Swanson's Stellar Start & Spence's Dapper Debut Drive Win
Box Score CORPUS CHRISTI - Nic Swanson held Tulsa to one run over a season-high 5 1/3 innings while Lucas Spence went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run in his Double-A debut Tuesday as the Hooks knocked off the Drillers, 7-5, before 2,965 fans at Whataburger Field. Corpus Christi has
CORPUS CHRISTI - Nic Swanson held Tulsa to one run over a season-high 5 1/3 innings while Lucas Spence went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run in his Double-A debut Tuesday as the Hooks knocked off the Drillers, 7-5, before 2,965 fans at Whataburger Field.
Corpus Christi has won three of the last four games.
The Hooks erased a 1-0 deficit by scoring three times in the second. Wes Clarke, Garret Guillemette, Trevor Austin, and Jeron Williams all recorded knocks, with Williams capping the rally via a two-out RBI double.
Clarke made it 4-1 in the third by crushing a home run off the scoreboard in left field. The slugging first baseman, toting eight circuit clouts in 35 games as a Hook, has five hits in his last 11 at-bats, with three knocks going for extra bases.
Wes Clarke CRUSHED that baseball! pic.twitter.com/62j8hP3xAJ
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) August 6, 2025
CC added three more in the sixth as Guillemette and Austin notched base hits ahead of Spence's two-out blast to right field. The 22-year-old left-handed outfielder has seven home runs after adding in his time at High-A Asheville.
His first double -A appearance and his first HOME RUN! Lucas Spence hits it OUTTA HERE! pic.twitter.com/HYOPmi2Mgt
— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) August 6, 2025
Austin is 9-for-18 over his last five games while Guillemette owns a .364 batting average in his most recent eight contests.
Swanson limited the Drillers to three base runners over the first four innings. The Tulsa area native stranded two in the fifth before exiting after a one-out single and walk in the sixth.
Tyler Guilfoil stranded the inherited runners by dispatching both batters he faced in the sixth. In the seventh, the Drillers struck for a two-run home run by Kole Myers.
Patrick Halligan worked around a lead-off double in the eighth but yielded a couple two-out runs in the ninth. Amilcar Chirinos relieved Halligan and induced a game-ending ground ball to leave the bases loaded for his first Double-A save.