AAA: Round Rock 8, El Paso (SDG) 2
Round Rock: 11 hits, 7 walks, 5 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 1 walk, 8 strikeouts
Record: 33-34, 9.5 GB
SP Ty Blach: 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 6 SO, 88 P / 63 S, 3.86 ERA
RP Luis Curvelo: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 1.88 ERA
RP Patrick Murphy: 2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 2.63 ERA
2B Justin Foscue: 2-5, HR (10), .289/.381/.528
CF Dustin Harris: 2-4, 2B, BB, SB (12), .227/.338/.311
DH Cody Freeman: 1-3, 2 BB, SB (5), .307/.356/.489
Justin Foscue has joined Brian Crim (12) and Gleider Figuerero (10) in the double-digit homer club.
AA: Frisco 3, at Midland (ATH) 2 (10)
Frisco: 6 hits, 7 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 2 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 34-26, 0.5 GB, elimination number 8
SP Ben Anderson: 3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 4 SO, 48 P / 34 S, 4.10 ERA
RP Geraldo Carillo: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 5.82 ERA
RP Avery Weems: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 SO, 6.10 ERA
DH Sebastian Walcott: 2-3, BB, .256/.357/.438
SS Cam Cauley: 2-4, BB, .256/.333/.399
Midland’s Henry Bolte tied the game in the 9th with a two-out solo homer, but Sebastian Walcott’s 10th-inning sac fly would hold up to even the series against the division leader. . That run came off ex-Ranger CD Pelham. A split of the final two would make the math easy; Frisco would simply need to win one more game than Midland next week.
Hi-A: Hub City 0, Wilmington (WAS) 8
Hub City: 2 hits, 5 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 6 hits, 4 walks, 13 strikeouts
Record: 30-31, 2.5 GB, elimination number 3
SP David Davalillo: 1.2 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 0 BB, 2 HBP, 0 SO, 57 P / 36 S, 2.12 ERA
RP Eric Loomis: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 SO, 3.12 ERA
RP Adonis Villaviciendo: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 4.57 ERA
David Davalillo is living well when a six-run night raises his ERA to just 2.12, but the timing wasn’t great. Hub City has lost five straight. Eric Loomis rebounded from Tuesday’s four-walk blow-up. Between Hickory and Hub City, Loomis has struck out 42 in 26.2 innings (36%).
Lo-A: Hickory 2, at Myrtle Beach (CHC) 3
Hickory: 6 hits, 6 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 3 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 30-30, 2 GB, elimination number 4
SP J’Brielle Easley: 3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 39 P / 26 S, 3.60 ERA
2B Antonis Macias: 1-2, 3 BB, .256/.419/.327
3B Daniel Flames: 1-2, 2B, BB, .333/.391/.429
Hickory fell to fifth place, and the four teams ahead are paired off each other the next two days, complicating any potential ground-gaining. The Crawdads stranded runners on second and third in the 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Plassmeyer
AA: Bratt
Hi-A: McCarty
Lo-A: Molina
Rangers Minor League History, 2007-2024
The third-best position player season in short/rookie ball during 2007-2024 was by Heriberto Hernandez in 2019.
Texas signed Hernandez late in 2017. Nominally a catcher, he never donned the mask more than 14 games in any season and dispensed of that role after a couple of seasons. Mostly, he was a bat. He shredded the Dominican Summer league in 2018, clubbing an uncommonly high 12 homers. In Arizona, he ranked second in homers (11) and doubles (17) and was third in slugging (.646). Hernandez went 5-13 with two homers in the Rangers’ four-game spring to the league championship, then joined short-A Spokane for a week plus another playoff series. He homered in the first two games but was 0-4 with a walk in a 5-4 loss that turned out to be Spokane’s last game as a Texas affiliate and last in the now-defunct short-A level.
He would never play for Texas again, joining IF Oslevis Basabe and 1B/OF Alexander Ovalles in a trade for 1B Nathaniel Lowe. He had some strong seasons as a Ray but never of the quality displayed in 2019, and he played out his contract in 2024 without being added to the 40-man roster. Miami snapped him up quickly, however, and after a homer-heavy if hit-light 41 games, the Marlins brought him up for his MLB debut. So far, he’s reliving 2019, hitting .407/.448/.593 with two doubles and a homer in ten games.