Clinton Lumberkings Vs. Kane County Cougars
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Broadcast/Media Relations: Erik Oas | [email protected] | Tel: 563-242-0727 x107 | 537 Ballpark Drive Clinton, IA 52732 | www.lumberkings.com Clinton LumberKings vs. Kane County Cougars 45-25, 78-61 (Miami Marlins) 46-24, 81-58 (Arizona Diamondbacks) Tuesday, September 4, 2019 – 6:30 p.m. (CDT) NelsonCorp Field (opened 1937) – Clinton, IA Game 1 (Best-of-three game series) RHP Remey Reed (4-3, 3.28) vs. RHP Levi Kelly (5-1, 2.15) Class-A AFFILIATE OF THE Today’s Preview: The LumberKings (A, Marlins) return to the Midwest League playoffs for the Series Information first time since 2016 and will meet the Cougars (A, Diamondbacks) for the first game of a best of All-Time Series (1983): three game series. During the regular season, the LumberKings squeaked out the head-to-head Clinton leads, 170-184 meeting matchups winning nine of the meetings with Kane County taking eight games. Overall the two teams have been playing since 1983 with the Cougars leading the head-to-head meetings 170 Since 2019 (MIA): games to 184 games. In addition, this is the fourth time the teams have met in the playoffs with the Clinton leads, 9-8 LumberKings winning two of the three first meetings. Clinton took a round one meeting two games to one in 2003, lost a divisional-round meeting in 2004 two games to one, and won a divisional 2019: Clinton leads, 9-8 (of 17) round meeting two games to one in 2010. In Clinton: Clinton leads, 3-5 In Kane County: Clinton leads, 6-3 th LumberKings Starter: Remey Reed, 24, makes his 15 appearance and start of the season for One-Run Games: Clinton leads, 2-1 the Clinton LumberKings. The Plano Texas, native is coming off a win his last time out for six Extra-Innings: Series tied, 1-1 perfect innings of work against the Burlington Beed at Community Field on August 29th. He Miami Marlins (Majors) allowed no walks, no hits, and struck out seven. The performance earned him Midwest League ALL-TIME PLAYOFF HISTORY: National League (East) Pitcher of the Week for the final week of the regular season. Reed is the third LumberKings in 49-88 5th 35.5 GB 2019 to win a weekly league honor. The Miami Marlins drafted him in the 6th round of the 2016 Last night: W, 5-4 at Pittsburgh MLB Draft out of Oklahoma State University. While at OSU, Reed double majored in DIVISION Semi-Final Series: Cooper (MIA), 2-5, R, HR, 2 RBI economics and educational social studies. He began pitching collegiately in the junior college Frazier (PIT), 3-4, R, HR, 3 RBI ranks with Navarro College before transferring to OSU in 2015. Reed is close with former 2003: Clinton wins series 2 games to 1 GM 1: 9/3 at Clinton - L, 3-10 Conley (MIA), W, 0.1 IP, H, 0 R, 0 K LumberKing Tyler Kolek who rehabbed with him in Jupiter over the last few seasons. They GM 2: 9/4 at Kane County – W, 6-3 teemed-up while rehabbing to build a seaworthy popsicle stick pirate ship complete with motor Marlins Minor League System GM 3: 9/5 at Kane County – W, 8-6 and cannon. Divisional Series: New Orleans Baby Cakes (Triple-A) Cougars Starter: Levi Kelly, 20, makes his 23rd appearance and start of the season for the Kane Pacific Coast League 2004: Cougars win series 2 games to 0 Pacific Conference (South) County Cougars. The St. Albans, West Virginia native, was given a no decision his last time out for a four-inning outing against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at Neuroscience Group Field. He GM 1: 9/11 at Clinton - L, 4-18 73-65 3rd 10.0 GB GM 2: 9/12 at Kane County - L, 2-6 Last Night: SEASON OVER allowed three runs on three hits while walking two and striking out one. This will be his third start of the season against the Clinton LumberKings this year. Thus far he has combined to go 0-0 with 2010: Clinton wins series 2 games to 1 a 2.25 ERA with eight innings of work while walking two and striking out 10. Originally expected Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (Double-A) GM 1: 9/11 at Kane County - L, 0-4 Southern League (South) to spend the first half of the year in extend spring training, Kelly changed minds by allowing just GM 2: 912 at Clinton - W, 6-2 39-36 2nd 2.5 GB one run before he earned a promotion to the Cougars on May 4th. He left home at 15 to pitch for GM 3: 9/13 at Clinton - W, 4-1 Last Night: SEASON OVER IMG Academy and