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Padres minor league affiliates went 3-4 on Thursday.
Here is our daily recap of games played.
El Paso Chihuahuas (Lost 7-2 vs Sugar Land) (52-47 on the season)
Yonathan Perlaza – 1-for-2, Sac Fly, Two Walks
Rodolfo Duran – 2-for-4, Double, RBI Single
Wes Benjamin – 4 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 2 BB, 3 K (80 pitches – 47 strikes)
El Paso starter Wes Benjamin was knocked around for six runs in the first three innings, allowing eight hits and two walks. The left-hander didn’t let any inning snowball into a 5-6 run frame, and was able to make it through four without his best stuff. Jason Blanchard struck out two in two scoreless innings. Harold Chirino allowed a run in 1.1 innings and has been scored upon in four of six July appearances. Manuel Castro fired off 1.2 scoreless the rest of the way, striking out one.
Yonathan Perlaza has been on a tear as of late, and his streak continued on Thursday. Perlaza drove in one of two Chihuahuas runs with a sacrifice fly, also drawing two walks. Rodolfo Duran had a single and a double, driving in a run. Clay Dungan reached base twice on two singles, stealing a base each time. Luis Campusano was hitless while playing first base, and right fielder Forrest Wall had a double and scored a run.
Who else? Perlaza gets us on the board early. pic.twitter.com/tlBETRxIis
— El Paso Chihuahuas (@epchihuahuas) July 25, 2025
San Antonio Missions (Lost 2-1 vs Midland) (50-43 on the season)
Romeo Sanabria – 1-for-4, Home Run
Albert Fabian – 1-for-4, Double
Enmanuel Pinales – 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K (71 pitches – 46 strikes)
Enmanuel Pinales está de vuelta! The Missions’ right-handed starter pitched five scoreless innings against a contending Midland offense, holding them to two hits and no walks. Pinales struck out four batters, recording a 5-4 split of groundouts to flyouts. It was a needed outing for Pinales, who had struggled in his past three appearances. Andrew Moore allowed two runs on two hits and two walks, recording his only two outs via the strikeout. Jake Higginbotham struck out four in 2.1 innings of relief, and Ethan Routzahn threw up a zero in the ninth.
The Missions got up early on a Romeo Sanabria home run. The power is something that has been missing from the team post-All-Star break, and it looked to be a harbinger of things to come. Unfortunately, it would not be in this game. While Albert Fabian and Moises Gomez each had a double in the game, neither would come in to score. The rest of the lineup went hitless in the loss, with the team as a whole striking out ten times and finishing 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position.
Romeo Sanabria went deep, sparking some offense for San Antonio and making him tonight’s @FrostBank Player of the Game! pic.twitter.com/J1p2s3XcOp
— San Antonio Missions Baseball (@missionsmilb) July 25, 2025
Fort Wayne TinCaps (Won 2-1 vs Cedar Rapids) (46-46 on the season)
KaI Roberts – 1-for-4, RBI Single
Leo De Vries – 0-for-3, Walk, RBI
Miguel Mendez – 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 6 K (64 pitches – 43 strikes)
Miguel Mendez’s electric summer continues to give batters fits and exhaust this writer’s thesaurus. The fireballing right-hander fired five innings of one-run baseball, with the lone run being of the unearned species. Mendez uncorked a wild pitch in the first to score a run for the Kernels; it would be the only run the TinCaps staff allowed. Mendez struck out six in five innings of work, generating 13 whiffs and a whiff rate near 40%. Luis German fired off two innings of scoreless relief. Bodi Rascon threw a scoreless eighth inning, and Garrett Hawkins extended his scoreless streak to 31 innings with a 1-2-3 ninth with a strikeout.
The offense did just enough in what was truly a pitcher’s duel. Kai Roberts tied the game in the third inning on an RBI single to score Ryan Jackson. Leo De Vries drove in Roberts on an RBI groundout after Roberts stole second and moved to third on a throwing error. Brandon Butterworth finished 1-for-4 with an RBI single. Roberts was not the only ‘Cap with a stolen base, as De Vries swiped his seventh bag of the season in the win.
