St. Paul powers past Omaha, 14-4, ending Storm Chasers' streak
Kyler Fedko’s two-homer, 14-total-base night broke Omaha open in the sixth, and St. Paul’s eight-run inning turned a tight game into a rout.
Omaha’s win streak died in one brutal inning, then another. St. Paul turned a competitive matchup at CHS Field into a 14-4 blowout Wednesday night, burying the Storm Chasers with four home runs, eight runs in the sixth and a reminder that the margin in Triple-A can vanish fast.
The Saints seized control early when Kyler Fedko homered in the second inning, then added another run in the third after a walk and back-to-back singles. Fedko struck again in the fourth with a solo shot, and Omaha briefly steadied when Brett Squires delivered an RBI single to cut the deficit to 3-1. But St. Paul kept stacking damage, and its third homer off Shane Panzini in the fifth made the warning signs impossible to ignore.
The game came apart in the sixth. The first five St. Paul hitters reached against Omaha’s bullpen, and that sequence led to a three-run homer that stretched the lead to 12-1. By then, the Chasers had already used Panzini, Mason Black, Helcris Olivárez and Anthony Gose in relief, but none could stop the Saints once they found rhythm. The inning exposed the weakness Omaha had been masking during its recent run: when one pitcher missed, the next one did not clean it up.
Omaha showed a little life in the seventh when Josh Rojas launched a three-run homer, his club’s only long ball of the night, and finished 2-for-3 with three RBI. But St. Paul answered in the bottom half with a two-run double and coasted from there, finishing with a 14-5 edge in hits and a 31-4 advantage in total bases.
Fedko was the headliner from start to finish, going 4-for-5 with two homers, two doubles, four RBI and three runs scored. He entered the night with 10 home runs and a .980 OPS, and he looked every bit like the kind of hitter who can turn a division series with one swing or two. St. Paul’s offense was not just loud, it was efficient, and it forced Omaha into damage control before the game was halfway over.
The Saints improved to 24-22, while Omaha fell to 22-24 in Game 2 of the series. The Chasers had won the opener 8-7 the night before and had brought a four-game win streak into that stretch, but Wednesday’s loss raised a sharper question than the score alone: was this just a blowup, or the first clear sign that the streak had covered up a real pitching crack?
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