BY JEFFREY LUTZ, The Wichita Eagle-
A major-league baseball season is 162 games, making it difficult to place significant importance on any one game. Lose one and it can be brushed off with the "it's a long season" cliche.
Not so in the American Association, a league in which teams vie for playoff contention during two 48-game halves.
The Wingnuts' season is one month old today and they're already past the halfway point of the first half.
"It goes real fast," Wichita infielder Kevin Hooper said.
Perhaps no games have taken on the importance of Wichita's current six-game road trip to Sioux Falls and St. Paul, two teams in contention in the AA's North Division. Through Friday, the Saints led the division at 17-10 while Sioux Falls and Wichita sat 1 ½ games behind.
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