2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps \u2013 Game Dates September 5-10, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 12:05 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Paul Saints 13, Louisville Bats 8 It was Trevor Larnach tonight (Wednesday) as the Saints hit another<\/em> grand slam home run to defeat the Bats, 13-3, and take a 2-0 lead in the 6-game road series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the Saints squandered a big lead to go from leading, 6-2, to trailing, 8-6, the local lads scored 7 in the top of the 9th<\/sup> on an RBI single by Helman, a 2-run double by major league rehabber Kirilloff, and Larnach\u2019s blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Paul also got a 4-bagger from Helman and one by Larnach, his first of 2. They needed all those runs because three Saints relievers surrendered that 6-2 lead by giving up 5 runs in the bottom of the 8th, including a grand salami by the Bats. Louisville kept plenty of men on base thanks to 11 walks by Saints pitchers. Starting pitcher Festa had a 2-0 lead when he left the game after 3 innings. Festa allowed 3 hits and walked 6 batters while striking out another half-dozen Bats batsmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Larnach\u2019s grand slam, the first of his career, was the Saints\u2019 13th<\/sup> of the season, the most in professional baseball at any level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints are still 3 games behind in the race for a playoff spot in triple-A International League playoffs because 4 of the 5 teams ahead of them also won tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Paul Saints 11, Louisville Bats 3 Brooks Lee, the No. 2 prospect in the Twins organization, smashed a 415-foot grand slam to left-center field to help the Saints end a 3-game losing streak with an 11-3 win over the Louisville Bats. But the standings deficit stayed at 3 games with 5 teams ahead of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints also got a 3-run double from Helman, who played his first game since a shoulder injury May 11, and a 2-run homer from Severino. Severino\u2019s second roundtripper as a Saint gave him 30 for the minor league season (28 at double-A Wichita), only the eighth player to hit 30 at any level of the minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: The 12 grand slams for the Saints this year are the most at any level of American baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints pitched by committee again — with Enlow pitching the first three innings and McMahon, Schulfer, Balazovic and Brice chipping in \u2013 and scattered 9 singles while striking out 8 Bats batsmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to Hear and See the Saints<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All games on KFAN Plus (96.7 FM), I-Heart app, MiLB.TV, Bally app (Apple only); home<\/em> games on local television public programming (consult your TV listings); Saturday and Sunday home<\/em> games televised on WUCW (The CW Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2023 Season: Game 133-138 Recaps \u2013 Game Dates September 5-10, 2023 Note: The Saints began the week three games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 18 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Louisville against the Bats. Game times this week are 5:35 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 6:15 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Wednesday, Sept. 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Tuesday, Sept. 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n