June 22, 2024 – International League (IL)
St. Paul Saints News Release
ST. PAUL, MN – Not the 1993 St. Paul Saints that won the organizations first championship. Not the 1996 team with Darry Strawberry. Not even the 2015 team that won 74% of their games. No team in the 32-year history of the Saints has done what the 2024 version accomplished on Saturday night. The Saints led 9-0 through eight and held on for a 9-7 victory over the Toledo Mud Hens. The win is the 11th straight for the Saints, the longest single-season winning streak in the 32-year history of the franchise.
The Saints offense pounded out 16 hits, smashed three home runs and three doubles, eight of the nine hitters collected a hit, seven of nine scored a run, and five of nine had an RBI. Four batters into the first inning and the Saints grabbed the lead. Edouard Julien led off with a single to right-center. Brooks Lee lined a single to left putting runners at first and second. After a double steal, Yunior Severino made it 2-0 with a one out, two-run single to center.
In the second, the Saints put up another two runs. Tony Kemp led off the inning with a double to left-center. With one out Alex Isola walked. With two outs Lee walked to load the bases. Matt Wallner then dropped a fly ball single into left that scored two increasing the lead to 4-0.
For the fifth time this season the Saints hit back-to-back home runs as DaShawn Keirsey Jr., who was playing his first game since coming off the IL with a calf injury on May 26, smoked a solo homer to right-center, his ninth of the season and third straight game with a long ball, making it 5-0. Kemp followed with a solo homer to right, his sixth of the season, giving the Saints a 6-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Caleb Boushley was dominant on the mound for the Saints. He gave up a two-out single in the second to Ryan Vilade, a leadoff single in the third to Unroe, and a leadoff double to Vilade in the fifth. That was all he allowed. He went 7.0 shutout innings allowing three hits and striking out five. He threw 76 pitches, 54 for strikes. Boushley was scheduled to go out for the eighth until the Saints bottom of the seventh took too long. Yunior Severino, hitting .378 with an 1.173 OPS over his last 24 games, crushed a solo homer to right-center leading off the fifth, his 14th of the season, making it 7-0. Severino went 4-5 with a home run, three RBI, and a run scored. Diego Castillo followed with a double to left-center that ended the night for Mud…
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