Alex Freeland homers twice, Ryder Ryan returns for Oklahoma City

Freeland scored three runs and drove in three.

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Triple-A Oklahoma City

The Comets scored in five consecutive innings in a second straight rout of the Albuquerque Isotopes (Rockies).

In addition to Freeland’s two home runs, Jack Suwinski helped break the game open with a three-run homer in the fifth inning. Suwinski has 19 extra-base hits (nine home runs, 10 doubles) in his last 23 games.

Shortstop Noah Miller also had three hits. Catcher Eliézer Alfonzo doubled, singled, and drove in two, giving him six hits over his last two games.

For the second consecutive day, Oklahoma City activated one of the Ryan brothers to start. On Friday it was River Ryan who pitched four innings in his first start in five weeks. Saturday was Ryder Ryan returning to the rotation after missing over three weeks with a back injury. He pitched two scoreless innings with three strikeouts and just one single allowed.

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Kiké Hernández played all nine innings in center field on Saturday and was had two walks in his five plate appearances.

Double-A Tulsa

The Drillers hit four home runs, erasing an early 4-0 deficit to beat the Springfield Cardinals.

Josue De Paula has exactly one hit in all five games of this series, including a home run on Saturday. Zyhir Hope homered, as did Jake Gelof. Kyle Nevin also homered and reached base four times with three hits and a walk.

Starter Adam Serwinowski allowed four runs on a grand slam in the third inning, but gave up nothing else through five innings. Serwinowski struck out a season-high nine and walked only one.

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High-A Great Lakes

The Loons trailed 5-1 after six innings, then scored once in the seventh and five runs in the eighth to stun the West Michigan Whitecaps (Tigers). The fateful eighth for Great Lakes included four singles, a triple by right fielder Samuel Muñoz, two walks, and a run-scoring wild pitch.

Mike Sirota and Jose Izarra each had two hits, including run-scoring singles for both in the eighth inning.

Alex Makarewich recorded six outs in a scoreless outing that stretched from the seventh into the ninth, then left-hander Matt Lanzendorfer entered with one on and the tying run at the plate and struck out his only two batters faced, the first professional save for the 2025 15th-round draft pick.

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Left-hander Justin Chambers tied a career high with five strikeouts in his 2 1/3 innings, his longest outing of the season. Chambers allowed a run on two hits and also walked two. Free passes have been a problem for the 20-year-old, who was acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers in January 2024 for left-hander Bryan Hudson. Chambers has 15 walks and 7.82 ERA in 10 1/3 innings this season to go with his 19 strikeouts, but he’s been better of late. In his first seven appearances this season, Chambers had a 26.3-percent walk rate and more walks (10) than strikeouts (seven). But in his five games since the left-hander has a 17.2-percent walk rate with five walks and 12 strikeouts.

Class-A Ontario

Chase Harlan had four hits in the Tower Buzzers’ win over the San Jose Giants, including a double, three singles, and a walk.

Emil Morales homered, while middle infielders Mairo Martinus and Joendry Vargas each had three hits.

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Arizona Complex League

Peter Heubeck, who started 16 games last year for Double-A Tulsa before getting injured in July, made his 2026 season debut on Saturday in the rookie league at Camelback Ranch. The 23-year-old struck out all three batters he faced in a one-inning start, the first game back for the 2021 third-round draft pick.

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Triple-A: Ryder Ryan was activated off the injured list.

Saturday scores

Sunday schedule

• 10:05 a.m. PT: Great Lakes (Brooks Auger) vs. West Michigan (Gabriel Reyes)

• 11 a.m.: Tulsa (Roque Gutierrez) vs. Springfield (Braden Davis)

• 12:35 p.m.: Oklahoma City (Logan Allen) at Albuquerque (Erasmo Ramírez)

• 1:05 p.m.: Ontario (Cam Leiter) vs. San Jose (TBA)