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Image courtesy of Ed Bailey (photo of Billy Amick) TRANSACTIONS RHP Paulshawn Pasqualotto was promoted from Wichita to the St. Paul Saints. Catcher Ian Daugherty was placed on the Saints development list. RHP Nick Mikolajchak was placed on the Wind Surge development list. Futures Game Update On Thursday, MLB announced that Walker Jenkins has been added to the roster for the Futures Game this weekend. Jenkins will join shortstop Kaelen Culpepper in the game. TWINS in the Futures Game (past 20 years) 2026: SS Kaelen Culpepper, OF Walker Jenkins 2025: SS Kaelen Culpepper, 2024: SS Brooks Lee (called up before this game), 2B Luke Keaschall 2023: RHP David Festa, 2022: OF Matt Wallner, IF Spencer Steer 2021: RHP Josh Winder, 2019: SS Royce Lewis, RHP Jordan Balazovic, 2018: LHP Lewis Thorpe, OF Alex Kirilloff, 2017: SS Nick Gordon, 2016: RHP JT Chargois, 2015: OF Max Kepler (injured shoulder), RHP Jose Berrios, 2014: 1B/DH Kennys Vargas, RHP Alex Meyer (starting pitcher for USA team), RHP Trevor May (called up before this game), Jose Berrios (starting pitcher for World team at Target Field) 2013: 3B Miguel Sano, OF Byron Buxton, 2012: OF Oswaldo Arcia, 2011: RHP Liam Hendriks, RHP Kyle Gibson, 2010: RHP Anthony Slama, OF Ben Revere, RHP Liam Hendriks 2009: OF Rene Tosoni, 2008: OF Denard Span (called up just before this game), 2B Luke Hughes, 2007: RHP Matt Garza (called up just before this game), IF Matt Tolbert SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 1, Buffalo 16 Box Score John Klein had a rough first inning. He gave up four runs, but he came back out and threw three scoreless innings after that. Through five innings, Buffalo held a 4-1 lead. Then things got ugly in a hurry. Buffalo scored three in the sixth inning, four in the seventh inning, and five in the ninth inning to run away with the win. Raul Brito gave up three runs on one hit and three walks in 1 1/3 innings. Grant Hartwig came in with the bases loaded and allowed two of the three runners to score. He started the seventh inning, but all four batters got on base. Overall, he gave up four runs on three hits and two walks in 2/3 innings. Jake Higginbotham struck out three batters, but he allowed all three inherited runners to score first. Taylor Rashi pitched a scoreless eighth inning. Then it was time for Position Players Pitching. Ben Ross started the ninth inning, faced five batters and all of them got on base, four hits and a walk. Tanner Schobel came in and settled things down. He gave up a hit and a walk but no runs. He got all three ninth-inning outs. He even got a strikeout. He dropped his season ERA to 3.60, lowest season ERA of any of the Saints pitchers who worked on Thursday night with the exception of relative newcomer Taylor Rashi and his 3.52 ERA. With Walker Jenkins and Kaelen Culpepper out of the lineup, the Saints had just four hits in this game. Alan Roden was 1-for-3 with a walk. Aaron Sabato hit his 16th home run of the season in the fifth inning. It gave him 50 RBI on the season. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 7, Tulsa 11 Box Score Through seven innings, Wichita had a 7-4 lead in the game. The Drillers scored two runs in the eighth and then five runs in the top of the ninth to take a big lead. The Surge were unable to respond. The offense showed up in this game for Wichita. They had seven runs on eight hits and five walks. Five of those hits were home runs. Andrew Cossetti went 2-for-5. He hit his 11th home run in the first inning and his 12th home run in the second inning. Billy Amick went 1-for-3 with two walks. He hit his 18th homer of the season with a first-inning two-run shot. Jose Salas went 2-for-4 with his seventh home run. Jorel Ortega hit his fourth homer of the season in the sixth inning. Preston Johnson started and gave up four runs on four hits over the first five innings. Ruddy Gomez gave up no runs on one hit in 1 2/3 innings. He walked two and had four strikeouts. Kyle Bischolff gave up two runs on three hits and a walk in 1 1/3 innings. Jaylen Nowlin got the ninth inning and gave up five runs on five hits and two walks. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 1, Quad Cities 3 Box Score The Kernels were unable to do much offensively against the Royals top prospect Kendry Chourio on Friday night in Quad Cities. Chourio gave up one run on three hits and a walk in six innings. The Kernels had just four hits and three walks in the game. Interestingly, all four hits were doubles. Caden Kendle walked and hit his seventh and eighth doubles. Jacob McCombs hit his eighth double. He was also hit by a pitch… twice. Eduardo Tait had a walk and hit his 15th double. The team went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left eight runners on base. Ivran Romero had a solid start. The right-hander gave up two runs on six hits and two walks in four innings. He had seven strikeouts. Jesse Bergin gave up a run in his inning. Xavier Kolhosser tossed three shutout innings. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 2, Clearwater 4 Box Score Tough day for the Mighty Mussels offense. They had just three hits and one walk in the game. JP Smith hit his 10th homer of the season. The other run scored on a single by Irvin Nunez. Jason Reitz started and gave up three runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked twice and had four strikeouts. Jonathan Stevens gave up one run on one hit, a solo homer, in 2 1/3 innings. He walked one and had one strikeout. Nick McAuliffe tossed two scoreless innings. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 8, FCL Orioles 9 Box Score The Twins scored three runs in the second and three more in the fourth inning. Unfortunately, a six-run sixth gave the Orioles a lead they didn’t surrender. Frederick Hiciano started. He gave up two runs on three hits and got just two outs before he was removed from the game. He threw just 14 pitches, so we’ll dig a little and see if there was some other issue. Carter Holjes gave up an unearned run on two hits over 3 1/3 innings. Carlos Taveras led the Twins offense. He went 3-for-4 with a walk and three RBI. Yovanny Duran went 2-for-3 with a walk, his third triple, and his 20th and 21st stolen bases. Jhomnardo Reyes had a rough June, but he started July with a two-hit game including his 10th double. Daiber De Los Santos went 1-for-2 with two walks and his second double. DSL Twins 3, DSL Angels 6 (suspended 5th inning) Box Score This game was suspended in the top of the fifth inning. The Angels had already scored two runs in the inning without any outs. It will be interesting to see if they end up making the game up later in the season. The Twins scored three runs in the bottom of the second inning. Juan Holmann was 2-for-2 to this point in the game. Obviously more can be written on this game should they finish it. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Andrew Cossetti (Wichita): 2-for-5, 2 HR(12), 2 R, 3 RBI, K. Pitcher(s) of the Day Carter Holjes (FCL Twins): 3.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 40 pitches, 28 strikes (70.0%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #4 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-3, BB, 2B(15), R (batted third, played DH). #5 - SS Marek Houston (Wichita) - 1-for-5, R (batted third, played SS) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 0-for-4 (batted second, played 1B) #12 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-3, BB, K (batted first, played 3B) #13 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 0-for-4, HBP, 2 K (batted second, played C) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 0-for-3, BB, 2 K (batted fifth, played 3B) #19 - 1B/3B Billy Amick (Wichita) - 1-for-3, 2 BB, HR(18), R, 2 RBI, K (batted fourth, played 1B) UPCOMING PROBABLES Friday, July 3 Buffalo @ St. Paul (6:07 pm CT) - RHP Ryan Gallagher (2-3, 7.63 ERA) Tulsa @ Wichita (7:05 pm CT) - RHP Chris Vallimont (0-1, 5.79 ERA) Cedar Rapids @ Quad Cities (6:00 pm CT) - LHP Cesar Lares (0-2, 12.00 ERA) Ft. Myers @ Clearwater (5:30 pm CT) - RHP Merit Jones (2-1, 4.43 ERA) FCL Red Sox @ FCL Twins (11:00 am CT) - DSL Twins @ DSL Marlins (10:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 42-46 St. Paul Saints: 46-36 Wichita Wind Surge: 26-50 Cedar Rapids Kernels: 33-42 Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 44-32 FCL Twins: 24-20 DSL Twins: 6-15 Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

On Tuesday night at CHS Field, the St. Paul Saints returned home for a series against the Buffalo Bisons. The Twins won the first game of the series on Tuesday by a score of 12-6. The Saints scored seven runs in the bottom of the first inning and led 11-3 after four innings. The did most of their damage early. However, the most important "play of the day" before the phrase, "Play Ball" was uttered. Before each game at CHS Field, a kid gets to stand alongside each of the nine defensive players. Maybe they bring a ball with them and the player signs it for him or her. Overall, it's a cool way for the players to interact with kids. And they stand next to the player for the playing of the national anthem. Shortly after The Star-Spangled Banner started, the youngster standing next to Walker Jenkins in center field started to wobble. He leaned heavily to his right, bumping into right fielder Matt Wallner who caught him and set him up, likely not sure what was happening. But when he started to fall, Jenkins stepped over and caught him. Realizing that he had fainted, Jenkins picked him up and ran him into the Saints dugout where he handed the child to Chase Thompson, the Saints lead athletic trainer. From there, the child, "Lincoln" was brought into the clubhouse and evaluated. Ultimately, he was OK. He had overheated and was a bit dehydrated which caused him to faint. He was given fluids and cooled off before he returned to watching the game. After Jenkins handed Lincoln over, he clearly did not know what to do? Does he follow along? Does he stay on the field? The national anthem was still playing? Should he run back out to his position? A situation like that has to cause the mind to race. But when he was needed, he came through. Did it affect him during the game? If it did, it didn't show. He had a single in the first inning, doubled in the fourth inning, and tripled in the sixth inning. The summer before being drafted, Jenkins was playing for Team USA Baseball. Twins Hall of Famer Michael Cuddyer has been very active with Team USA over the years. He gave Jenkins the nickname "Captain America" because of his size, stature, and overall talent level. On Tuesday, Jenkins got to play Super Hero for a kid and his family. View full rumor

Image courtesy of Malamut Photography (photo of Eduardo Tait) TRANSACTIONS The Saints placed RHP Ricky Castro on the 7-Day Injured List. Fort Myers sent RHPs Reed Moring and Jake Hunter on rehab assignments to the FCL Twins. The DSL Twins placed RHP Eliezer Lucena on the 60-Day IL. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 12, Louisville 0 Box Score The two teams came into the day with the intention of playing a doubleheader. For the second straight day, they were able to complete Game 1 before rains came and wiped-out Game 2. The plan now is to make up this game when Louisville comes to St. Paul next month. It’ll be a seven-game homestand, and one of the games will have Louisville as the home team. The score above makes it look like this game was a blowout, but an eight-run seventh inning for the Saints turned a closer game into a blowout. As the Bats might say, “When it rains, it pours.” But let’s start on the mound. Iowa native Ty Langenberg started and gave up just one hit over five shutout innings. He walked two and had three strikeouts. Impressive when you consider that just 38 of his 67 pitches were strikes (56.7%). C.J. Culpepper came in and finished out the final two innings of the shutout. He gave up two hits, walked none and had three strikeouts. The Saints scored a single run in the first and in the second innings. In the first, Gabriel Gonzalez drove in Alan Roden with the first run. The top of the second began with Ben Ross’s sixth homer with the Saints. With two outs in the fourth inning, Cody Morissette singled off the pitcher. He stole second, but he didn’t really have to. Noah Cardenas drove the next pitch out of the park for his fifth homer. The top of the sixth began with a Cardenas single. Roden was hit by a pitch. Walker Jenkins came up and lined a single off the pitcher that deflected to third and loaded the bases. Kala’i Rosario singled to right to drive in a run. Matt Wallner singled to right to drive in two runs. Orlando Arcia singled to left to fill the bases. Aaron Sabato stepped to the plate and launched a hanging, 80 mph sweeper 108.2 mph at a 32-degree angle. It landed 404 feet from home plate and gave the Saints the 11-0 lead. After a pitching change, Ben Ross doubled. With two outs, Walker Jenkins drove him in with a double to make it 12-0. Ben Ross was 3-for-4 with his 16th double and sixth home run with the Saints. Orlando Arcia went 3-for-4. Noah Cardenas went 2-for-3 with a walk, his fifth home run and two RBI. Jenkins was 2-for-5 with his seventh double. Roden was 1-for-3 with a walk and his sixth double. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 0, Midland 1 Box Score This was a true pitcher's duel. Unlike the St. Paul game above where just one of the teams realized it was supposed to be a duel. Preston Johnson started for Wichita. He tossed four scoreless, hitless innings. He walked two and had eight strikeouts. Jose Olivares walked one and struck out one batter over two scoreless, hitless innings. Sam Ryan pitched the final two innings. He gave up one run on one hit. He walked one and had two strikeouts. Unfortunately, Jackson Finley and three relievers combined to shutout the Wind Surge on just four hits. Kyle DeBarge went 2-for-3. Andrew Cossetti went 1-for-2 with two walks. Quinn McDaniel had a single, and Garrett Spain walked. