Brock Stewart loaded the bases but pitched a scoreless sixth inning with two strikeouts for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Friday night, his second game for the Comets and fourth minor league rehab appearance so far. The right-hander induced four swinging strikes among his 15 pitches.
Stewart has pitched on either two or three days rest thus far, pitching on Tuesday and Friday both last week with Class-A Ontario and this week for Oklahoma City. You’d have to think Stewart will pitch a little more often,
perhaps even in back-to-back outings on his rehab assignment before he gets activated off the injured list. But at the very least, he’s getting closer to rejoining the Dodgers bullpen.
Player of the day
Tulsa third baseman Jake Gelof homered twice for Double-A Tulsa, as the Drillers tried to overcome an early deficit.
Gelof has only eight hits in his 42 at-bats this season in his first taste of Double-A, but he started the season 0-for-18 with 12 strikeouts. Of those eight hits over his last 24 at-bats, four are home runs plus a double. Add in the 12 walks and he’s hitting .190/.370/.500
The 24-year-old was drafted in the second round in 2023 out of Virginia, where he held the school’s career home run record. Last year, Gelof hit 16 home runs and had .230 isolated power and a 116 wRC+ in High-A Great Lakes. His isolated power early on in Double-A is .310.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
The Comets never led and allowed runs in five different innings in a loss to the Tacoma Rainiers (Mariners).
The Triple-A learning curve for Jackson Ferris has been steep, allowing runs in three of his five innings, totaling seven runs (six earned) in 4 2/3 innings. Ferris now has a 9.00 ERA in his first 15 innings for Oklahoma City, with more walks (12) than strikeouts (seven).
Ryan Ward had a two-run triple in the loss. Noah Miller had a two-run single.
Double-A Tulsa
The Drillers offense did their best, but giving up eight runs in the first two innings proved too big a deficit to overcome in a loss to the Frisco RoughRidgers (Rangers).
Payton Martin got tattooed in his start, facing 15 batters and only retiring four of them. He got another out on his ledger thanks to an outfield assist by Josue De Paula, but the damage was vast — eight runs on nine hits and two walks in 1 2/3 innings.
Martin’s 2026 season to date has been one of extremes. In his first start he allowed six runs in 1 1/3 innings, but in his next two outings combined to allow only one run in nine innings before Friday’s clunker. He only has nine strikeouts in his 58 batters faced (15.5 percent) this season, to go with eight walks in his 12 innings.
Zyhir Hope had an RBI double in the loss. First baseman Joe Vetrano had three hits. Shortstop Sean McLain singled and stole two bases.
High-A Great Lakes
Four Loons pitchers combined to blank the Beloit Sky Carp (Marlins), recording the second shutout of the season for Great Lakes.
Brooks Auger was out since mid-March after pulling his groin during spring training, but was impressive in his first game back. The right-hander, drafted in the sixth round in 2024 out of Mississippi State, struck out five in two scoreless innings. Auger worked around three singles and a walk in his two frames thanks to a caught stealing and striking out all four batters he faced with a runner in scoring position.
Jacob Frost followed Auger with 3 2/3 scoreless innings of his own with four strikeouts to earn the win. The left-hander worked through his own traffic with three walks and two hits, but managed to escape unscathed, with a little help from Adam Makarewich getting a strikeout to end the sixth to strand Frost’s two bequeathed runners. Frost, drafted in the 10th round last year out of Kansas State, has impressed this year in his professional debut, with a 2.25 ERA through four games and 12 innings, with 14 strikeouts (28.6-percent strikeout rate) and eight walks.
Logan Wagner homered in the sixth for Great Lakes.
The other shutout for the Loons this season was on April 14, a 2-0 win over Dayton.
Class-A Ontario
First baseman Easton Shelton hit a three-run double in the eighth inning to break a tie in the Tower Buzzers road win over the San Jose Giants. Shelton doubled twice in the game.
Left fielder AJ Soldra, the 16th-round draft pick out of Seton Hall last year, hit his first professional home run. already had three triples this year for Ontario but his solo shot in the ninth inning provided insurance.
Isaac Ayon struck out six in three innings of relief, with one run allowed, for the win.
Friday scores
Saturday schedule
- 11:05 a.m. PT: Great Lakes (Logan Tabeling) at Beloit (Liomar Martinez)
- 4:05 p.m.: Oklahoma City (Cole Irvin) vs. Tacoma (Jhonathan Díaz)
- 5 p.m.: Ontario (TBA) at San Jose (Ricardo Estrada)
- 5:05 p.m.: Tulsa (Wyatt Crowell) at Frisco (Dylan MacLean)
