{"id":142420,"date":"2025-08-13T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142420\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:57:10","slug":"tirso-ornelas-homers-twice-jp-sears-wins-first-el-paso-start-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142420\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirso Ornelas homers twice, JP Sears wins first El Paso start \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Ram\u00f3n Laureano<\/strong> and Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/strong> in the fold, the Padres suddenly have more left fielders than they need.<\/p>\n

And they still have Tirso Ornelas<\/strong> developing at Triple-A El Paso.<\/p>\n

Ornelas homered twice on Tuesday, leading Triple-A El Paso to a 9-7 win<\/a> at Reno.<\/p>\n

The blasts pushed Ornelas\u2019 total to five in this challenging season. He made his MLB debut in April, but he was just 1-for-14 with an RBI, two walks and two strikeouts in seven games and he went on to miss nearly two months with a mild case of plantar fasciitis.<\/p>\n

Ornelas went 0-for-5 in his return on Friday, 1-for-4 on Sunday and on Tuesday drove in four runs on his two blasts.<\/p>\n

Ornelas is hitting .291\/.375\/.429 with 34 RBIs in 50 games. He hit .297\/.367\/.497 with 23 homers and 89 RBIs in 128 games last year at Triple-A El Paso.<\/p>\n

Catcher Rodolfo Duran<\/strong> (.803 OPS) drove in two runs on three hits and second baseman Will Wagner (.964 OPS) drove in two runs on two hits.<\/p>\n

Left-hander JP Sears<\/strong> (1-0, 3.60 ERA) struck out three and allowed two runs on six hits and a walk in five innings in the win in his first start since his demotion from the majors.<\/p>\n

El Paso is 62-52.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday\u2019s scoreboard<\/p>\n

DOUBLE-A SAN ANTONIO (55-54)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tulsa 8, Missions 5:<\/a> SS Francisco Acu\u00f1a<\/strong> (.706 OPS) went 3-for-4 with an RBI, a walk and two runs scored. DH Albert Fabian<\/strong> (.836 OPS) and RF Moises Gomez<\/strong> (.685 OPS) both had two hits and 3B Devin Ortiz<\/strong> (.651 OPS) had a double. RHP Victor Lizarraga<\/strong> (7.36 ERA) allowed four runs in three innings in the start. RHP Garrett Hawkins<\/strong> (3.60 ERA) allowed two runs on three walks and two hits. The Missions have lost six in a row.<\/p>\n

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HIGH SINGLE-A FORT WAYNE (51-57)<\/strong><\/p>\n

TinCaps 6, W. Michigan 1:<\/a> CF Kai Roberts<\/strong> (.592 OPS) drove in three runs on two hits, including his fourth homer. 2B Zach Evans<\/strong> (.399 OPS) went 1-for-4 with two RBIs. RF Braedon Karpathios<\/strong> (.804 OPS) went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run scored. C Brendan Durfee<\/strong> (.620 OPS) went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. RHP Ian Koenig<\/strong> (5-6, 5.17 ERA) struck out seven and allowed a run on five hits and a walk in seven innings in the win.<\/p>\n

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LOW SINGLE-A LAKE ELSINORE (49-60)<\/strong><\/p>\n

San Jose 13, Storm 2:<\/a> RHP Humberto Cruz<\/strong> (0-3, 6.97 ERA) struck out five but allowed three runs in 2\u2154 innings in the loss. SS Jorge Quintana<\/strong> (.546 OPS) and 2B Dylan Grego<\/strong> (.599 OPS) both had two hits. 1B Kale Fountain<\/strong> (.564 OPS) went 1-for-1 with three walks and a run scored. LF Alex McCoy<\/strong> (.901 OPS) went 1-for-2 with a triple, an RBI and two walks.<\/p>\n

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ROOKIE DSL BROWN (18-32)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reds 4, Padres 3:<\/a> RF Jose Bericoto<\/strong> (.580 OPS) went 2-for-2 with a double, two walks and a run scored. 1B Andres Garza<\/strong> (.603 OPS) and 2B Yonaiker Hernandez<\/strong> (.582 OPS) also had doubles.<\/p>\n

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ROOKIE DSL GOLD (35-16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Padres 10, Reds 5 (7):<\/a> SS Jhoan De La Cruz<\/strong> (.829 OPS) went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored. LF Eddson Martinez<\/strong> (.842 OPS) went 2-for-2 with an RBI, a walk and a run scored. LHP Marco Eluscat<\/strong> (3-3, 5.32 ERA) struck out seven over four no-hit innings in relief in the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Ram\u00f3n Laureano and Ryan O\u2019Hearn in the fold, the Padres suddenly have more left fielders than they…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,1266,3549,1306,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-142420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-padres","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021574691100258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}