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St. Paul 9, Iowa 10 (10 Innings)
Box Score
Caleb Boushley: 5 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
HR: Payton Eeles (3)
Multi-hit games: Edouard Julien (2-for-5, 2B, BB), Wynton Bernard (2-for-5, 3B, 2 R, RBI, BB), Diego A Castillo (3-for-5, 2 2B, 2 R), Payton Eeles (3-for-4, HR, R, 4 RBI)
The Saints lost a heartbreaker on Sunday.
This game proved that, yes, it is much worse to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Hope kills us all eventually.
St. Paul and Iowa tussled for a few frames before the Saints landed the first blow: two runs in the 3rd thanks to a lead-off triple from Wynton Bernard sparking an energetic inning. Dalton Shuffield landed a beautiful sacrifice bunt. The art isn’t dead.
Unfortunately, that lead lasted all of three batters, as the Cubs smacked a homer to get on the board before taking the lead outright after a trio of hits put Caleb Boushley on the defensive. Those would be the only runs he allowed on Sunday.
The teams traded runs before Payton Eeles stepped to the plate down a score in the bottom of the 9th. With one mighty swing, 5’5” Eeles blasted a sinker way out to right field, clearing the wall to push the game into extras.
That’s where the trouble began. It should have been easy: St. Paul plated four in the 10th despite a critical double play erasing the Manfred Man before he could score, pushing the Saints into a brutal position. They answered. Four straight hits—including a two-run knock by the hero, Eeles—gave the Saints an 8-4 lead, which should have been plenty for their pitching to handle in the bottom half of the inning.
“Should have been” is the crucial wording. Caleb Baragar allowed the free runner to score before Scott Blewett—no jokes allowed—surrendered three back-breaking runs to score, including a horrifying game-tying two-strike two-run shot off the bat of Chase Strumpf.
St. Paul scored in the 11th, but the juice wasn’t there; Hobie Harris allowed a two-run shot to ice the game for Iowa, sending the Saints home empty and distraught.
Rehabbing big-leaguer Justin Topa pitched a scoreless inning with a strikeout.
Iowa right fielder Owen Caissie is the third-ranked prospect in the Cubs system. He doubled and homered in five at-bats.
WIND SURGE WISDOM
Wichita 3, NW Arkansas 2
Box Score
Travis Adams: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
HR: None
Multi-hit games: Jake Rucker (2-for-4, 2 RBI, BB)
Wichita won a thriller on Sunday.
For seven innings, the Wind Surge looked dead in the water. Their full offensive force totaled two hits and two walks—barely enough to score one run just by themselves; fractured, they added up to nothing. Wheels began to turn in the 8th, though—and as one thing turned to another—Wichita suddenly, stunningly had two runs, enough to tie the game.
That could only become true in large part to Travis Adams, who almost completely neutralized NW Arkansas. The Sacramento State product tacked on a third six-inning outing to his streak, giving him 18 combined frames across his last three starts with just four earned runs total. His ERA dropped over half a run over this stretch.
And he saved the best for last: Sunday’s outing was a gorgeous 74-pitch efficient buzzsaw, as Adams allowed just three baserunners and even eliminated one of those runners with a pickoff. Masterful stuff.
The Wind Surge landed the knock-out punch in the 9th by not punching at all; the Naturals simply hit themselves. Aaron Sabato walked and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Tyler Dearden was walked intentionally, Ben Ross popped out, Luke Keaschall was hit by a pitch, and, finally, Jake Rucker took a pitch inside by a hamster whisker to win on a walk-off walk. Talk about manufacturing a run.
The Naturals are members of the Royals organization, and their best prospect—outfielder Gavin Cross—is ranked fifth in the system. He walked once in four trips to the plate.
KERNELS NUGGETS
Cedar Rapids 2, Great Lakes 3
Box Score
Ty Langenberg: 6 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K
HR: None
Multi-hit games: None
The Kernels lost a low-scoring affair on Sunday.
Ty Langenberg was sensational on the mound. The Iowa product befuddled the Loons with deftness and precision; he allowed zero walks, struck out five, and likely would have walked away with an even cleaner line had his defense not failed him at critical junctures. In any case, he had a hell of a day on the mound in his best start as a Kernel.
The compliments don’t extend to Cedar Rapids’ offense, though, as hitting eluded them all day. There were plenty of ducks on the pond—the bats took six walks and a hit by pitch—but the hits did not fall, at least not when it counted; they only had one run-scoring hit the entire game. The other hit with a runner in scoring position resulted in Gabriel Gonzalez getting thrown out at home. So it goes.
Walker Jenkins earned a Jenkinsian hitting line, going 0-2 with a pair of walks and a hit by pitch. It’s like his soul is tethered to first base.
Great Lakes’ DH Josue De Paula is the 63rd-ranked prospect on MLB Pipeline’s top 100 list. He was held at bay, going 0-5 with a strikeout.
MUSSEL MATTERS
The Mighty Mussels were scheduled to play a doubleheader, but Tropical Storm Debby canceled both games. They will not be made up.
TWINS DAILY PLAYERS OF THE DAY
Twins Daily Minor League Pitcher of the Day – Travis Adams
Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Day – Payton Eeles
PROSPECT SUMMARY
Here’s a look at how the Twins Daily Top 20 Twins Prospects performed:
#1– Walker Jenkins (Cedar Rapids) - 0-2, R, 2 BB
#4 – Luke Keaschall (Wichita) - 0-3, R, BB, K
#7 – Gabriel Gonzalez (Cedar Rapids) - 1-4, K
#17 – Tanner Schobel (Wichita) - 0-3, K
MONDAY’S PROBABLE STARTERS
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