CEDAR RAPIDS — Travis Harrison rounded first base and turned toward his dugout, expecting to be surrounded by a host of Cedar Rapids Kernels teammates. But everyone ran toward home plate to celebrate with Jorge Polanco instead. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. You either mob the guy with the game-winning hit or the [...]

Through the Iowa Writers Workshop, Lucas Mann spent a full season with the Clinton LumberKings of the Midwest League and has released a book about it entitled “Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.” Here is a New York Times interview with Mann: Not Heaven; Iowa: Lucas Mann Talks About ‘Class A’ By JOHN WILLIAMS [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – His first grand slam, his first walk-off hit, his first postgame shaving cream pie. Yet another step out the door here in Cedar Rapids and toward Fort Myers. Honestly, there’s probably not much more Byron Buxton can do at the low-Class A level. The 19-year-old phenom sent Veterans Memorial Stadium into a tizzy [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — You’ve never met Hudson Boyd, so you look for the real big guy in the Cedar Rapids Kernels clubhouse. You finally find his locker, but the dude sitting in a chair in front of it is this svelte kid nowhere near the 268 pounds the roster lists him. Hudson Boyd? Yep, Hudson Boyd. “The [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Just kinda weird. That’s for regular Cedar Rapids Kernels fans and seven of the guys they have watched play a lot of baseball. The Burlington Bees made their first visit of the season to Veterans Memorial Stadium Tuesday night, which could best be described as Reunion Night. Or the old Kernels versus [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – For the first time in awhile, the Cedar Rapids Kernels have a full working roster of 25 players. The Kernels sent outfielder Romy Jimenez to Minnesota Twins extended spring training Tuesday but received three players in return: catcher Michael Quesada, outfielder Jeremias Pineda and right-handed pitcher Josue Montanez. Jimenez was 7 for [...]

BELOIT, Wis. – Chad Lewis hit a groundball off the second-base bag with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to score the winning run in Beloit’s 3-2 victory over the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Monday night at Pohlman Field. It was the second walk-off hit of the series for Lewis, who also [...]

Cedar Rapids Kernels outfielder Adam Brett Walker has been named Midwest League Player of the Week for the second time this season. Walker hit .444 (12 for 27) last week, with four doubles, two triples, three home runs, 13 RBIs, and a 1.074 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). In a 23-16 win Sunday at Beloit, [...]

BELOIT, Wis. – Adam Brett Walker had two home runs and seven RBIs for the second time this season to help the Cedar Rapids Kernels outlast Beloit, 23-16, in a Midwest League offensive affair Sunday. Walker also collected a pair of doubles, scoring four runs. He went 4-for-6. Every Kernels position player had at least [...]

BELOIT, Wis. – Chad Lewis had a one-out, two-run double in the ninth inning to lift the Beloit Snappers past the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon. Lewis’ hit came against losing pitcher Manuel Soliman. Cedar Rapids took a 2-1 lead in the top of the inning on a Travis Harrison RBI double, scoring [...]