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San Diego Padres Daily Farm Report June 19
Sugarland Space Cowboys 7, Chihuahuas 1
Key Stats: LHP Jackson Wolf 3 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 4 BB; RHP Luke Westphal 3 IP, H, 4 K; 1B Nate Mondou 2-for-4, 2B; C Brett Sullivan 1-for-3, RBI, BB; DH Tirso Ornelas 2-for-4
Jackson Wolf has struggled to find the zone in his return to the Padres organization. (Photo: Jorge Salgado)
Prospect Watch: Jackson Wolf cruised through the first three innings, allowing two hits but getting two double plays to neutralize any threat. Then, the first six batters reached base in the fourth inning before Wolf gave way. This is the third consecutive outing the lanky lefty has started strong, only to be undone by a big inning. Wolf has a 7.55 ERA with 36 walks in 55 innings since rejoining the Padres. … After Wolf departed, the Chihuahuas received an excellent outing from fellow lefty Luke Westphal. The veteran pitched three scoreless innings, allowing just one hit without walking a batter and notching four strikeouts. The 35-year-old is as well-traveled as any player in professional baseball. His resume includes stops with eight different indy ball teams, a stint in the Twins and Padres’ organizations, and time in Mexico. He’s also played winter ball in Australia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. He re-signed with the Padres as a free agent earlier this month after a successful stint with the Tijuana Toros. … Despite going hitless, Eguy Rosario was able to extend his team-leading on-base streak. Thanks to a walk, Rosario has reached base in 19 consecutive games. He is hitting .306/.405/.611 since he last failed to reach base safely on May 25. … On the other end of the spectrum, Graham Pauley went hitless and is hitting just .153/.180/.220 in June, with no home runs. While the 23-year-old left-handed hitter has typically shown impressive patience and pitch recognition at the plate, he’s posted an uncharacteristic 14:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 61 trips to the plate this month.
Amarillo Sod Poodles 7, Missions 4
Key Stats: C Brandon Valenzuela 2-for-4, HR (6), 2 RBI; CF Clay Dungan 1-for-2, 2 BB, 2 R; 1B Robbie Tenerowicz 2-for-4; RHP Francis Pena 2 IP, 3 K; RHP Cole Paplham 2 IP, H, BB, 3 K
Cole Paplham delivers for San Antonio. (Photo: San Antonio Missions)
Prospect Watch: After allowing only four earned runs over 16.2 innings in his previous three starts, Jared Kollar could not make it out of the first. He was tagged for five runs in just two-thirds of an inning as he loaded the bases on two walks and an infield single before giving up a double and a towering home run in the shortest outing of his career. He labored through 33 pitches, only 19 of which were strikes. … Brandon Valenzuela, 23, homered and collected multiple hits in his second straight game. The switch-hitting catcher has connected on four of his six home runs on the year this month and is hitting a sweltering .333/.431/.604 in 58 trips to the plate for June. In the process, he has raised his overall OPS from .630 to .737. … There may not be another relief duo in the Texas League as filthy as Francis Pena and Cole Paplham, who worked two scoreless innings each and both struck out three batters. The only hit Amarillo managed against them was a dribbler down the third base line against Paplham. Pena threw two perfect innings, rebounding from giving up a run in back-to-back outings. The 23-year-old, who dialed it up to 98 Wednesday, has only been pitching stateside since last June. He opened the year with a dominant run for Fort Wayne before a promotion to Double-A in late May. Between the two stops, he has a 1.42 ERA and 0.95 WHIP in 31.2 innings. Encouragingly, he has 11 strikeouts and only one walk in his first 10.2 innings for the Missions. … Paplham, 24, has allowed just the one hit in his first three appearances after spending the first two months of the season on the injured list. He’s struck out six with a fastball that’s settled in the 95-97 mph range and a mid-80s slider that can be devastating when he has the feel for it.
Yu Darvish got his work in during a rehab appearance for the TinCaps. (Photo: Jeff Nycz)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 8, TinCaps 3
Key Stats: RHP Yu Darvish (L, 0-1) 3.1 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, BB, 3 K; LHP Jagger Haynes 4 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K; C Ethan Salas 1-for-3, RBI, BB; 3B Devin Ortiz 2-for-4; LF Joshua Mears 1-for-3, R
Prospect Watch: It was Yu Darvish Day in Fort Wayne. Before the game, Darvish showed his class by providing an amazing dinner spread for both teams. On the field, Darvish seemed comfortable mixing his pitches and varying speeds. He hit 95 mph with a fastball, with the gun reading 71 mph on a slow curve. Three of the seven hits he allowed were of the infield variety, and he gave up two more weakly-hit singles. The only hard-hit balls came from Wisconsin’s number nine hitter, Jesus Chirinos. He hit a towering home run in the second inning and had a hard-hit RBI single in the fourth. Darvish threw 49 pitches, 33 for strikes in what is expected to be his only rehab appearance. …In the first few innings, the TinCaps announcers talked about the battery of Darvish and Ethan Salas as A.J. Preller’s dream, despite Salas being half Darvish’s age and so early on his path to San Diego. The now 18-year-old had an RBI single and walked in the game. He has reached base safely multiple times in four straight games, going 6-for-15 with two walks. … Jagger Haynes, 20, followed Darvish in his first non-start of the season and pitched the last four innings of the game. The young lefty, coming off of his first career double-digit strikeout performance, allowed two runs while striking out three. Haynes is one inning away from doubling the 25.1 innings he threw in 2023, so the organization could start to shorten his outings later in the summer. Over his last eight appearances Haynes has pitched to a 2.64 ERA with 33 strikeouts in 44.1 innings.
Transactions: Before the game, Romeo Sanabria (.311/.433/.493), left-handed pitcher Jackson Smeltz (5 IP, 1 ER, 7 K), and righty Sam Whiting (3.15 ERA, 30 K in 34.1 IP) were all transferred to Fort Wayne from the Storm. None were in uniform for the start of the game.
Visalia Rawhide 8, Storm 3
Key Stats: SS Leo De Vries 2-for-4, 2B, RBI; LF Wyatt Hoffman 1-for-2, BB, HBP, 2 RS, 2 SB (10); RHP Jose Luis Reyes (L, 3-5) 1.2 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 5 K; LHP Javier Chacon 2.2 IP, H, BB, 3 K
Wyatt Hoffman had a big day on Sunday. (Photo: Robert Escalante)
Prospect Watch: The Storm fell behind early and couldn’t mount a comeback a night after clinching a playoff berth. They managed only four hits on the day, half coming from Leodalis De Vries. The 17-year-old shortstop’s RBI double in the first inning broke an 0-for-12 stretch that saw his average plunge back below .200. De Vries would later single in the fifth, breaking up a stretch of six consecutive hits dating back to June 5 that went for doubles. De Vries has 10 hits in June, seven of which are doubles. While he has yet to hit his first professional home run, he does have 13 doubles and a triple in 32 games. … Batting in front of De Vries, Wyatt Hoffman reached base three times on the night and stole two bases. The utility man, who is eight years older than De Vries. swiped multiple bases for the first time since July 9, 2023. Hoffman is having the best month of his career, hitting .303/.415/.485 in 10 games.
The ACL Padres were not in action.
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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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