Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 1, Oklahoma City (LAD) 2 (11)
Round Rock: 4 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 8 hits, 4 walks, 11 strikeouts
Record: 33-29, 5 GB, 64-73 overall
SP Dalton Pence: 5 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 3 SO, 76 P / 50 S, 2.12 ERA
RP Robert Garcia: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP Emiliano Teodo: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 3.85 ERA
DH Kyle Higashioka: 0-3, BB
OKC is a good club, better in my opinion than Sugar Land despite the latter leading the league for most of the second half. Round Rock also has lost several hitters and now resembles the light-on-power bunch of the first half. Still, 13 runs in fives games, including one run in seven extra innings, is tough to take. Catcher Julian Brock drove in Round Rock’s lone run with a two-out single in the 7th, but he was erased twice on the bases including being doubled off second on the game’s concluding play. Keyber Rodriguez scored in extras earlier this week on a sac fly, but last night he was thrown out by several feet on a similar attempt (which I don’t criticize at all, given the situation).
I’ve seen Dalton Pence four times in person this season, and last night was the best, better than than the scoreless four-inning outing I saw previously. While he still didn’t strike out many hitters, he did miss 11 bats, and I felt his pitches were working together better than before. Pence made his name in college with his rising fastball, but in pro ball he doesn’t really have a go-to pitch. In reworking his pitch classifications*, I found an equal number of strikeouts attributable to his fastball, slider and change. Pence is aiding his vanilla K rate with a ton of popups (one every other inning in AAA), which are functionally akin to strikeouts.
Robert Garcia was solid in his first rehab outing. The fastball was a tic lower than earlier this year, but that’s not uncommon, and OKC looked helpless against his slider. Encouraging. Emiliano Teodo had one of his better outings as well.
Per Round Rock voice Rylan Kobre, with whom I teamed on the call last night, opposing starters have a 1.38 ERA when I’m in the booth. Said opponents have been two of the objectively worst pitchers in the PCL and another (Charlie Barnes) who I thought was flattered by his 4.07 ERA. My apologies.
* For some reason, Statcast has deep trouble with Pence. The computer is classifying everything slower and glove-side as a slider. 84 with about 30 inches of drop? Slider. Fine. 75 with 45 inches of drop? Slider. What? Maybe I’m the one who’s wrong, but Pence appears to be throwing many more curves than I realized. It’s not much of a bat-misser, but he’s throwing a decent number to open at-bats and with good success. 
AA: Frisco 5, Amarillo (ARI) 6
Frisco: 8 hits, 5 walks, 13 strikeouts
Opponent: 3 hits, 8 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 30-32, 6 GB, 69-61 overall
SP Aidan Curry: 4 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 4 BB, 5 SO, 82 P / 49 S, 5.64 ERA
C Malcolm Moore: 1-2, 2B, BB, HBP, .220/.320/.423
2B Gleider Figuereo: 2-4, 2B
Six runs on three hits, eight walks and two hit batters? I’ve seen enough; I’m not scanning that game log. Aidan Curry walked four for the first time in over three months. Between then and last night, he’d walked 27 of 265 batters, which is pretty darn good in 2026. He’s intriguing, which I’ll confess is deceptive language meaning “I’ve been watching him for years but still don’t have a good grasp of whether he’ll ever come to fruition.” Curry can become a free agent after the season, so Texas’s decision on his 40 placement will come before the standard deadline. Off the top of my head, Drew Robinson and Tomas Telis were protected in this fashion.
Today’s starter for Amarillo is ex-Rangers farmhand David Hagaman, who reached AA a few weeks ago and has a 2.52 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 25 innings. “Good for him,” I say as I stare blankly into the distance. 
Hi-A: Hub City 5, Jersey Shore (PHI) 7
Hub City: 7 hits, 5 walks, 10 strikeouts
Opponent: 8 hits, 7 walks, 5 strikeouts
Record: 26-39, eliminated G up, 60-71 overall
SP Enrique Segura: 4 IP, 5 H (1 HR), 5 R, 4 BB, 1 SO, 81 P / 49 S, 6.57 ERA
CF Paxton Kling: 2-3, 2B, BB, HBP, SB (36), .243/.383/.365
1B Antonis Macias: 1-4, HR (9), BB, .260/.357/.396
LF Quincy Scott: 1-5, HR (14), .235/.356/.412
For the season, Segura allowed 63 hits and 66 combined walks and hit batters in 75 innings. Run-scoring in the Sally has increased 1.3 runs per game over last year, and my guess is that creates more variance among pitchers. Put another away, some pitchers are more likely to get wiped out. The combination of tougher environment and worse control has placed Segura is in that group. 
Lo-A: Hickory 2, Fayetteville (HOU) 0
Hickory: 2 hits, 8 walks, 4 strikeouts
Opponent: 4 hits, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 48-17, division winner G up, 82-47 overall
SP Jacob Johnson: 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 HBP, 1 SO, 70 P / 40 S, 2.04 ERA
RP Cole Fehrman: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP JD McReynolds: 2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO, 3.35 ERA
SS Yolfran Castillo: 0-1, BB, HBP, SB (55), .286/.390/.416
C Noah Franklin: 1-3, BB, .247/.402/.329
3B Curley Martha: 1-2, HBP, SB (5), .192/.261/.269
Fifteen straight wins, tying the franchise record. Fayetteville entered the series with a 39-20 record, by the way. The Woodpeckers didn’t get a hit until the 6th, and Hickory had no hits after the 3rd. Yolfran Castillo began a terrific double play in the 4th, ranging deep and to his right to snare a grounder, then executing the turn and throw and rapidly as possible to give 2B Daniel Flames time to throw to first.
Hickory’s offensive output was similar to Amarillo’s, but since Hickory won, let’s find out how. The Crawdads scored on a single/walk/walk/GIDP sequence in the 1st and a walk/balk/wild pitch/sac bunt in the 7th.
In his final start of the regular season, Jacob Johnson fanned only one but managed to get a lot of balls hit at people.
Today’s Starters
AAA: Davalillo
AA: Ireland
Hi-A: TBD (Scarborough is listed but nope)
Lo-A: Owens
Five Years Ago Yesterday
Down East’s Owen White fanned a career-best 12. The last six outings for Frisco’s Daniel Roberts: 9.2 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 19 SO. “His arsenal doesn’t leap off the page: 92-94 fastball, 80-82 slider, maybe a curve. He relies heavily on the slider, which has an almost floating quality out of his hand but acquires anger late and doesn’t end up where the batter thinks.”
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