Padres Minor League Report: Ethan Salas Goes Deep In Missions' Loss

[Padres Mission Staff]

A late rally lifted Low-A Lake Elsinore past Visalia 12-8, while Triple-A El Paso, Double-A San Antonio, and High-A Fort Wayne all fell. Ethan Salas crushed his first homer of the season for the Missions, Luke Cantwell drove in three for the Storm, and Nate Mondou launched a triple and a home run for the Chihuahuas.

Padres Minor-League Transactions

• El Paso Chihuahuas activated C Colton Vincent from the Development List.
• San Diego Padres sent RHP Jeremiah Estrada on a rehab assignment to Lake Elsinore Storm.

Chihuahuas Fall To Reno In 10 Innings

El Paso built a 4-0 lead through five innings before Reno scored seven of the next eleven runs to claim a 7-6 win in 10 innings. Pablo Reyes finished 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a stolen base for the Chihuahuas, while Nate Mondou went 3-for-4 with a triple, a home run, and two runs scored.

Starter Evan Fitterer set the tone with four scoreless innings, allowing two hits, walking none, and striking out four on 49 pitches. Leadoff man Clay Dungan walked, stole a base, and scored on Reyes' first-inning bunt single. Dungan plated Mondou on a fielder's choice grounder in the second, and Mondou launched a solo homer in the fourth to push the lead to 3-0. Reyes added an RBI double in the fifth.

Reno scratched a sixth-inning run on a triple before erupting for five in the eighth. The frame was extended by a throwing error from Dungan and produced a sacrifice fly, an RBI single, a two-run homer, and another El Paso fielding miscue. None of the runs were earned, leaving reliever Garrett Hawkins responsible for five unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning.

Nick Schnell answered with his fifth home run in the bottom of the eighth, and Mason McCoy lined a single in the ninth that scored Schnell to force extras. With the zombie runner in scoring position to start the 10th, Reno bunted him to third and went ahead on yet another El Paso throwing error.  

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K
Clay Dungan	4	1	1	1	2	2
Jase Bowen	6	0	0	0	0	2
Carlos Rodríguez	6	0	0	0	0	2
Jose Miranda	4	1	1	0	0	1
Pablo Reyes	4	0	3	2	0	0
Nick Schnell	4	2	1	1	1	0
Marcos Castañon	4	0	1	0	0	0
Samad Taylor	1	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Mondou	4	2	3	1	0	0
Mason McCoy	1	0	1	1	0	0
Rodolfo Durán	3	0	1	0	0	0

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR
Evan Fitterer	4	2	0	0	0	4	0
Triston McKenzie	2 1/3	2	1	1	2	3	0
Miguel Cienfuegos	2/3	0	0	0	2	0	0
Garrett Hawkins	2/3	3	5	0	1	1	1
Justin Yeager	2 1/3	0	1	0	1	0	0

Salas Homers In Missions' Comeback, But Amarillo Wins

San Antonio twice rallied from deficits but came up a run short in an 8-7 loss to Amarillo. After spotting the Sod Poodles a 2-0 lead in the third, the Missions answered with two in the fourth. Leadoff man Ethan Salas, Padres Mission's No. 1 prospect, crushed his first homer of the season to right-center, and Tirso Ornelas' sacrifice fly scored Ryan Jackson to even the score. Jackson's popup single in the fifth plated Kai Roberts to give San Antonio its first lead. Amarillo tied it in the sixth, but Ornelas drove home Romeo Sanabria with a single in the bottom half to put the Missions back in front 4-3.

Salas finished 2-for-3 with the home run, two walks, two RBIs, and two runs scored. Ornelas was 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Jackson collected three hits and stole a base.

Starter Fernando Sanchez logged three innings, allowing two runs on three hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Andrew Thurman followed with 2⅔ innings of one-run ball before Josh Mallitz was tagged for four runs in 1⅓ frames during a four-run Amarillo seventh that featured a pair of doubles and a triple.

Down 7-4 in the home half of the seventh, the Missions rallied. Salas singled to score Roberts. Sanabria grounded out to plate Salas. Ornelas followed with his third RBI of the day, lining a single that scored Jackson and tied the game at 7-7.

Amarillo scored in the top of the ninth on a leadoff double and a one-out single.  

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K
Ethan Salas	3	2	2	2	2	0
Ryan Jackson	5	2	3	1	0	0
Romeo Sanabria	3	1	0	1	1	1
Tirso Ornelas	3	0	2	3	0	0
Francisco Acuna	4	0	1	0	0	2
Braedon Karpathios	3	0	0	0	1	0
Luis Verdugo	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kai Roberts	4	2	2	0	0	2
Chris Sargent	3	0	0	0	0	2

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR
Fernando Sanchez	3	3	2	2	3	4	0
Andrew Thurman	2 2/3	3	1	1	1	1	0
Josh Mallitz	1 1/3	5	4	4	1	1	0
Harry Gustin	2	4	1	1	0	1	0

TinCaps Done In By Wisconsin's 6-Run Eighth

Wisconsin pulled away with a six-run eighth and dropped Fort Wayne 11-3.

