Saints set franchise shutout record in 12-0 rout of Louisville

Ty Langenberg allowed one hit over 5.0 innings at Louisville Slugger Field on June 27, and St. Paul beat the Bats 12-0. The Saints set a franchise record for the largest margin of victory in a shutout and collected their fifth blanking of the 2026 season.

Langenberg laid the foundation with 5.0 innings of one-hit ball, walking two and striking out three. He allowed a leadoff single in the first and then did not give up another hit, finishing his afternoon by punching out Garrett Hampson to end the fifth.

The offense did its part early and then buried Louisville late. Alan Roden doubled in the first, extending St. Paul’s extra-base-hit streak to 65 games, a run Minor League Baseball counted as the longest active streak and the second-longest in baseball that season. Gabby Gonzalez kept his hitting streak moving to 14 games, and that was his second 14-game run of the year, making him only the second Saints player to produce two 14-game-or-longer streaks in one season, joining Andrew Stevenson in 2023.

Ben Ross opened the scoring with a second-inning home run, Noah Cardenas added a two-run shot in the fourth, and then the Saints blew the game apart in the seventh. St. Paul sent 13 batters to the plate, tied a franchise record with six consecutive hits and scored eight times in the inning. Aaron Sabato capped the burst with a grand slam, his 15th homer of the season and the fourth grand slam of his career, while Cardenas finished 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBI.

The second game of the doubleheader was washed out by rain and pushed to a future twin bill at CHS Field when the teams met again from July 17-19. The next day, Louisville shut out St. Paul.