Blake Treinen kept his rehab run moving on Sunday, and Emmet Sheehan kept looking like himself again.
Treinen worked a scoreless inning for Oklahoma City, his fourth straight scoreless outing on the minor league rehab trail. He struck out two in the eighth and worked around a leadoff single.
The right-hander was on one day of rest for the appearance, after having two days of rest before each of his previous two games. Treinen, who is on the 60-day injured list with right elbow inflammation, last pitched for the Dodgers on June 19.
Sheehan, meanwhile, delivered the kind of outing that can reset a week. In Triple-A, he threw six scoreless innings on Sunday, struck out nine and allowed only a double and two walks. He piled up 14 swinging strikes, with seven coming on the slider and five on the four-seam fastball.
The right-hander settled in after the early going and retired 14 straight batters at one point before Sugar Land finally broke through with a two-out double in the fifth for its first hit. Sheehan faced three hitters with a runner in scoring position and got all three, including one strikeout and two balls that stayed in the infield.
It was Sheehan’s first game in 11 days. He had been called up to the Dodgers for two games last week to provide relief coverage, but he never got into either one. Over his last two starts for the Comets - Aug. 12 against Albuquerque and Sunday at Sugar Land - he has logged 11 2/3 scoreless innings with 17 strikeouts.
The Oklahoma City Comets won 10 innings over the Sugar Land Space Cowboys after nine innings of zeroes from both teams. Matt Gorski delivered the go-ahead hit, singling home the free runner. Zach Ehrhard also helped keep the game quiet with a play in right field that stood out during the scoreless grind.
Tulsa had a much rougher day in its loss to the Amarillo Sod Poodles. Three crooked-number innings did the damage, and the Drillers’ comeback effort came up short despite home runs in each of the final three innings.
Josue De Paula was a big part of that push, going 3 for 3 with a solo homer. He now has 25 home runs and 59 extra-base hits this season, numbers that sit right around double his previous career highs of 12 home runs and 30 extra-base hits in 2024.
Mike Sirota also returned after missing seven games on the injured list, playing all nine innings in center field. He walked and went hitless in three at-bats.
High-A Great Lakes got another strong pitching night and one big swing at the end. Samuel Munoz broke a scoreless game with a two-run home run in the 10th inning to lift the Loons past Fort Wayne.
The pitching staff matched the offense with nine shutout innings. Jacob Frost, a 2025 Dodgers draftee, struck out seven over 3 1/3 innings of relief, though he also walked three and allowed two hits.
Starter Tyler Gough struck out four in two scoreless innings, and since joining the Loons two months ago he owns a 1.96 ERA with a 34.2-percent strikeout rate across 36 2/3 innings. Maddux Bruns, back in game action in High-A after 11 weeks on the development list, followed Gough with two scoreless innings, striking out two while giving up only a single and a walk.
At Class-A Ontario, Kellon Lindsey put on a full showcase in a rout of Inland Empire. He had four hits, including a home run, drove in four and scored three runs.
He also stole two bases, marking the third time this season the former first-round pick has homered and stolen a base in the same game. Luis Gamez earned the win with four scoreless innings out of the bullpen, striking out nine while allowing only a single and a walk.
Joendry Vargas added three hits, including a double, and drove in three while playing third base.
The week ahead sends Oklahoma City against El Paso, Tulsa to Midland, Great Lakes against Lansing and Ontario to Stockton.
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