FLORENCE, Ky. – Florence scored all of its runs during a four-batter stretch of the fifth inning and defeated the free-falling Wild Things 6-2 Wednesday night.Florence began the night a half-game behind first-place Evansville in the Frontier League’s tight West Division, where the top four ...
For the first time in three years, there will be no playoff baseball at Wild Things Park in September.That much was obvious weeks, if not months, ago, but it became official Sunday afternoon when the Lake Erie Crushers defeated the Schaumburg Boomers, thus eliminating Washington from playoff ...
It was during a series last month in Washington that Brian Smith, Windy City’s first-year manager, said the Wild Things were much like his team – one that struggles to score – except when they play his ThunderBolts.“Then, they turn into the 1927 New York Yankees,” he ...
The Steelers held their final practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College Thursday afternoon and it raised a question.Is this team better or worse than we thought a few weeks ago?Mike Tomlin was asked that question this week and said he wouldn’t know for sure until he saw what happens ...
Mired in the bottom half of the standings in mid-August can be dreary terrain for a Frontier League team.Several weeks of games remain in the regular season and the anticipation that ordinarily accompanies each contest just isn't there.Sometimes a team needs something out of the ordinary to ...
JOLIET, Ill. – Keegan Long and two relievers combined on a two-hitter as the Joliet Slammers defeated the Wild Things 4-1 Thursday night to complete a three-game series sweep.Washington had a single from J.R. Davis two batters into the game and its only other hit was a single by Blake Adams ...
