El Paso completes rain-suspended win, splits doubleheader at Round Rock
Jase Bowen and José Miranda powered El Paso’s 5-2 finish, then Round Rock answered with a 4-1 seven-inning win in a weather-bent doubleheader.
El Paso made the most of a strange Sunday at Dell Diamond, finishing off Saturday’s suspended game with a 5-2 win before Round Rock took the nightcap 4-1 and split the doubleheader. The Chihuahuas’ victory in the continuation mattered most: it turned a rain-and-hail interruption into a road win, kept the series from slipping away completely, and gave El Paso a cleaner result out of a day that could have unraveled.
Saturday night’s opener had been stopped after two innings with the teams tied 1-1 because of unplayable field conditions. When play resumed at 12:05 p.m. Sunday, Sean Boyle took control of the game for El Paso, working the first five innings of the completed contest and allowing no earned runs. Pablo Reyes opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first, Jase Bowen followed with a solo home run to start the third, and José Miranda delivered the decisive blow in the fourth with a three-run homer that pushed the Chihuahuas ahead 5-1.
Bowen’s blast was his fifth of the season and his second of the series, a timely jolt in a game where the offense had to navigate the stop-start rhythm of the weather delay. Ethan Routzahn closed it out with a perfect ninth for his first career Triple-A save, giving El Paso a clean finish after a night and morning shaped as much by rain, hail, and recovery time as by the scoreboard. The first game lasted 2:40 overall, including a 1:05 rain delay, in front of 6,239 fans. The box score listed the weather at first pitch as 57 degrees, overcast, with an 18 mph wind blowing left to right.
The split left both clubs at 8-13 after the opener was completed, a snapshot of how tight the early Pacific Coast League race remained. Round Rock then answered in the scheduled seven-inning second game, scoring three times in the sixth to break a late tie and claim a 4-1 win. For the Express, it was their first series win of the season; for El Paso, it was the second straight series loss, even after salvaging the suspended game.
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