El Paso pounds Round Rock 14-1 behind two-hit pitching gem

Two hits. One run. That was the headline, and it was the kind of number that says far more about control than any lopsided score ever could. El Paso blanketed Round Rock’s lineup for most of the night Wednesday at Dell Diamond, rolling to a 14-1 win that was the Chihuahuas’ biggest margin of victory of the 2026 season.

Jackson Wolf set the tone with five strikeouts over three innings, and Logan Gillaspie turned the middle of the game into a dead end for the Express. Gillaspie worked three hitless, scoreless innings with four strikeouts to earn the win, while Eli Villalobos added two more hitless, scoreless frames. Through eight innings, El Paso had faced only one batter over the minimum, and Round Rock never sent a runner to second base during that stretch. The Chihuahuas struck out 12, two shy of their season high, and never let the Express build even the hint of pressure.

The offense made sure the pitching gem did not go to waste. El Paso batted around and scored five runs in the second inning, the blow that effectively ended the night before Round Rock could settle in. Rodolfo Duran launched a homer to left field, Pablo Reyes followed with one of his own, and Samad Taylor later joined the parade with another shot to left. Duran’s homer was his third of the season and his second in his last three games, a useful sign for a lineup that needed a fast start after dropping the series opener 6-4 on Tuesday.

The scoring kept coming from there. Reyes added a solo homer in the fourth, Duran delivered a three-run single in the eighth, and Taylor capped the damage with a solo homer in the ninth. Round Rock finally avoided the shutout on a ninth-inning double play, but the line score was already decided long before then. Matt Stephan took the loss for the Express, who entered the day having scored 32 runs on 50 hits over their previous five games and leading the Pacific Coast League in hits and doubles during that stretch.

At 7-10, El Paso left Dell Diamond with a split of the first two games in the series and a performance that looked less like a one-night avalanche than the kind of complete outing that can flip a series fast. The Chihuahuas controlled every phase for 2 hours and 49 minutes in front of 3,170 fans, and Round Rock never found a foothold.