Payano puzzles Hooks but Riders drop opener

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (April 15, 2019) - A great pitching performance from Pedro Payano fell short Monday night in Corpus Christi, as the RoughRiders fell 6-4 in walk-off fashion to the Hooks.
SYNOPSIS
* Payano logged 6 1/3 innings, yielding two runs on three hits. He opened the night with six scoreless innings and faced the minimum in that span.
* The Riders took a 2-0 lead in the fourth and broke a 2-2 tie with a pair of runs in the eighth, but Corpus Christi scored four runs in the final two frames, capped by a walk-off homer from Chuckie Robinson in the ninth, to take the series opener.

NOTABLE RIDERS PERFORMERS
* Pedro Payano: 6 1/3 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 K
* Christian Lopes: 3-for-5, 2B
* Andretty Cordero: 1-for-4, 2 RBI, R

NEWS AND NOTES 
* With two RBIs Monday, Andretty Cordero brought his season total to 14, which moves him into a tie for the league lead.
* Christian Lopes has seven hits in his last three games.

WHAT'S NEXT
Riders at Corpus Christi, Tuesday, 6:15 pm
LHP Brock Burke (0-1, 0.00) vs. RHP Carson LaRue (0-0, 3.86)
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About the RoughRiders 
The Frisco RoughRiders are the Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers and play their games at beautiful Dr Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. The team was founded in 2003 and has finished first among all Double-A franchises in attendance in each of the last 14 seasons (2005-2018). In August 2014, the RoughRiders were purchased by an ownership group led by Chuck Greenberg. Since then, the new ownership group, together with the City of Frisco, has spearheaded numerous major franchise enhancements, investing over $8 million in a wide array of facility upgrades and improvements, including a state-of-the-art HD video board, sound system, Bull Moose Saloon, InTouch Grille, Riders Outpost Team Store and the world's largest water feature in a sports facility, the massive Choctaw Lazy River. These enhancements earned the Riders and the City of Frisco Ballpark Digest's prestigious "Best Ballpark Renovation" award for xtwo consecutive years (2015 and 2016). More than 150 former RoughRiders players have gone on to play Major League Baseball, including All-Stars Chris Davis, Adrian Gonzalez, Ian Kinsler and Neftalí Feliz, as well as current Rangers stars Elvis Andrus, Joey Gallo, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Rougned Odor. For more information on the Frisco RoughRiders and Dr Pepper Ballpark, please visit RidersBaseball.com or contact Ryan Rouillard at [email protected].