Gavin Conticello


Soddies by Morning: Amarillo Sweeps the Weekend in Midland
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Soddies by Morning: Amarillo Sweeps the Weekend in Midland

Never more appropriate to bring this back, "That's what we call a winning streak." It has happened before, but this is the first time this season. The Amarillo starting pitchers stepped up this weekend, and paired that with some timely timely hitting turned into a trifecta of wins. Following a heartbreaking 2-0 loss despite another great Roman Angelo road start on Thursday, the Sod Poodles starter Jose Cabrera picked up where Angelo had left off. Cabrera took the mound after picking up his firs
Soddies by Morning: Weekend Recap, Sod Poodles Take Series From San Antonio
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Soddies by Morning: Weekend Recap, Sod Poodles Take Series From San Antonio

Series: Game 1: 15-4 AMA / Game 2: 4-2 AMA / Game 3: 13-11 SA      Game 4: 6-4 (7) AMA / Game 5: 5-3 (7) AMA / Game 6: 5-4 SA First and foremost we want to send our thoughts to those who were caught in the storms on Friday night. We got a double dose of baseball on Saturday that kicked off with a matchup between San Antonio's Jackson Wolf and Amarillo's Roman Angelo. Angelo was coming off his best start of the season in Frisco where he went 6.1 IP, giving up 1 run/earned, 2 walks and struck out
Weber's 4-Hit Night helps the Pointy Boots Find the Launch Pad Against San Antonio
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Weber's 4-Hit Night helps the Pointy Boots Find the Launch Pad Against San Antonio

The Sod Poodles got their swagger back to take the series opener at Hodgetown. Dylan Ray once again shined despite the box score. Ray tossed a great outing outside of one bad inning in the 2nd that saw 9-Hole hitter Fransisco Acuna punish the Sod Poodles right hander for allowing a pair of walks and a single by tanking an 0-2 pitch out of the yard for a Grand Slam to give San Antonio a 4-0 lead early. No one else would cross the plate the rest of the night for the visiting Missions. Ray spun 4 s
Soddies by Morning: Who is Coming Home Hot for Amarillo
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Soddies by Morning: Who is Coming Home Hot for Amarillo

The Sod Poodles took 2 games off of Frisco last week posting a 4-2 record for the set. Let's see who is coming back home to Amarillo on a roll... Caleb Roberts - Outfielder/ First Basemen .226/.328/.359/.686 - 6 XBH - 8 RBI Caleb Roberts crushed Roughrider pitching in the last week specifically the weekend. After coming into the series slashing just .143/.265/.238/.503 and just 6 hits on the season. Something really clicked with Roberts this weekend. The outfielder hit his way to a 6/11 weeke
Soddies By Morning: Langford Goes Long as Amarillo's Slow Starts Continue
AA Frisco RoughRiders

Soddies By Morning: Langford Goes Long as Amarillo's Slow Starts Continue

Just what the Sod Poodles needed. Coming into Thursday night Amarillo was 2-9, having not won a game since last Saturday, gearing up to face a Frisco team that already won the first two games of the series and sat in first place in the Texas League South at 8-3. Then they recieved some major reinforcement's. Early on Thursday it was announced that one of the league's biggest rising star's Wyatt Langford would be joining Frisco on Thursday & Friday for his rehab assignment. Langford was dealing w
Soddies by Morning: Ray Shines, but Drake Dominates as the Sod Poodles Can't Fend Off Frisco.
AA Frisco RoughRiders

Soddies by Morning: Ray Shines, but Drake Dominates as the Sod Poodles Can't Fend Off Frisco.

Series: 4/15: FRI - 4 AMA - 3 / 4/16 FRI - 9 AMA - 4 Today: 6:35 PM / 4/18: 7:05 / 4/19: 7:05 / 4/20: 4:05 Dylan Ray turned in his best performance of the season and delivered the second straight Amarillo outing allowing a single run, after Cabrera's outing on Tuesday, unfortunately it didn't end in a victory. Ray spun together an improved outing, only allowing a single earned run, an Abimelec Ortiz solo shot leading off the 4th inning after the Amarillo right hander fell behind 2-0. The Roughr
Soddies by Morning: Giestings Great Stuff and Conticello’s Big Blast Help Amarillo Enter the Win Column
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Soddies by Morning: Giestings Great Stuff and Conticello’s Big Blast Help Amarillo Enter the Win Column

The opening series is in the books for 2025 and the Sod Poodles are heading home with their first victory. Starter Spencer Giesting tossed a terrific 5 shutout innings on 79 pitches (51 strikes), and looked like he did towards the end of 2024. The left handed pitcher drafted out of Charlotte in 2022, struck out 5 and didn’t walk any of the 18 batters he faced en route to picking up his first victory of the year. Giesting attacked the zone early and it paid off on Sunday. The Sod Poodles had to
Names to Know to Kickoff The Sod Poodles Season
Amarillo Sod Poodles

Names to Know to Kickoff The Sod Poodles Season

Since the inaugural season in 2019 there has been no shortage of star power in Bomb City. Major league closers David Bednar, Andres Munoz, and Trevor Megill shut down opposing offenses, and National's Opening Day starter MacKenzie Gore joined halfway through the season on the way to the 2019 Texas League Championship. That season also included a brief appearance from Fernando Tatis Jr. before he burst onto the scene. In 2022, Corbin Carroll put together arguably the best individual season in Sod