The Great Lakes Loons on Saturday, for the first time in five games, were playing a playoff game in the friendly confines of Dow Diamond. They had a much needed day off on Friday after having played four games on the road, two against the West Michigan Whitecaps in Comstock Park and two against the […]
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Great Lakes Loons shut out Clinton LumberKings again
September 18th, 2016 at 6:00 am 
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The Pantone 294 – Who are these guys?
September 17th, 2016 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka If you haven’t heard by now, Dodger fans recently took over Yankee Stadium; not figuratively but literally … sort of. On Monday night, September 12, there were 1,311 members of the Los Angeles-based Pantone 294 fan group who traveled on seven separate flights from Los Angeles to New York and converged on Yankee Stadium in support of […]
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Loons Saige Jenco fuels playoff run
September 17th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League for the first time in their 10-year history are in the championship round of the playoffs. The Loons run seemed unlikely even one month ago. However, they finished in a flurry winning 18 of their last 25 games and capturing the last wildcard berth in the Eastern […]
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Opponents should be very afraid of Clayton Kershaw
September 16th, 2016 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka When Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw landed on the disabled list around the All-Star break, opposing teams breathed a collective sigh of relief. It’s not that they wished anything bad on the 28-year-old Dallas, Texas native; no MLB player ever wishes that on another player. It’s just that they knew that they would not have to […]
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Dodgers 2017 schedule features interleague play vs. AL Central
September 16th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Wednesday Major League Baseball released its preliminary schedule for the 2017 regular season. As happens every three years, the Dodgers – and all National League West Division teams – will play the American League Central Division teams in 2017. The Dodgers kickoff the season on April 3, 2017 at home with a four-game series against […]
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Loons shut out LumberKings in Game-2 of Midwest Playoffs
September 16th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman In the past two days the Great Lakes Loons have actually lived a tale of two cities. On Tuesday evening they tallied five runs in the last three innings to defeat the West Michigan Whitecaps 5-2 and claim the Eastern Division Championship in the Midwest League. On Wednesday they scored five runs in the first […]
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Loons implode in Game-1 of Midwest League Division playoffs
September 15th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Great Lakes Loons are on the road again. Having eliminated the West Michigan Whitecaps – in an exciting third game of the series – to capture the Eastern Division Championship of the Midwest League, the Loons earned a berth in the league championship series. No sooner had they done so than they had to […]
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Loons advance to first-ever Midwest League Championship Series
September 14th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The question of the day on Tuesday is how would the Loons respond following their loss to the West Michigan Whitecaps on Monday. After the third inning the Loons bats were absolutely silenced by the Whitecaps as West Michigan forced a third and deciding game. The winner of that game will advance to face the […]
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Puig continues to flourish since returning from exile
September 13th, 2016 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka Controversial Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig had only one pinch-hit at-bat in Monday night’s 8-2 pounding of the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium but he made the best of that one at-bat; he lifted an opposite field solo home run just inside the right field foul pole off of Yankees left-hander James Pazos. Although Puig’s “short-porch” home […]
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Great Lakes Loons playoff run stalls
September 13th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Great Lakes Loons most likely had a better night’s sleep Sunday night than they did on Saturday night. The Loons traveled all the way from Bowling Green, Kentucky after their Saturday game with the Hod Rods, arriving home in Midland, Michigan at 8:30 am. After a period of rest, they had to report to […]
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