{"id":382528,"date":"2026-07-22T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382528\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:07","slug":"el-paso-chihuahuas-top-las-vegas-aviators-11-7-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382528\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Chihuahuas top Las Vegas Aviators 11-7 in series opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Content provided by the Las Vegas Aviators<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 The El Paso Chihuahuas (Matachines) defeated the Las Vegas Aviators (Reyes de Plata), 11-7, in the opener of the six-game series before a crowd of 5,097 at Las Vegas Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso improved to 43-53 overall and 8-13 in the second half. Las Vegas dropped to 57-38 overall (Triple-best record) and 13-9 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso broke the 3-3 tie and scored eight unanswered runs to lead 11-3 after 7 \u00bd innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chihuahuas center fielder Dustin Harris was 4-for-6, RBI, two runs scored. Designated hitter Nick Solak was 2-for-4, triple, HBP, HR, 4 RBI and right fielder Bryce Johnson was 2-for-3, double, two walks, RBI, two stolen bases, two runs scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Las Vegas right-hander Jake Garland pitched 2.0 innings in the no decision. He allowed 3 hits, 3 runs (1 earned), walked two and struck out 1 on 47 pitches (28 strikes).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso right-hander Sean Boyle pitched 4.2 innings in the no decision. He allowed 6 hits, 3 runs, walked 1 and struck out 4 on 83 pitches (58 strikes).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aviators left fielder Michael Stefanic was 2-for-4, walk, stolen base, run scored. Right fielder Jared Dickey was 2-for-5, HR, 2 RBI and shortstop Drew Swift was 2-for-5, 2 RBI, run scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game two of the homestand is Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. on Bark on the Berm Night.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content provided by the Las Vegas Aviators LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 The El Paso Chihuahuas (Matachines) defeated the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[135015,138,11184,140,139,135012,135013,135014],"class_list":["post-382528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-aviators-vs-chihuahuas-2026","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-chihuahuas","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-las-vegas-aviators","tag-las-vegas-ballpark","tag-triple-a-baseball-las-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382528","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=382528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}