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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.
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San Diego health officials monitor hantavirus situation as cruise ship passengers return to U.S.
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — American passengers from a cruise ship hit with a hantavirus outbreak are back in the United States.
San Diego County health officials say they are monitoring the situation and there is no need for panic.
“The risk to Californians is really low and especially here in San Diego. Since the year 2000, we’ve only had 4 cases of hantavirus and the majority of those were in travel related cases so not even acquired here locally,” Ankita Kadakia, deputy public health officer for the County of San Diego, said.
According to the CDC, hantavirus is spread through contact with infected rodents.
“The virus can be in their saliva, feces or droppings,” Kadakia said.
San Diego County does see cases of rodents infected with hantavirus, but the strain seen locally is not the same strain connected to the cruise ship outbreak.
“The vast majority of strains of hantavirus are mouse or animal to human transmission. Not human to human transmission. So the Andes strain, which is found in Argentina, there is evidence that there is human to human transmission,” Dr. Ahmed Salem, a pulmonologist at Sharp Memorial Hospital, said.
Salem treated hantavirus during the 2012 Yosemite National Park outbreak.
“One of the ways you die from hantavirus is you get a collapse of your cardiac system and your pulmonary system and you have to go on something called ECMO. It’s one of the most aggressive forms of life support that you can do. So I do remember that case, and unfortunately, that person passed away,” Salem said.
There is currently no cure or vaccine for hantavirus. Health officials stress that for those who were not on the cruise ship, the risk of contracting the virus remains low.
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Here’s some instant reaction from the Padres’ wild 3-2 victory
It seemed like the same tired story.
Instead, it was the same thriller.
The Padres pushed their offensive lethargy as long as possible without paying for it Sunday, tying the game with two outs in the ninth inning on Nick Castellanos’ two-run homer and then celebrating after Manny Machado’s sacrifice fly in the 10th inning gave them a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals.
“Getting it done,” Machado said.
That’s it. That is all they are doing.
And at what is essentially the quarter mark of the season, the Padres are 24-16 and tied with the Dodgers atop the National League West.
The shocking component of their having the major leagues’ fifth-best record is that the Padres rank in the bottom three among MLB’s 30 teams in batting average and OPS.
They split with the Cardinals despite having 14 hits, their fewest in a four-game series in franchise history. Their 61 hits over their past 10 games are the fewest in a stretch that long since 2019, and they are 5-5 in those games.
“It sucks; we need to hit; Machado said. “I mean, you know, look, it’s obvious. We’re not hitting. It’s obvious, but we’re getting things done, man.”
Sunday was the Padres’ 12th victory this season in which the decisive run was scored in the seventh inning or later. That is exactly half their victories.
It was their fourth walk-off victory, their second in extra innings. It was the seventh time that a run scored in their final offensive half-inning decided a victory.
So it is no small thing to proffer that Sunday was possibly their most dramatic triumph. Because it was possibly their most unlikely one.
Not only were they a strike away from defeat, but they began the ninth inning having gotten two hits all day.
The Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning on their first two hits off Walker Buehler — a single by Alec Burleson and a home run by Jordan Walker with two outs. Buehler pitched six innings, allowing just one more hit before Ron Marinaccio worked two scoreless innings.
But the Padres were unable to make anything of their seven at-bats with runners in scoring position over the first eight innings. They had walked five times but had just Jackson Merrill’s third-inning single and Xander Bogaerts’ fourth-inning double to that point.
“Really good teams find ways to win games when they’re not doing their best,” Gavin Sheets said. “… We’re not clicking on all cylinders by any means. And I don’t think any of us would say that he’s on a roll right now, but we’re getting hits in a timely fashion and it’s someone different every night.”
Almost.
The Padres have game-winning RBIs from 10 different players. They have go-ahead RBIs from 13 of the 14 position players who have been on their roster this season. Sunday was Castellanos’s third game-tying RBI.
His home run, on the ninth pitch of his at-bat against Cardinals closer Riley O’Brien, was something of a clinic by a veteran hitter who is in his first season as a role player.
Castellenos, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning and remained in right field, came to the plate with Bogaerts at first base with two outs.
Bogaerts’ single leading off the inning had been followed by two strikeouts, and Castellanos fell behind 0-2 before working the count full and then sending a 99 mph sinker on the inner edge of the plate almost to the ribbon scoreboard fronting the second level of seats beyond left field.
“The first pitch started, and I was probably looking to do what I did,” he said. “And then I ended up getting 0-2 and chasing. After that, just took a deep breath and tried to shorten up as much as possible and just compete. Just find a way on base. And then found myself in a full account and was able to get the job done.”
It was the first home run allowed by O’Brien this season.
With closer Mason Miller not available after throwing 29 pitches over 1⅓ innings on Saturday, Jeremiah Estrada got the first two outs of the 10th. With runners on first and second, Adrian Morejón entered the game and got an inning-ending pop out on his first pitch.
Gordon Graceffo was on the mound for the Cardinals, and Ramón Laureano was the Padres’ automatic runner in the 10th. The Cardinals intentionally walked Merrill at the start before Fernando Tatis Jr. whittled a 1-2 count into a walk to load the bases.
The game was over one pitch later, when Machado sent a fastball to right-center field and Laureano slid across the plate well in front of right fielder Jordan Walker’s throw.
It was a somewhat subdued but still enthusiastic celebration along the first-base line, as teammates bounced around Machado.
“It’s hard to win a game like that,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said. “Their pitchers pitched great, and they’re bringing in one of the best closers in the game. And we just stuck with it. It just speaks to how those guys believe in themselves and how they believe in what we’ve got going on as a team.”
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