Padres minor league affiliates went 0-1 on Friday. 

Here is our daily recap of games played. 

El Paso Chihuahuas (Lost 8-5 vs Sugar Land) (80-67 on the season)

Yonathan Perlaza – 2-for-5, Double, Single, Two RBI

Ripken Reyes – 1-for-2, Single, Two RBI

Matt Waldron – 5 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 2 BB, 4 K (86 pitches – 53 strikes)

El Paso and Sugar Land played a back-and-forth affair, entering the eighth inning tied at five. However, a Space Cowboys rally off El Paso’s Francis Pena gave the home team an 8-5 win after the dust settled. Matt Waldron started for the Chihuahuas, pitching five innings of five-run baseball. Waldron was victimized by the long ball, as two Sugar Land homers accounted for two of the five runs charged to Waldron. Waldron’s outing stood at two runs in five innings, but he returned to the mound for the sixth before allowing the second homer and two singles before being relieved. Andrew Moore entered and allowed a two-run double to Brice Matthews. However, his blistering fastball allowed Moore to exit the inning without further damage, tallying his first career Triple-A strikeout against former MLB Top 50 prospect Jon Singleton. 

The Chihuahuas’ lineup scored first in the third inning, as Ripken Reyes scored on a double from Yonathan Perlaza. It was Perlaza’s PCL-leading 49th double of the season, and he has 15 more than second-place Clay Dungan (34). Reyes and Perlaza were also at the center of the Chihuahuas’ sixth-inning rally, as Reyes hit a two-out, two-strike single with two on to score the tying run. Perlaza, meanwhile, roped a hanging curveball to right field for a single to score Francisco Acuna. El Paso led 3-2, but after the Space Cowboys’ rally off Waldron and Moore, El Paso’s lineup needed to come through again. Tirso Ornelas singled to open the inning, and walks to Acuna and Nate Mondou loaded the bases. With two outs, Cody Roberts drew a walk to score a run, and Ripken Reyes was hit by a pitch to score the second run of the inning, tying the game at five. 

Francis Pena threw a scoreless seventh, but Jacob Melton turned on his first pitch of the eighth to give Sugar Land a lead on a home run to left field.

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— Sugar Land Space Cowboys (@SLSpaceCowboys) September 20, 2025

One out later, Pena walked Brice Matthews, who stole second and third before a Jon Singleton single scored Matthews. Pena’s velocity was alarmingly down, as his once-flaming fastball averaged a low (for his standard) 93.7 mph. Jake Higginbotham entered with two outs, allowing a run-scoring double before ending the inning with a strikeout. El Paso failed to rally in the ninth, going down 1-2-3 to end the game.

Diego Garcia

A born and raised San Diegan, Diego Garcia is a lifetime Padres fan and self-proclaimed baseball nerd. Diego wrote about baseball on his own site between 2021-22 before joining the East Village Times team in 2024. He also posts baseball content on his YouTube channel “Stat Nerd Baseball”, creating content around trades, hypotheticals, player analyses, the San Diego Padres, and MLB as a whole.

A 2024 graduate of San Diego State, Diego aims to grow as a writer and content creator in the baseball community.