WICHITA, Kan. (July 24, 2025)—The Wichita Wind Surge scored six late runs in a 6-5 victory over the Frisco RoughRiders at Equity Bank Park. The Wind Surge tally their 23rd come-from-behind win in 2025.
Tucker Mitchell scored on an infield error after a single to left by Major League rehabber Joc Pederson in the top of the third. Pederson crossed the plate ahead of an inning-ending 9-6 outfield assist from Kala’i Rosario to Kaelen Culpepper to make the score 2-0 Frisco through two and a half. C.J. Culpepper gave up just those two runs (one earned) over three innings with three hits, a walk, and three strikeouts in his start.
Ricky Castro was lights out following Culpepper. He gave up just two hits and a walk with three strikeouts over four innings.
Jose Salas got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to give Wichita their first run after the stretch in the seventh. Two more runs came across on an infield hit by Jorel Ortega, with a throwing error afterward giving the Wind Surge their first lead of the night at 3-2.
Cam Cauley hit a two-run home run to give the RoughRiders their lead to start the eighth, but Wichita followed with their second straight three-run frame, as a pair of RBI doubles by Rosario and Ben Ross and a fielder’s choice from Nate Baez gave the Wind Surge a new 6-4 advantage.
Josh Hatcher brought Frisco within one on a two-out RBI single to right in the top of the ninth, then Kyler Fedko completed an unassisted putout at first to end the game with a 6-5 winner for Wichita. Kade Bragg picks up the win in his Wind Surge debut, surrendering two runs on a hit with a walk and three strikeouts out of the bullpen.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Tonight marked the first game in Wind Surge franchise history that got moved up ahead of its original start time.
- Joc Pederson began a Major League Rehab Assignment tonight with the RoughRiders.
- Wichita had five different men in their lineup get at least a hit or an RBI.
- The Wind Surge are 3-1 this year in the Turbo Tubs uniforms.
- Wichita is up to 23 come-from-behind wins.
- The Surge have scored five or more runs in 15 of the last 16 wins.