“It feels like about 6,000 pounds have been lifted off my shoulder,” said the right-hander, who gave up four runs, three earned, over seven innings. “It just feels great. I’ve been throwing two years for this now.”

Kyle Miller hit a solo homer for the Legends.

Corpus Christi got another solid start from Andy Van Hekken. He struck out 10 in 8 1/3 innings to lead the Hooks to a 2-0 win.

Greeneville gave up 6 runs in the 7th on bad relief pitching.

Astros starter Jose Trinidad tossed six full innings of scoreless ball, allowing five hits. He was lifted in the seventh and relief man Joel Romero loaded the bases by giving up a single to Brian Bryles and walking Luis and Beckham. That ended Romero’s night.

Nathaniel Pettus then hit Burt Reynolds with a pitch, forcing home the tying run. Two wild pitches allowed Luis and Beckham to get home, and Pettus walked Elias Otero. Sonoqui singled to plate Reynolds and Otero.

The final run of the frame came when Acosta doubled to right.

Round Rock lost on a walk off homer in the 9th. Tri Cities ralled with a 3 run homer in the 7th only to see the lead go away with a two run homer in the top of the ninth. A costly error in the 10th lead to Salem’s 7-6 loss.

The Express knocked the ball all over the park last night and held on for a 7-5 victory. Mark Saccamanno stretched his hitting streak to 6 games with a 3 for 4 performance that included a double and a homer run with 3 RBI. Reggie Abercrombie also went 3-5 with two doubles and a triple. Josh Miller grabbed his first win by pitching 6 shutout innings in his first start after 3 bull pen appearances.

Corpus Christi

The Hooks outhit Midland but Midland had more baserunners cross the plate in the 8-3 Hooks loss.

“It’s frustrating for sure. It’s frustrating to get good pitching performances out of your pitchers. They had some runs tonight, but I don’t feel like they beat us as bad as the score said it was,” said Hooks right fielder Eli Iorg, who had three of the Hooks’ hits. “A lot of the game was 1-1. I think that we definitely played better than that. But things happen and they played good. Their pitcher pitched when they needed him to pitch.”

Brian Bogusevic pitched well despite giving up his league leading 6th HR.

“He threw the ball well. He’s had back-to-back quality starts. He threw the ball well on the road, too,” Pujols said. “He gave us five good innings. It’s too bad about the home runs, but I was pleased with the way he threw the ball. He competed. The last two starts are better than the first two, so he’s getting better.”

Base running hurt the Hooks as well.

In that third inning, however, Drew Sutton was thrown out at the plate trying to score on Manzella’s single. In the first, Sutton also was thrown out at the plate on Rob Cosby’s single to left, ending the inning. Iorg singled to lead off the second, but he was picked off.

Salem

It’s was all about control, or lack their off. Casey Hudspeth struggled with his control allowing a run on a bases loaded walk and hitting another batter with the bases juiced. Hudspeth walked 6 and hit 2 on the night. Mark Ori singled in the only two Salem players to cross the plate in the 4-2 loss.