San Diego Padres Daily Farm Report: August 22

Chihuahuas 12, Sacramento River Cats 1

Key Statistics: 1B Will Wagner 1-for-5, R, 2B, BB, 3 RBI; 3B-SS Mason McCoy 1-for-1, R, 3 BB, 3 RBI; CF Clay Dungan 2-for-5, R, RBI, C Rodolfo Durán 2-for-5, 2 R, HR (10), 3 RBI; LHP Jackson Wolf (W, 6-2) 7.2 IP, 2 H, ER, BB, 8 K; RHP Bradgley Rodriguez IP, H, BB

Prospect Watch: On a night when the rest of the domestic system combined to score four runs, El Paso took advantage of 10 walks and had a pair of six-run innings to defeat the other baseball team in Sacramento. … Lost in the blowout was a dominant outing for lefty Jackson Wolf. The 26-year-old tossed a career-high 7.2 innings, allowing just one run on two hits. He walked one and struck out eight. While the River Cats couldn’t find the zone, it was no issue for Wolf; he tossed 95 pitches, 66 for strikes. He also generated 13 whiffs, despite only hitting 90 mph a few times in his outing. Wolf doesn’t throw hard, but he’s able to hide the ball well, and both of his breaking balls were working. Overall, outside of a brutal June (11.57 ERA), the former West Virginia star has pitched well in El Paso this season, even though his 5.51 ERA looks unsightly. … Catcher Rodolfo Durán had a pair of hits, including his 10th homer of the season, to continue a torrid August. The 27-year-old, who signed in the off-season after spending the 2024 season in the Royals’ system, is hitting .426/.471/.787 in 11 games this month. He has played 10 years of professional baseball but has yet to make his big league debut. His .818 OPS is actually below average in the friendly confines of the PCL. … Mason McCoy singled, drew three walks, and had three RBI Friday night. The 30-year-old infielder occupies a spot on the 40-man roster and saw big league time earlier in the season. While defense is his carrying card, his .810 OPS – while also below league average – is much improved from the .711 mark he produced last season with the Chihuahuas. … Righty Bradgley Rodriguez returned to action after a six-week stint on the IL with discomfort in his upper arm. The hard-throwing 21-year-old worked around a walk and hit to finish a scoreless inning on 17 pitches. Both his four-seamer and sinker sat 97-98 mph in the outing. He only deployed his breaking ball twice in the outing, but it had a distinctly different shape than the tight slider he’s been using this year. On Saturday night, it had more than a foot more vertical break on it and more than a third less horizontal movement than he’s had on average this year.

Missions 1, Amarillo Sod Poodles 0 (10 innings)

Key Statistics: CF Braedon Karpathios 1-for-4; C Anthony Vilar 1-for-3; RHP Enmanuel Pinales 6 IP, 5 H, 2 BB, 4 K; RHP Misael Tamarez 2 IP, 2 K; RHP Ethan Routzahn (W, 1-4) IP, K

Prospect Watch: While the Padres were winning a pitchers’ duel at Petco Park, the Missions had one of their own at the Wolff. After nine scoreless innings, Moisés Gómez lifted a walk-off sacrifice fly to give San Antonio the win in a battle between the Padres’ current and previous Double-A affiliates. … Braedon Karpathios started in center field and had a single in four at-bats. Karpathios, 22, posted a .780 OPS this season for the TinCaps. Thus far in San Antonio, he has three hits in 13 at-bats. … Enmanuel Pinales turned in his best outing as a Mission, firing six shutout innings in the win. He allowed five hits, walking two and striking out four. The 24-year-old has been inconsistent since joining San Antonio this summer after excelling in Fort Wayne to start the season. Pinales got off to a horrible start with the Missions, allowing 16 earned runs in his first eight innings. After posting a 1.76 ERA in June, Pinales had a 6.29 ERA in July. Friday’s outing lowered his August ERA to 4.34. … After Pinales departed, the Missions’ bullpen tossed four perfect innings. Righty Misael Tamarez breezed through the eighth and ninth innings on 20 pitches, striking out two. The 25-year-old, who can reach triple-digits with his fastball, signed as a minor league free agent last month after being released by the Astros organization. With Houston, he was pitching at the Triple-A level, where he had a 9.00 ERA in 30 outings. After signing with the Padres, he was assigned to Fort Wayne but was quickly moved up to San Antonio. Since joining the Missions, he’s allowed just one earned run in 8.1 innings. 

