Padres minor league affiliates went 3-2 in regular season action. 

Here is a recap of the teams’ games. 

El Paso Chihuahuas (Won 3-1 vs Sacramento) (27-26 on the season)

Tirso Ornelas – 2-for-4, Home Run, Double, Three RBI

Trenton Brooks – 2-for-4, Double

Ryan Bergert – 4 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K (65 pitches – 40 strikes)

Ryan Bergert pitched like a big leaguer against Sacramento, tossing four innings of scoreless baseball, striking out four batters. Bergert allowed a single paltry hit in his outing, and his stuff registered impressive ratings despite the setting in which he was throwing. Bergert has posted three consecutive scoreless starts, totaling 11 innings with 10 strikeouts in that span. Miguel Cienfuegos pitched two scireless innings, and Francis Pena allowed the tying run in the seventh inning. Ron Marinaccio got the win, tossing two scoreless innings and facing the minimum. Marinaccio has five wins on the season despite a 4.98 ERA (paired with a slightly encouraging 4.44 FIP).

Tirso Ornelas was the star of the show for the Chihuahuas, as the left fielder slugged two extra base hits and drove in all three Chihuahuas runs. Ornelas took River Cats starter Mason Black deep in the second inning for his third homer of the season. Trenton Brooks and Tim Locastro also doubled off Black in the game. Yonathan Perlaza followed up a Brooks ninth-inning single with a double to put runners on second and third against former Padre Joey Lucchesi, and Ornelas doubled on a hanging slider from the southpaw, scoring both runners. 

What can’t Tirso do? All of El Paso’s runs, courtesy of Tirso Ornelas. pic.twitter.com/DF6bLKDJ5k

— El Paso Chihuahuas (@epchihuahuas) May 28, 2025

San Antonio Missions – Doubleheader vs Arkansas

Won 4-1 in Game 1

Romeo Sanabria – 2-for-4, Double, Run Scored

Nerwilian Cedeno – 1-for-3, RBI Single, Reached on Error

Jagger Haynes – 6 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 3 BB, 6 K (75 pitches – 46 strikes)

Jagger Haynes took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, tossing a quality start in the Missions’ first half of the doubleheader. Haynes tossed six innings of one-run baseball, striking out six opposing batters while walking three. It was a much-needed bounceback for the left-hander after his last starts (3.1 IP, 4 ER vs Wichita) while also being his best start of the season. It is worth remembering that Haynes really found his footing in the summer months in 2024, so a summer surge could very well be on the horizon. Manuel Castro picked up the save with a scoreless seventh inning, his seventh save of the season. 

So many great options in this double-header sweep, but today’s @FrostBank Player of the Game(s) is Jagger Haynes! The lefty didn’t allow a hit until the sixth inning in game one and completed six frames for the first time this season as he picked up the win. pic.twitter.com/hJ4CpLzkLF

— San Antonio Missions Baseball (@missionsmilb) May 29, 2025

The offense did enough for the win, with two of the team’s hottest hitters posting multi-hit games. Unsurprisingly, one of the two aforementioned players is Romeo Sanabria, who had a double and a run scored in the game. Marcos Castanon singled twice in the game, scoring one of the team’s runs. Nerwilian Cedeno was involved in two run-scoring plays in the game, singling in the first run of the game and and hitting a grounder that was mishandled by Josh Hood, allowing Moises Gomez to score. 

Missions won 1-0 in 8 innings in Game 2

Nerwilian Cedeno – 0-for-3, Game-Winning Sac Fly

Brandon Valenzuela – 1-for-3, Double

Henry Baez – 4.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K (64 pitches – 38 strikes)

With a rested bullpen, Henry Baez went out and shoved against Arkansas, delivering 4.1 shutout innings. Baez got three strikeouts to two walks, inducing two double plays to keep innings short. The right-hander has struck out batters at a higher rate than last season while nearly halving his HR/9 rate. The sinker has led Baez to success, plain and simple. Ryan Och got two crucial outs in relief of Baez, and Jose Espada struck out two in 1.2 innings. Jake Higginbotham retired the final batter of the seventh inning, putting himself in line for the win, and Bradgley Rodriguez retired the final three batters of the eighth inning, striking out two in the process. 

The offense was mostly quiet throughout the game, logging four hits in the first five innings, including a double from Brandon Valenzuela. Valenzuela has arguably been the Padres’ system’s hottest-hitting catcher this month, with a .927 OPS in 78 at-bats. Joshua Mears reached base twice in the game, and Nerwilian Cedeno was the hero again, scoring the game-deciding run on an eighth-inning sacrifice fly. <

two dubs in one day type of road trip ? pic.twitter.com/dGLF0i1nsz

— San Antonio Missions Baseball (@missionsmilb) May 29, 2025

Fort Wayne TinCaps (Lost 10-1 vs Great Lakes) (23-24 on the season)

Brandon Butterworth – 1-for-4, RBI Single

Sean Barnett – 1-for-3, Double

Clark Candiotti – 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 6 K (89 pitches – 59 strikes)

Fort Wayne got a strong start from Clark Candiotti, as the right-hander delivered five innings, allowing one earned run. Candiotti has a deep arsenal of north-south pitches, with his slider and splitter generating whiffs en masse in some games. Candiotti settled in after the first inning, getting all six strikeouts in the second through fifth innings. Eiker Huizi was torched for seven runs in 0.2 innings, and Harry Gustin finished off the game with 2.1 innings of one-run ball. 

Good news for the offense: Brandon Butterworth was back in the lineup, going 1-for-4 with an RBI single. Leo De Vries had one hit in the game, and Sean Barnett had a double, scoring a run. That was where the team’s positives ended, as the lineup struggled to hit left-hander Wyatt Crowell. Fort Wayne was hitless through five innings, and while they scored once in the sixth on the aforementioned hit by Butterworth, De Vries and Brendan Durfee were unable to move him over from first, stranding the tying run on base. Kai Roberts had a single in the seventh inning, and Rosman Verdugo drew a walk in the loss. 

Lake Elsinore Storm (Lost 6-4 vs Stockton) (20-27 on the season)

Kavares Tears – 2-for-5, Double, Two RBI

Carlos Rodriguez – 2-for-3, RBI Single

Kleiber Olmedo – 4 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 5 BB, 2 K (76 pitches – 40 strikes)

Kavares Tears and Carlos Rodriguez were the offensive standouts for Lake Elsinore, with each posting a multi-hit game. Rodriguez, in his first Lake Elsinore game this season, delivered two singles and an RBI, while Tears drove in two runs, one on a double in the ninth inning. Ryan Wilson had an RBI knock as well, and he scored two runs as well. The team was always close, and the game was competitive, but as manager Brian Burress said postgame to EVT, “I felt like we gave ourselves a couple opportunities early, we just couldn’t get that big hit in a couple different innings to even the score up…”. 

The pitching staff had themselves a trying day at the office, as Kleiber Olmedo did not have his best stuff. “Olmedo, he didn’t have his best stuff,” Burress said postgame. “He battled a bit more command issues than normal, he’s usually pretty good about being in the zone, but good job getting us into the fourth…”. Olmedo walked five batters in four innings, with all three runs scored against him coming in the first inning. Xavier Ruiz also struggled to keep the ball in the zone, as he walked three and allowed three runs of his own in 1.2 innings of work. Ruben Salinas struck out four in 2.1 innings of work, his most impressive outing of the season thus far. 

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Diego Garcia

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