In Dodgers minor league games played Tuesday, September 2nd, like above, so below, the Dodgers minor league affiliates all followed their parent club by losing their games.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
The bad news for the Oklahoma City Comets was that Roki Sasaki gave up four runs in the first inning, and with the Comets only getting two hits and one run, they were never in this game, losing to the Sugar Land Space Cowboys (Astros) 5-1. The good news is Sasaki then settled down, pitching to one batter over
the minimum for the next four innings. The first inning started well enough for Sasaki, with the first two batters grounding out. But a hit-by-pitch preceded a 110 mph low-flying missile for two sudden runs, and then a walk and another 108 mph 424-foot home run, and just like that, the Comets were down by four runs. After that ambush, Sasaki got into a rhythm, retiring the last seven hitters he faced, needing seven pitches to complete the fourth inning, and ten pitches to close out the fifth.
Kyle Hurt got into a game for the first time this season and gave up a run on one hit and one walk in his inning of work. Back in 2023, Hurt struck out 152 hitters in 92 innings before undergoing arm surgery in 2024.
Double-A Tulsa
It didn’t take the Tulsa Drillers very long to get buried, giving up an eight-run third inning, on the way to a 12-2 defeat to the Wichita Wind Surge (Twins). Patrick Copen was able to navigate around leadoff walks in the first and second innings, but in the third inning, the wheels came off as a bad combination of infield rollers, fielding adventures, and wild pitching led to an eight-run fiasco. The ugly play-by-play went: infield single, walk, infield single, infield error, walk, walk, sacrifice fly, walk… and that was it for Copen, charged with seven runs (six earned), two infield hits, and six walks, in two and one-third innings. The Drillers’ offense could only produce two runs, one of which came on a Kyle Nevin fourth-inning home run. Zach Ehrhard had two hits, but trade-mate James Tibbs lll hit for a Golden Sombrero with four strikeouts in an 0-for-5 performance that dropped his batting average with the Drillers to .216.
High-A Great Lakes
The Lake County Captains (Guardians) eked out a 7-6 win over the Great Lakes Loons in ten innings. Kendall George had two hits and stole two bases, giving him 94 on the year. Josue De Paula, hitting again after a two-month slump, had three hits, including a double and a home run. In the top of the tenth inning, George started the inning at second base, stole third, and came home on a sacrifice fly by Eduardo Quintero to temporarily give the Loons the lead. But a couple of singles and a game-winning sacrifice fly won the game for the Captains in the bottom of the tenth.
Low-A Rancho Cucamonga
The Fresno Grizzlies defeated the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 7-5, scoring two runs in the seventh inning and two runs in the ninth to turn the game around. Marlon Nieves started for the Quakes and went four innings, giving up three runs (two earned), on two hits and three walks. Niko Perez had two hits and two runs batted in for the Quakes.
Scores of games played Tuesday, September 2nd:
Up next: games scheduled for Wednesday, September 3rd:
Great Lakes (Maddux Bruns) at Lake County (Jackson Humphries), 9:05 AM PST
Tulsa (Roque Gutierrez) at Wichita (Sam Armstrong), 5:05 PM PST
Oklahoma City (Matt Sauer) at Sugar Land (Jose Fleury), 5:05 PM PST
Fresno (Marcos Herrera) at Rancho Cucamonga (Jakob Wright), 6:30 PM PST
