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Holt went scoreless against the Missions, but was making solid contact in his at-bats.
The 10-year major league veteran is working his way back from a hamstring injury. Reports indicated he would spend two games with the RoughRiders.
The 6-foot-2 right-hander has made 12 appearances this season for UTSA including 4 starts.
Chomko compiled a 4.74 ERA and an 0-2 record with 25 strikeouts in 28 2/3 innings. He recorded a save against UAB on May 2.
The Missions have scored only two runs in the first two games of the series combined. Frisco and the Missions play the third in the six-game series on Thursday.
Missions shortstop CJ Abrams had three hits, a walk and an RBI. He is batting .333 on the season. Abrams is on a five-game hitting streak and is 9-of-21 (.429) over that stretch.
The Missions had 10 hits including doubles by Michael Curry and Jose Azocar but couldn’t put together a big inning.
Miller has made three starts and has a 1-3 record with a 7.04 ERA and one save.
The 6-foot-3 left-hander is a junior from Round Rock, where he earned all-district honors three times and all-state honors twice. He spent two years at McLennan Community College before coming to UTSA.
The Rangers gave the high school pitcher from California a million-dollar-plus signing bonus that marked him as one of the team’s big hopes for the future.
Tuesday night, the 22-year-old Crouse pitched at the Double-A level for the first time as the Frisco RoughRiders’ starter against the San Antonio Missions at Wolff Stadium.
In his first game since Aug. 26, 2019, the 6-foot-4 right hander pitched one inning and retired the Missions in order while striking out one batter. According to the Prospect Times, Crouse threw 11 pitches, with eight of them strikes.
The Rangers already had another pitcher warming up when the game started, so it looks like the one-inning appearance was part of the team’s plan.
Crouse pitched in 19 games in 2019 in Class A ball, despite reportedly dealing with bone chips in his elbow. He recorded a 6-1 record with a 4.41 ERA. His last game before Tuesday night was August 26, 2019.
Holt is with Frisco as part of a rehab assignment. He is expected to play one more game with the RoughRiders on Wednesday against the Missions.
The 10-season major league veteran, who has already played in 15 games with the Rangers this season, went 0-for-3 with one walk on Tuesday as the RoughRiders’ designated hitter.
The Frisco RoughRiders scored the only run of the game on a wild pitch to beat the San Antonio Missions 1-0 Tuesday night at Wolff Stadium.
The game marked the Missions’ first home game of the 2021 season and the first Missions game at Wolff Stadium since August 2019.
Frisco’s Diosbel Arias scored from third base on a wild pitch for what turned out to be the winning run.
Four Missions pitchers combined to hold the RoughRiders to one hit, but the Missions never came up with a timely hit of their own to score a run.
Caleb Boushley was the Missions’ starting pitcher and threw five scoreless innings with two strikeouts and two walks. Sam Williams was the first Missions relief pitcher and took the loss after giving up a leadoff single to Arias in the seventh inning that led to the winning run.
Henry Henry, whose wild pitch brought in Arias, pitching 1 2/3 innings. James Reeves pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning with one strikeout.
The official attendance was 3,112, which was a sellout under the current covid rules in effect for the opening series of the season.
Mason is tied for the UTSA team lead in pitching appearances this season with 20 heading into the Roadrunners’ final 2021 home game tonight. UTSA plays Incarnate Word at 6 p.m. at Roadrunner Field.
The 6-foot, right-hander has a 6-5 record, all in relief, with a 4.98 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 43 1/3 innings pitched.
Mason pitched seven times in last year’s covid-shortened seasona and 27 times as a junior in 2019.
Azocar had hits in the last four games of the Missions’ recent road series in Midland. He was 7-of-18 (.389) over that stretch with a three-hit game and a two-hit game.
The 25-year-old outfielder from Venezuela is batting .283 for the season with three walks and three RBIs. He has played in all 12 Missions games this season.
Two years ago, Azocar batted .286 with 10 home runs in 129 games in Double-A in the Detroit Tigers organization. Azocar was originally signed by the Tigers in 2012. He was signed by the San Diego Padres as a free agent to a minor lealgue contract in November 2020.
The 6-foot-1 right-hander is listed as an outfielder and pitcher. He has seen action in nine games in the outfield for the Roadrunners this season and is batting .192 with two home runs and five RBIs.
Shull earned all-state honors as a junior at MacArthur. He earned all-district honors for three years. The 2020 high school season was halted, preventing him from being all-district for four straight seasons.
