El Paso escapes Round Rock in 10 innings on game-ending double play
Carlos Rodríguez kept his 17-game hit streak alive, Nick Solak drove in the tying run and El Paso won 7-6 on a 10th-inning double play at Dell Diamond.
El Paso turned a wild 10th inning into a 7-6 escape at Dell Diamond, finishing Round Rock with a double play after the Chihuahuas survived another tense, one-run battle. Carlos Rodríguez’s 17-game hitting streak stayed alive, Nick Solak delivered a key two-hit night, and El Paso left Round Rock with a win that mattered well beyond the box score.
The game had the feel of a scoreboard seesaw from the start. El Paso built a 3-0 lead, Round Rock answered to tie it, then the Express grabbed a 5-4 edge before the Chihuahuas punched back again. Solak’s game-tying RBI single kept El Paso from sliding into the loss column, and the Chihuahuas stayed alive despite entering the eighth trailing 5-4. That mattered because El Paso had been 1-25 when trailing after seven innings before this comeback.
Rodríguez was right in the middle of the night’s biggest swing. He entered the 10th as the automatic runner at second base, advanced on a wild pitch, then watched Solak draw a walk before another wild pitch pushed Rodríguez home. From there, the finish came down to baserunning and defense. With runners on the corners, Jarred Kelenic was caught stealing second and Josh Smith was thrown out at the plate to end the game on a double play, turning Round Rock’s last chance into El Paso’s cleanest sequence of the night.
Solak finished 2-for-4 and lifted his average to .340, which ranked second in the Pacific Coast League. Nick Schnell and Nate Mondou also chipped in with two hits apiece for El Paso, giving the lineup enough traffic to keep pressure on Round Rock all night. On the mound, RHP Hart picked up the win and Alexis Díaz took the loss in a game that ended in the field, not with a save.
The result pushed El Paso to 29-37 and 5-5 in extra-inning games, while Round Rock fell to 28-38 and 3-3 in extras. It also gave the Chihuahuas four wins in their last five and two victories in the first three games of the series, with all three games decided by two runs or fewer. In 3 hours and 11 minutes before an announced crowd of 4,056, El Paso found the one defensive play that settled everything.
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