1 of a doubleheader at West Michigan, Ben White tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out seven in a 3-0 Lugnuts win. In Game 2, spot-starter Kramer Champlin retired the first 20 Whitecaps batters. Then Devon Travis sent a chopper to shortstop, where it went under the glove of a charging Emilio Guerrero. The official scorer ruled it a single rather than an error, ending the no-hitter. Champlin then struck out Jeff Holm to end the game, his 10th strikeout of the night, finishing a 2-0 Lugnuts victory. After the game, reliever Justin Jackson cooled down the seething Champlin by asking him in a pseudo postgame interview, “Did this increase the value of your baseball card?”

· 2015: D.J. Davis tied Ryan Gripp’s franchise record with eight RBIs, thanks to a three-run double in the 3rd, a grand slam in the 5th, and an RBI double in the 6th. He finished 4-for-5 in the Lugnuts’ 12-4 win over Peoria at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2016: The Lake County Captains committed six errors but also collected 20 hits, beating the Lugnuts 14-12 at Classic Park. Seven of the Lugnuts’ 12 runs were unearned, with a four-run 1st inning and a five-run 3rd inning helped out by two-out errors from Lake County third baseman Sam Haggerty.

· 2018: Ryan Noda homered to left field and to right field, but the Lugnuts lost 4-2 to the Hot Rods at Bowling Green Ballpark.

June 9

· 2009: In Game 1 of a doubleheader at Cooley Law School Stadium, Chase Lirette twirled a seven-inning complete game in a Lugnuts 8-2 win over the West Michigan Whitecaps. Game 2 was a marathon: The Whitecaps scored three in the 1st, the Lugnuts scored three in the 2nd, and then both teams hung goose eggs until the 11th inning when Avisail Garcia’s two-run triple gave the Whitecaps a 5-3 victory. It took just three hours and three minutes to play the full 11 innings.

· 2011: Drew Hutchison (6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K) outpitched future MLB reliever Trevor Rosenthal (6 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 10 K), and the Lugnuts won at Quad Cities, 2-0, thanks to an RBI triple from Jake Marisnick and an RBI double from Marcus Knecht in the 7th inning. The game was wrapped up in two hours and 16 minutes.

· 2012: The Lugnuts scored six runs in the bottom of the 1st inning and held on tight for a 6-5 victory over Lake County. It set the tone for a series of hot starts for the Lugnuts, who scored two runs in the 1st the next day, and then six more runs in the 1st inning in the series finale, part of a three-game sweep over the Captains.

· 2013: The Lugnuts played a doubleheader at West Michigan for the second straight day. Game 1 went to extra innings before Jared Reaves walked it off with an RBI single in a 4-3 Whitecaps win. Game 2 saw the Lugnuts’ third shutout in four games, with Roberto Osuna pitching five innings, Wil Browning the final two and Kevin Patterson’s two-run homer supplying the scoring in a 2-0 victory. The Nuts only had two hits in the game, and so did the Whitecaps. It was played in one hour, 26 minutes.

· 2016: Lane Thomas homered for a third straight game and the Lugnuts built a 5-0 lead, but Martin Cervenka’s three-run double helped the Lake County Captains rally for a 6-5 victory at Classic Park.

· 2017: Bo Bichette went 0-for-3 with two walks, ending his league-leading 17-game hitting streak, in a 5-4 loss at Fort Wayne. TinCaps starter Ronald Bolaños struck out nine in five innings for the TinCaps.

June 10

· 2010: The Lugnuts won at Peoria, 7-3, thanks to catcher A.J. Jimenez going 2-for-4 with six RBIs on a two-run double in the 6th and a grand slam in a five-run 7th.

· 2012: Lake County SS Francisco Lindor enjoyed his finest game against the Lugnuts, going 3-for-5 with a caught stealing in the Nuts’ 4-1 victory in Lansing. The future MLB star finished the season hitting .266 (17-for-64) with only two extra-base hits, both doubles, against the Lugnuts, and was just 1-for-4 stealing bases.

· 2013: It was the fourth shutout out of five games played in three days between the Lugnuts and West Michigan – but this time it was the Whitecaps shutting out the Nuts, 1-0, in two hours, 10 minutes, at Fifth Third Ballpark. Jordan John’s eight shutout innings outdueled Javier Avendaño’s seven innings, with an unearned run caused by an error by SS Emilio Guerrero supplying the only scoring.

· 2015: Anthony Alford and Richard Ureña hit back-to-back home runs in the 3rd inning and the Lugnuts romped at Quad Cities, 12-5.

· 2016: It took until June 10th for the Lugnuts to finally meet the West Michigan Whitecaps, beginning the first of 11 meetings in 17 days. Cam Gibson homered for West Michigan in the seventh inning, the Whitecaps’ first home run at Fifth Third Ballpark all season, and the ‘Caps won, 11-3. Starter Ryan Borucki gave up five runs on seven hits and three walks in three innings-plus. Patrick Murphy recorded the final six outs on his 21st birthday.

· 2017: In his hyped Lugnuts debut, Yennsy Díaz pitched two scoreless innings at Fort Wayne, striking out the side in the first inning – but they taxed him 54 pitches (32 for strikes), so he left early, and the Lugnuts went on to fall 8-4.

· 2018: In one of the worst shutout losses in franchise history, the Fort Wayne TinCaps steamrolled the Lugnuts, 15-0, in a 19-hit attack on Sunday afternoon at Parkview Field. ‘Caps southpaw MacKenzie Gore, the No. 3 pick in the 2017 draft, started and pitched two scoreless innings, issuing a walk and hitting a batter.

· 2019: The Lugnuts tied a Midwest League record (set by Peoria in Lansing on May 3, 2017), plunking six Lake County Captains – three apiece by Josh Hiatt and Mike Pascoe – in a 10-4 loss at Classic Park.

June 11

· 2011: The Lugnuts drew 10 walks (three apiece by K.C. Hobson and Markus Brisker) and Hobson’s sacrifice fly in the 9th lifted them to an 8-7 win at Cedar Rapids. Carlos Pérez finished 2-for-5 with a solo HR and four RBIs.

· 2012: C Carlos Pérez went 0-for-3 with two walks, ending his 18-game home hitting streak, the longest in the Midwest League all year, as the Lugnuts beat Lake County, 7-1, thanks to six runs in the 1st inning. Starter Justin Nicolino pitched four shutout innings and struck out six. Future Major Leaguer Francisco Lindor was 2-for-5 for the Captains in the loss; Lake County had nine walks and eight hits, but stranded 14 runners.

· 2017: After five straight losses to Fort Wayne, scoring no more than four runs in any of them, J.B. Woodman’s three-run homer capped a five-run seventh and Edward Olivares broke a 5-5 tie with a home run in the eighth for a 6-5 victory at Parkview Field. The game ended when, with tying and winning runs aboard, Fernando Tatis, Jr., attempted to move up on a bounced slider by Connor Eller and was easily thrown out at second base by catcher Ryan Hissey.

· 2018: The Lugnuts clinched a ticket to the postseason, their 14th in 23 years as a franchise, with a 4-2 victory at the Fort Wayne TinCaps. Starter Colton Laws tossed five scoreless innings in the win.

· 2019: Griffin Conine dominated again, going 4-for-5 with three runs scored, a double, two home runs (including a 430-foot drive over the batter’s eye in center field in a five-run seventh inning) and five RBIs, and the Lansing Lugnuts scored nine unanswered runs to win at South Bend, 11-7. The Lugnuts improved to 5-3 on their 11-game, 10-day road trip to Great Lakes, Lake County and South Bend.

June 12

· 2009: Great Lakes SS Dee Gordon went 3-for-4 with two triples to help the Loons win at Lansing, 4-1. The game took just two hours and three minutes to play.

· 2011: Jake Marisnick went 4-for-5 with a two-run HR and 4 RBIs, Matt Nuzzo was 3-for-5 w/ 3 R and 3 RBIs, Markus Brisker was 3-for-6 and Balbino Fuenmayor was 3-for-5 in a 20-hit 12-6 victory at Cedar Rapids. The Kernels committed four errors; Lugnuts SS Gustavo Pierre committed three errors himself, giving him 36 errors for the year.

· 2012: The TinCaps defeated the Lugnuts, 1-0, in one hour and 54 minutes at Parkview Field. It was a heartbreaker for Nuts starter Jesse Hernandez (8 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 8 K), who allowed a run on a sacrifice fly in the first inning but didn’t allow his first hit until Travis Whitmore’s infield single off Hernandez’s glove leading off the bottom of the 8th.

· 2013: 1B Kevin Patterson blasted two home runs, a three-run shot in the 1st and a solo shot in the 5th, and the host Lugnuts beat South Bend, 6-2, in two hours, 18 minutes. Taylor Cole tossed seven innings, allowing two runs, walking none and striking out seven, to pick up the win.

· 2015: The Lugnuts split a doubleheader at Quad Cities, losing Game 1, 9-1, after the River Bandits scored eight runs in the bottom of the sixth, before striking back to win Game 2, 2-0, on Gunnar Heidt’s two-run single in the top of the eighth. Chase De Jong pitched seven brilliant shutout innings, striking out 10, and Jose Fernandez pitched a scoreless bottom of the eighth.

· 2016: Starlyn Suriel pitched four perfect innings of relief and Jake Thomas and Andrew Guillotte drew bases-loaded walks in the 11th inning, carrying the Lugnuts a 5-3 win at West Michigan.

June 13

· 2000: The Clinton LumberKings’ Scott Dunn fired a 7-0 perfect game, the first time that the Lugnuts were no-hit in franchise history.

· 2007: Great Lakes southpaw Clayton Kershaw, the future NL Cy Young Award winner, fired seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts, allowing four singles and two walks, and the host Loons topped the Lugnuts, 7-3.

· 2008: Kevin Ahrens supplied a two-out game-tying RBI single in the ninth and a key double in a two-run tenth, and the Lugnuts beat the host Great Lakes Loons, 3-1, to clinch a first-half playoff berth for first-year manager Clayton McCullough.

· 2014: Matt Dean’s third-inning RBI single was the Lugnuts’ only hit in a 2-1 loss to Great Lakes.

· 2015: It was the worst of times and then it was the best of times for Jesus Tinoco. Tinoco allowed four hits and three runs before he could record an out, but then struck out 10 Cedar Rapids Kernels in seven innings in the Lugnuts’ 3-1 loss at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

· 2016: In his first appearance since 2014 and his first career professional start, Jordan Romano fired a seven-inning complete game, a Game 1 victory and the Lugnuts swept the Great Lakes Loons in a doubleheader (4-1 and 11-1) at Cooley Law School Stadium. Romano struck out seven Loons while allowing only two base runners.

· 2017: Mitch Nay, a 2014 Midwest League All-Star, homered in his return to the MWL (after undergoing three knee surgeries following a staph infection) and the Lugnuts won at Fort Wayne, 9-7.

· 2019: The Lugnuts wrapped up an 11-game, 10-day road trip with a 6-5 record after a 5-1 loss in South Bend. The score was tied 1-1 entering the sixth before the Cubs took control with two runs in the sixth and two in the seventh against the Nuts’ bullpen.

June 14

· 2012: RF Chris Hawkins threw out two Fort Wayne TinCaps at home plate and 1B Kevin Patterson hit a go-ahead two-out three-run homer in the top of the 8th for a 5-4 Lugnuts win. (Patterson then homered twice more the next day at Great Lakes.)

· 2013: SS Emilio Guerrero’s three-run homer in the fifth inning beat Bowling Green, 3-1, in a game that took two hours, three minutes to play at Cooley Law School Stadium. Roberto Osuna allowed one unearned run in six innings, walking one and striking out six, to notch the win.

· 2014: 30-year-old knuckleballer Frank Viola III tossed 6 2/3 scoreless innings, scattering eight hits and two walks and striking out one in a 3-0 win at Great Lakes.

· 2018: The Lugnuts wrapped up a 13-game, 14-day road trip with a 4-3 walk-off loss at Lake County. In all, the Nuts went 5-8, losing two of three at Dayton, winning two of three at Bowling Green, splitting four with Fort Wayne, and dropping the last three in a sweep to the Captains.

· 2019: In the bottom of the eighth inning, the Lugnuts rallied for two runs on a DJ Neal RBI double and a Gabriel Moreno sacrifice fly to beat Bowling Green, 3-2. The Lugnuts’ win, as it turned out, denied the third-place Hot Rods from making the playoffs in the first half. Bowling Green then clinched a second-half playoff berth, denying the Lugnuts from making the post-season. The winning pitcher was 19-year-old lefty Naswell Paulino, who pitched a scoreless eighth in his only appearance of the year with the Lugnuts.

June 15

· 2008: The Lugnuts scored 11 runs in the eighth inning, demolishing the Great Lakes Loons, 18-6, to clinch the first-half Eastern Division title on the last day of the half. The Nuts tied a franchise record with five home runs (Matt Liuzza 2, John Tolisano, Mike McDade, Moises Sierra); Eric Eiland set the franchise record with five runs scored (going 3-for-3 with three singles, three walks and two steals); John Tolisano and Matt Liuzza each drove in five runs; and Liuzza and Raul Barron each collected four of the Nuts’ 22 hits.

· 2011: It was a pretty poor game for the Lugnuts’ 1-2-3-4 hitters, Markus Brisker (0-4, 2 K), Matt Nuzzo (0-4, 3 K), Jake Marisnick (0-4, 2 K) and Marcus Knecht (0-4, 3 K), combining for 0-for-16 with 10 strikeouts in a 5-2 loss at home to South Bend. Starter Sean Nolin pitched six innings of one-hit shutout ball, striking out seven, in a no-decision.

· 2016: The Great Lakes Loons came one out from throwing their first no-hitter in franchise history, but Wes Helsabeck plunked John La Prise, Josh Almonte singled to center, and J.C. Cardenas, batting from the right side, hit a three-run homer. The Loons completed a 6-3 victory in Game 2 of a doubleheader at Cooley Law School Stadium. Cardenas had hit a three-run homer from the left side in Game 1, a 10-1 rout of Great Lakes.

· 2019: In front of 7,711 on Star Wars night, it was a Solo story: One run for the Lugnuts in a 7-1 loss to Matthew Liberatore (seven shutout innings, nine strikeouts) and Bowling Green.

June 16

· 2015: Jason Leblebijian homered twice and Richard Ureña and Chris Carlson homered once apiece, as the Lugnuts destroyed Bowling Green, 13-3, at Cooley Law School Stadium. With five games left in the first half, the Lugs broke a first-place tie and took a one-game lead on the Hot Rods. Anthony Alford went 4-for-5 with a double and a triple, and Starlyn Suriel pitched six shutout innings.

· 2017: Bo Bichette singled, doubled, homered and singled. Then he singled, doubled, struck out and singled again. Eight at-bats, seven hits, five runs batted in, all in a doubleheader’s worth of excitement at South Bend, swept by the Lugnuts 8-5 and 6-1. In the process, Bichette brought his batting average up to an even .400. Game 1 included a wacky five-run sixth inning that brought the Nuts from 5-3 down, taking the lead on a fluke Nick Sinay RBI single – Sinay did not swing the bat, but Jared Cheek’s fastball smacked off the knob and rebounded into play, bringing in Christian Williams with the tie-breaking run.

June 17

· 1997: The Lugnuts hosted the Midwest League All-Star Game, won by the East 6-5 over the West before an All-Star Game league-record crowd of 10,060. The event included a “Stars of Yesterday” old-timers game involving Bob Feller, Fergie Jenkins, Gates Brown, Willie Horton, and Mickey Lolich.

· 2003: The Lugnuts’ Keith Butler stars in the Midwest League All-Star Game, going 3-for-3 with a walk-off RBI single to lift the East over the West, 5-4.

· 2009: Johermyn Chavez (2-for-4, BB, 6 RBIs) launched a grand slam in the 4th inning off the Dayton Dragons’ videoboard, precipitating multiple beanballs and ejections in a Lugnuts 12-7 victory at Fith Third Field. Dayton starter J.C. Sulbaran was thrown out for hitting Chavez in the 5th inning, Dayton reliever Andrew Bowman was tossed for hitting Justin McClanahan in the 6th, Lugnuts starter John Anderson was ejected after drilling Dayton’s Kyle Day in the 6th, and both teams’ managers, Clayton McCullough (LAN) and Todd Benzinger (DAY) were ejected before the start of the 7th.

· 2011: Both the Lugnuts and Dayton Dragons hammered out 18 hits, but Dayton proved victorious in a 15-11 slugfest at Fifth Third Field. The game featured six home runs, two by Lansing (Kevin Nolan’s 3-R HR and Marcus Knecht’s solo HR, going back-to-back in the 4th).

· 2012: The Nuts capped off the most dominant half in team history, finishing with a 47-22 first-half record thanks to a 9-2 cakewalk at Great Lakes. Loons starter Jarret Martin, infamous already for his three throwing errors on Opening Day, walked six batters in 2 1/3 innings and gave up one hit – a Kevin Pillar grand slam in a six-run third inning.

· 2015: The Lugnuts expanded their lead to two games over Bowling Green for the division title with four games remaining in the half, thanks to a two-run single from Jason Leblebijian off Enderson Franco and a two-run double from Tim Locastro off future Major Leaguer Hunter Wood in the bottom of the sixth inning, giving the Lugnuts a 5-3 win. The Hot Rods rallied in a rainy eighth, putting runners at first and second with no one out. Bralin Jackson singled to center, Justin Williams was thrown out at the plate (CF Anthony Alford to 1B Rowdy Tellez to C Mike Reeves) and the umpires immediately called for the tarp. After a one-hour, 38-minute delay, the game was called, giving the Lugnuts the victory.

· 2016: The Lugnuts activated first-base coach / bench coach Alex Maldonado as an infielder on the roster. Maldonado played in three games, going 1-for-8.

· 2017: The West Michigan Whitecaps set a Midwest League record with 11 doubles and tied a franchise record with 25 hits, demolishing the Lugnuts, 15-8, at Cooley Law School Stadium – a result that eliminated the Lugnuts from playoff contention.

· 2018: The Lugnuts finished the first half with a 43-27 record thanks to an 8-4 win over the South Bend Cubs at Cooley Law School Stadium, completing a three-game sweep – the Lugnuts’ fifth sweep of the first half. Ryan Noda lashed his eighth home run in 14 games, driving in 21 runs in that span and raising his batting average from .195 to .253.

June 18

· 2002: The Lugnuts hosted their third Midwest League All-Star Game, setting a new league record with a crowd of 10,334. The East defeated the West, 6-3. The game includes future Major League stars Joe Mauer and Edwin Encarnacion.

· 2011: Jesse Litsch rehabbed for the Lugnuts on assignment from Toronto, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits and a walk in two innings, striking out three, in an 8-4 Lugs win at Dayton. RF Michael Crouse had an unusual game, going 2-for-2 with a single, double, three walks, three RBIs… and twice picked off first base.

