El Paso storms back to rout Reno 14-1, extends hot streak
El Paso erased a 1-0 hole with 14 unanswered runs, and Carlos Rodríguez and Mason McCoy turned the late-night surge into a 14-1 rout of Reno.
The game turned on one fourth-inning burst and never came back. El Paso trailed 1-0, then ripped off 14 unanswered runs to bury Reno 14-1 Friday night at Southwest University Park, turning a one-run game into a runaway before the Aces could slow the tide.
Reno drew first blood in the opening inning when Ryan Waldschmidt jumped on a first-pitch offering from Matt Waldron for a solo homer, the only run the Aces would score. After that, El Paso’s offense kept layering on pressure until the night belonged entirely to the Chihuahuas, who finished with 14 hits and put together the kind of sustained avalanche that can change a series in a hurry.
Carlos Rodríguez drove the surge. He went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and four RBIs, delivering the first major swing in the fourth and then continuing to add damage as the inning sequence kept snowballing. Mason McCoy matched the pace at the top of the lineup, going 4-for-4 with two RBIs and tying his career high with four hits. It was McCoy’s seventh career four-hit game, a hard-contact night that helped make every Reno mistake feel bigger.
The support behind them was spread all over the card. Clay Dungan, B. Johnson, Nate Mondou, Trenton Pratto and Nick Schnell all drove in runs, and El Paso kept stacking productive innings until the margin was no longer in doubt. The Chihuahuas played clean, too, finishing without an error while Matt Boyle earned the win and Bryce Jarvis took the loss.
The result fit the stretch El Paso is putting together, not just a one-night outburst. The Chihuahuas won three of the first four games of the series, improved to 7-3 against Reno this season and extended their recent run to nine wins in their last 12 games. At 34-39, El Paso stayed fourth in the Pacific Coast League East, 10 games back in the first-half race, while Reno dropped to 31-42 and sat 13 games back in the West.
The night also carried extra weight for Rodríguez, whose big game came one day after his 22-game hitting streak ended. Instead of letting that become the story, El Paso turned the focus to the scoreboard, and by the time 6,133 fans had watched the final out, the only question left was how much larger the margin might have been.
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