Reno snaps nine-game skid to El Paso with 10th-inning win
Reno erased a 4-0 hole with five unearned runs in the eighth, then survived a wild 10th for a 7-6 win that snapped a nine-game skid to El Paso.
Reno turned a 4-0 deficit into a 7-6 win in 10 innings by surviving chaos at every turn. The Aces scored five unearned runs in the eighth, then held on through a frantic extra frame to finally beat El Paso and stop a nine-game skid against the Chihuahuas.
Luken Baker put Reno on the board with an RBI triple, his third triple as a professional, but El Paso starter Evan Fitterer kept the Aces quiet through four shutout innings. Fitterer entered with only two runs allowed in 14.2 innings this season, and the Chihuahuas carried that early edge into the middle innings before the game flipped hard.
The turning point came in the top of the eighth, when Reno sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five times without the help of an earned run. Matt O’Neill delivered the biggest swing with a two-run homer, while Jacob Amaya and Jack Hurley each chipped in run-scoring hits. Andrew Velazquez then worked a walk, stole second and scored on an error as Reno took its first lead of the night, all of it coming with El Paso making three errors in the inning.
El Paso answered immediately. Nick Schnell, who had homered five times in his last five games, launched a solo shot in the eighth to cut the margin, then the Chihuahuas tied it again in the ninth and forced extra innings. That fit the way El Paso had been playing, since the club had scored first in nine of its previous 10 games entering the matchup.
In the 10th, Reno used the free runner to manufacture the go-ahead run. A sacrifice bunt moved the pressure forward, Hurley chopped a ball toward the plate that turned into a fielding error, and Baker scored the winning run. Gerardo Carrillo then closed out the bottom half after a wild pitch put the tying run at third, finishing off the Aces’ first extra-inning win of the season in their third try.
Hurley finished 2-for-3 with two RBI, two walks and a run scored, while Baker made his own mark in a night that swung from early frustration to late release. The victory ended El Paso’s nine-game winning streak against Reno and snapped the Chihuahuas’ three-game overall streak as the clubs kept grinding through an April Pacific Coast League series. The game at Southwest University Park in El Paso, Texas, drew 8,020 and lasted 3 hours and 22 minutes, a long, volatile night that Reno finally finished on its terms.
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