{"id":887848,"date":"2026-09-08T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887848\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:40:10","slug":"monarchs-defeat-goldeyes-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887848\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs defeat Goldeyes in regular season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Monarchs (59-41) defeated the Winnipeg Goldeyes 5-1 Monday afternoon at Legends Field in the final game of the 2026 regular season.

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\nWinnipeg (54-46) finished second in the American Association West Division.

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\nThe Goldeyes opened the scoring in the top of the first inning. Third baseman\u00a0Ram\u00f3n Bramasco\u00a0drew a leadoff walk and shortstop\u00a0Ray-Patrick Didder\u00a0followed with a one-out single before right fielder\u00a0Max Murphy\u00a0delivered a two-out base hit to right field that brought Bramasco home.<\/p>\n

Kansas City tied the game in the bottom of the inning when second baseman Austin Callahan singled and scored on a two-out double to left field by left fielder Grant Richardson.

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\nThe Monarchs moved in front with two runs in the third. Right fielder Tyler Gentry and Callahan scored on consecutive bases-loaded hit-by-pitches to first baseman Sa\u00fal Garza and shortstop Sahid Valenzuela, respectively.

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\nKansas City added two insurance runs in the eighth on consecutive RBI doubles by designated hitter Luken Baker and Garza.

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\nWinnipeg left-hander\u00a0Kevin Vaupel\u00a0(5-6) allowed two runs on three hits over two innings. He walked one and struck out one.

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\nEli Saul\u00a0was charged with one run during a hitless inning, walking one and striking out one.\u00a0James Colyer\u00a0allowed one hit in a scoreless inning, while\u00a0Mitchell Lambson\u00a0worked the final four frames and surrendered two runs on seven hits. He did not walk a batter and struck out three.

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\nKansas City right-hander Thaddeus Ward (1-1) allowed one run on six hits over 5 2\/3 innings. He walked one and struck out five.

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\nMurphy and centre fielder\u00a0Noah Marcelo\u00a0each collected two hits for Winnipeg.

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\nBramasco drew two walks to finish the regular season with an American Association-leading 74 bases on balls. That total ties\u00a0Tyler Hill\u2019s 2021 mark for the third-most in a single season in franchise history.

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\nDidder scored 92 runs this season, one shy of the club record of 93 set by\u00a0Fehlandt Lentini\u00a0in 2006.

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\nMarcelo\u2019s 92 runs batted in are the third-most in team history, trailing only\u00a0Kyle Martin\u2019s 106 in 2021 and Murphy\u2019s 97 in 2022.

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\nThe postseason begins Wednesday when the Goldeyes face the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in Game One of the West Division Series at Newman Outdoor Field. Right-hander\u00a0Landen Bourassa\u00a0(2-4, 3.86 ERA) is scheduled to start for Winnipeg, while Fargo-Moorhead will counter with right-hander Kyle Crigger (6-7, 4.21 ERA). Game time is 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Monarchs (59-41) defeated the Winnipeg Goldeyes 5-1 Monday afternoon at Legends Field in the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-887848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}