{"id":230160,"date":"2026-04-01T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230160\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:23:10","slug":"jp-sears-solid-in-el-paso-start-sung-mun-song-continues-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230160\/","title":{"rendered":"JP Sears solid in El Paso start, Sung-Mun Song continues rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walker Buehler pitched four innings in his first turn in the Padres rotation. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez lasted just three innings.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll have to do better to keep their spots.<\/p>\n<p>Among the pitchers who could vie for a call-up this season, left-hander JP Sears made his 2026 debut for Triple-A El Paso on Tuesday and allowed two runs in five innings in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/chihuahuas-vs-rainiers\/2026\/03\/31\/814801\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-4 win<\/a> at Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Sears struck out two and allowed five hits and a walk in the start.<\/p>\n<p>Sears was optioned to the minors to start the season. Three other pitchers who could push for starts in the majors this year are right-handers Joe Musgrove, Griffin Canning and Matt Waldron, all on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Canning (Achilles) will make a rehab start for Double-A San Antonio on Saturday after throwing about 50 pitches in a sim game on Monday in Lake Elsinore.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron (surgery) turned in three scoreless innings in a rehab start for El Paso last week.<\/p>\n<p>Musgrove (Tommy John surgery), meanwhile, has not yet progressed beyond catch play.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Logan Gillaspie (9.00 ERA) followed Sears into Tuesday\u2019s game and allowed a run in two innings.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Alek Jacob (0.00 ERA) walked two while recording two outs in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Sung-Mun Song, who is rehabbing his oblique injury, played the entire game at shortstop and went 1-for-5 with an RBI. He has a .513 OPS through four rehab games.<\/p>\n<p>Catcher Rodolfo Duran (1.029 OPS) went 2-for-4 with his first homer and three RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso is 2-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker Buehler pitched four innings in his first turn in the Padres rotation. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez lasted just three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,3607,7677,23603,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-230160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}