Round Rock Rolls Past Salt Lake with 21-Run Explosion

June 5, 2025 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Salt Lake Bees News Release

SOUTH JORDAN, UT. – The Salt Lake Bees dropped their ninth straight game on Wednesday night, suffering their longest losing streak since 2021 and their largest margin of defeat since 2017 in a 21-2 loss to Round Rock.

Round Rock Express 21, Salt Lake Bees 2

WP: Patrick Murphy (1 – 0)

LP: Shaun Anderson (1 – 5)

Game Summary

Round Rock stormed out of the gate with seven runs in the first four innings that included four extra base hits and a two-run homer by Justin Foscue in the fourth that gave the Express a 7-0 lead before Salt Lake recorded a hit.

The Bees were retired in order through the first three innings, striking out five times in a row and seven times overall during that stretch. David Mershon was the only batter to reach base, doing so on an error.

Kyren Paris broke up Cory Abbott’s three-inning no-hit bid with a single to left, then came around to score on Carter Kieboom’s scorching 106.3 MPH ground ball up the middle, putting the Bees on the board for the first time.

Salt Lake followed up with a run for the second consecutive inning as Chad Stevens led off the fifth with a hit for the 13th game in a row before scoring on Zach Humphreys two-out RBI single to right that made it 7-2.

Round Rock tacked on six more runs over the next two innings, beginning with a leadoff homer from Cody Freeman in the sixth. The Express followed with a five-hit, five-run seventh inning, sending nine batters to the plate and breaking the game open on a bases-clearing triple by Billy McKinney to extend the lead to 13-2.

The Express weren’t done with their offensive onslaught, adding a run in the eighth before a disastrous ninth for the Bees. Round Rock sent 11 batters to the plate in their biggest inning of the night, scoring seven runs on six hits–including a pair of home runs–to close out a dominant 21-2 win in game two of the series.

Game Notes

Salt Lake dropped its ninth straight game on Wednesday night, marking the club’s longest losing streak since an 11-game skid from August 23 to September 3, 2021.

The Bees fell to 23-35 overall and dropped to 0-22 when scoring three runs or fewer. Salt Lake’s home run streak of 10 straight at The Ballpark at America First Square came to an end on Wednesday night moving to 3-15 this season when failing to hit a home run.

Salt Lake surrendered a season-high 26 hits on the night, marking the seventh consecutive game the Bees have allowed double-digit hits. It was also the…