WINNIPEG GOLDEYES 2019 GAME INFORMATION GAME: #47 HOME GAME: #27 WINNIPEG GOLDEYES (27-19) Vs
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th 26 YEAR 21 WINNING SEASONS 19 PLAYOFF APPEARANCES 1994 CHAMPIONS 2012 CHAMPIONS 2016 CHAMPIONS 2017 CHAMPIONS WINNIPEG GOLDEYES 2019 GAME INFORMATION GAME: #47 HOME GAME: #27 WINNIPEG GOLDEYES (27-19) vs. ST. PAUL SAINTS (30-17) SUNDAY, JULY 7th, 2019 – SHAW PARK – 1:05 PM TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: WIN: LHP Ryan Johnson (1-3, 4.66) STP: RHP Eddie Medina (4-1, 2.77) GOLDEYES RALLY IN NINTH TO BEAT SAINTS: The Winnipeg Goldeyes beat the St. Paul Saints 7-6 at Shaw Park on Saturday night. Trailing 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth, Reggie Abercrombie tied the game with an RBI single. Alex Perez drew a bases loaded walk to force home the winning run. Winnipeg jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first on RBI hits from Willy Garcia and Kyle Martin. The Saints scored three times in the top of the third. Winnipeg briefly tied the game in the bottom half when Abercrombie was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. The Saints went in front 4-3 in the fourth on an RBI single from Dan Motl. In the bottom of the sixth, Tyler Hill tied the game with a single, and the Goldeyes took a 5-4 lead when Kevin Garcia scored on an error by Saints’ catcher Caden Skinner. Brady Shoemaker hit a two-out, two-run double in the top of the eighth that gave the Saints their third lead of the game at 6-5. Victor Capellan picked up the win in relief, and tied the American Association’s all-time record for appearances (220). Mitchell Lambson started for the Goldeyes and took a no-decision, allowing four earned runs on eight hits in 6.0 innings. Lambson walked four (three intentional) and struck out nine. ALL-TIME AGAINST THE SAINTS: The Winnipeg Goldeyes are 154-122 all-time against the St. Paul Saints, including an 85-61 record in home games, and a 66-47 record at Shaw Park. The Saints are now in their 27th season, and have won four championships, all of which came in the Northern League (1993, 1995, 1996, and 2004). The Saints were charter members of the American Association in 2006, and have made four trips to the American Association Championship Series, including last season where they lost three games to one to the Kansas City T-Bones. St. Paul also reached the American Association final in 2006, 2007, and 2011. The Saints have won at least a share of the American Association North Division in three of the past four years (2015, 2016, and 2018). In 2015, the Saints won a franchise record 74 games before losing to the Sioux City Explorers in four games in the American Association Division Series. In 2016, the Saints were 61-39, tying the Wichita Wingnuts for the best record in the regular season. The Goldeyes then beat the Saints in five games in the Division Series, rallying to win Games Four and Five at CHS Field. The 2016 Division Series was the fourth playoff meeting between the two clubs. The Saints beat the Goldeyes three games to one in the 1995 Northern League Championship Series. Winnipeg edged St. Paul three games to two in the 2003 Northern League East Division Championship Series. In the 2011 American Association Division Series, the Saints bested the Goldeyes in a winner-take-all Game Five, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning. George Tsamis returns for his 17th year as Saints’ manager. Tsamis pitched in the Major Leagues for the Minnesota Twins in 1993. Tsamis is the winningest manager in American Association history, and won a pair of Northern League championships with the New Jersey Jackals in 2001 and 2002, both of which came against the Goldeyes. On June 12th, 2018, Tsamis earned his 1,000th managerial win, joining Doug Simunic, Butch Hobson, and Greg Tagert as the only managers in independent baseball history to win 1,000-plus games. The Saints played their first 22 years at historic Midwest Stadium before moving into state-of-the-art CHS Field in 2015. The Goldeyes beat the Saints 4-3 in the last ever game at Midway Stadium on August 28th, 2014 in front of 9,455 fans. The Saints join the Sioux City Explorers and Sioux Falls Canaries as the oldest independent baseball franchises still operating in their original cities. SERIES MATCHUP: The Winnipeg Goldeyes are 27-19, in third place in the American Association North Division, and 4.0 games behind the Fargo- Moorhead RedHawks. The Goldeyes just lost two of three to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks