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Spencer Jones, OF, Yankees: Since earning a promotion to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Jones has been on fire. He closed the first half of the minor league season the same way, by slamming a home run in his first at-bat in the RailRiders' series finale against Buffalo. The blast—which went to left-center field on a line—was Jones' seventh in 14 games since moving up a level and 23rd overall on the season, leaving him one shy of the overall minor league lead. Jones headlined a strong Sunday for the Yankees system. Ben Hess struck out eight batters over 3.2 innings for Hudson Valley, and Carlos Lagrange had seven strikeouts over five scoreless for Double-A Somerset.

Adrian Del Castillo, C, D-backs: Last season, after an outstanding run at Triple-A Reno, Adrian Del Castillo made his big league debut. This year, he's trying to find his way back. A few more days like he produced on Sunday, and he might achieve that goal. In the Aces' last game before the minor league all-star break, the slugging backstop slammed two doubles and two home runs and racked up six RBIs in the process. The blasts were Del Castillo's third and fourth of the year.

Samuel Basallo, C, Orioles: Just before the Orioles drafted a pair of catchers—Auburn's Ike Irish and Coastal Carolina's Caden Bodine—with their first two picks, their current slugging prospect backstop put on a final power display before the minor leagues take a four-day break. The 20-year-old Basallo crunched his 19th longball of the season as part of a 2-for-5 effort with a double and four RBIs. In doing so, he moved himself into a three-way tie with Iowa teammates Owen Caissie and Carlos Perez for second place on the International League home run leaderboard.

Chase DeLauter, OF, Guardians: DeLauter has all the talent in the world. Now, he desperately needs his body to cooperate. His career has been littered with stints on the injured list, and there could be another one in the offing once the minor league season resumes later this week. As reported by Tim Stebbins, DeLauter has soreness in his right wrist and will be evaluated over the all-star break. This season, he has an .859 OPS and five home runs at Triple-A Columbus.

Greensboro’s Perfect Game…Again: If one perfect game in a season is rare, what in the world would you call two perfect games nine days apart? No matter the adjective, it's the feat that the Greensboro Grasshoppers pulled off on Sunday, when three pitchers combined for yet another perfecto.

On the Fourth of July, Khristian Curtis, Jake Shirk and Michael Walsh set down all 27 Aberdeen hitters who came to the plate. On Sunday, Greensboro used the quintet of Hung-Leng Chang, Joshua Loeschorn, Jake Shirk and Jarod Bayless turned the trick against Bowling Green in the final game before the four-day minor league all-star break.

No MLB team has ever thrown two perfect games in such a short span. Now, the Grasshoppers not only lay claim to the minors' only two nine-inning perfect games this season, they also have the only two nine-inning perfect games outside of the complex leagues since 2017.

The other perfect game this season belongs to Binghamton righties Jonah Tong and TJ Shook, who pulled off a seven-inning version against Reading on May 11.

Editor’s Picks

Looking to get caught up on the start of the MLB Draft? We can help with that. Here’s everything you need to know from night one, as well as some helpful primers to get ready for rounds 4-20 today.

• Carlos Collazo’s most exciting & perplexing draft classes

• Ben Badler’s analysis of every first-round pick

• Track every pick made from rounds 1-3

• 12 prospects who could quickly reach the majors

• Here are the best players available entering day two

• 20 deeper sleepers we have our eyes on

• Everything you should expect in rounds 4-20, including how to watch

• 100 college senior signs worth knowing

Baseball America Helium Pick Of The Day

Each day, we’ll pick a prospect that has our attention.

Melvin Hernandez, RHP, Brewers: Hernandez just turned 19-years-old at the beginning of the month but has shown solid data for the last few weeks, so much so that Geoff Pontes identified him as one of the standouts here. In his last 30 days on the loaded Low-A Carolina Mudcats team, the 5-foot-11 Nicaraguan has walked only 3.3% of batters he’s faced on the way to a 0.65 WHIP and 1.03 ERA. The fact that he induces a lot of groundballs too raises his floor. Although his stuff isn’t overpowering, he is young enough to add strength and his ability to limit hard contact gives him a solid chance to make it as a back-of-the-rotation starter. Hernandez is one of plenty of prospects featured in this week’s installment of RoboScout.

Quick Hits

Prospect news and notes from around baseball…

• Twins outfielder Emmanuel Rodriguez left Saturday’s Triple-A St. Paul game with a side injury, according to MLB.com.

• Reds infielder Sal Stewart recently made the Top 100 and was promoted to Triple-A over the weekend.

• Angels prospect Denzer Guzman had a loud day for Double-A Rocket City, homering and hitting three triples while driving in four runs.

• In case you missed it, we dished out superlatives coming out of the Futures Game.

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