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Smokies pitcher Jace Beck (32) pitches during a minor league baseball game between the Knoxville Smokies and Birmingham Barons at Covenant Health Park in Knoxville, Tennessee., on May 7, 2026. | Angelina Alcantar/ News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Iowa right-hander Tyler Beede has elected free agency.
Right-hander Zac Leigh goes from the ACL Cubs to Triple-A Iowa.
Right-hander Anhuar Garcia was promoted to Low-A Myrtle Beach from the ACL Cubs.
Everybody won!
Iowa Cubs
The Iowa Cubs skinned the Buffalo Bison (Blue Jays), 12-1.
Andrew Wantz gave up a run in the top of the first inning on three singles, but then settled down for the next three in his first start for Iowa. Wantz’s final line was one run on four hits over four innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Ty Blach pitched the final five innings, did not give up a run and got the win. Blach gave up five hits, but they were all singles and he didn’t walk anyone. He struck out six.
First baseman Jonathon Long hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning, his seventh on the season. Long also had a two-run single, an RBI double and an RBI groundout to give him six runs batted in tonight. He was 3 for 5 and scored twice.
DH Christian Bethancourt connected for a solo home run in the sixth inning. It was his eighth on the year. Beathancourt went 1 for 4.
Second baseman Owen Miller had two doubles and a triple in a 4 for 5 game tonight. Miller scored once and had two RBI.
Right fielder Kevin Alcántara was 4 for 5 with two doubles. The Jaguar scored twice and drove in one.
Left fielder BJ Murray went 2 for 4 with a double and he was hit by a pitch. He scored twice.
RBI double for Moisés Ballesteros, who was 1 for 4 with a walk.
Long’s RBI double.
A nice caught stealing for Mo Baller.
RBI double for Miller.
Jonny Long is starting to look like his old self.
The Bethancourt home run.
Miller’s RBI triple.
A double for The Jaguar.
Knoxville Smokies
The Knoxville Smokies overthrew the Birmingham Barons (White Sox), 3-2. After winning the first half, the Smokies are now 4-0 in the second half.
Jace Beck may have turned in the best Cubs start this year in the minor leagues tonight. At least he had more strikeouts than anyone else. Beck pitched six innings and allowed just one run on five hits. He struck out a career-high 11 batters and walked two.
Tyler Santana gave up a run in the bottom of the ninth, but hung on to get the save. The final line on Santana was one run on two hits over two innings. He struck out one and walked no one.
Left fielder Carter Trice doubled twice in a 2 for 4 night. Trice also stole a base. He scored one run and drove in one.
Third baseman Jefferson Rojas was 2 for 4.
Here’s Beck’s final strikeout.
South Bend Cubs
The South Bend Cubs rounded up a posse and brought the Quad Cities River Bandits (Royals) to justice, 4-3.
Nazier Mulé gave up a three-run home run in the first inning to the third batter of the game. The River Bandits didn’t score again and only had two more hits. Mulé final line was three runs on three hits over 3.2 innings. He walked two and struck out two.
Jackson Brockett went the rest of the way and got the win. Brockett retired the first 14 batters he faced before giving up a one-out single in the top of the ninth. But then he got a game-ending double play out of the next hitter. Brockett struck out five over 5.1 innings.
Catcher Justin Stransky hit a solo home run in the seventh inning, his fourth. Stransky went 1 for 3.
Shortstop Angel Cepeda put the Cubs up for good with a two-run single in the eighth. Cepeda was 1 for 3 and he was hit by a pitch.
DH Kane Kepley went 1 for 3 with a double, a steal and a sacrifice fly. He also scored one run.
Stransky’s blast.
Cepeda’s two-run single.
Myrtle Beach Pelicans
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans yoked the Salem RidgeYaks (Red Sox), 8-1.
Starter Pierce Coppola went four innings, allowed just one run on two hits and got the win. (Not sure how he got the win despite only going four.) Coppola struck out six and walked two.
Daniel Avitia threw a three-inning save, allowing no runs and just one hit. He walked three and struck out three.
Shortstop Alexis Hernández is heating up and for the second-straight night, he had three hits. Hernández was 3 for 4 with an RBI triple and two walks. Hernández had two RBI overall.
Center fielder Darlyn De Leon had a two-run double in the second inning. De Leon was went 1 for 3 with a walk, a hit by pitch and a stolen base. He scored three times.
The Birds scored three runs in the fifth inning on three bases-loaded walks. In fact, the Pelicans did not have a hit in the fifth.
De Leon’s two-run double.
The triple for Hernández.
ACL Cubs
Beat the Rockies, 11-7.
Liam Hendricks made his Cubs and season debut in this game. He pitched the first inning and retired all three batters he faced, striking out two of them.
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