SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2014 After sharing the field as American Association All-Stars earlier this summer, Napoleon products Zach Willeman and Art Warren both took the field in a regular season matchup between their two squads and played key roles in a 4-3 win for the Kane County Cougars over the Sioux City Explorers.<\/p>\n
Willeman, a 2014 Napoleon grad, started for Sioux City and hit double-digit strikeouts for the third time this season. The 30-year-old righthander struck out 10 in six innings, scattering seven hits and three runs with no walks, leaving with his team down 3-1 before Sioux City tied it in the seventh and lost the lead in the eighth.<\/p>\n
In that eighth inning, the 33-year-old Warren came on with one out and alternated walk-strikeout-walk-strikeout to pitch 0.2 scoreless innings. The 2011 Napoleon product recorded his 12th ohld of the year.<\/p>\n
On the year, Willeman is 5-8 in 18 starts with a league-best 120 strikeouts along with 54 walks and a 5.97 ERA in 120 innings. Meanwhile, Warren has made 38 relief appearances spanning 38.1 innings with four saves, 60 strikeouts, 21 walks and a 2.58 ERA.<\/p>\n
Newman keeps hot bat<\/p>\n
FREDERICK, Md. \u2014 After having his 18-game hit streak snapped Tuesday against the Frederick Keys, Archbold product DJ Newman tallied a hit against the Keys in each of the three games over the weekend for the Asheville Tourists (High-A).<\/p>\n
Newman, 22, started in the outfield and batted ninth in all three games. The former Bluestreak tallied an RBI double in Sunday\u2019s 6-0 win while driving in a pair of runs with a base hit in the seventh inning of Saturday\u2019s 8-7 loss and tallying a fifth-frame single in a 4-2 setback Friday.<\/p>\n
With the month of August complete, Newman batted a scorching .403 in 17 games (16 with Asheville) in the month with 25 hits, 11 runs, 15 RBIs, five doubles, three homers and three steals with a .422 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n
Overall this season, the Houston Astros\u2019 rookie prospect is hitting .333 in 54 games with 56 hits, 32 runs, 15 doubles, six homers, 37 RBIs and 15 stolen bases.<\/p>\n
Multi-hit nights for Williams<\/p>\n
EVANSVILLE, Ind. \u2014 Jeron Williams continued his stellar start to his tenure with the independent-league Lake Erie Crushers, tallying at least two hits in each of the three games this weekend against the Evansville Otters.<\/p>\n
Saturday was the high mark of the seven-hit weekend for the 25-year-old prospect as he batted 3-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored in a 9-3 victory. Williams hit a single and double in Friday\u2019s 7-2 loss while rapping two singles and scoring a run in a 7-6 loss on Sunday, batting second and starting in right field all three nights.<\/p>\n
In 15 games with Lake Erie, the former Toledo standout and Houston Astros\u2019 draft pick is hitting .417 with a .438 on-base percentage, 25 hits, two doubles, eight RBIs and four stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX CITY, Iowa \u2014 After sharing the field as American Association All-Stars earlier this summer, Napoleon products Zach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[91390,5,2314,2317,2313,2413,54,31217,6236,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,90674,2327,33922,1039],"class_list":["post-793284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-2025-houston-astros-season","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-astros-seasons","tag-iowa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-napoleon","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sioux-city","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}