{"id":396201,"date":"2026-08-03T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:28:12","slug":"sod-poodles-walk-off-in-10th-to-win-series-finale-over-san-antonio-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396201\/","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles walk off in 10th to win series finale over San Antonio 7-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) -Druw Jones singled up the middle in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday to score Angel Ortiz and lift the Amarillo Sod Poodles to a 7-6 walk-off victory over the San Antonio Missions at HODGETOWN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">San Antonio jumped out to a 2-0 lead on back-to-back solo home runs by Jake Cunningham and Braedon Karpathios in the first inning. Amarillo tied it in the bottom of the first on a Ben McLaughlin double and a Jones sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jones drove in another run with a sacrifice fly in the third to put Amarillo ahead before the Missions tied it again in the fourth on a Luis Verdugo sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Sod Poodles went back in front in the fifth on a Junior Franco two-run double and an errant relay throw that allowed a third run to score, pushing the lead to 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">San Antonio cut the deficit to one in the seventh on a Brendan Durfee lineout and a Tirso Ornelas RBI single. The Missions tied the game in the ninth against closer Logan Mercado on back-to-back hits by Carson Tucker and Ornelas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mercado stranded the placement runner in the top of the 10th before Jones ended the game with one out in the bottom half.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) -Druw Jones singled up the middle in the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-396201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396201","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=396201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}