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MEDIA INFORMATION Potomac Nationals (52-56, 22-19, 2nd, 1.5 GB / Northern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Washington Nationals vs. Wilmington Blue Rocks (64-45, 20-20, 3rd, 3.0 GB / Northern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Game No. 110, 41 • Home Game No. 52 • Frawley Stadium • Friday, August 2, 2019 • 7:05 p.m. BLUE ROCKS BREAKDOWN Tonight’s Starting Pitchers HOME: 30-22 | AWAY: 33-23 STREAK: W1| LAST 5: 2-3 | LAST 10: 4-6 Wilmington: LHP Kris Bubic ROCKS SALVAGE THE SERIES: The Wilmington Blue Rocks avoided the sweep at home, defeating the Fayetteville Woodpeckers by Potomac: LHP Tim Cate a final score of 3-2 on Thursday night at Frawley Stadium. Jonathan Tonight’s Starter for the Blue Crew Bowlan had another stand out start for the Rocks as he threw five-plus innings of scoreless baseball, earning his fifth victory with the Blue The Kansas City Royals had four picks in the Rocks this season. Ricky Aracena broke the 27 scoreless innings streak first 40 selections of the 2018 Draft. Kansas for the Rocks with an RBI double in the fifth inning. City used each of those choices on college pitchers and all have spent time on the Blue NO MORE “O” FOR THE OFFENSE’: The offense for Wilmington Rocks roster in 2019. Kris Bubic completed broke the longest scoreless innings streak of the season in the bottom the quartet when he was promoted to Wilm- of the fifth inning to snap the streak at 27 frames. Aracena hit an RBI ington from Low-A on May 21. The lefty double to the right field wall to plate the first run while the Rocks scored played his college ball at Stanford where another on a wild pitch and an RBI ground out from Blake Perkins to he was a Third Team All American in 2018, provide the Rocks enough offense to earn the win. finishing the season 8-1 with a 2.62 ERA in 86.0 innings. He held opponents to a .199 bat- TOP OF THE STANDINGS TO YOU: Wilmington has sat atop the ting average and struck out a team-high 101. Carolina League North standings for most of the 2019 season—107 Bubic’s amateur career also featured a 2017 of the campaign’s first 117 days. The Rocks have not been out of Cape Cod League Pitcher of the Year Award. first place in the overall ledger since April 26. The only team with a His resume earned him a $1.59 million sign- better record than the Rocks is the Down East Wood Ducks. ing bonus. Bubic entered the season as the KILLING IT IN CLOSE CONTESTS: The Blue Crew lead the Royals’ No. 9 prospect according to MLB. Carolina League with 45 games decided by a single score in 2019 com. Bubic appeared in the All-Star Future’s and have played 65 affairs with a margin of victory of two-or-less. Game in Cleveland this season. Wilmington is an impressive 43-20 in those close calls including 34-12 in one-run decisions. Thursday’s one-run win however, was 2019 Regular-Season Series: WIL vs. PT just the second win for the Blue Crew in a game decided by a single score over their last six one-run games. Rocks Lead 10-8 NOT HOW, BUT HOW MANY: Wilmington has operated as a quality Date Site Result over quantity offensive attack all season long. The CL North First Half 5/10 Wilmington L, 7-2 champs won despite getting out-hit 7-4 on Thursday. It marked the 29th time in 2019 the Rocks have won despite managing fewer knocks 5/11 Wilmington W, 2-1 than their vanquished foe. 5/17 Potomac W, 5-1 5/18 Potomac L, 7-3 FOUR: Four has been the magic number for the Blue Rocks in 2019. When Wilmington scores four or more runs the team is 39-6, but when 5/18 Potomac W, 4-3 the offense produces three tallies or fewer they are just 2-39. 5/19 Potomac W, 5-3 6/24 Potomac PPD KASSER ON FIRE: Kyle Kasser has been on a tear over the last two week. In his last 15 games, the former University of Oregon product 6/25 Potomac L, 5-3 (7) is slashing .3546/.386/.395 with 18 hits in 52 at-bats. He has a pair of 6/25 Potomac W, 3-2 (7) doubles and five RBI during the stretch and have put together multi-hit 6/26 Potomac L, 6-3 efforts in seven of those contests. 