· 2013: CF Dalton Pompey’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Eastern Division All-Stars to a 6-5 walk-off win over the West in the MWL All-Star Game in Dayton. 2B Christian Lopes and 3B Gustavo Pierre started the game for the Lugnuts (with future MLBers 2B Devon Travis and 3B Brandon Drury replacing them as reserves). Wil Browning (0.1 IP, 0 R) also represented the Lugnuts. If Pompey had not come through, the game would have ended in a tie. The West had scored three runs in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 5-5.

· 2015: Chase De Jong’s first career complete game outdueled Bowling Green ace Brent Honeywell, and the Lugnuts punched a playoff ticket by completing a three-game sweep of the Hot Rods at Cooley Law School Stadium with a 3-1 victory. De Jong’s line: 9 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 10 K’s.

· 2016: How’s this for a wild start? The first three Lugnuts of the bottom of the 1st inning, Andrew Guillotte, Jake Thomas and Max Pentecost, each singled to load the bases against West Michigan starter Sandy Baez. Juan Kelly then tripled into the Lugnuts’ RF bullpen, scoring himself when Jose Azocar’s throw toward third sailed down the left field line. Five batters later, Ryan Metzler supplied a two-run triple, capping a six-run first inning. The Lugnuts won, 7-6, holding on despite a four-run Whitecaps ninth inning.

· 2017: Happy Father’s Day! Vladimir Guerrero, Sr., made a surprise appearance to throw out the first pitch to Vladdy Jr – and then the West Michigan Whitecaps won, 10-1, to finish off the first half. Bo Bichette went 0-for-2 before leaving the game, giving him a .396 batting average in the first half. Guerrero was 0-for-4 with a strikeout, dropping his average to .321.

June 19

· 2008: The bad: Luis Perez balked twice. The good: He struck out nine batters in seven shutout innings, allowing four hits and one walk, and the Lugnuts blanked Fort Wayne, 4-0, in front of 7,423 at Oldsmobile Park.

· 2011: The Lugnuts owned the Eastern Division for the majority of the first half... but late struggles dropped the team into third place. On the final day of the first half, Lansing needed both a win at Dayton and a Great Lakes loss to Fort Wayne in order to make the playoffs. Jake Marisnick set the tone immediately at Fifth Third Field, leading off the game with a home run, and Drew Hutchison extended his shutout streak to 27 innings with six scoreless frames in a dominant 8-2 victory. Meanwhile, the TinCaps upset the Loons, vaulting the Lugnuts into the playoffs.

· 2012: At the Midwest League All-Star Game, The East All-Stars scored five runs in the 1st and eight runs in the 2nd, racing onward to an 18-2 win over the West at Cedar Rapids. The Lugnuts were represented in game action by starting CF Kevin Pillar, reserve RF Chris Hawkins, and pitchers Noah Syndergaard and Ajay Meyer.

· 2016: Ryan Hissey’s game-winning RBI double in the bottom of the 11th ended the first half with a 5-4 Father’s Day victory over the West Michigan Whitecaps. The win also ensured that Whitecaps lost out on home-field advantage to the South Bend Cubs in the playoffs, denying West Michigan the division title. The Whitecaps had rallied twice, tying the score at 3-3 in the eighth on a Will Maddox two-run homer, and then at 4-4 in the ninth on a Cam Gibson two-out RBI single.

· 2018: The Lugnuts hosted their fourth Midwest League All-Star Game, drawing 9,396. In the pre-game Home Run Derby, Bowling Green Hot Rods catcher Ronaldo Hernandez put on an impressive power display to capture the title. Then the Eastern Division beat the West, 3-2, in ten innings, thanks to a two-out game-winning RBI single from Dayton Dragons first baseman Montrell Marshall, driving in teammate Stuart Fairchild from second base.

June 20

· 1997: José Amado changed dugouts, going from Seattle-affiliated Wisconsin to Kansas City-affiliated Lansing, as the Mariners acquired Rusty Meacham from the Royals. Amado immediately became the Lugnuts’ starting third baseman and a key part of the offense.

· 2010: The Lake County Captains (the eventual league champions) clinched the Eastern Division title on the final day of the first half, thanks to SS Casey Frawley’s walk-off home run off Brian Slover, 3-2. Weird Lugnuts stat: The Nuts collected nine hits and one walk, plus Lake County committed an error, yet they only had two at-bats with runners in scoring position all game. (They went 2-for-2.) Three Lugnuts runners were caught stealing.

· 2015: A triple play! Also: The Lugnuts clinched their first division title since 2012, beating the Great Lakes Loons, 8-2, on a Saturday night at Cooley Law School Stadium. In the second inning, the Loons had Kelvin Ramos at second base and Alex Verdugo at first base with none out. Jimmy Allen sent a line drive to shortstop Richard Ureña, who dropped it – allowed by the umpiring crew – and then tagged out Ramos (one out), stepped on second to force out Verdugo (two outs) and threw to first to retire Allen (three outs).

June 21

· 2008: With a crowd of 10,113 at Olds Park, Matt Liuzza went 3-for-3 with a walk, a three-run homer in the 1st inning and four RBIs, and the Lugnuts beat the Fort Wayne Wizards, 5-3.

· 2009: Luis Fernandez only hit three home runs in his Minor League career, two with the Lugnuts. One was on this day at Great Lakes, a 5th-inning grand slam that helped the Lugnuts build a 9-2 lead – and hold on tight! The Loons scored one in the home 5th, four in the 7th, and one in the 9th before falling, 9-8.

· 2013: The Lugnuts were no-hit for the second time this season (and there’s still one more no-hitter to go before the year ends, unfortunately), falling 14-1 at Bowling Green. The Nuts’ only run was scored on a third-inning fielding error by 1B Ryan Dunn. Future MLBer Blake Snell pitched the first three innings for BG, walking five and striking out four, and three relievers took it the rest of the way. Meanwhile, the Hot Rods scored eight in the fourth, piled up 15 hits (four by Dunn) and romped. The final Hot Rods pitcher, Marcus Jensen, who pitched the last 1 1/3 innings and struck out Kevin Patterson to end the game, had no idea that he had completed a no-hitter and did not understand why he and his fellow pitchers were posing for a picture after the game. The Lugnuts scored exactly one run in each game of the three-game series at Bowling Green Ballpark in getting swept.

· 2019: In his return from the Injured List, Otto Lopez homered off the very first pitch he saw (thus extending a 23-game on-base streak), and the Lugnuts won at Dayton, 4-0, behind six scoreless innings from Troy Watson.

June 22

· 1999: Lansing hosted its second Midwest League All-Star Game, won 4-0 by the West thanks to 14 pitchers combining on a one-hit shutout. The game took just 2:09 before a crowd of 10,234.

· 2018: Ryan Noda made two diving catches in right field, and hit a two-run homer and a tie-breaking three-run double in a four-run eighth, pushing the Lugnuts to a 7-4 victory over the Great Lakes Loons at Cooley Law School Stadium.

June 23

· 2016: In the opening game of the second half, Ryan Borucki struck out eight in eight innings, and the Lugnuts beat the West Michigan Whitecaps, 5-1, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

June 24

· 2011: The Lugnuts opened up the second half with a walk-off, tying the Great Lakes Loons in the eighth on Matt Nuzzo’s RBI double and K.C. Hobson’s RBI single, and then winning it in the 11th on Hobson’s two-run homer, 6-4. It was just Hobson’s second home run of the year.

· 2012: The wild Great Lakes Loons issued seven consecutive two-out walks in the top of the fifth inning, leading to nine Lugnuts runs in the frame. Jose Dominguez gave out the first four, walking in two runs, followed by three straight walks from Juan Rodriguez. Rodriguez walked two more batters in the sixth, as the Nuts drew 10 total walks in all on their way to a 13-6 victory.

June 25

· 2009: With two outs in the bottom of the 8th, Mark Sobolewski doubled and Jon Talley singled him in to break a 5-5 tie, and the Lugnuts beat Dayton, 6-5, in front of 7,812 at Oldsmobile Park in the first game of the second half.

· 2010: Trailing 4-2 to the Dayton Dragons entering the ninth inning, the Lugnuts used RBI singles from Kenny Wilson and Ryan Goins to tie the score. Dayton recaptured the lead at 6-4 in the 11th inning, but this time it was little-used catcher Karim Turkamani who played the hero, dumping a broken-bat game-winning single into left field to cap a three-run rally and set off a jubilant celebration in front of a crowd of 7,916 on the first day of the second half.

· 2011: Matt Nuzzo drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th, and the Lugnuts walked off the Great Lakes Loons for a second straight night to open the second half, 3-2.

· 2015: Lugnuts All-Stars Anthony Alford, Rowdy Tellez and Chase De Jong were promoted to A-Adv. Dunedin. Alford was leading the league with 49 runs scored in 50 games, Tellez was leading the league with 49 RBIs and tied for second with 80 hits in 68 games, and De Jong was leading the league with 86 1/3 innings and tied for the league lead with 77 strikeouts.

· 2016: Tayler Saucedo had allowed 14 hits and eight runs in five innings in his previous start against West Michigan. He was much better here, needing 109 pitches for a nine-hit, two-walk, complete-game shutout, 6-0, over the Whitecaps at Cooley Law School Stadium.

June 26

· 2014: Trailing 6-5 to West Michigan with two outs and no one on in the bottom of the 9th, David Harris singled to left-center, Chaz Frank tripled him in to tie the game, and Zac Reininger tossed a wild pitch to give the Lugnuts a 7-6 walk-off win. It was Reininger’s first wild pitch of the year.

· 2016: The first seven Lugnuts batters in the bottom of the eighth inning all reached base and scored, helping the Lugnuts complete a four-game sweep of the West Michigan Whitecaps, 12-9, to open the second half. The game ended with a 5-3-6 double play.

· 2017: In his first Midwest League game, catcher Javier Hernandez lined a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth and the Lugnuts beat the Bowling Green Hot Rods, 4-3. The Hot Rods had erased a 3-0 deficit on a Josh Lowe three-run homer in the eighth.

June 27

· 2010: Lugnuts starter Ryan Shopshire brought a 4-0 lead over Dayton to the 9th at Cooley Law School Stadium, looking for a CG shutout. After two hit-by-pitches and a single loaded the bases with one out, Shopshire struck out Josh Garton… and then gave up a two-out game-tying grand slam to Cameron Satterwhite! Noooo! Shopshire was taken out, having pitched 8 2/3 innings to a no-decision. In the bottom of the 11th, though, Mike Konstanty walked Chris Hopkins with the bases loaded to force in the winning run, giving the Lugnuts a 5-4 victory.

· 2012: It looked like the Lugnuts had a 2-1 win sewn up in Fort Wayne. Two outs, no one on, Ajay Meyer on the mound… but Austin Hedges tied the game with a homer, Duanel Jones walked, Meyer balked him to second, and Kyle Gaedele singled him in for a 3-2 TinCaps walkoff.

· 2014: After Brad Allen allowed three runs at Great Lakes in the first inning, the Lugnuts scrapped back with solo tallies in the 2nd (Derrick Loveless HR), 5th and 8th (D.J. Davis HR) to force extra innings, where David Harris’s two-run HR in a three-run 11th inning lifted the Nuts to a 6-4 win. Four Lugnuts relievers combined to allow only one run in nine innings – a solo HR served up by Griffin Murphy in the bottom of the 11th.

· 2015: Tim Locastro hit his second inside-the-park home run of the season, a solo shot down the third-base line in the third inning (aided by LF Ross Kivett slipping), and Shane Dawson struck out nine West Michigan Whitecaps in 7 2/3 innings in a 5-1 win on Saturday night at Cooley Law School Stadium. Locastro was also hit by a pitch for the 20th time, tying the franchise single-season record. He broke the record the next day (though it has since been surpassed by Nick “Ball Magnet” Sinay’s 39 HBPs in 2017).

June 28

· 2017: Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., hit back-to-back home runs off Bowling Green reliever Joe Serrapica in the bottom of the seventh, but the Lugnuts fell to the Hot Rods, 10-6. Bichette finished 3-for-5 to raise his batting average to .402, reaching 102 hits for the year.

· 2019: Hagen Danner notched his second two-HR game of the year, Griffin Conine swatted a two-run shot, and the host Lugnuts beat Lake County, 9-4. Danner knocked solo home runs down the left-field line in the third inning and down the right-field line in the fourth inning, erasing an early 2-0 deficit.

June 29

· 2007: The Lugnuts faced the Great Lakes Loons’ Clayton Kershaw for the second and final time, torching him for six runs (five earned) on six hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings and handing him the defeat in a 15-7 Lugnuts win at Dow Diamond. The Nuts scored three runs in the 2nd and three more in the 5th vs. Kershaw, who did strike out seven, before blowing the game open with four-run rallies in the 8th and 9th. The Loons scored six runs in the bottom of the 9th to make the game a bit closer.

· 2018: Maverik Buffo became the first Midwest League pitcher and the second MiLB pitcher to reach nine wins, tossing seven scoreless innings, and the Lugnuts continued the Great Lakes Loons’ misery with 3-1 victory at Dow Diamond. It was the Lugnuts’ 11th win in their last 12 games, opening the second half with an 8-1 record, while the Loons lost their 13th straight game and their ninth straight to open the second half.

· 2019: On Backyard Baseball Night II, the Lansing Mighty Wombats built a 3-0 lead against Bowling Green ace Shane Baz behind a Griffin Conine two-run homer in the first inning and a DJ Neal RBI single in the second inning, and Troy Miller pitched 6 1/3 innings – only to see Juan Nuñez allow a game-tying two-run homer in the seventh and a Jonathan Aranda RBI single in the eighth in a 4-3 loss.

June 30

· 2016: Pitchers Ángel Perdomo and Francisco Rios were selected to represent the Blue Jays in the MLB Futures Game on July 10th in San Diego.

· 2019: Otto Lopez went 1-for-4 with a single to extend his on-base streak to 30 games (it would end the next day) and Sean Wymer whiffed seven in 5 2/3 innings in a 3-0 loss to Alan Strong and Bowling Green at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2022: DH Jared McDonald homered in each of his first three at-bats – a two-run homer in the 1st inning, a three-run homer in the 3rd inning and a two-run homer in the 5th inning – and finished 3-for-4 with a walk and a groundout, tying the Lugnuts’ single game HR record and finishing one RBI short of tying the single game RBI record in a 10-3 victory at Lake County.

1 – Aaron Sanchez (1992)

2 – Jermaine Van Buren (1980)

3 – Bret Schafer (1973), Chris Walker (1980), Josh Bell (1984), Jimmy Dougher (1985), Hansen López (2000)

4 – Jared “Boomer” Potts (1985), Matt Dermody (1990), Brandon Withers (1994), Kevin Smith (1996), Ty Tice (1996), Junior Pérez (2001)

6 – Francisco Solano (1979)

7 – Geno Encina (1994), Vinny Capra (1996), Jake Walkinshaw (1996), CJ Rodriguez (2000)

8 – Renyel Pinto (1982)

9 – Cade Griffis (1974), Jesús González (1984), Norberto Obeso (1995)

10 – Nate Frese (1977), Matt Fields (1986), Lawrence Butler (2000)

11 – Griffin Conine (1997), Cole Conn (2001)

12 – Dan Reichert (1976)

13 – Bryan Longpre (1987)

14 – Edward Campusano (1982), Tim Locastro (1992)

15 – DJ Lee (1996), Blake Beers (1998)

16 – Jason Ritter (1974), Juan Kelly (1994)

17 – Scott Steinmann (1973), Danny Core (1981)

18 – David Willis (1974)

19 – Yan Gomes (1987), Ajay Meyer (1987), Jackson McClelland (1994), Jalen Greer (2001)

20 – Jake Fox (1982), Anthony Alford (1994)

21 – Jake Thomas (1993), Javier Hernández (1996)

22 – Zach Dials (1985), Phil Pohl (1990)

23 – Richard Boring (1975), Jeremy McMullen (1980), Dallas McPherson (1980), Jackson Lowery (1992), Yorman Rodriguez (1997)

24 – Philip Walby (1992), Justin Atkinson (1993)

25 – Kevin Kouzmanoff (1981), Francisco Salas (1982), DJ Davis (1994)

26 – Aaron Lineweaver (1973), Casey McKenzie (1982), Donnie Sellers (1995), Bryan Lizardo (1997)

27 – Kacy Clemens (1994), Andy Fermín (1989), Drew Conover (2001)

28 – Matt Cross (1998), Daniel Martinez (1998), Colton Johnson (1998)

29 – Jason Gooding (1974), Brian Pettway (1983)

30 – Yesson Berroa (1982), Russell Savickas (1983), Jackson Rees (1994), Joshua Palacios (1995)

31 – Craig Sanders (1972), Steve Maas (1973)

July 1

· 2012: In a battle of aces, birthday boy Aaron Sanchez (5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K) outpitched South Bend’s Archie Bradley (3 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 5 BB, 6 K) in a 6-1 Lugnuts win at Coveleski Stadium. Sanchez improved to 7-0 with a 0.63 ERA.

· 2013: Chris Hawkins’s two-out bases-loaded grounder up the middle in the bottom of the ninth seemingly lifted the Lugnuts to walk-off victory over the Great Lakes Loons. But Santiago Nessy, the Lugnuts’ base runner at first, did not run to second base, turning around and celebrating with his teammates. The Loons executed the force play at second base, erasing the game-winning run, and then defeated the Lugnuts in ten innings, 5-4.

· 2014: The arrival of Anthony Alford! It was short – and, memorably, it came the day after 30-year-old knuckleballer Frank Viola III made his final start for the Lugnuts before getting promoted to Dunedin and eventually released – but the 19-year-old center fielder showed up for a five-game cameo beginning with a leadoff single, steal, and a run scored on a Mitch Nay RBI single in the very first inning at West Michigan. Alford finished 8-for-25 in his Lugnuts’ stint. This game finished poorly: a 12-4 West Michigan rout at Fifth Third Ballpark.

· 2017: Drama in South Bend! With two balls and two strikes on J.B. Woodman, the bases loaded, two outs, and the South Bend Cubs clinging to a 5-4 lead, Woodman injured an abdominal muscle hitting a foul ball against closer Wyatt Short and was forced to leave the game. He was replaced by pinch-hitter Bo Bichette who took Ball 3 high, fouled one off to the right, and then swung and missed a high fastball to end the game.

· 2018: Samad Taylor stole four bases in an 8-4 victory over the Great Lakes Loons at Dow Diamond, setting the single-game franchise record. The Lugnuts second baseman stole third base in the third inning, second and third base in the fifth inning, and second base in the seventh inning.

