{"id":343216,"date":"2026-06-19T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:48:09","slug":"spence-homers-twice-hooks-fall-to-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343216\/","title":{"rendered":"Spence homers twice, Hooks fall to Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hooks couldn&#8217;t hold onto an early lead in an loss to San Antonio Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi Hooks got some early firepower from Lucas Spence and Drew Brutcher, but couldn&#8217;t hold the lead in an 11-7 loss to San Antonio Thursday at Whataburger Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Hooks got two home runs from Spence in the first three innings and added a solo shotfrom Brutcher to take a 4-2 lead going to the fourth. But starting pitcher James Hicks wasn&#8217;t able to hold it, with Hicks allowing six runs in 4.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi will host three more with the Missions through the weekend, including a Father&#8217;s Day catch on the field before Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hooks couldn&#8217;t hold onto an early lead in an loss to San Antonio Thursday. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-343216","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\/343216","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=343216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}