Dodgers minor league news

Julio Urias strikes out four in rehab appearance

Urias has made two rehab appearances as he works his way back to Los Angeles

By Craig Minami Aug 5, 2018, 6:32am PDT

Miami Marlins v Los Angeles Dodgers — Julio Urias

Four Dodger minor league affiliates won and four lost on Saturday. The craziest game was in Ogden where a 4-4 tie after nine innings ended up as a 15-12 win for Orem in twelve innings.

Player of the day

Left-handed pitcher Ben Holmes pitched seven scoreless innings in his Tulsa debut. In his two stops in the Dodger organization, Holmes has pitched 24 innings and he has given up two runs and ten hits. Holmes has struck out 29 and walked eight.

Holmes was released in June and became a minor-league free agent. He was signed by the Dodgers on July 6, 2018.

Triple-A Oklahoma City

The Dodgers lost 5-2 to the Reno Aces (Diamondbacks). Kyle Lobstein started for the Dodgers and he pitched 5⅓ innings. He allowed five runs and nine hits. Pat Venditte pitched one inning and struck out two.

The Dodgers only had five hits, Edwin Rios had two of them. Will Smith went 0-for-4, he is now 0-for-11 at Oklahoma City. Smith has played three games for Oklahoma City, he has caught twice and started at third base in the other game.

Double-A Tulsa

The Drillers shutout the Arkansas Travelers (Mariners) 2-0 on Saturday. Ben Holmes pitched seven innings to pick up the win in his Tulsa debut. Marshall Kasowski and Andrew Istler finished the game. Istler recorded his first save.

DJ Peters had two hits including his 21st home run. Gavin Lux has continued to hit, in his first three games with Tulsa, Lux is 6-for-13.

Class-A Rancho Cucamonga

The Quakes have been beaten twice by Lancaster JetHawks (Rockies) this weekend as they lost 6-5 at Lancaster. The game was tied 3-3 in the going to the bottom of the sixth. Parker Curry was on the mound for the Quakes.

An error by Cristian Santana put two runners on base for the JetHawks with no outs. Two outs later, Manuel Melendez doubled home both runners to put the JetHawks ahead 5-3.

The JetHawks would score one more time in the seventh. That would prove to be important when Santana hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning.

Jared Walker also homered for the Quakes.

Class-A Great Lakes

The Loons beat Lake County Captains (Indians) 4-1 on Saturday. Andre Jackson returned to the Loons after a stint with the AZL Dodgers. Jackson pitched six scoreless innings where he gave up three hits and three walks. Jackson also struck out five.

At Arizona, Jackson pitched 18⅓ innings, he gave up seven runs and 18 hits. Jackson did strikeout 31 hitters while walking four for the AZL Dodgers.

Jacob Amaya went 1-for-2 with two walks. Brock Carpenter was 1-for-3 with two runs driven in. And Miguel Vargas was 2-for-4 with a triple and a run scored.

Pioneer-Rookie Ogden

It is not unusual that the Raptors could lose 15-12 to the Orem Owlz (Angels). What is unusual is that the bulk of the scoring took place after the game went into extra-innings.

At the end of nine innings, the score was 4-4. Both teams went to each score one run in the tenth and then four runs apiece in the eleventh. Orem then scored six runs in the twelfth and Ogden could only score three runs in the bottom of the inning.

Ronny Brito went 1-for-3 with a home run and two runs driven in. James Outman had four hits.

Arizona-Rookie AZL Dodgers

The AZL Dodgers had five pitchers combine to pitch a shutout against the AZL White Sox, winning 1-0 on Saturday night. Julio Urias made his second rehab appearance for the AZL Dodgers and he struck out four in 1⅔ innings.

Urias first appearance on July 30th was not officially recorded as the game was rained out. Urias pitched 1⅔ innings that night too, he struck out two and gave up a hit.

The Dodgers scored the only run in the game in the first inning. Jair Camargo singled home Andrew Shaps with two out in the first inning.

Transactions

Triple-A: Oklahoma City placed right-handed pitcher Josh Sborz on the 7-day disabled list retroactive to August 3, 2018. Right-handed pitcher Logan Bawcom assigned to Oklahoma City from Tulsa.

Double-A: Left-handed pitcher Ben Holmes assigned to Tulsa from Rancho Cucamonga. Tulsa activated infielders Mike Ahmed and Drew Jackson from the 7-day disabled list.

Class-A: Rancho Cucamonga placed right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley on the temporarily inactive list. Right-handed pitcher Elio Serrano assigned to Rancho Cucamonga from Ogden. Right-handed pitcher Andre Jackson assigned to Great Lakes from AZL Dodgers.

Rookie: Infielder Eric Peterson assigned to Ogden from Tulsa.