July 2

· 2009: The Nuts split a doubleheader at Great Lakes, falling 4-2 in Game 1 before winning 3-1 in Game 2 behind a complete game from Chad Beck (7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 5 K). Chris Emanuele belted a two-run homer in a three-run 7th to supply the offense and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

· 2011: Consider these numbers: The Lugnuts collected 16 hits (two singles and two doubles apiece in four-hit games from Jake Marisnick and Marcus Knecht), including seven doubles, one triple and one Michael Crouse homer, and went 5-for-16 with runners in scoring position – but lost 7-6 at Great Lakes, which collected only eight hits and went 2-for-13 with RiSP.

· 2012: Kevin Pillar hit a dramatic two-out three-run homer in the 9th to force extra innings, but South Bend beat the Lugnuts, 6-5, on a walk-off 10th-inning single by Raul Navarro off Brandon Berl.

· 2015: The Toronto Blue Jays traded Lugnuts 2B Tim Locastro (.310 in 70 games, leading the MWL with 30 SB and 21 HBPs) and former Lugnuts pitcher Chase De Jong to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for three international signing slots, allowing the Jays to sign 16-year-old Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. The Jays also promoted Sean Reid-Foley, Conner Greene and Richard Ureña to A-Adv. Dunedin, sending 20-year-old Dawel Lugo back to Lansing from Dunedin.

· 2017: Jason Heyward rehabbed for the South Bend Cubs, going 1-for-1 with a walk and an RBI single, and the Cubs beat Lugnuts, 11-4, despite a four-hit game from Joshua Palacios.

· 2019: Trailing 3-0 entering the seventh at Great Lakes, the Lugnuts rallied for a 4-3 victory on DJ Neal’s two-run ninth-inning double. It’s the Nuts’ only win all season when trailing after eight innings: 1-59. The game also featured the Lugnuts debut of 18-year-old Eric Pardinho, the Jays’ No. 4 prospect, who gave up a two-run homer to Jacob Amaya, the third batter he faced, but those were the only runs he allowed in four innings, striking out four.

July 3

· 2009: In front of a sellout crowd of 6,057 at Dow Diamond, the Loons rallied to force extra innings with two runs in the bottom of the 9th, and then walked off in the 12th on a Dee Gordon two-run homer off Dustin Antolin, 5-3. Great Lakes starter Nathan Eovaldi pitched five scoreless innings, striking out seven and allowing five hits. A.J. Jimenez had given the Lugnuts their 3-1 lead with a three-run homer in the 7th.

· 2011: With the game tied 4-4 in the bottom of the 9th, Lance Durham led off with a single and was wild-pitched to both second and third base while Bryson Namba and Jack Murphy were striking out. Garis Peña did not strike out – he singled to center field, Durham came home, and the Lugnuts walked off Lake County, 5-4, in front of a crowd of 8,788.

· 2013: The end for Roberto Osuna: 1 2/3 innings, 10 hits, 7 runs allowed at Lake County while Alex Anthopoulos watched, and then off to undergo Tommy John surgery. The Captains won, 10-5, behind 21 hits – with Logan Vick, Joseph Sever and Anthony Santander each collected four hits.

· 2014: How long would you expect a 9-8 Lugnuts win at West Michigan to take? 17 total runs, 28 total hits (13 by the Nuts), 4 walks (all drawn by the Nuts) and 3 errors… equaled just 2 hours, 49 minutes at Fifth Third Ballpark.

· 2016: Max Pentecost hit two home runs off of South Bend right-hander Adbert Alzolay, the first home runs allowed by the Cubs since June 12th, but the Nuts gave up four runs in the bottom of the eighth and lost 5-3 at Four Winds Field.

· 2017: Jason Heyward played the second straight game of an MLB rehab assignment, going 2-for-3 with two singles and a run scored, but Bo Bichette broke out of a 2-for-16 slump with a single, double and two-run homer, lifting his batting average to .392 in an 8-2 win at South Bend.

July 4

· 2009: The Lugnuts lost to South Bend, 7-3, in front of 11,160 at Oldsmobile Park. The Silver Hawks collected 17 hits, four by leadoff hitter Reynaldo Navarro.

· 2010: A crowd of 11,114 saw the Lugnuts finally beat Lake County. After losing their first eight meetings with the Captains, in their first Midwest League season after moving from the South Atlantic League, the Lugnuts triumphed in the 10th inning when a routine two-out grounder from Justin Jackson took a bad hop over the head of second baseman Argenis Martinez, bringing in the tying and game-winning runs for a wild 7-6 Lugnuts win.

· 2011: 11,423 attended the Lugnuts’ 7-4 loss to Lake County at Cooley Law School Stadium. The starter, unusually, was future Lugnuts closer Danny Barnes, making his second and last spot-start of the year and allowing four runs in 1 2/3. Lance Durham was 3-for-4 in the loss.

· 2012: With 10,512 in attendance, Gustavo Pierre hit a bases-loaded tie-breaking double as the Lugnuts scored six runs in the bottom of the 8th to beat the Great Lakes Loons, 8-4.

· 2013: With 12,692 in attendance, the visiting Lake County Captains scored four in the 4th and seven in the 5th to beat the Lugnuts, 13-0. They collected 13 hits, giving them 34 hits in two games, outscoring the Nuts 23-5 over that span.

· 2014: In front of 11,409 at Cooley Law School Stadium, the Lugnuts and Loons played scoreless ball to the 14th inning. Josmar Cordero’s RBI single off Adaric Kelly gave the Loons a 1-0 lead, but – with a backdrop of fireworks beyond the outfield wall – Jason Leblebijian tied the game with a bases-loaded RBI infield single to shortstop. The next batter was Mike Reeves, who grounded to second baseman Brandon Trinkwon. Trinkwon was caught in a moment of indecision. He elected to try to start a double play, tossing to second. Bad decision. After forcing Lebelebijian, the throw to first was nowhere near in time, and Mitch Nay scored the game-winning run. 19-year-old leadoff hitter Anthony Alford went 4-for-6, improving to 7-for-15 in his three games with the Nuts.

· 2015: 11,103 showed up to support the Lugnuts, but Dawel Lugo’s fourth-inning home run was the only offense in a 5-1 loss to Lake County.

· 2016: In front of 10,639, J.C. Cardenas’s three-run homer capped a five-run bottom of the sixth and the Lugnuts roared back from a 3-2 deficit to a 12-5 rout of the Dayton Dragons. The Lugnuts improved to 7-0 against Dayton in the season series, on their way to winning the first eight meetings before the Dragons snapped the spell.

· 2017: Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., ignited a crowd of 11,449 with back-to-back RBI doubles in the first inning, Edward Olivares hit his team-leading 13th home run, and the Lugnuts dominated the Whitecaps, 10-4. Rodrigo Orozco went 4-for-4 with a walk to aid the winning effort.

· 2018: A season high crowd of 11,302 watched Kody Clemens hit two home runs and the West Michigan Whitecaps defeated the Lugnuts, 7-3, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2019: 9,798 celebrate the 4th of July with the Lugnuts – who lost 8-1 to Great Lakes at Cooley Law School Stadium. Gabriel Moreno’s homer supplied the Nuts’ only run. The game included a 58-minute rain delay in the middle of the third inning, which caused the City of Lansing’s fireworks show to occur over the right-field wall throughout the eighth inning and into the top of the ninth.

· 2022: With 10,055 in attendance, Tyler Soderstrom belted a walk-off three-run homer to center field to launch the Lugnuts to a 7-4 victory over the Great Lakes Loons (Yes, 7-4 on 7/4!). The game was a classic: Mac Lardner struck out eight batters in six shutout innings, but the Loons tied the game with an Alex De Jesus two-run double in the seventh off Brock Whittlesey. In the bottom of the eighth, after manager Phil Pohl was ejected arguing against batter interference, Kevin Richards delivered a two-out, two-run double off new Great Lakes reliever Braydon Fisher for a 4-2 lead. But with two outs in the top of the ninth, Eddys Leonard swatted a game-tying two-run homer to left-center off Trayson Kubo, setting the stage for the bottom of the ninth. It was Soderstrom’s second walk-off home run of the year.

July 5

· 1999: Midwest League Prospect of the Year Corey Patterson became the first Lugnuts player to hit for the cycle, accomplishing the feat against the South Bend Silver Hawks.

July 6

· 2011: Casey Lawrence came one out from a CG ShO, pitching 8 2/3 innings before yielding to Bryan Longpre for the final out in an 11-0 rout of West Michigan at Cooley Law School Stadium. Bryson Namba had two singles, two walks and four runs scored; Marcus Knecht went 3-for-4 with a two-run HR; and leadoff hitter Michael Crouse was 2-for-4 with a walk, a three-run HR and five RBIs.

· 2012: The Lugnuts routed the Great Lakes Loons, 15-2, at Cooley Law School Stadium, scoring eight runs in the 1st and rolling onward. Kevin Patterson smashed a pair of three-run homers and Chris Hawkins reached base six times, drawing two walks and going 4-for-4 (two singles, a double, a triple). Aaron Sanchez struck out eight in 5 2/3 innings, allowing just one hit and one run; he improved to 8-0 with a 0.72 ERA.

· 2013: Emilio Guerrero’s two-out single in the seventh inning provided the Lugnuts’ only hit in a 1-0 loss at home to Bowling Green. Tommy Coyle’s third-inning sacrifice fly supplied the game’s only run. For the second time in less than a month, Bowling Green starter Jeff Ames held the Nuts hitless over five innings, striking out seven. (He had previously done so on June 15th, leading to a Hot Rods two-hitter.)

· 2014: A four-run sixth inning, sparked by a Matt Dean solo home run, seemed to have the Lugnuts on their way to a 4-2 win at home over Great Lakes – but the Loons scored six runs in the eighth against Brady Dragmire (three unearned because of a Dragmire error) and then four in the ninth against Adaric Kelly for a 12-4 win.

· 2017: Bo Bichette (1-for-2, 2 BB, .384) and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. (1-for-4, HR No. 7, .316), played their final game with the Lugnuts before departing, first to the MLB Futures Game in Miami during MLB All-Star Break, and then to A-Advanced Dunedin with a promotion. The Lugnuts lost at home to West Michigan, 3-2.

July 7

· 2007: Travis Snider went 5-for-5, hitting for the cycle – in reverse order, no less, beginning with a first-inning home run – in the Lugnuts’ 9-3 victory at the Fort Wayne Wizards.

· 2016: The Lugnuts overcame deficits of 6-0 and 9-3, scoring 11 unanswered runs for an electrifying 14-9 victory over the Dayton Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium, improving the Nuts’ record to 9-1 against Dayton. The Lugs scored five runs in the sixth, narrowing the Dayton lead to 9-8, and then six more runs in the eighth. 14 marked the most runs the Nuts had scored all season.

· 2019: A Copa de la Diversión Sunday at Classic Park: The Lansing Locos beat los Picantes de Lake County, 3-2, on Johnny Aiello’s two-out bases-loaded walk in the top of the ninth. Makesiondon Kelkboom supplied a sacrifice fly in the loss for los Picantes.

July 8

· 2021: Brandon Lewis forced extra innings in the bottom of the 9th with a solo home run, launching the Lugnuts and Loons into a classic at Dow Diamond. In the 11th, Michael Guldberg’s RBI single gave the Nuts a 3-2 lead, only to see Leonel Valera’s sac fly tie the game in the home half. In the 12th, however, the Nuts scored five runs, aided by a bases-loaded walk to Drew Millas and HBP to William Simoneit, going on to beat the Loons, 8-3.

· 2022: Jack Owen set down the first 14 batters, tossing six innings of one-hit baseball with seven strikeouts, and Tyler Soderstrom’s third-inning RBI double provided the only run in a 1-0 victory at home over Great Lakes. Kumar Nambiar pitched the seventh and eighth and Trayson Kubo struck out the side in the ninth, ending the game in two hours, three minutes. For his efforts, Owen was named Midwest League Pitcher of the Week.

July 9

· 2009: The Lugnuts were swept in a doubleheader at Quad Cities, 2-1 in 10 innings (2 hours, 25 minutes) and 4-3 in 11 innings (2 hours, 56 minutes): 21 combined innings on a day that was slated to feature only 14. In Game 2, Henderson Alvarez was one strike away from a complete game when DH Jon Edwards took an 0-2 pitch and crushed a game-tying two-run homer. Coupled with a 5-3 12-inning loss to South Bend in their previous game, the Lugnuts played 10 extra-innings in three contests and did not score in any of them. Oh by the way, this was the Nuts’ 10th doubleheader of the year. In 20 doubleheader games, Lansing finished 6-14.

· 2022: Frank Tanana and Steve Avery were inducted into the Michigan Baseball Hall of Fame before the 7:05 p.m. Lugnuts game with the Great Lakes Loons. In the game itself, the Loons topped the Nuts 7-3 behind seven strikeouts in six scoreless innings from Nick Nastrini.

July 10

· 2013: In one hour and 53 minutes, the Lugnuts beat Peoria, 1-0, in a two-hit shutout. Carlos Ramirez’s RBI groundout in the second inning supplies the game’s only run. Javier Avendaño tossed seven innings, striking out five, and Ian Kadish and Arik Sikula pitched a perfect inning apiece.

· 2015: 20-year-old Juan Kelly’s first hit with the Lugnuts was a tie-breaking home run off infielder-turned-emergency-pitcher Jimmy Allen in the 15th inning, and the Lugnuts beat the Great Lakes Loons, 6-5, at Dow Diamond. It was the second time in the season that the Lugnuts had won at Great Lakes in the 15th inning or later on a home run off a Loons position player pitching (Rowdy Tellez off Josmar Cordero, 16th inning, April 16th). Kelly had been 0-for-6 with three strikeouts entering the at-bat.

· 2022: Five pitchers combined to strike out 15 Great Lakes Loons in a 4-0 Sunday win, with Jake Walkinshaw whiffing nine in four scoreless innings, Brock Whittlesey fanning one in two frames, Angello Infante striking out one in 2/3, Kumar Nambiar notching two strikeouts in 1 1/3, and Trayson Kubo struck out two in the ninth.

July 12

· 2009: The Great Balbino Fuenmayor went 4-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs and light-hitting catcher Chris House hit a tie-breaking RBI double in the 8th to carry the Lugnuts to a 6-5 win at Burlington.

· 2013: In a heated, emotional evening, manager John Tamargo, Jr. was ejected in the top of the 7th inning following a controversial call at the plate that saw the Peoria Chiefs grab a 3-2 lead against the Lugnuts. With their manager back in the clubhouse, the Lugs’ first two batters were retired in the bottom of the 7th… but Emilio Guerrero drew a walk, and then Dwight Smith, Jr. cranked out a go-ahead two-run homer, launching Lansing to the 4-3 victory.

· 2015: Ryan McBroom had gone 5-for-5 at Dayton earlier in the season, on May 31st. On this day, he topped himself, going 6-for-6 to tie the franchise and Midwest League records, supplying three singles, two doubles and a home run, as well as a walk and four RBIs. But Argenis Aldazoro hit a walk-off RBI single in a three-run 13th to give the Dayton Dragons a 10-9 win at Fifth Third Field. The Dragons had previously rallied to tie the game in the 9th and 11th innings, with the Lugnuts blowing leads of 6-5, 7-6 and 9-7. In the bottom of the 9th, Paul Kronenfeld’s RBI single brought in the tying run, but LF David Harris threw out Luis Gonzalez at the plate to force extras. What a game, even in defeat!

· 2018: Chavez Young hit a grand slam to erase a 6-2 deficit, and the Lugnuts defeated the Burlington Bees at Community Field, 11-8. Bees starter Oliver Ortega threw six wild pitches (one short of the league record) and struck out nine batters in 4 1/3 innings.

· 2019: The Peoria Chiefs played as the Peoria Distillers, but that didn’t help them at all: The Lugnuts completed a three-game sweep with an 8-2 victory at Dozer Park. It was Peoria’s 12th straight loss, dropping them to 3-18 in the second half and 33-57 overall.

July 13

· 2011: The Lugnuts shut out Kane County, 4-0, in nine full innings lasting just an hour and 55 minutes at Elfstrom Stadium. Both Carlos Perez and Jake Marisnick were 3-for-4 with two runs scored and Marcus Knecht was 1-for-3 with a sac fly and three RBIs. Starter Marcus Walden allowed three hits in seven innings, whiffing five, before Shawn Griffith wrapped up the final two innings, allowing one hit and striking out one. This was the first of three straight strong starts for the Lugnuts at Kane County, followed by Sean Nolin (6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 7 K) and Andrew Liebel (6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 6 K) in a series sweep.

· 2013: Daniel Norris took the loss for allowing two unearned runs in four innings, striking out five, and his relief corps gave up nine more runs in an 11-5 defeat to Burlington. The Lugnuts committed six errors and a passed ball, rendering seven of the runs unearned.

· 2015: Ryan McBroom continued a hitting binge with hits in his first three at-bats, giving him nine straight at-bats with a hit, before it ended one AB shy of the MWL record due to a sacrifice fly. The Lugnuts were swept at Fifth Third Field, 4-3, by Dayton.

· 2018: The Lugnuts erased a 7-2 ninth-inning deficit at Burlington with five runs – but then a power surge caused by a gathering storm shut off a first-base side light tower, causing a delay in the middle of the ninth. The Bees called for assistance but were told that the problem could not be fixed. Thus, they did not cover the field when the storm arrived with brief but heavy rain. 30 minutes later, the lights were fixed (by turning them off and then back on again) and the storm had passed, but the umpires ruled that the game was over. The Lugnuts’ rally was wiped away, giving the Bees a 7-2 eight-inning victory.

July 14

· 2012: Noah Syndergaard tossed three hitless innings, striking out four, before the first of two rain delays forced him out. In the top of the ninth inning, at 12:15 a.m., with Lansing one out away from victory, the Kernels’ Matt Scioscia knocked an RBI double to left-center… and the skies opened up in a torrent of rain, causing a _third _rain delay. The Lugs never did get that last out – the game was eventually called – but they did pick up a 9-4 win over Cedar Rapids near 1 a.m. The game lasted 2 hours and 38 minutes, while the delays totaled 3 hours, 2 minutes.

· 2013: Kendall Graveman, drafted in June in the 8th round from Mississippi State, made his professional debut with two scoreless innings, walking one, in an 8-1 home loss to Burlington.

