Whitcomb’s First Career Three-Homer Night Helps Sugar Land to Wednesday Win

May 29, 2025 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Sugar Land Space Cowboys News Release

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The Sugar Land Space Cowboys (31-21) bombed five home runs, a season-high, including Shay Whitcomb’s first-career three homer game, to even the series against the Albuquerque Isotopes (23-29) with a 9-2 victory on Wednesday night at Isotopes Park. Whitcomb became the seventh player in Space Cowboys history to hit three home runs in a game and the first since Joey Loperfido on April 12, 2024 against the Isotopes. Highlights of tonight’s game can be [?Folder icon] found here.

In the first, Whitcomb walloped a 2-0 cutter 422-feet to left for a solo blast, his 14th of the year, to put the Space Cowboys up, 1-0. However, Albuquerque answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the first, tying the game at one.

RHP Miguel Ullola (W, 3-2) stranded two Isotopes in scoring position in the bottom of the second by inducing an inning-ending groundout to Jesús Bastidas before firing a scoreless third.

Sugar Land retook the lead in the top of the fourth, 2-1, as Collin Price pummeled a two-strike two-out offering from Mason Albright (L, 0-1) for a solo homer, Price’s eighth homer of the season.

The Space Cowboys stretched their advantage in the fifth as Kenedy Corona led off the frame with a single, and two at-bats later, Whitcomb annihilated his second home run of the night, pushing Sugar Land’s lead to 4-1.

RHP Nick Robertson (H, 5) relieved Ullola in the sixth and maneuvered around an infield single to post a shutout frame. Ullola finished his night with 5.0 efficient innings, surrendering just four hits and one run with wo walks while punching out five.

RHP Nick Hernandez (H,5) came on in the seventh and struck out the side on 11 pitches while only throwing one ball to hold the 4-1 advantage.

Sugar Land added an insurance run in the eighth as Brice Matthews led off the frame with an infield single and was awarded second on a throwing error. After Castro moved Matthews over to third with a productive groundout, Price plated the Matthews with a sacrifice fly and the Space Cowboys increased their advantage to 5-1.

Keston Hiura hit a solo homer for Albuquerque in the bottom of the eighth, but Whitcomb and the Space Cowboys put the game out of reach in the ninth.

After Zack Short reached base with a walk, Whitcomb whipped a 110.8 mph line-drive two-run home run over the left-field wall, Whitcomb’s first-career three-homer night, opening the game up, 7-2. Later in the inning,…