Best Individual Performances of the 2023 Austin Weirdos Season
The 2023 Austin Weirdos season featured a constantly changing roster and a difficult schedule, but along the way a number of Austin players turned in memorable individual performances. From multi-home-run games to four-hit nights and strong starting pitching, the Weirdos had several players produce standout moments during the summer.
Here is a look back at some of the best individual performances of the 2023 Austin Weirdos season.
Trey Woosley - Two Home Runs in Austin's Win Over Alpine
Trey Woosley delivered one of the biggest performances of Austin's season on June 10 at Govalle Park.
Woosley went
2-for-4 and hit two home runs as the Weirdos defeated the Alpine Cowboys 9-4.
It was Austin's first victory of the season, making Woosley's two-home-run performance one of the defining individual moments of the 2023 Weirdos season.
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Joseph Richter - Eight Strikeouts in Austin's Victory
Austin's June 10 victory also featured one of the team's strongest pitching performances of the season.
Joseph Richter worked
seven innings and struck out eight hitters while allowing four earned runs on only three hits.
Richter's performance gave the Weirdos the innings they needed, while Woosley's two home runs supplied the offense in Austin's 9-4 victory over Alpine.
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Ian Farris - Perfect 4-for-4 Game at Santa Fe
Ian Farris had one of the best pure hitting games by an Austin player during the 2023 season on June 17 at Fort Marcy Park.
Farris went a perfect
4-for-4 with two RBIs.
Austin collected 15 hits and scored 12 runs in the game, and Farris led the Weirdos with four hits.
Going 4-for-4 made the performance one of the clearest individual offensive highlights of Austin's season.
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Darius Simple - Three Hits and Three Runs at Fort Marcy
Darius Simple had a huge game alongside Farris in Austin's 12-run performance against Santa Fe.
Simple went
3-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI.
He was constantly on base and crossed the plate three times as Austin produced one of its biggest offensive totals of the season.
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Josh Walker - Three RBIs Against Santa Fe
Josh Walker supplied much of the run production in Austin's June 17 game against Santa Fe.
Walker recorded a hit, scored a run, drew a walk and finished with
three RBIs.
His three runs driven in were the most by an Austin hitter in the game.
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Jared Chapman - Eight-Inning Performance Against Alpine
Jared Chapman gave Austin one of its longest pitching performances of the season against the Alpine Cowboys on June 27.
Chapman worked
eight innings, providing the Weirdos with a complete night's worth of innings against Alpine.
For a team that used a large number of pitchers throughout the season, an eight-inning start represented one of Austin's most notable pitching performances of 2023.
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Rex Jackson - Three RBIs Against Blackwell
Rex Jackson supplied Austin's biggest hit in the Weirdos' July 24 game against the Blackwell FlyCatchers.
Jackson finished with
three RBIs while scoring a run.
His three RBIs accounted for half of Austin's six runs in the game.
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Markus Bracey - Two-Hit Game Against Blackwell
Markus Bracey was one of Austin's most productive hitters in the July 24 game at Morgan Field.
Bracey went
2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.
He was one of three Weirdos hitters to record multiple hits in the game.
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Josh Walker - Two More Hits at Morgan Field
Josh Walker added another notable game to his season on July 24 against Blackwell.
Walker went
2-for-5 and scored a run.
Combined with his three-RBI game at Santa Fe, Walker produced several of Austin's stronger individual offensive performances during the summer.
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Ryan Germany - Two Hits Against Blackwell
Ryan Germany also produced a multi-hit game on July 24.
Germany collected
two hits in three at-bats and scored a run.
He joined Bracey and Walker as Austin's multi-hit performers in the game.
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Evan Antonellis - Strong Early-Season Hitting
Evan Antonellis was one of Austin's most productive hitters during the opening portion of the season before eventually moving to Lancaster.
Against Roswell on June 6, Antonellis went
2-for-3 and scored a run. He was one of only three Austin hitters to collect two hits in the game.
Antonellis' time with Austin became the beginning of a remarkable 2023 season. After moving to Lancaster, he went on to be named the Pecos League Pacific Division Hitter of the Year.
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Trey Woosley - Two Hits Against Roswell
Trey Woosley showed signs of the power surge that was coming when Austin played Roswell on June 6.
Woosley went
2-for-3 and scored a run.
Only a few days later, he would produce his signature performance of the season by hitting two home runs in Austin's victory over Alpine.
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Kevin Mora - Drives In Both Austin Runs Against Roswell
Kevin Mora supplied the run production in Austin's June 6 game at Joe Bauman Park.
Mora had a hit and drove in
both of Austin's runs.
Evan Antonellis and Trey Woosley each scored as Austin collected seven hits in the game.
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The June 17 Offensive Explosion
One of Austin's most impressive collections of individual offensive performances came on June 17 against the Santa Fe Fuego at Fort Marcy Park.
The Weirdos scored
12 runs on 15 hits.
Ian Farris went
4-for-4 with two RBIs.
Darius Simple went
3-for-4 with three runs and an RBI.
Josh Walker drove in
three runs.
Olson Moon went
2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.
Jared Chapman had a hit, scored twice, drove in a run and drew a walk.
The Weirdos scored nine runs over the final three innings, including five in the sixth, making the game one of Austin's biggest offensive displays of the year.
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A Season of Individual Highlights
The record did not tell the entire story of the 2023 Austin Weirdos. Throughout the summer, individual players produced performances that stood out regardless of the final score.
Trey Woosley's two-home-run game helped deliver Austin's victory over Alpine. Joseph Richter struck out eight over seven innings in that same win. Ian Farris produced a perfect 4-for-4 game at Fort Marcy Park, while Darius Simple collected three hits and scored three times.
Jared Chapman supplied Austin with an eight-inning start against Alpine. Josh Walker had a three-RBI game at Santa Fe and later recorded two hits against Blackwell. Rex Jackson drove in three runs at Morgan Field, while Markus Bracey and Ryan Germany added multi-hit performances.
The 2023 roster changed significantly over the course of the summer, giving many players opportunities to play professional baseball. The result was a season filled with different names stepping forward on different nights.
For the Austin Weirdos, those individual performances remain some of the most memorable moments of the 2023 season.
