Ryan Lasko had three hits and drove in two runs to lead the Midland RockHounds to an 8-5 win over Corpus Christi on Thursday at Momentum Bank Ballpark.<\/p>\n
Midland (31-28) won its second straight over the Hooks (26-34) and it got off to a great start when Brennan Milone hit a two-run home run to left in the bottom of the first inning.<\/p>\n
Lasko, who was 3-for-4, then made it 3-0 in the fourth with an RBI double.<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi cut it to 3-2 in the top of the sixth inning, before the RockHounds extended the lead back to three runs with two runs in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Midland had as much as a 7-3 lead through seven innings.<\/p>\n
Leo De Vries was 2-for-4 with a walk, and two runs scored; and Cameron Leary was 2-for-3 with a walk, RBI and a run scored for the RockHounds.<\/p>\n
Midland starter Henry Baez (1-2) got the win after he allowed one run on five hits, three walks with five strikeouts over 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Tyler Whitaker led the Hooks by going 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a run scored; while Joseph Sullivan was 3-for-4 with a walk and run scored.<\/p>\n
James Hicks (3-5) took the loss for the Hooks.<\/p>\n
The teams meet in the fourth game of a six-game series at 7 p.m. Friday at Momentum Bank Ballpark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Lasko had three hits and drove in two runs to lead the Midland RockHounds to an 8-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-333157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333157","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=333157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}