Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Kernels

The Cedar Rapids Kernels went a month and a half before dropping their first series of the Midwest League season. It came this week against Lake County, though the Kernels did win Sunday afternoon, 6-1.

Cade Povich was a third-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins last year. The Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher threw college ball for Nebraska, suffering only one loss last season ... to the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Jeferson Morales is the only Cedar Rapids Kernels player who doesn’t live with a local billet family. He lives in a local hotel, though he has his wife and young son with him from Venezuela, which makes everything OK.

Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher Orlando Rodriguez left his native Cuba with his mother, father and younger brother in 2012 in search of the American dream. His American dream is making it to the major leagues.

The Cedar Rapids Kernels picked up a 2-1, 11-inning victory Sunday over Quad Cities, the longest home game of the season. It still didn’t even last three hours.

At one point, Cedar Rapids Kernels shortstop Wander Javier was considered the shortstop of the future for the Minnesota Twins. But he seems to be at a career crossroads in 2022.

Pitcher John Stankiewicz made his Cedar Rapids Kernels debut Thursday night, and it was a good one. He doesn’t have elite velocity, getting outs regularly by literally pitching.

The Cedar Rapids Kernels had the best record in the minor leagues last week but have dropped four in a row and stand “only” 15-7.

Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher Bobby Milacki has a long story: Son of a former big leaguer, cut by his college team, released by the Nationals, discovered while playing for a temporary independent team called the Tully Monsters, offseason elbow surgery.

Photos from the Cedar Rapids Kernels’ 6-4 win over the Peoria Chiefs.

The new pitch clock being used in minor league baseball this year is challenging relief pitchers to execute important late-game pitches and to do it quickly.

Anthony Prato has been a great leadoff hitter thus far for the Cedar Rapids Kernels, hitting, drawing walks, scoring runs and driving them in.

Former Vice President Mike Pence (center) dropped by the Kernels game against Peoria Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids.

The Cedar Rapids Kernels swept a doubleheader from Peoria on Thursday night, winning games in identical fashion: giving up a run in the top half of the eighth inning and countering with two in the bottom half.

Major League Baseball has announced the Cedar Rapids Kernels and Quad Cities River Bandits will play the first-ever minor league game at the Field of Dreams site.