NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Travelers have been on fire to start the second half of the 2025 Texas League season, and this weekend they stayed hot, beating the Frisco RoughRiders on Sunday to win their second consecutive series.
Following their recent trip to Amarillo in which Lazaro Montes and Michael Arroyo made their debut in Double-A, the Travs took on the RoughRiders in a split series with 3 games in Frisco, and 3 back home at CHI St. Vincent Field at Dickey-Stephens Park.
Arkansas started the series with a tense 6-5 win over the RoughRiders in which Hunter Fitz-Gerald got a single in the top of the 10th inning to drive home two runs. Frisco scored a run in the bottom of the 10th before Taylor Floyd slammed the door shut for the win.
On Wednesday the game was also decided by a single run, but this time in Frisco’s favor with a 7-6 victory despite Lazaro Montes getting 3 hits and scoring 2 runs. Arkansas countered to win the road half of the series after scoring 7 runs in the first 3 innings and holding on for an 8-5 victory on Thursday.
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The series then shifted to North Little Rock where Montes made his DSP debut Friday in front of a packed crowd that celebrated the Fourth of July with the boom of fireworks and the awe of a 2-0 shutout. The RoughRiders would take the Saturday night contest 6-1, but the Arkansas bats came out firing early on Sunday thanks to a leadoff double from Arroyo in his DSP debut; the Travs jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second inning and secured the 5-1 win…