'Hounds Win Close One
July 26, 2010 - Texas League (TL1)
Midland RockHounds News Release
In a 5-month, 140-game season, there will be some "odd" scheduling from time to time. The Texas League schedule had the RockHounds hosting the San Antonio Missions eight times in 12 days (July 15-26), with the clubs playing two, 4-game series in that span, and the 'Hounds making a 4-game road trip to Corpus Christi in the middle.
The RockHounds won 5-of-the-8-games, and did so in remarkable fashion: - San Antonio's three wins came by a total margin of 33 runs - The RockHounds' five wins came by a total margin of six runs
The clubs split the first series and the 'Hounds won the second 4-gamer (3-1) with a 7-6 win Monday night at Citibank Ballpark.
Monday night, the RockHounds erased a 5-0 deficit, scoring seven unanswered runs, and did the all their damage against the Texas League's top pitcher, Jeremy Hefner. In 17 starts against the rest of the Texas League, Hefner is 7-2, with a 1.56 ERA. In four starts against the RockHounds, he is 1-3 with an ERA of more than NINE. Go figure.
Monday, the Missions used a pair of 2-run home runs from Matt Clark and Sawyer Carroll to build a 5-0 lead, with Hefner retiring the first nine batters he faced. Jemile Weeks led off the fourth with a single, and the 'Hounds would get on the board on Alex Valdez ' 2-run single. In the fifth, Adrian Cardenas ripped a 2-run single and Val Majewski lifted a 2-run home run to right for a 6-5 lead. Each team added an unearned run late, and the Missions put two on in the ninth before Clark lined out, sending a laser back at pitcher Justin Souza, who somehow knocked the ball down and threw to first to end the game. A wild finish to a wild series.
The RockHounds' three, 2-run swings (Valdez, Cardenas and Majewski) each came with two outs, and the hits from both Valdez and Cardenas came on 1-2 pitches.
The RockHounds have now won three, consecutive series (each by a 3-1 count) and are 7-2 in their last nine games.
At Frisco Monday night, Corpus Christi scored six runs in the seventh inning to defeat the RoughRiders, 6-5, bringing the RockHounds within two games of Frisco in the second half race. The RockHounds and RoughRiders play 12 times between now and the end of the season (four, 3-games series) beginning Tuesday night at Citibank Ballpark.
Tuesday's Probable
p; Frisco Martin Perez (LH, 4-5, 5.03) RockHounds Carlos Hernandez (LH, 8-2, 4.70)
Game time 6:30 p.m. ... Citibank Ballpark Broadcast 6:15 p.m. on My Country 96.1-FM
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