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 5, Wisconsin 4 Box Score It has been a rough week for the Kernels in Wisconsin. They lost the first four games of the series by a combined score of 36-8. And frankly, Saturday’s game could have gone that same direction, but a couple of big moments helped the Kernels make a comeback and then hang on for a one-run win. Adrian Bohorquez made his return to the Kernels. He started and gave up no runs on no hits over 1 1/3 innings. He walked two and had a strikeout. Just 16 of his 32 pitches were strikes. Xavier Kolhosser came on and gave up three runs on two hits and three walks. He had four strikeouts. Down 3-0 after three innings, the Kernels responded right away in the top of the fourth. Brandon Winokur led off with a walk. Dameury Pena tripled to drive him in. Pena then scored on a groundout by Eduardo Tait. In the fifth inning, Wisconsin added to their lead when Marco Dinges scored on a sacrifice fly by Daniel Dickinson. Down 4-2 after seven innings. Graham Brown led off with an infield single. He moved to second on a ground ball. Brandon Winokur had an infield single which advanced Brown to third base. Winokur stole second. Brown scored on a Pena groundout to cut the deficit to 4-3. Eduardo Tait came to the plate next and crushed a two-run homer to give the Kernels the 5-4 lead. Jesse Bergin came into the game in the fourth inning. He gave up one run on two hits and two walks in 1 1/3 innings. Mitch Mueller struck out three batters over 1 2/3 scoreless, hitless innings. Eston Stull walked one in a scoreless bottom of the seventh inning. With a lead, Brian Meyer turned to Sam Rochard in the bottom of the eighth frame. It couldn’t come easy, of course. After two groundouts to start the bottom of the eighth, he walked the bases loaded before getting the third out. He returned for the ninth, still clinging to a one-run lead. Josiah Ragsdale led off the inning with a double. He advanced to third base with two outs, but Rochard got out of the inning unscathed to earn his first save. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers, St. Lucie (postponed) Box Score Rain caused this game to be postponed. The teams will attempt to play the game next month when the Mussels play in St. Lucie. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 1, FCL Red Sox 8 Box Score Reed Moring made the rehab start. He tossed two perfect innings with one strikeout. Jake Hunter tossed the third inning. He gave up two runs on three hits and a walk. Miguel Rodriguez gave up two runs on four hits over three innings. He had two walks and four strikeouts. Josh Walker pitched the seventh inning and gave up four runs on three hits and three walks, but he did strike out two batters. The Twins scored one run in the sixth inning. It came on a home run off the bat of Miguel Caraballo. The catcher had two of the team’s five hits. Yovanny Duran went 1-for-2 with a walk. He also stole his 18th base. DSL Twins 11, DSL Marlins 13 Box Score This was a back-and-forth game throughout. The Twins grabbed the early lead with three runs in the bottom of the first inning. The Rangers followed with three runs in the top of the second. The Twins scored one in the bottom of the third frame. The Rangers scored the next six runs to take a 9-4 lead. . Then the Twins cut the deficit to 9-8 through six innings. In the top of the seventh, the Rangers added a run, but the Twins scored two runs after the seventh inning stretch and the game was tied 10-10. However, the Rangers scored three runs in the top of the eighth, and the Twins countered with just one run in the bottom of the inning. Almost inexplicably neither team scored in the ninth inning. Juan Collado started and worked a scoreless first inning. He had a walk and three strikeouts. He faced four batters in the second inning. He hit the first batter and then walked the next three batters. 16-year-old Sebastian Echavarria came on in relief. He walked the first batter he faced, but then he got a ground ball double play and a fly out to end the inning. Collado was charged with three runs on four walks and a hit batter in one inning. He struck out three batters. Echavarria worked three innings. He gave up three runs (1 earned) on two hits and three walks. Alam Soriano was next. He gave up four runs on five hits and two walks over three innings. Herkyn Taveras gave up three runs (1 earned) on one hit and three walks in his inning. Failin Placencio walked one in a scoreless ninth inning. The Twins scored their 11 runs on 14 hits and 10 walks. They also stole eight bases. Abel Sosa went 3-for-5 with a walk, three runs and two RBI. Fabian Ulloa went 3-for-5 with his first two doubles of the season. Daiyer Barboza went 2-for-3 with three walks, his second double, and three runs scored. Jhon Gonzalez went 2-for-5 with a walk and two runs. Luis Duarte went 2-for-5 with three RBI. Jendy Martinez had a single and walked twice. Anibal Beltre walked twice. In case you were wondering, David Ortiz, Jr. batted eighth and DHd for the DSL Red Sox. He went 2-for-3 with two walks and his first double in this game. He had three RBI. He hit just .124/.361/.168 (.529) with five doubles last year in the DSL This was just his third game of the 2026 season. He’s 4-for-8 with four walks and a double. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Noah Cardenas (St. Paul): 2-for-3, BB, HR(5), 2 R, 2 RBI, K. (And, he caught a shutout.) Pitcher(s) of the Day Ty Langenberg (St. Paul): 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 67 pitches, 38 strikes (56.9%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #1 - OF Walker Jenkins (St. Paul) - 2-for-5, 2B(7), R, RBI (batted second, played DH) #4 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, HR(15), R, 3 RBI, K (batted third, played C). #5 - SS Marek Houston (Wichita) - 0-for-4, 2 K (batted second, played SS) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 1-for-1, RBI (batted third, played LF) #12 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-3, BB, 2 R, K, SB(17) (batted first, played CF) #13 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 0-for-4 (batted third, played C) #17 - RHP C.J. Culpepper (St. Paul) - 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K, 33 pitches, 23 strikes (69.7%) #18 - OF Yasser Mercedes (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, K (batted sixth, played RF) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 2-for-3, CS(9) (batted fifth, played 2B) UPCOMING PROBABLES Sunday, June 28 St. Paul @ Louisville (12:05 pm CT) - LHP Kendry Rojas (1-0, 4.96 ERA) vs Hunter Greene Wichita @ Midland (1:00 pm CT) - RHP Chris Vallimont (0-1, 2.70 ERA) Cedar Rapids @ Wisconsin (1:10 pm CT) - RHP Michael Ross (5-3, 7.54 ERA) St. Lucie @ Ft. Myers (11:05 am CT) - RHP Eduardo Salazar (0-0, 0.0 ERA) CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 39-45 St. Paul Saints: 45-33 Wichita Wind Surge: 26-46 Cedar Rapids Kernels: 32-39 Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 42-30 FCL Twins: 22-19 DSL Twins: 6-13 Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Image courtesy of William Parmeter (L to R: Jason Reitz, Merphy Hernandez) TRANSACTIONS The Saints activated OF Hendry Mendez from the 7-Day Injured List. ICYMI: RHP Justin Lawrence was claimed by the Washington Nationals. Meanwhile, RHP Austin Voth went unclaimed and outrighted to St. Paul. However, he has elected free agency. The Twins signed RHP Arthur De La Cruz, an 18-year-old, on Thursday. He was added to the DSL Twins roster on Friday. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 3, Louisville 1 Box Score A couple of #OldFriends bookended the Saints game in Louisville. A rehabbing Emilio Pagan started and worked a 1-2-3 first inning. Lefty veteran Anthony Misiewicz threw a perfect seventh inning. In between, the Twins faced right-hander Jose Franco. The Saints lineup is starting to come back to what was envisioned earlier in the season. Walker Jenkins and Alan Roden are back from long IL stints. On Saturday, Hendry Mendez came back after missing the minimum seven days on the injured list. He hadn’t played in a week, so he batted sixth in the Saints lineup. In the second inning, he came up with runners on first and second and nobody out. He lined a 97 mph ball off the pitcher. It deflected and Mendez reached on an infield single. With that single, he has now reached base in all 29 games he has played for the Saints. Ben Ross walked a run in with the bases loaded. A couple of batters later, David Banuelos hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the second run. John Klein started and gave up one run on three hits over four innings. He walked two and had three strikeouts. Jake Higginbotham came on and struck out two batters over two quiet innings. The Saints added a little insurance in the sixth inning. Arcia doubled, and Mendez followed with a line drive single to drive in the third run of the game. Grant Hartwig pitched a scoreless ninth inning to record the save. The teams were planning on playing two games on Friday. That’s why this was a seven-inning game. However, the rains soon came and washed-out Game 2. They will try to play two games again on Saturday. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 4, Midland 6 Box Score After being shut out on Thursday, the Wind Surge went five innings on Friday without scoring. However, they fell short on the scoreboard again. Cory Lewis started and gave up two runs on three hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked two and had five strikeouts. Darren Bowen struck out two batters over the next 1 2/3 innings. Spencer Bengard gave up three runs on four hits over two innings. He struck out one batter. Hunter Gregory gave up one run in the eighth inning. Maddux Houghton led the offense. He went 3-for-4 with his 10th and 11th doubles and an RBI. He also stole his 15th base. Garrett Spain went 2-for-3 with a walk. Andrew Cossetti went 2-for-5. He stole his second base. Jay Thomason KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 1, Wisconsin 10 Box Score After losing 9-1 on Thursday night in Wisconsin, it was a 10-1 loss on Friday night. The Kernels actually took the first lead of the game. In the top of the second inning, Caden Kendle hit his fourth home run of the season. Ivran Romero started and gave up three runs (1 earned) on five hits and a walk in four innings. He struck out four. Cole Peschl came on and gave up one run on one hit and one walk over two innings. Nick Trabacchi came in and gave up six runs on six hits (including two home runs) in 1 1/3 innings. He had three strikeouts. Brian Zeldin got the final two outs. The Kernels had four hits in the game. Kendle homered. Jacob McCombs and Henry Kusiak each doubled. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 6, St. Lucie 2 Box Score The Mighty Mussels showed some early muscles that were mighty enough to club four, early home runs, take an early lead and hang on. Ryan Sprock’s hitting streak came to an end at 18 games on Saturday night, but he did continue his on-base streak. He led off the bottom of the first inning with a walk. He went to second on a wild pitch. With one out, he scored on a JP Smith single to center. The streak was the third longest in Fort Myers franchise history. In 2021, Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit in 20 straight games. Mike Gonzalez had a 19-game streak in 2014. Sprock said after Friday’s game, “This is the best stretch I have had.” He added later, “Baseball is a rollercoaster, and you have to try and stay levelheaded.” The second inning began with a walk by Irvin Nunez. Byron Chourio followed by crushing his fourth home run into the Southwest Florida twilight to give the Mussels a 3-0 lead. JP Smith led off the top of the third inning with a solo home run. As he was still celebrating and giving high-fives in the Mussel dugout, Jayson Bass followed with another home run to make it 5-0 Fort Myers. With one out in the bottom of the fourth inning, the Mussels added one more run when speedster Merphy Hernandez clubbed his second homer since joining the Mussels. Jason Reitz started for the Mussels and tossed 4 2/3 scoreless innings. He gave up two hits, walked three and had three strikeouts. Dylan Questad came on and stranded an inherited runner. He got three outs. He was charged with one run on no hits. He walked three and had two strikeouts. Matt DesMarets came on and allowed Questad’s inherited runner. He got four outs without additional runs scoring. He gave up two hits, walked one and had two strikeouts. Michael Hilker pitched a scoreless eighth inning. Brent Francisco gave up a run on two hits in the ninth. Merphy Hernandez went 2-for-3 with a walk and his second home run. He also stole his 21st and 22nd bases. JP Smith went 2-for-3 with a walk and his ninth homer. Harry Genth went 2-for-3 with a walk and his sixth double. Bass’s home run was his 10th of the season, and Chourio hit his fourth home run. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 2, FCL Red Sox 8 Box Score The Red Sox scored four runs in the bottom of the second inning, and four more in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Twins countered with a two-run top of the seventh, but when it’s a seven-inning game, it comes to an end quickly. The Twins signed Billy Oldham as a non-drafted minor league free agent out of Southern Mississippi right after the 2024 draft. Unfortunately, soon after reporting for spring training 2025, he was injured and missed the full season. He started this season on the 60-Day Injured List but is just beginning his path back. In his second rehab appearance, the 25-year-old worked one inning. He gave up one hit and struck out two batters. Jake Covey came in next. He gave up four runs (2 earned) on three hits in three innings. He had three walks and six strikeouts. Omar Montana came in for the seventh inning. He gave up four runs on two hits and three walks, though he did record two strikeouts. The Twins scored their two runs on three hits and five walks. Yovanny Duran was also hit by a pitch. Victor Leal had the only extra base hit, his third triple. Teilon Serrano walked twice. Both runs scored in the top of the seventh when Daiber De Los Santos reached on a fielding error. DSL Twins 4, DSL Marlins 10 Box Score Here is another good example of a game illustrating the value of offenses putting crooked numbers on the scoreboard. Both teams scored runs in four of their innings. However, the Twins scored one run four times. The Marlins had innings in which they scored one, two, three and four runs to take an easy win. Adrian Martinez started and gave up five runs (4 earned) over the game’s first three innings. He gave up six hits and walked two batters. Jeremy Jimenez gave up three runs (one earned) on three hits and a walk over the next 2 1/3 innings. Aldwin Morillo came in and got the final five outs. He was charged with two runs on two hits and two walks. The Twins scored their four runs on just four hits. They were helped with 10 walks. All nine batters at least contributed something to the Twins offense. I’ll just walk through the batting order. Jendy Martinez walked twice and scored a run. Daiyer Barbosa walked twice. Enmanuel Merlo walked twice and scored a run. Abel Sosa had the lone extra base hit, his first double, and an RBI. Juan Holmann had a single and two walks. He also stole a base. Luis Duarte walked twice. Jeferson Abreu had a single and scored a run. Luis Suarez had a single. Misael Rodriguez had one of the team’s two RBI. