Clarke & Dombroski Drive Dramatic Win
Box Score CORPUS CHRISTI - Wes Clarke was a double shy of the cycle and Trey Dombroski pitched 5 2/3 innings of two-run ball Saturday night as the Hooks upended the Naturals, 4-2, before 4,685 fans at Whataburger Field. Corpus Christi has won two of its last three games. Nic
CORPUS CHRISTI - Wes Clarke was a double shy of the cycle and Trey Dombroski pitched 5 2/3 innings of two-run ball Saturday night as the Hooks upended the Naturals, 4-2, before 4,685 fans at Whataburger Field.
Corpus Christi has won two of its last three games.
Nic Swanson made his second start since being activated from the IL, blanking Northwest Arkansas over three innings.
With two away in the home third, Orlando Martinez ignited a Hooks rally by bouncing a single into center field. Martinez, who doubled Friday night, went 2-for-4 in this third game with Corpus Christi.
Clarke followed and rocketed 2-2 fastball from Ben Kudrna off of a rocking chair in the Goodwill Zone beyond the left-field fence. Credited with a triple, Clarke chased Martinez home from first base for a 1-0 Hooks lead.
Wes Clark triples and Orlando Martinez scores! The Hooks are on the board! pic.twitter.com/dP6JNu2QLL
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2025
Dombroski struck out two in the fourth but the Naturals managed a marker on singles by Jack Pineda and Kyle Hayes. Pineda's steal of second enabled the stalemate.
Dombroski proceeded to dispatch 11 of the next 13 before Justin Johnson snuck a bouncer into center. The one-out, eighth-inning knock was promptly erased via a 1-6-3 double play. The 24-year-old lefty from Manasquan, New Jersey has completed five innings eight times in 14 Texas League assignments while going 3-0 with a 2.23 ERA in his last six Corpus Christi games.
The Hooks took the lead in the sixth as Clarke and Ryan Wrobleski singled, with Garret Guillemette being hit by a pitch. Tommy Sacco Jr. accounted for the game-winning swing by searing a single into center.
A hit, two runs, safe at 3rd. Hooks are up ⬆️ pic.twitter.com/0g2URuuusy
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2025
Clarke provided insurance by lifting a home run, his second as a Hook, down the left-field line to lead off the home eighth. The 25-year-old slugger, recently acquired by the Astros via trade with Milwaukee, is hitting .409 with a 1.399 OPS in nine games for Corpus Christi.
We ARE sure this is a home run this time. pic.twitter.com/YtoRSu3ygs
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2025
The Hooks turned in a number of defensive gems. Among them, center fielder Zach Cole and Sacco from short threw out Dustin Dickerson trying to stretch his double into a triple to begin the ninth. In the first, Wrobleski, making his eighth career appearance in right field, threw out Javier Vaz trying to score to end the first. Guillemette completed the effort with an incredible diving tag.
Wrobleski 🤝 Guillemette
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 29, 2025
Making sick defensive plays pic.twitter.com/0m4LZarBCJ
Wilmy Sanchez entered with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. Protecting a one-run lead, Sanchez induced a fly out to left field on one pitch to secure his seventh save which ties for second in the Texas League.