'Hounds Win High Scoring Contest
Published on July 27, 2010 under Texas League (TL1)
Midland RockHounds News Release
How do we best describe the first game of a 3-game series between first place Frisco and the second-place RockHounds?
Frisco starting pitcher Martin Perez is the Texas Rangers' # 3 prospect. The 19-year-old left-hander will certainly have his share of tough nights on the pitcher's mound in his career, but very few THIS tough. Tuesday night at Citibank Ballpark, he allowed six hits and seven runs ... in one-third of an inning.
RockHounds starter Carlos Hernandez, meanwhile, lasted 5.0 innings and was staked to the 7-0 lead.
How wild was this game? Neither starter would be the pitcher of record.
The RockHounds scored seven in the first ... Frisco got two in the third and five in the fifth, and the game was tied at 7-7.
The 'Hounds came right back with another half-dozen in the sixth inning, and would eventually hold off the RoughRiders, 14-9.
Alex Valdez and Corey Brown each drove in three runs with one swing ... Alex with a bases-loaded double in the first and Corey with a bases-loaded trip-le in the sixth. Valdez and Shane Peterson had three hits each for the 'Hounds while Matt Sulentic had two hits and drove in two runs.
Emerson Frostad went 3-for-6 with two RBI for Frisco and Marcus Lemon had a 4-hit game (4-for-6).
The box score showed final totals of 23 runs on 32 hits and four errors with 20 base runners left on.
Oddities: All that baseball took just three-hours, 13-minutes and none of the 32 hits were home runs.
Frisco's Ben Snyder went 3.1 scoreless innings in relief of Perez, a notable performance o this night. The RockHounds bullpen of Justin Friend, Mickey Storey and Justin Souza combined for 4.0 innings, allowing five hits and two runs, both of which were unearned.
Oh, by the way ... the RockHounds have now won 8-of-their-last-10 and are just one game behind the RoughRiders in the Texas League South. The teams meet twice more at Citibank Ballpark in this series, and three games next week in the Metroplex, with another pair of home-and-home, 3-game series down the home stretch of the second half pennant race.
Wednesday's Probable Starters Frisco Michael Schalct (RH, 0-1, 4.11) RockHounds Ryan Edell (LH, 5-3, 3.27)
Game time 6:30 p.m. ... Citibank Ballpark Broadcast 6:15 p.m. on My Country 96.1-FM
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