OKC Baseball Club scores 9-2 victory over Space Cowboys

June 16, 2024 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
News item from the Oklahoma City Baseball Club

The Oklahoma City Baseball Club homered in three consecutive innings – including a grand slam by Chris Okey – in a 9-2 win against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys Sunday night at Constellation Field. Trey Sweeney gave OKC (38-31) its first lead of the evening with an RBI double in the first inning. Sugar Land (45-24) tied the score in the second inning on an RBI single. OKC broke the game open with five runs in the sixth inning. With one out, OKC walked three in a row to load the bases. Later, with two outs, Jonathan Araúz hit an RBI single to give OKC the lead, 2-1. Okey again followed with the bases loaded and hit a grand slam to center field for a 6-1 OKC lead. Kody Hoese connected on a two-run home run to left field in the seventh inning for an 8-1 OKC lead. A solo home run by James Outman in the eighth inning to right-center field gave OKC its lead to 9-1. After being held scoreless for six innings, Sugar Land got a run on a groundout in the ninth inning.

Of interest:

– Oklahoma City snapped a four-game losing skid to win the series finale at Sugar Land…OKC won the series opener and finale, with Sugar Land winning the series 4-2.

-Oklahoma City’s nine points were the team’s most points scored since Tuesday’s 11-2 win in the series opener and OKC has now scored at least five points in three straight games and eight times in the last 11 games…OKC scored five runs in the sixth inning for the team’s highest-scoring inning of the series. It was the first time OKC scored five or more runs in an inning since June 8 against Round Rock at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, when OKC scored six runs in the third inning of a 10-9 victory.

-Oklahoma City hit three home runs, marking the team’s third consecutive multi-homer game, and the fourth straight game with at least one homer. OKC has hit 10 home runs over the last four games.

– Chris Okey hit his first home run of the season and OKC’s fifth grand slam of 2024. The grand slam was Okey’s first home run since September 3, 2023, when he was with Salt Lake in Las Vegas. It was also his first grand slam since the 2017 season, when he hit a grand slam for Dayton in Tampa in a Florida State League game on May 20, 2017…Four different players have hit OKC’s five grand slams this season and Sunday was the team’s second game of the season at Constellation Field.

-Kody Hoese homered in a second straight game and went 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. He has now hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games, going 16-for-42 with eight extra base hits, eight RBI and 10 runs scored.

-Pitcher Alex Gamboa (1-2) entered the game in the third inning and threw a season-high 4.1 innings of scoreless relief. He was credited with his first win of the season, allowing four hits with three strikeouts.

-Five OKC pitchers held Sugar Land’s leading offense to two runs after the Space Cowboys scored 24 runs in the previous two games. OKC held the Space Cowboys scoreless in seven of nine innings on Sunday, including from the third through the eighth.

-All nine players in OKC’s lineup had at least one hit…In addition to Hoese, Jonathan Araúz also finished with a multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and scoring a run.

-Kyle Hurt continued his Major League Rehab Assignment, facing four batters, allowing two walks and recording a strikeout in two-thirds of the eighth inning.

Next: Oklahoma City returns to Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark to open a six-game home series against the Albuquerque Isotopes on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. Guests can enjoy $2 select beer, soda and bottled water from a line of Miller, Coors and Pepsi products. Additionally, select COOP Ale Works and Modelo draft beers are available at a special rate of $3 for guests 21 and older.

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