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Holt is with Frisco as part of a rehab assignment. He is expected to play one more game with the RoughRiders on Wednesday against the Missions.
The 10-season major league veteran, who has already played in 15 games with the Rangers this season, went 0-for-3 with one walk on Tuesday as the RoughRiders’ designated hitter.
The Frisco RoughRiders scored the only run of the game on a wild pitch to beat the San Antonio Missions 1-0 Tuesday night at Wolff Stadium.
The game marked the Missions’ first home game of the 2021 season and the first Missions game at Wolff Stadium since August 2019.
Frisco’s Diosbel Arias scored from third base on a wild pitch for what turned out to be the winning run.
Four Missions pitchers combined to hold the RoughRiders to one hit, but the Missions never came up with a timely hit of their own to score a run.
Caleb Boushley was the Missions’ starting pitcher and threw five scoreless innings with two strikeouts and two walks. Sam Williams was the first Missions relief pitcher and took the loss after giving up a leadoff single to Arias in the seventh inning that led to the winning run.
Henry Henry, whose wild pitch brought in Arias, pitching 1 2/3 innings. James Reeves pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning with one strikeout.
The official attendance was 3,112, which was a sellout under the current covid rules in effect for the opening series of the season.
Mason is tied for the UTSA team lead in pitching appearances this season with 20 heading into the Roadrunners’ final 2021 home game tonight. UTSA plays Incarnate Word at 6 p.m. at Roadrunner Field.
The 6-foot, right-hander has a 6-5 record, all in relief, with a 4.98 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 43 1/3 innings pitched.
Mason pitched seven times in last year’s covid-shortened seasona and 27 times as a junior in 2019.
Azocar had hits in the last four games of the Missions’ recent road series in Midland. He was 7-of-18 (.389) over that stretch with a three-hit game and a two-hit game.
The 25-year-old outfielder from Venezuela is batting .283 for the season with three walks and three RBIs. He has played in all 12 Missions games this season.
Two years ago, Azocar batted .286 with 10 home runs in 129 games in Double-A in the Detroit Tigers organization. Azocar was originally signed by the Tigers in 2012. He was signed by the San Diego Padres as a free agent to a minor lealgue contract in November 2020.
The 6-foot-1 right-hander is listed as an outfielder and pitcher. He has seen action in nine games in the outfield for the Roadrunners this season and is batting .192 with two home runs and five RBIs.
Shull earned all-state honors as a junior at MacArthur. He earned all-district honors for three years. The 2020 high school season was halted, preventing him from being all-district for four straight seasons.
In the short time since then, Tatis has gone from a prospect with the San Antonio Missions, to a starter with the San Diego Padres, to a bona fide major league star with a $330 million contract.
So the question in the minors is, who will be next?
CJ Abrams just might be the answer.
The 20-year-old shortstop is the No. 2 prospect in the Padres organization, and the top prospect who is not a pitcher.
Abrams and the rest of the Missions make their 2021 home debut at Wolff Stadium on Tuesday night – weather permitting.
The lanky 6-foot-2 infielder with a whip for an arm has played mostly at shortstop this season. He has also seen action at second base. Abrams also projects to be able to play center field, similar to Mauricio Dubon of the 2019 Missions, who now plays shortstop and outfield for the San Francisco Giants.
Abrams has played in all of the Missions’ 12 games so far this season. He is batting .306 with two home runs, four doubles and three stolen bases.
This is his second year in the minors – it would be his third if the 2020 minor league season hadn’t been wiped out by covid. In 2019, he batted .401 as an 18 year old in 32 games in rookie league with three home runs and 14 stolen bases. He also spent two games in Class A.
More recently, Abrams gained the experience of spending time with the Padres, including the likes of Tatis and Manny Machado, this February and March after being invited to join the major league team in spring training in Arizona.
Fernandez has seen action in eight of the San Antonio Missions’ first 16 games of the season and is batting .250. He was the Missions’ opening day starter at catcher and had three hits and a walk in the first game, an 8-3 road win in Corpus Christi.
This is Fernandez’s first season in Double-A. Two years ago, he played in 53 games in Class A and batted .274.
Fernandez joined the San Diego Padres organization in March 2016 when he was signed as a free agent to a minor-league contract.
The 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic has at least one hit in the first four games of the series. He is hitting 7-of-15 (.467) in Midland.
Ruiz had four hits on Thursday night including a triple with two RBIs. He had a double on Tuesday and again on Wednesday night.
Ruiz is batting .323 on the season and is playing left field for the Missions. He also has three stolen bases in 10 games.
Ruiz batted .239 two years ago in the Class-A Cal League. He came to the San Diego Padres in a trade with the Kansas City Royals in July 2017.
Kohlwey was one of three Missions players to be promoted to the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas on Wednesday. El Paso was short-handed after having some of its players called to the majors by the San Diego Padres.
Listed as an outfielder on the roster, Kohlway played first base in the Missions’ season opener in Corpus Christi. He batted .240 in six games with the Missions.
El Paso is familiar territory for Kohlwey. He spent part of 2019 with the Chihuahuas, batting .304 in 11 games.
Kohlwey batted eighth and played left field and center field on Thursday night in his first game back with the Chihuahuas.
Batten was the Missions’ 2021 opening day starter at third base. He played in six of the Missions’ first seven games.
The 5-foot-11 infielder was a 32nd-round draft pick by the San Diego Padres in the 2017 draft. He had .299 batting average in 109 games with the Chihuahuas in 2019 with six home runs and 48 RBIs.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I changed the spelling of Batten’s first name from “Mat” to “Matt” in this story after it was updated by the Missions. Batten’s milb.com bio page has it spelled both ways depending on where you look. His full first name is “Matthew.”
