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COLORADO SPRINGS SKY SOX 2017 GAME NOTES THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2017 - 6:00 PM (MDT) Colorado Springs Sky Sox Public Relations Department • Director: Nick Dobreff • (616) 485-3913 • [email protected] Director of Broadcasting • Dan Karcher • [email protected] www.SkySox.com Facebook.com/SkySoxBaseball @SkySox SkySoxBaseball TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS RECORD: 75-52 Colorado Springs: RHP Brandon Woodruff (6-5, 4 .46) VS. New Orleans: LHP Mike Kickham (2-2, 6 .14) SKY SOX SEASON AT A GLANCE Game Number . 128 Home Record . 41-23 Road Game Number . 64 Road Record . 34-29 Overall Record . 74-52 vs . RHP: . 64-45 vs . Pacific Northern . 9-7 vs . LHP . 11-7 vs . Pacific Southern . 9-7 Night . 51-38 vs . American Northern . 34-14 Day . 24-14 vs . American Southern . 23-24 Last 10 . 5-5 One-Run Games . .. 13-9 Current Streak . W1 RECORD: 52-75 TONIGHT’S STARTER IN CASE YOU MISSED IT SKY SOX AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS u The Colorado Springs Sky Sox clinched their fourth u RHP Brandon Woodruff makes his 16th start of four-game series against Oklahoma City, defeating the the season for Colorado Springs and his second against the RUNS: Orf 2nd 94 Dodgers by a 3-1 score Tuesday night at Security Service New Orleans Baby Cakes Phillips T-7th 78 Wren T-7th 78 Field. u The native of Booneville, Miss ., and Mississippi State u Nate Orf and Yadiel Rivera each had two hits to lead alum allowed one earned runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings STOLEN BASES: Wren 2nd 24 the offense, while Taylor Jungmann, Wei-Chung Wang, August 19 against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field . TRIPLES: Orf T-3rd 11 Wily Peralta, Tyler Webb and Rob Scahill combined to u Woodruff received his first Major League promotion Phillips T-6th 10 allow a single run against a potent OKC offense. to Milwaukee on June 13 after going 6-4 with a 4.12 ERA Wren T-6th 10 CAPTAIN KIRK TO THE RESCUE (AGAIN)! for the Sky Sox in 12 starts during the first 2+ months of BATTING AVG: De Jesus 1st .350 u Kirk Nieuwenhuis set a season-high in RBI with a the season...tossed 6 1/3 scoreless innings for his first MLB Orf 13th .315 quartet Monday night, surpassing his three recorded both win in his MLB debut August 4 at Tampa Bay. SLUGGING %: Phillips 5th .582 on June 11 v. Iowa and July 3 at Omaha. u 2017 marks his 4th professional season, having ON-BASE % De Jesus 3rd .412 u Nieuwenhuis followed up that effort by sending a been drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in 11th round of Orf 12th .391 towering double to left field, scoring Yadiel Rivera to crack the 2014 Draft. PCL AMERICAN NORTH STANDINGS a 1-1 tie in his lone at-bat...in two games, Nieuwenhuis u Spent 2016 between the Class-A Advanced Brevard TEAM W L PCT GB drove in five of the 12 Sky Sox runs. County Manatees and the Double-A Biloxi Shuckers, going SKY SOX 75 52 .591 -- REACHING THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN a combined 14-9 with a 2 .68 ERA and 173 strikeouts . u Those 173 punchouts led all of Minor League Base- OKLAHOMA CITY 67 62 .519 9.0 u The Sky Sox are among the Pacific Coast League ball, as well as the honor of Brewers Minor League Pitcher IOWA 63 65 .492 12.5 leaders in several major offensive categories. of the Year . u Colorado Springs is second in team on-base percent- OMAHA 62 68 .477 14.5 age (.361), third in team batting average (.291) and fourth CONQUERING THE NORTH 2017 VS. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE in team slugging percentage (.459). u With the win Tuesday night against Oklahoma City, u The Sox are also third in the league in both runs the Sky Sox finish 2017 with a 34-14 record against their TEAM OVERALL HOME ROAD scored (768) and runs batted in (713) behind the Reno and ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES 2-2 0-0 2-2 PCL American Northern Division rivals (13-4 v. OMA, EL PASO CHIHUAHUAS 2-2 0-0 2-2 Fresno. 12-4 v. OKC, 9-6 v. IOWA). FRESNO GRIZZLIES 4-0 4-0 0-0 u This combination has given the Sox the second-best u The record shatters the previous best divisional IOWA CUBS 9-6 5-1 4-5 record in the PCL in terms of winning percentage behind record in Sky Sox history. In 2004, Colorado Springs went LAS VEGAS 51s 1-3 0-0 1-3 the Memphis Redbirds. 