Evan Carter blasts two home runs
Texas Rangers top prospect, Evan Carter, had quite the game on Wednesday against the San Antonio Missions. It only took Evan Carter five games in the season for him to have his first multi-HR game at the Double-A level. His 4 RBI is a high at the Double-A level. He had a 6-RBI game with the Crawdads last season (2022). In his 1st plate appearance, he drew a 9-pitch walk after starting from an 0-2 count. Evan Carter hits his 1st home run of the season In his 2nd plate appearance, he drove a
Texas Rangers' Kumar Rocker wins high-a debut
Kumar Rocker is one of the Texas Rangers' top pitching prospects and he just threw 5 shoutout innings in his dominating High-A Debut. It was the kind of debut that Rangers fans have dreamed about. The Rangers selected Rocker with the third overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft. The former Commodore took care of business against the Wilmington Blue Rocks (Nationals) tossing 5 scoreless innings. He got through the 1st inning on 8 pitches, all 8 for strikes and had 2 strikeouts. Jacob deGrom did the
Ryan Garcia to make Double-A debut
Ryan Garcia seems to be a name that has fallen off the radar of many Texas Rangers fans. Afterall, the Rangers selected the right-hander in the 2nd round of the 2019 draft. The UCLA product pitched 5 professional innings in 2019. Then in 2020 had the dreaded Tommy John surgery that Rangers fans have become accustomed to. Of course, Covid knocked out the 2020 season for every minor leaguer. In 2022 for the first time since July 14, 2019; a span of nearly two years, Garcia took the mound for th
Round Rock sweeps double-header
Where’s the broom at? The Round Express swept both games of the double-header. The sweep started by a fantastic pitching performance by 25-year-old Cody Bradford in Game 1 of the double-header. Bradford (W,2-0) went 6 innings 1 hit, ZERO runs, 1 walk and 4 strikeouts. Cody threw 82 pitches 57 strikes 25 balls. Chase Lee came in the 7th 1 inning 1 hit 2 walks 1 strikeout! Sugarland loaded the bases on Chase but he got the 3rd out to escape the jam. So far early Cody is 2-0 0.00 ERA 11 innings
Frisco just didn’t have it tonight in a 3-1 defeat!
The RoughRiders could’ve used some of those 12 runs and 10 hits from last night's game tonight! Frisco was held to 1 run and 3 hits. There was Electricity at Riders Field from the 8,655 fans that was excited to see Starting Pitcher Owen White. Owen didn’t not disappoint anyone, going 3 scoreless innings, allowing only 1 hit, 1 walk and striking out 1. He threw 48 pitches- 31 strikes- 17 balls. The RoughRiders found the scoreboard first on a Thomas Saggese grounder scoring Dustin Harris who tr
Wood Ducks win their 1st game of the year 10-1!
Wood Ducks got their first 'W' of the season by a 10-4 final! Four Wood Ducks pitchers combined on a two-hitter while the line-up got 13 hits of their own. Starter Aidan Curry went 3.2 innings, giving up 1 run on 1 hit, 2 walks and 7 strikeouts. Aidan was pulled after throwing 63 pitches- 37 for strikes and 26 for balls. Aidan was replaced by Jackson Kelly (W,1-0) who had impressive outing, going 1.1 innings, giving up 1 hit and struckout 3. Jackson threw 18 pitches- 13 strikes - 5 balls. Jac
Leiter's Command Issues Continue in his 2023 Debut
The Prospect Times' #3 prospect Jack Leiter and the Frisco RoughRiders returned to the field Thursday night against Diamondbacks top prospect (and fellow 2021 draftee) Jordan Lawlar and the Amarillo Sod Poodles. The RoughRiders rolled to a 12-4 victory thanks in large part to a six run 4th inning, and 3 RBI from Rangers #1 prospect Evan Carter. Leiter was roughed up in 2022. In his first season playing pro ball, he sported a 5.54 ERA along with a 5.02 FIP. His biggest flaw last season was comma
Express lose 5-2 from Wednesday's suspended game
The Round Rock Express lineup was like tonight’s weather - not so good, in a 5-2 loss. Pitcher Jake Latz, who pitched last night (Wed) went 2 innings 3 hits 1 run 1 walk 3 strikeouts before the game was suspended due to rain! Cole Winn (L,0-1) got the start tonight and unfortunately he was just a bit wild, throwing 84 pitches- 44 strikes- 40 balls. Cole went 3.1 innings giving up 7 hits 3 runs 5 walks 4 strikeouts! Left fielder J.P. Martinez had 2 of the Express' 5 total hits including his 1s
Awesome first outing for Santos in a 10-5 victory
Winston Santos made his 1st start in a Hickory Crawdads uniform. The outing couldn't have gone better for the 20-year-old right-hander. Winston Santos (W,1-0) went 6 innings, only giving up 1 hit, ZERO walks and runs, plus 5 strikeouts. He threw 77 pitches- 53 strikes-24 balls and only had two 3-ball counts in his 6 innings. Winston had plenty of run support to work with from the Crawdads hitters. The Crawdads had 13 hits lead by CF Daniel Mateo, who was a homer from hitting for the cycle. Da