Three members of the San Antonio Missions have been called up to the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, according to Missions radio.
Mat Batten, Taylor Kohlwey and Robbie Podorsky are the three players who are taking the next step.
As of 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the three players who were reported to be headed from San Antonio to El Paso are no longer listed on the Missions’ roster on the team website.
The Chihuahuas needed reinforcements after some of their players were called up by the short-handed San Diego Padres.
Podorsky is an outfielder and played in all of the Missions’ first seven games and was batting .370.
Kohlwey is a first baseman and was batting .240 in six games.
Batten is a third baseman and was batting .174 in six games.
None of the three was in the Missions’ lineup tonight as they played on the road against the Midland RockHounds.
UPDATE: Infielder Olivier Basabe has joined the Missions, coming up from Class-A Fort Wayne. The 23-year-old from Venezuela batted .273 in 11 games in Fort Wayne.
Basabe entered Wednesday night’s Missions game and played second base after Eguy Rosario left with an injury. Basabe went 1-for-1 with a single and an RBI in the Missions’ 9-2 road loss to the Midland RockHounds.
Arturo Guajardo is second among UTSA pitchers in appearances this season with 12, all in relief. He has a 3-1 record with one save and a 6.05 ERA in 19 1/3 innings.
Last summer, Guajardo played for the Flying Chanclas de San Antonio in the Texas Collegiate League. He appeared in 10 games in relief and had a 2-0 record with a 1.96 ERA.
The 6-foot-2 right-hander is a redshirt senior from Laredo. He played at Laredo Community College and Laredo United High School before coming to UTSA.
Guajardo did not play at UTSA did not play at UTSA prior to this season.
Robbie Podorsky wasn’t picked until the 25th round of the 2017 amateur baseball draft. The Padres took Podorsky No. 738 overall out of McNeese State in Louisiana.
Podorsky showed he could hit from the very beginning of his pro career. He played 11 games in rookie ball in the summer of 2017 and batted .400. In short-season Class-A that summer, he batted .302 in 37 games with nine extra-base hits and 13 RBIs.
This season, the 26-year-old outfielder is in his first season in Double-A. He played in every one of the San Antonio Missions’ first six game and leads the team with a .435 batting average and has a 1.171 OPS. He has one double, one triple, four walks and five RBIs along with two stolen bases.
CJ Abrams and Eguy Rosario were together in the San Diego Padres’ 2021 spring training in Arizona.
The two Padres prospects are together early this season with the San Antonio Missions. Abrams was the starting shorstop and Rosario the starting second baseman for the Missions on opening day on May 4.
Abrams is 20 years old and was a first-round draft pick, No. 6 overall, by the Padres in 2019. He batted 8-of-25 (.320) with one home run, three doubles, four walks and five RBIs in the Missions’ just completed six-game series in Corpus Christi.
Rosario is 21 years old and from the Dominican Republic. He is off to a slower start at the plate, going 1-of-16 with three walks while seeing action in four of the Missions’ first six games.
UTSA’s bid for an upset of 19th-ranked Old Dominion got off to a fast start.
The Roadrunners got home runs by Griffin Paxton and Dylan Rock and a bases-loaded triple by Leyton Barry to score nine runs in the first inning of a 12-10 victory in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday at Roadrunner Field.
Even after jumping out to a 9-3 lead, the victory didn’t come easy. UTSA went scoreless over the next four innings and Old Dominion fought back to take a 10-9 lead after five innings of the seven-inning game.
UTSA put together two hits, a walk and a hit batter in the bottom of the sixth inning and take the lead back.
Roadrunners relief pitcher Arturo Guajardo came in with one out in the sixth and got final five outs to finish the game for UTSA.
Update: UTSA beat Old Dominion 11-0 in Saturday’s second game to sweep the doubleheader. UTSA pitchers Jacob Jimenez, Grant Miller and Hunter Mason combined to hold Old Dominion to two hits.
UTSA piled up 23 runs and 27 hits in the two seven-inning games of the doubleheader. UTSA didn’t bat in bottom of seventh in either game, so all their offense basically came in 12 innings.
The four-game weekend series concludes Sunday at 1 p.m. at Roadrunner Field.
The San Antonio Missions struggled at the plate for the second straight night and lost to the Corpus Christi Hooks 6-1 on the road Thursday.
The Missions managed only three hits and struck out 13 times.
Robbie Podorsky accounted for the Missions’ only run. The leadoff batter opened the game with a single, stole second and scored on a hit by Kyle Overstreet. That gave the Missions a 1-0 lead, but they managed only one more hit the rest of the way.
The Hooks recorded only five hits, but blasted three home runs including two by David Hensley.
Corpus Christi Hooks pitching held the San Antonio Missions in check for all but one inning on Wednesday night.
The Hooks beat the Missions 4-2 to even the series after the Missions won Tuesday night’s season opener.
The Missions strung together three hits in the fifth inning to score twice. But the Missions only had one other hit the rest of the night, that coming in the ninth inning.
Juan Fernandez ignited the Missions’ fifth-inning rally with a leadoff single. Mat Batten followed with a double to put two runners in scoring position with no outs.
The Hooks got the next two batters on a ground out and a strikeout. Robbie Podorsky, who had four hits in Tuesday’s opener, came through again with a two-out single to center that brought in both Fernandez and Batten.
The Hooks went in front for on a two-run homer by Grae Kessinger that gave Corpus Christi a 3-2 lead.
Three Hooks pitchers combined to allow four hits while striking out 17 Missions batters.
Random observations:
Missions second baseman Eguy Rosario is listed at 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds. That’s probably how big he was when he signed his first contract as a teenager. I’m guessing he is more like 5-11 and 190 pounds. He has some muscle on him.
Podorsky is one of the smaller guys on the team and looks like a contact hitter. Two games is a small sample size, but so far he is the Missions’ most consistent batter at putting the ball in play. He has five hits and three RBIs while batting in the No. 9 spot.
Fernandez looks like a guy who has fun playing the game. I think he will be a fan favorite in San Antonio.
The sun angles at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi are very different from Wolff Stadium in San Antonio. At Whataburger, the right fielder is staring into the sun as it sets over the grandstand. At the Wolff, the left fielder is the one fighting the sun before it sets.
San Antonio Missions relievers were one pitch away from four scoreless, hitless innings in the season opener.
Four Missions pitchers worked one inning each in relief in the Missions’ 8-3 victory over the Corpus Christi Hooks on Tuesday.
Missions starter Reiss Knehr went five innings before turning things over to the bullpen with San Antonio leading 5-2.
Things didn’t look so promising right after Knehr left the game. The Hooks’ first batter of the sixth inning, David Hensley, hit a home run off of Sam Williams. That cut the Missions’ lead to 5-3. But the Hooks didn’t record a hit the rest of the night.
Williams, a 6-foot-3 left-hander, got through the sixth inning with no more damage, allowing one walk with one strikeout.
Carlos Belen pitched the seventh. The 6-1 right-hander from the Dominican Republic struck out two batters with no walks.
Tom Cosgrove pitched the eighth. The 6-2 left-hander also struck out two batters with no walks.
Pedro Avila closed out the game. The 5-11 right-hander from Venezuela pitched the bottom of the ninth with no hits, no strikeouts and no walks.
For the game the Missions’ relievers allowed one run on one hit with five strikeouts and one walk in four innings.