Padres Down on the Farm: June 9 (Valenzuela shines/Abrams & Hassell notch two hits)
Credit: San Antonio Missions
The San Diego Padres affiliates went 1-2 on Wednesday.
Here is a recap of the day’s events.
El Paso Chihuahuas (13-16)
OFF
The El Paso Chihuahuas will begin their series against the Oklahoma City Dodgers on Thursday.
San Antonio Missions (Lost 9-1 to MidLand) (16-16 on the season)
CJ Abrams– 2-4, 1 R
Taylor Kohlwey– 1-3, 2 BB, 1 K
Reggie Lawson– 1.1 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
Mason Fox– 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K
The combination of a couple of errors and a few base hits did not bode well for the Missions against the RockHounds Wednesday, as the Missions were blown out 9-1. Early errors with top right-handed pitching prospect Reggie lawson on the mound dug San Antonio an early 4-0 deficit, one they would not overcome.
San Antonio batters only tallied four hits, and two of them came off the bat of Abrams, the Padres’ top-hitting prospect. The Missions’ only run of the game came on a wild pitch Jack Suwinski swung and missed to strikeout.
Fort Wayne TinCaps (Lost 3-2 to Lake County) (13-18 on the season)
Tirso Ornelas– 1-4, 3 K
Andres Ilarraza- 2-3, 1 R, 1 BB
Ethan Elliott– 5 IP, 2 ER, 7 H, 5 K
Brandon Komar– 3 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 1 K
The Fort Wayne TinCaps lost a low-scoring battle to Lake County Captains 3-2. Ethan Elliott got the start for Fort Wayne Wednesday and once again competed well with five innings of two-run ball. His ERA for the season is now at 2.02. In the sixth inning, Fort Wayne overcame the two-run deficit when Dwanya Williams-Sutton hit a triple with two outs. Unfortunately, the Captains responded in the next half-inning with an unearned run off of Brandon Komar to regain the lead for good.
Welcome back Dwanya Williams-Sutton! After a week off because of a concussion, he triples into the right-field corner, scoring Seamus Curran to knot the score at 2. Brand new ballgame at Parkview Field.
— Dylan Sinn (@DylanSinn) June 10, 2021
Lake Elsinore Storm (Won 8-5 over Rancho Cucamonga) (15-17 on the season)
Robert Hassell III- 2-4, 2 R
Brandon Valenzuela– 4-5, 2 R, 4 RBI, 1 K
Carlos Guarate– 4.2 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 3 K, 3 BB
Michell Miliano– 1 IP, 0 R, 2 K
Brandon Valenzuela stole the show in Lake Elsinore’s 8-5 win over the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Wednesday. His four-hit and four-RBI performance powered the Storm offense past a big fifth inning for the Quakes. Carlos Guarate was cruising in his start until the fifth inning when the first four batters of the inning reached for the Quakes. The 3-0 lead for the Storm turned into a 4-3 deficit quickly. In the bottom half of the fifth, Valenzuela singled home two runners to regain the lead for Lake Elsinore, and they never looked back.
Brandon Valenzuela is on
tonight. He is 3-4 with 1 Single, 1 Double, & 1 Triple#BeatRC pic.twitter.com/VOYHzXOY4I
— Lake Elsinore Storm (@Storm_Baseball) June 10, 2021
Thursday’s Probable Pitchers
El Paso– Jesse Scholtens (2-2, 4.07 ERA)
San Antonio– Caleb Boushley (1-2, 3.91 ERA)
Fort Wayne– Matt Waldron (2-1, 2.93 ERA)
Lake Elsinore– TBD
Dominic is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, with a bachelor’s degree in Sports Journalism. He also is the producer and co-host of the “Padres EVT Podcast.”