Express Split Doubleheader with Space Cowboys on Wednesday

ROUND ROCK, Texas – The Round Rock Express (28-25) split their doubleheader with the Sugar Land Space Cowboys (24-29) on Wednesday night at Dell Diamond. The Express took game one, 7-6, thanks to a walk-off double from DH Jordan Procyshen. The Space Cowboys came back with a 6-4 victory in game two.

Along the Train Tracks – Game 1:

• Round Rock reliever LHP Taylor Hearn (1-1, 3.36) earned the win after 2.0 innings while issuing two walks and collecting three strikeouts. The loss was tagged to Sugar Land reliever RHP Enoli Paredes (1-2, 7.36) after he allowed one run on one hit with one walk in his 0.1-inning outing.
• It took the Space Cowboys four pitches in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead after a two-run home run from SS Grae Kessinger also scored RF Bligh Madris. Doubles from 1B JJ Matijevic and CF Justin Dirden each scored a run and extended the lead to four.
• In the second inning, Express LF Josh Sale singled then scored when a single from 2B Dio Arias was mishandled, resulting in a Space Cowboys error. A sacrifice fly from RF Rafael Ortega cut the deficit to 4-2.
• Sugar Land scored a run in both the third and fourth innings. Both runs came on RBI singles from Dirden and Matijevic, respectively, as the Space Cowboys led 6-2.
• Express CF Elier Hernandez singled home C Mitch Garver and Ortega in the fourth inning, which brought Round Rock back within two runs.
• After Express LHP Taylor Hearn kept the sixth inning scoreless, the offense loaded the bases with no outs. Hernandez sent a game-tying two-RBI double down the left-field line to make it 6-6.
• In the bottom of the seventh, Sale drew a walk and advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt from Arias. DH Jordan Procyshen walked it off with an RBI double to secure the 7-6 win.

Along the Train Tracks – Game 2:

• Space Cowboys starter LHP Nick Allgeyer (0-1, 7.11) collected the victory after 5.0 innings of two-run baseball which included five hits, three walks and six strikeouts. Express LHP Lucas Jacobsen (3-0, 6.00) took home the loss after his 0.1-inning performance saw three earned runs on one hit with three walks. RHP Joe Record came in and tossed a three-up, three-down ninth inning with two strikeouts to earn his sixth save of the year.
• Express LF Sandro Fabian got the party started in the second inning when his 405-foot home run to left field put Round Rock ahead, 1-0.
• In the third inning, the Space Cowboys loaded the bases. SS Grae Kessinger wasn’t feeling so gray and smacked a sacrifice fly to tie the game at one.
• Fabian cranked his second solo bomb of the day in the fourth inning. This time it traveled 421 feet to left field and put Round Rock back in front at 2-1.
• The Space Cowboys offense produced two runs in the fourth inning. Express pitchers issued three walks and a hit batsman to tie the game at two. RF Justin Dirden singled home two more and increased the lead to 4-2.
• Sugar Land kept the scoring going on a two-run bomb from CF Pedro León in the fifth inning. The home run pushed the Space Cowboys lead to 6-2.
• Round Rock 2B Dio Arias pummeled his second home run of the season in the sixth inning. After Fabian singled and stole a base, Arias cut the lead to 6-4 with his dinger but the E-Train offense couldn’t manufacture another run.

E-Train Excerpts:

• In the first game of the doubleheader, CF Elier Hernandez posted a 4-for-4 game with four RBI. He leads the E-Train with 14 multi-hit games this season.
• Round Rock did not hit a home run in game one against the Space Cowboys, which snapped a 15-game homer streak. Over those 15 games, the E-Train belted 23 home runs.
• Texas Rangers rehabber DH Mitch Garver led off at catcher for the Express in Wednesday’s first game and finished 1-for-2 with two runs, two walks, one strikeout and six putouts.
• Express starter LHP Jake Latz struck out six batters over 2.0 innings during his game-two outing. The six straight Ks marks the most consecutive strikeouts in a single outing since RHP Hever Bueno struck out six in a row on April 17, 2021 in Sugar Land.
• LF Sandro Fabian collected his first multi-home run game since August 14, 2021 while playing for Double-A Richmond. It was the fifth multi-homer game of his career. Fabian went 3-for-3 with two home runs, two RBI and three runs scored.

Next up: Round Rock will play game four against Sugar Land at Dell Diamond on Thursday night with first pitch slated for 7:05 p.m. CDT. While an Express pitcher has not yet been announced, the Space Cowboys will have RHP Ronel Blanco (2-0, 0.56) take the mound.

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