2023 Season: Game 146 Recap \u2013 Sept. 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Saints faced two former Minnesota Twins pitchers last night (Thursday) at CHS Field. One kept them off the scoreboard for six innings. The other — not so much. And when the visiting Toledo MudHens were at bat, the Saints had an ex-Twin of their own on the mound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This one went the Saints\u2019 way. Randy Dobnak pitched 6 innings and gave up just one run on 3 hits, striking out 7 MudHens, and the Saints rallied to win, 4-2. And oh, by the way, present Twin Byron Buxton contributed to the victory in his first night of a \u201cmajor league rehab\u201d (MLR) assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With wins the last three nights, the Saints are halfway to a sweep of their final series of the season. Their record stands at 83-63 in the triple-A International League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Saints scored 4 runs in the 7th<\/sup> to overtake the visitors, but not until after their first ex-Twins mound opponent, Bryan Sammons (drafted by Minnesota in 2017), left with a 1-0 lead. Sammons gave up only 4 hits and struck out 8 batters in his 6-inning shutout effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enter Andrew Vasquez, another former Twins draft pick (2015) who actually made it to the big leagues with the Twins in 2018. He inherited a 2-0 lead because the MudHens scored a run off Bechtold in the top of the 7th<\/sup>. Vasquez didn\u2019t help himself with a hit batsman and a wild pitch in his two-thirds of an inning, but he also was victimized by a horrible error and the Saints didn\u2019t exactly tear the cover off the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee started the winning rally in the bottom of the 7th<\/sup> with a sharp single to left on the first pitch of Vasquez\u2019s appearance. Garlick hit a grounder to third base and the fielder tried to force Lee out at 2nd<\/sup>, but the throw sailed 10 feet wide of the bag and way into right field, allowing Lee to score and Garlick to reach 3rd<\/sup>. Vasquez hit the next batter, Camargo, to put him on 1st<\/sup>, then threw his next pitch to the backstop. Garlick raced home to tie the game, 2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vasquez\u2019s troubles were only half over. After striking out Celestino, he yielded a single to Perez that brought Camargo home. Then the Toledo hurler gave up a single to Helman, ending his night. Hill was brought in to replace Vasquez and face Buxton. Buxton brought the announced crowd of 6,547 humans to their feet with a soft single that scored Perez with the fourth run. Buxton exited for a pinch runner and wound up going 1-for-4 including two strikeouts against the Automatic Ball-Strike system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The season-ending series continues tonight (Friday) at 6:37 p.m. Saturday\u2019s game will also start at 6:37 and Sunday\u2019s season finale will begin at 12:07 p.m.<\/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 146 Recap \u2013 Sept. 21 The Saints faced two former Minnesota Twins pitchers last night (Thursday) at CHS Field. One kept them off the scoreboard for six innings. The other — not so much. And when the visiting Toledo MudHens were at bat, the Saints had an ex-Twin of their own on […]<\/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-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}