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Class-A OFFICIAL GAME INFORMATION Lake County Captains (31-32, 71-61) vs. Dayton Dragons (27-36, 55-78) Tuesday, August 27 • 12:00 p.m. • Classic Park • Broadcast: All Sports CLE & ESPN 970 WFUN Game #133 • Home Game #67 • Season Series: 11-6, 1 Game Remaining RHP Shane McCarthy (4-3, 4.11 ERA) vs. RHP Eduardo Salazar (6-3, 4.05 ERA) YESTERDAY: The Captains hit three homers and Bo Naylor drove home six runs, en route to a 13-2 win over Dayton. Naylor hit a Midwest League • Second Half grand slam and also clubbed a two-run triple. Jose Fermin hit a two-run homer and Quentin Holmes hit a solo shot. The Captains tallied 14 hits in the victory. Lake County starter Alex Royalty earned the win, allowing just two runs over six innings. Eastern Division W L GB HEY, NEW GUY: The Captains welcomed OF George Valera, the Indians #6 prospect, according to MLB.com to the roster yesterday. Valera, 18, played 46 games with Short-Season Mahoning Valley this year and slashed .236/.356/.446 with eight home Bowling Green (Rays) 39 24 -- runs, en route to a New York-Penn League All-Star selection. Valera’s .802 OPS was good for 10th in the NYPL at the time of his promotion. @ Great Lakes (Dodgers) 35 28 4.0 AUGUST SLUMP: The Captains have gone 11-14 in August, marking their worst record in a single month this season. Lake County South Bend (Cubs) 35 28 4.0 enters today with the lowest team on-base percentage in the Midwest League (.303). The Captains’ pitching staff has the third- highest WHIP (1.37), the second-fewest strikeouts (185) and the third-most walks (95) this month. Lansing (Blue Jays) 32 31 7.0 POST-SEASON ALL-STARS: The Midwest League announced its Post-Season All-Star selections Friday, as voted on by the % LAKE COUNTY (INDIANS) 31 32 8.0 league’s managers. Outfielder Will Benson and lefty reliever Skylar Arias were both honored. Benson was promoted to High-A Lynchburg at the All-Star Break and hit 18 homers in just half a season. He led the league in homers, slugging percentage (.604), Dayton (Reds) 27 36 12.0 OPS (.975), RBI (55) and total bases (131) at the time of his promotion. Arias posted a 1.79 ERA for Lake County across 60.1 innings before his promotion to Lynchburg in mid-August. The southpaw struck out 27.8% of batters he faced and allowed a .173 Fort Wayne (Padres) 26 37 13.0 batting average against. West Michigan (Tigers) 25 38 14.0 BO KNOWS: Bo Naylor leads the Midwest League with 10 triples. He has more triples than any catcher in baseball (MLB and MiLB). He needs two more to tie Donnie Webb’s Captains record of 12, set in 2009. Western Division W L GB SLIM MARGINS: 12 of the 25 games the Captains have played in August have been decided by one run. Lake County is 4-8 in those games and 22-22 in all one-run games this season. Kane County (Diamondbacks) 40 23 -- SECOND-HALF STUD: Jose Fermin is among the top five hitters in the Midwest League in four categories since the start of the Clinton (Marlins) 39 24 1.0 second half. He is second in the Midwest League in hits (71), third in batting average (.330), third in runs (44) and fifth in stolen bases (14). Wisconsin (Brewers) 35 28 5.0 ADVANCED STATS: Jose Fermin owns the lowest strikeout percentage in the Midwest League (9.2%) and the second-lowest @ Quad Cities (Astros) 34 29 6.0 swinging strike percentage (3.8%). Bo Naylor is fourth in the league in line drive percentage (21.0%) and seventh in the league in isolated slugging (.173) % Cedar Rapids (Twins) 33 30 7.0 TOP PROSPECTS: The Captains currently feature five of the Indians’ Top 30 Prospects in C Bo Naylor (#5), OF George Valera Beloit (A’s) 26 37 14.0 (#6), RHP Ethan Hankins (#8), INF Raynel Delgado (#28) and RHP Luis Oviedo (#14). Burlington (Angels) 26 37 14.0 CLINCHED: The Captains clinched a Midwest League playoff berth by winning the first half Eastern Division Wild Card. Lake County will face the first half champion Great Lakes Loons in the first round. Peoria (Cardinals) 21 42 19.0 PLAYOFF HISTORY: Lake County has now reached the postseason six times. The Captains made the South Atlantic League @-1st Half Title $-2nd Half Title %-1st-half Wild Card *-2nd-half Wild Card playoffs in 2003 and 2008. The Captains have reached the Midwest League postseason in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2019. They have won the division three times (2003, 2008, 2010) and the Wild Card three times (2012, 2014 and 2019). The Captains’ lone league championship was in the MWL in 2010. 