Starter Kash Mayfield, Padres Mission's No. 2 prospect, pitched four innings in defeat, charged with three runs on three hits with two walks and three strikeouts on 72 pitches. In his first three starts this season, Mayfield allowed one hit in 12 scoreless innings with 16 strikeouts.

The lone damage against him was a three-run homer in the fourth that broke open a scoreless game. Cleanup hitter Alex McCoy responded immediately with his fourth home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field that scored Carlos Rodriguez and pulled Fort Wayne within 3-2. That homer also extended McCoy's hitting streak to 15 games, the longest in TinCaps history since Fernando Tatis Jr.'s 15-game run in 2017.

The TinCaps could not get back to even. Wisconsin tacked on single runs in the fifth and sixth, then scored six runs in the eighth to blow it open.

McCoy went 2-for-4 with a double, the home run, and three RBIs. Carlos Rodriguez chipped in two doubles and a walk.  

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K
Kasen Wells	4	0	0	0	0	1
Rosman Verdugo	3	1	1	0	0	0
Carlos Rodriguez	3	1	2	0	1	0
Alex McCoy	4	1	2	3	0	1
Lamar King Jr.	4	0	1	0	0	2
Kavares Tears	4	0	0	0	0	1
Jake Cunningham	4	0	1	0	0	1
Dylan Grego	4	0	0	0	0	2
Oswaldo Linares	3	0	0	0	1	2

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR
Kash Mayfield	4	3	3	3	2	3	1
Tucker Musgrove	2/3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Igor Gil	1 1/3	1	1	1	3	3	0
C.J. Widger	1 1/3	5	6	6	1	0	0
Clay Edmondson	1 2/3	1	0	0	0	0	0

Storm Rally Past Visalia Behind 5-Run Seventh

Lake Elsinore overcame an 8-4 deficit, scoring eight unanswered runs, including five in the seventh, to take down Visalia 12-8. Visalia committed seven errors.

Luke Cantwell finished 2-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs. Ryan Wideman went 2-for-5 with a triple, two runs, and a stolen base. Justin DeCriscio drove in two runs and scored three times.

Starter Kruz Schoolcraft was tagged for four runs, three earned, on seven hits across three innings, walking two and striking out three on 51 pitches. The lefty exited after Visalia took an 8-4 lead, with the Rawhide picking up two more runs apiece against Joseph Herrera and Brandon Langley. Lake Elsinore stayed close. Cantwell and Conner Westenburg laced RBI doubles in the fourth, and Victor Duarte's run-scoring single in the fifth cut the lead to 8-5.

The Storm stormed back in the seventh. Wideman tripled to start the rally and Bradley Frye singled him home. A wild pitch later scored Frye, and Truitt Madonna scored on a throwing error during a double steal. DeCriscio drew a walk in between, and Cantwell capped the five-run inning with a two-run double that gave Lake Elsinore a 10-8 lead. The Storm tacked on two in the eighth on a DeCriscio sacrifice bunt that scored Frye and a Duarte RBI single that brought Madonna home.

Jeremiah Estrada, in his first rehab appearance from the Padres, earned the win with a perfect seventh.  

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K
Ryan Wideman	5	2	2	0	0	2
Bradley Frye	4	2	2	1	0	2
Jose Verdugo	0	0	0	0	0	0
Truitt Madonna	5	2	1	0	0	0
Justin DeCriscio	2	3	1	2	1	0
Victor Duarte	3	1	2	2	1	0
Qrey Lott	3	1	0	0	1	1
George Bilecki	1	0	0	0	0	1
Luke Cantwell	4	1	2	3	0	0
Kerrington Cross	4	0	0	0	0	1
Conner Westenburg	4	0	1	1	0	2

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR
Kruz Schoolcraft	3	7	4	3	2	3	0
Joseph Herrera	1	2	2	1	1	0	0
Brandon Langley	2	2	2	2	1	2	0
Jeremiah Estrada	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Carson Swilling	1	1	0	0	0	2	0
Will Koger	1	0	0	0	1	1	0

Top-20 Prospect Performance

1. Kash Mayfield: 4 IP, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, HR (L)
2. Ethan Salas: 2-for-3, HR, 2 BB, 2 RBI, 2 R
3. Kruz Schoolcraft: 3 IP, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K
4. Bradgley Rodriguez: DNP
5. Humberto Cruz: DNP
6. Miguel Mendez: DNP
7. Ty Harvey: DNP
8. Jorge Quintana: DNP
9. Kale Fountain: DNP
10. Ryan Wideman: 2-for-5, 3B, 2 R, SB, 2 K
11. Jagger Haynes: DNP
12. Lamar King Jr.: 1-for-4, 2 K
13. Romeo Sanabria: 0-for-3, BB, R, RBI, K
14. Truitt Madonna: 1-for-5, 2 R, SB
15. Michael Salina: DNP
16. Garrett Hawkins: ⅔ IP, 5 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, K, HR (BS)
17. Kavares Tears: 0-for-4, K
18. Deivid Coronil: DNP
19. Francis Pena: DNP
20. Bryan Balzer: DNP

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