was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 8th round of the 2018 draft out of high school and signed for $350,000. MLB.com ranks him as the Diamondbacks 27th best Jupiter Hammerheads (High-A) prospect and works with a fastball that ranges from 92-93 MPH. Florida State League (South) 33-36 5th 14.0 GB Award Winners: Following Sunday’s win over the Peoria Chiefs on the final day of the regular Last Night: SEASON OVER season, the Clinton LumberKings were front and center when it came to Midwest League Awards. Peyton Burdick was tabbed as the Uncle Ray’s Midwest League Player of the Month Clinton LumberKings (Class A) for August to become the first LumberKing since 2016 to win the award. In addition, Remey Midwest League (West) Reed took home Pitcher of the Week honors to close out the regular season after six perfect MWL 2nd Half Standings 44-25 2nd 1.0 GB innings of work in Burlington on August 29th. 2019 is the first season since 2016 that Clinton Last Night: DAY OFF has won three players of the week in the year. MWL Western Division W-L GB Batavia Muckdogs (Rookie) It’s Been Awhile: After ending a playoff drought that went back to 2016, the Clinton #Kane County 46-24 - New York-Penn League (Pickney) LumberKings will now try to end their longest active drought. Clinton owns the longest active $Clinton 45-25 1.0 41-35 1st +1.0 GB championship drought in the Midwest League having not won a league title since 1991 when %Cedar Rapids 39-31 7.0 Last Night: DAY OFF they were known as the Clinton Giants. In total, they have won two Midwest League Wisconsin 38-32 8.0 Championships, in 1963 when they won both halves and did not need a playoff and 1991 over *Quad Cities 36-34 10.0 GCL Marlins (Rookie) the now defunct Madison Muskies. Beloit 27-43 19.0 Burlington 27-43 19.0 Gulf Coast League (East) Peoria 24-46 22.0 28-22 T1st 0.0 GB Missed it By That Much: The Clinton LumberKings enter their playoff series with Kane Last Night: SEASON OVER County having just ended a wire-to-wire race for the division title. Despite taking three of four MWL Eastern Division th th from Kane County August 17 through the 20 to own the tiebreaker, the LumberKings fell one W-L GB game short of Kane County for the Division to fall into the wild card. As the lower seeded team, #Bowling Green 42-27 - Clinton will start at home before potentially playing two games in Kane County. $South Bend 39-30 3.0 *Great Lakes 38-31 4.0 This Date in Baseball History: On this date in 1991, following commissioner Fay Vincent's Lansing 36-34 6.5 recommendation, baseball's committee on statistical accuracy votes to eliminate the distinction of %Lake County 34-35 8.0 the number of games played in a league's schedule in determining the all-time home run mark hit Dayton 30-40 12.5 in a season. The decision can't take away an asterisk because it never existed in the record books, Fort Wayne 29-41 13.5 but it does remove Babe Ruth's name, leaving the other Yankee outfielder, Roger Maris, as the West Michigan 28-42 14.5 undisputed home run champ with 61 he hit in 1961. *First Half Division Champion % First Half Wild Card # Second Half Division Winner Broadcast Information: All Clinton LumberKings games will be broadcast live on 100.3 FM $ Second Half Wild Card Winner WCCI and online at LumberKings.com via TuneIn Radio App with the Erik Oas, in his third season as the “Voice of the LumberKings.” Upcoming Probable Pitchers: Clinton/Opponents. THU 9/5 Kane County RH Jake Walters (7-4, 2.35) vs. RH Matt Tabor (5-4, 2.93) 6:30 p.m. FRI 9/6 Kane County RH Josh Roberson (4-4, 2.25) vs. TBA 6:30 p.m. SAT 9/7 ROUND TWO GAME ONE SUN 9/8 ROUND TWO GAME TWO Tonight’s Starting Pitcher #31 Remey Reed HT: 6-5 WT: 230 Bats: Right Throws: Right Age: 24 Born: May 5, 1995 Resides: Plano, Texas Acquired: Selected in the 6th round of 2016 MLB Draft LAST TIME OUT: Reed earned the win his last time out with his strongest start as a LumberKings. He turned in six perfect innings of work allowing no hits, no walks, and striking out seven. The LumberKings went on to earn a 9-5 win to stretch a winning streak to five games. AGAINST THE COUAGRS: During the regular season Reed faced the Kane County Cougars once before. He was hung with the loss for a 5.2 inning outing allowing five runs, four earned, on eight hits while walking two and striking out four on August 19th in Kane County at Northwestern Medicine Field.