· 2016: The Lugnuts were swept in a doubleheader, 3-2 and 1-0, at Peoria. Game 2 saw the Lugnuts’ Jordan Romano and Josh DeGraaf pitch a six-inning no-hitter, the second no-hitter in franchise history, but a leadoff walk to Craig Aikin, a sacrifice bunt/DeGraaf fielding error, a fielder’s choice and an Eli Alvarez sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth gave the Chiefs the game’s only run. Romano had pitched five innings, striking out five batters, before leaving one batter into the sixth due to precautionary reasons after issuing his second walk. In Game 1, 20-year-old right-hander Sandy Alcantara brought a 2-0 Chiefs lead to the seventh, but the Lugnuts rallied for the game-tying runs on a Jake Thomas RBI groundout and a run-scoring throwing error by 3B Dylan Becker. In the bottom of the seventh, the Chiefs walked off on an unusual play: With Carlos Torres at second base, Magneuris Sierra sent a grounder to the left side of the infield. Third baseman Carl Wise initially attempted to make the play before dodging baserunner Torres. Shortstop J.C. Cardenas’s subsequent throw escaped first baseman Juan Kelly, and Torres scored the game-winning run amid Lugnut protests of interference.

· 2019: In a prospect matchup, the Lugnuts’ Eric Pardinho fired five scoreless innings, the host Cedar Rapids Kernels’ Kai-Wei Teng tossed six scoreless innings… and the Lugnuts’ Hagen Danner bashed a two-run homer in the seventh for a 2-0 win at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

July 15

· 2009: The Nuts hammered future Major Leaguer Tyler Chatwood for eight runs in the 2nd inning, including a Johermyn Chavez two-run homer, on their way to an 11-7 home win over Cedar Rapids. In the game, the Lugnuts were 8-for-14 with runners in scoring position and left only four runners on base.

· 2017: A crowd of 8,960 was in attendance on Michigan Baseball Hall of Fame Night, inducting Ty Cobb and the 1959 Hamtramck Little League champions, but Weston Wilson’s sixth-inning grand slam helped the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers win, 4-2. The Lugnuts’ only runs came in the ninth on a two-out Rodrigo Orozco two-run double.

· 2019: Griffin Conine, Johnny Aiello and Otto Lopez homered for the Lugnuts, but the Cedar Rapids Kernels hit six homers, including a Wander Javier grand slam in an eight-run fourth inning, in a 14-7 victory at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Javier added a two-run homer later in the game, helping the Lugnuts dubiously tie their franchise record for most home runs allowed in one game. The Nuts ended a nine-game, ten-day road trip with a 6-3 record.

July 16

· 2011: The Lugnuts’ finest road trip of the year was a seven-victory, nine-game, 10-day trek from Lake County, Ohio, to Kane County, Illinois, to Clinton, Iowa. You couldn’t have blamed the Lugs if they had lost their opener at the Clinton LumberKings’ Alliant Energy Field, but Carlos Perez wouldn’t let it happen. The 20-year-old catcher went 4-for-6 with four RBIs, lining a game-tying single in the ninth and a go-ahead single in the eleventh inning to lift the Lugnuts to an emotional 8-5 victory. The game featured dramatic defense, close calls, heated arguments and the ejections of the Lugs’ Jake Marisnick in the ninth and Clinton manager Eddie Menchaca in the tenth inning.

· 2017: The Lugnuts scored 14 unanswered runs from the fourth inning onward, capped by a nine-run eighth inning, to rout the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 14-2, in a Sunday matinee at Cooley Law School Stadium. Luis Silva notched both an RBI double and an RBI single in the rally.

· 2019: With the Lugnuts idle, Cooley Law School Stadium was used by the Lansing Little League’s Tigers and Knights in Ambush Baseball presented by LAFCU – the two little league teams were picked up bus (and Big Lug) and brought to the ballpark to play, with Lugnuts players Sean Rackoski, Marcus Reyes, Cre Finfrock, Gabriel Moreno and Rafael Lantigua there to greet them, present special custom jerseys and pass out sunflower seeds.

· 2022: Denzel Clarke represented the Lugnuts and Athletics organization in the All-Star Futures Game, going 0-for-1 with a walk, strikeout and tremendous catch, slamming into the right-field wall in the final inning.

July 17

· 2009: The Lugnuts matched the Cedar Rapids Kernels with solo tallies in the bottom of the 8th (a two-out RBI single by A.J. Jimenez) and bottom of the 11th (a two-out RBI single by Brian Van Kirk), but fell in the 13th inning at Oldsmobile Park, 5-2.

· 2010: The Lugnuts pitched a combined one-hitter at Beloit, winning 5-1. The Snappers’ only run came when Ryan Tepera walked in a run in the 5th inning. Tepera finished with five hitless innings, striking out five. Aaron Loup gave up a two-out single to Steven Liddle in the 6th, but that was all for the Snappers, who went down hitlessly against Loup in the 7th and against Nestor Molina in the 8th and 9th. The Snappers committed four errors, leading to four of the Nuts’ five runs being unearned. A relatively enormous crowd of 2,599 was in attendance at Pohlman Field.

· 2013: The late Victor Sanchez, a promising 18-year-old right-hander who died in a swimming accident (hit by a boat) on 3-28-15 back home in Venezuela, tossed a nine-inning no-hitter to lead Clinton to a 1-0 win over the Lugnuts at Ashford University Field. It was the third time the Lugnuts were no-hit this season. The game was finished in two hours and one minute. Nuts catcher Santiago Nessy committed three passed balls. The game’s only run was scored, however, on a one-out walk from Taylor Cole to Janelfry Zorrilla, a throwing error on a pickoff, a groundout, and a Cole wild pitch. Sanchez wrapped up the no-hitter by retiring Dwight Smith, Jr. on a popout to first. Attendance: 827.

· 2016: In his anticipated debut, 19-year-old Justin Maese hit Burlington’s Michael Hermosillo with his first pitch, walked the next batter, and gave up a two-run single to Brendon Sanger. He gave up two more runs in the 3rd inning before settling in, pitching six innings (eight hits, four runs, one walk, no strikeouts), and the Lugnuts lost 7-5 at Community Field.

· 2017: Down 3-2 to Wisconsin with two outs and the bases empty in the bottom of the 9th, Andres Sotillo doubled to left-center and Rodrigo Orozco doubled him home to force extra innings. In the 12th, Orozco reached on an infield single, stole second, and scored on a Nash Knight two-out broken-bat RBI single for a 4-3 Lugnuts win.

July 18

· 2011: The first nine Clinton batters reached base and scored against relievers Dayton Marze and Shawn Griffith in a nine-run bottom of the 7th inning, capped by a Mickey Wiswall two-run homer, bringing the LumberKings from a 5-2 deficit to an 11-5 victory.

July 19

· 2009: Brock Kjeldgaard homered amid a four-run 8th inning, and Wisconsin rallied from behind to beat the Lugnuts, 9-7, at Oldsmobile Park.

· 2012: A pair of unusual coaching ejections occurred as the Lugnuts were swept in a doubleheader at Beloit, 2-1 and 7-1. In Game 1, hitting coach / 1st base coach Kenny Graham was thumbed out in the seventh inning following Shane Opitz getting picked off. In Game 2, it was pitching coach Vince Horsman who was ejected in the sixth inning.

· 2013: This one was brutal to watch: Three hours and 40 minutes to play, with first pitch at 92 degrees, plus a 74-minute rain delay that caused starter Daniel Norris to be removed after 3 2/3 innings. Anyway, the Lugnuts still won at Clinton, 2-1.

· 2017: Oh, this wasn’t fun. Ronnie Dawson homered twice in a nine-run second inning, Josh Rojas also homered twice, and the Quad Cities River Bandits opened up a three-game home series by steamrolling the Lugnuts, 20-3, at Modern Woodmen Park. The Bandits led 15-0 after the third inning and 18-0 after the fifth. The game set Lansing’s franchise record with a 17-run margin of defeat and tied franchise records with 20 runs allowed and six home runs allowed. Rodrigo Orozco singled, walked and doubled before getting robbed by first baseman Troy Seiber on a line drive down the line, ending a streak of eight straight plate appearances reaching base.

July 20

· 2009: The Lugnuts scored five runs in both the 7th and 8th innings to blow out Wisconsin, 15-1, at Oldsmobile Park. The Nuts amassed 21 hits in the game, four each by Chris Emanuele and Mike McDade. Starter Chad Beck struck out eight batters in 6 2/3 innings, allowing one 7th-inning run (scored by future Major Leaguer/Lugnuts rehabber Brett Lawrie).

· 2011: Michael Crouse’s game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the 7th off Wisconsin reliever Stosh Wawrasek (“VAH-vray-sek”) forced extras, and Marcus Knecht’s RBI fielder’s choice in 12th won it in a walk-off, 6-5.

· 2014: Lansing’s only game-winning home run of the year capped a tremendous comeback win against the Clinton LumberKings. With two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the ninth, Chaz Frank brought in Dickie Joe Thon with an infield single, tying the game at 3-3. With two outs in the tenth, D.J. Davis stepped up and drilled his seventh home run of the season off the batter’s eye. Lugnuts 4, LumberKings 3. Drive home safely!

· 2017: Left fielder Rodrigo Orozco hit a key two-run double and then covered a remarkable distance to make an absurd game-ending diving catch into the Quad Cities bullpen (foul ground down the left-field line), giving the Lugnuts a heartstopping 3-2 win at Modern Woodmen Park. Orozco finished the game 3-for-4 with a walk after going 4-for-5 with a walk and 3-for-4 with a walk in his previous two games.

· 2019: In front of 8,577 on Tribute to Burt Reynolds Night, Evan Edwards hit a two-run homer in the tenth to lift Clinton to a 5-4 victory. The Lugnuts wore special Burt Reynolds-themed black jerseys in the loss, plus there was a mustache competition, a car similar to the Bandit, dueling banjos, and more.

July 21

· 2011: Wisconsin starter Maverick Lasker tossed four wild pitches in five innings, and the Lugnuts overcame a four-hit game from Corey Stang for a 5-4 win at Cooley Law School Stadium. The temperature at first pitch was 96 degrees.

· 2013: Leadoff hitter Dalton Pompey reached base six times, going 4-for-4 with four singles and two walks and stealing two bases (No. 2 hitter Emilio Guerrero was 0-for-6 with an astounding 11 LOB), and the Lugnuts were walked off at Kane County, 6-5, in 10 innings, on a Dan Vogelbach one-out RBI single up the middle.

· 2017: The Quad Cities River Bandits scored at least one run in the first seven innings (before Griffin Glaude needed only six pitches in a 1-2-3 eighth), beating the Lugnuts 14-3 at Modern Woodmen Park. Daz Cameron and Chuckie Robinson hit three-run homers for the Bandits, who outscored the Lugnuts 36-9 in winning two of three games in the series.

July 22

· 2009: Mike McDade hit a simply monstrous home run off Austin Bibens-Dirkx over the parking lot in Peoria out beyond right-center (estimated over 450 ft.) and the Lugnuts beat the Chiefs, 6-2, behind five shutout innings from Henderson Alvarez.

· 2017: Griffin Jax, a third-round selection from the Air Force Academy in 2016, pitched 6 2/3 innings before departing to a standing ovation on his way to reporting to active duty with the U.S. Air Force, and the host Cedar Rapids Kernels topped the Lugnuts, 12-4.

· 2022: 2021 first-rounder Max Muncy debuted with a 2-for-5 performance, delivering doubles in each of his first two at-bats, and 2020 first-rounder Tyler Soderstrom went 2-for-4 with a walk and a 444-foot home run out of the park to right-center, but the Lake County Captains built a 7-0 lead, gave up six runs, and then scored 11 unanswered to rout the Lugnuts, 18-6, in Lansing.

July 23

· 2007: It took 16 innings, 10 combined errors and 29 combined hits, but the Lugnuts finally put away the Swing of the Quad Cities, 11-10, in a franchise record five hours and 31 minutes.

· 2010: For the second straight start, Ryan Tepera and his relievers combined on a one-hitter, with only Leonardo Gil’s one-out infield single in the 5th stopping the no-hitter in a 3-0 home win over Kane County before 8,912. Tepera tossed the first five innings, followed by Scott Gracey (2 IP) and Matt Wright and Nestor Molina pitching an inning apiece, and Kevin Ahrens and Sean Ochinko each homered.

· 2014: The series opener at Peoria began as a pitcher’s duel, with a 1-1 deadlock moving to the eighth, but Lansing appeared to seize control with three runs in the eighth and ninth for a comfortable 7-2 lead for closer Phil Kish. A single here, a walk there, and a three-run Rowan Wick homer woke up the Chiefs’ offense. Four batters later, a Vaughn Bryan two-run single tied the score and forced extra innings. Undeterred, Justin Atkinson delivered a tie-breaking RBI single in the tenth, giving the Lugs a rollercoaster 8-7 victory.

· 2018: Jordan Barrett fired seven scoreless innings and the Lugnuts blanked the Cedar Rapids Kernels at Cooley Law School Stadium, for the franchise’s 1600th win. The Nuts had been stuck at 1599 wins for a little while; the victory over the Kernels stopped a nine-game losing streak.

July 24

· 2009: Future Major League standout Chris Archer held the Lugnuts to two runs in 4 2/3 innings, and the Peoria Chiefs came back from a 6-4 deficit with two runs in the 7th before Jose Made drew a bases-loaded walk in the 9th to walk off with a 7-6 win.

· 2013: Dayton southpaw Ismael Guillon whiffed seven Lugnuts, but he also gave up seven runs in the 5th inning, including a Dalton Pompey grand slam, in a 7-1 Nuts win at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2014: Trailing 2-0 to the 9th at Peoria, with Mitch Nay at first base and two outs, David Harris walked, Dickie Joe Thon drove in Nay with an RBI single, and Justin Atkinson grounded to shortstop Cesar Valera, who threw it away to bring in two more runs for a dramatic 3-2 Lugnuts win.

· 2015: The Lugnuts mashed a team record 23 hits and equaled the most lopsided win in franchise history with an 18-1 cakewalk at Cooley Law School Stadium over the Dayton Dragons. The Lugnuts came three runs shy of the most runs scored in franchise history, 21 against Burlington in June 2004. If not for Aristides Aquino’s home run in the ninth, they would have broken the franchise record for scoring margin to boot. Jason Leblebijian had five hits and six RBIs, thanks to an RBI double in the 1st, a two-run double in the 3rd and a three-run homer in the 5th. The game began memorably: Chris Carlson led off the bottom of the 1st with a line drive down the right field line that was clearly both foul and too low to be a home run, hit off the high green wall to the right of the yellow stripe, and yet it was ruled a home run by the umpiring crew. Starter Shane Dawson, the Midwest League wins leader, returned from his gold-medal-winning performance at the Pan Am Games by setting a career high with 10 strikeouts allowing two hits and no runs in six innings. He became one of three pitchers in the minors with 12 wins and is one win behind the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Gerrit Cole for the most in professional baseball.

· 2019: A brutal 82-minute eighth inning in West Michigan saw two separate delays due to light-tower failures, with the Lugnuts breaking a 1-1 tie with two runs, only to allow three runs and lose 4-3. The final, tie-breaking run came in on a controversial catcher’s interference call against Hagen Danner – which was immediately followed by the second lights-out delay.

July 25

· 2012: Holy moly, what a game. The Lugnuts blew an 8-2 lead when Bowling Green scored three in the 5th, two in the 6th, and one in the 7th. The Lugnuts took a 9-8 lead in the bottom of the 8th on a throwing error by 3B Juniel Querecuto, but the Hot Rods tallied four runs in the top of the 9th against Kramer Champlin, keyed by a Josh Sale two-run triple (followed by a run-scoring wild pitch). In the bottom of the 9th, K.C. Hobson singled, Michael Crouse singled, and Kevin Patterson hit the first pitch he received over the right field wall, tying the game at 12-12. In the 11th inning, Bowling Green took a 13-12 lead on a missed catch error by 1B Hobson, but Juniel Querecuto’s two-out throwing error on a Chris Peters grounder kept the Nuts alive and Shane Opitz followed with a game-tying RBI triple. In the 13th inning, LF Peters threw out Drew Vettleson at home to keep the game tied momentarily – but Ryan Brett’s two-run double proved the winning blow in an epic 15-13 Hot Rods victory lasting four hours and 11 minutes. The Lugnuts collected 22 hits (four apiece from Peters, Michael Crouse and Chris Hawkins).

· 2013: Matt Boyd, the Blue Jays’ 6th-round pick in June from Oregon State, made his professional debut in relief with a scoreless eighth inning, allowing two singles and striking out two, in the Lugnuts’ 8-0 loss to Dayton at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Nuts managed six singles in defeat. Daniel Norris started and tossed 3 1/3 innings, allowing five hits and six runs, striking out six.

· 2014: D.J. Davis’s second-inning single was the Lugnuts’ only hit in a 1-0 loss at Peoria. The Chiefs broke a scoreless tie on a Justin Wingo RBI single in the eighth.

· 2018: A memorable defeat at Four Winds Field: Scoreless to the seventh, before the Lugnuts plated three runs on a Chavez Young RBI single and a Norberto Obeso two-run single. Emerson Jimenez walked the bases loaded in the eighth and Austin Upshaw walloped a grand slam to push the South Bend Cubs into a 4-3 lead. In the ninth, Obeso came through again with a two-out game-tying RBI double. But in the eleventh inning, after Andrew Deramo had struck out two Cubs in a row with runners at the corners, Christian Donahue singled up the middle to bring in the game-winning run in a 5-4 Cubs victory.

July 26

· 2010: Facing the Clinton LumberKings on Summer Fun Day, Brad Glenn became the fifth Lugnut in team history, and the first since Travis Snider in 2007, to hit for the cycle, leading the way in a 9-5 victory. The Oklahoman singled in the 1st, homered in the 3rd, doubled (sun-aided) in the 5th, and snapped a 4-4 tie with a two-run triple in the 7th inning

· 2014: In four hours, three minutes, the Burlington Bees walked off the Lugnuts, 3-2, in 14 innings on an Angel Rosa two-out RBI single.

· 2018: Graham Spraker twirled seven scoreless innings en route to a 2-1 Lugnuts win at the South Bend Cubs. Combined with gems from Jordan Barrett (7 innings) and Maximo Castillo (6 innings), Lugnuts starters had worked 21 consecutive scoreless innings, a streak stretched to 23 innings by Kyle Weatherly before it ended on July 27th.

· 2019: Eric Pardinho earned his first Lugnuts win with five innings of two-hit, one-run ball, striking out six, and the Lugnuts won 9-1 at West Michigan, seizing the rubber match of a three-game series. Cobi Johnson followed Pardinho with seven strikeouts in three hitless innings and Marcus Reyes pitched a scoreless ninth, extending his consecutive scoreless streak to 19 1/3 innings. Johnny Aiello went 0-for-5 to end his on-base streak at 23 games.

· 2022: Tyler Soderstrom homered twice and drove in four runs and Jake Walkinshaw struck out seven Great Lakes Loons in five scoreless innings in a 6-0 win at Dow Diamond.

