San Diego, CA
San Diego Padres Daily Farm Report: April 11
Sacramento River Cats 10, Chihuahuas 9
Key Statistics: LHP Ryan Carpenter, 5 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 0 K: 3B Graham Pauley, 2-for-4, 2 HR (2), 3 R, 6 RBI, BB; 1B Nate Mondou, 1-for-4, 3B, 2 RBI, BB; 2B Matthew Batten, 1-for-3, R
Graham Pauley with San Antonio last year. (Photo: Joe Alexander)
Prospect Watch: The Chihuahuas fell in a very PCL-esque high-scoring affair, but they got a decent start out of Ryan Carpenter. The 33-year-old lefty allowed five hits in five innings pitched, walked two, and gave up four runs. Of some concern, after not recording a strikeout, he has just seven in 15.1 innings for El Paso this season. The veteran Gonzaga alum, who logged limited MLB experience with the Tigers in 2018 and 2019, relies on a two-plane changeup and big movement from a repertoire that maxes out in the low-90s. Carpenter’s baseball journey has taken him to Taiwan, Korea, and a 2023 season he missed entirely amidst rumors of an elbow procedure. He signed with the Padres on a minor league deal in October. … The story of the night for Padres fans will be El Paso’s top prospect, Graham Pauley, going yard twice and driving in a whopping six runs. Pauley’s Triple-A experience will be interesting after he went 2-for-15 with a home run in limited action with the Padres. While the Duke alum seemingly has little to learn at the plate – he has three hits and a pair of walks in his first nine plate appearances in one of the PCL’s most neutral parks – Pauley will be receiving regular at-bats, and perhaps even more importantly, regular reps at third base. … Aside from Pauley’s two round-trippers, the Chihuahua’s only other extra-base hit was a triple off the bat of veteran first baseman Nate Mondou. The 29-year-old Wake Forest alum is batting .323 with an .857 OPS in 31 at-bats for El Paso in his first season in the Padres system after spending 2023 in the White Sox organization. … Hitting has become a bit more sporadic for Matthew Batten since beginning the 2024 season with a four-game hitting streak. Still, he got back in the “H” column with a single in the leadoff spot. The 28-year-old Quinnipiac alum is back getting regular playing time with the Chihuahuas after spending much of 2023 doing an underrated job holding down the Padres’ last bench spot.
Adam Mazur was dealing for the Flying Chanclas Thursday. (Photo: Vashaun Newman)
Northwest Arkansas Naturals 2, Missions 0 (F/10)
Key Statistics: RHP Adam Mazur, 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K; RHP Josh Roberson, 1 IP, 3 K; RHP Woo-Suk Go (L, 0-1), 2 IP, 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 3 K; 1B Nathan Martorella, 2-for-4
Nathan Mrtorella had a pair of hits on the night. (Photo: Vashaun Newman)
Prospect Watch: Nelson Wolff Stadium has a reputation as a pitcher’s park in the Texas League. Add a still wind to the heavy San Antonio air, and conditions are ripe for the hurlers, especially when you have Adam Mazur on the mound. The Iowa product threw 40 strikes on 53 pitches as he absolutely cruised through six innings, forcing nine groundouts and preventing hard contact of any sort with his changeup. With Northwest Arkansas (one of baseball’s worst team location names, in this writer’s humble opinion) bats quieted; unfortunately, San Antonio did little to take advantage. … Josh Roberson was next to take the mound for the Missions, and the 27-year-old righty struck out the side for his second scoreless inning to begin the season. A former 12th-round pick of the Marlins in 2017, Roberson spent all of 2023 in Triple-A with the Rays and then the Cubs after a midseason trade but finds himself with the Missions to begin 2024 as El Paso has carried a deep bullpen into the campaign. … It was a tough one for Woo-Suk Go, who breezed through the ninth inning with a flyout sandwiched between a pair of strikeouts. Still, the 10th frame went double (scoring the Manfred runner), wild pitch, RBI single, single, flyout, and lineout. Go’s first professional loss in the United States has him sitting on a 6.75 ERA and 1.75 WHIP in four innings to begin the season, but the Korean righty has fanned seven batters in that span. Still 25 years old, Go begins the season with the Missions to get better acclimated to the stateside game. … A relatively lifeless night from San Antonio’s offense had a bright spot in Nathan Martorella, who went 2-for-4 to raise his average to .478. The 23-year-old Martorella is the rare “first base only” prospect in the Padres organization. Still, the 2022 fifth-rounder has shown why he’s the exception to the rule, with an .835 OPS in exactly 600 professional at-bats to begin his career in the San Diego organization. If he gets to his power in games more often, the UC Berkeley product could see action with the Padres at some point this season after getting his first spring training experience with the big league club.
