Padres Minor League Report: Dungan Scores Four, Mondou Delivers in 10th

Enmanuel Pinales worked six innings of one-run ball, and Ryan Och bridged to Andrew Moore in a 3–2 Missions win. In Salt Lake, Clay Dungan scored four times and Nate Mondou’s 10th-inning single delivered El Paso an extra-inning victory after Logan Gillaspie and Manuel Castro combined for five scoreless innings. Fort Wayne got Rosman Verdugo’s homer, while C.J. Widger posted 1 1/3 clean frames. Lake Elsinore’s Carlos Rodriguez homered and Bernard Jose struck out four.

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Mondou Delivers In Extras, Dungan’s Four Runs Lift El Paso Past Bees
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Clay Dungan filled the box score and touched home four times, and Nate Mondou’s two-out single in the 10th pushed the El Paso Chihuahuas past Salt Lake, 6-5. Dungan opened the night with a double, advanced on a misplay at second, then scored on a double play for a 1-0 lead. El Paso added on in the third when Ripken Reyes walked, Dungan singled, and Yonathan Perlaza and Luis Campusano followed with RBI singles for a 3-0 cushion.

Salt Lake rallied to tie in the fifth, but Dungan answered in the seventh. After Reyes reached, Dungan launched a two-run homer to right-center for a 5-3 edge. The Bees pulled even in the bottom half, setting the stage for extras.

In the 10th, Dungan began at second as the zombie runner. Campusano reached on catcher interference, Tim Locastro pinch-ran, and after a flyout Mondou lined a single to right, scoring Dungan for the decisive run. In the bottom half, a wild pitch moved the Bees’ zombie runner to third, but Raul Brito ended it with a strikeout.

Dungan went 3-for-4 with a double, a homer, two RBI, a walk, and four runs. Campusano was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Mondou went 2-for-5 with an RBI, Reyes scored twice, and Perlaza added an RBI single. Starter Logan Gillaspie worked three scoreless innings, allowing one hit, walking one, and striking out four. Manuel Castro followed with two scoreless frames, no walks, and three strikeouts, and Brito closed the 10th for the save.

Pinales Deals Six, Ortiz Delivers, Wild Pitch In Eighth Lifts Missions Past Corpus Christi
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San Antonio rode strong pitching and small ball to a 3-2 win over Corpus Christi at Nelson Wolff Stadium. Enmanuel Pinales set the tone, working six innings with one run allowed on three hits, three walks, and six strikeouts.

The Missions struck first in the second when Devin Ortiz singled, moved up on a double, then scored on Christopher Sargent’s sacrifice fly. After Francisco Acuna’s ejection in the top of the third, Wyatt Hoffman entered at second base and immediately made an impact. He walked, stole second, then scored on Ortiz’s two-out RBI single for a 2-0 lead. Ortiz finished 2-for-4 with an RBI.

Corpus Christi cut it to 2-1 on a fourth-inning home run, but Pinales settled back in and handed off the lead. Ryan Och followed with 1 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing no hits with one walk. In the eighth, the Hooks threatened, but San Antonio answered. Braedon Karpathios walked, Romeo Sanabria singled, and Hoffman drew another walk to load the bases. After a force at the plate, a wild pitch brought Sanabria home for an insurance run and a 3-1 edge. Sanabria went 2-for-4 and scored, and Karpathios added a hit and a walk.

Andrew Moore recorded the final 1 1/3 innings, allowing one run with two hits, two walks, and two strikeouts to earn the save. Damon Dues added two walks and a stolen base as San Antonio outlasted the Hooks in a tight finish.

Verdugo Homers, Vastine And King Jr. Collect Two Hits As Fort Wayne Drops Laugher
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Fort Wayne dropped a 15-2 decision in West Michigan. Rosman Verdugo put the TinCaps on the board in the seventh with a solo homer to left center, then the club scratched out another run in the eighth when Jonathan Vastine singled, Eguy Rosario reached on an error, and Lamar King Jr. punched an infield single to score Vastine. Brendan Durfee followed by lining into a center-field double play to end the rally.

The Whitecaps had pieced together two runs in the third and broke it open with nine in the fourth, then added four more in the sixth that included an inside-the-park home run to center. Fort Wayne opened the night with traffic as Rosario walked in the first, but West Michigan kept the TinCaps quiet until Verdugo’s blast.

Vastine went 2-for-3 with a run, King Jr. finished 2-for-4 with an RBI, and Verdugo was 1-for-3 with a walk, a homer, and two runs created for the cause.

Sam Whiting started for the TinCaps and took the loss, working 3 2/3 innings and allowing seven runs on five hits, with three walks and no strikeouts. C.J. Widger provided a solid bridge, delivering 1 1/3 innings with no runs, no walks, and one strikeout.

Carlos Rodriguez Homers As Storm Fall To 66ers
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Carlos Rodriguez put Lake Elsinore on top with a two-out solo homer to right in the third, but the Storm dropped a 7-1 decision to Inland Empire at San Manuel Stadium. Lake Elsinore threatened immediately when Dylan Grego and Alex McCoy opened the game with singles, then executed a double steal, but the inning ended without a run.

The 66ers answered with a game-tying double in the third, then moved ahead in the fifth when a bases-loaded walk forced in a run. Inland Empire broke it open with five in the seventh. The rally featured a leadoff triple, an RBI single, a fielder’s choice with a throwing error that plated two, a steal of second followed by another throwing error that allowed a run, and a sacrifice fly.

Kannon Kemp started for the Storm and worked 4 1/3 innings, allowing two runs with three walks and four strikeouts, and he picked off a runner at first. Bernard Jose followed with two innings of relief, allowing one unearned run with no walks and four strikeouts.

Kavares Tears doubled, and Grego, McCoy, and Yoiber Ocopio added singles. Rodriguez finished 1-for-4 with his fourth home run and the Storm’s lone RBI. Lake Elsinore tried to spark a ninth-inning push when an error extended the frame, and Ocopio’s single moved a runner to third, but a groundout ended it. The Storm totaled five hits on the night against the 66ers.

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