Lake County Captains 5, TinCaps 3

Key Statistics: LF Kasen Wells 1-for-4, 2B; SS Jonathan Vastine 3-for-4, 2B, RBI; RHP Isaiah Lowe (L, 3-11) 4 IP, 8 H, 5 R, ER, 2 K; LHP Bodi Rascon 3 IP, 3 H, K; LHP C.J. Widger IP, H, 3 K

Prospect Watch: The TinCaps led early, but the Captains struck five times in the third to win in Ohio. … At the plate, Jonathan Vastine had the first three-hit game of his career while the rest of the TinCaps lineup combined for just two more hits. He singled twice, doubled, and drove in a run. Vastine was the Padres’ 19th-round pick out of Vanderbilt, where he played four seasons. He got into 60 games for Vandy this past season, hitting .270/.358/.449 with nine homers while playing strong defense at shortstop. His three-hit night raised his average with the TinCaps to .212. … Righty Isaiah Lowe got knocked around in the third and took his 11th loss of the season. Only one of the runs was earned, but it wasn’t as if Lowe was unlucky. He allowed four straight hits to open the third and then allowed a three-run bomb after an error. The young righty showed promise last season with Lake Elsinore, but he’s had a miserable 2025 season in Fort Wayne. He has an unsightly 1.73 WHIP, his strikeout rate has cratered to just 16.5%, and his 5.63 ERA is a far cry from the 3.33 mark he produced a season ago. He’s one of six Midwest League pitchers to allow 100 hits so far in 2025. … C.J. Widger pitched a scoreless eighth inning, allowing a single and striking out three. The 26-year-old signed with the Padres in November as a minor league free agent, but the Giants plucked the lefty from the organization in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft. He opened the year pitching in High-A Eugene before being released on July 31. The Padres scooped him up a few days later and assigned him to the Summit City. After struggling in his first two outings as a TinCap, Widger has not allowed a run over his last 4.1 innings, striking out eight overall. 

Stockton Ports 3, Storm 0

Key Statistics: 1B Carlos Rodriguez, 1-for-3, 2B; RHP Maikel Miralles (L, 2-4) 4.1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 4 K; RHP Kleiber Olmedo, 1.2 IP, 2 K; RHP Landry Jurecka, IP, K

Prospect Watch: The Storm had runners on second and third after a first-inning hit-by-pitch and a double by Carlos Rodriguez, but Stockton’s pitching absolutely shut them down after that, retiring 23 straight batters until a leadoff walk in the ninth inning. A double-play quickly erased that last opportunity as the Ports completed the shutout. … Righty Maikel Miralles matched the dominance through his first three innings, giving up just one single while striking out a pair and getting six ground ball outs. Things got dicey in the fourth as he 20-year-old walked the bases loaded, but he got out of the inning without any damage. However, he wasn’t able to dodge a bullet after opening the fifth with another walk and a single. He got a strikeout before grooving a first-pitch fastball that was crushed for a three-run homer to end his night. Miralles put together a terrific July, pitching to a 1.53 ERA in four outings. However, over his last four starts, Miralles has pitched to an 8.82 ERA with opposing batters hitting .338. He’s also issued 11 free passes this month, after walking just five in July. … Miralles’s Venezuelan countryman Kleiber Olmedo followed him to the mound and retired all five batters he faced, notching two strikeouts. Like Miralles, walks have been a big issue for the righty in August. After posting a stellar 22:3 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 17 July innings, he has issued 11 free passes in 10.2 innings this month. Overall, the 21-year-old has a 6.68 ERA this season.