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Merphy Fernandez (Fort Myers): 2-for-3, BB, HR(2), R, RBI, 2-SB(22) Pitcher(s) of the Day Jason Reitz (Fort Myers): 4 2/3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 3 K, 69 pitches, 40 strikes (58.0%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #1 - OF Walker Jenkins (St. Paul) - 1-for-4, K (batted second, played CF) #4 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, K (batted second, played DH). #5 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, BB, 2 R, K, SB(2)l (batted second, played SS) #9 - OF Hendry Mendez (St. Paul) - 2-for-3, RBI (batted sixth, played LF) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 1-for-4 (batted third, played 1B) #12 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, K (batted first, played 3B) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 0-for-4, 2 K. (batted fifth, played DH) #18 - OF Yasser Mercedes (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-3 (batted fifth, played LF) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 0-for-5, 3 K (batted first, played 2B) UPCOMING PROBABLES Saturday, June 27 St. Paul @ Louisville (DH at 2:05 pm CT) - RHP Ty Langenberg (2-2, 5.79 ERA), RHP Ryan Gallagher (2-2, 7.97 ERA) Wichita @ Midland (7:00 pm CT) - RHP Preston Johnson (0-3, 6.10 ERA) Cedar Rapids @ Wisconsin (6:40 pm CT) - RHP Adrian Bohorquez (0-0, 11.25 ERA) St. Lucie @ Ft. Myers (6:05 pm CT) - RHP Merit Jones (2-1, 4.55 ERA) FCL Red Sox @ FCL Twins (9:00 am CT) - DSL Rangers @ DSL Twins (10:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 39-44 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 4.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 44-33 (2nd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 3.0 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 26-45 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 21.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 31-39 (5th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 12.5 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 42-30 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 0.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 22-18 (3rd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 2.0 GB)) DSL Twins: 6-12 (7th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 6.5 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Image courtesy of William Parmeter (photo of Quentin Young) TRANSACTIONS Wichita placed OF Caleb Roberts on the 7-Day Injured List. Fort Myers placed UT Bryan Acuna on the 7-Day Injured List. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul, Louisville Box Score Elvis Presley once longed for the rain in Kentucky. The Saints and Bats likely would have preferred the rain not arrive until after their Thursday night game instead of before. Instead of playing Thursday, the teams will attempt to complete a doubleheader on Friday. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 0, Midland 6 Box Score On Thursday, the Wind Surge found some tough times in Tall City. Their offense managed to be shutout on just three hits. Andrew Cossetti and Maddux Houghton each had a single. Marek Houston knocked his first Double-A double. Khadim Diaw was 0-for-2, but he walked twice in the game. The Surge went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left six stranded. Sam Armstrong has been really good on the mound in June. He wasn’t as dominant on Thursday. He gave up two runs on two hits (including two home runs) over three innings. He struck out just one batter. But what he did was keep his team in the game by limiting the damage. Paulshawn Pasqualotto has had a really nice rebound season. In this game, he gave up three hits over two scoreless innings. He struck out two batters. Ruddy Gomez gave up one run on three hits in his inning. Jacob Webb gave up two runs on two hits in the seventh inning. Zach Vennaro gave up one run on two walks in the eighth inning. A little more on Khadim Diaw and his start in Wichita. In seven games played, he is 8-for-23, just over a hit a game, and giving himself a .348 batting average. What is incredible is that he has walked 10 times and struck out just twice since joining the Surge. He’s been on base at a .559 clip. He’s always hit line drives and hit for average, and he seems to have always had a real appreciation for getting on base whether by walk or by being hit by a pitch. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 1, Wisconsin 9 Box Score In the house I grew up in, there was a hole in the wall of the main floor bathroom. It had a mini-door to open. But that’s where we would throw our clothes that needed to be washed. They would magically go in that space and drop into the basement, near the washing machine was brilliant. Most of you probably grew up and maybe still have homes with this “feature.” However, I was today years old when I realized that it was a “clothes chute,” not a “clothes shoot.” Shoot! I thought that the opening just kind of shot the clothes down, probably at a great force that simple gravity, and landed. When asked where the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers play their home games, most will answer by saying they play in Appleton, Wisconsin. And, frankly, the team’s mailing address is to Appleton. However, their home stadium, Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium” is in Grand Chute, which is essentially a suburb on the northern side of Lake Winnebago. I got curious and searched “What is a chute?” “A sloping channel or slide for conveying things to a lower level” So yeah, we had a “Clothes Chute.” Oh yeah, there was a baseball game in Grand Chute on Thursday night, pitting the Kernels against the Wisconsin Udder Tuggers. What a great minor-league name and check out their uniforms too! They will be the Udder Tuggers this whole weekend. Cesar Lares started for the Kernels. The lefty worked out of trouble in the first inning with some big strikeouts. However, he wasn’t able to stop the Tuggers from scoring in the second inning. In total, he gave up eight runs on six hits, two walks, and three hit batters. He had three strikeouts but really struggled with control and command. Adam Falinski got the final out of that second inning. He gave up one run on three hits and two walks over the next three innings. Mitch Mueller threw two scoreless innings, and Sam Rochard got the final three outs. Eduardo Tait went 2-for-3 with a walk in the game. He notched his 14th double of the year. He scored the team’s lone run in the sixth inning when Jacob McCombs singled him in. McCombs went 2-for-4. The Kernels hosted Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago. Even after top hitters Andrew Fischer and Josh Adamczewski were promoted last week to Double-A, the Rattlers lineup is still quite strong. Check out the Brewers Top 20 prospects, several on this Wisconsin roster, of our sister site Brewer Fanatic. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 7, St. Lucie 6 Box Score First things first. Yes, Ryan Sprock got a hit. He was 1-for-4 with a walk. He also stole OK, this was a good, competitive game. The Mussels took an early 2-0 lead with two runs in the bottom of the first inning. With one out, Ramiro Dominguez reached on an error. Jayson Bass singled him to third. With two outs, Bass stole second and Dominguez stole home. The successful double steal gave the team a 1-0 lead. It was the 17th stolen base for each of them. Luis Fragoza followed with a double to drive in Bass with the second run. The Mets took the lead in the top of the fourth when they scored three runs. However, the Mussels responded immediately, scoring four runs in the bottom of the fourth. Ricardo Paez led off with a single and went to second on a wild pitch. Ricardo Pena was hit by a pitch. Harry Genth, to no one’s surprise, was also hit by a pitch to load the bases. Merphy Hernandez walked to tie the game at 3-3. Ryan Sprock came up and lined a single to right to drive in Pena and Genth. Sprock went to second and Hernandez scored on a throwing error to make it 6-3. Ramiro Villanueva started and gave up three runs on six hits. In five innings, he had four strikeouts. Callan Fang came in and gave up one run on one hit and one walk over three innings. He struck out four batters. Nick McAuliffe came in for the ninth. He gave up two runs on three hits and a walk. That sent the game to the bottom of the ninth, tied at six. With one out, Quentin Young stepped to the plate. He was 0-for-4 at that point with three strikeouts. The first pitch was a 97 mph fastball that Young took for ball one. It was just above the strike zone. The second pitch was a 95.9 mph fastball, thigh high in the middle of the inner half of the plate. Young swung. The ball left his bat at 108.1 mph at a 26-degree angle. It landed well beyond the fence in center field. The Mussels won in a Young walk off! The Mussels scored their seven runs on six hits and five walks. Fragoza went 2-for-4 with his 10th double. Hernandez walked twice and stole his 19th and 20th bases. Check out the newest of our DiamondCentric sites, Grand Central Mets. Check out their Top 20 Mets Prospect rankings. Several are members of this St. Lucie roster. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 3, FCL Braves 1 Box Score There wasn’t a lot of offense in this game, but the Twins were able to score two runs in the sixth inning to take the lead and hold on for the win. It also helps to have a young phenom throw well at the start of the game. Frederick Hiciano started and gave up one run on two hits over four innings. He hit a batter, walked none, and struck out six batters. Carter Holjes struck out three batters over the final three innings. He gave up no runs and no hits. He walked one and hit a batter to earn the Win. The Twins took the first lead in the top of the second when Darwin Almanzar singled to drive in Joyner Perez. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the fourth with a run. With one out in the top of the sixth, the Twins jumped ahead with some more traditional FCL runs. Yilber Herrera walked and advanced to third on a couple of wild pitches. Almanzar walked, and Daniel Pena was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Herrera scored on a ground out by Daiber De Los Santos, and Almanzar scored on a wild pitch to give them the 3-1 lead. Hiciano signed with the Twins on his 18th birthday. In late May, he was assigned to the FCL Twins from the DSL Twins. This is pretty rare. I can’t think of another pitcher in recent Twins history to have essentially skipped the DSL the year that he signed. I could be wrong. And frankly, he’s older than touted 2025 signings like Santiago Castellanos and acquisitions like Geromy Villoria and Miguel Caraballo. But it is exciting to see an 18-year-old get that opportunity to make that jump and take advantage of it by pitching quite well. Yovanny Duran and Darwin Almanzar each had two hits and a walk in the game. Duran hit his fourth double. Almanazar hit his second triple. Duran stole his 16th and 17th bases of the season. DSL Twins 0, DSL Phillies 7 (Suspended) Box Score Jendy Martinez led off the game for the Twins with a double. The next three batters struck out. And, it was downhill from there. The Phillies batters scored five runs in the first inning and two more in the second inning. The Twins had nine straight batters get out. And then the rains came, and after a delay, the game was suspended going into the bottom of the third inning. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids): 2-for-3, BB, 2B(14), K Pitcher(s) of the Day Frederick Hiciano (FCL Twins): 4 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 1 HBP, 6 K PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #4 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 2-for-3, BB, 2B(14), BB, R, K (batted second, played C). #5 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, 2B(1), K (batted second, played SS) #12 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4 (batted first, played 3B) #13 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 0-for-2, 2 BB (batted third, played C) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 1-for-5, HR(9), RBI, R, 3 K. (batted sixth, played SS) #18 - OF Yasser Mercedes (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, K (batted fifth, played RF) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 0-for-4, 2 K (batted first, played 2B) UPCOMING PROBABLES Friday, June 26 St. Paul @ Louisville (3:05 pm CT) - RHP John Klein (3-2, 5.52 ERA), RHP Ty Langenberg (2-2, 5.79 ERA) Wichita @ Midland (7:00 pm CT) - RHP Cory Lewis (0-2, 4.57 ERA) Cedar Rapids @ Wisconsin (6:40 pm CT) - RHP Ivran Romero (2-3, 9.63 ERA) St. Lucie @ Ft. Myers (6:05 pm CT) - RHP Jason Reitz (0-0, 2.63 ERA) FCL Twins @ FCL Red Sox (9:00 am CT) - completion of 6/20 game + regularly schedule game DSL Miami @ DSL Twins (10:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 38-44 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 4.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 43-33 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 4.0 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 26-44 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 20.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 31-38 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 11.5 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 41-30 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 0.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 21-17 (3rd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 1.5 GB)) DSL Twins: 6-11 (6th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 5.5 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Probably because Cedar Rapids didn't play on Sunday due to weather.

I wanna see Royce Lewis at 1B most days.

