2024 Season: Games 81-86 Recap — Sunday, July 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After 21-6 and 11-0 losses earlier in the week, the Saint Paul Saints came back to earn a split of the 6-game series at CHS Field against the Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. The Stripers had former Twin Eddie Rosario in the lineup along with former big-leagues catcher Sandy Leon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saint Paul, now 44-42 overall and 6-6 in the second half of the Triple-A International League, opens a 6-game road series Tuesday night at the Louisville Sluggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saints 4, Stripers 3 (Sunday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Home runs by Camargo and Williams, a fielding gem by Williams, and strong pitching by starter Dobnak and relievers Wittgren, Harris, Stankiewicz, Bowman, and closer Castillo helped the Saints split the Gwinnett series on its final day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Camargo smacked a bases-empty, 6th-inning pitch 448 feet up and over the batter’s eye in centerfield to tie the score, 3-3, becoming the 7th player in Saints history and the 2nd in Triple-A franchise history, with teammate Severino. Williams, who tied Camargo with a team franchise record 21 4-baggers last season, stepped into the batter’s box next and smacked a 2nd solo shot for the Saints’ 4-3 margin of victory. Williams holds a 9-6 lead over Camargo in their home run duel this season, though Camargo has played in 16 fewer games. It was Williams’ 4th homer of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, Williams made a beautiful play in left-centerfield in the top of the 9th to help Castillo secure the save. His catch and throw to 2nd base doubled up the Stripers runner; then Castillo struck out the final batter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saints reliever Harris (2-4) picked up the win in relief of Saints starter Dobnak (4.1 IP, 6 hits, 2 earned runs, 3 walks, 5 strikeouts) and Wittgren. Stankiewicz, Bowman and Castillo finished off the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stripers 4, Saints 1 (Saturday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints were offered 9 free bases but could only muster 2 hits. Wallner, who was named International League player of the month for June, was not in the lineup. He was called up to the Twins after a month that included 12 home runs and a .324 BA, .403 OBA, .724 Slugging Percentage, and 1.127 OPS. (Let’s hope he’s up there to stay!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saints 11, Stripers 5 (Friday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An announced crowd of 8,168 watched Williams smash 2 home runs and drive in 4 runs. Julien collected a 3-run dinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stripers 11, Saints 0 (Thursday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Starter Varland threw so many pitches (42) in the 1st inning that Williams switched positions with him to get the final out of the frame. Then Williams put the first 2 Stripers of the 2nd stanza on base to satisfy the the 3-batter relief pitching minimum. Varland and Williams switched spots again and Varland gave up a 3-run homer. It was that kind of day on the Fourth of July before an announced attendance of 8,295. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stripers 21, Saints 6 (Wednesday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuck! 9,189 announced attendance. Eighteen thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight eyes were covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saints 5, Stripers 2 (Tuesday)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dobnak pitched 5 innings of 1-run baseball and Lee smashed a 3-run roundtripper in his last game before his first call-up to The Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints’ games in Louisville Tuesday through Saturday all begin at 5:30 p.m. or 6:15 p.m. The Sunday finale starts at 12:05 p.m. They will air on KFAN Plus, 96.7 FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2024 Season: Games 81-86 Recap — Sunday, July 7 After 21-6 and 11-0 losses earlier in the week, the Saint Paul Saints came back to earn a split of the 6-game series at CHS Field against the Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. The Stripers had former Twin Eddie Rosario in the […]<\/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-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}