7/1 Wilmington W, 9-4 NOT SO HOT JULY: The Blue Rocks turned in their first losing 7/2 Wilmington L, 10-4 month of the 2019 campaign after going 13-15 in July. The Rocks 7/3 Wilmington L, 2-1 slashed .223/.276/.327 while the pitching staff yielded a 3.38 ERA, the 7/5 Potomac W, 6-2 highest mark from the talented staff this season. The Rocks went 16-10 in June, 19-9 in May and 15-11 in April. 7/5 Potomac W, 2-1 7/6 Potomac L, 6-1 BACK IN THE POSTSEASON: Wilmington clinched its first post- 7/23 Wilmington W, 3-2 (10) season berth since 2015 with its first-half CL North championship. That year Wilmington won the first half with a 38-32 record. The Rocks won 7/24 Wilmington L, 3-2 44 games in 2019 and finished 19 games above .500 in the first half. The 7/25 Wilmington W, 5-0 Blue Crew clinched their 2019 crown on June 8. The 2015 Blue Crew 8/2 Wilmington eventually reached the Mills Cup Championship Series by sweeping 8/3 Wilmington Lynchburg in the Northern Division Championship Series. Wilmington is in search of its first Carolina League crown since 1999. 8/4 Wilmington Upcoming Probable Starters and Schedule Saturday, August 3 vs. Potomac 6:05 p.m. TBA vs. RHP Malvin Pena (5-7, 6.11 ERA) 89.7 WGLS-FM Sunday, August 4 vs. Potomac 1:35 p.m. LHP Marcelo Martinez (5-6, 4.27 ERA) vs. LHP Carson Teel (5-2. 4.07 ERA) 89.7 WGLS-FM Monday, August 5 OFF DAY RADIO: Rowan Radio, 89.7 WGLS-FM WEBCAST: wgls.rowan.edu or bluerocks.com Wilmington Blue Rocks Game Notes MEDIA INFORMATION CONTINUED HOME RUN NOTES Blue Rocks vs. the Carolina League Blue Rocks 2-HR GAMES BY BLUE ROCKS (2 IN 2018 ) Opponent Record Home Road 4.14.19 Seuly Matias at CAR (Solo HR & 2-R HR) 7.18.19 Blake Perkins at WS (solo HRs) Frederick 10-6 6-2 4-4 3-HR GAMES BY BLUE ROCKS (HAS NEVER HAPPENED) Lynchburg 7-3 2-2 6-1 Potomac 9-8 4-4 5-4 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) 7.17.2019 Brewer Hicklen and Dennicher Carrasco at Winston-Salem Salem 7-9 3-4 4-5 Northern Div. 34-26 15-12 19-12 LEADOFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) 7.10.18 Nick Heath at FRE (Off big-league rehabber Chris Tillman) Opponent Record Home Road GRAND SLAM HOME RUNS 2 (3 IN 2018) 6.3.2019 MJ Melendez at MB Carolina 9-3 4-0 5-3 6.15.2019 Brewer Hicklen at LYN Down East 2-5 1-3 1-2 WALK-OFF HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Fayetteville 6-5 4-2 2-2 7.12.19 MJ Melendez vs. Salem Myrtle Beach 6-1 3-1 3-0 PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS (1 IN BOTH 2018) Winston-Salem 7-5 3-3 4-2 LAST TIME: 5.16.15 Dex Kjerstad at LYN Southern Div. 30-18 15-9 14-8 INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (2 IN 2018) LAST TIME: 8.19.18 @ W-S Oliver Nunez (4th inning, solo HR) Runners Left On Base BLUE ROCKS HOME RUNS: 46 (63 IN 2018 / 23 HOME & 40 AWAY) Blue Rocks: 582 Opponents: 643 Carolina 10 Lynchburg 4 Down East 1 Myrtle Beach 2 Numbers With RISP Fayetteville 3 Potomac 7 Blue Rocks: .218 Avg. (182-for-835) Frederick 9 Salem 4 Winston-Salem 8 Blue Rocks On... Mondays: 5-4 April: 15-11 FRAWLEY 8 ROAD 46 Tuesdays: 9-6 May: 19-9 Wednesdays: 4-10 June: 16-10 Opponents Thursdays: 8-7 July: 13-14 2-HR GAMES BY OPPONENT (4 IN 2018) 7.6.2019 Jackson Reetz at Pfitzner Stadium Fridays: 11-5 Aug: 1-0 Saturdays: 13-8 Sept: 0-0 3-HR GAMES BY OPPONENT (1 IN 2018) LAST TIME: Michael Chavis (SAL) 4.19.17 at Hayley Toyota Sundays: 9-4 First Game of Series: 18-14 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2017/0 IN 2016) LAST TIME 8.10.18 Jared Young & Andruw Monasterio off Nolan Waston at MB Last Game of Series: 18-13 Series Won: 16 BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK (0 IN 2018) Series Lost: 9 LEADOFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2017) LAST TIME: 7.3.18 Luis Gonzalez (W-S) off Gerson Garabito at Wilmington Series Split: 7 Series Swept: 5 GRAND SLAM HOME RUNS (3 IN 2018) 6.30.2019 Trevor Craport’s (FRE) off Austin Cox (5-3 Loss) Rubber Matches: 1-7 7.2.2019 Brian Mejia (POT) off Marcelo Martinez (10-4 loss) 2019 Roster (41) WALK-OFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) LAST TIME: 8.19.18 Yermin Merceds at Frederick Pitchers (21) Catchers (3) Kyle Isbel Andrew Beckwith MJ Melendez Rudy Martin PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Jonathan Bowlan Sebastian Rivero Seuly Matias Holden Capps Stephan Vidal Blake Perkins INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) J.C.