Image courtesy of Rob Thompson (photo of Cody Morissette) TRANSACTIONS Kyle DeBarge was activated from the temporarily inactive list. Poncho Ruiz was placed on the 7-Day injured list. RHP Abraham Martinez was signed to the Twins. He is a 17 year old from Venezuela who will join the DSL Twins roster soon. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 7, Omaha 6 (10 innings) Box Score For the second straight game, the Saints were able to win on a walkoff. The game truly was a back-and-forth game and came down to a two-out game-winner by a guy with less than a week with the team. Omaha scored a run in the top of the first inning. So in the bottom of the inning, Matt Wallner hit a one-out solo homer to tie the game at 1-1. It was his ninth Saints homer. Omaha scored a run in the top of the second inning. So, in the bottom of the inning, Cody Morissette led off with a home run, his second of the week with the team, to tie the game at 2-2. Omaha scored two runs in the top of the third inning. So, in the bottom of the inning, David Banuelos was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. With one out, Matt Wallner drilled his second homer of the game, his 10th with the Saints, to tie the game at 4-4. Omaha scored zero runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. So, the Saints scored zero runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth inning. Omaha scored a run in the top of the seventh inning. So, in the bottom of the seventh, Ben Ross led off with his 15th Saints double. With one out, Henry Kusiak’s fourth double drove in Ross. With two outs, Gabriel Gonzalez singled to center to drive in Kusiak with the go-ahead run to make it 6-5. Omaha scored a run in the top of the eighth inning. Having scored an extra run in the seventh, the Saints didn’t score in the bottom of the eighth frame. Both teams went scoreless in the ninth inning, so we got a little Overtime! Omaha went scoreless in the top of the tenth inning. Matt Wallner started the bottom of the 10th inning as the Manfred Man on second base. With one out, he stole third base. On 2-2 with two outs, Cody Morissette lined the eighth pitch of the at-bat to right field to drive in Wallner with the winning run. Ryan Gallagher made the start. He gave up four runs on seven hits (2 home runs) and two walks. He struck out three. C.J. Culpepper got a strikeout to end the fifth inning. Ty Langenberg came in and gave up two runs on four hits and two walks over three innings. He struck out three batters. Grant Hartwig struck out two batters over two scoreless innings. Wallner went 3-for-5 with his ninth and 10th home runs. He drove in three runs. Morissette went 3-for-5 with his second homer and the game-winner. Henry Kusiak went 2-for-4 with his fourth double. Ben Ross and David Banuelos each added a double. Ross also walked twice. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 3, Springfield 5 Box Score The Surge took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second innings when Jose Salas launched his sixth home run of the season. That was it for the Wichita offense until two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning when Kyle DeBarge hit his seventh home run of the season. DeBarge returned to the Wind Surge lineup after spending a few days on the temporary inactive list. Sam Armstrong made the start for the Surge. He gave up one run on three hits and a walk over the first five innings. He had five strikeouts. Important to note, he was pitching on just three days rest. In his two starts against Springfield this week, he gave up two runs (1 earned) on four hits and two walks. He had 10 strikeouts. He has now made five starts in June and his 1-1 with a 2.74 ERA in 23 innings. Sam Ryan came in and gave up only a solo home run over his two innings. Jaylen Nowlin gave up two runs (1 earned) on one hit and one walk. Jacob Webb gave up one run on a solo homer in the ninth. Wichita had just three hits and walked seven times in this game .Khadim Diaw walked twice. Salas and Maddux Houghton each had a hit and a walk. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 3, Beloit 9 Box Score Beloit scored five runs in the third and three more in the sixth inning to win a bit of a laugher in Iowa. Eston Stull started a bullpen game. He gave up three hits but no runs in the first two innings. He had three strikeouts and no walks. Veteran Jesse Bergin made his Kernels debut. He got two outs in the third inning and was charged with five runs on two hits, two walks and a hit batter. Michael Ross came in with the Kernels down 2-1.Two singles later, all three inherited runners scored and it was 5-1. Ross tossed three more innings and gave up three of his own runs on four more hits and a walk. Mitch Mueller gave up one run on one hit (a solo homer) over two innings. Ivran Romero pitched a scoreless ninth. The Kernels scored one run in three separate innings. In the bottom of the second, Yasser Mercedes singles, stole second and scored on a balk. In the fourth inning, Jay Thomason walked, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Miguel Briceno single. In the sixth Enrique Jimenez led off with a double and scored on a Thomason single. The Kernels had just five hits and two walks. Jimenez’s double was his first with the Kernels. Marek Houston and Walker Jenkins both got the day off. Could Houston be heading to Texas (Midland) to join the Wind Surge next week? Could Jenkins go with him, or should he just head north to St. Paul and join the Saints in Louisville next week? MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 13, Tampa 11 Box Score The Mussels had two big innings. The Tarpons had one big inning. The Mussels came out on top of a back-and-forth, entertaining game. Jason Reitz started and gave up two runs on four hits and a walk in 3 1/3 innings. He had three strikeouts. The runs came on solo homers by Logan Maxwell and Luis Escudero. The Mussels tied the score at one when Luis Fragoza scored on a wild pitch in the top of the third inning. Then down 2-1, Fort Myers put up a four on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth. Ryan Sprock led off with a single. He scored on a JP Smith single that tied the game at 2-2. Jayson Bass doubled to drive in Smith. Quentin Young then crushed a two-run homer to make it 5-2. Merit Jones came on and was changed with seven runs on eight hits and a walk over the next two innings. Jonathan Stevens went 1 1/3 innings and gave up two runs on four hits and two walks. After a six-run bottom of the sixth inning, the Mussels found themselves behind 9-5. How did Fort Myers respond? Pretty well, I’d say. They scored seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to reclaim the lead, 12-9. Irvin Nunez led off the inning with a walk. Merphy Hernandez walked too. After a pitching change, the runners advanced on a wild pitch. Dameury Pena singled to left to drive in Nunez. Sprock doubled to drive in two more runs. He moved to third on a wild pitch, and with one out, scored the tying run on a JP Smith "single." Jayson Bass was hit by a pitch, and Quentin Young walked to load the bases. Luis Fragoza drove in two runs with a single. After another pitching change, Nunez was hit by a pitch to load the bases again. After a fielder’s choice kept another run from scoring, a wild pitch gave the Mussels a 12-9 lead. In the top of the ninth, Bass provided a little insurance with his seventh home run of the season. Nick McAuliffe gave up a hit, walked three, and had struck out two batters over 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Brent Francisco got the final two outs to earn the save. Bass went 3-for-4 with his ninth double and seventh home run. He also threw out a runner at second base. Sprock went 2-for-5 with his eighth double. Smith was 2-for-5. The team was efficient. They were 6-for-11 with runners in scoring position, and they only left four runners on base. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 8, FCL Red Sox 1 (suspended in 4th inning) Box Score This game was delayed and eventually suspended due to rain in Fort Myers. There was one out in the top of the fourth inning. The Twins have runners on the corners and four runs already in. Of note, Adrian Bohorquez made a rehab start. He struck out two batters and walked one over two scoreless, hitless innings. In the top of the third inning, Daiber De Los Santos led off with a walk. Daniel Pena was then hit by a pitch. After a pitching change, Jhomnardo Reyes walked to load the bases. Carlos Taveras followed with a ground-rule double to drive in two runs. Yovanny Duran singled to drive in two more and give the Twins the 4-0 lead. The top of the fourth inning began with walks to Yilber Herrera and Darwin Almanzar. Jose Barrios reached on an error to lead the bases. De Los Santos walked again to make it 5-1. Daniel Pena singled to drive in two more runs. Reyes grounded into a force out, but De Los Santos scored to make it 8-1. And that’s when the game was delayed and ultimately suspended. The game will continue next Friday when the Twins make the short trek over to Jet Blue Stadium again. DSL Twins 5, DSL Rockies 4 Box Score The Twins jumped out to an early lead in the top of the first inning. Daiyer Barboza reached on an error. He proceeded to steal second and third bases. After Juan Holmann walked and Jhon Gonzalez was hit by a pitch, Anibal Beltre flew out, deep enough to score Barboza. The Rockies tied the game in the bottom of the second. The Twins responded by scoring two runs in the top of the third inning. Holmann led off with a walk. He stole second, and with two outs, he scored on a single by Abel Sosa. Sosa then stole second and scored on a Luis Duarte single. The Rockies cut the Twins lead to 3-2 with a run in the bottom of the third. The Twins responded by scoring two runs in the top of the fourth inning. Misael Rodriguez led off with a single and stole second base. He advanced to third base on a ground out. Holmann walked, and on the final pitch Rodriguez scored on a passed ball. Holmann stole second and later scored on a ground out to make it 5.2 Twins. The Rockies scored a single run in the bottom of the fourth, and another in the bottom of the seventh, but the Twins held on for the 5-4 win. Manuel Meza started and was charged with one run on three walks over two innings. He struck out two batters. 16-year-old Sebastian Echavarria was next on the mound. He gave up two runs (1 earned) on two hits and two walks in 1 1/3 innings. He struck out two. Juan Collado gave up one run on two hits over three innings. He had four strikeouts but walked five batters. Aldwin Morillo came on and got the final two outs, one on a strikeout, to record his first save. The Twins had five runs on seven hits and five walks. Luis Duarte went 2-for-4. Misael Rodriguez went 2-for-3. Juan Holmann walked three times. He stole his sixth and seventh bases. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Jayson Bass (Fort Myers): 3-for-5, 2B(9), HR(7), 3 R, 2 RBI, K Matt Wallner (St. Paul): 3-for-5, 2-HR(10), 3 R, 3 RBI, K, SB(2) Cody Morissette (St. Paul): 3-for-5, HR(2), R, 2 RBI, K. Pitcher(s) of the Day Sam Armstrong (Wichita): 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 5 K, 54 pitches, 38 strikes (70.4%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #4 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, 2 K (batted second, played DH). #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 1-for-5, RBI (batted first, played 1B) #12 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, 2 K (batted first, played SS) #13 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 0-for-3, 2 BB, K (batted second, played C) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 1-for-4, BB, HR(8), 2 RBI, R, 3 K. (batted sixth, played SS) #15 - RHP Ryan Gallagher (St. Paul) - 4 2/3 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 63 pitches, 44 strikes (69.8%) #17 - RHP C.J. Culpepper (St. Paul) - 1/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 5 pitches, 4 strikes (80.0%) #18 - OF Yasser Mercedes (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, R, K, SB(15) (batted fourth, played CF) #19 - 1B/3B Billy Amick (Wichita) - 0-for-4, 3 K (batted third, played DH) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 1-for-4, HR(7), R, RBI, K (batted sixth, played SS) UPCOMING PROBABLES Sunday, June 21 Omaha @ St. Paul (2:07 pm CT) - RHP Trent Baker (3-2, 5.52 ERA) Springfield @ Wichita (1:05 pm CT) - RHP Cory Lewis (0-2, 4.57 ERA) Beloit @ Cedar Rapids (1:05 pm CT) - LHP Dasan Hill (1-6, 6.82 ERA) Ft. Myers @ Tampa (11:00 am CT) - RHP Hendry Chivilli (0-1, 12.79 ERA) CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 37-41 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 4.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 42-31 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 3.5 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 25-41 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 19.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 31-35 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 10.0 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 38-29 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 2.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 19-16 (3rd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 1.5 GB)) DSL Twins: 6-9 (4th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 4.0 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Roden should play most every day. The Fedko situation is to start against lefties, late-inning defense, pinch run. He's been up for a week. He's made one start. Appears to be the lesser-playing-time platoon with Larnach, but Larnach is hitting well and he isn't being pinch hit for, even against lefties later in games. Roden could platoon with Martin in right, but Clemens has been doing that role, and he's not coming out of the lineup.