July 27

· 2009: 3B Mark Sobolewski and DH Jon Talley hit back-to-back home runs in the 7th inning and the Lugnuts steamrolled to a 10-1 win at Beloit behind a 16-hit attack. Justin McClanahan added a homer for the Lugnuts, who had every starter hit safely.

· 2014: In 15 innings on a Sunday matinee, the Lugnuts defeated Burlington, 3-2, on a Dawel Lugo RBI single. The game lasted four hours and 38 minutes, meaning that the Lugnuts and Bees played 29 innings, lasting eight hours, 41 minutes, in the first two games of their three-game series at Community Field. It was a full baseball weekend, let me tell you.

· 2018: Lugnuts relievers Brody Rodning (4 K’s) and Dany Jimenez (7 K’s) struck out 11 South Bend Cubs in six scoreless innings of relief, including six straight strikeouts from Jimenez from the seventh through the eighth innings, and Norberto Obeso and Brandon Grudzielanek homered in a 5-2 victory at Four Winds Field.

· 2019: In front of 7,544 on Oregon Trail Night, the Lugnuts lost to South Bend, 6-0. Fans arriving at the game were given Daniel Norris bearded bobbleheads, and all video graphics were changed to mimic the Oregon Trail game. The Lugnuts lost their fifth straight series opener.

· 2022: Max Muncy homered on the first pitch of the game and the Lugnuts knocked out Kendall Williams with a three-run first, but the Great Lakes Loons answered with an Eddys Leonard leadoff homer igniting a four-run first against Christian Fernandez en route to a 8-6 win.

July 28

· 2011: Through six innings in Game 1 of a doubleheader the Lugnuts had been held without a hit by West Michigan’s Kyle Ryan and trailed 4-0, three outs away from being no-hit. Then Ryan left, Nate Newman came in, Jake Marisnick led off the 7th with a single to bust up the no-no. and the offense was alive. The Lugnuts went on to score four runs, tying the game on a Garis Peña two-out two-run single. In the 8th, the Nuts scored four more runs, capped by an Oliver Dominguez two-run homer. In Game 2, the Nuts overcame an early 2-0 deficit for a 3-2 victory, completing the doubleheader sweep at Fifth Third Ballpark. The game was shortened to one out into the bottom of the 6th due to rain.

· 2013: Catcher Dan Klein committed three passed balls, tying Santiago Nessy for the most in a game this season, and the Lugnuts lost at home to Bowling Green, 7-1. Hot Rods leadoff hitter Andrew Toles went 4-for-5, but was picked off base twice.

· 2015: Nuts starter Jesus Tinoco was traded along with Jose Reyes, Jeff Hoffman and 2014 Nut Miguel Castro to the Colorado Rockies for Troy Tulowitzki and LaTroy Hawkins. Tinoco was 2-6, 3.54, 81 1/3 innings, 68 strikeouts for the Lugnuts. In the game itself, played at Lake County, the Lugnuts won a weird one – they walked 10 Lake County Captains but stranded 16 Caps on base (nine in scoring position!) en route to a 5-3 victory. Future Blue Jays pitcher Thomas Pannone started for Lake County and lasted only 1 2/3 innings, allowing five runs to the Nuts.

· 2018: Brandon Grudzielanek dropped down a bunt toward third in a tie game in the eighth and ended up circling the bases thanks to a pair of Dayton Dragons errors, gifting the Lugnuts with a 5-4 victory at Fifth Third Field. Third baseman Leandro Santana barehanded the bunt and threw wildly to first base. Lead base runner Ryan Noda attempted to score but was thrown out at the plate by right fielder Reshard Munroe. Grudzielanek went for third base, and catcher Mark Kolozsvary’s throw sailed down the left-field line, bringing Grudz in with the tie-breaking run.

· 2022: Diego Cartaya, the L.A. Dodgers’ No. 1 prospect, opened 1-for-17 with 10 strikeouts against Lugnuts pitching but broke out on this night with two-run homers in the first and the third innings against Joey Estes in a 7-2 Great Lakes Loons win at Dow Diamond.

July 29

· 2012: Trailing 10-8 to South Bend in the bottom of the 9th, the Lugnuts loaded the bases with none out. Kevin Patterson and K.C. Hobson struck out, but Kipp Schutz – a minor league free agent – came through with a three-run double to walk off the Silver Hawks, 11-10. South Bend starter Archie Bradley struck out 11 batters in 4 2/3 innings, but also gave up five hits, four walks and five runs, plus two HBPs and one balk. The game had 34 total hits (19 by South Bend) in addition to 21 total runs.

· 2013: The Lugnuts battled back from 3-0, 4-3 and 5-4 deficits at home against Bowling Green, tying the game in the 8th on a Santiago Nessy RBI double, and winning it on Chris Hawkins’s leadoff triple and Kellen Sweeney’s RBI single in the bottom of the 9th.

· 2015: The Lugnuts were down 6-1 late at Lake County, but scored two in the 7th, one in the 8th and two in the 9th to force extra innings before falling, 7-6, on Yu-Cheng Chang’s walk-off RBI single in the 10th. In the ninth inning, Lake County reliever Nick Pasquale melted down, balking in the game-tying run, tossing two wild pitches and hitting a batter before Caleb Hamrick pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for the Captains.

· 2022: Tyler Soderstrom hit his 20th and final home run with the Lugnuts, a tie-breaking shot in the top of the sixth, but José Ramos answered with a two-run homer to give the Great Lakes Loons a 4-2 victory at Dow Diamond.

July 30

· 2010: Sean Ochinko hit a game-tying RBI single in the bottom of the 7th and A.J. Jimenez hit a game-winning RBI single in the 9th, as the Lugnuts walked off Great Lakes, 6-5.

· 2015: For the second straight day, the Lugnuts rallied late, only to lose a walk-off in Lake County. Dawel Lugo and Boomer Collins hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning and David Harris led off the ninth with a home run to turn a 4-1 deficit into a 4-4 tie. But in the bottom of the ninth, CF D.J. Davis dropped a one-out fly from Yonathan Mendoza for a two-base error. Anthony Santander followed four batters later with a walk-off RBI single up the middle.

· 2016: Carlos Belen hit a game-winning RBI triple in the bottom of the 15th, and the Fort Wayne TinCaps beat the Lugnuts in a Parkview Field marathon, 4-3. The game lasted four hours and 32 minutes. Before the game-winning blow, Lansing’s bullpen had pitched nine scoreless innings in relief of Angel Perdomo, including five scoreless innings from Dan Lietz.

· 2017: The Lugnuts built a 7-0 lead, watched the Great Lakes Loons hit three straight solo homers (Saige Jenco, Jeren Kendall and Gavin Lux) in the fifth inning and then add a fourth solo home run (Nick Yarnall) in the eighth, before escaping with a 7-5 win at Cooley Law School Stadium on a wacky game-ending double play. With the tying runs at the corners in the ninth, Jared Carkuff struck out Cristian Santana on a pitch in the dirt – the second out immediately, since first base was occupied. But Santana took off for first base anyway, inadvertently kicking the ball away from catcher Javier Hernandez. Umpires Matt Cowan and Raul Moreno conferred and determined that Santana had committed interference, calling runner Cody Thomas out and giving Carkuff his third save of the year.

July 31

· 2016: It was a top prospect matchup: Ryan Borucki pitched seven innings of eight-hit, one-run ball, walking none and striking out three, needing only 80 pitches. 18-year-old TinCaps right-hander Anderson Espinoza countered with five shutout innings, allowing three hits, two walks and striking out four. Fort Wayne scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth, thanks to a Brad Zunica sac fly and a Tyler Selesky RBI infield single, to walk off the Lugnuts for a second straight day, 3-2.

2019: In 435 pitches, four hours and 26 minutes, and ten innings, the Lugnuts outlasted Lake County, 10-8. The Nuts had blown leads of 3-0, 5-3, and 8-5 at Classic Park. There were five hit batters and eight wild pitches in the game (six wild pitches by Lake County pitchers).

1 – José Cepeda (1974), Jon-Mark Sprowl (1980), T.J. Zeuch (1995)

2 – Craig Conklin (1962), Joe Dillon (1975), Manuel Bernal (1976), Jonathan Jones (1989)

3 – Félix Sánchez (1982), Tucker Jensen (1989)

4 – Steve Gagliano (1977), Federico Báez (1981), Henry Bolte (2003)

5 – Luke Anderson (1998)

6 – Kris Wilson (1976), Thomas Atlee (1979), Randy Boone (1984), Grant Judkins (1997)

7 – Bryan Warner (1974), T.P. Waligora (1976), Antonio Caceres (1977), Bear Bay (1983), Andy Burns (1990), Dusty Isaacs (1991)

8 – Jeremy Hill (1977), Marc Rzepczynski (1985), Chavez Young (1997), Casey Yamauchi (2000)

9 – Graham Godfrey (1984), Alan Farina (1986), Dustin Antolin (1989)

10 – Sal Fasano (1971), Brad Bouras (1979), Brian Van Kirk (1985), David Harris (1991)

11 – Keith Butler (1980), Christian Fernandez (1999)

13 – Edwin González (1977), Corey Patterson (1979), Jordan Díaz (2000)

14 – Blaine Mull (1976), Matt Daly (1986)

15 – Scott Roy (1982)

16 – Bryce Nightengale (1996)

17 – Tim Grieve (1971), Uriak Marquez (1983), Chris Hawkins (1991), Evan Smith (1995)

18 – Daniel Webb (1989)

19 – Jeremy Williamson (1974), Goef Tomlinson (1976), Rocky Cherry (1979), Jordy Templet (1981), Randy Dicken (1982), Peter Mooney (1990)

20 – Taylor Cole (1989), Mike Ellenbest (1994), Nate Pearson (1996), Dalton Rodriguez (1996)

21 – Tim Collins (1989), Markus Brisker (1990), Emilio Guerrero (1992)

22 – Justin Adam (1974), Justin McClanahan (1985), K.C. Hobson (1990), Drew Hutchison (1990)

23 – Cody Crowell (1985), Jesse Hernandez (1988), Lane Thomas (1995)

24 – John La Prise (1993), Cobie Vance (1997), Mason Miller (1998), Colby Halter (2001)

25 – Henry De La Cruz (1976), Robert Ransom (1981), Jeremy Zick (1982), Jared Carkuff (1993), Adam Kloffenstein (2000), Chen Zhong-Ao Zhuang (2000), Max Muncy (2002)

26 – Brendan Harris (1980), Bobby Bell (1985), Darin Mastroianni (1985)

27 – Andy Pratt (1979), Alfredo Francisco (1984), Tucker Donahue (1990), Aiden McIntyre (1995)

28 – Kit Pellow (1973), Randy Wells (1982), Jorge Saez (1990), Will Simpson (2001)

29 – Alesone Escalante (1988), Ian Kadish (1988), Daniel Klein (1990), Noah Syndergaard (1992)

30 – Todd Wellemeyer (1978), Sean Marshall (1982), Anthony Hatch (1983), Phil Kish (1989), Sean Reid-Foley (1995), Shane Selman (1996), Mc Gregory Contreras (1998)

August 1

· 2010: 19-year-old Jake Marisnick made his Lugnuts debut, jumping up from the Gulf Coast Blue Jays. Marisnick, a 3rd-round selection in 2009, had slashed .287/.373/.459 in 35 games in the GCL. In his Lugnuts debut, he went 2-for-3 with a single, double and two RBIs, plus an HBP. Kevin Ahrens went 2-for-2 with two walks and two solo home runs, scoring four runs, but the Lugnuts lost at Bowling Green, 10-8. Lugnuts pitcher Egan Smith was ejected in the 9th from the first-base visitors dugout and made sure to take a sloooooow walk to the clubhouse out beyond the left-center field wall.

· 2013: How does a 21-hit barrage sound? Leadoff hitter Dwight Smith Jr. went 4-for-4, 3 runs, 2 RBIs, 1 walk; Christian Lopes 3-for-5, 2B, HR, 5 RBIs, and the Lugnuts squashed Kyle Schepel (who had no-hit them earlier in the year) and South Bend, 12-6, at Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium.

· 2016: Connor Panas hit two homers and the Lugnuts built a 10-2 lead and held on tight for a 10-9 win at Parkview Field over Fort Wayne.

· 2018: Ryan Noda went yard twice again, hitting a two-run homer in the 1st inning and a three-run homer to cap a seven-run fourth in a 10-3 victory over the South Bend Cubs at Cooley Law School Stadium.

August 2

· 2009: Kane County Cougars RF Jeremy Barfield’s one-out single in the bottom of the 8th broke up Joel Carreño’s (7 1/3, 1 BB, 9 K) no-hit bid, and the Lugnuts settled for a 5-0 one-hit victory at Oldsmobile Park in front of 8,412. Tyler Pastornicky went 3-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and a pair of RBIs for the Nuts.

· 2010: The Bowling Green Hot Rods scored six runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to seize a 9-7 lead, and then closer Alex Koronis retired the first two batters in the ninth. With two strikes, Brad Glenn homered. With two strikes, A.J. Jimenez singled. And then Kevin Ahrens homered as well, catapulting the Lugnuts to an unexpected 10-9 victory at Bowling Green Ballpark. Sean Ochinko finished the game 4-for-5 with a three-run HR and five total RBIs. By the way: It was a sweltering day, 94 degrees at first pitch.

· 2012: MLB rehabber Nick Masset started and pitched a scoreless 1st inning for the Dayton Dragons, and then the Lansing Lugnuts captured a 5-2 victory at Fifth Third Field. Leadoff hitter Nick Baligod tied a franchise record with four walks and scored three runs.

· 2015: The Lugnuts traded broadcaster Jesse Goldberg-Strassler to the Bowling Green Hot Rods for broadcaster Danny Reed for the sixth inning of the Sunday series finale at Bowling Green Ballpark, inspired by the Blue Jays’ deadline deals for Troy Tulowitzki, LaTroy Hawkins, David Price, Mark Lowe and Ben Revere. Starlyn Suriel tossed seven innings of one-run ball and the Lugnuts won, 4-1, taking the rubber match of the three-game series.

· 2022: Denzel Clarke beat out an inside-the-park home run to left field and Cooper Bowman homered in his first Lugnuts game, but the Nuts were outslugged by West Michigan, 15-8, at Jackson Field. Earlier in the day, 20-year-old Tyler Soderstrom was promoted to Double-A Midland. In 89 games with the Nuts, Soderstrom hit .260/.323/.513 with 19 doubles, three triples, 20 homers and 71 RBIs, departing as the MWL leader in RBIs and tied for first in homers.

August 3

· 2009: The Lugnuts scored four runs in the 1st and three runs in the 3rd for a 7-0 lead at Fort Wayne, only to see the TinCaps rally for one run in the 4th, five runs in the 5th, and the game-tying run in the 6th, leading to extra innings. In the last of the 12th inning, Matt Daly’s wild pitch brought in Cole Figueroa, and Fort Wayne walked off with an 8-7 victory.

· 2011: Casey Lawrence pitched a nine-inning complete game, and the host Lugnuts beat South Bend, 6-1. Lawrence allowed four hits, one run, no walks and three strikeouts. The game took two hours and 13 minutes. Groundout:flyout ratio for Casey: a ridiculous 20 groundouts and one flyout.

· 2022: For the second straight game, Denzel Clarke hit an inside-the-park home run, blasting an RJ Petit pitch off the right-center fence at Jackson Field and scoring standing up when the ball bounced past center field Ben Malgeri. In the process, he became the first Lugnut since Tim Locastro in 2015 with two inside-the-park home runs in the same year and the second MiLB player ever, joining Everett’s Fred Bello (July 2-3, 2010), to have inside-the-park homers in two straight games. The feat has never occurred in the Majors. The Lugnuts went on to win the game, 8-1.

August 4

· 2011: The Lugnuts were an impressive 9-2 in extra-innings and it was games like this that showed why. It was a tense 1-1 game against the South Bend Silver Hawks, going to the bottom of the tenth inning on Jackson Field. A Michael Crouse hustle double put the game-winning run into scoring position. Three batters later, K.C. Hobson's fly ball to right set up a jaw-rattling play at home plate to decide the game in a 2-1 Lugnuts walk-off. Marcus Knecht went 1-for-1 and tied a franchise record with four walks in the win.

· 2012: Trailing 7-3 entering the sixth inning, the Lugnuts scored one in the 6th, two in the 7th and two more in the 8th (on a throwing error by 1B Aaron Westlake) to beat West Michigan, 8-7, at Cooley Law School Stadium before a crowd of 9,655. Ajay Meyer pitched a perfect 9th to set the Lugnuts’ single-season saves record with his 30th save Meyer finished the season with 33 saves.

August 5

· 2014: 19-year-old Miguel Castro made his Lugnuts debut at Fort Wayne, allowing a first-inning home run to TinCaps super-prospect Trea Turner en route to allowing five runs on three hits and one walk, striking out five, in four innings. The Lugnuts lost, 7-1.

· 2015: In his Lugnuts debut, Clinton Hollon allowed a leadoff single to Wisconsin and then pitched hitless ball the rest of the way, retiring the final 19 batters he faced, as the Nuts beat the Timber Rattlers, 2-1, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2019: The Lugnuts split a doubleheader at Bowling Green, losing 3-1 and winning 6-3. In Game 1, Troy Watson tossed a six-inning complete game but was outpitched by Caleb Sampen’s six innings, and Ruben Cardenas homered to boost the Hot Rods. Let’s talk about Game 2: Cobi Johnson fired five hitless innings, walking three and striking out seven. The Lugnuts brought that no-hitter and a 3-0 lead to the sixth. With one out, Jonathan Aranda busted up the no-hit bid with a two-run homer. Four batters later, Seaver Whalen broke out of a 3-for-49 slump with a two-out game-tying RBI single. But the Lugnuts countered with three runs in the seventh on a throwing error by lefty Michael Costanzo and a two-run wild pitch by Costanzo, scoring both Otto Lopez from third and Reggie Pruitt from second.

August 6

· 2010: A crowd of 10,113 was in attendance at Cooley Law School Stadium, but Fort Wayne ran away with a 12-3 victory behind massive home runs from Nate Freiman and Jason Hagerty. Ryan Schimpf went 3-for-3 with a HBP, two doubles and a triple for the Lugnuts in the loss.

· 2015: The inaugural class of the Michigan Baseball Hall of Fame was inducted: Jim Abbott, Bill Freehan, Charlie Gehringer, Ernie Harwell, Al Kaline, Hal Newhouser, Pat O’Keefe, John Smoltz, Alan Trammell, Larry Tuttle.