29-19 against the American Central division (Iowa, Omaha, MEMPHIS REDBIRDS 6-6 3-1 3-5 Albuquerque). NASHVILLE SOUNDS 9-5 5-2 4-3 NEW ORLEANS BABY CAKES 5-7 3-5 2-2 OKC DODGERS 12-4 6-2 6-2 2017 Season vs. NEW ORLEANS (5-7) • ALL-TIME (97-77) • HOME (48-39) OMAHA STORM CHASERS 13-4 8-1 5-3 RENO ACES 1-3 1-3 0-0 DATE W/L SCORE WP LP SV ROUND ROCK EXPRESS 3-6 2-4 1-2 5/23 NEW L 2-7 Fife (3-2) Woodruff (5-3) Despaigne (1) SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS 1-3 1-3 0-0 SALT LAKE BEES 4-0 0-0 4-0 5/24 NEW L 4-14 Marte (1-1) Hader (3-4) TACOMA RAINIERS 3-1 3-1 0-0 5/25 NEW W 7-6 Wang (2-0) Payano (0-2) Cravy (2) 5/26 NEW W 10-5 Suter (3-1) Copeland (3-6) RECENT TRANSACTIONS 6/22 @NEW W 8-5 Ventura (2-1) Conley (1-3) Goforth (4) AUGUST 23 6/23 @NEW L 1-4 Payano (3-2) Blazek (1-2) Steckenrider (4) RHP Paolo Espino designated for assignment 6/24 @NEW W 1-0 Snow (2-1) Koehler (1-1) Scahill (5) 6/25 @NEW L 1-7 Cuevas (1-0) Jungmann (4-1) Despaigne (2) AUGUST 24 8/11 NEW L 4-6 (10) Marte (2-5) Cravy (5-4) Gonzalez (1) RHP Brandon Woodruff optioned from Milwaukee 8/12 NEW L 10-11 Kickham (2-1) Barbosa (6-2) Gonzalez (2) RHP Junior Guerra placed on the temporary inactive list 8/13 NEW L 4-8 (11) Guerrero (1-2) Archer (7-3) 8/14 NEW W 6-1 Derby (3-0) Cuevas (2-5) UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND PITCHING PROBABLES DAY DATE OPP. TIME (MDT) SKY SOX STARTER OPPOSING STARTER Friday 8/25 @NEW 6:00 PM RHP Angel Ventura (6-4, 4 .15) RHP William Cuevas (2-5, 4 .34) Saturday 8/26 @NEW 5:00 PM RHP Bubba Derby (4-0, 3 .38) RHP Keyvius Sampson (1-1, 4 .55) Sunday 8/27 @NEW 12:00 PM TBA TBA Monday 8/28 @RR 6:05 PM RHP Taylor Jungmann (8-2, 2 .77) TBA TRIPLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS // PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: 1992 & 1995 SKY SOX STARTING PITCHER Complete bio information available on Page 61 of the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers Brandon Media Guide Woodruff #23@B_Woody24 BATS: RIGHT THROWS: RIGHT HEIGHT: 6-3 WEIGHT: 228 CURRENT AGE: 24 BORN: February 10, 1993 in Tupelo, MS RESIDENCE: Booneville, MS YEARS PRO: 4 ACQUIRED: Selected in the 11th round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft THE WOODRUFF FILE: 2016: Named the Robin Yount Performance Award Winner for Brewers Minor League Pitcher of the Year following the season...led all of Minor League Baseball with 173 strikeouts...led the Brewers farm system in starts (28) and innings pitched (158)...combined to go 14-9 with a 2.68 ERA (158 IP, 47 ER) with 40 walks and 173 strikeouts between Class-A Advanced Brevard County and Double-A Biloxi...selected to the Florida State League midseason All-Star team... Promoted to Biloxi on 5/16...Didn’t allow an earned run in 28.2 consecutive innings from 7/3-8/3, leading to earning the Brewers Player of the Month award for July. 2015: Owned a 3-3 record with a 2.42 ERA with 12 walks and 38 strikeouts in nine games (seven starts) for Brevard County following the All-Star Break...Went 1-3 with a 2.81 ERA in nine games (eight starts) at home in Viera. 2014: Began his professional career at Rookie-level Helena, going 1-2 with a 3.28 ERA in 14 games (eight starts), allowing 17 earned runs in 46.2 IP. LAST TIME OUT SEASON BESTS • Took a no-decision August 19 at Coors Field in Denver, allowing one run on five hits while striking out four Rockies (Milwaukee won 6-3 IP: 6 .1 (4/8 v . OMA) H: 1 (2x, Last: 5/28 @ .NSH) R: 0 (4x, Last: 7/29 @ LV) ER: 0 (6x, Last: 7/29 @ LV) AGAINST THE BABY CAKES HR: 0 (7x, Last: 7/29 @ LV) BB: 0 (3x, Last: 5/18 @ ELP) • Took a loss May 23 at Security Service Field, allowing four earned runs in 5 2/3 innings K: 9 (6/3 @ OKC) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE SPLITS 2017 HIGHLIGHTS HOME: 4-3, 5 .75 • Woodruff did not allow an earned run and struck out four Storm Chasers in his first Triple-A start on April 8. ROAD: 2-2, 3 .19 • Combined with three relievers for the club’s first nine-inning one-hitter since May 13, 2006. • Made his MLB Debut August 4 in Tampa Bay, tossing 6 1/3 scoreless innings in a 2-0 Brewers win over the Rays VS.