Padres Minor League Report: Chihuahuas Fall Short In Bonus Baseball

El Paso jumped ahead as Tyler Wade and Nate Mondou homered, but Sacramento rallied late for a 4–3 win. Starter Logan Gillaspie steadied the opener before bullpen work from Kyle Hart and Francis Pena. Lake Elsinore raced to a 9–5 victory: Truitt Madonna and Carlos Rodriguez delivered early RBIs, while Landry Jurecka, Clay Edmondson, and Bernard Jose closed it down. Braian Salazar struck out five in three frames. San Antonio and Fort Wayne were postponed.

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Wade, Campusano, Mondou Homer, Chihuahuas Fall In 10
Box Score

El Paso’s bats erupted early, launching three solo home runs in the first at Sutter Health Park. Tyler Wade set the tone with a leadoff shot to right-center, then Luis Campusano and Nate Mondou added two-out homers to stake the Chihuahuas to a 3-0 lead. Sacramento answered with two in the bottom half, but El Paso’s defense steadied, highlighted by Logan Gillaspie picking off a runner at first in the third.

Gillaspie started for the Chihuahuas and worked four innings, allowing two runs on five hits, with three walks and two strikeouts. Kyle Hart followed with two frames, and Francis Pena and Manuel Castro handled the seventh and eighth, with Dungan, Mason McCoy, and Mondou turning a second-to-short-to-first double play to erase a leadoff single in the eighth.

Campusano finished 2-for-4, adding a single to his first-inning blast. Mondou and Wade each homered, and Tirso Ornelas chipped in a hit as El Paso totaled five.

Sacramento rallied late. A ninth-inning single, a wild pitch, and a double pulled the home side even at 3-3. In the tenth, with the automatic runner aboard, two free passes set the stage, and a sacrifice fly to right ended it, 4-3. Alek Jacob took the loss for El Paso, allowing two runs, one earned, in 1 2/3 innings, with three walks and one strikeout.

San Antonio Postponed
Makeup date, August 20.

Fort Wayne Postponed
Makeup date, August 20.

Storm Race To Four-Run First, Fountain Homers, Bullpen Seals 9–5 Win In Stockton
Box Score

Lake Elsinore blitzed Stockton with a four-run first and never looked back in a 9–5 road win at Banner Island Ballpark. Jorge Quintana and Alex McCoy opened with singles, then both swiped bags in a double steal. Truitt Madonna punched a two-out RBI single, and Carlos Rodriguez followed with a three-run double for a 4–0 opening frame. In the third, Ryan Wideman singled, and Kavares Tears doubled him home to make it 5–1. The Storm added another in the fourth when Quintana singled, advanced on two wild pitches, and scored on Wideman’s RBI single.

Kale Fountain mashed a solo homer in the fifth. Later in the inning, Dylan Grego pinch-ran and scored on McCoy’s sacrifice fly, and Quintana forced in a run with a bases-loaded walk as the Storm’s lead swelled to 9–4.

Quintana finished 2-for-4 with two runs, an RBI, and two steals, including a swipe of third in the first. Tears went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI, Wideman logged two hits, an RBI, and a steal, and Madonna doubled among his two knocks. Rodriguez drove in three, and McCoy added a hit, a walk, an RBI, and a steal as Lake Elsinore stacked 11 hits.

Braian Salazar started and worked three innings with three runs allowed, one walk, and five strikeouts. Landry Jurecka earned the win with two innings of one-run ball, one walk, and two strikeouts, while Clay Edmondson threw two scoreless, one-hit frames. Jordan Valenzuela went 1 2/3 innings with one run, four walks, and two strikeouts, and Bernard Jose recorded the final out for his fifth save.

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