Credit: EVT Sports (Farm Report)
It was a busy week down on the farm, and Padres affiliates wrapped up an eventful week with a 3-1 showing.
Here is our daily recap of games played.
El Paso Chihuahuas (Won 7-6 vs Round Rock) (58-49 on the season)
Mason McCoy – 1-for-3, Go-Ahead Home Run
Rodolfo Duran – 2-for-4, Home Run, RBI Single
Michael King – 3.1 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 1 BB, 5 K (61 pitches – 34 strikes)
El Paso came back from a 6-2 deficit to win 7-6 over the Round Rock Express. El Paso scored first, with Yonathan Perlaza singling in a run. Nate Mondou grounded into a double play, but with no outs, it led to a run scoring. After falling behind 6-2, Rodolfo Duran homered to get the team to within three in the fourth inning. Luis Campusano hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning, bringing the team within one run. With Mason McCoy on second and one out later in the inning, Rodolfo Duran tied the game at six with an RBI single. Facing Joe Barlow in the ninth, Mason McCoy launched a homer to left-center field to give El Paso a 7-6 lead.
The statue still stands tall ?
Campy brings us within one with this line-drive homer. pic.twitter.com/fEEGxDeS9T
— El Paso Chihuahuas (@epchihuahuas) August 4, 2025
Padres right-hander Michael King made his first rehab start as he is on the mend from a shoulder injury, and the final line was not indicative of how well he threw the baseball. King struck out five in 3.1 innings, getting whiffs on 42.3% of swings against. King allowed four hits and six runs, with two homers allowed. Kyle Hart threw three innings of long relief, striking out two and getting four of nine outs on the ground. Hart earned the win in relief. Manuel Castro entered in the ninth, but loaded the bases with two outs. Facing former first-rounder Justin Foscue, Castro got him to fly out to right to seal the win.
Michael King in his first rehab start:
3.1 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 1 BB, 5 K
(61 pitches – 34 strikes)
Fastball looked good, as did the sweeper. Next steps remain to be seen.pic.twitter.com/ZfeVoeSQCf
— Diego Garcia (@StatNerd_Base) August 4, 2025
Could we have done without bases loaded, 3-2 count, bottom of the ninth, two outs? Yes.
But would it have been as much fun? No. pic.twitter.com/5L7nVZ97hk
— El Paso Chihuahuas (@epchihuahuas) August 4, 2025
San Antonio Missions (Won 4-0 vs Frisco) (54-48 on the season)
Romeo Sanabria – 1-for-3, Home Run
Marcos Castanon – 2-for-4, Two Singles, Run Scored
Jared Kollar – 5.2 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K (65 pitches – 49 strikes)
Jared Kollar threw 5.2 shutout innings to lead the way for a shutout win. Kollar struck out five batters in his outing, allowing five hits. Kollar got an even mix of outs in the air and on the ground, working his way around baserunners. Since June 28, Kollar has pitched to a 3.13 ERA in 28.2 innings. Austin Krob threw 1.1 scoreless innings in relief, and the duo of Kevin Kopps and Ethan Routzahn closed out the win, retiring the final six batters.
Jared Kollar picked up his first win with San Antonio in 2025 thanks to a season-high 5.2 scoreless innings, making him the @FrostBank Player of the Game! pic.twitter.com/YTWLmumZcs
— San Antonio Missions Baseball (@missionsmilb) August 4, 2025
San Antonio took a 1-0 lead in the second inning as Frisco’s Josh Stephan threw a bases-loaded wild pitch, allowing Marcos Castanon to score. Romeo Sanabria had a solo home run in the third to extend the lead to 2-0. It was one of two runs driven in for Sanabria, who is now one home run away from his career high. Francisco Acuna and Marcos Castanon had two hits each, both scoring a run. Moises Gomez hit a single in the eighth, and an error from the normally sure-handed Sebastian Walcott led to a run scoring. The Missions drew six walks as a team, and their patience led them to capitalize on their opportunities in the win.