Image courtesy of William Parmeter (photo of JP Smith) TRANSACTIONS Orlando Arcia was outrighted to St. Paul on Thursday but officially re-joined the roster on Friday. RHP Drew Smith was released by the organization. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 6, Omaha 5 Box Score CHS Field hosted a game with several storylines from the first inning through the walk-off winner in the bottom of the ninth. Minnesotan Aaron Rozek made the start for the Saints, and he has been terrific this season. The southpaw tossed four innings and gave up two runs on five hits and a walk. He struck out two batters. Starting for the Storm Chasers was long-time Twins and Saints pitcher Randy Dobnak. The veteran gave up three runs on six hits and a walk over the first 4 1/3 innings. He had five strikeouts. Dobnak was traded to the Tigers with Chris Paddack at last year’s trade deadline. He became a free agent when the Tigers declined his option for the 2026 season. Very early in the offseason, Dobnak signed a minor-league deal with the Seattle Mariners. Last week, he had an “upward mobility” clause in his contract. The Mariners worked out a trade that sent Dobnak to the Royals organization. In the bottom of the first inning, Alan Roden led off with a single. Gabriel Gonzalez followed with another single. Following a fielder’s choice, Aaron Sabato stepped to the plate and launched his 14th home run of the season to give the Saints a 3-0 lead. C.J. Culpepper came in for the fifth inning. He gave up an unearned run on two hits in the inning. He had a strikeout. Kody Funderburk and Taylor Rashi each pitched a scoreless inning. In the bottom of the sixth, Orlando Arcia singled. He stole second and went to third base on an errant throw. He scored on a Ben Ross sacrifice fly which gave the Saints the 4-3 lead. Lefty Jake Higginbotham pitched the eighth inning. He gave up a bunt single, and then Abraham Toro gave the Storm Chasers a 5-4 lead. The next batter doubled, and that was followed by a walk. Things could have gone really bad for Higginbotham and the Saints, but the southpaw stepped up. He got a pop up and then struck out the next two batters to limit the damage and keep the Saints within one run. Raul Brito worked a scoreless top of the ninth for the Saints. With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Alan Roden drilled a ball 108.3 mph at a 26-degree angle. It landed 411 feet away from home plate and when Roden touched the plate, the game was tied at 5-5. Gabriel Gonzalez followed with his 10th double. Harry Genth pinch ran for him. Matt Wallner came to the plate and lined a single to right field which allowed Genth to easily score the game-winning run. Roden went 3-for-5 with his fifth home run. Gonzalez went 2-for-4 with a walk and his 10th double. Sabato went 2-for-4 with his 14th home run and three RBI. Wallner went 2-for-4 with a walk, his eighth double, and the walk-off single. The top four batters in the Saints lineup accounted for nine of the team’s 11 hits, five of the six runs, five of the six RBI, two of three walks. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 4, Springfield 10 Box Score Chris Vallimont originally came to the Twins in a 2019 trade deadline deal with Sergio Romo from the Marlins in exchange for Lewin Diaz. He stayed with the organization until May of 2022 when he was DFAd and claimed by the Orioles. About a year later, he received a call to the big leagues. He pitched in just one game and faced just two batters. He has been pitching in the Atlantic League the last couple of seasons. Last week, the Twins signed him. On Friday, he made his return to the Twins organization. Vallimont started and gave up one run on three hits, two walks, and a hit batter. Hunter Gregory came in and gave up four runs on five hits over 1 2/3 innings. Darren Bowen went two innings and was charged with three runs on five hits and a walk. Nick Mikolajchak worked the final two innings and gave up two runs on five hits. The Wind Surge scored four runs on five hits and seven walks. However, they were 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. Wichita was down 8-0 in the bottom of the seventh. Kala’i Rosario singled to lead off the inning. Garrett Spain followed with his 12th home run of the season. Spain also had two outfield assists. He threw out one batter at second and another at home. Andrew Cossetti hit his ninth home run to start the bottom of the eighth inning. Down 10-3 and with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Caleb Roberts was hit by a pitch, Cossetti walked, Khadim Diaw walked, and then Roberts scored when Billy Amick was hit by a pitch. Diaw was 1-for-2 with three walks. Cossetti was 1-for-2 with two walks and his ninth home run. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 2, Beloit 12 Box Score In the bottom of the first inning, Marek Houston led off with a walk. He stole second, his 24th steal of the season, and scored on a Walker Jenkins single. It was all Sky Carp after that. Garrett Horn started and gave up three runs on one hit (a homer) over the first two innings. He walked two batters, hit one, and had three strikeouts. Nick Trabacchi came in and gave up three runs on four hits, two walks and hit a batter in 2 1/3 innings. He struck out three batters. Brian Zeldin gave up three runs on one hit, three walks, and hit a batter in 1 2/3 innings. He struck out two batters. Adam Falinski gave up one run on one hit and two walks in one inning. Sam Rochard gave up two runs on three hits and a walk over the final two innings. The Kernels managed just two runs on four hits, although they also walked six times. Jenkins went 2-for-3. Eduardo Tait hit his 12th double. Enrique Jimenez had the second RBI on a bases-loaded walk. Marek Houston had three walks in the game. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 7, Tampa 8 Box Score The Mussels scored four runs in the top of the third inning to take a 4-1 lead. Tampa scored two in the bottom of the fifth inning and three more in the bottom of the seventh to take the 6-4 lead. Fort Myers cut the deficit to 6-5 with a run in the top of the eighth inning. But the Tarpons scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the 8-5 lead. The Mussels made a comeback in the top of the ninth inning. However, they fell just one run short. Ramiro Villanueva made the start for Fort Myers. He gave up three runs (1 earned) on three hits and a walk over 4 1/3 innings. He had six strikeouts. Jake Murray came on and allowed both inherited runners to score. He was also charged with two runs on one hit in 1 2/3 innings. He walked two and had two strikeouts. Dylan Questad allowed both of his inherited runners to score and gave up one run in the seventh inning on a solo homer. Mike McKenna came in and gave up two runs on three hits in the eighth inning. With two outs in the top of the third inning, Dameury Pena singled. Ryan Sprock followed with a single, and Ramiro Dominguez walked to load the bases. JP Smith came to the plate and drilled his eighth home run of the season, a grand slam that turned a 1-0 deficit into a 4-1 lead. The Mussels were down 6-4 through seven innings. In the top of the eighth, Sprock and Dominguez walked, and Smith reached on an infield single. Sprock scored on a double play ball. Another ground ball and the inning was over with the Mussels still down by a run. Going to the ninth, the Mussels were trailing 8-5. With one out, Merphy Hernandez reached on a bunt single. He stole second and went to third base on a wild pitch. Ricardo Pena was hit by a pitch. Jayson Bass pinch ran for him and stole second. Dameury Pena drove in Hernandez with a sacrifice fly. After a wild pitch, Sprock doubled to drive in Bass and cut the deficit to 8-7. Unfortunately, that’s as close as they got. JP Smith was 2-for-4 with his eighth homer and four RBI. Ramiro Dominguez walked three times. Ryan Sprock was 3-for-3 with two walks and his seventh double. As impressive, he was 6-for-6 in pitch challenges in the game too. (five as a catcher, one as a hitter) COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 3, FCL Red Sox 11 Box Score Putting crooked numbers on the scoreboard is very good. In this game, both teams scored in three innings. The Twins scored one in the third, one in the fourth, and one in the sixth inning. The Red Sox scored four in the first, two in the second, and five in the fourth inning. Down 6-0, the Twins got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third. Daiber De Los Santos led off with a walk. De Los Santos stole second. Carlos Taveras drove him in with his first triple. In the fourth, the Twins were down 11-1. With one out, Darwin Almanzar walked. He moved to second on a ground out. He stole third base and scored on a single by Jose Barrios. Carlos Taveras led off the bottom of the sixth with a walk. He went to second on a balk and then went to third on a passed ball. Later, he scored the team’s third and final run on a wild pitch. Veteran Eduardo Salazar made his second rehab appearance. He gave up four runs on four hits and recorded just two outs. Santiago Rojas came on and gave up seven runs (6 earned) on seven hits in three innings. He walked two and struck out two batters. Four of the seven hits were home run balls. Jack Walker came in and struck out four batters over 2 1/3 scoreless innings. He gave up no hits and just one walk. Infielder Yilber Herrera came on and walked one batter in a scoreless, hitless inning. DSL Twins 4, DSL Blue Jays 3 Box Score The Twins scored three runs in the top of the first inning. They added a run in the fourth and then hung on for a 4-3 win. With one out in the top of the first, Juan Holmann walked. He stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Enmanuel Merlo walked. Another wild pitch allowed Holmann to score and Merlo advanced to second. Merlo went to third base on a wild pitch. After a strikeout, Merlo scored. Guess how? Whoa! You’re good! Yes, he scored the inning’s second run on a wild pitch. Luis Duarte walked and went to second on a wild pitch. Luis Suarez walked. Runners advanced to second and third base on a balk. The team’s third run of the innings came … on a wild pitch. In the fourth inning, Suarez led off with a double. He advanced to third base on a balk. With one out, guess how he scored. Wrong! Ashwar Sprok lined a single to right field to drive in the team’s fourth run. 16-year-old Adrian Martinez made the start for the Twins. Coming into the game, he had thrown a combined 4 2/3 innings in his first two starts. On Friday, he more than doubled his career innings. He tossed five innings and gave up just two runs. He allowed five hits, hit a batter and walked two. Martinez earned his first win as a professional. Herkyn Taveras just turned 17 earlier this month. On Friday, he had his best outing to date. He tossed two innings and gave up only an unearned run on one hit and one hit batter. He had two strikeouts. Taveras earned his first career save. The Twins had just four hits and six walks. Three of the hits went for extra bases. Luis Suarez hit his second double. He also walked once. Misael Rodriguez hit his third double of the season. Anibal Beltre hit his first triple. Luis Duarte walked twice. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Alan Roden (St. Paul): 3-for-5, HR(5), R, RBI, K Matt Wallner (St. Paul): 2-for-4, BB, 2B(8), R, GW RBI, K Aaron Sabato (St. Paul): 2-for-4, HR(14), R, 3 RBI, K. Ryan Sprock (Fort Myers): 3-for-3, 2 BB, 2B(7), 2 R, RBI. JP Smith II (Fort Myers): 2-for-4, HR(8), 4 RBI, R, K. Pitcher(s) of the Day Adrian Martinez (DSL Twins): 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 3 K, first pro Win. PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #1 - OF Walker Jenkins (St. Paul) - Rehab in CR: 2-for-3, RBI (batted second, played CF) #4 - LHP Connor Prielipp (Minnesota) - 6 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 97 pitches, 63 strikes (64.9%) #5 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, 2B(12) (batted fourth, played C). #7 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-1, 3 BB, R, SB(24), CS(2) (batted first, played SS) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 2-for-4, BB, 2B(10), R, (batted second, played LF) #17 - RHP C.J. Culpepper (St. Paul) - 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 17 pitches, 11 strikes (64.7%) #19 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 1-for-2, 3 BB (batted second, played DH) UPCOMING PROBABLES Saturday, June 20 Omaha @ St. Paul (6:37 pm CT) - RHP Ryan Gallagher (2-0, 8.00 ERA) Springfield @ Wichita (6:05 pm CT) - RHP Sam Armstrong (1-5, 5.02 ERA) Beloit @ Cedar Rapids (6:35 pm CT) - RHP Eston Stull (1-0, 6.75 ERA) Ft. Myers @ Tampa (5:30 pm CT) - RHP Merit Jones (2-1, 2.86 ERA) FCL Twins @ FCL Red Sox (9:00 am CT) - DSL Twins @ DSL Rockies (9:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 36-41 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 4.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 41-31 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 4.5 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 25-40 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 18.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 31-34 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 9.0 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 37-29 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 2.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 19-16 (2nd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 2.0 GB)) DSL Twins: 5-9 (5th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 4.0 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Image courtesy of Malamut Photography (photos of Jacob McCombs, Eduardo Tait) TRANSACTIONS RHP Jesse Bergin was assigned to the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Outfielder Ricardo Paez was assigned to the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels. Both players were with the FCL Twins. The Mussels also placed RHP Matthew Dalquist on the seven-day injured list. Finally, infielder Orlando Arcia was outrighted after clearing waivers and sent to the Saint Paul Saints. SAINTS SENTINEL Game 1: St. Paul 4, Omaha 12 Box Score Game 1 today as St Paul was pretty ugly for the hometown team. They gave up two runs in the first inning, four in the fourth inning, and five in the sixth inning on their way to a 12-4 loss to Omaha. For the Saints, Gabriel Gonzalez was 2-for-3 with a walk. He also hit his 11th home run of the season. The Saints team had just six hits, and they walked four times. The only other extra base hits included a Noah Cardenas home run, his fourth of the season, and Ben Ross doubled for the 14th time in a Saints uniform. On the mound, Austin Voth started and went four innings. He gave up six runs (5 earned) on six hits and two walks. He had five strikeouts. Grant Hartwig struck out two in a scoreless fifth inning Then rehabbing Kendry Rojas came in. He gave up five runs on five hits and a walk in just 1 1/3 innings. Drew Smith came on and got the final two outs but not before giving up another run on two hits. Game 2: St. Paul 4, Omaha 12 Box Score Game 2 started out well for the Saints. Ricky Castro threw a zero on the board in the top of the first, and Ben Ross led off the bottom half of the first inning with a home run, his fifth with the Saints. However, Castro gave up three runs in the top of the second inning, but the Saints were able to match that in the bottom of the third frame when Henry Kusiak came to the plate with the bases loaded and knocked his third Saints double to clear the bases and give his team a 4-3 lead. Ricky Castro gave up three runs on four hits and two walks in two innings. He struck out two batters. John Klein came in and went the next three innings. He gave up three runs on four hits (2 homers). He struck out five batters without issuing a walk. Alejandro Hidalgo walked one and struck out two batters in a scoreless inning. Marco Raya struck out two batters in a perfect seventh inning. The Saints had eight hits in the second game. Gabriel Gonzalez went 3-for-3 and was hit by a pitch. Cody Morissette was 1-for-2 with two walks. Tanner Schobel hit his 12th double. