Brewers Minor League Link Report (8/11): Brewers Split a Pair of One-Run Games, As Dominican Summer League Enters its Final Week

Transactions:  RHP Alejandro Parra assigned to DSL Brewers Gold from DSL Brewers Blue.

Game Action:

Final: DSL Brewers Blue 3, DSL Padres Brown 2, seven innings as scheduled

Box Score

The Padres jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning after Brewers’ starter Josue Toledo committed a two-out fielding error to give the Padres an extra opportunity. Padres shortstop Tom Guerrero grounded a two-out double to right field to open the scoring. The Brewers responded in the bottom of the first ignited by a Carlos Done single and Brailyn Antunez hit-by-pitch. After a double steal by Done and Antunez, Yoneiker Lugo plated a run with a sacrifice fly.

Brewers PD X account offered us a look at the sizzling hot Done last week:

In the third inning, Lugo would knock in Joan Gutierrez on a single to tie the game. The score remained 2-2 until the fifth inning when Done hit a sac fly to score Frandy Lafond, who had led off the inning with a double. The Brewers held on to the one run margin to win 3-2 in the seven inning contest.

After the two unearned runs in the first inning, the Brewers run prevention did not allow another run. Toledo went four innings, with just three hits and one walk, while striking out two. Lonell Downs earned the win in relief with three scoreless innings with two hits, two walks, and four strikeouts.

The DSL Brewers Blue are now 26-23 on the season.

Final: DSL Dodgers Mega 4, DSL Brewers Gold 3, seven innings as scheduled

Box Score

All the scoring in this game came in two rallies, with the Dodgers breaking out for a four-run first inning versus Brewers’ starter Ruben Saldana, and the Brewers rallying for three runs in the fourth inning. Saldana was unable to complete the first inning, working two-thirds of an inning and allowing just one hit – a grand slam – while issuing four walks. Brewers’ relievers Saul Sanchez and Daniel Garcia set down 11 in a row through the middle innings of the game, with Garcia doing the heavy lifting with four scoreless and hitless innings to close the game.

The Brewers did all their damage in the fourth, started by catcher Isais Chavez’s fifth homerun of the season. Alexander Frias and Eryks Rivero followed with back-to-back doubles to make it 4-2, and then Joandrew Pena singled to reduce the deficit to one run. For the 17-year old Frias, it was his fifth multi-hit game of August, raising his OPS to .852 in 78 at-bats.

The Brewers actually outhit the Dodgers 7-3, but issued seven walks to the Dodgers’ one. The DSL Brewers Gold fell to 23-27 with the loss.

The DSL season wraps up on August 19, so just a handful games left on the island for 2025.

Elsewhere around the minor league affiliates:

In Carolina, the Mudcats won three of five games in a potential playoff preview with first-half champ Lynchburg in yet another rain-shortened series. The first place Mudcats will have a chance to expand their lead over third place Fayetteville when they travel to take on the Astros’ affiliate this week in a seven game series.

Jose Anderson and Eric Bitonti each had two homeruns for the Cats last week, providing the only long balls for the week. The two also combined for 16 strikeouts in their 35 ABs with just three walks. Bitonti’s 18^th homerun of the season is six more than the next closest player in the Carolina League:

Shortstop Tyler Rodriguez added six hits and three steals, good for a .974 OPS for the week.

Jayden Dubanewicz had another nice outing for the Mudcats on Sunday, going 4.1 innings scoreless in relief despite four walks. Dubanewicz has allowed one earned run or fewer in his last seven appearances in Carolina, and since being promoted to Low A in June, he’s sporting a 1.93 ERA in 42 IP with a 27:10 K:BB ratio. However, he has allowed seven unearned runs in that stretch.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers also won their rain-shortened series 3-2 this week at Peoria. The big Brewers' prospect news was the promotion of Jesus Made and Luis Pena last week, and both players blasted homers early, with Pena going yard in his first AB and Made waiting until his second game to go deep.

Made led the team with six hits and five RBI for the series. Both Made and Pena will be making their Appleton debuts this week, which should draw crowds to Fox Cities Stadium despite the team residing in last place in the Midwest League. Not to be lost in the shuffle, fast-rising catching prospect Marco Dinges also returned to the Rattlers’ lineup on Saturday and was on base three times with a hit and two walks.

Wisconsin pitcher Tanner Gillis earned Pitcher of the Week honors for this line last week:

The weekly Rattler Review podcast can be found here:

The Timber Rattlers weren’t the only affiliate with an exciting promotion this week, as Blake Burke played in his first full AA series in Biloxi and quickly mashed two homers and two doubles for a 1.162 OPS. Burke’s Saturday homerun was his first homer since June 29, a drought of 30 games, and his second shot of the week was an impressive 411 foot blast to dead center:

We're just about to the early end of the Brock Wilken 8-10 week injury timeline, so it'll be interesting to see what the Shuckers do with all their big burly sluggers come playoff time, if Wilken and Luke Adams indeed return this season. The Shuckers split their six game series with Knoxville and will host Columbus this week.

Finally, the Nashville Sounds are going through it as a team right now, after losing all six games last week, they have now lost 10 of their last 11 games. The Sounds managed just 11 runs in their six losses last week and did not hit a single homerun. The team combined for a .478 OPS for the week, dead last in the 20 team International League, and struck out in 34% of their at-bats.

One of the lone bright spots for the week was the appearance of Robert Gasser on his rehab assignment. Gasser started Friday’s game and tossed three scoreless innings, despite three hits, a walk, and a HBP. Two of the hits were infield hits on soft contact and the defense did not help Gasser out much, as they also committed an error behind the Brewers’ 26 year-old lefty. Gasser should have a few more rehab appearances before heading back to the big league club to attempt to carve out a role for the postseason roster.

Nashville travels to Durham this week, where they scored 41 runs in a six game set back in early July. Perhaps hitting the bull is just what the team needs to pull out of its’ slump.

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