Lake Elsinore Storm (Won 6-4 vs Stockton) (43-50 on the season)
Cobb Hightower – 2-for-5, Game-Deciding Two-RBI Single
Yendry Rojas – 2-for-3, Single, Walk, Two RBI
Boston Bateman – 4 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 3 K (71 pitches – 47 strikes)
A late inning rally to win a ballgame, to quote the title of a song by the late great Chuck Mangione, feels so good. The vibes were flowing for the Lake Elsinore Storm on the road, as the team rode a seventh-inning rally to a 6-4 win over the Ports in Stockton. Leadoff man Cobb Hightower had the deciding blow in the seventh inning, with his two-run single putting the Storm up 6-3. Lake Elsinore pounced on Ports starter Jefferson Jean, as they scored once in each of the first three innings, chasing Jean after 2.1 frames. Zach Evans singled in the first inning to give the Storm a 1-0 lead, and Yendry Rojas would provide an encore in the second. Rojas’ RBI single scored Carlos Rodriguez, and Kavares Tears would score on a wild pitch in the next inning to give the Storm a 3-1 lead.
Storm starter Boston Bateman pitched four innings of one-run baseball, striking out three. While the strikeout numbers were not as high as in past starts, Bateman got four outs via the ground ball and kept the ball in the ballpark successfully. It was a big bounceback for the big left-hander after his last outing (7 ER in 3.2 IP), and certainly an outing to build upon. Kleiber Olmedo allowed two runs in three innings of relief, but his funky release and extension allowed him to rack up five punchouts. Olmedo wound up becoming the winning pitcher, and Igor Gil tossed two frames of one-run baseball, stranding the tying run on base in the ninth and ending the game with a punchout.
ACL Padres (Lost 6-4 vs ACL White Sox) (14-46 on the season)
Donte Grant – 2-for-4, Triple, Two RBI
Gustavo Marquez – 1-for-2, Double, Run Scored
Eiker Huizi – 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K
The ACL Padres wrapped up their season with a close 6-4 loss to the ACL White Sox. Eiker Huizi threw two scoreless innings as the team’s starter, striking out two. Winyer Chourio struck out three in two innings of one-run baseball, allowing only a solo homer. Dariel Polanco threw a scoreless fifth but was chased with one out in the sixth with a runner on. Ruben Salinas allowed two singles, with the inherited runner scoring; Salinas exited the frame with no further damage. Jordan Valenzuela allowed four runs in 0.1 innings, with two of those scoring as inherited runners.
Donte Grant was the spark in the Padres’ lineup, finishing with two hits and two RBI. Grant drove in the team’s first run in the sixth on an RBI triple to score Luis De Leon. De Leon finished the game with two walks and a run scored. Grant’s eighth-inning single would score two more runs, as a throwing error by White Sox infielder D’Angelo Tejada allowed Grant to reach second. Jose Sanabria singled to score Grant, scoring the Padres’ fourth run of the game and final run of the season. Gustavo Marquez had a double and walk in three plate appearances, and Jack Mathey reached base twice, scoring a run.
With the Arizona Complex League season coming to an end and late summer/early fall workouts with new draftees about to be underway, to anyone out there in the desert who has been following our coverage, thank you so much.
DSL Padres Gold (Won 3-0 vs DSL LAD Mega) (24-13 on the season)
Moises Valdez – 3-for-4, Double, Triple, RBI
Eddson Martinez – 1-for-4, RBI Single
Jesus Castro – 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K
Jesus Castro tossed six shutout innings with six strikeouts. The right-hander did not issue a walk in his outing, and cruised through his outing. Moises Valdez had three hits, two of which went for extra bases. Valdez’s third-inning triple gave the team a 1-0 lead, and Valdez came in to score on a single by Eddson Martinez. Jhoan De La Cruz drew two walks in the game, and Jhojan Downer scored a run in the seventh on an RBI single from Moises Valdez. Jeferson Villabona earned his sixth save with the Padres Gold with a scoreless seventh.
DSL Padres Brown (Lost 7-3 vs DSL Orioles Black) (17-19 on the season)
Abraham Bastidas – 2-for-4, Two Singles, Run Scored
Alberto Enriche – 1-for-1, RBI Double
Wilfred Paca – 5 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 1 BB, 3 K
The DSL Padres Brown lost by four runs in their Thursday game with the DSL Orioles Black. Abraham Bastidas finished with two base hits, scoring a run. Endy Rios reached base on an error to score the team’s first run. Andres Garza scored a run on a wild pitch in the fifth inning, and Alberto Enriche drove in the team’s final run with an RBI double in the eighth. Wilfred Paca threw five innings, striking out three batters. The right-hander allowed five hits and six runs, with four of those coming in the fifth inning. Cristian Navarro allowed one run on five hits in four innings of work.
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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