{"id":243056,"date":"2026-04-10T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243056\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:02:13","slug":"perez-climie-homer-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243056\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez, Climie Homer in Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 Despite two solo home runs, the Houston Baseball team dropped the first game of its three-game series against BYU on Thursday night, 3-2, at Schroeder Park. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRight-fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/xavier-perez\/9601\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9601\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Perez<\/a> hit his team-leading ninth home run of the season in the third inning. The 408-foot homer tied the game at 1-1 after BYU (16-16, 6-7 Big 12) had scored in the first inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBYU took the lead in the top of the fourth inning with a 2-run frame. The visitors sprayed 11 hits and held Houston to just three. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHouston (16-16, 3-10 Big 12) had traffic on the bases in each of the first six innings but failed to score in the first six frames aside from Perez&#8217;s home run.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHouston clawed a run back on a towering 40-degree launch angle home run by designated hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcougars.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cade-climie\/9593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9593\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Climie<\/a> in the eighth inning to cut the deficit to 3-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nHouston looks to even the series in game two that is slated for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch on Friday against BYU. The two conclude the series at 1 p.m. Saturday. 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Fans can also follow the team on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uhcougarbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@uhcougarbb<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 UHCougars.com \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Despite two solo home runs, the Houston Baseball team dropped the first game of its three-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-243056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243056","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=243056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}