Reno Aces pound 17 hits, cruise past El Paso 7-1
Reno’s 17-hit night cracked open in the fifth and snowballed into a 7-1 win over El Paso. All nine starters had a hit, and Serretti and Robinson each piled up three.
Reno needed a forceful answer after getting held to one run the night before, and it found one by turning contact into a blowout. The Aces piled up 17 hits and broke the game open late in a 7-1 win over El Paso at Southwest University Park, a result that felt less like a single hot inning than a lineup-wide takeover. Tyler Locklear started the scoring in the first, and by the time Danny Serretti homered to open the fifth, Reno had shifted the night fully out of reach.
Before 7,642 fans on Saturday, June 20, 2026, Brandon Pfaadt gave Reno the kind of start that lets an offense keep pressing. A first-batter fielding error extended the opening inning and led to El Paso’s only run, and Pfaadt still limited the damage to one unearned run over 3.1 innings while striking out four and walking none. Juan Burgos, Dylan Ray and Gerardo Carrillo handled the last 5.2 innings without allowing a run, and Burgos picked up his first win of 2026.
The Aces never relied on one giant inning to decide it. Instead, they scored in four straight frames beginning with Serretti’s home run in his first game back with Reno, then kept stacking hits against Jackson Wolf and the El Paso bullpen. Christian Cerda and Kristian Robinson followed with RBI singles in the sixth, Jose Fernandez added an RBI triple in the seventh, and Robinson later drove in Cerda and Serretti with a double that widened the margin even further. All nine Reno starters recorded at least one hit, with Robinson and Serretti each delivering three-hit games, the kind of top-to-bottom pressure that makes a lineup feel dangerous at every turn.
El Paso had a few moments to salvage the night, but not enough to change the flow. Carlos Rodríguez extended his on-base streak to 29 games with an RBI double, yet the Chihuahuas finished with only four hits, matching their season low, and turned three double plays while still losing control of the game. Wolf allowed two runs in five innings, but Reno kept answering and kept advancing runners, a steady response that mattered after the clubs entered the day with the Aces at 32-42 and the Chihuahuas at 34-40, with El Paso having won three of the first five in the series.
Reno’s late surge gave the series a different tone and left the finale set up for LHP Kohl Drake against RHP Jhony Brito, with the Aces carrying momentum that came from depth as much as any one swing.
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