OKC Baseball Club Game Notes – April 27, 2024

April 27, 2024 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Oklahoma City Baseball Club News Release

Oklahoma City Baseball Club (16-9) at Albuquerque Isotopes (6-19)

Game #26 of 150/First Half #26 of 75/Road #14 of 75

Pitching Probables: OKC-RHP Eduardo Salazar (1-0, 2.75) vs. ABQ-RHP Peyton Battenfield (NR, -.–)

Saturday, April 27, 2024 | Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park | Albuquerque, N.M. | 7:35 p.m. CT

Radio: KGHM-AM 1340 The Game, 1340thegame.com, iHeartRadio; Video: MiLB.tv, Bally Live

Today’s Game: The Oklahoma City Baseball Club tries to extend its longest winning streak of the season when the road series against the Albuquerque Isotopes continues at 7:35 p.m. CT at Isotopes Park. Oklahoma City has won five consecutive games overall and has a 4-0 lead in the current series…OKC has also won eight straight road games.

Last Game: Oklahoma City secured a series win against the Isotopes with a 5-4 victory Friday night at Isotopes Park. Oklahoma City got out to an early 2-0 lead after a RBI groundout from Drew Avans and a RBI single from Miguel Vargas in the third inning. Albuquerque knotted the score in the fourth inning with a two-run single from Drew Romo before a RBI single from Hunter Stovall gave the Isotopes a 3-2 advantage. OKC took the lead right back in the fifth inning when Andre Lipcius hit a three-run homer. The Isotopes scored a run in the bottom of the sixth inning to cut the lead to one run, but the OKC bullpen held strong and retired the final 11 batters of the game.

Today’s Probable Pitcher: Eduardo Salazar (1-0) makes his fifth start of the season with OKC, and the team is 4-0 in his starts this season…Salazar most recently pitched for OKC April 21 against Sacramento at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, holding the River Cats to one run, six hits and three walks with two strikeouts in OKC’s 5-4 victory…The Los Angeles Dodgers selected his contract April 16, but he did not appear in a game and was optioned back to OKC April 17…Salazar pitched for OKC April 11 in Round Rock, allowing two runs, six hits and one walk with two strikeouts over 5.2 innings in OKC’s 4-2 win. He gave up a run in the first inning, then kept Round Rock scoreless until his final batter faced with two outs in the sixth inning…In April, Salazar has allowed four runs over 15.2 innings while inducing a total of seven ground ball double plays…Salazar originally signed with Cincinnati March 4, 2017 as a free agent and spent the first six seasons of his professional…