Comets rally falls short in 3-2 loss to Round Rock
A three-hit night left Oklahoma City stranded after Round Rock turned early power into a 3-2 win, despite a fifth-inning burst that never fully closed the gap.
John Taylor made Oklahoma City pay for every mistake, and the Comets never found enough offense to answer back. Round Rock held on for a 3-2 win on June 2 after building a 3-0 lead, and Oklahoma City’s late push in the fifth inning was not enough to erase a night that began with too little traffic and ended with just three hits.
The loss snapped the Comets’ four-game winning streak and also ended their four-game run of success against Round Rock, a jolt that matters beyond one June box score. Oklahoma City had been playing clean, winning baseball, but this was the kind of game that exposes how slim the margin gets when the bats go quiet and the opponent keeps adding on.
Taylor set the tone in the first by winning an 11-pitch battle against Christian Romero before driving a home run for the game’s opening run. He added an RBI single in the fourth, giving Round Rock a 2-0 cushion and forcing Oklahoma City to chase. Keyber Rodriguez extended the gap with a solo home run in the fifth, making it 3-0 and putting the Comets in the kind of hole that demands an immediate answer.
Oklahoma City finally broke through in the bottom of the fifth. Zach Ehrhard came through with a two-out, bases-loaded RBI single, and an Express throwing error allowed two runs to score, trimming the deficit to 3-2. That was as close as the Comets got. They went hitless over the final four innings, and the bullpen never created a second wave after the rally.
There were still a few useful signs in a loss that otherwise felt like a missed chance. Tommy Edman continued his major league rehab assignment by going 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored while playing seven innings at second base. Through five games with Oklahoma City, he is 6-for-16 with a home run and two RBI.
Ehrhard also kept his own momentum rolling. His hit, walk and stolen base extended the longest on-base streak by a Comet this season to 23 games, and he has now hit safely in 13 of his last 15. But the bigger lesson was unavoidable: when Oklahoma City only gets three hits, even a rally that cuts the lead to one run can feel too late to change the outcome.
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