Alvarez and Cordero Deliver 1-2 Punch for Frisco
FRISCO - Eliezer Álvarez and Andretty Cordero combined for four home runs and 10 RBIs Tuesday night as the RoughRiders sealed the series victory with a 12-4 decision over Corpus Christi before 2,034 fans at Dr Pepper Ballpark.Frisco (4-1) has won four consecutive games, saddling the Hooks with back-to-back losses
FRISCO -
Frisco (4-1) has won four consecutive games, saddling the Hooks with back-to-back losses for the first time in 2019.
Corpus Christi (3-3) jumped out to a 3-0 lead as
The Riders answered with a run in the second and three unearned markers in the fourth. Following a two-out error committed by third baseman
Urquidy (1-1) had yielded just one hit over the first three innings.
In the fifth, Frisco sent nine men to the plate, scoring six times on three hits, two walks and a hit batsman. All three hits went for extra bases, including the second three-run Cordero clout, surrendered by
Cordero finished the night with a career-best seven RBIs.
Alvarez, who cracked an RBI triple in the fifth, delivered solo shots in the sixth and eighth, extending the Riders lead to 12-3.
Dawson stroked an RBI double in the ninth off
The Hooks aim to halt the skid Wednesday night with