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Monday, April 16 new orleans baby cakes (4-7) at oklahoma city dodgers (8-1) 7:05 p.m. CT Bricktown Ballpark Game #12 Oklahoma City, OK RHP Zac Gallen (1 1, 1.50) vs. RHP Walker Buehler (1 0, 2.00) Road Game #7 THE BABY CAKES – e New Orleans Baby Cakes conclude their rst ROCKY ROAD – New Orleans has dropped its rst six road games for ‘cakes corner road trip of 2018 tonight with the nale of a four game set against the the rst time in franchise history; the longest previous streak was three Oklahoma City Dodgers. NOLA is looking to avoid its rst series sweep in a row (2006 at Albuquerque and 2011 at Nashville). e ‘Cakes longest Current Streak ...... L6 Home ...... 4 1 at Bricktown Ballpark since dropping four in a row from June 15 17, losing streak of last season was an 0 8 trip through Sacramento and Streak ...... W4 2010. Fresno from July 25 August 1, only the third time the club was winless Road ...... 0 6 on a road trip of at least six games, joining a 0 8 trek through Oklahoma Streak ...... L6 YESTERDAY’S NEWS – Alex Verdugo’s three run homer in the bottom City and Colorado Springs from April 28 May 4, 1999 and its previous Last 10 ...... 4 6 vs. RHP (starter) ...... 2 7 of the 10th inning gave Oklahoma City an 8 6 win over the Baby Cakes. California visit in August 2015. vs. LHP (starter) ...... 2 0 Henry Ramos got the Dodgers o to a hot start with a grand slam in the vs. Division ...... 4 1 rst inning en route to a 4x5 a ernoon. Rob Segedin answered a pair of SERIES LY – New Orleans su ered its rst series sweep of the year, a er vs. American Conference ...... 4 7 ‘Cakes runs in the top of the second with an RBI single in the bottom going until July 17 20 last season (at Round Rock) before getting swept. vs. Paci c Conference ...... 0 0 vs. NL A liates ...... 0 6 half to put OKC in front, 5 2. e Baby Cakes rallied against the bullpen, e ‘Cakes did not win a series in 2017 until taking two of three against vs. AL A liates ...... 4 1 tying the score on Rafael Ortega’s RBI single in the seventh and two Omaha from July 4 6, but won four of ve from Nashville to begin 2018. Day ...... 2 1 more tallies in the eighth. NOLA jumped in front in the 10th on Isaac Night ...... 2 6 Galloway’s single, but Nick Wittgren could not protect the lead, issuing TO THE MOON – Peter Mooney has a hit in each of his eight starts this Extra Innings ...... 0 1 Shutouts ...... 1 1 a leado walk in the bottom of the 10th before Verdugo’s walk o blast. season. He had a seven game hit streak halted on Friday in a pinch hit One Run Games ...... 1 2 Chris Mazza and Severino Gonzalez combined for 7.1 scoreless frames role. Mooney is 6x19 (.316) in his ve starts on the road trip, with one Score 5+ Runs ...... 2 2 in relief of Adam Conley, who lasted only 2.2 innings, before Wittgren’s double and one triple. Scoring First ...... 3 3 blown save. Opponent Scores First ...... 1 4 Commit Error ...... 1 5 IN THE NICK OF TIME – Nick Wittgren su ered his rst blown save Hit Home Run ...... 2 2 ON THE HILL – Zac Gallen makes his third start, having turned in the with New Orleans since May 2, 2016, also in Oklahoma City, a span of Quality Start ...... 1 1 Baby Cakes’ only two quality starts through the season’s rst 11 contests. 16 appearances. Dating back to his 2016 season debut, Wittgren had not Outhit Opponent ...... 3 1 Gallen, who went 10 8 with a 2.93 ERA at three levels in the Cardinals allowed a run at Triple A over his last 18.1 innings prior to yesterday. Leading A er 6 ...... 4 1 Trailing A er 6 ...... 0 6 system last year, limited Nashville to four hits in 6.0 Leading A er 7 ...... 4 1 shutout frames in his season debut, then scattered two On This Date ... BACBACKSTOP BOPPERS – New Orleans catchers Trailing A er 7 ...... 0 6 runs and nine hits in a loss to Colorado Springs on 1993: In the rst pro baseball game in opeopened the season hitless in ve of the rst six games Leading A er 8 ...... 4 0 Wednesday. Gallen made his Triple A debut against New Orleans since 1977, the Zephyrs but have followed up with hits in each of the last ve, Trailing A er 8 ...... 0 5 fall to Bu alo 8 7 in 12 innings, their Series Record ...... 1 2 0 Oklahoma City last June 26 and took the loss a er rst loss of the year a er a 5 0 start. hithitting .471 (8x17). Series Openers ...... 0 3 allowing three runs and six hits in 5.0 innings with Matt Mieske appeared to score the Series Finales ...... 1 1 winning run in the 9th but was sent eight strikeouts. back to third base when Larry Sheets RISRISPY BUSINESS – e Baby Cakes are hitting .212 Doubleheader Games ...... 0 0 would be walk o double rolled (22(22x104) through the rst 11 games, leading only Sweep/Swept/Split ...... 0/1/0 under the rightght eld fence. Come From Behind Wins ...... 1 THE SKIPPER – Arnie Beyeler returns to the ‘Cakes OmaOmaha (.177) among PCL clubs. NOLA ranked last in Bat Around For/Against ...... 1/1 for his third season at the helm, joining Chris Bando the league in each of the last two seasons, batting .250 Longest Win Streak ...... +4 (1993 95), Tony Pena (1999 2001) and Chris Maloney (2002 04) as the with RISP in 2017, and .257 in 2016. New Orleans le 10 men on base Longest Lose Streak ...... 6 only managers to manage the club for three seasons. Entering his 15th yesterday, a season high. High Water Mark ...... +3 Low Water Mark ...... 3 season as a minor league manager, during which he has gone 926 909 White Jersey ...... 3 1 (.505), Beyeler is 284 279 in four seasons at the Triple A level, includ CARRY A BIG SLICK – Scott Van Slyke netted his team leading fourth Grey Jersey ...... 0 3 ing an International League crown with Pawtucket in 2012, and owns a multi hit e ort, and became the rst ‘Cakes player this season to score Blue Jersey ...... 1 3 124 153 mark with New Orleans. He spent the previous three seasons as three times in a game. Van Slyke has reached base in 10 of 11 contests Pelicans Jersey ...... 0 0 Misc. Jersey ...... 0 0 the rst base coach and out