Comets Outslug Express 12-11, Ehrhard Homers Late to Win Series Finale

Four home runs, 23 combined runs and a one-run finish turned Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark into a stress test for both bullpens, but the Oklahoma City Comets outlasted the Round Rock Express 12-11 in a game that kept lurching from one offensive eruption to the next. Zach Ehrhard supplied the decisive swing in the eighth, lifting Oklahoma City back in front for good after Round Rock had kept answering every punch with one of its own.

The Comets did most of their early damage in a second inning that could have buried a lesser club. Austin Gauthier and Seby Zavala started the frame with RBI singles, then the floodgates opened behind back-to-back home runs that flipped a 2-0 deficit into an 8-2 lead. Ryan Fitzgerald delivered the biggest blow with a grand slam, James Tibbs III added a solo homer, and Oklahoma City kept layering on pressure with Fitzgerald later driving in another run with an RBI double.

That burst was enough to create separation, but not enough to make the game comfortable. Round Rock answered with five runs in the fourth to claw back into it, then tied the game again in the eighth on Michael Helman’s two-run homer before Ehrhard’s winner restored the Comets’ lead. Ryan Ward also chipped in with an RBI groundout in the sixth, and Jack Suwinski padded the total with a solo shot in the seventh, giving Oklahoma City four homers from four different hitters and matching its season high in long balls.

For a Triple-A lineup, this was the kind of night that can either look like a Pacific Coast League box-score mirage or a real signal that help is coming. Fitzgerald, Ehrhard, Tibbs III and Suwinski all left the yard, and each left with a stronger case to be tracked closely by MLB evaluators looking for the next bat that can survive a call-up. The grand slam was Oklahoma City’s second of the season and its first at home since Ryan Ward went deep against Round Rock on June 17, 2025, while the Comets also posted their first game at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in which both teams reached 11 runs since April 16, 2019.

Garrett McDaniels and Wyatt Mills finished the job by retiring Round Rock in order in the ninth, sealing Oklahoma City’s third straight win and a 4-2 series victory. At 8-7, the Comets moved back above .500 for the first time since April 3, and they did it with the kind of late-inning power that can turn a noisy minor-league score into a meaningful roster conversation.