Missions starter Jordan Humphreys was the winning pitcher in Friday’s victory over the Springfield Cardinals at Wolff Stadium.Jordan Humphreys pitched five scoreless innings to start off a combined shutout as the San Antonio Missions beat the Springfield Cardinals 4-0 on Friday at Wolff Stadium.
Brandon Komar went the next 2.0 innings, James Reeves pitched 2/3 of an inning and Nick Kuzia closed out the final 1 1/3 innings and picked up his his third save.
Kuzia entered the game in the eighth with the bases loaded and two outs and struck out the first batter he faced. He retired the Cardinals in order in the ninth.
The Missions’ scoring came on Jose Azocar’s two-run double off the wall in left in the third inning and Michael Curry’s third home run of the year coming with a runner on base in the fourth. Azocar has 12 hits in the last eight games and is batting .387 over that stretch.
Curry entered the game as a replacement after Dwanya Williams-Sutton limped off following what looked like a near collision with Eguy Rosario as they went after a shallow fly ball.
Ivan Herrera, a St. Louis Cardinals prospect, playing against the Missions at Wolff Stadium on July 20.Ivan Herrera is a 21-year-old catcher from Panama and is the No. 3 prospect in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, according to MLB.com.
Herrera plays for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals, who are currently in the a six-game series against the San Antonio Missions through Sunday at Wolff Stadium.
The 5-foot-11 Herrera was signed as a 16-year-old by the Cardinals in 2016. This season he is batting .213 in Springfield with five home runs and 34 RBIs in 58 games. He played in Class A in 2019, batting .284 with nine home runs and 47 RBIs in 87 games.
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Ivan Herrera – St. Louis Cardinals, Springfield Cardinals
Olivier Basabe playing for the San Antonio Missions against Amarillo on July 11, at Wolff Stadium.Olivier Basabe saw action at third base when he first joined the San Antonio Missions. He has recently spent more time playing second base.
The 24-year-old from Venezuela is batting .209 with 5 RBIs in 30 games and has a .291 on-base percentage this season with the Missions.
Basabe was signed by the San Diego Padres on June 23, 2017.
Pedro Leon of the Corpus Christi Hooks, a top Houston Astros prospect, hitting a grand slam against the San Antonio Missions on July 4 at Wolff Stadium.The Houston Astros signed Pedro Leon to a minor league contract in January with the hope that he won’t take very long to get to the majors.
The 23-year-old from Cuba is a shortstop/outfielder currently playing for the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. He is batting .240 with eight home runs and 31 RBIs in 48 games.
One of his home runs was a grand slam against the San Antonio Missions on the Fourth of July at Wolff Stadium.
MLB.com rates him as the No. 2 prospect in the Astros organization.
Missions outfielder Jack Suwinski playing against Amarillo on July 11 at Wolff Stadium.Jack Suwinski had an attention grabbing stretch back in the middle of June when he hit four home runs in three games.
The 22-year-old outfielder leads the San Antonio Missions with 13 home runs. He is batting .250 on the season with 34 RBIs in 56 games.
Suwinski’s home run number have gone up season by season in the minors. He hit nine in 2017 in 125 games, 10 in 2018 in 111 games and 12 in 2019 in 116 games – all in Class A.
Suwinski was a 15th-round draft pick by the San Diego Padres in 2016 as a high school player from Chicago.
Korey Lee, the Houston Astros’ No. 5 prospect, playing against the Missions on June 30, at Wolff Stadium.Corpus Christi Hooks catcher Korey Lee is the No. 5 prospect in the Houston Astros organization, according to MLB.com.
The 22-year-old from California showed what he could do at Wolff Stadium, hitting a home run against the San Antonio Missions on July Fourth.
Lee open this season with Class A Ashville and batted .330 with three home runs in 29 games. He has played in 23 games in Double-A Corpus Christi, batting .305 with seven home runs.
The 6-foot-2 catcher was a first-round draft pick, No. 32 overall, by the Astros in 2019.
He played in rookie league in the summer of 2019 and batted .268 with three home runs in 64 games. He doesn’t have any stats for 2020 due to the covid shutdown of the minors.
The Missions and Hooks play a six-game series in Corpus Christi beginning tonight.
Missions teammates celebrate at home plate after Jose Azocar (13) hit a three-run homer in the second inning of a 6-1 victory over Amarillo on Sunday at Wolff Stadium.The San Antonio Missions got two early home runs on the way to beating the Amarillo Sod Poodles 6-1 Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader at Wolff Stadium.
Missions starter Adrian Martinez (4-3) pitched six of the seven innings and allowed one run for the win. Over his last two starts he has pitched 12 innings and allowed one run combined while earning wins in both games.