· 2016: It was a very bad day for Fort Wayne catcher Marcus Greene, Jr., who committed two passed balls and two run-scoring throwing errors (of four total TinCaps errors), helping the Lugnuts win 7-4 at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2017: Dayton’s Jesse Adams was a terrific reliever – except against the Lugnuts. Rodrigo Orozco ended Adams’s 25 2/3 scoreless innings streak with a two-run homer in the 10th inning at Fifth Third Field, his first home run in 120 games (dating back to 8-15-15) to give the Lugnuts a 5-3 victory. Adams had last allowed a run against the Lugnuts, coincidentally. Bruce Yari’s full-count two-out solo homer off Nick Hartman in the bottom of the ninth had forced extra innings.

· 2018: Urgency was of the utmost importance for the Lugnuts, working to beat an incoming storm. Fort Wayne TinCaps prospect right-hander Luis Patiño held the Lugnuts hitless through the first five innings, but the Lugs broke through with four runs in the sixth at Parkview Field, taking a 4-2 lead with menacing clouds massing in the Summit City. The TinCaps tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the sixth, only to see Jalen Washington’s third passed ball of the game bring in Jesus Navarro in the seventh for a 5-4 Nuts lead. After a perfect Orlando Pascual bottom of the seventh, the skies opened and the game was called after a 35-minute delay.

August 7

· 2022: A 67-minute baseball game? Lazaro Armenteros homered to help the Lugnuts take an early lead, Jack Owen tossed five innings with one unearned run, and Brayan Buelvas led off the bottom of the fifth with a home run before rain shut down the Lugnuts’ Sunday home finale with West Michigan, ending the Nuts’ 3-1 win just one hour and seven minutes after it started.

August 8

· 2009: Dayton No. 9 hitter Kevin Feiner went 5-for-6 with four doubles, a solo home run and 6 RBIs, and the Dragons won, 18-5, at Lansing behind 21 hits and nine walks. The Dragons were 14-for-34 with runners in scoring position and stranded 15 runners on base.

· 2010: Southpaw Greg Wilborn struck out 12 Lugnuts in seven shutout innings, and the Lugnuts were three-hit in an 11-0 loss at Great Lakes.

· 2015: Dawel Lugo became the latest Lugnut to be traded, joining Tim Locastro and Jesus Tinoco, shipped to the Arizona Diamondbacks (specifically, the Kane County Cougars) in exchange for Cliff Pennington. Meanwhile, Starlyn Suriel gave up a home run to Joe Bennie on the game’s first pitch and then settled in to strike out 12 batters in 6 1/3 innings in an 8-5 win over Beloit at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2018: Coincidence? The Lugnuts won their third consecutive game by the same exact 5-4 score, knocking off the Dayton Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium. (On August 9th, the Lugnuts beat the Dragons… 4-3.)

August 9

· 2009: Tony Brown hit a grand slam in a seven-run 3rd inning, helping the Dayton Dragons turn a 4-1 deficit into an 8-4 lead. The Lugnuts narrowed the deficit to 8-7 with three runs in the home 3rd, and then narrowed a 10-7 deficit to 10-9 with solo tallies in the 7th and the 9th, but with the tying run at third base and the winning run at first base, pinch-hitter Jon Talley lined out and Chris Emanuele struck out looking to end a thrilling 10-9 loss at Oldsmobile Park. Each team collected 15 hits in the slugfest.

· 2013: The Lugnuts blew a 5-0 lead at home, with West Michigan scoring two in the 8th and three in the 9th, but DH Kevin Patterson’s two-run homer in the 12th inning gave the Nuts a walkoff win, 7-5, in four hours and seven minutes before 11,166 at Cooley Law School Stadium. It was Patterson’s 18th home run of the year.

· 2015: For the second straight day, the Beloit Snappers’ Joe Bennie led off the game with a home run. This time it led to a Beloit victory, 9-4 at Lansing, avoiding a three-game sweep. In the loss, reliever Tim Mayza struck out six batters in 2 2/3 innings.

· 2016: In his return from the Disabled List, Carl Wise enjoyed a four-hit game capped by a walk-off two-out RBI single in the 13th inning for a 4-3 victory over the Fort Wayne TinCaps in a Tuesday matinee. It completed a four-game sweep of the TinCaps and it was also Wise’s second walk-off hit against the TinCaps of the season, joining his 9th-inning RBI single on April 19th.

· 2019: Yorman Rodriguez made his Lugnuts debut with a 4-for-5 showing, scoring three runs, driving in three, and finishing a home run shy of the cycle in a 12-2 home win over South Bend.

August 10

· 2009: After Lansing scored two runs in the 2nd and Dayton countered with two runs in the top of the 4th, both offenses were blanked until the 13th inning – and there the Dragons broke out with four runs on six singles to take a 6-2 win at Oldsmobile Park.

· 2010: DH Eric Eiland singled twice, doubled, drew a walk, stole a base, and scored four runs in the Lugnuts’ 12-3 win at Great Lakes.

· 2018: With an 11-4 victory over the Dayton Dragons at Cooley Law School Stadium, the Lugnuts completed an 11-0 home sweep of the Dragons in 2018, improving to 15-3 in the season series. The Lugnuts (70-47) also became the fifth MiLB to reach the 70-win threshold.

· 2019: A Miles Gordon one-out triple in the sixth inning supplied Dayton’s only base runner in a near perfect game for the Lugnuts, settling for a 6-0 win at Dayton. Troy Watson fired seven innings, striking out four, before Will McAffer struck out the side in the eighth and Cre Finfrock struck out two in the ninth. Griffin Conine led the offense with a two-run tiebreaking single in the sixth and a solo home run in the eighth.

August 11

· 2009: Henderson Álvarez (7 IP, 3 H, 4 K) combined with Ryan Koch on a six-hit shutout, and the Lugnuts won at South Bend, 4-0, in two hours and 12 minutes. A.J. Jimenez homered to aid the offense.

· 2010: 11 days shy of his 20th birthday, Drew Hutchison made his Lugnuts debut with five perfect innings at Dayton, striking out five, and Brad Glenn – who had homered earlier in the game – hit a two-run triple in a three-run 11th inning for a 5-2 Lugnuts win.

· 2012: Nick Baligod’s first home run was a game-tying solo shot in the 7th, Kevin Patterson supplied an RBI single in the 12th inning, and the Lugnuts won at Great Lakes, 4-3, in four hours and 10 minutes.

August 12

· 2009: The South Bend Silver Hawks brought a 6-3 lead to the 8th, but three Silver Hawks errors (two by shortstop Reynaldo Navarro) led to three Lugnuts runs to tie the game. In the 10th inning, reliever Victor Capellan committed a run-scoring throwing error and Kenny Wilson had an RBI infield single, and the Lugnuts won, 8-6.

· 2010: Brad Glenn, who had homered the previous day, belted a pair of solo home runs, including one in a five-run 9th inning, as the Lugnuts won at Dayton, 10-3

· 2011: For the second time in the season, Jake Marisnick led off the game with a home run, pounding a 2-0 pitch from South Bend’s Jeffrey Shields to left. Marisnick finished 4-for-5 with two steals, catcher Jack Murphy went 3-for-3 with two doubles, 3 RBIs and a walk, and the Lugnuts won on the road, 6-2.

· 2016: To Be Continued! Jackson Lowery struck out West Michigan catcher Shane Zeile with the bases loaded to end the 10th inning, and the umpires called it due to wet conditions – forcing a suspension in a 3-3 tie between the two clubs at Fifth Third Ballpark. The game was picked up again on August 13th, and it required 19 minutes to complete, with the Lugnuts winning in 11 innings, 5-3.

· 2018: Emotions were high in a playoff preview at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Bowling Green Hot Rods beat the Lugnuts, 8-6, ending the Nuts’ six-game winning streak, in a game that saw Lugnuts manager Cesar Martin ejected in the top of the ninth (arguing that Hot Rods batter Alexander Alvarez interfered with first baseman Ryan Noda on a squeeze up the first-base line) and hitting coach Matt Young and batter Chavez Young ejected in the bottom of the ninth following a call of check-swing/strike-three.

August 13

· 2016: The Lugnuts played two extra-inning games at West Michigan, winning one of them. First, the Nuts and Whitecaps completed a game suspended after 10 innings from the day before, with Ryan Metzler’s two-run single driving in Lane Thomas and Connor Panas for a 5-3 11-inning victory, extending the Nuts’ winning streak to six games. Interestingly, Jackson Lowery pitched for the second straight day; Lowery had recorded the final two outs the day before (Friday), stranding the bases loaded to end the 10th before pitching a scoreless 11th on Saturday to earn the win. In the regularly scheduled game, Arvicent Perez’s bases-loaded, one-out RBI single in the 12th gave the Whitecaps a walkoff win. It not only ended the Nuts’ winning streak, it ended a streak of eight straight Nuts wins against the Whitecaps.

August 14

· 2016: It was, unofficially, Canada Day! From catcher Justin Atkinson to pitchers Jordan Romano, Tom Robson and Andrew Case, Canadians played key roles in lifting the Lugnuts to a 4-2 Sunday afternoon victory at West Michigan. The lineup card for the game was delivered to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Atkinson supplied a two-run single, Lane Thomas had an RBI single and a solo homer, Romano pitched six impressive innings (0 runs, 2 walks, 2 singles, 5 K’s), Robson pitched 2 1/3 innings (allowing two runs in the ninth before leaving) and Andrew Case recorded the final two outs in the ninth. The Lugnuts finished the season series with an 11-4 record vs. West Michigan.

August 15

· 2010: It was the Nuts' only game-winning home run of the 2010, and it came against powerful Fort Wayne before an enormous Sunday crowd of 8,112. Brad Glenn's two-out two-run double had tied the score in the seventh inning, setting the stage for Sean Ochinko to win it in the ninth with a two-run homer to left off Stiven Osuna, 5-3.

· 2015: D.J. Davis went 0-for-4 to end his 26-game on-base streak, and the Lugnuts were shut out, 3-0, at Kane County. It was the first time that the Lugnuts had been shut out all year – they were the last team in professional baseball to go without a shutout.

· 2018: On the very first pitch of the game at West Michigan, Reggie Pruitt hit a fly ball to deep left. Whitecaps left fielder Dylan Rosa leaped to make a spectacular catch, only to lose both his glove and the ball over the wall for a leadoff home run. The Nuts fell, 7-6, however, losing leads of 4-0, 5-1 and 6-4.

August 16

· 2009: Ryan Shopshire (5 IP, 1 H, 2 K) combined with three relievers on a two-hit shutout, facing one batter over the minimum, and the Lugnuts blanked Great Lakes, 4-0, at Oldsmobile Park, in tw o hours and 14 minutes. Future Major Leaguer Nathan Eovaldi started the game for the Loons, pitching three scoreless innings (1 hit, 3 walks, 1 strikeout). Mike McDade hit two solo home runs for the Nuts, going back-to-back with Johermyn Chavez in the 8th.

· 2012: Rain was forecasted, so the Lugnuts got tricky – a little too tricky for their own good. Scheduled starter Noah Syndergaard was replaced by spot-starter Kramer Champlin, just in case the game started and then immediately went into a rain delay (which would cause the Lugnuts to burn their starting pitcher). Champlin pitched fine, blanking Fort Wayne in three innings – no sign of rain. Brandon Berl gave up two runs in relief in the fourth inning – no sign of rain. Syndergaard finally came out of the bullpen in the 5th inning – boom, rain ended his day after three hitless innings in a 2-0 loss to the TinCaps at Cooley Law School Stadium, shortened by rain to only seven innings.

· 2013: Emilio Guerrero went 6-for-6 to tie the team/league record, including a third-inning grand slam amid a nine-run rally, and the Lugnuts destroyed the West Michigan Whitecaps, 14-5.

· 2014: South Bend DH Andrew Velazquez, the eventual Midwest League Prospect of the Year, hit a two-run inside-the-park home run to center field, and the host Silver Hawks defeated the Lugnuts, 5-1, despite committing four errors. South Bend reliever Jose Jose faced four batters in the ninth, striking out two and walking two, before Silvino Bracho struck out Justin Atkinson to end the game.

· 2016: Yadier Alvarez was the story, as the 18-year-old Dodgers signee fired 100 mph fastballs in five no-hit innings, walking three and striking out eight in a 12-0 Great Lakes victory at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2018: Left fielder Norberto Obeso threw out the West Michigan Whitecaps’ Brady Policelli at second base, trying to stretch a single into a double, to dramatically end a Lugnuts 3-2 victory at Fifth Third Ballpark.

· 2019: The Lugnuts set a new franchise record for margin of victory with a 19-1 victory over Fort Wayne at Cooley Law School Stadium. Griffin Conine, Ryan Gold and Rafael Lantigua each hit a two-run homer in the win. The TinCaps finished the game with two different position players, Tyler Benson and Kelvin Alarcon, combining to pitch the eighth. Benson recorded the first two outs, allowing five runs, before Alarcon recorded the final out.

August 17

· 2012: K.C. Hobson went 3-for-4 with two doubles, his 38th and 39th doubles of the year, to break the Lugnuts’ franchise record for doubles in one season. Hobson finished the year with 43 doubles.

· 2022: Team USA Baseball’s Women’s National Team manager Veronica Alvarez, skippering the Lugnuts during Phil Pohl’s one-week scheduled vacation, won her first MiLB game, 6-3 over Great Lakes, behind a two-run triple from Joshwan Wright in a pivotal four-run fifth inning against the Loons. Brayan Buelvas added a two-run homer in the win.

August 18

· 2009: Down 3-1 late to Great Lakes, the Lugnuts tied the game in the 7th on a Kenny Wilson RBI single and a Chris Emanuele RBI groundout. An inning later, Johermyn Chavez hit a two-run homer, his 20th of the year, and the Lugnuts beat the Loons, 5-3, at Oldsmobile Park. Chavez finished the game 4-for-4 with three RBIs.

· 2013: The Lugnuts walked off in 12 innings, 7-6, over Lake County, tying the game in the 9th on a Chris Hawkins one-out RBI single and then winning it in the 12th on a Daniel Klein two-out RBI single.

· 2016: The Great Lakes Loons finished off a four-game sweep of the Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium with a 5-1 victory, going from 4.5 games back of the Nuts for the second and final Eastern Division playoff berth to 0.5 games back. The Loons would pass the Lugnuts on the way to the postseason – and the 2016 Midwest League Championship, the first title in franchise history.

· 2018: On Backyard Baseball Night / Pablo Sanchez’s 21st birthday, the Lansing Mighty Wombats lost to the Fort Wayne TinCaps, 3-1, at Cooley Law School Stadium. A crowd of 8,968 cheered the Wombats onward in defeat, stymied by 5 2/3 scoreless innings from Luis Patiño.

August 19

· 2011: LF Marcus Knecht hit the Lugnuts’ first grand slam of the year in a 6-2 win at Bowling Green. He would follow up with another grand slam the next day back in Lansing, the Nuts’ only grand slams of the season.

· 2016: Manager John Schneider mandated that the Lugnuts show up only two hours before Saturday’s series opener against South Bend at Cooley Law School Stadium. The offense showed up late during the game – but scored five runs in the bottom of the 8th for a 5-2 victory, ending a four-game losing streak, before a roaring crowd of 8,404. The rally included two run-scoring wild pitches from Cubs reliever Jared Cheek and a two-run tie-breaking triple from Justin Atkinson.

· 2017: A Harry Potter Night crowd of 10,232 at Cooley Law School Stadium watched the Lugnuts fall to South Bend, 5-3. The previous day’s Lugnuts starting pitcher, Osman Gutierrez, was traded to the Miami Marlins before the game for Tom Koehler.

August 20

· 2009: It was a nightmarish start for Fort Wayne’s Dexter Carter: HBP, single, RBI single, HBP, two-run single, single, RBI single, strikeout, RBI walk, and then a three-run double by leadoff hitter Chris Emanuele in the second tour around the order, knocking Carter out of the game. In all, the Lugnuts scored eight runs in the 1st on their way to a 15-7 victory at Parkview Field. 3B Mark Sobolewski went 4-for-6 with a double, a home run, and four RBIs, and the Lugnuts collected 18 hits in all.

· 2011: LF Marcus Knecht hit a grand slam for the second straight day, but Dayton scored two runs in the 9th to force extra innings and then a run in the 10th on a Theo Bowe RBI single to win it, 10-9, at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Nuts committed five errors in the loss, but only one of Dayton’s runs was unearned. In defeat, RF Markus Brisker drew four walks and hit a three-run homer.

· 2012: Aaron Sanchez gave up one hit in four innings, Kramer Champlin gave up one hit in four innings, and Ian Kadish pitched a perfect ninth in a 10-0 two-hit shutout at Lake County. 3B Gustavo Pierre hit a three-run homer and DH Kevin Patterson blasted a solo shot (his 16th home run of the year) in the win.

· 2014: 19-year-old Miguel Castro impressed with seven shutout innings, scattering three hits and a walk while striking out three, but host West Michigan scored two runs in the eighth off Matt Dermody to win, 2-0.

· 2017: Nick Sinay was hit by a pitch for the 36th time, tying the Midwest League single-season record set by Clinton’s Jonathan “Dirt” Greene in 2008, but the Lugnuts lost to South Bend, 8-6, at Cooley Law School Stadium. It was one of three Nuts HBPs in the game, giving them 104 total, nine away from tying the MWL record.

· 2018: Samad Taylor and Chavez Young took Fort Wayne top prospect MacKenzie Gore deep in the third inning with back-to-back home runs, and the Lugnuts scored four unanswered runs to wipe out an early 4-1 deficit and defeat the TinCaps, 5-4. Gore had entered the third inning having allowed only three home runs in 252 batters.

· 2019: Otto Lopez’s team-high 19-game hitting streak came to an end in a 7-2 loss to Dayton at Cooley Law School Stadium. Dragons 19-year-old starter Lyon Richardson struck out six in 5 2/3 innings, allowing one unearned run.

August 21

· 2014: 19-year-old Rowdy Tellez made his Lugnuts debut, batting cleanup, playing first base, and going 1-for-2 with a walk in a rain-shortened 2-0 loss at home to South Bend.

· 2017: Nick Sinay eclipsed the Midwest League record for HBPs on a seventh-inning fastball from Yapson Gomez, his 37th HBP (on his way to 39 total for the year), and then the Lugnuts and South Bend Cubs paused six minutes to view partial solar eclipse in a Monday matinee at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Lugnuts fell 8-7 in 11 innings. The 10th inning ended on a peculiar play: J.B. Woodman hit a fly to deep right-center that was dropped by a leaping Chris Pieters. Runner Mitch Nay proceeded cautiously, with Woodman nearly catching up with him between first and second. Nay attempted to to score, but was thrown out (by a lot) at home plate. Woodman then tried to advance to third, but was thrown out to end the inning.

· 2022: In Veronica Alvarez’s final game as interim manager, the host Lugnuts used a five-run sixth inning to rally past the Great Lakes Loons, 11-7, on a Sunday afternoon. Alvarez, Team USA Baseball’s Women’s National Team manager, went 2-4 in her six-game stint against the powerful Loons while Pohl took his scheduled vacation.

