Good month for Hoying

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Staff report

Fort Loramie’s Jared Hoying, who last summer became the first player in county history to play in a Major League baseball game when he was called up by the Texas Rangers, is displaying a lot of power so far with the Round Rock Express, the Rangers’ Class AAA minor league team.

Hoying is current tied for third in the Pacific Coast League in home runs with seven, and is fourth in the PCL in runs batted in with 22.

The PCL recently announced that Hoying was the league’s player of the week for the week of April 24-to-30 after he hit .391 in six games, with a AAA-best four home runs and nine RBIs.

His 23 total bases led the PCL, and his six extra-base hits and eight runs scored both tied for the league lead during that stretch. He also had a 1.000 slugging percentage with a .463 on-base percentage.

He had multiple hits in four of the games and was held hitless only once, in a rain-shortened five-inning game.

Hoying drilled two home runs April 27 at Memphis, and the second was a go-ahead three-run shot in the ninth inning, part of a five-run frame in a 9-7 come-from-behind win. He started the week by homering in an April 24 win over Iowa and finished it by adding another three-run shot, April 30 at Memphis.

Hoying, in his fifth season with the Express, finished the season’s opening month among PCL leaders in games played (tied for first), home runs and RBIs.

The 27-year-old has spent his entire eight-year career in the Rangers organization after getting selected by Texas in the 10th round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Toledo. He has accumulated a .253 batting average (420-for-1663), with 80 home runs, 250 RBIs and 63 stolen bases in his Triple-A career — all with the Express.

This is his second career Player of the Week award, having previously won in June 2014, also with Round Rock.

He is hitting .245 this season, with 23 hits in 93 at-bats. In addition to his seven home runs, he also had five doubles and a slugging percentage of .538 going into Tuesday night’s game at home against Nashville.

Hoying was called up on two different occasions by the Rangers last season and wound up playing in 38 games with the big club. He had eight hits in 46 at-bats for a .217 average, and had two doubles and five RBIs.

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