Frisco’s season is over. I’ll be on the call with Rylan Kobre tonight in Round Rock.
Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 5, Tacoma (SEA) 2
Round Rock: 7 hits, 3 walks, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 3 hits, 7 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 41-32, 72-76 overall
SP David Davalillo: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 4 BB, 5 SO, 57 P / 32 S, 5.09 ERA
RP Ben Peoples: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, 5.87 ERA
RP Janser Lara: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 1.35 ERA
RP Wilian Bormie: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 2.89 ERA
DH Kyle Higashioka: 1-3, BB, .238/.333/.429
2B John Taylor: 1-4, HR (8), .246/.378/.389
SS Frainyer Chavez: 2-3, SB (3), .293/.354/.341
For 2.1 innings, David Davalillo looked as good as I’ve seen him. By that I mean he could have dealt his pitches to Toronto hitters and made out just fine. The Rainers swung at six out-of-zone splitters and missed them all. Fastballs accounted for only a quarter of his pitches. He mesmerized Tacoma with bendy and trapdoor stuff.
Annnnnd then it all fell apart. He walked four of the next five batters and was pulled. I hate to see his season end that way, but at the same time, the season is probably ending at the right time for him. Rest, reset, start work toward 2027.
Taylor’s homer (107.1 MPH, 26 degrees, 424 feet) was recognizable instantly, a noisy burst of contact in a noist Friday-night park. In the 8th, Round Rock scored four after two out and none on, aided immensely by two full-count challenges that turned would-be strikeouts into walks. (In fairness to the ump, both pitches were barely wide.) 
AA: Frisco 7, Amarillo (ARI) 8
Frisco: 11 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 11 hits, 4 walks, 11 strikeouts
Amarillo wins best-of-three 2-1, season over
SP Blake Townsend: 0 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 0 BB, 1 HBP, 0 SO, 24 P / 14 S
RP Leandro Lopez: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 4 SO
RP Ismael Agreda: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO
SS Sebastian Walcott: 2-5, 2 SB
RF Dylan Dreiling: 1-5, HR
2B Max Wagner: 2-5
1B Arturo Disla: 1-4, BB
3B Rafe Perich: 3-4, HR
This game was yesterday in reverse, with the exception of one team completing the comeback. I was fully on board with Blake Townsend returning to AA to pitch in the playoffs, and although most of the hits weren’t that hard, his stuff looked awfully inviting. Leandro Lopez produced a superficially strong line, but his first two results were a bases-loaded walk and two-run single (all runs charged to Townsend). 6-0 Amarillo before Frisco batted.
In the 3rd, singles by Paxton Kling and Max Wagner plus an Arturo Disla walk preceded a blast from Rafe Perich. Gleider Figuereo hit a sac fly in the 5th to reduced the margin to one.
Meanwhile, Ismael Agreda had a career night. Only once previously this season in any lengthy outing had he allowed zero runs, and his three baserunners were a season low. Last night was only his second AA appearance, and the first resulted in seven runs in three innings. Agreda is highly doubtful to make the 40, in my opinion, because he’s just too inconsistent to stick on an MLB roster, but he is worth some attention.
In the 9th, Amarillo scored two insurance runs off Bryan Magdaleno that would prove fatal. Instead of ending the game, Dylan Dreiling’s homer after a Sebastian Walcott only cut the deficit to one. Max Wagner’s poke off the end of the bat died just short of the track for the second out, and Arturo Disla struck out.
Both Perich and Kling batted .417 with a homer. Malcolm Moore had a funky .500/.800/.500 line with five walks and an HBP. Walcott was .364/.533/.636 with a homer and four steals. Dylan Dreiling had a rough series outside that homer: eight strikeouts in 15 other plate appearance plus a missed catch in right. Because of the Townsend and Agreda outings, Frisco ended up with a higher ERA amongst the starters than relievers, but in any case, the late-season issues of a makeshift rotation and thin pen really came to bear in the series. Still, a fun, engaging season, more so than I was expecting at the outset, to be honest.
Like Charleston in the series against Hickory, Amarillo always had something to say at the right time. Six Sod Poodles posted an OPS in excess of 1.000. They’ll face St. Louis-affiliated Springfield Cardinals, who knocked off Tulsa, the class of the league, in two straight.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Santos
Five Years Ago Yesterday
Frisco defeated Amarillo 5-3, trailing 3-2 in the 8th but scored two on a bevy of Poodle mistakes and adding another in the 9th. Frisco held a half-game lead for the final playoff spot. Ronny Henriquez had a Henriquez-y start: no walks, seven strikeouts and two homers in 5.1. Daniel Robert covered the last two innings.
Down East fell to Charleston 6-0 and would need a win plus a Salem loss on the season’s final day to reach the playoffs. Starter Nick Krauth (5 IP, 4 R) was the only Texas minor league to reach 100 innings in a season abbreviated to 120 games.
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