Déjà Vu: Renegades fall in walk off at Hot Rods

Bowling Green, KY (June 23, 2026) – For the third time in their last six games the Hudson Valley Renegades fell in a walk-off loss, dropping Tuesday night’s game at Bowling Green Ballpark 5-4 to the Bowling Green Hot Rods.

All three games lost by Hudson Valley on the current two-week road trip have been walk-off losses, all of which have come on singles in the bottom of the ninth. Tuesday was the fourth time overall this season that the Renegades have lost in walk-off fashion.

The Renegades fell to 2-2 all-time at Bowling Green Ballpark with the loss. Before Tuesday, the Renegades had not played a regular season game in Bowling Green since 4/7/24.

With the loss, the Renegades fall to 8-11 in 2026 in one-run games. They have played five straight one-run games since last Wednesday at Rome.

The Renegades hit one home run on Tuesday and have hit 42 home runs in their last 24 games, 56.7% of their season total of 74 home runs. Hudson Valley has hit two-or-more home runs in a game eight times in its last 16 games. Hudson Valley has hit homers in 16 of its last 18 games.

RHP Bryce Cunningham (5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K) struck out three batters across 5.0 innings and threw a season-high 80 pitches. It was his highest pitch count since throwing 92 pitches on 5/18/25 vs Aberdeen.

Cunningham allowed a solo home run to Aidan Smith with one out in the bottom of the fifth for the only run he allowed. It was his first home run given up since 6/2 at Frederick.

Cunningham has thrown at least 5.0 innings in three straight starts for the first time this year. In that span he has thrown 16.1 IP and allowed 11 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, and 12 K, lowering his ERA from 6.43 to 4.34.

1B Kyle West (2-for-4, R, HR, 2 RBI) hit his 13^th home run of the season in the top of the eighth inning to give the Renegades a 4-3 lead.

It was West’s third home run on the current road trip, and moved him into a tie with Josh Moylan for the team lead.

West and Moylan are the first pair of Renegades teammates with 13 home runs in a season together since Jared Serna and Omar Martinez both finished with 13 in 2024.

West has two multi-hit games in his last three games played.

RF Wilson Rodriguez (2-for-3, R, BB) reached base three times, and has reached base safely in 12 of his last 13 games played.

Rodriguez is batting .300/.380/.529 in the month of June with 14 R, 3 2B, 2 3B, 3 HR, 11 RBIs, 8 BB, 16 K.

2B Roderick Arias (1-for-4, SB) extended his on-base streak to 14 straight games.

During the streak, Arias is batting .370/.419/.667 (20-for-54) with 14 R, 4 2B, 4 HR, 14 RBI, 4 BB, and 14 K.

Arias also has hits in 16 of his last 18 games, batting .333/.392/.565 (23-for-69) during the stretch.

RHP Hansel Rincon (1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 2 K) threw a scoreless inning out of the bullpen, and has allowed only one run across 12.1 innings in his last 11 appearances.