9-6-25
I was concerned about tonight because I had four games on the radio I wanted to listen to. I shouldn’t have worried. I got nothing but loud buzzing when I tuned into the Rangers versus the Astros. I picked it up later on a night time affiliate, but the Astros were up 6-0 in the ninth. It was a bad ninth, as the Astros added on and won, 11-0.
I also had worse reception issues for the Chihuahuas at the Bees and didn’t hear any of it. The pups lost 6-5 to Bees. The Chihuahuas did tie it with 3 runs in ninth, but gave up winning run in bottom. KOA Denver was coming in, though not great. I was kind of expecting them to be doing a football game, but they were broadcasting the Padres at Rockies. However, the Padres were up big late and I didn’t listen. Of the Rox made a big comeback attempt when I wasn’t listening, but did still fall, 10-8 Padres.
Well, surely I won’t have these problems listening to Aggie Football playing Tulsa. This game was on FM. A short storm blew through town an hour before the game, which probably affected attendance. It was a defensive struggle in the first half. The Aggie defense made two fourth down stops and made a goal line interception. The Aggies got a field goal. On a late drive, quarterback Logan Fife was stripped at midfield of the ball. Tulsa got into field goal range, but missed it. 3-0 Aggies at the half.
Tulsa scored a touchdown on their first possession of the third quarter to take a 7-3 lead. Then I lost radio reception. It suddenly started buzzing and never came back. Well, this hasn’t been my night for radio listening. Thankfully, TV reception was unaffected and I continued to watch other college football games.
On the late EL Paso news, I did get a final score and some recap. I got the rest from the official recap. The Aggies got a touchdown and a field goal for a 13-7 lead. Tulsa then took a 14-13 with another TD. The Aggies marched back down field for a touchdown with a two-point conversion. Tulsa was in position to win it in the Aggie red zone, but a costly penalty and then another interception sealed it. Aggies win 21-14! It’s hard to know how excited to get for this team yet. Certainly their defense is very tenacious.
I did hear later from someone on the TV production crew that there was lightning in the area before the end of the game. The game did start a little late from a lightning delay. They held off on calling another to let the game finish. After the game, the teams fled the field, followed by the TV production staff.
So I listened to the UTEP Miners Football game. No reception problems there. The storm did roll through El Paso during the game and caused a lightning delay. They won 42-17 against some team I’ve never heard of. I might have listened to the postgame show to hear fan comments, but they broadcast that on the Chihuahuas’ station, which I wasn’t getting.
In other sports news, Connor Zilisch won his fourth NASCAR Xfinity race in a row tonight in St. Louis. That’s his ninth win of the season. The kid is for real. Lastly, I was flipping channels late and ran into Mexican League baseball. Unfortunately, it was only the very end of the broadcast. I didn’t even get the score or the series score, but the Juarez Indios won the state championship against the Chihuahua Dorados. Shoot, if I’d known that was on, I would have watched. I’d kind of enjoyed the other game of the series I’d watched (8-30-25).
9-7-25
The Chihuahuas and the Bees played their series finale. The pups are basically out of it for the playoffs by this point being down 6 games with 13 left. Chihuahuas’ pitcher Matt Waldron had a 10-pitch first inning. That’s closer to an Immaculate Inning than you’d ever expect for a knuckleballer.
In the top of the second, there was a food service delivery to the outfield. A plate of food accidently got dropped on to field. (Given concession prices, I’m sure that wasn’t on purpose.) Bees’ outfielder Cavan Biggio had to go get it and then handed it off to the Chihuahuas’ bullpen for a nice meal (or into the trash). The Chihuahuas took a 2-0 lead, after two walked batters came in on a hit and an error. The Bees took a 3-2 lead on a 5-single inning in the bottom.
The Chihuahuas came right back in the third, as Yonathan Perlaza hit a two-run homer, 4-3. He’s now over 100 RBI for the season. In the bottom of the third, Chihuahuas’ catcher Cody Roberts asked for an appeal on a swing and challenged the pitch call. Neither worked out, but the Bees didn’t score.
