EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Chihuahuas fell 8-4 to the Albuquerque Isotopes at Southwest University Park in their 2026 season opener. <\/p>\n
El Paso falls to 5-5. Albuquerque moves to 4-6. <\/p>\n
Fans packed into the ballpark for the home opener with some lining up outside the gates as early as 2pm in the afternoon. <\/p>\n
In the first inning, the Isotopes jumped out to an early 2-0 lead courtesy of RBIs from Sterlin Thompson and Zac Veen. Blaine Crim and Ryan Ritter both homered for Albuquerque, as the Isotopes would go on to take a 8-0 lead. The Chihuahuas finally got on the board when Jose Miranda drove in Nick Solak with an RBI single. However, the comeback attempt was too little-too late and Albuquerque closed out the 8-4 victory. <\/p>\n
For El Paso, Sean Boyle pitched 3.1 innings and surrendered 6 runs without a strikeout.<\/p>\n
Jase Bowen was 1 for 5 with 2 RBIs. <\/p>\n
For Albuquerque, Sean Sullivan pitched 4.0 innings, giving up one earned run and struck out three. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Chihuahuas and Isotopes will face off in game two of the six game series that will wrap up on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso Chihuahuas fell 8-4 to the Albuquerque Isotopes at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-240347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}