EL PASO, Texas – El Pasoan and Coronado grad Ivan Melendez returned home for his first professional baseball game at Southwest University Park.<\/p>\n
Melendez was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2022, and currently plays for the club’s Triple-A affiliate, the Reno Aces.<\/p>\n
The Aces were in El Paso Tuesday for the start of a 6-game series against the El Paso Chihuahuas.<\/p>\n
Melendez was in the starting lineup for the Aces batting 7th as the team’s designated hitter.<\/p>\n
Melendez was 1-for-4 on the night, with one hit, 2 RBIs and a walk.<\/p>\n
He did strikeout once in the game.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas)<\/p>\n
The El Paso Chihuahuas trailed 6-2 in the fourth inning Tuesday night before coming back to win 13-6 at Southwest University Park. <\/p>\n
It was the opening game of a six-game series.<\/p>\n
El Paso’s first two runs came on a two-run home run in the second inning by first baseman Jos\u00e9 Miranda, his second homer in his last two games. Infielder Marcos Casta\u00f1on also homered for the Chihuahuas. <\/p>\n
El Paso designated hitter Pablo Reyes went 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI, and he’s reached base in all 15 games he’s played in. <\/p>\n
Chihuahuas leadoff hitter Jase Bowen went 2-for-5 with an RBI, moving his hitting streak to nine games.<\/p>\n
The Chihuahuas scored seven runs on nine hits in their 12-batter bottom of the eighth inning. <\/p>\n
Miguel Cienfuegos, Garrett Hawkins, Eli Villalobos and Ethan Routzahn all pitched scoreless relief outings for the Chihuahuas, holding Reno without any runs after the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Next Game:\u00a0Wednesday at 12:05 p.m. Mountain Time at Southwest University Park. Reno RHP Dylan Ray (1-2, 3.72) vs. El Paso RHP Griffin Canning (0-1, 4.32).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas – El Pasoan and Coronado grad Ivan Melendez returned home for his first professional baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-260715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260715","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=260715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}