Guardians Farm Report: Wolf Makes Impressive 2022 Debut For Lynchburg In Win

All seven Cleveland Guardians minor league teams were in action last night including a double header for the Lynchburg Hillcats.

Triple-A Columbus Clippers

Indianapolis 6 Columbus 5

One of the craziest walk-offs you will ever see occurred in the Clippers game last night unfortunately Columbus was on the losing end.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Indianapolis center fielder Jared Oliva would steal home when Columbus catcher Bryan Lavastida lobbed the ball back to pitcher Ben Krauth. Krauth would throw the ball back to Lavastida but not in time giving the Indians a 6-to-5 win. With the loss the Clippers fall to 34-23 on the season.

Have you ever seen a walk-off steal of home? Well, now you have.

Jared Oliva pulls off the feat to secure victory for the @indyindians. pic.twitter.com/hn72iy0jyK
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) June 10, 2022

Will Brennan and Lavastida would have nice games for the Clippers offense last night with Brennan reaching base four times on three hits and a walk driving in a run and stealing a base. Lavastida would collect two hits including a triple and drive in a run.

Guardians right-handed pitcher Aaron Civale would start the game for Columbus making a rehab appearance returning from an injured left glute. Civale would throw two scoreless innings striking out three to start the game before running into trouble in the third. Civale would let the first two batters reach in the third inning before being pulled reaching his pitch count. Civale would be charged with two runs in the outing with both runners eventually coming around to score.

Top Performers:

Brennan 3-4 R 2B RBI BB SB
Lavastida 2-5 R 3B RBI
Tolman 2-5 RBI 2SB
Brooks 1-3 R 2B BB
Civale 2.0(IP) 2H 2ER 1BB 3SO (Rehab)
Gibaut 1.1(IP) 1H 0ER 0BB 2SO

Double-A Akron RubberDucks

Somerset 4 Akron 3

Akron offense would only collect three hits on the night one of which came off the bat of first baseman Micah Pries in the sixth inning that would tie the game up at three runs apiece. For Pries it was his sixth home run of the season for Akron.

#Guardians 24yr old (1B) prospect Micah Pries with an absolute bomb to tie the game up at 3-3 in the 6th inning. The HR was Pries 6th on the year with Akron. @micahpries @AkronRubberDuck #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/PmHHmMGYEU
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 10, 2022

Somerset would take the lead at 4-to-3 responding the very next inning on an RBI single off the bat of Oliver Dunn. Akron would fail to score over the final two innings losing the closely fought contest. The Ducks fall to 30-24 on the year with the loss.

RubberDucks starter Logan Allen would strikeout nine in the game over six innings while allowing just three hits but two of the hits were home runs leading to three earned runs.

Top Performers:

Pries 2-3 2R HR RBI
Nova 1-3 2B
Valera 0-3 R
Allen 6.0(IP) 3H 3R 3ER 3BB 9SO
Enright 1.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 1SO

High-A Lake County Captains

Fort Wayne 5 Lake County 4

The Captains would score four runs in the game while only collecting four hits in the contest. One of the hits was a big two-run triple from Ray Delgado that helped Lake County take an early 3-to-2 lead in the fourth inning.

#Guardians 22yr old INF prospect Ray Delgado with a 2-run triple tonight in the 4th inning for Lake County. The triple for Delgado was his 2nd on the season.@RayDelgado15 @LCCaptains #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/ToOy78uRYe
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 10, 2022

Fort Wayne however would outscore the Captains 3-to-1 over the final five innings of the game taking the game by a final score of 5-to-4 handing Lake County the loss.

Lake County drops to 28-25 on the year.

Top Performers:

Delgado 1-3 R 3B 2RBI BB SB
Ramirez 1-3 RBI BB
Martinez 1-4 2B BB
Planez 1-5 R 2B
Smith 1.0(IP) 0H 0R 0ER 0BB 3SO

Low-A Lynchburg Hillcats

Lynchburg 9 Fredericksburg 7 (Game 1)

Hillcats starter Josh Wolf made his first start of the 2022 season just being activated off the injured list where he had been rehabbing a shoulder injury and revamping his delivery out at the organizations Goodyear development complex in Arizona.

Wolf looked good touching upper 90's giving Lynchburg three innings allowing just one unearned run while striking out four. He would leave the game with a 5-to-1 lead.

#Guardians 21yr old RHP prospect Josh Wolf looked good making his first start of the 2022 season today for Lynchburg. Wolf was reaching 97-98 on the stadium gun.

Line - 3.0(IP) 1H 1R 0ER 2BB 4SO (68 Pitches 42 Strikes)@JoshWolf30 @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/8jYZEM1D2N
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

Lynchburg would get on the board first scoring five runs in the second inning including a big three run home run by Jake Fox. For Fox it was his third home run of the season and the second straight game he drove one out of the park.

#Guardians 19yr old INF/OF prospect Jake Fox with a 3-run HR in the 2nd inning for Lynchburg in game one of today's double header. Fox has now homered in back-to-back games and has 3 big flys on the season.@Jake_Fox8 @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/hsLzXq9mqu
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

The Nationals would comeback scoring six runs in the fourth inning and take a 7-to-5 lead off Reny Artiles who came in after Wolf departed and allow all six runs walking four and hitting two batters only getting one out in the inning.