2019 ALL-STARS: OF Will Benson (now at High-A Lynchburg), SS Tyler Freeman (now at High-A Lynchburg) and RHP Manuel Alvarez (now at High-A Lynchburg) represented the Captains at the 55th MWL All-Star Classic on June 18 at Four Winds Field in Captains Contacts South Bend, IN. Benson was named an All-Star starter, while Freeman and Alvarez were reserves. Alvarez is the only player remaining on the active roster after Benson and Freeman were promoted to High-A. Tim O’Brien: [email protected] BIG MOMENTS: Will Benson hit four home runs in one game on April 18 against the South Bend Cubs, becoming the firs player in Andrew Luftglass: [email protected] Captains history in the fifth in the history of the Midwest League to accomplish the rare feat. Ruben Cardenas hit an inside-the-park home run on April 16 in Bowling Green, marking the Captains’ first inside-the-park round-tripper since Sam Haggerty hit one on Telephone: 440-975-8085 August 8, 2016 against the Dayton Dragons. The Captains also pitched a combined no-hitter on June 22 in game two of a Twitter: @LCCaptains doubleheader against the West Michigan Whitecaps. Eli Lingos, Luis Araujo and Kellen Rholl combined for the fifth no-hitter in Captains history. TOP PICKS: The Captains’ roster includes one former first round draft pick and the Indians’ #1 draft selections from each of the last two years with OF Quentin Holmes* (2017; 2nd round – 64th overall) and C Bo Naylor (2018; 1st round – 29th overall). *The Indians UPCOMING SCHEDULEdid not haveAND a first PROBABLE round pick in 2017. PITCHING MATCHUPS Date Opp. Time (ET) Captains Starter Opponent Starter Live Audio (Subject to Change) 8/28 at Bowling Green 7:35 p.m. LHP Matt Turner (2-1, CARLIN2.76 ERA) RETURNS: Luke CarlinTBA is back for his second straight season as Captains Manager, becoming the first skipperAll Sportssince Ted CLE 8/29 at Bowling Green 7:35 p.m. RHP Ethan Hankins (0Kubiak-3, 5.19 in ERA)2010-11 to spendTBA multiple seasons in Lake County. Between Kubiak’s 2011 campaign and Carlin’s CaptainsAll debut Sports last CLE 8/30 at Bowling Green 7:35 p.m. LHP Eli Lingos (3-3, 3.80year, ERA) the Captains had a newTBA manager every year for seven straight years. Carlin is nowAll Sports the fourth CLE manager & AM in1330/101.5 Captains history FM WINT to lead the team for multiple seasons, joining Kubiak, Aaron Holbert (2008-09) and Luis Rivera (2003-04). In his first year at the helm, 8/31 vs. Great Lakes 7:00 p.m. RHP Alex Royalty (6-8Carlin, 4.37 led ERA) Lake County to a TBA60-79 record. All Sports CLE & AM 1330/101.5 FM WINT ALUMNI ON THE BENCH: Captains Pitching Coach Owen Dew and Bench Coach Jordan Smith both played for Lake County LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS GAME NOTES PAGE 2 TODAY’S CAPTAINS STARTING PITCHER #34 SHANE McCARTHY RHP 2019 Game-By-Game Date Opp Dec IP H R ER HR SO BB Result Born (Age): July 29, 1996 (23) 4/7 at GL L 5.0 3 3 2 0 5 3 L, 6-0 Hometown: Fair haven, NJ 4/13 at DAY W 5.0 2 2 0 0 9 2 W, 6-2 School: Seton Hall University 4/18 SB W 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 1 W, 12-6 HT: 6’2” │WT: 190 lbs │ Bats: R │Throws: R 4/24 DAY ND 6.0 3 2 2 0 4 2 W (10), 7-6 4/30 QC L 5.0 5 5 5 1 9 2 L, 6-5 Acquired: 2018 MLB Draft – Round 18 5/6 at BEL W 5.0 3 1 1 0 5 1 W, 9-1 Pitch Selection: Fastball, slider, changeup 5/13 FW W 5.0 5 3 3 0 4 2 W, 4-3 5/18 BG L 3.2 9 8 5 2 5 2 L, 11-3 5/23 at DAY ND 2.0 1 0 0 0 1 1 W, 8-0 2019 Statistics 8/1 DODM ND 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 1 L, 9-6 Team W L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR HBP BB SO 8/6 ANG ND 3.0 1 0 0 0 5 0 W, 5-1 AZLB 0 0 0.00 4 4 0 0 12.0 4 0 0 0 0 4 15 8/11 CUB1 ND 3.0 0 0 0 0 4 1 W, 3-2 LC 4 3 4.11 10 10 0 0 46.0 38 27 21 3 2 17 56 8/16 at SD1 ND 4.0 3 0 0 0 4 2 W, 6-5 Total 4 3 3.26 14 14 0 0 58.0 42 27 21 3 2 21 71 8/22 BG ND 3.1 3 2 2 0 10 0 L, 16-4 Total 4-3 58.0 42 27 21 3 71 21 Career Statistics Year Team W L ERA G GS CG SHO IP SO BB WHIP * Relief Appearance 2018 AZL IND1 2 0 1.35 9 0 0 0 20.0 20 2 1.00 2018 MV 1 1 0.43 6 4 0 0 21.0 16 2 0.71 2019 AZLB 0 0 0.00 4 4 0 0 12.0 15 4 0.67 2019 LC 4 3 4.11 10 10 0 0 46.0 56 17 1.20 Total 4 Teams 7 4 2.27 29 18 0 0 99.0 107 25 0.99 LAST TIME OUT: McCarthy struck out a career-high 10 batters over 3.1 innings (all outs on strikeouts) in his return from the Injured List.