LINCOLN, Neb. – The Lincoln Saltdogs have announced the promotional schedule spanning the club's 50-game home schedule for 2019. For another year, the season will feature many special promotions and giveaways, and will include many discount nights, Fireworks nights and nights centering around family fun. "We're pursuing new acts and fresh ideas this season," Director [...]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Tyler Moore went 3-for-4 with a solo homer in his Saltdogs debut, but the ‘Dogs fell behind by six and couldn’t overcome it in a 6-2, season-opening loss to the Sioux City Explorers at Mercy Field at Lewis and Clark Park on Thursday night. BOX SCORE Moore hit a solo homer [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Lincoln Saltdogs have finalized the Opening Night roster for 2019, the club has announced. Moves made ahead of the league’s deadline include trading LHP Christian Torres to Winnipeg for a player to be named later and trading INF Trey Hair to Sussex County in exchange for RHP Austin Pettibone. RHP Ian [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Lincoln Saltdogs have sold the contract of RHP Michael Blazek to the Washington Nationals, the club has announced. Blazek, 30, was getting ready for his first season of independent baseball but instead will report for the Nationals – the fourth different Major League organization he’s played for. He becomes the 59th [...]
LINCOLN, Neb – Noah Cummings had four hits, Ivan Marin reached four separate times and the Saltdogs beat the Goldeyes in another 11-inning exhibition game, 2-1, at Haymarket Park on Sunday night. Cummings went 4-for-4 with a double and Marin went 2-for-2 with a pair of singles, walks and the go-ahead RBI in the bottom [...]
OVERVIEW: The AirHogs have operated out of AirHogs Stadium for over a decade now, and while so much of the surrounding suburbs have changed, the ballpark still feels relatively the same. For a while, Grand Prairie was a suburb in what was – by far – the largest media market in the American Association. Now [...]
York, NE – The Lincoln Saltdogs opened the 2019 exhibition season with a 6-2 loss to the Sioux City Explorers over 11 innings at Levitt Stadium in York, NE on Friday night. Sioux City clubbed three homers – including a pair of two-run shots in a four-run sixth inning – and out-hit the ‘Dogs 12-7. [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Saltdogs have finalized the 2019 Spring Training schedule ahead of the team's 19th season, the club announced Thursday. The 'Dogs will open the exhibition season with a game against the Sioux City Explorers at Levitt Stadium in York, NE on Friday, May 10. Admission is free and first pitch is scheduled [...]
American Association Preseason Tour: St. Paul, Minnesota OVERVIEW: Few clubs in all of minor league baseball – and not just independent baseball – do things quite like the St. Paul Saints do. In one of baseball’s better cities and one the game’s state-of-the-art ballparks, any trip to visit the Saints is a treat each year. [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – The Lincoln Saltdogs have added former Padres farmhand Nick Schulz, the club announced on Thursday. Schulz, who turns 28 tomorrow (May 3), brings four years of affiliated baseball experience to the club. Originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Padres in 2014, Schulz has appeared in 100 or more games [...]