Michael Curry started the Missions’ scoring with a two-run single in the second inning. Jose Azocar hit his fifth home run of the season later in the inning, good for three runs and a 5-0 Missions lead.
Eguy Rosario’s seventh home run of the season was a solo shot in the third inning and put the Missions up 6-0.
Amarillo’s Matt Tabor pitched a seven-inning no-hitter in the second game, a 6-0 Sod Poodles victory.
Adrian Martinez – San Antonio Missions
Olivier Basabe – San Antonio Missions
Allen Cordoba – San Antonio Missions
Michael Curry – San Antonio Missions
Jose Azocar – San Antonio Missions
Eguy Rosario, Phillip Wellman – San Antonio Missions
Allen Cordoba hit his third home run of the season in the first inning on Thursday at Wolff Stadium.Coming off back-to-back walk-off wins, the San Antonio Missions found themselves in another close game in the late innings on Thursday.
This time it was the Amarillo Sod Poodles who got the key hits, scoring twice in the top of the 11th to beat the Missions 6-5 at Wolff Stadium.
The Sod Poodles erased a 3-1 Missions lead with two runs in the eighth. Both teams scored a run in the 10th. The Sod Poodles took a 6-4 lead in the top of the 11th and the Missions scored once in the bottom of the 11th on a bases-loaded walk.
Allen Cordoba’s third home run of the season accounted for the Missions’ first two runs in the bottom of the first.
Juan Fernandez doubled in the fourth, went to third base on a wild pitch and then scored on another wild pitch to give the Missions a 3-1 lead.
Missions pitcher Fred Schlichtholz made his first start of season after 19 relief appearances. The 6-foot-3 left-hander went 3.0 innings and allowed one run on three hits, two walks and one strikeout.
Reiss Knehr had been listed as the projected starting pitcher.
Geraldo Perdomo of the Amarillo Sod Poodles playing against the Missions on Wednesday at Wolff Stadium. He is the No. 3 prospect in the Diamondbacks organization.Some of the top prospects in the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league system play for the Amarillo Sod Poodles, who are currently in town playing the San Antonio Missions.
Here is a look from Wednesday night at Wolff Stadium at three of their top players as ranked by MLB.com:
Geraldo Perdomo is the No. 3 prospect in the Diamondbacks system. He is a 21-year-old shortstop from the Dominican Republic. He was signed by the Diamondbacks to a minor league contract in July 2016.
Alek Thomas is the No. 4 prospect in the system. He is 21-year-old outfielder from Chicago. He was a second-round draft pick by the Diamondbacks in 2018 out of high school.
Luis Frias is the No. 9 prospect in the system. He is a 23-year-old from the Dominican Republic and was the Sod Poodles’ starting pitcher on Wednesday. He was signed by the Diamondbacksf to a minor league contract in July 2015 and was listed as a third baseman at that time.
Alek Thomas – Amarillo Sod Poodles, Arizona Diamondbacks
Alek Thomas – Amarillo Sod Poodles, Arizona Diamondbacks
Alek Thomas – Amarillo Sod Poodles, Arizona Diamondbacks
The Missions shower Juan Fernandez with ice water after he had the game-winning hit Wednesday night at Wolff Stadium.The San Antonio Missions walked off the Amarillo Sod Poodles for the second straight night.
The Missions got three key hits to score twice in the bottom of the ninth and beat the Sod Poodles 7-6 Wednesday at Wolff Stadium.
Juan Fernandez ended it with a single through the right side with the bases loaded, two outs and the game tied in the ninth. That brought Eguy Rosario home and started a celebration that concluded with Fernandez getting doused with ice water by his teammates.
The Missions trailed 4-1 early in the game and rallied to take a 5-4 lead. The Sod Poodles scored two runs in the top of the ninth to lead 6-5.
Ben Ruta, in his second game with the Missions, led off the bottom of the ninth with a double. Ruta scored on Rosario’s single to tie it 6-6. Rosario ended up at second base when the Sod Poodles threw home to try to get Ruta. Rosario went to third on Kyle Overstreet’s ground out.
Jack Suwinski and Yorman Rodriguez drew intentional walks to load the bases and Allen Cordoba popped out to set up a two-out situation. That brought Fernandez to the plate with his chance to win it.
The Missions got strong relief pitching as they worked their way back from an early deficit. Brandon Komar took over in the fourth inning and threw four scoreless innings. Carlos Belen retired the Sod Poodles in order in the eighth inning and struck out two batters.
The Missions’ early runs came on an RBI single by Cordoba in the bottom of the second inning, a Suwinski sacrifice fly in the third, Ruta scored on a wild pitch in the third, and an RBI double by Jose Azocar and a sacrifice fly by Ruta in the fourth.
