Wisdom powers Tacoma past Round Rock with two homers, five RBIs
Patrick Wisdom homered twice and drove in five as Tacoma turned a 12-1 rout of Round Rock into a sharp response after dropping the opener.
Patrick Wisdom looked too powerful for this level Tuesday night, launching two homers and driving in five runs as Tacoma rolled past Round Rock 12-1 at Cheney Stadium. The outburst gave the Rainiers a clean rebound after a 7-6 loss a night earlier and pushed Wisdom to his 16th homer of the season.
Tacoma set the tone in the fourth inning with back-to-back solo shots from Victor Labrada and Wisdom to open a 2-0 lead. The Rainiers kept building from there, adding a run on Carson Taylor’s groundout and another on Blake Rambusch’s RBI single to make it 4-0. Round Rock finally answered in the sixth on Cam Cauley’s solo homer, but Tacoma answered immediately in the same inning when Rambusch singled again and Brock Rodden followed with a two-run blast to stretch the lead and break the game open.
Wisdom struck again in the seventh, sending another towering drive out for his second homer of the night and Tacoma’s seventh run. By then, the game had taken on the shape of a long, relentless squeeze, with the Rainiers repeatedly extending innings and forcing the Express to keep playing from behind. Tacoma finished the job in the eighth with a five-run burst that included walks, a hit by pitch, a Spencer Packard single and Wisdom’s bases-clearing double after the bags were loaded.
Casey Lawrence made sure the lead never slipped. He worked 6.0 innings, allowed one run on five hits and struck out six, giving Tacoma a steady start that let the offense keep stacking damage in chunks rather than needing one big inning. The Rainiers out-hit Round Rock 12-8, played error-free baseball and left the Express with only five runners stranded.
The win moved Tacoma to 34-43 and evened the series at 1-1, while Round Rock fell to 32-45. In front of 3,894 fans on an 88-degree, partly cloudy night with a light 4 mph wind in from center field, Wisdom’s latest power surge underlined how often he has changed the game with one swing. It was his third multi-homer game of the season, and it kept his name front and center in Tacoma’s daily mix as the Rainiers keep fighting up the Pacific Coast League West standings.
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