Rangers Shortstop Prospect Acuna Extends On-Base Streak at Frisco

All five of the Texas Rangers' minor league affiliates were in action on Tuesday as a new week of action started.

The Triple-A Round Rock Express were facing El Paso, the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders were facing Wichita, the High Class-A Hickory Crawdads were taking on Hudson Valley, Class-A Down East faced Fayetteville and the Arizona Complex League Rangers faced the ACL Padres.

Here are Tuesday's results.

Texas Rangers Minor League Results

Here are the results of the Texas Rangers' minor leagues games for Tuesday, July 25.

Triple-A Round Rock

Round Rock lost to El Paso, 5-2. 2B Diosbel Arias (1-for-3) led off the 2nd inning with a single and moved to third on a double from C Matt Whatley (1-for-3, 2B). CF Bubba Thompson (1-for-3, BB, RBI) drove in Arias for a 1-0 lead and recorded his 13th RBI of the season. The Chihuahuas plated a trio in the bottom half of the inning before getting to last week’s PCL Pitcher of the Week RHP Cole Winn (3.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R-ER, 4 BB, 3 SO). 1B Blaine Crim’s (0-for-4, RBI) RBI groundout accounted for other run of the contest, while RF Elier Hernandez (1-for-4) is now at 101 hits this season (2nd most in PCL). RHP Chase Lee (1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R-ER, 0 BB, 2 SO) posted the team’s lone scoreless outing with 2 punchouts in the 8th frame.

Double-A Frisco

Frisco (12-10, 43-47, 3rd, 2.0 GB) scored a season-high 9 runs in the 1st inning to blow past Wichita, 10-4. SS Luisangel Acuña (3-for-5, RBI) extended his on-base streak to 22 games with a single in opening frame. His .308 AVG ranks 4th in the TL and his 39 SB lead the league. LF Trevor Hauver (3-for-5, 2 2B, 3B, RBI) recorded 3 XBH for the first time in his career. DH Liam Hicks (3-for-5, RBI) also collected 3 hits and extended his hit streak to 7 games (11-for-26, 6 RBI). In the start, RHP Aidan Anderson (3.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R-ER, 6 SO) struck out a career-high 6 batters, while RHP Tristen Polley (W, 2.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R-ER,1 BB, 3 SO) earned the win despite allowing 3 runs.

High Class-A Hickory

Hickory (17-7, 44-41, 1st, +4.5 GA) lost to Hudson Valley, 16-5, but SS Cam Cauley (2-for-4, 2 HR, 4 RBI) recorded his first career multi-homer game. It was Hickory’s largest margin of defeat this season, as RHP Winston Santos (L, 3.1 IP, 8 H, 7 R-ER, 0 BB, 3 SO) gave up a trio of long balls and was rocked for a season-high 7 R-ER. 3B Keyber Rodriguez (2-for-4) finished with a pair of hits to snap an 0-for-14 skid. DH Abimelec Ortiz (1-for-4) reached on a single and is slashing .331/.388/.713/1.101 in 43 G with the Crawdads this season, and leads the South Atlantic League in 3B (3), HR (9), RBI (23) over the last 30 days. RHP Ricky DeVito (1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R-ER, 1 BB, 2 SO) retired 4 of 6 BF and had the only scoreless outing.

Low Class-A Down East

Down East (11-14, 48-38, 5th, 3.5 GB) lost to Fayetteville in 10 innings, 3-2. 1B Yenci Pena (1-for-4, 2B, RBI) recorded the Woodies lone RBI on a double in the 7th frame to even the game at 2. The swing drove home DH Konner Piotto (1-for-4) who has hits in 4 of his last 6 games. RF Zion Bannister (2-for-4) led the way with a pair of hits. RHP Dylan MacLean (3.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R-ER, 4 BB, 3 SO) and RHP DJ McCarty (5.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R-ER, 1 BB, 2 SO) combined to allow just 2 R-ER across 8.0 innings of work.

ACL Rangers

The ACL Rangers (15-20, 5th, 8.0 GB) lost to the ACL Padres, 9-4. 2B Echedry Vargas (1-for-4, RBI) tallied the Rangers’ lone RBI. LF Jose De Jesus (2-for-4, 2B) and CF Edgar Basabe (1-for-3, 2B) each notched an XBH. SS Sebastain Walcott (0-for-3, BB) reached on a walk and is 28-for-84 (.333) with 13 XBH and 14 RBI through 20 G. LHP Thomas Ireland (4.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO) punched out 5 batters in 4.0 IP, and has a season ERA of 1.27 (3 ER/21.1 IP) to lead the staff.

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