Logan Wagner spent Wednesday night filling the outfield at Arvest Ballpark with extra-base hits. His double added to the collection, his first home run put Tulsa ahead for good and his second left no doubt about the direction of a game the Drillers turned into a 10-1 rout of Northwest Arkansas.
Wagner went 3-for-5 with two homers, a double and three RBIs, leading an 11-hit attack that produced four home runs. Just as important, Tulsa’s bullpen supplied 6.2 scoreless innings after starter Aidan Foeller departed with an apparent injury in the third.
The Drillers had already shown their power by then. Josue De Paula drove a first-inning ball high over the right-center-field berm for his 27th homer, giving Tulsa a quick lead before Daniel Vazquez’s RBI double tied the game in the bottom half.
Wagner doubled in the second but was erased on a fielder’s choice. His next opportunity changed the game.
Griffin Lockwood-Powell reached on a soft infield single with one out in the fourth, bringing Wagner to the plate against Drew Beam. Wagner drove the ball deep into the left-center gap, where it carried just beyond the fence for a two-run homer and a 3-1 lead.
It was the decisive swing on a night when Tulsa suddenly needed its relievers to cover nearly seven innings. Foeller exited in the third with runners at the corners and one out. Alex Walsh entered against Spencer Nivens, struck him out and finished the inning by getting Vazquez to ground out, preserving the tie that Wagner soon broke.
Walsh kept going from there. He retired all eight batters he faced over 2.2 innings, struck out three and earned the win. Christian Suarez followed with two scoreless innings, working around a walk in the sixth and Connor Scott’s leadoff triple in the seventh. With Scott 90 feet from home, Suarez induced a popup, recorded a strikeout and finished the escape with a groundout.
The offense gave the bullpen room in the top of the seventh. After two quick outs, Sean McLain sent his seventh homer high and deep to left. Jose Izarra followed with a single and scored on Taylor Young’s soft ground-ball single against James McArthur. De Paula greeted Anthony Simonelli with a drive toward the left-center wall that stayed in the park by only a little, bringing Young home with his 37th double and pushing the lead to 6-1.
That rally effectively settled the game. Wagner added the emphatic flourish an inning later, hammering his second homer of the night well beyond the left-field fence. It was his sixth of the season and completed his first three-hit, two-homer performance as a Driller.
Tulsa piled on three more runs in the ninth. McLain, Izarra, Young and De Paula drew four straight walks from Frank Mozzicato, with De Paula’s forcing home the first run. After Brandon Johnson entered, Jake Gelof drove a ground-rule double into left-center to score Izarra and Young. Gelof finished with two RBIs and a walk.
De Paula reached three times in his 2-for-4 night, pairing his homer and double with a walk. McLain also walked in addition to homering.
Jacob Kmatz closed the bullpen’s long rescue by retiring all six batters he faced. He worked a perfect eighth and struck out the final two Naturals in the ninth, completing a five-hit effort by Tulsa’s pitching staff.
What began as a tight game—and briefly threatened to become a pitching problem when Foeller left—ended as a showcase of Wagner’s power and the depth behind him. The Drillers lost their starter early, but never lost control.