INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS GAME INFORMATION 501 West Maryland Street - Indianapolis, IN 46225 ♦ (317) 269-3542 ♦ @IndyIndians ♦ IndyIndians.com/MediaKit Indianapolis Indians Sunday, June 13, 2021 3:05 PM ET Nashville Sounds 17-17 (3rd, 7.0 GB, AAA-E MW) First Horizon Park ♦ Nashville, TN 24-10 (T-1st, -- GB, AAA-E SE) RHP James Marvel (1-1, 3.60) Game #35 / Road #23 RHP Zack Godley (3-1, 1.73) Radio/TV: FoxSportsIndy.com / AM 1260 / iHeart app / MiLB TV 2021 at a glance indy bits series history Overall 17-17 2021 @ IND: no games Home 9-3 LAST NIGHT: The Indians offense started off hot with three runs in the top of the first inning and racked up eight runs on 10 hits to beat the Sounds Road 8-14 2021 @ NAS: 2-3 Place 3rd on Saturday night, 8-1. Four consecutive one-out singles put the Indians on the board first, with Troy Stokes Jr. driving in two runs and another scoring Since 1985 @ IND: 79-63 (.556) GA/GB 7.0 GB on a throwing error by Dylan Cozens. Cole Tucker hit his first of two home runs on the night in the fifth inning to extend the lead to 4-0. After Nashville Since 1985 @ NAS: 71-79 (.473) Streak W1 Since 1985 Totals: 150-142 (.514) Home Streak L1 scored one run in the seventh off a Cooper Hummel home run, Hunter Owen drove in two runs on a two-out single in the eighth. Cole Tucker then hit Road Streak W1 Longest Winning Streak 4 his second home run, a two-run shot to right field, in the ninth. 2021 TEAM COMPARISON Longest Losing Streak 7 Indians Sounds Last 5 2-3 Last 10 5-5 TUCKER FOR TWO: Cole Tucker recorded his third multi-home run game last night in the Indians 8-1 win over Nashville. On June 20, 2019 at Buffalo, .222 BA .247 Home Openings/Lost 10/1 Tucker went 2-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI. Last night, he went 3-for-5 with three RBI for his second three-hit, three-RBI game this 141 R 199 Home Attendance 35,738 244 H 273 Avg. Home Attendance 3,248 season. His first came on May 20 at St. Paul before he was recalled by Pittsburgh. In four games since being optioned by Pittsburgh, Tucker is hitting 51 2B 70 League Rank (Total/Avg) 19th/12th 6 3B 3 .333 (5-for-15) with a double, two home runs and five RBI. 34 HR 54 Day Games 2-4 129 RBI 187 Night Games 15-13 409 TB 511 Before All-Star Break 17-17 STOKES JR. FOR TWO: Troy Stokes Jr. recorded his first multi-RBI game since Aug. 7, 2019 vs. Triple-A Fresno in last night’s win at Nashville. He sin- 136 BB 163 After All-Star Break 0-0 gled home Cole Tucker and Chris Sharpe in the first inning, and Will Craig also came around to score on an error on the play. The hit gave Indianapolis 343 K 342 May 11-12 18 SB 20 June 6-5 a 3-0 lead early and led to the 8-1 win. 7 CS 8 July 0-0 .317 OBP .348 August 0-0 .373 SLG .463 September 0-0 MAX IN THE MUSIC CITY: Pittsburgh’s preseason No. 30 prospect by Baseball America, Max Kranick, earned his first Triple-A win last night in five Tuesday 5-1 scoreless innings vs. Nashville. The right-hander allowed just one run, walked three and fanned a career-high tying nine batters to shut down the 291.1 IP 297.0 Wednesday 1-3 Sounds offense. It was his first nine-strikeout game since July 16, 2018 vs. Single-A Delmarva. In three starts with Indianapolis this season, Kranick 4.05 ERA 3.94 Thursday 2-5 1.30 WHIP 1.20 Friday 4-3 is now 1-1 with a 3.14 ERA (5er/14.1ip) and 16 strikeouts. 8 SV 11 Saturday 4-1 259 H 218 Sunday 1-4 143 R 144 OLIVA IN THE OUTFIELD: Outfielder and the “Best Defensive Outfielder” in Pittsburgh’s farm system (Baseball America), Jared Oliva, was reinstated Game 1 5-1 131 ER 130 from the 7-day injured list yesterday after being sidelined with an oblique injury to begin the season. Oliva made his major league debut with Pittsburgh 37 HR 33 Game 2 1-5 14 HB 20 Game 3 3-3 in 2020 after hitting .177 (124-for-447) in 123 games with Double-A Altoona in 2019. He made the start last night in center field as Indy’s leadoff hitter. Game 4 3-3 121 BB 138 Game 5 5-1 327 K 345 Game 6 1-3 TODAY: The Indians will look to leave Nashville with a series tie today at 3:05 PM ET at