CLASS AAA SYRACUSE:

Winter-like weather forced the Chiefs to postpone their first four home games of the season, and sent them to Lehigh Valley for a closed doubleheader Friday against the Iron Pigs. They swept them, 5-1 then 2-1, powered in the first game by five innings of one-run ball from A.J. Cole and the same from Taylor Jordan in the second.

Shortstop Trea Turner, who, of course, knocked on the door of the major league roster all spring and may be back before this year is done, went 1 for 2 with two runs scored in the opener. Jason Martinson homered in the second.

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The Chiefs have a busy week ahead of them, which will begin with Taylor Hill starting Monday night, and reigning Nationals’ minor league pitcher of the year Austin Voth making the first Class AAA start of his career Tuesday night — weather permitting.

CLASS AA HARRISBURG:

The Senators got three games in last weekend, despite the chill, and opened their season 2-1, scoring 10 runs in each of their first two games. John Simms started the opener and did so with five innings of one-run ball. Outfielder Ike Ballou, third baseman Adrian Sanchez, and catcher Spencer Kieboom — who has been a part of two major league camps in spring training now — all knocked three hits.

Kieboom, who sat Sunday, is hitting .500 in two games, while infielder Wilmer Difo is at .167 so far, a tiny sample. Infielder Chris Bostick, who was also in major league camp this spring, is hitting .453 with a double and a triple. The Senators have yet to homer this season.

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CLASS A POTOMAC:

The P-Nats have begun their season 3-0 with just one game postponed because of weather — both of which are impressive — and have scored at least five runs in each game. Catcher Raudy Read and big third baseman Drew Ward homered in the opener, in which Phillips Valdez struck out seven in five innings. Koda Glover, one of the fastest up-and-comers from the 2015 draft class, struck out two in a scoreless ninth.

Four Potomac pitchers combined to allow one earned run in the second game, in which Ward got two more hits and second baseman Bryan Mejia tripled. Ward homered again Sunday. First baseman Jose Marmalejos-Diaz, the Nationals’ minor league player of the year last season, also homered, as did shortstop Osvaldo Abreu. Andrew Stevenson, the former LSU outfielder who was the first player the Nationals picked in the 2015 draft, is leading off for the P-Nats, and tripled on Sunday.

Right-hander Erick Fedde, the Nationals’ top pick in 2014, made his Class A debut in that game. He allowed two earned runs in 4 1/3 innings, and struck out seven of the 13 batters he retired while walking one and allowing eight hits.

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CLASS A HAGERSTOWN:

Hagerstown has managed to play four games so far this chilly season, and the Nationals’ low-A affiliate won one and lost three. Tennessee product and 2015 draft pick Andrew Lee threw five scoreless innings in their 4-0 season-opening loss. Hard-throwing left-hander Taylor Hearn — another 2015 selection — did not allow an earned run in his first five innings of the season in their 6-4 win Friday.

Rising outfield prospect Victor Robles went 2 for 4 with a double in that win, hitting leadoff. Mariano Rivera III blew the save in that game, but eventually earned the win in part because former Vanderbilt Commodore Rhett Wiseman tried to steal third in the bottom of the eighth, and scored when the throw got away.

Robles got two more hits in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader. So did first baseman Ryan Ripken, Cal’s son.