Zavala Walks it off Friday Night in Frisco

Friday night RHP Josh Stephan took the mound for the Red Hot Frisco Roughriders vs The Midland Rockhounds and RHP Chen Zhong. 

Frisco who is 7-1 in their last 8 games looked it make it 8-1 with 5 in a row. 

The First 2 innings went scoreless despite Frisco having 4 Hits and at one point in the 1st they had runners on 2nd and 3rd with no out but got nothing from it when Chavez Struck out and Keyber Rodriguez popped out to first. 

After facing the minimum through the first 8 hitters, Stephan would allow back to back hits to the 9 and 1 Spots to give Midland a 1-0 lead when Joshua Kuroda-Grauer doubled home Valenzuela with 2 outs. 

The Roughriders would come storming back the next inning when with 2 outs Frainyer Chavez belted a ball into the Lazy River tying the ballgame. Rodriguez would be next up and lace a single and proceeded to be followed up by a Keith Jones II double in the left center gap to give Frisco a 2-1 lead in the 3rd. 

Both Teams would then reach a stalemate when there was only 1 hit up until the top of the 7th inning when after a 1 out single Josh Stephan would be bulled from the game with a line of 6.1IP 5H 1ER 2K but would be responsible for the runner on 1st. 

They would bring in Ryan Lobus where the right struggled when after a quick strikeout would plunk Luke Mann which set up Cole Conn who singled to right field to drive in the game tying run making it 2-2. 

He would then plunk his second batter before finally retiring the Rockhounds with the bases loaded when he got Grauer to ground out to 3B Keyber Rodriguez. 

In the bottom of the inning Frisco would again get 2 on with 1 out but Keyber Rodriguez would hit into an inning ending double play. 

Frisco would then call upon fireballer Emiliano Teodo and he would have the Rockhounds number as in his 1.2 IP he was perfect with 2 Strikeouts and averaged a little over 100 on his fastball and would touch 101 4 times in the night. Then with 2 outs in the top of the 9th. They could go to the left Avery Weems to face Lefty Luke Mann and would proceed to get him swinging. 

The Bottom of the Ninth would start out with a Can Cauley grounder to short. The very next at bat, on a 1-2 count, Aaron Zavala would send high fastball onto the grass pavilion out in left center for a Lefty Lefty Crime walk off Solo Shot to start the Friday night firework show early and send Frisco home happy on a Friday night!