Hoboken opened the game with three straight singles up the middle, by Robbie Grossman, Whit Merrifield and Charlie Villanueva, to grab a 1-0. With runners on the corners and still no one out, cleanup hitter Jesus Aguilar stepped to the plate, hitting a woeful .169, with a dreadful .483 OPS, to start the season. 
The hefty Venezualan, who has yet to homer in 22 games so far this season, wasn't able to turn around his anemic start. He hit the Gio Gonzalez offering hard but right back at the lefty, who snared it in the air for the first out and threw to Alex Bregman at 3rd base to double off Merrifield. Bregman rocketed a throw back across the diamond to 1st base where Mitch Moreland corralled it before Villaneuva could get back to the bag. And just like that, El Paso got out of the inning down just 1-0.The Cutters got another run in the 2nd on a Jeimer Candelario solo dong before plating 3 runs in the 5th on a pair of singles and walks to make it 5-0, and another run in the 6th after 3 walks and a wild pitch. Villaneuva homered off Gonzalez to lead off the 6th for a 6-0 lead, and El Paso went to the bullpen two batters later.
Hoboken prevailed 7-0 but it could have been much worse. Gonzalez (3-1, 3.86), who signed with El Paso shortly after the draft, managed to give the Chihuahuas a decent 6 1/3 innings but was tagged for 7 runs on 8 hits, thanks to 7 walks but did strike out 5.
Cahill (2-2, 2.59) got the win, scattering 4 hits over 6 innings with 7 strikeouts and a walk, thanks to one-hit ball over the last three innings by Jose Castillo and Seranthony Dominguez.
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