{"id":261697,"date":"2026-04-22T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:05:01","slug":"chihuahuas-take-down-el-paso-native-ivan-melendez-and-reno-aces-in-series-opener-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261697\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihuahuas take down El Paso native Ivan Melendez and Reno Aces in series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Jose Miranda had two hits, including a home run, to lead the El Paso Chihuahuas to a 13-6 victory over the Reno Aces at Southwest University park on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso moves to 9-13. Reno falls to 11-11. <\/p>\n<p>In the second inning, Miranda gave the Chihuahuas the lead with the two-run homer. In the third, El Paso native Ivan Melendez would tie the game for the Aces with a two-run RBI single. The very next at-bat, Reno would take the 3-2 lead off a throwing error from Rodolfo Duran. The game would be tied 6-6 going into the eighth inning. In the eighth, Mason McCoy would kick off a seven run inning with an RBI double. That huge inning would carry El Paso to the 13-6 victory. <\/p>\n<p>For El Paso, starter Jackson Wolf pitched 2.2 innings, giving up two earned runs with two strikeouts. <\/p>\n<p>Eli Villalobos  was awarded the win after pitching  1.1 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda was 2 for 4 with the home run and 2 RBIs. <\/p>\n<p>Nick Solak was 2 for 5 with 2 RBIs. <\/p>\n<p>For Reno, starter Kohl Drake pitched 3.2 innings, giving up four earned runs with three strikeouts. <\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Campbell took the loss for giving up seven earned runs in the eighth inning. <\/p>\n<p>Melendez, who graduated from Coronado High School, was 1 for 4 with the 2 RBIs. <\/p>\n<p>These two squads will face off on Wednesday at 12:05 for the second game of the six game series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Jose Miranda had two hits, including a home run, to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-261697","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\/261697","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=261697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}