CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi Hooks had a bad habit of letting games go late to the Frisco RoughRiders, but after a 3-game losing streak the Hooks changed their fate winning 6-1 on Friday at Whataburger Field.<\/p>\n
The Hooks got on the board in the third when Yamal Encarnacion’s short hopper ended in a ground out RBI. Tyler Whitaker hit a solo home run in the fifth inning. Joseph Sullivan added a sac fly in the sixth for the 3-0 lead. The Hooks added three more runs in the eighth when Cameron Sisneros hit a 2 RBI ground-rule double and Max Holy hit a sac fly RBI. The RoughRiders scored their lone run in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n
The Hooks pitching staff finally come through from start to finish. James Hicks opened the game on the mound dealing 5 strikeouts through 5 innings while only allowing 1 hit. Railin Perez threw 3 strikeouts through 2 innings, then Hudson Leach delivered 2 strikeouts in 1 inning, followed by closer Amilcar Chirinos with 2 strikeouts, 2 hits and 1 run in 1 inning. <\/p>\n
Game 5 is set for Saturday at 7:05 p.m. at Whataburger Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi Hooks had a bad habit of letting games go late to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,1816,155,157,156,54259,130779,117568,90513,130778,91580,90515],"class_list":["post-369150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-baseball","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-hooks","tag-james-hicks","tag-max-holy","tag-roughriders","tag-tyler-whitaker","tag-will-bush","tag-yamal-encarnacion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369150","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=369150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}