First Horizon Park. RHP James Marvel and RHP Zack Godley will Scoring First 12-5 INDIANS VS. THE AAA-E Opponent Scores First 5-12 face off for the second time this series. On Tuesday, Marvel earned the win after surrendering just one run in 5.2 innings. Godley surrendered three Comeback Wins 6 Indians runs in 6.0 innings to take his first loss of the season. vs. Teams At/Above .500: 4-10 Opponent Comeback Wins 7 vs. Teams Below .500: 13-7 Extra Innings 1-1 vs. AAA-E Midwest: 15-14 Shutout Record 1-2 MARVELOUS CONSISTENCY: James Marvel makes his seventh start of the season with Indianapolis today at Nashville. In five of his six starts to open vs. AAA-E Southeast: 2-3 Doubleheaders 2-0 vs. AAA-E Northeast: no games Commit An Error 5-13 the campaign, Marvel has gone at least five innings with no more than three runs allowed in any of those outings. After taking his first Triple-A loss Commit No Errors 12-4 vs. Columbus on June 3, Marvel bounced back and tossed 5.2 one-run innings to beat Nashville on Tuesday. On the season, Marvel is 1-1 with a 3.60 Series (W-L-S): 3-2-0 Walk-Off Wins 1 Sweeps: 0-1 Walk-Off Losses 3 ERA (12er/30.0ip) and 22 strikeouts. Scoring 4+ Runs 15-6 2021 AAA-E STANDINGS Scoring 3 Or Fewer Runs 2-12 Indianapolis and Nashville played each other as members of the American Association from 1985, when the Sounds CIRCLE CITY VS. MUSIC CITY: MIDWEST Outhit Opponent 10-5 entered their first season as a Triple-A affiliate, until 1997. Indianapolis holds the all-time record between the two teams, 150-142, with Nashville Outhit By Opponent 5-11 Team W-L GB Teams Tie in Hits 2-1 holding the advantage in the Music City, 79-71. In 1997, Nashville jumped out to an early 7-0 lead in the season series before Indy took 13 of the next Indy Hits HR 14-8 OMA 24-10 - Indy no HR 3-9 17 matchups to win the series, 13-11. TOL 18-16 6.0 Opp. Hits HR 9-13 IND 17-17 7.0 Opp. no HR 8-4 STP 17-18 7.5 Lead After 6 13-2 1994 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CHAMPS: The Indians were crowned the 1994 American Association champions after besting Nashville, three games Trail After 6 2-14 COL 14-20 10.0 Tied After 6 2-1 to one, in the championship series from Sept. 11-14. Willie Greene gave Indy the series-opening win on the road with a two-homer performance in LOU 12-22 12.0 Lead After 7 13-1 a 5-3 victory. The Sounds tied the series, but back in the Circle City the Indians notched back-to-back wins for the championship. Greene had two IOW 11-22 12.5 Trail After 7 1-14 Tied After 7 3-2 doubles in Game 3 and the Indians fought off a late comeback effort by the Sounds in Game 4, 7-5. NORTHEAST Lead After 8 13-0 Trail After 8 0-14 Team W-L GB Tied After 8 2-3 INDIANAPOLIS IN THE EAST: Nashville is the first opponent outside the Triple-A East Midwest Division that the Indians have faced so far this season. SWB 22-11 - Vs. LH Starter 3-4 Following this six-game series, the Memphis Redbirds will visit Victory Field for the first time in history and another inter-division series, Indy’s final of WOR 22-13 1.0 Vs. RH Starter 14-13 the season. After five series within the Triple-A East Midwest Division, the Sounds are just the second team Indy has faced this season with a winning BUF 17-16 5.0 LHV 18-17 5.0 league leaders record. Against teams at or above .500, the Indians are 4-10 after being swept by Omaha and splitting games with Iowa, who toed the .500 line ROC 13-22 10.0 during the first series of the season. SYR 11-24 12.0 Category Player No. Rank OBP Alford .394 10th Current road trip BY THE NUMBERS SOUTHEAST 2B Sharpe 11 T-1st Games 5 ERA 6.64 (31er/42.0ip) Team W-L GB 3B Tucker 2 T-6th R Sharpe 21 T-8th Record 2-3 Starter W-L 2-2 NAS 24-10 - Average .193 (32-for-166) Starter ERA 5.95 (13er/19.2ip) 14 K DUR 24-10 - GS Sulser 7 T-2nd Runs (Avg/Gm) 22 (4.4) Reliever W-L 0-1 JAX 21-14 3.5 SV Gustave 4 T-5th XBH (Avg/Gm) 10 (2.0) Reliever ERA 7.25 (18er/22.1ip) The Indians pitching staff fanned 14 batters, led by Max Kranick with nine, in the GWN 18-17 6.5 Bashlor 3 T-10th Home Runs 3 Walks 32 win over Nashville last night.