GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208
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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (8-10, 37-51) at Birmingham Barons (10-8, 42-44) LHP Bruce Zimmermann (1-0, 1.46) vs. LHP Bernardo Flores (2-1, 1.35) Game #89 • Road #43 (16-26) • 2nd Half #19 July 10, 2018 • 7:05 p.m. (CST) • Birmingham, AL •Regions Field TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Birmingham Barons (CHW) continue a four-game series today at Regions Field with the third meeting between the clubs this season (1-1). Birmingham will visit Record Breakdown Trustmark Park July 28 through Aug. 1 for a five-game series. The Braves went 8-2 against the Score First ............................................. 28-12 Opponents Score First .............................8-40 White Sox Double-A affiliate in 2017 and hold a 105-97 all-time advantage. The M-Braves are com- Shutouts ................................................. 5-10 Score in 1 inning ......................................4-14 ing off a 3-1 series win at home against Biloxi and will return to Trustmark Park on Thursday for a Score in 2 innings ................................. 11-15 Score in 3 innings ..................................12-11 five-game series against Pensacola, July 12-16. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 6-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-0 LAST TIME OUT: Mississippi was faced with an early deficit and failed to capitalize on their Leading after 6 innings ........................... 29-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................30-5 opportunities, stranding 10 runners on base and going 1-for-10 with RISP in yesterday’s 8-1 Tied after 6 innings .................................. 4-4 Tied after 7 innings ...................................3-7 loss to Birmingham. SS Luis Marte scored the M-Braves’ only run and finished the day going Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 3-40 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-35 2-for-4. LHP Ricardo Sánchez gave up six hits, six runs and five walks while fanning four over 4.1 innings. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 29-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................3-26 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 2-4 Score 3 Runs ..............................................6-7 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.43 ERA (40 ER/148.0 IP) with 164 strikeouts Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 0-39 Score 4 or More Runs ............................25-14 and just 48 walks over the past 26 games (11-15 record) with 17 quality starts dating back to June 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 10.0 SO/9IP ratio. First Game of Series ................................. 9-9 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match ...8-9/3-5 First Game of Homestand ........................ 3-5 Last Game of Homestand ..........................4-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-4 Last Game of Road Trip .............................3-4 THE K MAN, BRUCE ZIMMERMANN: Today’s starter, LHP Bruce Zimmermann ranks T-6th in MiLB with 113 strikeouts in 16 starts and 97.0 innings pitched this season for Rome and Missis- Following an Off Day ................................ 2-4 1-Run Games ...........................................8-15 sippi. The 23-year-old was promoted to Mississippi from Low-A Rome on June 28. Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 3-4 2-Run Games .............................................6-5 Most Strikeouts in Minor League Baseball I Errorless Games ................................... 15-15 3-Run Games .............................................8-7 With a Homer....................................... 21-18 Allow a Homer ......................................11-24 Player Team MLB Club G GS IP SO With No Homers .................................. 16-33 Allow No Homers ..................................24-29 Dean Kremer Tulsa LA Dodgers 17 17 86.0 125 Rico Garcia Hartford Colorado 18 17 112.0 116 Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................32-43 Josh James Fresno San Francisco 16 14 74.2 116 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 29-44 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................5-8 Eli Morgan Lynchburg Cleveland 17 17 96.2 114 Following a Win ................................... 