Corey Seager is active for tomorrow’s game. Per local media, Wyatt Langford will also be activated. OF Alejandro Osuna and IF Cody Freeman have been optioned.
Reliever Josh Sborz is back from three days in the wilderness on a new minor deal.
Box Scores
AAA: Round Rock 9, at Oklahoma City (LAD) 5
Round Rock: 12 hits, 8 walks, 8 strikeouts
Opponent: 10 hits, 3 walks, 7 strikeouts
Record: 25-34, 9 GB
SP Josh Stephan: 5 IP, 7 H (1 HR), 3 R, 3 BB, 3 SO, 86 P / 59 S, 5.79 ERA
RP Dustin Saenz: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO, 0.00 ERA
RP Gavin Collyer: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 2.08 ERA
2B Cameron Cauley: 2-4, BB, .257/.370/.374
CF Jarred Kelenic: 3-4, 2B, BB
1B Blaine Crim: 1-3, 2B, 2 BB, .296/.394/.667
RF Gilberto Celestino: 1-3, 2B, 2 BB, 3 SB (7), .250/.347/.327
Round Rock had a month-long stretch averaging a meager 3.8 runs scored per game, and not coincidentally, a 9-17 record. Since then, the Express have averaged 7.5 over the last 14 and won nine.
Gavin Collyer handled the 8th with just eight pitches including six strikes.
The 27-year-old Saenz was Washington’ fourth-round pick in 2021 out of TAMU, signed by Texas after being released by the Nats in the spring. He’d pitched sparingly for Frisco in May. 
AA: Frisco 8, Springfield (STL) 7
Frisco: 12 hits, 4 walks, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 11 hits, 5 walks, 6 strikeouts
Record: 27-24, tied for 1st
SP Blake Townsend: 4 IP, 6 H (1 HR), 3 R, 0 BB, 1 HBP, 1 SO, 62 P / 44 S, 4.46 ERA
RP Wilian Bormie: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 1.85 ERA
2B Frainyer Chavez: 4-5, 2B, .291/.385/.474
SS Corey Seager: 0-3
DH Wyatt Langford: 1-3, HR
3B Rafe Perich: 1-4, HR (2), BB, .158/.238/.474
Rafe Perich timed a looping 0-1 curve perfectly for a walk-off homer. Perich was also named player of the month in the South Atlantic League, which is now in his rearview mirror. 
Hi-A: Hub City 1, at Winston-Salem (CHW) 2
Hub City: 8 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 2 hits, 8 walks, 8 strikeouts
Record: 25-27, 13 GB
SP J’Briell Easley: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 46 P / 28 S, 4.01 ERA
RP Brock Porter: 5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 4 SO, 1.74 ERA
On Tuesday, Hub City carried a no-hitter into the 6th, allowed two hits total, and lost.
Last night, Hub City carried a no-hitter into the 7th, allowed two hits total, and lost.
Entering with a one-run lead, Joey Danielson surrendered a game-ending two-run double following two walks. Hub City has walked 17 batters over the past two night.
Brock Porter continues to be effective, after a fashion, walking or plunking 21% of opposing batters but extremely hard to hit. Last night, he was aided by a line-out double play, an outfield assist, and a sac bunt by a guy with a 1.000 OPS. 
Lo-A: Hickory 3, Kannapolis (CHW) 8
Hickory: 10 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts
Opponent: 9 hits, 5 walks, 13 strikeouts
Record: 29-22, tied for 1st
SP Moises Morales: 4.1 IP, 3 H (1 HR), 4 R, 3 BB, 1 HBP, 6 SO, 69 P / 42 S, 5.04 ERA
RP JD McReynolds: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 SO, 4.86 ERA
SS Yolfran Castillo: 2-4, SB (23), .301/.392/.420
C Josh Springer: 3-4, 2B, .300/.377/.350
Like Louis Marinaro, McReynolds started white-hot, went through a rough patch and has been better lately.
Today’s Starters
AAA: TBD
AA: Santos
Hi-A: Perry
Lo-A: Lafalaise
Five Years Ago Yesterday
Minor League Baseball floated the possibility of playoffs, which were omitted from the makeshift post-covid 2021 schedules. MiLB would eventually institute simple best-of-fives between the top two teams (irrespective of division) in AA and the A levels, while AAA would adopt a convoluted “Final Stretch” consisting of ten additional regular season games and an AAA-wide champ for those ten games in addition individual league champs for the originally scheduled 120 games. Blessedly, this was a one-time event.
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