RoughRiders nearly sweep Rangers minor league awards
The Texas Rangers named their minor league award winners for the Month of June. The RoughRiders have three of the four winners. The Rangers Minor League award winners for June are: * Player of the month: OF Kellen Strahm * Starting Pitcher: RHP Owen White * Reliever: RHP Yerry Rodriguez * Defender: INF Jonathan Ornelas Player of the month: OF Kellen Strahm Kellen Strahm was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 5th round of the 2019 draft. For Frisco he's slashed a line of .261/.391/.350
Tim Brennan and Matt Whatley to Round Rock
The Frisco RoughRiders have two more players that have been promoted to Triple-A Round Rock. Starting pitcher Tim Brennan and catcher Matt Whatley. Right-hander Tim Brennan has appeared in 10 games with 5 starts. He has a 2-3 win-loss record with a 3.09 earned run average in 32 innings pitched. Brennan has limited the free passes as he's only issued 6 walks and he's struckout 28. Matt Whatley has been fun to watch with the way he handles a pitching staff. He's just impressive behind the plate.
Pitcher Taylor Hearn wins PCL Pitcher of the week
What do Round Rock's Taylor Hearn, Spencer Howard and Cole Ragans have in common? They have been named PCL Pitcher of the Week in consecutive weeks! Cole Ragans won June 20-26 and Spencer Howard won June 27-July 3 and Taylor Hearn won this week’s honor July 4-July 10. Hearn's start on Friday, July 8 against the Albuquerque Isotopes (Colorado Rockies) earned him the honor. He tossed 5.0 innings allowing only one run on one hit. He walked two but struck out nine batters. Hearn threw a total of
Larson Kindreich: South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week
Another week of the minor-league season is gone and another Texas Rangers prospect has been honored as a pitcher of the week. This time it is Larson Kindreich. Left-hander Larson Kindreich has been named the South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week for his dominant pitching performance on Saturday, July 9, 2022 against the Bowling Green Hot Rods where the Crawdads tossed a combinedno-hitter. It was just Kindreich's 3rd start for the Hickory Crawdads. He pitched six scoreless and hitless innin
Frisco gets eighth shutout of the season
Last night, the Frisco RoughRiders got timely hits and great pitching in their 6-0 victory over the San Antonio Missions. It was their eighth shutout of the season. Frisco's offense got it going early in the top of the 1st thanks to a solo shot from Dustin Harris. It was his team-leading 14th home run of the season. Frisco found the scoreboard again in the Top of the 2nd on Trey Hair's 2-run single scoring David Garcia and Josh Stowers. Switch-hitting catcher, David Garcia hit a solo home run
Hickory throws combined 10 inning no hitter
There was a few firsts for the Hickory Crawdads last night. For the 1st time since throwing a no hitter against Delmarva on May 19, 2013, Hickory threw a combined 10 inning no-hitter. It was first 9 innings plus no-hitter since 2004 and the 5th No-hitter in team history according to Crawdads beat writer Mark Parker. Extras The game was scoreless until the top of the 10th when Hickory’s bats came to life. Trevor Hauver was the Ghost runner when Cristian Inoa doubled Hauver in for the first r
RoughRiders win in extra innings
Last nights game was played almost in San Antonio in 101 degrees at gametime and went into extra innings where Frisco scored 4 runs in the 12th inning and held on for a 10-7 win. For 8 innings Frisco got great pitching from 3 pitchers where they had a 4-1 lead going to the bottom of the 9th. Closer Fernery Ozuna (BS, 3) went 2/3 of a inning allowing 3 runs on 4 hits allowing the tying run to score sending the game into extra innings. In extra innings both teams scored 1 run in the 10th and 11t
Frisco loses 2-1 to the Missions
Last night’s great pitching matchup between Frisco’s Owen White and San Antonio’s Reggie Lawson lived up to the anticipation. Right-hander Owen White went 6 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, 6 strikeouts! Six innings was the deepest outing for White in his three AA starts. Owen White for the month of July in 2 starts 11.1 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, 11 strikeouts. Reliever Triston Polley (L,0-1) 1/3 of a inning 1 hit 1 run 2 walks and the Hit by Pitch that cost Frisco the game tonight! In
Rangers prospect Jack Leiter selected to play in Futures Game
The Texas Rangers top prospect, Jack Leiter has been selected to the SiriusXM All-Stars Futures game. The selection was announced on Wednesday. In his first professional season Leiter has a 2-6 win-loss record with a 5.36 earned run average in 48.2 innings pitched at the Double-A level. The earned run average probably seems to be higher than you'd expect but it does not tell the whole story. While command has been a struggle at times (28 walks), we've seen flashes of brilliance as well. He's st
Owen White cracks MLB's top 100 prospects list
The Texas Rangers now have six players in MLB's top 100 prospects. That's impressive and quite the jump from just a few seasons ago. Owen White is the newest Ranger prospect on the list. In 2021, the Rangers had 5 top 100 prospects. In 2020 they had 4 and in 2019 they had 3. Between High-A Hickory and Double-A Frisco, Owen White has a 8-2 win-loss record and a 3.63 earned run average in a total of 69.1 innings. White was just named the Pitcher of the Week in the Texas League for his performa