Parejo Pushes Hooks Past 'Hounds

CORPUS CHRISTI - Freddy Parejo's bases-loaded one-out single down the right-field line scored David Cook and Jimmy VanOstrand to lift Corpus Christi past Midland 3-2 in 11 innings Saturday night.

The Hooks, winners of four straight and five of six, improved to 48-57 overall and 12-23 in the second half of Texas League play. Midland is 55-50 and 20-15.

Cook's walk and a single by VanOstrand began the winning sequence for Corpus Christi. Jhon Florentino's sacrifice pushed them up a base and Neil Wagner (4-2) issued an intentional pass to Jonathon Fixler. Parejo's sharp bouncer just inside the bag made a winner of Edwin Walker (3-1).

Parejo finished three-for-six. Midland's Adrian Cardenas was three-for-five.

Matt Sulentic scored on an error by third baseman Kody Kirkland with two outs in the 11th to give Midland a 2-1 lead.
Sulentic started the 11th with a single and swiped second base. He moved to third on Jemile Weeks' ground out and home when Kirkland booted a hot grounder off the bat of Archie Gilbert.

Val Majewski led off the second by depositing Jordan Lyles' 1-2 offering into the right-field swimming pool for a 1-0 Midland lead. The knock was Majewski's eighth home run.

Lyles went on to strike out eight over 5 2/3 innings. He teamed with reliever Erick Abreu to avert disaster in the sixth. The first three RockHounds - Weeks, Gilbert and Cardenas - loaded the bases on consecutive singles to right. Midland's uprising was quelled when Majewski hit into a double play, the second result of which was Weeks tagged out near home plate. Abreu entered the game and walked Corey Brown to fill the sacks again, but Alex Valdez fanned to end the threat.

Abreu pitched out of another bases-loaded jam two innings later. With one away, Cardenas singled and Majewski doubled. Abreu intentionally walked Brown to set up the force. He then struck out Valdez and got Shane Peterson on a fly to right.

Corpus Christi finally broke its scoring drought in the eighth. Parejo slapped a single into right and motored home when the newest Hook, Albert Cartwright, drove a double off the wall in left. That extended his personal hitting streak to seven games, six in California League action at Lancaster.

Jeff Lyman (five innings), Fautino De Los Santos (one) and Mickey Storey (one) combined to keep the Hooks off the board during the first seven frames. Storey was touched for the Hooks' lone run in regulation.

Cook gambled and lost for Corpus Christi in the ninth. He attempted to score from second on Parejo's two-out infield single, but first baseman Peterson alertly fired home and catcher Petey Paramore applied the tag.

Lefty Douglas Arguello (7-5) takes the mound at 6:05 Sunday vs. southpaw Carlos Hernandez (8-2). The first 1,500 children 12-and-under receive a Hooks backpack from Coca-Cola.