Missions reliever Justin Lopez was the winning pitcher.Ryan Bergert and two San Antonio Missions relievers combined to blank the Midland RockHounds 1-0 on Friday at Wolff Stadium.
Bergert went 5 2/3 innings and allowed two hits and two walks with four strikeouts. He didn’t get a decision in a game that didn’t have a run scored until the bottom of the seventh inning.
Justin Lopez took over on the mound for Bergert and went 2 1/3 innings to earn the win. He didn’t allow a hit or walk and struck out two.
Efrain Contreras pitched the top of the ninth inning to get the save.
Marcos Castanon scored the only run of the game. He led off the bottom of the seventh with a double, advanced to third on a hit by Connor Hollis and came home on a sacrifice fly by Juan Zabala.
Friday marked the first game back in the Missions lineup for Hollis, who was activated earlier in the day after being placed on the injured list on July 3.
Kervin Pichardo put the Missions in front 3-0 with his second home run of the season.Jared Kollar pitched in his very first game in a San Antonio Missions uniform on Friday night at Wolff Stadium.
Outfielder Kervin Pichardo was a much more experienced member of the team, playing in his ninth game with the Missions.
The young twosome helped the Missions build an early 4-0 lead on the way to beating the Frisco RoughRiders 10-3.
Pichardo hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the second inning and the Missions led the rest of the way.
Kollar held Frisco scoreless the first four innings. He was one out away from being in a position to get a win before giving up two runs in the top of the fifth and being replaced.
Pichardo finished the game with three hits including a double and had six RBIs and one run.
Juan Fernandez had three hits including a double, one walk and scored twice. Michael De La Cruz and Brandon Valenzuela both had two hits. Valenzuela was in only his third game since being promoted to Double-A and those were his first two hits with the Missions.
Relief pitcher Justin Lopez took over for Kollar and went 2 1/3 innings. He earned the win and allowed one run, two hits and one walk with one strikeout. James Bourque pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Jason Blanchard a scoreless ninth to finish off the game.
Brandon Valenzuela – Missions
Jake Perez – Missions
James Bourque – Missions
Jared Kollar – Missions
Jared Kollar – Missions
Jason Blanchard – Missions
Juan Fernandez – Missions
Juan Fernandez – Missions
Justin Farmer – Missions
Justin Lopez – Missions
Kervin Pichardo – Missions
Kervin Pichardo – Missions
Jared Kollar held Frisco scoreless through the first four innings.
Chandler Seagle celebrates as he rounds the bases for his second-inning home run.The Midland RockHounds scored five runs in the first inning on the way to beating the San Antonio Missions 7-4 on Tuesday at Wolff Stadium.
The RockHounds had three hits and two walks in the first inning. The big blow was a three-run homer by Lazaro Armenteros.
The Missions’ scoring all came in the bottom of the second inning. Daniel Johnson and Juan Fernandez started the rally with a single and a walk, respectively. Chandler Seagle hit his first home run of the season. His two-run blast cut Midland’s lead to 5-4, but the Missions never scored again.
Seagle added a double in the fifth inning. He finished the night with two extra-base hits, two RBIs and a run scored. The Missions catcher also threw out two base runners trying to steal.
Seagle didn’t put up big offensive numbers early in the season but has been hot over his last eight games. He is hitting .358 over that stretch (11-of-31) with three doubles, a triple and a home run. He has raised his batting average 47 points in eight games.
Fernandez had two hits in the game, including a double, a scored once.
Though it was a tough night for some of the Missions pitchers, Jose Quezada and Justin Lopez had solid efforts without giving up any runs. Quezada was the first reliever in for the Missions and went 2 1/3 innings and allowed one hit with no walks and one strikeout. Lopez went two innings and allowed one hit, two walks and one strikeout.
Jackson Wolf pitched six innings and allowed one run to get the win.Jackson Wolf turned in one of his best pitching performances of the season as the San Antonio Missions beat the Amarillo Sod Poodles 8-2 on Friday at Wolff Stadium.
The Missions have won the first four games of the series, with remaining games against Amarillo on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
Wolf pitched six innings – his second longest start of the season – and got the win to raise his record to 3-5. He allowed one run on two hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Wolf had gone seven innings on May 7 in Tulsa in his longest outing.
The performance helped Wolf get back on track and lowered his ERA from 4.91 to 4.38. The 6-foot-7 left-hander had a 0-3 record in his previous four starts. Wolf is the No. 16 prospect in the San Diego Padres minor league organization, and the second-highest rated left-handed pitcher.
Missions batters took advantage of shaky pitching from the Sod Poodles. San Antonio’s eight runs came on only five hits. Amarillo pitchers gave up 11 walks and four hit-by-pitches (Ripken Reyes and Korry Howell were both hit twice).
Reyes extended hit hitting streak to five games with an RBI double that drove in Jorge Ona and Ray-Patrick Didder with the Missions’ first runs of the game in the second inning. Reyes also stole two bases and scored a run.
Cole Cummings, playing in just his third game with the Missions, had a two-run double in the fifth inning that gave San Antonio a 4-1 lead.
Three Missions relievers – Justin Lopez, Jason Blanchard and Nick Hernandez – pitched one inning each to finish game.
Jackson Wolf – Missions
Jackson Wolf – Missions
Jackson Wolf – Missions
Cole Cummings – Missions
Cole Cummings – Missions
Connor Hollis – Missions
Connor Hollis – Missions
Daniel Johnson – Missions
Jason Blanchard – Missions
Justin Lopez – Missions
Korry Howell – Missions
Korry Howell – Missions
Michael De La Cruz – Missions
Michael De La Cruz – Missions
Nick Hernandez – Missions
Ray-Patrick Didder – Missions
Ripken Reyes – Missions
Tirso Ornelas – Missions
Ripken Reyes had a two-run double, was hit by a pitch twice, stole two bases and scored a run.
