{"id":411870,"date":"2026-08-20T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:22:42","slug":"padres-minors-samad-taylor-homers-on-rehab-with-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411870\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres minors: Samad Taylor homers on rehab with El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samad Taylor homered in his second rehab game on Wednesday in Triple-A El Paso\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/express-vs-chihuahuas\/2026\/08\/19\/815337\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11-2 loss<\/a> to visiting Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Taylor went 0-for-3 with a walk on Tuesday before going 1-for-4 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor last played in the majors on July 7 before an oblique injury sent him to the injured list. The team has since replaced him with switch-hitter Luis Rengifo, who is seeing time in left field, as well as second and third base.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was hitting .330\/.410\/.398 with one homer, 11 RBIs and six steals over 26 games before landing on the 10-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Rengifo is hitting .313\/.409\/.455 with four homers, 13 RBIs and three steals in 29 games.<\/p>\n<p>Left fielder Bryce Johnson (.728 OPS) hit his first homer and second baseman Marcos Casta\u00f1on (.803 OPS) and third baseman Will Wagner (.710 OPS) both had a double in a two-hit game.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Sean Boyle (8-7, 6.12 ERA) allowed six runs in 4 \u2154 innings in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso is 49-72.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s scoreboard<\/p>\n<p>DOUBLE-A SAN ANTONIO (53-63)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/naturals-vs-missions\/2026\/08\/19\/817197\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missions 3, Northwest Arkansas 2:<\/a> RHP Eric Yost (7-2, 3.22 ERA) struck out six over 6\u2153 scoreless innings in relief after LHP Luis Gutierrez (4.30 ERA) allowed two runs in 2\u2154 innings in the start. LF Albert Fabian (.745 OPS) went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. 1B Romeo Sanabria (.773 OPS) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HIGH SINGLE-A FORT WAYNE (49-65)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/loons-vs-tincaps\/2026\/08\/19\/819977\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TinCaps 6, Great Lakes 5:<\/a> RHP Jeferson Villabona (1-0, 8.66 ERA) closed the game with three shutout innings for the win. RHP Winyer Chourio (7.62 ERA) started the game with three shutout innings. 3B Kerrington Cross (.741 OPS) went 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. RF Conner Westenberg (.547 OPS) went 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs and a run scored.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LOW SINGLE-A LAKE ELSINORE (61-55)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/giants-vs-storm\/2026\/08\/19\/821236\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose 11, Storm 1:<\/a> RHP Cameron Nohos (1-3, 7.04 ERA) allowed eight runs in 3\u2153 innings in the loss. DH Elliot Lascelles (1.625 OPS) went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk in his second professional game. RF Jesmaylin Arias (.718 OPS) went 1-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run scored.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samad Taylor homered in his second rehab game on Wednesday in Triple-A El Paso\u2019s 11-2 loss to visiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,3607,7677,23603,154],"class_list":["post-411870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411870","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=411870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}