OKC Baseball Club Game Notes – May 9, 2024

May 9, 2024 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Oklahoma City Baseball Club News Release

Oklahoma City Baseball Club (21-14) at Sugar Land Space Cowboys (23-12)

Game #36 of 150/First Half #36 of 75/Road #18 of 75

Pitching Probables: OKC-RHP Ben Casparius (NR, -.–) vs. SUG-RHP Misael Tamarez (3-1, 5.34)

Thursday, May 9, 2024 | Constellation Field | Sugar Land, Texas | 6:35 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 for back-to-back wins against the Pacific Coast League-leading Sugar Land Space Cowboys at 6:35 p.m. at Constellation Field. The series is tied, 1-1, and Oklahoma City is two games behind the Space Cowboys in the East Division standings…OKC has won five of the last seven games and has tied its season-high mark at seven games above .500.

Last Game: A five-run fifth inning broke a tie game, and the Oklahoma City Baseball Club averted a late rally by the Sugar Land Space Cowboys to secure an 8-6 win Wednesday afternoon at Constellation Field. The game was tied, 1-1, through four innings before OKC scored five runs on five hits in the fifth inning. Drew Avans, Trey Sweeney and Andre Lipcius all had run-scoring doubles during the rally, putting Oklahoma City in front, 6-1. Jonathan Araúz singled home two runs with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning to stretch the lead to 8-1. Luke Berryhill hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning, and Sugar Land still trailed, 8-4, into the ninth inning. Berryhill picked up a RBI double, and later a two-out throwing error scored Berryhill and brought the tying run to the plate before Michael Petersen struck out Jesús Bastidas to end the game.

Today’s Probable Pitcher: Ben Casparius makes his OKC team debut and Triple-A debut tonight in his fourth professional season…Casparius joins OKC from Double-A Tulsa where he has made five starts so far this season, posting a 2-1 record and 3.32 ERA over 21.2 innings pitched with 11 walks and 34 strikeouts. At the time of his promotion, he ranked tied for third in the Texas League in strikeouts, seventh in ERA and eighth in BAA (.217)…He most recently pitched May 1 against Springfield in Tulsa. He started and threw 5.1 scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks with seven strikeouts and earned the win in Tulsa’s 11-0 victory as he recorded a second consecutive win…He struck out a season-high eight batters April 12 against…