The Hillcats would fight back tying the game at seven runs apiece headed into the final inning of play. In the top of the seventh Lynchburg would get a RBI double off the bat of Junior Sanquintin scoring pinch runner Luis Durango from first to take an 8-to-7 lead. The Hillcats would tack on an insurance run in the inning making it 9-to-7.

Closer Elvis Jerez would come in the game and get the final three outs earning his fifth save of the season.

With the game one win Lynchburg improved their record to 29-24 on the season.

Top Performers:

Fox 1-3 R HR 3RBI BB
Bartlett 2-3 R 2B RBI
Sanquintin 2-4 R 2B RBI
Peralta 1-2 R RBI BB
Greene 0-1 2R 3BB SB
Wolf 3.0(IP) 1H 1R 0ER 2BB 4SO
Villalobos 2.2(IP) 3H 0R 0ER 1BB 6SO (W)

Fredericksburg 8 Lynchburg 1 (Game 2)

Nothing real positive would come out of game two for the Hillcats as they would only score one run on three hits and allow eight runs on 11 hits to the Nationals over seven innings.

One interesting development in the game was when Lynchburg reliever Sammy Vasquez making his Hillcats and 2022 season debut would enter the game in the seventh and continuously hit 100 miles per hour on the radar gun in the seventh inning topping out at 101 mph!

Vasquez would strikeout two but couldn't get out of the inning only recording two outs allowing three hits and two runs in the inning.

#Guardians 22yr old RHP prospect Samuel Vasquez made his first appearance of the 2022 season tonight for Lynchburg striking out the 1st batter he faced hitting 101 mph on the gun. 🔥🔥🔥@SamuelV42968171 @LynHillcats #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/uIuNoTX83Q
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 10, 2022

With the game two loss the Hillcats fall to 29-25 on the year.

Top Performers:

Greene 1-3
Tolentino 1-4
Sanquintin 1-4
Fox 0-2 2BB
Valdes 0-1 R BB
Aleman 4.0(IP) 3H 3R 1ER 2BB 6SO

Arizona Complex League Guardians

ACL Guardians 5 ACL Athletics 4

Arizona Complex League Guardians move to 3-0 on the season getting a walk-off home run from Angel Contreras taking down the A's by a final of 5-to-4.

Contreras was playing in his first game of the season had already doubled in the game before hitting his game winning home run.

Walk-off HR in your 1st game of the season! 19yr old INF prospect Angel Contreras already w/ a double in the game would homer in the 9th inning to give the ACL #Guardians a 5-4 win over the A's! It was Contreras 1st game played in the Arizona Complex League. #ForTheLand #Future pic.twitter.com/KrRY0p5XKu
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 10, 2022

Shortstop Angel Genao continued his hot hitting with two more hits and extended his on-base streak to 40 straight games dating back to last season.

Top Performers:

Contreras 2-4 2R 2B HR RBI
Antunez 2-3 2R RBI BB
Genao 2-4 R RBI
Benjamin 1-4 2B 2RBI
Saduy 1-3 BB
W. Vasquez 4.0(IP) 0H 2R 1ER 5BB 4SO
Noboa 2.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 0BB 3SO

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Blue)

DSL Guardians Blue 5 DSL Astros Orange 1

The Dominican Summer League Guardians (Blue) squad improved to 3-1 on the season scoring five runs on nine hits in their seven inning win on Thursday.

Outfielder Moises Molero continued his impressive start to his career with two more hits including a double. Molero is hitting .545 through his first three games.

#Guardians 17-year-old OF prospect Moises Molero is off to an outstanding start to his pro-career over his first 3 games in the Dominican Summer League. Molero signed out of Maracaibo, Veneuela on 1/15/22.

6-11 7R 1(2B) 2RBI 4BB .545 AVG .667 OBP#ForTheLand
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

Guardians reliever Yonaiker Garcia would pick up the save throwing two and tow thirds scorleless inning striking out two Astros.

Top Performers:

Molero 2-4 2R 2B
Aranguren 2-3 R 2B
Borrome 1-4 2RBI
Ju. Gomez 1-1 2BB SB
Jo. Gomez 1-3 R BB
Mendez 1-4 RBI
Flores 1.2(IP) 2H 0ER 2BB 2SO
Garcia 2.2(IP) 2H 0ER 0BB 2SO (SV)

Dominican Summer League Guardians (Red)

DSL Guardians Red 5 DSL Royals Stewart 4

The Dominican Summer League Guardians (Red) team would even their record up at 2-2 on the season getting a walk-off win in teir seven inning game off the bat of Kevin Rivas.

19yr old switch hitting INF prospect Kevin Rivas with a walk-off base hit to score Victor Izturis from third base for the #Guardians Dominican Summer League (Red) team today giving them a 5-4 win over the Royals.@k_rivasOfficial #ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/tqRHuakRHh
— Guardians Prospective (@CleGuardPro) June 9, 2022

Guardians Red starter right-handed starter Abrahan Tejeda made his professional debut going three and two thirds innings allowing just one hit and 1 unearned run in a impressive first start.