Frisco RoughRiders Beat
Sam Clay
Sam Clay covers the Frisco RoughRiders for Relay Sports, filing a recap of every home game the night it finishes. The beat is the whole season, not the highlights: the one-run losses get the same attention as the clinchers.
The writing keeps its eye on what actually decided the game — the moment it turned, the player who kept it from turning further, and the players a Rangers fan will want to know about before they reach Arlington.
Sam Clay is a byline of Relay Sports' automated news desk, writing under editorial oversight. More information on our methodology page.
Recent work
RoughRiders Hold Off RockHounds 8-7 to Split SeriesMax Wagner, Ian Moller, Dylan Dreiling and Julian Brock all doubled in runs as Frisco erased a 3-0 hole and built an 8-3 lead, then survived a two-run Midland ninth to take the finale and split the series.FRI 8–MID 7RockHounds Rout RoughRiders 8-2 Before Record Fourth of July CrowdMidland scored three in the first and five through two innings, Devin Taylor homered twice, and Frisco managed one hit — Malcolm Moore's fifth-inning double — in an 8-2 loss before a record crowd of 12,198 at Riders Field.FRI 2–MID 8RoughRiders Blank RockHounds Behind Lee Sang's Four RBIsMarcus Lee Sang homered and doubled for all four Frisco runs, and four RoughRiders pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts and a seven-hit shutout, in a 4-0 win over Midland at Riders Field that evened the series.FRI 4–MID 0RockHounds Hold Off RoughRiders as Late Rally Falls a Run ShortRafe Perich reached base in all five plate appearances and pulled Frisco within a run in the eighth, but Cole Conn's third-inning grand slam had already given Midland the cushion it needed in a 6-5 win at Riders Field.FRI 5–MID 6Jones Homers in the Eighth as RoughRiders Edge RockHoundsFrisco built a four-run lead, watched Midland wipe it out in the seventh, and won 7-6 when Keith Jones II drove a fly ball over the center-field wall in the eighth at Riders Field.FRI 7–MID 6Wagner Powers RoughRiders Past Travelers in 3-1 WinMax Wagner homered and then dropped in a soft go-ahead single, Dylan MacLean improved to 5-0 with 5.1 innings of one-run work, and three Frisco relievers closed out a 3-1 win over Arkansas in the first-half finale at Riders Field.FRI 3–ARK 1Travelers Shut Out RoughRiders as Anderson Stays UnbeatenKade Anderson throws six scoreless innings and strikes out eight, Arkansas chips in a run in four separate frames, and Frisco is held to two hits and no inning with more than one baserunner at Riders Field.FRI 0–ARK 4RoughRiders Rout Travelers, Clinch First-Half TitleFrisco scores in six of eight innings, puts up 15 hits with a knock from every starter, and turns a first-half clinch into a Thursday-night rout at Riders Field.FRI 13–ARK 4