August 22

· 1996: The Lugnuts became the first Class-A team to ever break the 500,000 attendance mark in their first season.

· 2015: Lugnuts pitcher Clinton Hollon was placed on the Restricted List after receiving a 50-game ban for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Meanwhile, Tim Mayza received an unexpected spot start and turned in an unexpectedly great performance with five shutout innings, allowing one hit and one walk and striking out five. Ryan McBroom drove in five runs and the Lugnuts beat Bowling Green, 11-3, at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2016: The Skunk Game! The Dayton Dragons trailed the Lugnuts 10-3 entering the bottom of the seventh at Fifth Third Field, scored five runs in the 7th to make it 10-8, and then made it 10-9 on a Zach Shields RBI single in the 8th. With one out in the bottom of the 9th, a skunk emerged from near the groundskeeper’s tarp beyond the Lugnuts’ dugout on the first-base side. It scampered to second, wandered into right-center and explored the warning track toward left-field before the grounds crew corralled it (and were sprayed for their trouble) at the left-center fence in a hamper. The game was delayed eight minutes. With two outs, James Vasquez tied the game with an RBI single to center off Dan Lietz and Chris Okey followed with a game-winning RBI single to right-center for an 11-10 Dayton win.

August 23

· 2009: Blake Tekotte (TEE-kuh-tee) led off the bottom of the 13th inning with a walk-off home run, and the Fort Wayne TinCaps beat the Lugnuts, 3-2. Lansing manager Clayton McCullough was ejected for arguing a play at the plate in the 11th where the Lugnuts’ Welinton Ramirez was called out attempting to tag and scare on a Justin McClanahan fly-out.

· 2013: The Lugnuts rallied for four runs in the 9th, aided by two Loons throwing errors, to tie the game at 7-7 at Dow Diamond, only to watch Great Lakes walk off in the 10th, 8-7, on a Jose Capellan RBI single. (Jeremy Rathjen had hit a grand slam in the 7th off Griffin Murphy to give the Loons a 7-3 lead.)

· 2016: Left-handed starter Angel Perdomo was voted to the Midwest League Post-Season All-Star Team, tied with Beloit’s Evan Manarino. Perdomo finished the season with a 5-7 record with a 3.19 ERA in 27 games, 25 starts, 127 IP, 101 hits, 4 HR, 54 BB, 156 K.

· 2019: Right fielder Griffin Conine and closer Cre Finfrock were named to the 2019 Midwest League Post-Season All-Star Team, Conine as one of the three OF and Finfrock as the league’s right-handed reliever. Conine ended up leading the league with 22 homers while Finfrock led the league with 17 saves in 17 opportunities. In the game at South Bend, Otto Lopez’s fourth hit of the game was a two-out, two-run triple in the tenth, giving the Lugnuts a 5-4 win at South Bend.

August 24

· 2011: 18-year-old Noah Syndergaard made his Lugnuts debut, limiting Bowling Green to one run on four hits in five innings, striking out six, and a four-run 6th gave the Lugnuts a 4-1 victory at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2013: Dayton left-hander Ismael Guillon had been rocked multiple times previously by the Lugnuts, but struck back with six hitless innings at Cooley Law School Stadium. Wandy Peralta kept the Nuts hitless in the 7th, but gave up a home run to C Daniel Klein on a 2-0 pitch, leading off the 8th, to break up the no-hit bid. That was the Lugnuts’ only hit in a 6-1 loss. It was Klein’s third home run

· 2015: 1B/DH Ryan McBroom was announced as Midwest League MVP (the Lugnuts’ 3rd MVP in team history, joining 2003 - Brian Dopirak and 2012 - Kevin Pillar) and was honored on the Post-Season All-Star Team at both first base and designated hitter. Sean Reid-Foley struck out seven in four innings, but the Lugnuts lost at Fort Wayne, 3-2.

· 2016: Jordan Romano struck out a career high 10 batters in six innings before departing one batter into the 7th due to precautionary reasons, and the host Dayton Dragons rallied for a 2-1 comeback win at Fifth Third Field.

· 2018: RBI singles from Brandon Grudzielanek and Ryan Gold in the 10th inning gave the Lugnuts a 5-3 victory over the Dayton Dragons at Fifth Third Field. Lugnuts manager Cesar Martin was ejected earlier in the game following a comical sequence of umpiring conferences: four separate meetings to determine whether to place the Dragons’ Raul Wallace at first or second base following a throwing error by Lugnuts shortstop Vinny Capra, including a break while the stadium ground rules were consulted in the umpires’ locker room, delaying the game nearly ten minutes. Ryan Noda drew three walks, the last an intentional walk in the 10th that gave him his 100th walk of the year.

· 2019: In front of a season high crowd of 10,824 at Cooley Law School Stadium, the Lugnuts lost 8-1 to the Great Lakes Loons, the exact same result as the Lugnuts’ game against the Loons in front of the other largest crowd of the year, on the 4th of July in front of 9,798.

August 25

· 2007: The Lugnuts welcomed in Oldsmobile Park’s 5,000,000th fan with a 6-2 victory over the Great Lakes Loons.

· 2009: West Michigan RF Luis Salas hit a game-tying solo home run off Yorman Mayora in the top of the 9th, but Ryan Goins answered with a walk-off RBI double in the bottom of the 9th to give the Lugnuts a 4-3 victory over the Whitecaps.

· 2010: The Lugnuts entered their series at West Michigan teetering on elimination, but a 4-for-4 performance from Kevin Ahrens staked the Luggies out to a comfortable lead. It didn't last -- the Caps came all the way back to within a run at 7-6, thanks to back-to-back doubles to open the ninth. Closer Steve Turnbull seized the moment, striking out the 2-3-4 hitters in the Whitecaps order, Jeff Rowland, Corey Jones, and Wade Gaynor, to preserve the victory.

· 2018: Brandon Grudzielanek hit an inside-the-park home run in the fourth inning, but the Lugnuts dropped a slim 4-3 decision at Dayton.

August 26

· 2012: The Lugnuts tied the franchise record with their 78th win of the season (on their way to 82 in the season) and pitched their league-leading 16th shutout of the year, with Noah Syndergaard (5 IP, 4 K), Brandon Berl (2 IP) and Ian Kadish (2 IP) combining on a five-hitter at home over Fort Wayne, 4-0. Nick Baligod went 3-for-4 with a walk to lead the offense.

· 2013: Into every season drops an element of fun, and on one late August day, the Lugnuts' offense threw themselves a party. Dalton Pompey homered twice and tied the franchise record with five runs scored, Emilio Guerrero came a triple away from hitting for the cycle, Jordan Leyland (3-5, 2 R, 6 RBI) launched a grand slam, Chris Hawkins tied the franchise record with four walks, and the Lugs scored in every inning except the 2nd on their way to a home 18-6 thrashing of Dayton.

· 2016: Ryan Borucki struck out nine batters in five scoreless innings, but host Lake County shut out the Lugnuts, 3-0, behind three sixth-inning runs against Tayler Saucedo and the pitching of 19-year-old Triston McKenzie (6 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 9 K).

· 2017: Nash Knight went 5-for-6 and Jake Fishman pulled off the rare feat of striking out seven batters in two innings of relief (four in the eighth, aided by a dropped third strike, and three in the ninth), but the host Lugnuts lost 7-6 in 11 innings to the Fort Wayne TinCaps.

· 2018: Brandon Grudzielanek launched a ridiculous three-run home run off the dragon’s claw to the top left corner of the Fifth Third Field video board in a 9-5 victory over the Dragons. Ryan Noda added three walks, tying him with Tony Schrager’s single-season record of 103 walks, set in 1999.

· 2019: Great Lakes shortstop Leonel Valera hit an inside-the-park grand slam in a five-run second inning, and the Loons lost an early 5-0 lead to the Lugnuts before recovering for an 11-7 win at Cooley Law School Stadium. In the loss, Hunter Steinmetz delivered two-run doubles in both the second and third innings.

August 27

· 2012: The Lugnuts set a new franchise record for wins in a season, topping the Fort Wayne TinCaps 5-1 for their 79th victory. The Nuts will finish the year with 82 wins, most in franchise history.

· 2014: The second and third Dragons batters to face Lansing starter Starlyn Suriel, Alex Blandino and Robert Ramirez, set off the Fifth Third Field foghorn off with back-to-back home runs. That was the end of Dayton's hits and runs for the night. Tied up 2-2 entering the ninth, Jason Leblebijian turned hero with a clout to left for a 3-2 victory, sparking a three-game Lugnuts sweep.

· 2016: The Lugnuts received 2016 2nd-rounder J.B. Woodman, 4th-rounder Joshua Palacios and 5th-rounder Cavan Biggio from Vancouver. Woodman enjoyed a smashing debut with a walk, single, two-run single and home run in his Lugnuts debut, but the Nuts lost 6-5 at Lake County.

· 2018: Ryan Noda and Andres Sotillo supplied RBI knocks to break a 1-1 tie in the ninth, lifting the Lugnuts to a 3-1 victory at Fifth Third Field and completing a remarkable 18-4 season series against the Dayton Dragons.

· 2019: The Lugnuts drew 12 walks and the Great Lakes Loons had their manager, John Shoemaker, and three players ejected, but the Loons beat the Lugnuts, 12-9. Griffin Conine drew four walks by himself, tying the franchise record. He had the chance to break the record with a fifth walk but instead lashed an RBI double on a 3-1 pitch in the eighth inning.

· 2022: Kyle Virbitsky struck out 11 Timber Rattlers in six innings, Shane McGuire scored on a wild pitch to break a seventh-inning tie, and the Lugnuts won at Wisconsin, 3-2. Cooper Bowman homered in the win.

August 28

· 2011: Fort Wayne closer Kevin Quackenbush, a future Major Leaguer, had not allowed a run all year, but the Lugnuts capped off a wild 10-inning 5-3 victory at Parkview Field with a pair of runs against the TinCaps' fireman, headlined by a Marcus Knecht RBI double that scored a half-shoeless K.C. Hobson. Until this game, the 'Caps had defeated the Lugnuts in 10 of 13 meetings but the victory started a stretch of five straight wins for the Lugs over Fort Wayne – including the Eastern Division Finals.

· 2012: Lugnuts catcher Chris Schaeffer caught three Fort Wayne TinCaps stealing, plus a fourth ‘Cap was picked off by reliever Phil Brua and caught stealing at third base, in a 7-6 TinCaps win at Cooley Law School Stadium. Fort Wayne had 18 hits, four by leadoff hitter Travis Jankowski. But, hey – at least they didn’t steal any bases!

· 2013: Dalton Pompey popped his second grand slam of the season in support of five innings of one-run ball from Kendall Graveman, and the Lugnuts won at Lake County, 11-2.

· 2022: 2021 third-rounder Mason Miller debuted with a 100-102 mph fastball, serving up a leadoff home run to Ben Metzinger on a 100 mph before setting down six in a row with four strikeouts. Jorge Juan relieved Miller and gave up a three-run homer to Brewers No. 1 prospect Jackson Chourio in a 5-2 loss at Wisconsin.

August 29

· 2013: Ben White (the self-proclaimed “Heartbeat of the Team”!) set a franchise record with four wild pitches in 4 1/3 innings on his way to 20 for the season (tied for the team record), and the Lugnuts lost at Lake County, 6-2. White also hit two Captains with pitches.

· 2016: 1st-rounder T.J. Zeuch (the 21st overall pick in the June draft) arrived with the Lugnuts from Vancouver, and the Lugnuts supported him with a ten-run 3rd inning (the first 10-run inning since June 15, 2008) on their way to a 12-6 win at Lake County. Zeuch struck out seven in three innings, allowing seven singles and leaving with the bases loaded in the fourth. All three runners scored against Daniel Young, charging Zeuch with five runs. The Lugnuts also had their defensive play of the year, a behind-the-back glove flip from shortstop Ryan Metzler that started a 6-4-3 double play in the seventh.

· 2018: The Lugnuts drew 4,182 on a Wednesday night to Cooley Law School Stadium, surpassing the 300,000 attendance mark for the 23rd consecutive season. Ryan Noda’s first-inning RBI triple and fourth-inning home run gave the Nuts all that they would need in a 2-1 victory over the Great Lakes Loons. It was Noda’s 19th home run of the year.

· 2019: It was beat-the-rain with the Lugnuts, in a two-hour, 24-minute 7-3 victory over West Michigan before a massive storm showed up at Cooley Law School Stadium. Fitz Stadler gave up one run in six innings and LJ Talley, Johnny Aiello, Rafael Lantigua and Griffin Conine all homered off Whitecaps starter Chance Kirby in the win.

August 30

· 2010: The Lugnuts built a 7-1 lead at home, Dayton scored one run in the 7th… and then exploded for seven runs in the 9th inning to stun the Nuts, 9-7. A two-run single by Josh Garton coupled with a run-scoring throwing error by CF Jake Marisnick capped the rally.

· 2018: Ryan Noda broke the franchise record with his 104th walk of the year in a 10-2 victory over the Great Lakes Loons. Noda finished the season with 109 walks.

· 2019: In the home finale, the Lugnuts were officially eliminated from playoff contention by a 6-5 10-inning loss to West Michigan, rallying from a two-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth but unable to repeat the feat in the tenth. A crowd of 5,011 attended the game, bringing the season attendance total to 311,028, the 24th consecutive season that the Lugnuts topped the 300,000-fan plateau. The Lugnuts did not lose a single home date all year, playing all 70 home games.

August 31

· 2010: As if the previous day’s collapse wasn’t bad enough, the Lugnuts committed six errors in a 12-0 loss to the Dragons in two hours and 22 minutes. The Nuts managed only four hits.

· 2011: Marcus Walden on the mound meant a recipe for a quick game, and it certainly was – a 4-1 Lugnuts win at home over Great Lakes in two hours and one minute. Walden tossed six innings, and Dayton Marze followed with three innings of hitless relief.

· 2012: Noah Syndergaard struck out nine South Bend Silver Hawks in five innings of one-hit shutout ball, and the Lugnuts scored five runs in the 7th for a 5-4 win at The Cove. (The Hawks scored all four of their runs in the 8th.)

· 2013: After the Whitecaps scored two runs in the top of the 9th to tie the game, 4-4, Kevin Patterson’s walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 9th gave the Lugnuts a 5-4 victory.

· 2015: In three hours and 44 minutes, Fort Wayne won at Lansing, 11-9, scoring two runs in the ninth inning. The game featured 20 runs, 29 hits, nine walks and five errors. The Nuts had scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to tie the score after previously losing leads of 4-0 and 7-5.

· 2016: The Lugnuts welcomed Bill Johnston, their 8,000,000th fan and Michigan Lottery Lugnut, to Cooley Law School Stadium, part of a crowd of 4,704 that watched the Nuts defeat Bowling Green, 3-1.

· 2018: Ryan Noda hit his 20th home run of the year, Jordan Barrett pitched six scoreless innings, and the Lugnuts (80-56) reached 80 wins for the second time in team history in a 10-2 triumph over the Great Lakes Loons.

· 2019: Dwanya Williams-Sutton hit a grand slam to cap an eight-run second inning in a 9-2 Fort Wayne win over the Lugnuts at Parkview Field. In the loss, Jesus Lopez went 4-for-4 with three singles and an RBI double in his first Nuts start.

· 2019:

2022: The pitching matchup featured 2022 fourth-rounder Jacob Watters in his Nuts debut (1 IP, 1 UER, 3 BB) against MLB rehabber Wade Miley for South Bend, but the game was decided by a two-run Pablo Aliendo homer in the fifth in a 4-2 loss at Four Winds Field.

1 – Joe Wice (1985), Kyle Ginley (1986)

2 – Larry Dant (1976), Adrian Martin (1984), Evan Crawford (1986)

3 – Michael Kraft (1991)

5 – Courtney Arrollado (1974), Justin Pederson (1974), Mikel Moreno (1975), Tydus Meadows (1977), Miguel Hiraldo (2000)

6 – David Doezie (1973), Ryan Van Horn (1977), Ronald Lowe (1983), Jordan Leyland (1989), Javier Avendaño (1990), Joe Lovecchio (1990), Charles Hall (1994), Juliandry Higuera (1994), Cobi Johnson (1995)

7 – Jeff Ryan (1976), Mark Prior (1980), Dylan Hall (1997)

8 – Juan Rocha (1973), Alan Rick (1983), Patrick McGuigan (1984), Wil Browning (1988), Justin Watts (1993)

9 – Shane Dawson (1993)

10 – Jason Blanton (1979), Chris Hopkins (1987)

11 – Brent Sachs (1974), Adam Wynegar (1980), Christian Vazquez (1989), Gaudy Ramírez (1997)

12 – Pat Listach (1967), Warren Hanna (1979), Chris Miller (1980), Carmen Pignatiello (1982), Dan O’Brien (1984), Gunnar Heidt (1992), TJ Czyz (2000)

13 – Todd Meady (1976), B.J. Benik (1978), José Cueto (1978), Marcus Walden (1988)

14 – Kellen Sweeney (1991), Christian Williams (1994)

15 – Maverik Buffo (1995), James González (2000)

16 – Eric Eiland (1988), Sahid Valenzuela (1997)

17 – Casey Janssen (1981), Dave Sever (1986)

18 – Brandon Baird (1973), Luis Matos (1974), Jim Deschaine (1977), Justin Shafer (1992)

19 – Derrick Bly (1974), Ray Sadler (1980), Jeff Urgelles (1982), Zach Kalter (1984), Mike Reeves (1990)

20 – Sam Fischer (1980), Nash Knight (1992), Mitch Nay (1993), Brayden Bouchey (1995), Yonardo Hérdenez (1995), Danny Bautista, Jr. (2000)

21 – Jonas Cuotto (1986)

22 – Juan De Paula (1997)

23 – Vic Radcliff (1976), Charlie Cerny (1996), Joey Murray (1996)

24 – Tony Longueira (1974), Lawrence Alvarez (1979), Moises Sierra (1988), Luis Morales (2002)

25 – Steve Hueston (1973), Andrew Mallory (1976), Scott Campbell (1984), Justin Jones (1984), Joe Bowen (1987), Joey Pulido (1995)

26 – Rick Palma (1979), Reilly Johnson (1996), Trayson Kubo (1997), Jake Garland (2000)

27 – Don Schulze (1962), Enrry Pantoja (1996)

28 – Ben Shaffar (1977), Nick Baligod (1987), Kevin Patterson (1988)

29 – Dewon Day (1980), Ronald Melendez (1989), Clark Elliott (2000)

30 – Jeremy Giambi (1974), Hagen Danner (1998)

September 1

· 2011: Sean Nolin outdueled Great Lakes prospect Zach Lee, striking out 10 Loons in six innings in an 8-1 Lugnuts victory at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2012: Philip Brua hit Leonardo Castillo with a pitch with the bases loaded in the top of the 13th, and Lake County won in Lansing, 3-2. Lugnuts DH Kevin Patterson went 0-for-6 with three strikeouts, ending his streak of reaching base in home games at 31 consecutive games, the longest home on-base streak in the Midwest League by seven.