TinCaps rained out
For the second straight night, the rain kept them from playing in Fort Wayne. Because a doubleheader is already planned for Saturday, this game will be made up when the TinCaps play in Lake County next month.
Modesto Nuts 12, Storm 3
Key Statistics: RHP Will Varmette (L, 1-1), 3.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 6 K; RHP Thomas Balboni, Jr. 1 IP, 1 H, 2 K; 3B Wyatt Hoffman, 2-for-3, SB (1) 2 E; RF Braedon Karpathios, 1-for-3, 2B, R, 2 RBI, BB; SS Jay Beshears, 2-for-5, 2 2B, R
Prospect Watch: “Modesto is Not That Sweet,” opined the Hold Steady’s rock poet Craig Finn, and the Storm may agree after a 12-3 drubbing in the seat of Stanislaus County. Will Varmette dropped to 1-1 after allowing five runs in three-plus innings of work. The 21-year-old struck out six but walked three and allowed five hits. Varmette posted a 1.50 ERA in six relief appearances in Lake Elsinore in 2023, one of three stops the undrafted free agent made between the Arizona Complex League and Fort Wayne in his first professional season. … Braedon Karpathios hit a double and drove in a pair of runs as the 2022 undrafted outfielder continues to take advantage of relatively shallow competition in the outfield at the lower levels of the minors. The 20-year-old Karpathios has posted an .886 OPS to start his 2024 return to Lake Elsinore after slashing .181/.410/.267 in 116 at-bats with the Storm in 2023. He’s being asked to be more aggressive at the plate after a full 53% of his plate appearances ended in a walk or strikeout last year. … 2023 sixth-rounder Jay Beshears continues to impress for the Storm early in the season with a pair of doubles. The Duke product is 9-for-20 with four extra-base hits and 10 walks in the early going of his second professional campaign. The 21-year-old infielder slashed .229/.283/.314 in 105 at-bats for the Storm after graduating from the Arizona Complex League shortly after last year’s draft. … San Diego native Wyatt Hoffman went 2-for-3 with an RBI, ending a three-game hitless streak for the former Pacific Tiger with his first multi-hit outing of the season. Hoffman returns to the Storm this season after spending the bulk of 2023 with Lake Elsinore.
Thursday, July 9
• La Jolla Town Council: 6 p.m., La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St. lajollatowncouncil.org
Friday, July 10
• La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club: 6:45 a.m., UC San Diego Faculty Club, 270 Muir Lane. lajollagtrotary.org
• Kiwanis Club of La Jolla: noon, La Jolla Community Center, 6811 La Jolla Blvd. kiwanisclublajolla.org
Sunday, July 12
• La Jolla Open Aire Market: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Girard Avenue at Genter Street. (858) 454-1699. lajollamarket.com
Monday, July 13
• La Jolla Library Book Club: 1:30 p.m., Community Room, La Jolla/Riford Library, 7555 Draper Ave. The July book is “Fresh Water for Flowers” by Valérie Perrin. sandiego.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=316631
• La Jolla Planned District Ordinance Committee: (pending items to review), 4 p.m., La Jolla Recreation Center, 615 Prospect St. Email info@lajollacpa.org.
• Laughmasters Toastmasters: 6:30 p.m., online. Email jrmmt@cox.net.
