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Oklahoma City's James Tibbs III is introduced before a minor league baseball game between the Oklahoma City Comets and the Albuquerque Isotopes at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Friday, March 27, 2026. | BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Dodgers minor league affiliates combined for nine home runs on Saturday.
Player of the day
James Tibbs III is running roughshod through Sugar Land, Texas this week. He hit a three-run home run and delivered an RBI single for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Saturday night, giving him five home runs and 15 RBI in five games so far during this series.
On the season, Tibbs is hitting .317/.419/.644 and leads the Pacific Coast League with 16 home runs, 50 runs batted in, 34 extra-base hits, and 134 total bases.
Triple-A Oklahoma City
Home runs ruled the day in the Comets’ win over the Sugar Land Space Cowboys (Astros).
In addition to Tibbs, Seby Zavala also hit a three-run home run and Jack Suwinski hit a solo shot.
Charlie Barnes started and struck out four with no walks in his five innings, and allowed one run for the win. Five innings matched his longest outing of the season, done four times with Iowa before getting claimed off waivers from the Cubs on May 9.
Double-A Tulsa
Shortstop Elijah Hainline, who had already walked three times on Saturday, hit the game-winning grand slam to cap a seven-run eighth inning in the Drillers’ comeback win over the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (Royals).
GRAND SLAM FOR ELIJAH HAINLINE Tulsa takes the leadpic.twitter.com/VVkc9QwN7O
— Tulsa Drillers (@TulsaDrillers) May 31, 2026
Josue De Paula had three hits, including two doubles, and scored three times in the win for Tulsa. Zyhir Hope and Griffin Lockwood-Powell each doubled, singled, and drove in two runs.
Patrick Copen pitched into the seventh, when he allowed his fourth run of the game and left trailing after his 6 1/3 innings, three walks, and four strikeouts.
High-A Great Lakes
The Loons only managed to score two runs, wasting a combined 14 strikeouts and only one walk by the pitching staff in a road loss to the Dayton Dragons (Reds).
Brooks Auger stretched out for his longest start since returning from the injured list in late April, going five innings with two runs allowed and a season-high seven strikeouts. Jacob Frost, the 2025 10th-round pick, piggybacked with Auger for the fifth time in the last five-plus weeks, and struck out seven of his own in three innings. The winning run for Dayton came on a two-out triple in the eighth inning and a wild pitch from Frost.
Class-A Ontario
The Tower Buzzers joined the power party with five home runs of their own to rout the Visalia Oaks (D-backs). Ontario scored six runs in the fourth inning, three in the fifth, and five more in the sixth.
Ching-Hsien Ko didn’t homer, but he did reach base five times with two singles, a double, and three walks, and scored three times. Catcher Anson Aroz reached base four times, including a three-run home run, and scored three times. Jaron Elkins homered and stole a base, part of his two-hit, two-RBI, and two-run evening.
Arizona Complex League
Alek Thomas played all seven innings in center field his second game since getting acquired by the Dodgers on May 12, and was hitless in four at-bats with a strikeout and a run scored against the ACL Guardians in Goodyear. Thomas also played on Thursday, and had a hit in his three at-bats plus a walk against the ACL Brewers at Camelback Ranch.
Saturday scores
Sunday schedule
- 10:05 a.m. PT: Great Lakes (Sterling Patick) at Dayton (Ovis Portes)
- 11 a.m.: Tulsa (Wyatt Crowell) vs. NW Arkansas (Frank Mozzicato)
- 12:05 p.m.: Oklahoma City (Cole Irvin) at Sugar Land (Brandon McPherson)
- 1:05 p.m.: Ontario (TBA) vs. Visalia (Junior Ciprian)
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