July 10 2019 The Roswell Invaders defeated the Santa Fe Fuego 2-1 at Joe Bauman Park, overcoming a 1-1 tie with the winning run in the seventh inning. Roswell finished with three hits and Santa Fe collected four, with neither team committing an error.
Santa Fe scored its only run in the sixth inning, when Jackson Webb reached safely and later scored. Webb finished 1-for-2 with a double and a walk, while Rick Phillips went 1-for-3 with Santa Fe’s lone RBI. Roswell answered with a run in the sixth and added the decisive seventh-inning run. Nolan Hoff went 1-for-2 with a walk and scored once, and Kirby Lambert supplied the other Roswell RBI with a sacrifice fly.
Tanner Klein held Santa Fe to three hits and one run over 5.2 innings while striking out seven and walking one. Jacob Dixon earned the win with 1.1 scoreless innings, allowing one hit. Santa Fe starter Ross Mintzer delivered 4.2 hitless innings with six strikeouts but issued three walks, while Austin Stephens was charged with the loss after allowing the go-ahead run without recording an out.