Tuesday, July 14
• San Diego Blood Bank blood drive: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Hensel Phelps Construction Co., 9404 Genesee Ave. Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 114 pounds and be in good health. Photo identification is required. (619) 400-8251. sandiegobloodbank.org
• Rotary Club of La Jolla: noon, La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St. rotarycluboflajolla.org
• Co-op Toastmasters Club: noon, online at bit.ly/46W13bx (meeting ID: 849 4320 0407, passcode: cccu2020). (669) 900-6833. toastmasters.org/find-a-club/00001125-coop-club
• La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee: (pending items to review), 4 p.m., online. Email info@lajollacpa.org.
Wednesday, July 15
• Torrey Pines (La Jolla) Rotary Club: noon, online. torreypinesrotary.org
• La Jolla Shores Association: 6 p.m., Martin Johnson House, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 8840 Biological Grade. lajollashoresassociation.org
Thursday, July 16
• La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club: 6:58 a.m., La Jolla Shores Hotel, 8110 Camino del Oro. Call Cheryl Collins at (760) 936-3272 or Steve Cross at (619) 992-9449.
• San Diego Blood Bank blood drive: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Sanford Burnham Prebys (patio outside Buildings 6 and 7), 10901 N. Torrey Pines Road. Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 114 pounds and be in good health. Photo identification is required. (619) 400-8251. sandiegobloodbank.org
• La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee: (pending items to review), 4 p.m., online. Email info@lajollacpa.org.
Friday, July 17
• La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club: 6:45 a.m., UC San Diego Faculty Club, 270 Muir Lane. lajollagtrotary.org
Did we miss listing your community event? Email calendar information to Noah Lyons at noah.lyons@lajollalight.com by noon Thursday for publication in the following week’s edition. ♦
San Diego, CA
Elite California city set for mass illegal street vendor expansion as judge issues stunning verdict
San Diego seems to have no solution to its illegal street vendor problem and it’s only getting worse in many areas including the popular Balboa Park and Gaslamp Quarter.
Local business leaders are frustrated following the January 2026 California appeals court ruling, which forced the city officials to entirely halt the crackdown on street vendors.
“It’s a disaster,” Denny Knox, executive director of the Ocean Beach Main Street Association, told the San Diego Union Tribune last week.
An increasing number of street vendors are exploiting the court’s ruling and many don’t even bother to get a permit.
Executive Director of Gaslamp Quarter Association, Michael Trimble, said that street vendors block the sidewalks, making it difficult for the businesses in the area to function.
“The lack of action has also led to an escalation of activity, including new vendors setting up tents and selling goods without permits, health approvals or accountability,” said Trimble, the Union-Tribune reports.
Organized groups of hot dog vendors have returned to the Gaslamp Quarter—bringing associated hazards like open fires, blocked walkways, and the dumping of grease into storm drains.
“It’s so much of a slap in the face to merchants that have done things the legal way, the right way,” said Ruth-Ann Thorn, owner of Native Star boutique and Exclusive Collections Gallery in the Gaslamp Quarter, reports inewsource.
Officers can no longer impound vending carts and law enforcement in Ballpark District is restricted, SDPD’s Ashley Nicholes said in a statement, according to the Union-Tribune.
“Recent court rulings involving the city’s street vending ordinance have limited what police officers can do to enforce street vending laws,” Nicholes said.
San Diego’s tug-of-war with street vendors started in 2018 when the state law decriminalized aspects of street vending. The task to draft a vendor law fell into the laps of then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer in 2019, then passed on to Mayor Todd Gloria in 2021 and then Councilmember Jennifer Campbell.
The law, approved by the City Council in May 2022, banned vendors in Balboa Park, Little Italy, Ocean Beach and some beach areas during summer months. But, the merchants kept complaining about the lack of law enforcement and that led to the revision of the law in 2024.
The revised law made it easier for officials to impound vendors’ carts, limited free-speech protections, which didn’t include yoga classes on the beach and selling food.
After an immediate backlash, a federal appeals court ruling in June 2025 said the city’s ban on beach yoga classes is unconstitutional as they are protected under the First Amendment.