Former Aggie pitcher, Sammy Natera, came in for the fourth for the Bees and had a scoreless inning. In the bottom, the Bees tied it on an RBI triple, 4-4. Before the sixth in-between innings, the groundskeeper talked to the ump while showing him a smartphone. That’s always a weather warning. Broadcaster Tim Hagerty mentioned that the game was official and it was possible for the game to end in a tie. No problem there. Roberts drove in a run to break the tie, 5-4 Chihuahuas.
By the bottom of the sixth, a light rain was falling, but it never got bad. Tim didn’t see the rain coming from his point of view. In the bottom of the eighth, Chihuahuas’ pitching gave up their first walk of the game . . . right after Tim was talking about how they hadn’t walked anybody. The runner was driven in by a pinch hit home run. Tim had also mentioned that the wind was now blowing out. 6-5 Bees.
Salt Lake City then brought in the shortstop to close. Record scratch. They were out of pitchers from a couple of call-ups and a guy on paternity leave. He got the first two outs easy. Then the wheels came off. Two hits and a walk loaded the bases. The pitching coach came out. What was he going to say to the shortstop? “Just trust your stuff, kid. That’s what got you here.” Tirso Ornelas singled in two for the lead. A double and another hit drove in more. The Chihuahuas would get a gift win, 10-6.
The Rangers and the Astros were playing the rubber game of their series at the same time. I attempted the unwise action of listening to both broadcasts, but right after I started listening, I got the heavy buzzing radio interference on the Rangers’ station, the same I’d gotten last night on other stations. Given how entertaining the Chihuahuas’ game was, that was probably a good thing.
Later, I tuned in and the signal had cleared up. It was 1-1 in the sixth. I tuned in in time to hear Jake Burger hit a two-run homer just passed a leaping outfielder at the wall. The Rangers had a two-out rally where they’d scored a run before Burger’s shot to make it, 4-1 Rangers. The Astros scored one in the seventh, but the Rangers carried it, 4-2.
5-8-25
Tonight’s MLB.TV Free Game was the Royals versus the Indians. I started viewing in the second with Kyle Isbel throwing out an Indians runner at third from the outfield. I was busy working and only vaguely paying attention to the game. In the fourth, there was the amusing sight of five Royals players converging at the mound on a popup. They all looked at each other for a moment. Thankfully, somebody caught it.
However, the Indians smacked five doubles in the inning, one over Mike Yastrzemski’s head. He looked confused and embarrassed on the play. Six runs scored before the Royals changed pitchers. The Indians were up big and the Royals hadn’t scored. I hadn’t noticed the half of it. Indian starter, Slade Cecconi, had a no-hitter through seven innings. He gave up a clean hit to start the eighth. Cecconi acknowledged the applauding crowd after the hit. He finished the inning. The Royals scored a couple in the ninth off a reliever, but the Indians won, 10-3, and jumped ahead of the Royals in the Wild Card standings.
9-9-25
It was a very busy night at work. I was only paying passing attention to baseball. The Chihuahuas were starting their series with the Isotopes for the pup’s last home homestand. It was 13-5 Chihuahuas in the top of the seventh. I was out of the room and came back to a near fight. Words were exchanged after a hit batter. The dugouts emptied, but there was no fighting. A warning was issued. Why would the pups hit a batter on purpose up this big? I don’t know if anything led up to the incident. The batter and the pitcher apologized to each other after the inning.
In the bottom of the seventh, the Albuquerque manager, a former El Paso Diablo, was thrown out of the game. New Chihuahua Francisco Acuna was hit on the foot and the manager disagreed with the call. The Chihuahuas took the contentious blowout, 15-7. There were 5 total home runs and 45 combined hits. [And as we’ll see tomorrow, they’re just getting started.]
The MLB.TV Free Game was the Red Sox at the A’s. The Sox were up 5-0 when I joined the game, but I swear I saw the score as 5-2 earlier. Later in the game, I was sure I saw the A’s score, but it didn’t happen. I wish I’d been paying better attention. In the fourth, the A’s had a chance with bases loaded, but got no runs out of it. 6-0 Sox was the final. I did notice a lot of Red Sox fans there in Sacramento.
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