Twins Minor League Report (4/4): Saints Marched Off

[Ted Schwerzler]

Randy Dobnak was on the bump tonight for the St. Paul Saints, and looking to build off of his first start, Toby Gardenhire had a pitcher ready to roll. Unfortunately the lineup fizzled and St. Paul found themselves walked off late.

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SAINTS SENTINEL
Nasvhille 4, St. Paul 3 (F/10)
Box Score

Randy Dobnak took the ball after piggybacking for David Festa on Opening Day. Working 3 2/3 innings, Dobnak allowed three hits and just a single run. He struck out four, but had to work around traffic with four walks on the day.

It was St. Paul who raced out to an early lead. Jair Camargo knocked his first home run of the season, and the Saints owned a 1-0 lead in the 4th inning. Nashville evened things in the bottom half on a Yonny Hernandez single, and the early Saints lead was wiped away.

After a Brewer Hicklen 5th inning single made it a 2-1 lead for Nashville, Camargo came through again. His first double of the season plated DaShawn Keirsey Jr. and the scoreboard read a tie again. St. Paul jumped back ahead in the 7th inning with Will Holland reaching on an error. The booted ball allowed Anthony Prato to score and had the Saints in position to close it out.

The lead didn’t last as Owen Miller brought in a run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom half of the inning, and the sides couldn’t push anything else across in the 8th or 9th innings. A Nick Kahle single in the bottom of the 10th inning got the necessary run in, and the Sounds were able to walk it off.

Despite Nashville having 11 hits to generate their four runs, Gardenhire’s club got just four hits on the evening. Camargo came up with half of them on his own.

TWINS DAILY MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE DAY
Pitcher of the Day – Matt Bowman - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
Hitter of the Day – Jair Camargo - 2-4, R, 2 RBI, HR(1), 2B(1)

PROSPECT SUMMARY
#16 – Yunior Severino (St. Paul) – 0-3, BB

FRIDAY’S PROBABLE STARTERS
St. Paul @ Nashville (6:35 PM CST) – RHP David Festa (0-0, 0.00 ERA)

Please feel free to ask questions and discuss Thursday’s games!

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[Parfigliano]

Wasnt Dobnak a control low W guy when in MLB?

[DJL44]

Severino is now 0-13 with 4 BB and 7K on the year. Not a great start.

[FlyingFinn]

45 minutes ago, Parfigliano said:

Wasnt Dobnak a control low W guy when in MLB?

Yes. Everyone says the finger issue is behind him. But he has games without any walks and then he has games with more walks than innings pitched. He has to be a consistent low walk guy in order to get back to MLB.

[DJL44]

Saints are having a $4 ticket flash sale for April and May games.

[MN_ExPat]

1 hour ago, DJL44 said:

Severino is now 0-13 with 4 BB and 7K on the year. Not a great start.

True.  But that is an extreme SSS.  Now when that says 113 ABs... AND we have similar numbers, then that's probably the better time to go, yeesh 🙄🤷‍♂️.

[FlyingFinn]

Hey, we just got Diego Castillo! No, not the pitcher, but another player by the exact same name. This guy plays the infield. Not sure why we need him. Isn't Brooks Lee coming back by May?

[FlyingFinn]

Walker Jenkins strikes out in the first and is out with an injury after making a catch in the 2nd inning. Ugh!