Frisco Wins 7-6 Against Arkansas in 12

After trailing 2-0 into the bottom of the ninth inning, the Frisco RoughRiders came back to beat the Arkansas Travelers 7-6 in 12 innings on a walk-off single from Orlando Martinez on Tuesday afternoon at Riders Field.

Both teams were bolstered by excellent starting pitching early on. The game’s first run was not scored until the sixth inning, when Arkansas (39-24) scurried home on a wild pitch by Frisco (35-27) starter Aidan Curry. Curry set a career high with 6.1 innings pitched, surrendering just two runs and striking out eight, the most he’s had in his first four Double-A starts.

Down to its final two outs in the ninth inning, Frisco finally found the scoreboard when Rafe Perich blasted a game-tying two-run home run. His 16th homer of the season sent the game to extra innings.

Both teams scored twice in the 10th, with Frisco getting a game-tying two-RBI single off the bat of Marcus Lee Sang. They matched each other with one run apiece in the 11th, Frisco’s coming on a Perich RBI single.

Then, after Janser Lara (2-0) allowed an unearned run in the top of the 12th, Dylan Dreiling drove in Corey Joyce to tie the game against Brock Moore (1-2) and Martinez won it with a base hit up the middle.