A California appeals court in the case of Imhotep Mustaqeem earlier this year ruled that San Diego’s revised 2024 street vendor law violated state law by establishing “overly restrictive” geographic no-vendor zones and restricted operating hours.
Imhotep Mustaqeem, a licensed vendor who had sold snacks outside Petco Park since 2009, sued the city after police impounded his cart under San Diego’s revised 2024 ordinance. While a lower court initially ruled against him, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ultimately vindicated Mustaqeem and quashed the 2024 street vendor law.
A California yoga instructor known as “Namasteve” is leveling up his warrior pose as he battles San Diego’s efforts to end his popular beachfront classes.
Steven Hubbard recently filed his third lawsuit over a 2024 city ordinance that prohibits teaching yoga to four or more people at local beaches and parks.
Hubbard, who’s been teaching yoga by the Pacific Ocean shoreline for 17 years, contends the local law violates his right to free speech because he doesn’t charge his students and instead accepts voluntary donations.
“It does set a dangerous precedent for government to be passing bans on specific types of speech that, for whatever reason, it doesn’t like,” Hubbard’s lawyer, Bryan Pease, told The Independent. “We don’t know why they decided yoga is something they want to target. They’ve never explained it, but it is concerning from a First Amendment perspective.”
Neither the San Diego mayor’s office nor the city attorney’s office replied to inquiries from The Independent.
The yoga ban is buried in a subsection of the San Diego Municipal Code that defines the “services” that are regulated at beaches and parks.
“Examples include massage, yoga, dog training, fitness classes, equipment rental, and staging for picnics, bonfires or other activities,” it says, marking the only time yoga is mentioned.
At the time the ordinance was introduced, Pease said, it was “put on the city council agenda as a sidewalk vending ordinance.”
“There was no public notice that they would be targeting the free and donation-based teaching of yoga in parks and beaches,” the lawyer said. “ I don’t even know that the city council members themselves knew what they were voting on.”
Videos posted on Hubbard’s “Namasteve Yoga” page on YouTube show scores of students following his instructions as they face the water in the Southern California sunshine.
San Diego park rangers issued Hubbard a total of 10 citations under the 2024 law, Pease said.
Some were for leading classes from his backyard while livestreaming on YouTube as students apparently watched on their devices by the beach, Pease said.
After Hubbard first challenged the 2024 ordinance in federal court, the judge overseeing the case denied a motion to block its enforcement, saying the First Amendment didn’t protect the teaching of yoga.
But that decision was reversed last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which ruled that Hubbard and fellow yoga teacher Amy Baack were “likely to succeed” in challenging the legality of San Diego’s public yoga ban.
“Teaching yoga is protected speech. The City’s prohibition on teaching yoga in shoreline parks is content-based and fails strict scrutiny,” according to the unanimous decision written by U.S. Circuit Judge Holly Thomas.
Hubbard has also filed two lawsuits in state court, with the most recent on June 22. It was first reported by the Times of San Diego.
It seeks unspecified damages for three tickets he received in May 2025, all of which charged him with giving a lecture without a permit.
The accusation came despite a ruling in the federal case that said requiring a permit to give a lecture “substantially overburdens” the right to free speech, according to Hubbard’s lawsuit.
All the citations issued against Hubbard were dismissed in April when the city attorney’s office didn’t appear in court to prosecute, Pease said.
Meanwhile, city lawyers have issued a series of subpoenas that seek “detailed GPS tracking information, all social media posts from all time and complete financial records for all financial transactions” involving Hubbard and Baack, Pease said.
Pease characterized the move as “pure harassment,” saying it seemed “calculated to have a chilling effect on people’s participation if they think their personal information is going to be obtained through these channels.”
“All that the city attorney has said to me about it is that it’s to prove that this is commercial activity, and they’re going to hire a financial expert to go through all these records,” he said.
A hearing on a motion to quash the subpoenas is scheduled for July 17 in state court, and pretrial discovery in the federal case is pending, with a deadline of August 28.
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