Fort Wayne TinCaps (Won 5-2 vs Great Lakes) (49-52 on the season)
Kasen Wells – 1-for-3, Two-RBI Single
Ryan Jackson 1-for-4, Two-RBI Single
Luis Gutierrez – 6 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 7 K (90 pitches – 56 strikes)
What happens when you pair a quality start from your starting pitcher with a five-run second inning? On Sunday, those ingredients added up to a win for the TinCaps. Starting with the pitching, Luis Gutierrez’s breakout campaign continued, as he fired off six innings of two-run baseball. Gutierrez scattered three hits all game, striking out seven batters. After allowing seven runs in his last ten innings (two starts), Gutierrez is back to looking like his regular self, as in his first five TinCaps starts, he allowed only five earned runs in 22 innings (2.04 ERA). Fernando Sanchez struck out two batters in two innings, and Misael Tamarez earned his first TinCaps save, with two punchouts along the way.
The lineup burst out for five runs in the second inning. The TinCaps loaded the bases on a walk, hit-by-pitch, and catcher’s interference before Kai Roberts drew a bases-loaded walk to score the first run of the game. Ryan Jackson turned on a middle-in fastball from Loons starter Maddux Bruns and lined it up the middle to score two runs. Kasen Wells lined an elevated slider to right field past the dive of second baseman Jordan Thompson to score two runs, capping the scoring at five. Zach Evans and Victor Duarte each had a base hit, and Kai Roberts drew two walks in the game.
Well, that inning had a bit of everything pic.twitter.com/hBqznMlnp3
— Fort Wayne TinCaps (@TinCaps) August 3, 2025
Lake Elsinore Storm (Lost 8-6 vs Inland Empire) (47-55 on the season)
Alex McCoy – 1-for-3, Triple, RBI, Two Runs Scored
Kavares Tears – 2-for-5, Two Singles, Run Scored
Abraham Parra – 6 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 3 K (95 pitches – 61 strikes)
Lake Elsinore took a 5-4 lead into the eighth inning, but a four-run rally by the 66ers turned the game on its head. Abraham Parra started and gave his team every chance to stay in the game. Parra battled, as though he allowed eight hits and four runs, but he escaped jams with timely ground balls (10 ground ball outs). Kleiber Olmedo pitched a scoreless seventh inning, but was lit up for four runs in the eighth on four hits and two walks. Olmedo was able to get the first two outs, but with the bases loaded, Hayden Alvarez cleared the bases on a single to center that was misplayed by Kavares Tears. Igor Gil ended the frame with no more runs allowed.
The Storm’s lineup got contributions up and down the lineup. With the bases loaded and no outs in the fourth, a sacrifice fly from Alex McCoy scored the first run of the game for the Storm. Kale Fountain singled in a run in the sixth, putting runners on the corners and bringing Lake Elsinore within two. A passed ball scored Kerrington Cross from third, and another scored Kale Fountain, tying the game. Dylan Grego drew a bases-loaded walk later in the frame, giving the Storm a 5-4 lead. B.Y. Choi singled in the sixth run for the Storm in the bottom of the eighth, and while the Storm got the tying run to the plate in the ninth, they went 0-for-3 in those opportunities, ending the week with a loss.
TEN batters came to the plate in the bottom of the 6th inning:
1B
BB
-WP
4-3
1B (Run Scored)
– PB (Run Scored)
E1
– PB (Run Scored)
BB
1B
BB (Run Scored)
SO
SO
*gasps for air*
Storm in front 5-4
— Lake Elsinore Storm (@Storm_Baseball) August 4, 2025
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A born and raised San Diegan, Diego Garcia is a lifetime Padres fan and self-proclaimed baseball nerd. Diego wrote about baseball on his own site between 2021-22 before joining the East Village Times team in 2024. He also posts baseball content on his YouTube channel “Stat Nerd Baseball”, creating content around trades, hypotheticals, player analyses, the San Diego Padres, and MLB as a whole.
A 2024 graduate of San Diego State, Diego aims to grow as a writer and content creator in the baseball community.
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