Greetings. Back from the 2026 Western National Archery Tournament in SLC.
Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 5, at Sugar Land (HOU) 3 (7)
Round Rock: 9 hits, 1 walk, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 5 walks, 7 strikeouts
SP Trey Supak: 6 IP, 4 H (1 HR), 3 R, 4 BB, 4 SO, 88 P / 52 S, 5.33 ERA
RP Ryan Brasier: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 SO, 5.00 ERA
SS Cameron Cauley: 3-4, 2B, .235/.376/.370
Catcher Jose Herrera, Texas’s #3 catcher since the departure of Wilie MacIver, gave me a little scare when I saw he’d been replaced by Cooper Johnson without batting. Fortunately, he’d “only” been ejected in the bottom of the 1st for what appeared to be an old-fashioned pre-ABS argument about the strike zone. Herrera unsuccessfully framed a low 1-2 pitch from Trey Supak and never made any indication of a challenge but soon was sparring (gently) with plate ump Travis Brewer. Intervention from manager Kyle Moore seemed to calm the air, but Herrera continued the argument and was tossed as Moore was heading back to the dugout. Johnson would end up catching 99% of Game 1, and Herrera would return for Game 2.
AAA: Round Rock 5, at Sugar Land (HOU) 3 (9)
Round Rock: 9 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts
Opponent: 6 hits, 6 walks, 14 strikeouts
Record: 12-14, 3 GB
SP Mason Thompson: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 30 P / 10 S, 2.70 ERA
RP Thomas Ireland: 2.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 SO, 1.69 ERA
2B Justin Foscue: 1-4, 2B, BB, .298/.385/.457
CF Gilberto Celestino: 2-3, BB
A bullpen game. Including the second of his consecutive outings on April 15, Josh Sborz has allowed runs in four straight and suddenly owns an 8.03 ERA and .565 opposing slugging percentage. Michael Otanez barely survived the 8th (an extra inning), walking the bases full and allowing a game-tying sac fly before retiring the final two batters. In the 9th, he again filled the bases, this time with two out, and was replaced by none other than Nick Pratto, making his third pro mound appearance. His missed on a couple of 79 MPH heaters before Jack Winkler decided to swing on one in the zone for the final out. Otanez has walked 11 in nine innings.
Texas has signed righty Kyle Funkhouser, who threw 85 decent if walk-heavy innings for the Tigers in 2020-2021 and was a minor league Ranger in 2023 but mostly on the IL. He’s pitched in Oaxaca lately.
AA: Frisco 6, Tulsa (LAD) 5 (5)
Frisco: 3 hits, 3 walks, 5 strikeouts
Opponent: 9 hits, 3 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 10-10, 5 GB
SP Dylan MacLean: 4.2 IP, 7 H (1 HR), 5 R, 2 BB, 6 SO, 84 P / 53 S, 5.89 ERA
Frisco scored six in the 1st on only two singles plus a week’s worth of generosity on the part of Tulsa’s pitching and defense. Dylan MacLean surrendered four in the 1st on two walks and two hits (including a homer) but was fine thereafter. Mother Nature decided she’d seen enough a few minutes before 9pm. 
Hi-A: wet
Two today.
Lo-A: Hickory 4, at Hill City (CLE) 2
Hickory: 4 hits, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 15-5, 3.5 G up
SP AJ Russell: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 44 P / 26 S, 5.15 ERA
RP Moises Morales: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 SO, 4.91 ERA
Russell has run hot and cold in April, but he did work up to a season-high 44 pitches. 22-year-old Moises Morales completed five scoreless with heavy doses of bendy and wiggly stuff: straightforward sliders, some that leaned into curve territory, changes, cutters, maybe some sinkers, no ordinary four-seamers that I could see (though I didn’t watch every pitch). Like Frisco, Hickory scored several runs despite little impact with the bat.
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