Oklahoma City erupts for six-run sixth, extends winning streak to five

Oklahoma City cracked open a scoreless game with one ruthless sixth inning, then leaned on Cole Irvin to finish the job in a 6-3 win over Reno at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark on Tuesday night.

Through five innings, neither club had separated. Then the Comets sent 10 men to the plate and delivered the kind of two-out burst that changes a Triple-A game in minutes. Noah Miller started it with a run-scoring single, and Eliezer Alfonzo, Tyler Fitzgerald, Alex Freeland and Kiké Hernández followed with hits in sequence. Five straight two-out singles turned a tense tie into a 6-0 Oklahoma City lead, and the inning ended up deciding everything.

Irvin made sure the cushion held. The left-hander worked six scoreless innings, allowed four hits and struck out six for his fourth quality start of the season. It was his team-leading 10th start, and Oklahoma City’s pitching staff backed him with a season-low one walk. The Comets also struck out 10 Reno hitters, the eighth time they reached double digits in strikeouts in May.

Reno finally broke through in the ninth, when singles by Luis Urías and Andrew Velazquez helped push across three runs, but the rally never got close to erasing the damage from the sixth. Oklahoma City still improved to 25-20, while Reno fell to 22-24.

The win extended the Comets’ streak to five games, their best of the season, and it was their longest run of that kind since a six-game road streak from July 18-24, 2025, in Sacramento and Reno. Oklahoma City has now won 12 of its last 16 games since April 30, scored six or more runs in five straight contests and in 13 of its last 15, and produced at least one four-run inning in 11 of its last 13 games, including each of the last five. That is a team winning with bursts, not dribbles.

The hottest names in the lineup are starting to matter beyond Bricktown, too. Freeland went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and has hit safely in each of his last five games, batting .500 with 12 hits in 24 at-bats and 13 RBIs over that stretch. Miller extended his season-best hitting streak to eight games, going 13-for-35 with two doubles, two triples, two homers and nine RBIs during the run. Fitzgerald also pushed his streak to eight games, going 12-for-29 with three doubles, three homers and 14 RBIs. Hernández, on a Major League rehab assignment, played all nine innings at third base for the second time this season and is 7-for-30 in nine games with Oklahoma City. If Los Angeles needs help soon, those are the names pushing hardest for attention.