· 2014: The season ended disappointingly, two outs into the sixth inning, shortened due to rain, with a 4-3 South Bend victory at Cooley Law School Stadium. 19-year-old 1B Rowdy Tellez went 3-for-3 with his second home run, finishing with a .357 batting average in a 12-game stint with the Lugnuts. The Nuts finish 62-77.

· 2016: Juan Kelly walked in all four plate appearances and Joshua Palacios went 2-for-4 with a single and a double in a 3-2 win over Bowling Green at Cooley Law School Stadium. Both players extended on-base streaks to 32 games, with Palacios extending his hitting streak to 19 games. Palacios’s streaks ended the next day, while Kelly’s continued…

· 2018: In a heartbreaker, the Lugnuts blew 7-0 and 9-3 leads at Lake County, as Will Benson launched a three-run homer in the sixth and a two-run homer to ignite a five-run ninth inning for a 10-9 Captains walk-off winner. The Caps completed the comeback on a two-run Miguel Eladio homer to left on a 1-2 pitch from Dalton Rodriguez. In the loss, Ryan Gold went 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

· 2019: In his final at-bat of the season, Johnny Aiello singled to extend his hitting streak to 15 games. (He finished 1-for-4.) The Lugnuts beat Fort Wayne, 7-5, in the next-to-last game of the season at Parkview Field. The TinCaps didn’t help their cause, going 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and committed five errors, leading to three unearned runs.

September 2

· 2013: The Lugnuts wrapped up the season with a 61-78 record, scoring eight runs in the bottom of the sixth to beat the West Michigan Whitecaps, 9-4.

· 2015: Rehabbing Blue Jays ace Marcus Stroman pitched 4 2/3 hitless scoreless innings, striking out seven and walking one, but the Great Lakes Loons rallied for seven runs with two outs in the ninth, including a three-run homer by Justin Chigbogu (“shi-BAH-goo”) to hand the Lugnuts a 7-4 loss at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2019: In the final game of the Lugnuts’ 24th season, Sean Wymer tossed an 85-pitch (63 strikes) nine-inning complete game and Yorman Rodriguez, Otto Lopez and Griffin Conine all hit solo home runs in a 3-1 victory at Fort Wayne. The game lasted two hours and 14 minutes. Wymer allowed four singles, one run, one walk and two HBPs with two strikeouts.

· 2022: In one hour and 59 minutes, the host South Bend Cubs beat the Lugnuts, 2-1, on a Kevin Made two-run homer off Kyle Virbitsky in the fifth.

September 3

· 2011: It was 96 degrees in Dayton as Dragons SS Billy Hamilton went 2-for-3 with a sacrifice, stealing three bases to reach the 100-steal mark. The Lugnuts lost, 4-2.

· 2012: In the final game of the regular season, the Lugnuts finished with an 82-55 record after scoring six runs in the 3rd – and then blowing the lead in absurd fashion, allowing Lake County to score three in the 4th, three in the 5th and then nine runs in the 7th inning. The Nuts lost, 15-6.

· 2016: All-Star first baseman Juan Kelly reached base in all five appearances to extend his on-base streak to 34 games: HBP in the 1st, BB in the 4th, 1B/R in the 6th, 1B/R in the 7th, and 2B in the 8th. Justin Maese combined with two relievers on a two-hit shutout in a 6-0 win at Classic Park over Lake County. Maese struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings, allowing two singles, and Kirby Snead and Geno Encina combined for 3 1/3 perfect innings of relief. Secretly, both Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., joined the Lugnuts on the road in Lake County, taking batting practice with the team in preparation of the Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance on September 6th.

· 2019: In the 13th annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance, PK Morris won the pre-game HR Derby (besting teammates D.J. Daniels and Alberto Rodriguez in the opening round before beating MSU’s Andrew Morrow in the final round, 10-8) and then supplied an RBI single in the game, with Miguel Hiraldo hitting a solo homer and Yhon Perez walloping a pinch-hit three-run shot in a 5-1 victory over the Michigan State Spartans before a crowd of 5,933. The Lugnuts improved to 11-2 in the annual exhibition, winning for the eighth straight season.

· 2022: Cooper Bowman hit a grand slam and Sahid Valenzuela stole home, helping the Lugnuts win at South Bend, 10-8. Mason Miller started the game, firing two innings, followed by two innings apiece from TJ Czyz, Mac Lardner and Brock Whittlesey before Calvin Coker wrapped up the ninth, striking out Pete Crow-Armstrong to end the game. Crow-Armstrong shattered his bat over his knee in frustration, upset by a strike call earlier in the at-bat.

September 4

· 2009: In front of a Fan Appreciation Day crowd of 9,972 in the home finale, the Lugnuts scored three runs in the bottom of the 8th on a Balbino Fuenmayor RBI double and an A.J. Jimenez two-run double to beat West Michigan, 4-3. Jimenez’s double was the Lugnuts’ only hit with runners in scoring position; they finished 1-for-14.

· 2016: Juan Kelly’s on-base streak ended at 34 games in an 0-for-4 night, as the Lugnuts lost 3-0 at Lake County. Jake Henson’s RBI single in the bottom of the 9th earlier in the day had given the Great Lakes Loons a 1-0 win over West Michigan, eliminating the Lugnuts from playoff contention. T.J. Zeuch suffered the loss, striking out seven batters in five innings while allowing three hits and three runs.

· 2018: The Lugnuts won their seventh consecutive Crosstown Showdown, 6-4, over Michigan State in front of 6,388 at Cooley Law School Stadium. The Nuts improved to 10-2 in the CTSD. Lansing’s starter was super-prospect Nate Pearson, the 28th overall pick in 2017, who hit 102 mph in two scoreless innings, striking out two Spartans in the first inning and three in a perfect second. Adam Kloffenstein, the Jays’ 2018 3rd-round pick, blanked the Spartans in third and fourth innings, striking out two, as the Lugnuts built a 5-0 lead. The Spartans narrowed the deficit thanks to a Zaid Walker two-run single in the fifth and then three Lugnuts errors in a four-batter span in the seventh brought in two MSU runs and loaded the bases with two outs before Naswell Paulino struck out Peter Ahn to end the game. MSU’s Adam Proctor won his second straight Home Run Derby in the pre-game. Proctor, Andrew Morrow and Zaid Walker each hit four home runs in the first round, and then tied at three home runs in a one-minute swing-off. In a second swing-off, Proctor hit three to advance to the final, where he bested the Nuts’ Freddy Rodriguez, 7-6.

· 2022: Jorge Juan (4 IP) combined with Jack Owen (2 1/3), Shohei Tomioka (2/3) and Osvaldo Berrios (2 IP) to complete the third no-hitter in franchise history, 2-1 at South Bend. Lawrence Butler’s home run in the first and Max Muncy’s RBI double in the eighth supplied the Nuts’ runs; the Cubs drew seven walks and scored their only run on a Berrios throwing error in the eighth.

September 5

· 2010: In Game 1 of a doubleheader, Lake County SS Casey Frawley became the first player to homer off the Classic Park lighthouse in center field – the prize: $1,000 split between Frawley and a random Captains fan – and the Caps beat the Lugnuts, 8-6. In Game 2, the Lugnuts’ Daniel Webb came one out from throwing a seven-inning no-hitter before Chase Burnette broke it up with a single to center field. Casey Beck relieved Webb and finished off a 3-1 Lugnuts win.

· 2011: Billy Hamilton stole three bases, finishing the regular season with 103 steals, and Dayton edged the Lugnuts, 3-2, at Fifth Third Field. Jonathan Jones went 4-for-4 with a walk and three stolen bases in the loss. Jake Marisnick went 0-for-2 before exiting, ending his MWL-best 30-game road on-base streak. The Nuts closed the regular season with a 77-60 record, while the Dragons finished at 83-57. The teams coincidentally were scheduled to play each other at Fifth Third Field in the first round of the playoffs, so the Lugnuts stuck around Dayton until the postseason began.

· 2018: Taylor Walls scored from second base on a Ronaldo Hernandez infield single in the top of the 10th, and the Bowling Green Hot Rods won Game 1 of the playoffs, 4-3 over the Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium. The game featured two different rain delays totaling 51 minutes, and the game was played in a tense three hours and nine minutes. The Lugnuts had rallied from 1-0 and 3-1 deficits, tying the score in the fifth on an Andres Sotillo oppo home run to right-center and again in the eighth on a two-out Norberto Obeso two-run triple to right. 19-year-old Maximo Castillo allowed only two hits and one run (a Jim Haley solo homer) in 5 2/3 innings in a no-decision.

September 6

· 2009: The Lugnuts scored nine runs in the 5th inning to win at South Bend, 11-10. The Silver Hawks scored three runs in the bottom of the 9th and had runners at 1st/2nd with only one out, but Yorman Mayora retired A.J. Pollock and Reynaldo Navarro to sew up the win. The Lugnuts went 11-for-21 with runners in scoring position in the win, and RF Johermyn Chavez went 5-for-6 with two doubles and two RBIs.

· 2010: In the final game of the season, the Lugnuts routed host Lake County, 11-0, behind four-hit games from Brad McElroy and Jake Marisnick (raising Marisnick’s average with the Nuts to .220). Marisnick also had two of the Lugnuts’ five stolen bases in the game, and Casey Lawrence (7 IP, 2 H, 5 K) combined with three relievers on a five-hit shutout. The Nuts finished the season with a 70-69 record. The Captains, meanwhile, went on to win the MWL championship in their first year in the league.

· 2016: Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., made their unofficial Lugnuts debuts, competing in the pregame Home Run Derby at the 10th annual Crosstown Showdown presented by Auto-Owners Insurance (where they were outhomered by eventual champion Connor Panas, who hit 14 homers in the 1st round and 14 more in the championship round to best MSU’s Dan Durkin). Then Bichette supplied an RBI triple in the game itself, Christian Williams hit a two-run homer, and the Lugnuts beat the Spartans, 4-1, before a crowd of 8,432. Cavan Biggio went 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and a run scored.

· 2018: The Bowling Green Hot Rods won their first playoff series in franchise history (en route to the first MWL title in franchise history, holding off the Lugnuts, 4-3, to win Game 2 of the first-round series at Bowling Green Ballpark, clinching the series, 2 games to 0. The two teams had driven eight hours through the night after the previous evening’s game. Trailing 4-1 entering the 9th, the Lugnuts scored runs on a Ryan Noda sacrifice fly and a Brandon Grudzielanek RBI single to keep hope alive, but Ryan Gold flied out to center field against Tyler Day, ending the game and the season. Moises Gomez hit a two-run homer and an RBI single, driving in Vidal Brujan twice, to lift the Hot Rods’ offense. Nuts starter Graham Spraker pitched seven innings in defeat, allowing three runs, and leadoff hitter Samad Taylor singled, doubled and scored a run. On the same day, Nuts groundskeeper Zach Severns was named Midwest League Groundskeeper of the Year.

September 7

· 2009: A typical final day of the year, as the Lugnuts lost 4-3 at South Bend in a two-hour, nine-minute sprint. The Nuts finished the year with a 54-84 record.

September 8

· 2022: 20-year-old Joey Estes fired his third consecutive quality start, limiting the Dragons to one run (a Tyler Callihan solo home run) in six innings with five strikeouts, but Dayton rallied for a 3-1 win on Austin Hendrick’s RBI double in the eighth off Brock Whittlesey.

September 9

· 2003: Game 1 of the Midwest League Championship Series went to the Lugnuts in ten innings, 7-6, over the Beloit Snappers. Felix Pie was 3-for-5 and scored three runs, including the game-winning run on a one-out Brian Dopirak ground ball knocked down by Snappers third baseman Adam Heether, who threw late to the home plate in an attempt to cut down Pie. The Lugnuts rallied from an early 5-0 deficit.

· 2011: Down to their last out in Game 2 of the Eastern Division Semifinals against powerful Dayton and untouchable closer Drew Hayes, eighth-place hitter Matt Nuzzo rocked Cooley Law School Stadium and shocked the Midwest League with a two-run game-winning homer. The Dragons' championship dreams ended one day later in a 4-3 loss to the Lugnuts.

· 2015: The Lugnuts took Game 1 at Great Lakes, opening the playoffs with a 6-5 victory on starter Shane Dawson’s (6 IP, 3 R, 8 K) 22nd birthday.

· 2022: Rece Hinds hit a 474-foot home run off Kyle Virbitsky, one of five Dragons home runs in an 8-4 win at Lansing.

September 10

· 2003: Game 2 of the Midwest League Championship Series. The Lugnuts defeated the Snappers, 3-2, moving within one victory of the title. Right fielder J.J. Johnson left the game with an injured shoulder after running into the right-field wall making a threat-squashing catch in the seventh inning, stranding two runners aboard.

· 2015: It was the Lugnuts’ first walk-off win all year, and it came on a Ryan McBroom sac fly in the bottom of the 9th, helping the Nuts sweep the Great Lakes Loons out of the playoffs with a 5-4 win. The Loons had scored two runs with two outs in the top of the ninth to take the lead, only to see the Nuts rally behind back-to-back one-out doubles from Danny Jansen and Chris Carlson, followed by walks to Richard Ureña and Jason Leblebijian from Tommy Bergjans. The Nuts advanced to face West Michigan (who would subsequently eliminate Lansing, 2 games to 1, on their way to winning the MWL title).

· 2022: In his third and final Lugnuts appearance, Mason Miller struck out seven Dayton Dragons in three hitless innings and Lawrence Butler went 4-for-4 with a walk, single, double and two home runs in a 9-5 win on Fan Appreciation Night.

September 11

· 2003: The Lugnuts win the Midwest League Championship at Beloit’s Pohlman Field, completing the three-game sweep of the Snappers!

· 2022: The scheduled season finale at home against Dayton was canceled due to field conditions and incoming weather. Phil Pohl’s Nuts finish the season with a 54-77 record.

September 12

· 2011: It was a rollercoaster ride through Game 2 of the Eastern Division Finals, with the Lugnuts and Fort Wayne TinCaps trading leads and dramatic comebacks all the way to the bottom of the ninth inning. An Oliver Dominguez ground-rule double and a pair of walks loaded the bases with one out and Michael Crouse's patience gave the Lugs the Eastern Division crown with an 8-7 win at Cooley Law School Stadium.

· 2015: Tom Robson gave up just a solo home run in six innings and the Lugnuts built a 5-1 lead and held on to win at West Michigan, 5-4, taking a 1-0 series lead in the Eastern Division Finals.

September 13

· 2002: In Game 4 of the Midwest League Championship Series, the Lugnuts brought a 10-2 lead to the eighth and a 10-3 lead to the ninth, looking to force Game 5 – but the Peoria Chiefs scored eight runs in the ninth inning to seize a stunning 11-10 victory and capture the MWL championship.

· 2015: Joey Pankake tallied four hits and hit a two-run home run as the West Michigan Whitecaps scored seven unanswered runs and topped the Lugnuts 8-3 in Game 2 of the Eastern Division Finals at Cooley Law School Stadium, evening the series at 1-1.

September 14

· 2015: Chris Carlson hit a two-run homer in the 3rd for an early 3-1 lead, but the West Michigan Whitecaps’ offense picked up momentum and scored two runs in the 4th, three in the 5th, five in the 7th, one in the 8th and two in the 9th to eliminate the Lugnuts, 14-5, in the pivotal Game 3 of the Eastern Division Finals at Cooley Law School Stadium. (The Whitecaps went on to defeat the Cedar Rapids Kernels to win the MWL championship.)

· 2016: The Lugnuts officially announced that Cooley Law School Stadium would host Miniature Golf at the Ballpark presented by Maple Brook Golf Course and City Limits East from Sept. 20-22 (5-10 p.m.) and Sept. 24-25 (Noon-5 p.m.). Rounds are just $5 apiece. The event was made possible by the coming installation of a brand new field at the ballpark.

1 – Doug Blosser (1976), Christian Lopes (1992), José Mora (1997), Otto López (1998)

2 – Bob Herold (1948), Charlie Anderson (1981), Adam Rogers (1984), Ted Serro (1984), Ángel Arévalo (2003)

3 – Matt Young (1982), Kyle Weatherly (1994)

4 – Scott Key (1976), Dan Wiggins (1976), Eric Albright (1977), Wes O’Brien (1982)

5 – Jesús López (1996)

6 – Edward Rodríguez (1984), Alberto Rodriguez (2000)

7 – Rafael Torres (1978), Josh Lex (1981), Joey Metropoulos (1983), John Tolisano (1988), Kirby Snead (1994)

8 – Steve Medrano (1977), Ibrahim Navarro (1979), Brady Basso (1997), Jack Weisenburger (1997), Kyle Virbitsky (1998), Joey Estes (2001)

9 – Doug Murray (1974)

10 – Joey Wolfe (1980), Ryan Gold (1997)

11 – Adam Finnieston (1972), Monty Ward (1976), Walt Nolen (1981)

12 – Casey McGehee (1982), Andy Ravel (1994), Rubén Escalera (1964)

13 – Stosh Jackson (1975), David Corrente (1983)

14 – Carlos Mármol (1982), Will Simoneit (1996)

15 – Juan Cruz (1978), Po-Hsuan Keng (1984), Emmanuel Sena (1984), Scott Gracey (1986)

16 – Chad Rodriguez (1973), Ryan Koch (1985), Jon Harris (1993)

18 – Peyton Lewis (1975), Edgar Estanga (1985), Chaz Frank (1990)

19 – Brian Bormaster (1981), Jimmy Cordero (1991), Cooper Uhl (1997)

20 – Ferenc Jongejan (1978)

21 – Pete Fukuhara (1975), Sean Ochinko (1987), Danny Barnes (1989), Tim Brechbuehler (1989)

23 – Julio Pinto (1984)

24 – Nick Hartman (1994), Justin Maese (1996)

25 – Jason Roenicke (1985), Juan Hernández (1987)

26 – Dwight Smith Jr. (1992)

27 – Carlos Pérez (1990)

28 – Ken Joyce (1964), Casey Lawrence (1987)

29 – Modesto Villarreal (1975)

30 – Jhon Acosta (1979), Claudio Custodio (1990)

31 – Matt Murphy (1978), Jeremy Harper (1980), Marty Bechina (1996)

October 1

· 2013: CF Dalton Pompey was selected as the recipient of the 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove Award as the top defensive CF in MiLB. He finished the year with 223 putouts, eight assists and zero errors.