Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Sunday, June 29, 2025
Columbus Clippers 4, Iowa Cubs 2
Box Score · Clippers improve to 38-39
Chase DeLauter batted leadoff Saturday and he led off the game with a home run, his fourth of the season. He is batting .311 with a .949 OPS for Columbus, which would lead all players on the Guardians, including Jose Ramirez. Perhaps the most promising part of DeLauter’s home run was he did it against MLB veteran Kenta Maeda.
Chase DeLauter takes 9-year MLB vet Kenta Maeda deep at Triple-A
The @CleGuardians‘ second-ranked prospect raises his @CLBClippers slash line to .322/.439/.540 on his fourth homer of the year: pic.twitter.com/hrFV2IuR4i
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) June 28, 2025
C.J. Kayfus reached base twice with a pair of walks. The Clippers only had three hits in the game, but two of them were home runs. The other was a two-run blast by Yordys Valdes. Petey Halpin also doubled and walked.
Starting pitcher Doug Nikhazy was sensational, allowing one run on five hits with seven strikeouts and one walk in 6.2 innings.
Akron RubberDucks 4, Harrisburg Senators 2
Box Score · RubberDucks improve to 46-27
Guy Lipscomb had a monster performance for Akron, going 3-for-4 with a double, a stolen base and three runs batted in. Tyresse Turner also was perfect at the dish, going 1-for-1 with a double and three walks.
Other standouts included Jorge Burgos, who went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk and Angel Genao, who went 2-for-5.
Starting pitcher Dylan DeLucia bounced back with a strong showing, allowing one run on five hits with six strikeouts and one walk in 6.0 innings. Zane Morehouse pitched a perfect ninth inning to lock down his seventh save.
Lake County Captains 4, West Michigan Whitecaps 21
Box Score · Captains fall to 38-36
Games like this make me wish baseball had a mercy rule. West Michigan scored nine runs in the second inning and never stopped.
On the bright side, Christian Knapczyk went 2-for-5 while Alfonsin Rosario doubled and walked. Juan Benjamin went 1-for-3 with a walk and Maick Collado homered.
Collado also made his pitching debut, tossing a scoreless inning in the top of the ninth, the only one of six Captains pitchers to put a zero on the scoreboard Saturday. Starting pitcher Jackson Humphries failed to make it out of the second inning, giving up seven runs (five earned) on seven hits in 1.2 frames.
Lynchburg Hillcats 3, Charleston RiverDogs 7
Box Score · Hillcats fall to 46-28
Lynchburg had 11 hits, but didn’t steal a single base and went just 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Jeffrey Mercedes impressively went 4-for-4 at the plate with a walk. Ryan Mitchell went 2-for-5 while Bennett Thompson went 1-for-4 with a walk.
Starting pitcher Cam Walty was fine, allowing one run on four hits in 3.0 innings with four strikeouts and a walk. Piggyback partner Jervis Alfaro was blasted for five runs on five hits with three walks and two strikeouts in 3.1 innings.
ACL Guardians 6, ACL Brewers 3
Juneiker Caceres stayed hot, going 1-for-3 with a triple and a walk. Catcher Reiner Herrera went 2-for-4 with his third home run and Yeiferth Castillo walked twice. Triston McKenzie pitched just 0.1 innings, allowing one run on one walk without allowing a hit. Angel Perez pitched two scoreless innings of relief with four strikeouts.
DSL Cle Goryl 5, DSL Red Sox Red 6
Freilyn Rodriguez went 3-for-4 with a double and a walk. Rodny Rosario went 1-for-3 with two walks and Steven Cruz went 1-for-3 with two walks and a stolen base.
DSL Cle Mendoza 1, DSL Padres Brown 5
Hiverson Lopez and Luis Galan both went 2-for-4 with a stolen base. Starting pitcher Alejandro Rivera allowed one run on one hit in 4.0 innings.