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 6, Springfield 8 Box Score This was an interesting game in Wichita on Thursday night. The Cardinals scored six runs in the top of the third inning. However, the Wind Surge responded in the bottom of the fourth inning with five runs of their own. From there, however, things settled in, and Wichita was never able to tie the game up or take the lead and Springfield won the game 8-6. Preston Johnson made the start for the wind surge the right hander fell to oh and three. He gave up six earned runs on four hits and two walks in just two and 1/3 innings. Sam Ryan came on in relief and got five outs. He gave up three hits but no walks and no runs. Jose Olivares came in for the fifth inning and walked four batters to give up a run in his one inning pitched. Paulshawn Pasqualotto settled things down. He struck out two over two perfect innings in relief. Jacob Webb gave up a run on two hits and two walks in his inning. Lefty Zach Vennaro struck out three batters in his half of the ninth inning. Down 6-0 going to the bottom of the fourth inning, the Wind Surge mounted their one big rally of the game. Kala’i Rosario singled up the middle to lead things off. After a ground out moved Rosario to second base, Jorel Ortega flew out to right field, deep enough for Rosario to advance to third base. Two outs and a runner on third base, Jose Salas hit his fifth double of the season to drive in Rosario and put the Surge on the scoreboard. Maddux Houghton followed with a walk, and Quinn McDaniel was hit by a pitch to load the bases. That's when Andrew Cossetti stepped up to the plate and drilled his eighth home run of the year, a grand slam that cut the wind surge deficit to just one run. The next three batters walked (Khadim Diaw, Billy Amick, and Rosario), but they were unable to score that tying run. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Ortega hit his third home run of the season but that only made it 7-6 Cardinals. That was the last of the Wind Surge scoring opportunities. The Wind Surge scored their six runs on eight hits and six walks. Jose Salas was the lone Wichita batter with a multi-hit game. He was 2-for-4 with a double. Diaw was 1-for-3 and walked twice. Houghton added his third triple. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 13, Beloit 10 Box Score This was another crazy game in Cedar Rapids on Thursday night. There have been a lot of unique, high scoring, back-and-forth games throughout the minor leagues the last few weeks, but several have happened in Cedar Rapids. Down 3-0, the Cedar Rapids Kernels scored seven runs in the bottom of the second inning. With one out, Enrique Jimenez started things with a single. With two outs, Caden Kendle walked. Jacob McCombs came up next and drilled his fourth home run of the season to tie the game at 3-3. One pitch later, Danny De Andrade followed with his seventh home run of the season to give the Kernels a 4-3 lead. With the bases cleared, Marek Houston singled to right field and stole second base. Walker Jenkins walked. Brandon Winokur singled to left to drive in Houston and make it a 5-3 game. Eduardo Tait drove in Jenkins and Winokur with a double to give the Kernels the 7-3 lead. Beloit scored a run in the top of the third, but the Kernels added on in the bottom of the fifth inning. Winokur led off the inning with a double off the wall in right field. He scored when Tait lined a single to center and made it 8-4 Cedar Rapids. After one out, there was a pitching change. Jay Thomason welcomed the new pitcher with a walk as did Caden Kendle to load the bases. McCombs followed by singling to center field which drove in two more runs and gave the Kernels a 10-4 lead. But the game wasn't over. In the top of the seventh, Beloit scored a run making it a 10-5 game. But the Kernels added another three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. It all started with two outs. Graham Brown walked, and Brandon Winokur reached on catcher's interference. That brought Tait to the plate, and he launched his 14th home run of the season to give the Kernels a 13-5 lead. This is the Midwest League. Games aren't over until the last out is recorded. The Sky Carp weren’t quitting. They scored five runs in the top of the ninth, but the Kernels had plenty of cushion and hung on for the 13-10 win. Lefty Cesar Lares started for Cedar Rapids. In 3 1/3 innings, he gave up four runs (3 earned) on four hits. He walked two batters and struck out two batters. Xavier Kolhosser came in and tossed 2 1/3 scoreless innings. He gave up just one hit, walked one, and struck out two batters. Nolan Santos gave up one run in the sixth inning on a hit and two walks. Yehizon Sanchez pitched a scoreless eighth inning, but he faced four batters in the ninth inning. All four reached, and all four scored. Mitch Mueller came on to get the final three outs, but not before he allowed all three inherited runners plus a run of his own to score. Eduardo Tait and Jacob McCombs were the heroes on offense. Tait went 3-for-5 with his 11th double and 14th home run. He scored twice and had six RBI. McCombs went 2-for-4 with his fourth home run. He had five RBI in the game. Brandon Winokur was the other Kernels hitter that had a multi-hit game He went 2-for-4 with his 11th double He scored three runs. Walker Jenkins went 1-for-3 with a walk as his rehab continues. De Andrade's home run was his seventh of the season. Houston's stolen base was his 23rd of the season. MIGHTY MATTERS Ft. Myers 16, Tampa 5 Box Score Did I mention earlier that there have been a lot of runs scored in Minor League Baseball recently? It is interesting to note that some online are starting to research and investigate if the baseball's used in minor-league games in 2026 are different than they have been in the past. I'll let smarter people than me try to figure all that out, I just enjoy watching all the runs score… when they're being scored by the Twins affiliates Through two innings, this game was scoreless. After that, the Mussels scored in five of their next six innings and went on to a 16-5 win. They scored three runs in the third inning, three in the fifth inning, four in the seventh inning, and five in the eighth inning. Oh, they had a one run fourth inning too (if you want to count that!). Fort Myers scored their 16 runs on 20 hits and six walks. It will come as no surprise that Dameury Pena led the way by going 4-for-6. Byron Chourio went 3-for-4 with a walk and his second home run. He drove in four runs. Ramiro Dominguez went 2-for-4 with a walk and three RBI. Jayson Bass had two hits. Luis Fragoza was 3-for-5 and scored three runs. He hit his eighth double. Ricardo Paez was 2-for-4 with two walks. He scored three runs and hit two doubles. Ryan Sprock came off the bench and went 2-for-2 with his sixth double and his fourth home run, a three-run blast. In addition, Fort Myers stole seven bases, including two by Dominguez who now has 15 on the season. Nine out of the 10 Mussels batters had at least one hit in the game. Most had more than one. So we won't mention that Quentin Young went 0-for-6 with five strikeouts. Don't forget that he hit home runs in his last two games. Kolten Smith started. He gave up two runs on three hits and two walks over 3 1/3 innings. He had five strikeouts. Brent Francisco came on and gave up only a walk over 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Eric Hammond gave up two runs on three hits over two innings. He walked one and had two strikeouts. Michael Hilker gave up one run on two hits over his two innings. He walked on and had two strikeouts. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 9, FCL Rays 3 Box Score In an unusual turn, the score of this FCL game was 1-1 going into the fifth inning. However, the Twins scored three in the top of the fifth and three more in the sixth inning and then added one more run in each the seventh and eighth innings to take a commanding lead and an eventual win over the Rays. On the mound to start for the FCL Twins was Frederick Hiciano. The 18-year-old gave up one run on one hit in 2 1/3 innings. He walked three and had four strikeouts. Carter Holjes came on and gave up two runs on two hits and a walk over the next 3 1/3 innings. He had one strikeout. Brad Rudis came in and was a hit batter from three perfect innings. He recorded three strikeouts. Jake Covey got the final out of the game after issuing a walk. The Twins scored their first run in the top of the fourth inning. Back-to-back-to-back singles by Miguel Caraballo, Carlos Taveras, and Teilon Serrano scored the first run. In the top of the fifth inning, Daiber De Los Santos walked. Following a pitching change, Yovanny Duran singled him to third base. Jhomnardo Reyes followed by reaching on a fielding error by the left fielder. De Los Santos scored. However, Duran was thrown out at third. That brought Miguel Caraballo to the plate, and he drilled his fourth home run of the short season to give the Twins the 4-1 lead. You might recall Caraballo came to the Twins in the infamous Daniel Susac trade in December. The top of the sixth inning started with a Darwin Almanzar walk. Jose Barrios doubled to advance him to third base. Following another De Los Santos walk, the bases were loaded, and the Rays made a pitching change. Duran walked to score Almanzar with the first run of the inning. Then Reyes was hit by a pitch to score the second run. The third run scored on a wild pitch. Welcome to FCL baseball! In the top of the seventh inning, Jose Barrios’s first Stateside home run gave the Twins an 8-3 lead. The 18-year-old had two homers last season in the DSL. In the top of the eighth inning, Caraballo walked and stole second. With one out, he stole third base. And after a Serrano walk, they executed a successful double steal with Caraballo stealing home to record his third steal of the inning, and his 10th stolen base of the season. The Twins scored their nine runs on 12 hits and nine walks. Duran went 3-for-5 with a walk. Caraballo was 2-for-5 with a walk and his fourth home run. Tavares was 2-for-5 with his fourth double. Serrano was 2-for-4 with his third triple. Barrios was 2-for-5 including his fifth double and first home run. De Los Santos walked three times. DSL Twins 1, DSL Diamondbacks 2 Box Score I may have to whisper-type about this game. I'm not sure if scoring just three total runs in a game is actually legal to write about or talk about much less play. So this could be quick. Both teams scored a single run in the third inning. The Diamondbacks affiliate scored a single run in the top of the seventh to take a 2-1 lead, and that's what the final score was. In the bottom of the first inning, the Twins got a leadoff double from Jendy Martinez. With one out, he went to third on a balk. He was left stranded. In the second inning, Abel Sosa, Jeferson Abreu, and Fabian Ulloa all walked to load the bases but the team was unable to score again. Like Diamondbacks in the top of the third, the Twins got on the board in the bottom of the third. Daiyer Barboza was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. He went to second on a wild pitch. Jhon Gonzalez grounded out to first base for the first out, but Barboza advanced to third. And in dramatic fashion, he scored on a wild pitch. Anibal Beltre followed with a single as if to show that he could have driven in the run himself. However, opportunities just stopped arriving after that. They had two consecutive 1-2-3 innings. Beltre singled to lead off the sixth inning, but he was unable to advance even to second base. Diamondbacks prospect Ismael Mejia led off the top of the seventh inning with his first home run which gave them a 2-1 lead. That takes us to the bottom of the seventh inning. The first two batters flew out. But Jendy Martinez followed with a line drive double to center field. Unfortunately, he attempted to make it a triple, and a perfect center field-to-shortstop-to-third baseman relay ended the threat before it even really started. 19-year-old Fernando Hernandez started for the Twins. He gave up one run on three hits over the first 2 2/3 innings. He struck out two batters. Yolcar Garcia was next for the Twins. The 18-year-old tossed 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief. He gave up one hit, walked one and had four strikeouts. Alam Soriano came in for the seventh inning and gave up the solo homer and a double, but just one run, in the inning. The Twins scored their one run on four hits and three walks. Martinez hit his fifth and sixth doubles. Beltre went 2-for-3. And the walks came back-to-back-to-back in the second inning. . PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul): 5-for-6, HBP, HR(11), 2 R, 1 RBI, K. Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids): 3-for-5, 2B(1!), HR(14), 2 R, 6 RBI. Jacob McCombs (Cedar Rapids): 2-for-4, HR(4), R, 5 RBI, K. Dameury Pena (Fort Myers): 4-for-6, R, SB(19). Byron Chourio (Fort Myers): 3-for-4, BB, HR(2), 3 R, 4 RBI, SB(14). Pitcher(s) of the Day Brad Rudis (FCL Twins): 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 HBP, 3 K, 51 pitches, 32 strikes (62.7%) Yolcar Garcia (DSL Twins): 3 1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K. PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #1 - OF Walker Jenkins (St. Paul) - Rehab in CR: 1-for-3, BB, R, K (batted second, played CF) #5 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 3-for-5, 2B(11), HR(14), 2 R, 6 RBI, K (batted fourth, played DH). #7 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-5, R, K, SB(23) (batted first, played SS) #9 - LHP Kendry Rojas (Minnesota) - Rehab in SP, Game 1: 1 1/3 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 33 pitches, 22 strikes (66.7%) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - Game 1: 2-for-3, BB, HR(11), R, RBI, K (batted second, played 1B, Game 2: 3-for-3, HBP, R, (batted second, played DH) #12 - RHP Andrew Morris (Minnesota) - 2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 8 pitches, 5 strikes (62.5%). #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 0-for-6, 5 K (batted third, played DH) #15 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 2-for-4, 3 R, RBI, E(10) (batted third, played 3B) #19 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Wichita) - 1-for-3, 2 BB (batted second, played C) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - Temporary Inactive List UPCOMING PROBABLES Friday, June 19 Omaha @ St. Paul (7:07 pm CT) - LHP Aaron Rozek (1-0, 2.53 ERA) vs Randy Dobnak making his first start since being traded from the Mariners to the Royals. Springfield @ Wichita (6:35 pm CT) - The Return of RHP Chris Vallimont (0-0, 0.00 ERA) Beloit @ Cedar Rapids (6:35 pm CT) - LHP Garrett Horn (0-0, 2.08 ERA) Ft. Myers @ Tampa (5:30 pm CT) - RHP Ramiro Villanueva (0-2, 4.55 ERA) FCL Red Sox @ FCL Twins (11:00 am CT) - DSL Twins @ DSL Blue Jays (10:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 36-40 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 4.5 GB)) (The first half of the minor league seasons ended on Thursday. None of the Twins affiliates are first-half champions, so they'll have to win the second half title to make the playoffs.) St. Paul Saints: 40-29 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 4.5 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 25-39 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 17.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 31-33 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 9.0 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 37-28 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 2.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 19-15 (2nd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 1.0 GB)) DSL Twins: 4-9 (6th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 5.0 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

The plan at catcher is to have a whole bunch of catchers who can play in the big leagues. There will be injuries. There will be struggles. But if they can get one or two of them up to the big leagues, that's a huge success. Diaw moved up to Double-A. My assumption is he'll catch 2-3 days per week there, probably play a couple of games in CF and maybe DH a day. As for Tait and Jimenez, it's possible that they will just alternate at catcher and DH most of the time with each catching 2-3 games per week. Luis Hernandez will then likely catch one game per week.

