Christian Moore’s walk-off single lifts Salt Lake past El Paso 5-4

With two outs in the ninth and the game tied after El Paso’s latest push, Christian Moore drove a sharp single to left field and turned a tense Saturday night into a 5-4 Salt Lake win. Bryce Teodosio scored on the play, and 6,859 fans at The Ballpark at America First Square watched the Bees survive a back-and-forth finish in 2 hours, 42 minutes.

El Paso had already stolen the momentum once by scoring twice in the top of the ninth to erase Salt Lake’s lead. Instead of letting the Chihuahuas leave with the comeback, the Bees answered in the bottom half and closed out one of their most dramatic wins of the season. The result gave Salt Lake four wins in the first five games of the series and completed the club’s first series victory of the year, a fitting finish after Friday’s 10-5 win had kept the Bees in control of the matchup.

Moore’s swing carried more than just the final score. It was his second walk-off hit of the year, another late-game moment for a 23-year-old second baseman who has already started to turn prospect buzz into visible production at Triple-A. Drafted eighth overall by the Angels in 2024 out of Tennessee, Moore has been asked to handle the pressure that comes with being one of the organization’s most closely watched young hitters, and this was the kind of at-bat that can harden a player’s reputation quickly.

Salt Lake did not need a quiet supporting cast to get there. El Paso starter Evan Fitterer allowed only one run over six innings, matching the longest start by an El Paso pitcher this year, but the Bees kept finding traffic. Nick Solak went 2-for-4 with an RBI single and entered the finale carrying a .450 on-base percentage with three RBIs over the first five games of the series. José Miranda added a 3-for-4 day with a double, while Jase Bowen and Samad Taylor each finished with two hits. Those numbers made El Paso’s late rally feel dangerous, but they still did not hold up once Moore stepped in.

Saucedo improved to 1-1 with the win, Morgan fell to 0-2, and no save was recorded. For Salt Lake, the final swing did more than finish off a game. It put a clean ending on a series the Bees had controlled from the start and gave Moore another marquee moment in a season that is beginning to move on his timing as much as his talent.