The Lake Country DockHounds are on the cusp of history.
Riding a mind-blowing 14-game winning streak, the DockHounds will play a doubleheader today (June 11) with a chance to tie and surpass the American Association of Professional Baseball’s record for consecutive wins established by the Pensacola Pelicans in 2010, who won 15 in a row. The DockHounds, now a league-best 19-5, face the Kane County Cougars at Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva, Illinois.
To put that streak in context, it matches the Milwaukee Brewers’ franchise-record, George Webb burger-earning streak last season.
Many players have powered the DockHounds’ success during the streak, which has included tight games, comebacks and slugfest blowouts. Ray Zuberer III, who’s in his third year with Lake Country and earned last week’s American Association Batter of the Week honors with three home runs, 13 RBIs and one spectacular diving catch of a line drive at second base.
Timed that catch to perfection ⏱️@DockHounds‘ Ray Zuberer III is this week’s Cap X Tip of the Cap Moment winner! pic.twitter.com/1afgnLaG4w
— American Association (@AA_Baseball) June 9, 2026
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And on Tuesday night, first baseman Ryan Hernandez became the first player in the league to reach the 10-home run plateau. The 6-foot-5-inch, 259-pound Hernandez crushed 29 homers for the Dockhounds in 2024 and another 18 long balls last season.
The DockHounds joined the American Association, an independent professional baseball league, as an expansion team in 2022. The league also counts the Milwaukee Milkmen, a franchise based in Franklin, as a member. (The DockHounds swept a three-game home series against the Milkmen last week.)
The DockHounds’ owners are led by Tom and Lisa Kelenic, parents of Jarred Kelenic, the sixth overall pick in the 2018 MLB draft who currently plays in the Texas Rangers organization. The ownership group also includes Sonny Bando, son of former Milwaukee Brewers general manager Sal Bando, along with 25 to 30 other minority investors.
The DockHounds are coming off a highly successful 2025 season during which the team captured its first East Division regular season title and made the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The team plays its home games at a 3,600-seat ballpark in Oconomowoc, just off I-94, that had been known as Wisconsin Brewing Company Park before a naming rights partnership with Verona-based Wisconsin Brewing Co. and Lake Louie Brewing ended after four years immediately prior to the start of the current season. The franchise is still in search of a new naming rights deal for the ballpark, where the DockHounds are 8-1 this season.
Milkmen Making Headlines, Too
Although trailing the DockHounds in the standings, the Milwaukee Milkmen have been chasing records of their own.
On Tuesday night, the Milkmen’s power-hitting first baseman Griffin Doersching, a Milwaukee native who attended Greendale High School, went 4-for-5 with three home runs and an American Association single-game record 10 RBIs in a 13-1 drubbing of the Gary SouthShore RailCats at the U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana. He hit three-run homers in each of the game’s first two innings, a run-scoring single in the third and another three-run blast in the eighth. Doersching homered again in his first at-bat in Wednesday night’s game in Gary, which the Milkmen won 3-2.
Doersching hit 13 home runs during his senior season at Greendale and went viral for a monstrous 513-foot homer he hit while playing for Oklahoma State in 2022. He was an eighth-round draft pick of the San Diego Padres in 2022.
The Milkmen have compiled a 13-11 record, good for third place in the East Division, five and a half games behind the DockHounds heading into today’s action.
A Milkman in the Big Leagues
A former Milwaukee Milkmen star has also been making news in one of the Major League’s feel-good stories this season.
Bryan Torres, who had two stellar seasons with the Milkmen, finally made it to the majors, earning a call-up by the Cardinals in May. The second baseman who spent several years in the Milwaukee Brewers farm system after being signed at age 17 waited 11 years to get his first shot in the big leagues.
Torres wasted no time making his mark. In his MLB debut on May 23, Torres stroked a single and then followed with a dramatic home run against the Reds in Cincinnati.
11 YEARS IN THE MAKING!
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) May 23, 2026
Bryan Torres’ first MLB home run! pic.twitter.com/yLTsLOrtfi
Torres was the American Association batting champion in 2022 and 2023 as a member of the Milkmen, during which he hit .374 and .370, respectively. He also stole a league-record 71 bases in 2023 and earned MVP honors in the league’s 2023 All-Star Game, which was played at Franklin Field.
Torres also belted a run-scoring triple against the Brewers at American Family Field on May 27. He hit his second career homer on June 8 and continues to see regular playing time for the Cardinals. Through Wednesday’s games, he’s amassed 38 at bats, hitting .263 with five runs scored and five RBIs.
