{"id":776359,"date":"2026-05-06T03:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776359\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:24:13","slug":"padres-minors-lucas-giolito-makes-third-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776359\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres minors: Lucas Giolito makes third start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lucas Giolito<\/strong> moved a step closer to joining the Padres\u2019 rotation.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, he\u2019ll have to begin the fine-tuning stage of this ramp-up.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old right-hander pushed his pitch count to 78 over four innings in Double-A San Antonio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/rockhounds-vs-missions\/2026\/05\/05\/817237\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-5 win<\/a> over visiting Midland on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Giolito allowed five runs \u2014 three earned \u2014 on eight hits and two walks in four innings. He struck out one and allowed two homers.<\/p>\n<p>The start was Giolito\u2019s third in the minors since signing a big-league deal with the Padres. He has to be added to the big-league roster by May 16, but he\u2019s got a 6.55 ERA across three starts (11 IP), including two at low Single-A Lake Elsinore, as he ramps up ahead of joining the Padres\u2019 rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Giolito has struck out 12, walked six and allowed opposing hitters a .306 batting average across his three minor league starts. He threw 63 pitches in 2\u2154 innings in his first start and 70 pitches in 4\u2153 innings in his second start.<\/p>\n<p>Giolito went 10-4 with a 3.41 ERA, 121 strikeouts and a 1.29 WHIP across 26 starts (145 innings) last year for the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander <strong>Victor Lizarraga<\/strong> (1-3, 8.27 ERA) followed Giolito\u2019s exit with five shutout innings for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Right fielder <strong>Tirso Ornelas<\/strong> (.751 OPS) hit his fifth homer, designated hitter <strong>Leandro Cedeno<\/strong> (1.097 OPS) hit his third homer and second baseman<strong> Ryan Jackson<\/strong> (.634 OPS) hit his first homer.<\/p>\n<p>Cedeno drove in three runs on two hits, including a double, and catcher <strong>Ethan Salas<\/strong> (1.001 OPS) went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio is 8-20.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Giolito moved a step closer to joining the Padres\u2019 rotation. At some point, he\u2019ll have to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776360,"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-776359","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\/116525496312404572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776359","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=776359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}