Isotopes erupt for 10 runs in 10th, beat Chihuahuas 19-12

The 10th inning looked less like baseball than a scoreboard glitch. Chad Stevens opened it with a tie-breaking two-run homer, and the Albuquerque Isotopes kept batting until the frame became a 10-run eruption and a 19-12 win over the El Paso Chihuahuas at Southwest University Park on Sunday afternoon.

It had already been a crooked number game long before extra innings. Albuquerque led 8-3 at the seventh-inning stretch, then watched El Paso answer with six runs to seize the lead. Vimael Machin brought the Isotopes back even in the ninth with an RBI double, and that reset the game for the extra-inning barrage. Ryan Ritter had put Albuquerque on the board in the second with a two-run homer, extending his hitting streak to 28 games and pushing his stretch line to .407/.464/.813 with 11 doubles, three triples, 11 homers and 40 RBI.

Once the 10th opened up, the offense kept coming from every direction. Charlie Condon went 3-for-5 and homered as part of his second three-hit game, Cole Carrigg finished 3-for-5 with a three-run triple, his first Triple-A home run and two stolen bases, and Drew Avans snapped an 0-for-13 skid with a two-run double to cap the onslaught. Stevens extended his hitting streak to nine games and became the first Albuquerque player to post two hits in an inning since Michael Toglia last August. Machin finished with his first four-hit performance since May 31, 2025, and Adael Amador scored three times without a hit, another strange line from a night that never settled down. The Isotopes won five of six in the series, with their lone defeat coming after they blew a 5-0 fifth-inning lead two nights earlier.