15-22 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................6-18 Taylor Widener Jackson Arizona 16 16 86.2 114 Following a Loss ................................... 22-27 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................31-33 Emiliio Vargas Visalia Arizona 16 15 87.1 113 In Decision By Starters ......................... 23-34 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................14-16 Bruce Zimmermann Mississippi Atlanta 16 16 97.0 113 BRYSE WILSON NAMED SL PITCHER OF THE WEEK: RHP Bryse Wilson became the first Daily & Monthly Breakdown M-Braves player to win a weekly Southern League award on Monday with Pitcher of the Week Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total honors. The 20-year-old tossed 13.1 scoreless innings on nine hits with 16 strikeouts and just Monday 1-5 2-5 3-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 one walk over starts on July 3 at Pensacola and July 8 at Birmingham. LHP Max Fried, LHP Kolby Tuesday 2-4 2-2 4-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 Allard, RHP Mike Soroka and RHP Touki Toussaint all won the award in 2017. Wednesday 2-3 1-5 3-8 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 Thursday 5-3 2-4 7-7 July 3-1 2-3 5-4 39 GAMES IN 40 DAYS: Mississippi is currently in a stretch of playing 39 games in 40 days from Friday 2-6 1-4 3-10 August - - - June 28 through August 6 (4-6). The only day off between those two dates is July 17. Saturday 6-0 3-5 9-5 September - - - Sunday 3-3 5-2 8-4 Postseason - - - KYLE WRIGHT TO THE FUTURES GAME: RHP Kyle Wright was selected to pitch for the U.S. Total 21-24 16-27 37-51 21-24 16-27 37-51 squad in the 2018 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. The game will be played at 3 pm CT on July 15 at Nationals Park in Washington. MLB Network will televise the game. In 2017, M-Braves OF Ronald Acuna and RHP Mike Soroka played for the World team in the Futures Game. Wright is M-Braves vs Barons 2-0 with a 2.87 ERA over his last five starts with 39 strikeouts and 10 walks in 31.1 IP. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 NESLONY GOES YARD: Tyler Neslony’s first home run of 2018 came on Sunday and was the only at Trustmark Park 1-5 4-6 7-3 6-5 3-8 7-2 2-3 run in the 1-0 win. The homer was his second at the Double-A level and first since Aug. 22, 2017 at at Birmingham 4-3 3-2 6-4 4-6 3-6 7-8 0-5 Chattanooga. It came in his 81st game of 2018 and 289th at-bat. Total 5-8 7-8 13-7 10-11 6-14 14-10 2-8 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: RHP Kyle Wright is tied for the league in games at Trustmark Park 6-2 3-2 5-0 3-2 4-1 4-1 0-0 started (18), 2nd in innings pitched (94.1), 6th in strikeouts (96) and 3rd in walks (40). INF Alay at Birmingham 5-5 3-7 5-5 2-3 3-2 4-1 1-1 is the 2nd-toughest player in the league to strikeout (1 SO/9.22 PA). INF is Lago Luis Valenzuela Total 11-7 6-9 10-5 5-5 7-3 8-2 1-1 7th in the SL with a .288 batting average. LHP Corbin Clouse and LHP Adam McCreery are T-5th in appearances with 28. Alltime at Trustmark Park 55-40 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: 2016 M-Braves catcher Willians Astudillo made his MLB debut for at Birmingham 50-58 the Twins on June 30, becoming the fifth M-Braves alum to make their MLB debut this season. Total 105-98 Astudillo joined OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. M-Braves vs Barons Day-by-Day PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked 2nd in Major League Baseball by Date Result Record W-L-S Att MLB.com prior to th season. The M-Braves roster has one Top 100 prospect in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 28). The roster has a total of four of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright (No. 2), RHP 7/8 W, 1-0 1-0 Wilson-Hansen-Sobotka 4,517 Bryse Wilson (No. 13), C Alex Jackson (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 21) and LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 25). 7/9 L, 8-1 1-1 Lambert-Sanchez 3,454 7/10 Southern League Standings 7/11 NORTH REC GB 7/28 TNS (CHC) 12-6 - On the Web BIR (CHW) 10-8 2.0 7/29 MTG (TB) 10-8 2.0 7/30 JXN (ARI) 6-12 6.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 5-13 7t.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 7/31 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 8/1 PNS (CIN) 13-5 - player and the organization overall. Follow the links to listen to the M-Braves live MOB (LAA) 10-7 2.5 audio stream all season long. 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