OKC RedHawks: Baseball season ends with 1-0 victory over Express and a 78-65 record

Oklahoma City finished the season with a 78-65 record, yet fell one game shy of South division champion Albuquerque. The RedHawks still beat a lot of odds this season, finishing with a winning record despite more than 150 roster moves made by the parent Houston Astros. While the Astros called up impact RedHawks such as Brett Wallace, Fernando Martinez, Jimmy Paredes, Brandon Barnes, Dallas Keuchel, Scott Moore, Brian Bixler and Mickey Storey — and even manager Tony DeFrancesco — replacement players from Double-A Corpus Christi or outside of the Astros organization filled constant gaps.

The RedHawks were a season-best 18 games over .500 at one point this summer. And Oklahoma City led the division for most of the season. But a 10-game losing skid late in the season proved fatal as Albuquerque passed the RedHawks in the standings. Oklahoma City fell 61/2 games behind the Isotopes, before making up 51/2 games in the standings in the last week.