Daily Growl G A M E W R A P & P R E V I E W S O F C O M I N G A T T R A C T I O N S Thursday, July 25 S E C U R I T Y B A N K B A L L P A R K 2 RockHounds 1 Rocky’s Corner ‘Hounds Dunn In By Walton & White When the Arkansas Travelers’ team bus leaves for Frisco late Friday night, Donnie Walton and may have to be coerced to get on board ... and they’re probably “bummed” to see that Friday’s game is the last regular season meeting between the Travs and ‘Hounds. The Travelers have scored fi ve runs in the fi rst two games of the series and White has driven in all fi ve. He hit a pair of home runs Wednesday, the fi rst of them driving in Walton (the second was solo) ... brought Walton home again for Thursday night’s fi rst run ... and drew a bases-loaded walk in the second inning to produce what would be the game-winner in a 2-1 win at Security Bank Ballpark. Walton, by the way, is hitting .439 in the season series. The ‘Hounds evened the score against ’ prospect in the home half of the fi rst. Mickey The ‘Hounds are home! McDonald led off with a walk and scored on singles from Brallan Perez and Dan Gamache (RBI). From there, ... hosting a pair of Texas League North Division Dunn (Seattle’s # 2 prospect per MLB.com) pitched through the seventh, allowing just four hits and two walks clubs, the Arkansas Travelers and Tulsa Drillers. while striking out six. Edwin Diaz ripped a double to right-center against Art Warren to open the ninth, but the league’s top closer got Matamoscas the next three outs to close the door, earning his 12th save. Maracas Friday ! Texas League South Division RockHounds By the #’s July 26 7:00 p.m. vs A R K A N S A S T R A V E L E R S 2ndHalf W-L GB Wild Card W-L GB Season 52-50 Streak L 1 vs. AMA 11-11 The fi rst 1,000 fans receive a FREE pair of maracas, RockHounds 18-15 - RockHounds 52-50 - 1st Half 34-35 Last 10 5-5 vs. ARK 6-6 compliments of Reliant! Amarillo 18-15 - Corpus Christi 49-53 3 2nd Half 18-15 Extra Inn. 4-4 vs. CC 8-10 Corpus Christ 16-17 2 Frisco 47-54 4½ Home 28-23 Series 1-1 vs. FRI 14-12

Frisco 14-18 3½ ((Wild card if AMA sweeps) Road 24-27 Homestand 1-1 vs. NWA 6-2 vs. RH 40-39 vs. South 33-33 vs. SPR 3-3 Fireworks Saturday Kibbles & Bits vs. LH 12-11 vs. North 19-17 vs. TUL 4-6 July 27 7:00 p.m. (“Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to mom’s apple pie” - - H A R R Y R E A S O N E R vs T U L S A D R I L L E R S Team Notes ERA. Factor those three starts out and the ERA is 4.68, Only THREE Saturday Fireworks nights remaining The RockHounds and Travelers have split the fi rst two very similar to his AAA number. in the RockHounds’ 2019 season ... come joins us! games of the series and have split 12 games overall this Justus Sheffl ield (LH) gets the start for the Travelers. season with one game remaining. Rated Seattle’s # 4 prospect, he opened the season Sunday / Family Day Player Notes with (AAA) Tacoma, going 2-6, 6.87 / 1.82 WHIP in 13 Dan Gamache has sure made himself right at home at games (12 starts) for the Rainiers. He was reassigned July 28 2:00 p.m. Security Bank Ballpark. Dan joined the club last week to Arkansas on June 18 and has been dominant, going vs T U L S A D R I L L E R S on the road trip but went 0-for-20 (he reached base 3-2, 1.75 / 1.06 WHIP in seven starts with the Travelers. Five tickets for $25 ... coupons in the Sunday MRT. seven times, but without a hit). In his fi rst two games Justus was selected by Cleveland (31st overall) in the at Rocky Town, he is 4-for-8 with two runs, a double 2014 draft and has since been involved in two major and an RBI. trades, going to the Yankees in the Andrew Miller deal Two-Dollar Monday and from NY to Seattle in the trade. Brallan Perez has broken out of a rough stretch (.183 July 29 6:30 p.m. in his last 20 games entering Thursday) with hits in vs T U L S A D R I L L E R S fi ve straight games (7-19, .368). Brallan hit .167 in 17 RockHounds Next 5 Two-dollar admission with a cup from any DK store! games to open the season, but since returning from Single-A on May 26, he’s hitting .263 in 42 games. Friday July 26 vs A R K A N S A S Security Bank Ballpark 7:00 p.m. (Radio 6:47) Nate Mondou has reached base in four straight games ARK Justus Sheffi eld (LH, 3-2, 1.75) 2-for-1 Tuesday (8-14, .571, plus a walk for a .600 OBP) and is hitting RH James Naile (RH, 6-4, 5.75) p.m. .299 in his last 19 games. July 30 6:30 Saturday July 27 vs T U L S A vs T U L S A D R I L L E R S If Obi-Wan Kenobi felt a “disturbance in the Force” last Security Bank Ballpark 7:00 p.m. (Radio 6:47) TUL T B A (RH, x-x, x.xx) Tickets for Tuesday’s game are 2-for-the-price-of-1 night, it’s because Daulton Jefferies actually walked with a coupon from Baskin-Robbins! two batters ... in one inning. The walks were Daulton’s RH Matt Milburn (RH, 5-7, 5.40) fourth and fi fth of the season in 52.0 innings. He has 56 Sunday July 28 vs T U L S A strikeouts on the year ... a ratio of more than 11-to-1. Security Bank Ballpark 2:00 p.m. (Radio 1:47) Tickets & More Friday’s Match-Up TUL T B A (RH, x-x, x.xx) 24/7 RH Kyle Friedrichs (RH, 4-5, 3.58) James Naile makes his 17th start for the RockHounds ... his fi rst since returning from (AAA) Las Vegas. Monday July 29 vs T U L S A midlandrockhounds.org James opened the season with the ‘Hounds and pitched Security Bank Ballpark 6:30 p.m. (Radio 6:15) through June 30 before joining the Aviators. He went TUL T B A (RH, x-x, x.xx) 2-0, 4.41 / 1.47 WHIP in three starts for Las Vegas and RH Grant Holmes (RH, 5-2, 3.13) returns to the ‘Hounds simply due to the shuffl e of A.J. Thursday July 30 vs T U L S A Puk and Brian Howard both going up. He is 6-4, 5.75 brothers osborne Security Bank Ballpark 6:30 p.m. (Radio 6:15) I N C O N C E R T ERA / 1.69 WHIP with the ‘Hounds. TUL T B A (RH, x-x, x.xx) Thursday, RH (RH, 0-1, 6.00) Statistical Sidebar: Yesterday we included the note August 29 on Travs starter Ricardo Sanchez, who has struggled Daulton Jefferies (RH, 0-1, 3.63) against the RockHounds (12.75 ERA) compared to the rest of the Texas League (2.92 against his other six TL Tickets & On-Field VIP Tables opponents). James’ nemisis has been Amarillo. In Available Now! 5 2 0 - 2 2 5 5 three starts against the Sod Poodles, he has a 12.08