Melton Homers Twice, Riders Rally Again
Box Score FRISCO - For the second consecutive night, the RoughRiders engineered a come-from-behind win, outslugging the Hooks in an 8-6 triumph Friday at Riders Field. Jacob Melton put Corpus Christi up, 4-0, by belting two-run home runs in the first and third for his first professional multi-dinger day. After
FRISCO - For the second consecutive night, the RoughRiders engineered a come-from-behind win, outslugging the Hooks in an 8-6 triumph Friday at Riders Field.
Jacob Melton put Corpus Christi up, 4-0, by belting two-run home runs in the first and third for his first professional multi-dinger day. After driving a 3-1 pitch the other way down the left-field line, Melton pulled a 2-2 offering in the third over the fence in right to match his season-best of four RBIs.
A Melton Mash for your Friday Night !!! pic.twitter.com/dczpOEL8nS
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2024
TWO HOMER NIGHT FOR JACOB MELTON
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2024
AND WE'RE ONLY IN THE 3RD INNING pic.twitter.com/vefFt2XLx0
In the wake of Melton's second salvo, Zach Dezenzo crushed a 1-2 pitch into the trees well beyond the left-field corner for Corpus Christi's second set of back-to-back homers on the season. Dezenzo has hit two circuit clouts in nine games with the Hooks.
THE BATS ARE HOT
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2024
Zach Dezenzo's 2nd homer of the season! pic.twitter.com/ChIsnuL95F
Hooks starter Aaron Brown cruised over the first four innings, permitting two hits while striking out five. A walk and a single started the Frisco fifth, snapping a stretch of eight straight outs by Brown. Frainyer Chavez then made it 5-3 with an opposite-field three-run homer to left.
After scoring twice in the sixth against James Hicks, Frisco added three more in the seventh on a blast by Cody Freeman. Freeman, who won the Tuesday's game with an eighth-inning salvo, has gone deep three times in his last four games.
Corpus Christi's sixth marker came in the sixth. Colin Barber knocked a lead-off single into center, stole second, and then raced home thanks to a double off the left-field wall by Collin Price. Price has recorded RBIs in four consecutive games.