Please add: Miguel Caraballo, Dameury Pena, Ricardo Olivar I believe Yasser Mercedes and Enrique Jimenez are two others in my top 20 that weren't in the current top 20, but I think they're pickable.

Image courtesy of Ed Bailey, Wichita Wind Surge (photo of Kala'i Rosario) TRANSACTIONS A couple of priority 2025 non-drafted signings (meaning they were signed within a day of the conclusion of the draft) flip-flopped assignments on Friday. Ian Daugherty went from Cedar Rapids to St. Paul, and Luis Hernandez went from St. Paul to Cedar Rapids. Speaking of catchers, the Twins activated Carlos Silva from the Injured List and he was released. He received a seven-digit signing bonus from the Twins in 2021 but struggled in two seasons in the DSL and last year in the FCL A couple of utilitymen switched places on Friday too. Quinn McDaniel has been impressive since he was signed from the independent leagues about a month ago. After about a week in Fort Myers, he moved up to Cedar Rapids. After just a couple of weeks in Iowa, he’s heading to Kansas to join the Wind Surge. Miguel Briceno returns to the Kernels. RHP MItch Mueller was promoted from Fort Myers to Cedar Rapids. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 10, Toledo 9 Box Score After the teams battled to a 1-0 final score on Thursday, they combined for 19 runs on 30 hits in this game. The Saints scored two in the first, second and fourth innings, and had scored three runs in the fifth. Toledo scored two in the third and three in the fifth, and had five, one-run innings. But the Saints managed to find a way to win. Matt Wallner went 2-for-4. He was hit by a pitch and added his seventh Saints home run. Henry Kusiak went 2-for-3 with his first Triple-A hit and his first Triple=A double. He also had a sacrifice fly.. Kaelen Culpepper went 3-for-4 with a walk, his 11th double, and his first triple. He stole his 15th base. Ben Ross hit his 11th double and had a walk. Aaron Sabato singled and walked. Tanner Schobel hit his 10th double while Gabriel Gonzalez hit his ninth double. Noah Cardenas walked twice. Ty Langenberg started. He gave up four runs (3 earned) on seven hits and two walks in three innings. Grant Hartwig gave up two hits but struck out two batters in a scoreless inning. John Klein gave up three runs on two hits and two walks in 2/3 of an inning. Jake Higginbotham gave up one run on two hits (1 homer) in 1 1/3 innings. Alejandro Hidalgo gave up a hit and issued a walk in a scoreless inning. Kody Funderburk gave up a run on three hits in his inning. He struck out two batters. Trent Baker got the save. He gave up two hits in a scoreless ninth inning. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 14, Tulsa 0 Box Score This game was over pretty quickly. The Surge scored three runs in the first inning and four more in the second. After a mini-break, they scored five fifth inning runs and two more in the sixth inning. They were also helped by four Drillers errors. And frankly, it could have been much more lopsided. The Surge went 8-for-28 with runners in scoring position and left 15 runners on base. However, five pitchers combined on a five-hit, three-walk shutout, so let’s start there. Cory Lewis started and struck out seven batters in four innings. He gave up two hits and a walk. Nick Mikolajchak pitched a scoreless fifth inning. Jaylen Nowlin struck out two batters in the sixth. Darren Bowen had four strikeouts over two relief innings. Sam Ryan got the final three outs, two of them on strikeouts. It’s been a slow start for Kala’i Rosario this year. He’s spent time on the Injured List, but he appears to be heating up here in mid-June. On Friday night, he went 5-for-6 with his fourth double, ninth home run, three runs scored and four RBI. He also stole his eighth base. Caleb Roberts went 3-for-5 with two stolen bases and four runs scored. Cody Morissette went 2-for-5 with two walks and four runs scored. He hit his first double. Billy Amick went 2-for-5 with his seventh doubles, his 15th home run, and four RBI. Poncho Ruiz and Maddux Houghton each had a single and walked twice. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 4, Lansing 8 Box Score The Kernels fell behind early, and the Lugnuts just kept adding on. They scored in the first three innings, four of the first five innings, and five of the first seven innings. The Kernels scored three of their runs in the final two innings, but it wasn’t nearly enough. Cesar Lares was back on the mound on Friday night. The things that he did so well in his first Kernels start last weekend, he was unable to do in this game. After no walks in his first start, the lefty walked five batters in this one. Combined with just two hits, he gave up four runs over the first three innings. He had three strikeouts. Illustrating that key point, just 31 of Lares’s 67 pitches were strikes (46.3%). The Kernels had just six hits and three walks in the game. Marek Houston went 2-for-4 with a walk. He is now hitting .311. Brandon Winkour had the lone extra base hit, a fourth-inning solo home run that put the team on the scoreboard. Cole Peschl came to the mound for the next three innings. He gave up two unearned runs on two hits and a walk. Nolan Santos was charged with two runs on two hits and a walk in the seventh inning. Nick Trabacchi gave up two hits and walked a batter, but no runs crossed the plate in his inning. Jacob McCombs had a single and a walk. Harry Genth went 0-for-2 but walked and, of course, he was hit by a pitch. MIGHTY MATTERS Game 1: Ft. Myers 5, Dunedin 10 Box Score The Mussels opponent this week is the Dunedin Blue Jays, Low-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. Check out Jays Centre for much more on the Blue Jays organization. Four players who were key in this game are among the Jays Centre Top 20 Prospects. If you’re interested in checking out our other DiamondCentric team sites, click here. And if you’re interested in writing at one or more of them, let us know. This game resumed in the fifth inning on Thursday because of weather. As a reminder, Justin Mitrovich has been fantastic and was again on Thursday night. In 4 1/3 scoreless innings, he gave up four hits, walked one and had four strikeouts. He also hit a batter. His ERA has dropped to 0.72. When the game was delayed, he left a runner on first base. The run scored on Friday, so Mitrovich was charged with one run. The Mussels lone run on Thursday came on a sacrifice fly by Graham Brown. When the game resumed, Jonathan Stevens came in. He gave up two hits over 2 1/3 scoreless innings. He had two strikeouts. Michael McKenna came on and got the final out of the seventh inning. Extra innings began in the eighth inning with a 1-1 game. McKenna allowed the Manfred Man to score in the top of the innings. In the bottom of the eighth Irvin Nunez began the eighth as the Mussels’ Manfred Man. Dameury Pena moved him to third base with a ground out to second base. Enrique Jimenez walked. Byron Chourio pinch-ran for him and stole second base. Ramiro Dominguez followed with a long home run to give his team the 4-2 walk off win. Dominguez went 2-for-4 with his first double and sixth home run. He had two of the team’s three hits, and three of their four RBI. Jimenez was 1-for-2 with two walks. Game 2: Ft. Myers 4, Dunedin 3 Box Score The regularly scheduled game became a seven-inning game as well. Luis Fragoza got the offense started in the second innings with his fifth home run. Kolten Smith started and gave up three runs in the top of the third. He gave up three runs on three hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings overall. He managed five strikeouts as well. Jake Murray got the final out of the fourth inning and pitched a scoreless fifth. Dylan Questad struck out two batters in a scoreless inning. Michael Hiliker gave up two hits and a walk in the bottom of the seventh but kept the Blue Jays off the board to earn the save. With Ryan Sprock on first base in the bottom of the third, Alan Roden hit his first home run with the Mussels to tie the game at 3-3. In the bottom of the fifth innings, Murphy Hernandez led off with a single. With one out, Roden walked. Hernandez stole third base and scored on an Enrique Jimenez sacrifice fly. The Mussels had just six hits and two walks. Roden had a walk to go with his home run. Jimenez walked to go with his sacrifice fly. COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 7, FCL Red Sox 6 Box Score Down 6-0 after four innings, the Twins scored one in the sixth and then six in the seventh inning to take the surprising win. They had just three hits in the game. They were helped by 12 walks. Danny Almanzar had the lone extra base hit, his fourth double. He walked twice. Yilber Herrera had a single and two walks. Victor Leal was 0-for-1 with three walks. Yovanny Duran walked twice. Santiago Castellanos started but recorded just two outs. He gave up a run, no hits, but he walked four batters. Santiago Rojas worked the next three innings and gave up five runs on four hits and six walks. He struck out four. Carter Holjes worked the final 3 1/3 innings. He gave up no runs, one hit and one walk. He struck out two batters. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Kala’i Rosario (Wichita): 5-for-6, 2B(4), HR(9), 3 R, 4 RBI Pitcher(s) of the Day Cory Lewis (Wichita): 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K, 60 pitches, 38 strikes (63.3%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #2 - IF Kaelen Culpepper (St. Paul) - 3-for-4, BB, 2B(11), 3B(1), 2 R, 3 RBI, K, SB(15) (batted first, played SS) #5 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-5 (batted second, played catcher). #7 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 2-for-4, BB, RBI, 2 K (batted first, played SS) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 1-for-5, 2B(9) (batted fourth, played DH) #12 - RHP Andrew Morris (Minnesota) - 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, 9 pitches, 6 strikes (66.7%) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - Game 1: 0-for-3, 3 K (batted sixth, played SS), Game 2: 0-for-3, 2 K (batted sixth, played SS) #15 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 1-for-4, HR(8), R, RBI, 2 K (batted third, played CF #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 0-for-4, BB, HBP, 2 K, 2 SB(19), batted sixth, played SS) UPCOMING PROBABLES Saturday, June 13 St. Paul @ Toledo (6:05 pm CT) - LHP Aaron Rozek (0-0, 2.77 ERA) Wichita @ Tulsa (7:00 pm CT) - RHP Preston Johnson (0-1, 5.59 ERA), Cedar Rapids @ Lansing (6:05 pm CT) - LHP Garrett Horn (0-0, 1.50 ERA) Dunedin @ Ft. Myers (5:05 pm CT) - RHP Ramiro Villanueva (0-1, 3.09 ERA) FCL Red Sox @ FCL Twins (9:00 am CT) - RHP Adrian Bohorquez (Rehab) DSL Twins @ DSL Tigers (8:00 am CT) - RHP Adrian Martinez CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 31-39 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 6.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 37-29 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 4.5 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 23-36 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 16.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 28-32 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 9.5 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 35-26 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 3.0 GB)) FCL Twins: 16-13 (2nd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 3.0 GB)) DSL Twins: 3-5 (4th place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 3.0 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article

