Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 1, at Durham (TAM) 2
Round Rock: 6 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts
Opponent: 5 hits, 3 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 13-23, 8 GB
SP Trey Supak: 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 8 SO, 80 P / 54 S, 4.46 ERA
RF Aaron Zavala: 4-4, 2B, SB (3), .286/.365/.407
Round Rock has lost three straight to the team that had the worst record in the International League, and now the Express own the worst record in all of AAA. Best as I can tell, Texas’s AAA squad is ten games below .500 for the first time since 2019. The offense is actually eighth of 30 teams in walks and 12th in singles but dead last in extra bases on hits. My immediate joking idea (well, half-joking) was to bring credentialed basher Matt Davidson out of retirement, but he’s still active and successful in Korea. Davidson hit 33 homers for Texas’s AAA squad in 2019.
Emiliano Teodo had a night that looked like any other (1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 SO), but he did throw 14 of 19 pitches for strikes. I’ll need to delve more deeply into the data to confirm, but Teodo appears to be throwing a standard four-seamer in addition to his usual sinker, likely in an attempt to get more strikes. His sinker, fast though it is, has been painfully ineffective: only 44% for strikes, only 5 swinging strikes all season heading into last night. 
AA: Frisco 10, NW Arkansas (KAN) 9
Frisco: 13 hits, 8 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 12 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts
Record: 16-14, 4 GB
SP Winston Santos: 3.2 IP, 6 H (2 HR), 5 R, 2 BB, 1 HBP, 5 SO, 73 P / 42 S, 11.20 ERA
RP Bryan Magdaleno: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 HBP, 3 SO, 1.88 ERA
RP Wilian Bormie: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 1.65 ERA
CF Dylan Dreiling: 2-3, HR (4), 3 BB, SB (4), .296/.398/.457
DH John Taylor: 2-4, BB, HBP, .341/.470/.527
2B Corey Joyce: 3-4, HBP, SB (3), .361/.443/.721
Winston Santos tallied a season-high 16 swinging strikes, most since the end of 2024 when he was certifiably On Fire, but he spent much of the night dealing with baserunners.
Wilian Bormie has a 35% strikeout rate, pretty much a given, but he also has a sub-10% walk rate. We’re dealing with something here.
Frisco’s strong offense always had a response to deficits of 1-0 early, 5-2 at the halfway point, 8-4 at the stretch and 9-8 in the 10th.
Wichita hit ten homers in a 19-7 thrashing at Amarillo. Impressive, I suppose, but it reminds me of June 28, 2009, when Lake Elsinore of the high-A California League defeated High Desert 33-18. That’s some hitting, baby. The Rangers would, with deep reluctance, affiliate with High Desert in 2015-2016. 
Hi-A: Hub City 7, Wilmington (WAS) 5 (7)
Hub City: 9 hits, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 8 hits, 7 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 14-14,
SP Dalton Pence: 4 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 3 BB, HBP, 5 SO, 75 P / 49 S, 2.59 ERA
RP Joey Danielson: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 SO, 0.82 ERA
DH Arturo Disla: 1-4, HR (6), .344/.457/.613
1B Rafe Perich: 2-2, HR (3), BB
3B Gleider Figuereo: 2-2, BB, .202/.292/.319
RF Yeison Morrobel: 2-3, .292/.344/.461
Dalton Pence was effective if wilder than usual. Four of his combined eight walks and HBPs this season occurred in a span of three innings. Down 5-4 in the 6th, Hub City regained the lead with a Yeison Morrobel single and two-run double from infielder Carter Garate, an undrafted 22-year-olf from Oregon signed last July but only recently activated.
Hi-A: Hub City 5, Wilmington (WAS) 4 (8)
Hub City: 4 hits, 5 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 7 hits, 5 walks, 9 strikeouts
Record: 15-14, 4 GB
SP Enrique Segura: 3 IP, 4 H (1 HR), 4 R, 3 BB, 4 SO, 59 P / 34 S, 6.75 ERA
RP Cole Stasio: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 1.17 ERA
3B Rafe Perich: 1-2, 2 BB, .280/.360/.493
SS Luke Hanson: 1-2, BB, .188/.267/.313
A split seemed imminent as the Burgers entered the bottom of the 6th down four and lacking a single hit. Luke Hanson’s one-out single eliminated Wilmington’s chance at a little bit of history. With two out, righty Adam Boucher replaced the starter and surrendered a single and two walks. Boucher has such poor control that Wilmington apparently had a replacement warming before he threw his first real pitch, because he was pulled after only three batters. The move didn’t help, as a full-count bases-loaded walk from Gleider Figuereo and two-run single from Yeison Morrobel created a tie. Rafe Perich’s extra-inning grounder plated Chandler Pollard for the victory.
Rafe Perich is batting .356/.435/.627 in 16 games since an 0-for-17 start. In next year’s Daily Primer, he will be the example of how not to fret too much about early short-term results. I’d actually written a rather gloomy paragraph about him just a week ago, but that was more in the context of what appeared to be diminished playing time both in general and at third base. Since then, he played five games of a six-game series for the first time, and he’s started all three games this week. 
Lo-A: Hickory 7, Myrtle Beach (CHC) 9
Hickory: 10 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts
Opponent: 8 hits, 8 walks, 9 strikeouts
Record: 17-13, 2 GB
SP Kamdyn Perry: 4 IP, 2 H (1 HR), 1 R, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 4 SO, 52 P / 34 S, 2.70 ERA
SS Yolfran Castillo: 3-5, 2B, 2 SB (12), .296/.391/.417
Hickory can’t help but lose in weird fashion lately. Down 7-3 and with two out and none on in the 8th, Myrtle Beach scored six on one single, six walks, an error and a wild pitch. Victimized the most was 23-year-old righty Keiber Armas, who walked three and retired none in his stateside debut. Armas jumped straight from the Dominican Summer League, where he actually had good control last year (10 walks in 30 innings).
Today’s Starters
AAA: TBD
AA: Lopez
Hi-A: Easley
Lo-A: Siary
Five Years Ago Yesterday
2020 third-rounder TK Roby had a successful pro debut for low-A Down East. He’s been star-crossed since the Montgomery trade in 2023, throwing only 116 innings and likely to miss all of 2026 following last year’s late-July elbow surgery. Justin Foscue knocked his first pro homer for high-A Hickory. Cole Winn allowed four runs but fanned six in the 4.2 innings of his first AA start.
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