Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 6, El Paso (SDP) 7
Round Rock: 13 hits, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 3 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 28-38, eliminated
SP Trey Supak: 6 IP, 6 H (1 HR), 4 R, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 4 SO, 83 P / 57 S, 5.21 ERA
RP Michel Otañez: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 6.15 ERA
LF Cody Freeman: 3-5, 2B, .341/.426/.537
DH Josh Smith: 2-5, 2B, HR, SB
CF Cameron Cauley: 2-5, 3B, .266/.376/.392
The game ended on an event I can’t recall ever seeing: a double play without a plate appearance. In the 10th with one out and a 7-6 score, Blaine Crim was batting with Josh Smith on 3rd and pinch-runner Jarred Kelenic at 1st. El Paso pitcher Kyle Hart had already thrown to 1st twice, so another unsuccessful attempt would result in a game-tying balk. Hart took that risk and successfully picked off Kelenic, who was tagged out at second. Smith raced home but was also tagged out.
I searched for MLB games which ended with two runners lost on the bases without a plate appearance, and the only similar example I could find occurred in 1923. The Cards trailed the Reds 4-3 in the 9th with runners at second and third with one out. Ivey Wingo was caught stealing home, and trail-runner Bill Rariden was then caught trying for third. I’m not saying this is the only occasion in MLB history, because searching for game-ending double plays that don’t involve an actual plate appearance isn’t easy. Let’s say it’s a rare occurrence.
Wilian Bormie had an ugly line — two outs, three hits, a walk, two runs — but it wasn’t all that. A medium-hard grounder just inside the line took a wacky bounce of a railing for a double, and two dinky broken-bat bloops fell for singles.
Incidentally, the first baseman for El Paso was Nick Pratto, recently released by the Rangers. Pratto hit a solo homer off Trey Supak in the 4th.
Cody Freeman started in left for the first time this season. 
AA: Frisco 6, at San Antonio (SDP) 3
Frisco: 8 hits, 3 walks, 11 strikeouts
Opponent: 6 hits, 2 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 33-25, 2.5 G up
SP Winston Santos: 5 IP, 5 H (1 HR), 3 R, 1 BB, 9 SO, 86 P / 59 S, 7.51 ERA
RP Joey Danielson: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 0.00 ERA
RF Keith Jones II: 1-4, 2B, .235/.345/.401
1B Arturo Disla: 1-3, BB, .298/.404/.464
Frisco won a sixth straight to maintain a 2.5-game lead. Winston Santos allowed three runs in the 2nd on a single-double-homer sequence, but in innings 3-5 he recorded seven strikeouts. Joey Danielson had a successful reintroduction to AA with plenty of strikes.
I believe Frisco’s magic number to win the division outright is eight. The tiebreakers are a headache because Frisco has a 6-6 record against second-place Midland and is 3-3 against third-place Amarillo. The next tiebreak is record in final 20 games, and I don’t want to deal with that unless I have to. A three-way tie with Midland and Amarillo is also possible, if highly unlikely. 
Hi-A: Hub City 8, Asheville (HOU) 7
Hub City: 10 hits, 6 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 13 hits, 5 walks, 14 strikeouts
Record: 30-29, eliminated
SP Kamdyn Perry: 4 IP, 5 H (1 HR), 3 R, 3 BB, 1 HBP, 5 SO, 80 P / 45 S, 3.46 ERA
RP Kai Wynyard: 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 9.13 ERA
RP Luke Savage: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 8.37 ERA
LF Yeison Morrobel: 2-4, 2B, BB, .303/.371/.475
RF Hector Osorio: 2-5, HR (2), .211/.286/.526
SS Luke Hanson: 1-4, HR (10), BB, .260/.330/.475
CF Paxton Kling: 1-3, 3B, BB, SB (14), .256/.396/.400
A messy game ended in appropriately messy fashion when Colby Langford threw away Chandler Pollard’s bunt in the 10th to allow Quincy Scott to score. The teams scored in 11 of the 20 half-innings and combined for nine errors.
Asheville attempted ten steals off Malcolm Moore and friends, succeeding six times. Moore has a 33% catch rate compared to the league average of 22%. 
Lo-A: Hickory 3, at Charleston (TAM) 9
Hickory: 7 hits, 5 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 13 hits, 7 walks, 10 strikeouts
Record: 31-27, 3 GB
SP Jesus Lafalaise: 4 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 6 SO, 73 P / 45 S, 5.68 ERA
LF Paulino Santana: 2-4, BB, .263/.396/.423
DH Braylin Morel: 2-4, 2B, .294/.294/.471
RF Marco Argudin: 2-3, HBP
After May 29th, Charleston was 24-25, in fourth place and five games out of first. The RiverDogs haven’t lost since. Meanwhile, Hickory had been battling Augusta for the division lead, never more than one game up, but a loss on Sunday plus three this week have the Dads in a deep hole. They must win two of the next three to have any chance at the title.
Last night was the most runs allowed by Hickory in a month, but the team is just 10-10 over the last 20 because the offense has scored a modest 3.8 runs per game in a league averaging 5.1. The annoying part is that the team actually has an above-average OPS during this stretch but is somehow last in runs scored.
Rookie
DH Josh Owens homered twice to improve to .286/.351/.600. His seven homers rank second in the league. On the mound, Owens has ten strikeouts versus two walks and a 2.8 ERA in 8.2 innings. Texas gave last year’s third-rounder a taste of full-season ball to end 2025 but held him back for the complex this season, presumably to ease his burden as a two-way player.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Corniell
AA: Pence
Hi-A: Scarborough
Lo-A: Deakins
Five Years Ago Yesterday
Round Rock 1B Curtis Terry hit his ninth homer in 30 games. The opposing pitcher was talented but wild flamethrower Jojanse Torres, who’d pitched against Terry in alt-site games that April, He emerged from the covid layoff with such poor control that he dropped from top-20 prospect to out of MLB-affiliated baseball in two seasons.
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