Sugar Land rallies past Albuquerque 11-10 on Sacco Jr.'s walk-off single

Sugar Land kept answering every time Albuquerque thought it had the game under control, and the Space Cowboys turned that stubbornness into an 11-10 walk-off win Saturday night at Constellation Field. What looked early like a rough night for the home club became one of the most chaotic finishes in Triple-A, with Tommy Sacco Jr. delivering the final single after Sugar Land erased multiple deficits and survived a game that kept lurching back and forth.

The Space Cowboys were down 2-0 after the first inning and trailed 7-3 after Albuquerque piled up five runs in the fourth. Then the game flipped on a stretch of power that changed the mood in a hurry. Sacco Jr. and Cavan Biggio hit back-to-back home runs in the fifth to cut the gap to 7-5, and Daniel Johnson followed in the sixth with his first homer of the season. CJ Alexander then added a two-run shot that pushed Sugar Land back in front, 8-7, completing a run of offense that came in waves instead of one giant inning.

Albuquerque still had one more surge left. The Isotopes retook the lead 10-8 in the eighth, putting the Space Cowboys back under pressure. Sugar Land answered immediately in the bottom half when Alexander walked, Carlos Perez doubled and Sacco Jr. punched a single through to tie it at 10-10. That sequence mattered as much as any homer in the game, because it showed the lineup could still manufacture runs after spending most of the night chasing.

The ninth brought the finish. Johnson singled, Nelson was hit by a pitch and Perez was intentionally walked before Sacco Jr. lined the walk-off single that ended it. The comeback was backed by bullpen innings that kept Sugar Land alive after the early damage, including scoreless work from Josh Hader and Nate Pearson. The four-homer night was a season high for the Space Cowboys and moved them to 18-20, a result that mattered beyond one win because it showed Houston’s Triple-A club could keep scoring from behind, absorb another punch and still close with contact when the game demanded it.