Image courtesy of Rob Thompson (photo of Gabriel Gonzalez) TRANSACTIONS RHP Jacob Wosinski was released by the Wind Surge. RHP Christian Becerra went on the Kernels seven-day injured list. RHP Nick McAuliffe was moved to the Mighty Mussels roster from the FCL Twins roster. SAINTS SENTINEL St. Paul 1, Toledo 0 Box Score Now this was definitely a pitcher’s duel. Through eight innings, it was a 0-0 game. So to start, let’s jump right to the ninth inning. With one out in the top of the ninth, Gabriel Gonzalez launched his 10th home run of the season. He got a hanging sweeper on 2-0 and uncoiled on it. 32 degrees at 102.3 mph, and the ball traveled 401 feet. Five Saints pitchers combined on the nine-inning shutout. Austin Voth started. He gave up three hits and four walks over 4 2/3 scoreless innings. He worked out of tough situations thanks to eight strikeouts. Drew Smith got the final out of the fifth inning. C.J. Culpepper gave up a hit and a walk and struck out one over two innings. Taylor Rashi struck out two batters in a perfect eighth inning to earn the Win in his Saints debut. Raul Brito got the ninth inning, and he struck out two batters and got a Max Clark ground out to earn the save. The Saints batters had five hits and three walks. Obviously the Gonzalez home run was the big hit in the game. Aaron Sabato added his 17th double. Kaelen Culpepper and Ben Ross each went 1-for-3 with a walk. Ross stole his fourth base. WIND SURGE WISDOM Wichita 6, Tulsa 7 Box Score I feel like there has to be an old school country song about a long night in Tulsa. Thursday night was a long night in Tulsa at least for those involved in this ball game. The game was delayed an hour and five minutes by the weather. The Wind Surge got on the scoreboard in the top of the first inning. Andrew Cossetti scored when Kala’i Rosario reached on an error. Newcomer Cody Moissette joined the Surge on Thursday and went 0-for-5 in his Twins organization debut. In the top of the second inning, the leadoff batter came up with Maddux Houghton on second base. He recorded his first hit, his first home run, his first run and his first two RBI in a Wichita uniform. Then in the top of the fourth, he came up with Miguel Briceno on second. He singled to right field to drive him in. Kala’i Rosario led off the top of the fifth inning with a walk. He stole second and went to third on a throwing error. After Jaime Ferrer was hit by a pitch, Jorel Ortega drove in Rosario with a deep fly ball to center field. Sam Armstrong made the start and went the first four innings. He gave up three runs on three hits and two walks. He had five strikeouts. Paulshawn Pasqualotto went the next two innings. He gave up two runs (1 earned) on two hits and a walk. He had three strikeouts. William Fleming issued a walk in a scoreless seventh inning. Kyle Bischoff threw a scoreless eighth inning. The game headed to the ninth inning tied at 5-5. With two outs in the top of the ninth, Rosario drilled his eighth homer of the season to give the Surge a 6-5 lead. Bischoff returned to the mound in the bottom of the ninth. He got the leadoff man out on a fly ball. The next batters reached on an error. Josue De Paula singled the lead runner to third. A walk loaded the bases. Then a walk tied the game at 6-6. Bischoff got a strikeout for the second out. Unfortunately, the second unearned run of the inning scored when Bischoff hit Griffin Lockwood-Powell to end the game. Rosario went 2-for-3 with two walks, two runs, two RBI and his eighth homer. Morissette went 2-for-5 with three RBI and his first homer. Miguel Briceno went 2-for-4. KERNELS CHRONICLE Cedar Rapids 4, Lansing 7 Box Score A four-run bottom of the eighth turned a nice, tidy game into a tough loss to the Lugnuts in Lansing. Lansing took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Khadim Diaw led off the top of the second inning with a double. Jay Thomason singled him to third. Thomason stole his 16th base. Diaw scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 1-1. With one out in the top of the fourth inning, Diaw dropped his second double of the game. Thomason singled to drive him in and make it 2-1. Quinn McDaniel led off the top of the fifth inning with his second Kernels home run. Riley Quick made the start for Cedar Rapids. He gave up three runs on four hits. He walked two and had a career-high nine strikeouts in a career-high 4 2/3 innings. Adam Falinski came on and tossed 2 1/3 scoreless innings. He gave up no hits, walked three and had two strikeouts. Marek Houston led off the top of the eighth inning with a single off of the pitcher. He then stole second. With two outs, Diaw came through again. Sometimes it's not about exit velocity! His infield single gave the Kernels the 4-3 lead. Xavier Kolhosser came in for the bottom of the eighth. He gave up four runs on three hits and a walk. He had two strikeouts. Khadim Diaw went 3-for-4 with his 14th and 15th doubles. Jay Thomason went 2-for-3 and was hit by a pitch. Marek Houston went 2-for-4 with his 18th and 19th stolen bases. In the first three games of this series in Lansing, Diaw is 7-for-13 with two doubles, two home runs, four runs scored, and four RBI. MIGHTY MATTERS Game 1: Ft. Myers 5, Dunedin 10 Box Score The Mussels opponent this week is the Dunedin Blue Jays, Low-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. Check out Jays Centre for much more on the Blue Jays organization. Four players who were key in this game are among the Jays Centre Top 20 Prospects. If you’re interested in checking out our other DiamondCentric team sites, click here. And if you’re interested in writing at one or more of them, let us know. This game was actually a good baseball game, until it wasn’t, which happened very quickly. Merit Jones was scheduled to start, but Charlee Soto made his second rehab start for the Mussels. The flamethrower gave up two runs on three hits (including a homer by the also-rehabbing Hedbert Perez) in 1 2/3 innings. Jones entered the game with two outs in the second inning. He tossed 4 1/3 scoreless innings. He gave up three hits, walked none and had three strikeouts. Back to the offense, the Mussels got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the second inning when Jayson Bass muscled a ball beyond the wall in center field. Then in the bottom of the third, it was Dameury Pena who powered up and drilled a two-out solo home run to tie the game at 2-2. The Mussels grabbed the lead and put themselves in a strong position to win game one in the bottom of the sixth frame. Dameury Pena led off with a walk and went to second on a wild pitch. Alan Roden walked. Ryan Sprock singled sharply to left field, too hard maybe as Pena was only able to advance to third base. Ramiro Dominguez illustrated the soft bloops single next and drove in two runs to give the Mussels a 4-2 lead. The runners advanced to second and third on a wild pitch, and Graham Brown walked to reload the bases. Bass drove in Sprock with a sacrifice fly to left field to make it 5-2 Mussels heading to the final inning (7-inning games for doubleheaders). Just three more outs to get! Eric Hammond came on to replace Merit Jones to start the seventh inning. He gave up a leadoff single, but erased the lead runner on some PFP .He fielded a grounder and threw to second for the out. But then he walked a batter to put runners on first and second. On a 3-2 pitch, Hammond thought he had a called third strike. Unfortunately, the batter challenged and ABS showed that the pitch was 1/2-inch above the strike zone. Instead of two on with two outs, the bases were now loaded with just one out. Mussels manager Jordan Smith went to the bullpen and summoned Brent Francisco. Remember the first sentence of this game recap? I wrote “This game was actually a good baseball game, until it wasn’t, which happened very quickly.” This was pretty much that moment. Francisco walked the first batter he faced, Jake Cook, to make it a 5-3 game. Next, a bloop single by Blaine Bullard that didn’t top 80 mph dropped in for a run-scoring single and made it 5-4. Herbert Perez lined an 0-2 pitch for a single up the middle and a one-run lead became a one-run deficit. Blue Jays top prospect JoJo Parker lined out to second for the second out of the inning. Damage control? Nope. After a double steal, Juan Sanchez singled to right to drive in both runners and make it 8-5. After a Cade Doughty double put runners on second and third, Aldo Gaxiola singled to left to drive in both runners and make it 10-5. After another single, Francisco got the final out on a strikeout. But the damage was (Dun-edin, or just) done. The eight-run outburst meant the Mussels needed to score five to tie the game and send it to extra innings. They went down 1-2-3 to end the game. The Mussels scored their five runs on five hits and four walks. Bass’s home was his sixth of the season. Pena was 1-for-3 with a walk and his first homer of the season. Roden, continuing his rehab, went 0-for-1 with two walks. Game 2: Ft. Myers 1, Dunedin 0 (Game suspended with one out in the top of the fifth) Box Score Justin Mitrovich has been fantastic and was again on Thursday night. Unfortunately, it was cut short by the weather. In 4 1/3 scoreless innings, he gave up four hits, walked one and had four strikeouts. He also hit a batter. His ERA has dropped to 0.72. The Mussels offense had some chances, but were only leading 1-0. The runs scored on a Graham Brown sacrifice fly. The teams will attempt to complete this game on Friday before their regularly-scheduled game. . COMPLEX CHRONICLES FCL Twins 7, FCL Pirates 1 Box Score The Twins scored their first two runs in the top of the first inning. They added another in the third frame and then broke it open with four runs in the fifth inning. Rehabbing Caden Kendle led off the game with a double. Yovanny Duran walked. With one out, Jhomnardo Reyes doubled to drive in both runs to make it 2-0. With two outs in the top of the third, Miguel Caraballo and Reyes walked. Teilon Serrano singled to drive in the game’s third run. Caraballo led off the top of the fifth inning with a walk and stole second base. Reyes drove him in with a single. Serrano walked. Ricardo Pena reached on an error. Reyes scored on the play to make it 5-0. Darwin Almanzar drove in two runs with a single to center. Reyes led the offense. He had three of the team’s seven hits. He went 3-for-3 with a walk, his seventh double and three RBI. The Twins also walked nine times in the game. Duran and Caraballo each walked twice. Frederick Hiciano, 18, started for the Twins and tossed three scoreless innings. He gave up two hits, walked two and had four strikeouts. Jake Covey, 24, came in and was charged with an unearned run over 2 1/3 innings. He gave up no hits, but he walked four batters. He had two strikeouts. Brad Rudis, 23, got the final five outs, three of them on strikeouts. DSL Twins 2, DSL Yankees 13 Box Score The Twins grabbed the first lead of the game in the top of the third when they took a 1-0 lead when Daiyer Barboza scored on an error. However, the Yankees scored five runs in the bottom of the third and by the end of seven innings, they held a 13-1 lead. The Twins scored their other run in the top of the eighth inning when Anibal Beltre hit his first professional home run. The Twins scored their two runs on 10 hits and four walks. Daiyer Barboza was 2-for-4 with a walk. Fabian Ulloa went 2-for-5. Beltre was 2-for-4 including his home run. Luis Suarez went 1-for-2 with two walks. Fernando Hernandez, 19, made the start and struck out five batters over two scoreless innings. He gave up two hits. Alam Soriano, 19, came in and gave up nine runs (7 earned) on seven hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. Yolcar Garcia, 18, worked the next 2 1/3 innings. He gave up four runs (1 earned) on five hits. Aldwin Morillo, 18, came on and worked a perfect inning. PLAYERS OF THE DAY Hitter(s) of the Day Khadim Diaw (Cedar Rapids): 3-for-4, 2-2B(15), 2 R, RBI, K Jhomnardo Reyes (FCL Twins): 3-for-3, BB, 2B(7), R, 3 RBI. Pitcher(s) of the Day Merit Jones (Fort Myers): 4.1 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K, 52 pitches, 35 strikes (67.3%) PROSPECT SUMMARY Check out the Prospect Tracker for much more on our Twins Top 20 prospects after seeing how they did today. #2 - IF Kaelen Culpepper (St. Paul) - 1-for-3, BB. (batted first, played SS) #5 - C Eduardo Tait (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, K (batted second, played DH). #7 - SS Marek Houston (Cedar Rapids) - 2-for-4, R, K, 2 SB(19) (batted first, played SS) #8 - RHP Riley Quick (Cedar Rapids) - 4 2/3 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, 2 Balk, HBP, 72 pitches, 45 strikes (62.5%) #10 - OF Gabriel Gonzalez (St. Paul) - 1-for-4, HR(10), R, RBI, K (batted fourth, played RF) #11 - RHP Charlee Soto (Cedar Rapids) - Rehab in Fort Myers: 1 2/3 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, K, 32 pitches, 18 strikes (56.3%) #14 - 3B/SS Quentin Young (Ft. Myers) - 1-for-3 (batted seventh, played DH) #15 - 3B/CF Brandon Winokur (Cedar Rapids) - 0-for-4, 2 K (batted third, played 3B) #17 - RHP C.J. Culpepper (St. Paul) - 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 33 pitches, 17 strikes (51.5%) #19 - C/OF Khadim Diaw (Cedar Rapids) - 3-for-4, 2-2B(15), 2 R, RBI, K (batted fourth, played C) #20 - 2B/SS/CF Kyle DeBarge (Wichita) - 0-for-4, BB, 3 K, E(6) (batted fifth, played SS) UPCOMING PROBABLES Friday, June 12 St. Paul @ Toledo (6:05 pm CT) - RHP Ty Langenberg (2-2, 6.43 ERA) Wichita @ Tulsa (7:00 pm CT) - RHP Cory Lewis (0-2, 5.60 ERA), Cedar Rapids @ Lansing (6:05 pm CT) - LHP Cesar Lares (0-0, 4.50 ERA) Dunedin @ Ft. Myers (6:05 pm CT) - RHP Kolten Smith (2-4, 5.40 ERA) FCL Twins @ FCL Red Sox (11:00 am CT) - DSL Twins @ DSL Tigers (10:00 am CT) - CURRENT W-L Records Minnesota Twins: 31-39 (3rd place (of 5) in AL Central, 6.5 GB)) St. Paul Saints: 36-29 (3rd place (of 10) in IL West Division, 4.5 GB)) Wichita Wind Surge: 22-36 (5th place (of 5) in TL North Division, 17.0 GB)) Cedar Rapids Kernels: 28-31 (4th place (of 6) in MWL West Division, 9.5 GB)) Fort Myers Mighty Mussels: 33-26 (2nd place (of 6) in FSL West Division, 3.5 GB)) FCL Twins: 15-13 (3rd place (of 6) in FCL South Division, 3.5 GB)) DSL Twins: 3-5 (3rd place (of 7) in DSL East Division, 3.5 GB)) Please feel free to ask questions about the teams, the rosters, and discuss today’s games, or anything else Twins minor-league related! View full article