at Shaw Park. The Goldeyes are seventh in the American Association in hitting (.262), seventh in pitching (4.43), and first in fielding (.990). The St. Paul Saints are 30-17, in second place in the North, and 0.5 games behind the RedHawks. The Saints just won two of three from the Lincoln Saltdogs at CHS Field. The Saints are third in the league in batting (.287), second in pitching (3.84), and tied for third in defence (.982). This is the first of four head-to-head meetings this season between the Goldeyes and the Saints. The Goldeyes were 7-7 against the Saints in 2018. PROJECTED UPCOMING PITCHING MATCHUPS TONIGHT’S STARTERS: The Goldeyes go with true 7/8 vs. STP: LHP Kevin McGovern (6-3, 4.35) vs. RHP Dustin Crenshaw (4-2, 3.96) rookie left-hander Ryan Johnson who is 1-3 with a 4.66 ERA in seven starts since signing with the Goldeyes on May 29th. Johnson took the loss vs. Fargo-Moorhead on Tuesday, allowing five earned runs on five hits in 5.0 innings. Johnson walked seven and struck out one. Johnson recently finished his college career at Lubbock Christian University (Lubbock, Texas), where he was 13-2 with a 2.54 ERA in 16 starts for the Chaparrals. Johnson was voted the Heartland Conference’s 2019 Pitcher of the Year. Johnson pitched at Lubbock Christian for two seasons, while spending his freshman year (2011) at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri and his sophomore year (2013) at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho. Johnson was a combined 25-15 with a 3.17 ERA in 264.1 combined collegiate innings. Johnson also served as a two-way player at Crowder, hitting .333 with two home runs and 28 RBI in 30 games. Johnson is the first Winnipeg-born Goldeyes’ player since Donnie Smith’s final year with the club in 2006. Today will be Johnson’s first career appearance against the Saints. Johnson is 1-2 with a 4.00 ERA in five career starts at Shaw Park. The Saints go with right-hander Eddie Medina who is 4-1 with a 2.77 ERA in seven starts and one relief appearance. Medina is fourth in the American Association in ERA. Medina took the loss in relief on Tuesday vs. Lincoln in the continuation of a suspended game from Monday. Medina allowed four earned runs on seven hits in 6.0 innings. Medina’s last start was on June 23rd vs. Gary SouthShore. Medina took a no-decision, allowing six runs, five earned, on three hits in 3.2 innings. Medina walked eight and struck out three. The RailCats won the game 11-10. Medina has allowed two or fewer earned runs in five of his seven starts this season. On May 31st at Cleburne, Medina pitched a no-hitter, walking one and striking out 10. It was the ninth no-hitter in American Association history, and the league’s fifth nine-inning complete game no-hitter. Medina was 9-5 with a 2.80 ERA for the Saints last season in 19 starts and one relief appearance. Medina finished third in the American Association in ERA, seventh in strikeouts (104), first in opponent’s batting average (.224), and seventh in wins above replacement (WAR) among pitchers (2.6). Medina allowed two or fewer earned runs in 13 of his 19 starts, and allowed four or fewer earned runs in 18 of them. Medina was then 2-0 with a 1.20 ERA in two postseason starts. In 2017, Medina was 9-3 with a 3.09 ERA in 14 starts and three relief appearances for the Wichita Wingnuts. Medina finished ninth in the American Association in ERA and posted the 10th lowest opponent’s batting average (.234). Medina was then 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two postseason starts, including Game Four of the American Association Championship Series at Winnipeg on September 18th. Medina allowed three or fewer earned runs in 11 of his 14 starts in 2017, and allowed four or fewer earned runs in all of them. Medina walked two batters or less in nine of his 14 starts, and walked three batters or less in 13 of them. In 2016, Medina was 6-6 with a 5.56 ERA for the Wingnuts in 14 starts and six relief appearances, helping Wichita to the American Association Championship Series. After starting 2016 0-3 with a 9.41 ERA in his first four starts, Medina finished the year 6-3 with a 4.48 ERA in his final 10 starts and six relief outings. Medina is in his seventh year of professional baseball, and is 41-20 (.672) lifetime with a 3.66 ERA in 106 games, 85 of them as a starting pitcher. Medina went undrafted following his senior season at St. John’s University (Queens, New York) in 2012, and started his professional career the following year with the Pecos League’s Las Vegas Train Robbers.