Official Twitter of the Rockford Rivets baseball team. Member of the Northwoods League, an elite summer developmental league for college athletes.
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Tip of the cap to Matt Higgins tonight! 🧢 The junior from Bellarmine launched his first home run of the season in the
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big win over Battle Creek!
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PLAYER OF THE DAY ALERT 🚨:
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Brody Harding
Our short Shortstop plays a big game on and off the field with only video games and baseball on his mind.
Psst.....Zendaya is his celebrity crush
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The 2022 season has concluded with the first winning record since 2017. Rockford finished the season in 2nd place in both the second half as well as the overall standings in the Great Lakes East. The Rivets offense also set a franchise record for runs scored in a season!
Great night for the Rivets! They took the game 28-7 while beating the all time record of most runs in a game for the Northwoods league. The team is back in action for a home game tomorrow night at 6:05.
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⚾️🔩 Here’s our 2019 OPENING NIGHT lineup vs. the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters!
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0️⃣1️⃣ Burrows
0️⃣9️⃣ Josten
0️⃣4️⃣ Higgins
2️⃣5️⃣ Williams
1️⃣1️⃣ Heinrich
1️⃣7️⃣ Mann
1️⃣0️⃣ Day
2️⃣7️⃣ Bieterman
1️⃣9️⃣ Lilly
2️⃣0️⃣ Wright
🚨Player of the Day Alert🚨: Brandon Bannon
Brandon is an infielder & catcher at the University of Illinois-Springfield! He is majoring in marketing and collects hats.
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Fun Fact: His favorite TikToks are golfing TikToks.⛳️
Special Tip of the Cap to Jake Vander Wal! 🧢 His solo homer in the bottom of the 7th gave cushion to the
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lead that was not relinquished!
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🚨Player of the Day Alert🚨: Payton Hutchings
Payton is a left handed pitcher from the University of Illinois! He is majoring in Sports Management and loves strawberry kiwi Capris Suns!⚾️☀️
Fun Fact: The one superpower Payton would want is super speed!🏃🏽♂️
He went 2-5 with an RBI and a stolen base in our 3-1 season-finale victory. Ladies and gentlemen, for the last time this summer we'd like to present to you your fan-vote Rivet of the Game: Colton Klein
Player of the Day Alert 🚨: Philip Matulia
Philip is an Out Fielder from Houston, Texas. He was recently the Player of the Night on July 6th for hitting the cycle against the Kenosha Kingfish! 🎉
Fun Fact: His biggest role models are his brothers!👨👦👦
Rivets notch the only shutout of the night in
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action AND had the largest margin of victory. Behind Cole Bellair's 7 shutout innings of one-hit ball Rockford wins on opening night 9-0 over Green Bay.
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Payton Hutchings's 10th strikeout of the night puts an exclamation point on a comeback win for the Rivets!
Hutchings: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 10 K (season high)
Final | Rivets 5 Battle Creek 4
As the boys load up the bus for Traverse City today, here's what happened the last time the Rivets hit the road... Alex Steinbach and Kirk Liebert going back-to-back!!
Congratulations to our very own pitcher, Nathan Schneiderman! He just signed a professional contract with the Joliet Slammers of the Frontier League! Thanks for being part of the club.
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pick up their first win of the year with a 5-3 victory over Wisconsin Rapids! Nice W boys! 👊🏼
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🔩⚾️🔥Special tip of the cap to Malik Williams who sent one out of the ballpark to deep left field for our first long ball of the year! 💪🏼🔩💥
Chase Estep had himself a night against the Loggers! He launched his second homer of the season, was named
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Player of the Night AND was selected by the fans as our Rivet of the Game!
FINAL: Rivets WIN 4-3!! Jarret Olson goes 8 ⅔ innings for the W, and Tanner Propst gets the strikeout to shut the door! Jonny Butler and Tom Josten both had 2 RBI for the Screws.
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5 MORE DAYS UNTIL OPENING DAY!!
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Welcome back Brody Harding! This will be Brody's third season with the Rivets and we cannot be happier to have him at our stadium again!
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Big inning for
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as current Bulldog Shemar Page drives home teammate Philip Matulia and future Bulldog Wade Elliott doubles home Page to cut the deficit to one!
Mid 3 | Rivets 3 Kokomo 4
The fans have spoken! With 10 strikeouts over five scoreless innings to pick up his second win of the season, Jordan Wicks is your Rivet of the Game!
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🚨Player of the Day Alert🚨: Aj Golembiewski
Aj is a right handed pitcher from the University of Illinois Springfield. He is majoring in Business Management and collects baseball cards.
Fun Fact: His dream job when he was younger was to be an actor!
Rivets finish the home opening series 2-0 after their 6-1 win Wednesday night over Green Bay. Kueter and Schneiderman strike out six each and Butler hit the 1st Rivets' homer of the season. Rockford now hits the road on a four-game trip.
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Join us in wishing luck to our two All-Stars as Brad Littleton and Jimmy Burnette head off to Waterloo to take part in the 25th Northwoods League All-Star game! 🌟
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Congratulations to
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for being a 2022 Northwoods League Postseason ALL-STAR!!⭐️ This is a tremendous accomplishment and we are very proud of everything Ty has done this season.