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Rename the Yard? RockHounds 4, Wichita 3

June 25, 2021 - Texas League (TL)
Midland RockHounds News Release


If he keep this up, we may have to rename the baseball stadium "Nick Allen Field at Momentum Bank Ballpark."

The RockHounds shortstop went 3-for-5, scored two runs, and drove in the game-winner with a tie-breaking single (on an 0-2 pitch) in the last of the eighth inning as the 'Hounds defeated the North Division-leading Wichita Wind Surge, 4-3, Friday night.

In 10 games at "Rocky Town," the US Olympic Team member is hitting .561 (23-for-41).

The game was a one-run contest throughout with the Wind Surge taking a 1-0 lead on Wilbis Santiago's third-inning RBI double.

Back-to-back singles from Allen and Logan Davidson led to the tying run in the last of the third and Davidson started a go-ahead rally with a single in the fifth. Jhonny Santos and Kyle McCann (RBI) followed with singles to give the 'Hounds a 2-1 lead.

Wichita tied the game twice more with single runs in the seventh and eighth, the first of those rallies starting on Santiago's perfect two-out, bases-empty bunt single.

The RockHounds answered both Wichita rallies. Back-to-back singles, again, from Allen and Davidson set the table in the seventh, with the run scoring on a Wind Surge error.

In the eighth, Devin Foyle drew just the second walk offered this season by Wichita reliever Zachary Neff, and Mickey McDonald was hit by a pitch. Allen then fell behind, 0-2, before lining the go-ahead single to left, scoring Foyle.

Aaron Brown tossed a 1-2-3 ninth (no easy task on a night in which the teams combined for 22 hits) for this third save.

The RockHounds snapped a mini-slide after the Wind Surge had taken the first three games of the series.

Kibbles & Bits

Logan Davidson collected his second three-hit game of the season and went 5-for-9, combined, Thursday and Friday.

He didn't figure in the decision, but Kyle Friedrichs turned in his best performance of the season. The right-hander, a member of the RockHounds' 2017 Texas League championship club (the team that completed the Four-Peat) allowed one run on five hits over five innings, walking one batter and striking out four.

Next Game: Saturday, June 26

RockHounds vs. Wichita Wind Surge

Fifth of a six-game series & homestand ... First Pitch at 7:00

Postgame Fireworks

Probable Starters

WIC Chris Vallimont (RH, 1-3, 4.56)

RH Brady Feigl (RH, 5-2, 3.86)

The RockHounds host the Wind Surge Saturday night (fireworks) and Sunday afternoon (Family Day / 2 p.m.) at Momentum Bank Ballpark to close the six-game series and homestand. The 'Hounds then pack their bags for a 12-game road trip to Frisco and Corpus Christi.

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