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COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2018 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (24-21) vs. West Virginia Power (24-19) RHP Joe Cavallaro (5-1, 2.21) vs. RHP Cody Bolton (0-0, 0.00) Wed., May 24, 2018 — Spirit Communications Park — First Pitch 7:05 p.m. — Game 46 LISTEN: Fox Sports Radio 1400 AM / ColumbiaFireflies.com / iHeartRadio App WATCH: MiLB.TV GLOW POINTS NEWS & NOTES CONTENTS ABOUT LAST GAME: The Fireflies surged past the Power and won 6-5 in front of Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL South 1H Standing: 3rd (-5.0) Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Home Record: 15-10 6,809 fans (second-largest crowd of the season) on Wednesday at Spirit Road Record: 9-11 Communications Park. The squad trailed 5-2 and rallied for four runs on six hits in Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Day Record: 4-3 the seventh inning. Three of those hits were infield singles. Jeremy Vasquez, Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 20-18 Quinn Brodey, and Rigoberto Terrazas all drove in runs that frame. Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Homestand: 2-1 REINFORCEMENTS: Pitching coach Jonathan Hurst has watched his bullpen Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: W2 Page 12: Transactions dominate so far in this series against West Virginia. Check out these numbers… Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Sunday: 3-3 • 3 games: 1.42 ERA, 19.0 innings, 3 earned runs, 19 strikeouts Monday: 2-3 Tuesday: 3-4 Wednesday: 5-1 MAY MADNESS: Columbia and West Virginia have had the first three games of the vs. West Virginia (2-1, 2-1 Home) Thursday: 4-4 series decided by a run. Close game have been a huge trend in May. Friday: 5-1 • 17 of Columbia’s 21 games have been decided by 3 runs or fewer Saturday: 2-5 • 13 of Columbia’s 21 games have been decided by just one run May 21 Home L, 3-2 (11) April: 12-12 • 9 of Columbia’s last 11 games have been one-run affairs May: 12-9 June: May 22 Home W, 5-4 July: The Fireflies are tied for the second-most one run games in the SAL all season (18) August: September: STREAKIN’: Outfielder Raphael Gladu is currently on a 15-game on-base streak May 23 Home W, 6-5 Leading after six: 14-1 and has hit safely in his last 10 contests. Gladu is hitting .371 during the hit streak Tied after six: 2-4 and is now one off tying the Fireflies record for consecutive games hitting safely (11 Trailing after six: 8-16 - Rigoberto Terrazas, 2018 & David Thompson, 2016). May 24 Home 7:05 p.m. Leading after seven: 15-2 Tied after seven: 1-3 Trailing after seven: 8-16 STREAKIN’ x 3: There have now been three different Fireflies this season to Leading after eight: 18-1 record on-base streaks of 15 games or longer: July 30 Home 7:05 p.m. Tied after eight: 5-3 1. 29, Jeremy Vasquez (April 5-May 6)* *SAL & franchise-best Trailing after eight: 1-16 2. 16, Scott Manea (April 21-May 12) July 31 Home 7:05 p.m. Scoring first: 13-6 3. 15, Raphael Gladu (May 2-present) Opponents score first: 11-15 Shutout Wins/Loses: 1-3 WALK IT LIKE I TALK IT: The Fireflies are the only team in Minor League Baseball with three players leading their respective league in total walks: August 1 Home 7:05 p.m. Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 12-16 Fireflies starter 6+ IP: 11-5 Fireflies starter 7+ IP: 4-3 South Atlantic League (Low A) August 15 Away 7:05 p.m. vs. LH starters: 11-4 T-1. Blake Tiberi (COL) - 29 & Matt Winaker (COL) - 29, Jeremy Vasquez (COL) - 29 vs. RH starters: 13-17 Scoring less than three: 2-14 COLUMBIA’S GREATEST HITS: Scott Manea was hit by a pitch for the 13th time August 16 Away 7:05 p.m. Scoring three or four: 3-1 on Monday. He is second in all of professional baseball (MLB & MiLB) in HBPs, Scoring five or more: 19-6 behind only San Antonio’s (AA, SD) Ty France (18). Believe it or not, France was hit 3 times in a game on April 19 @ Midland. August 17 Away 7:05 p.m. One-run games: 9-9 Two-run games: 5-2 5+ run games: 7-4 ROSTER BREAKDOWN FROM COLA TO THE BIGS Extra Innings: 5-3 Walk-Off Wins: 5 Columbia’s 2018 roster is filled with plenty of skilled Mets farmhands: Out-hitting opponent: 19-3 METS PROSPECTS (according to MLB.com & Baseball America) Being out-hit: 6-16 2. LHP, David Peterson (1st round—20th, ‘17) 22. OF, Quinn Brodey Same number of hits: 1-2 14. LHP, Anthony Kay (1st round—31st, ‘16) 27. C, Ali Sanchez 19. OF, Wuilmer Becerra Series W-L-T (Home): 3-1-2 Series W-L-T (Road): 2-4-0 METS STERLING AWARD WINNERS (awarded to best player at each Mets MiLB level) Columbia had its first two former Series W-L-T (Total): 5-5-2 Nicolas Debora, RHP (2017 Brooklyn Cyclones, 2015 DSL Mets) players make their Major League debuts in 2018. Right-hander Rigoberto Terrazas, INF (2017 Kingsport Mets) Series Sweeps (Home): Merandy Gonzalez (above) was the Series Sweeps (Road): 1 TOP 10-ROUND METS DRAFT PICKS: first. The 2017 SAL All-Star pitched Series Sweeps (Total): 1 two scoreless innings for the Miami David Peterson (Oregon, 2017 - 1st round) Anthony Kay (UConn, 2016 - 1st), Quinn Brodey (Stanford, 2017 – 3rd), Blake Tiberi (Louisville, 2016 – 3rd), Tony Dibrell (Kennesaw Marlins on April 19. Left-hander P.J. White Jerseys: 5-6 th th th Gray Jerseys: 5-2 State, 2017 – 4 ), Matt Winaker (Stanford, 2017 – 5 ), Chris Viall (Stanford, 2016 – 6 ), Conlon (below) started for the Mets th Yellow Jerseys: 3-1 Marcel Renteria (New Mexico State, 2017 – 6 ), Conner O’Neil (Cal. State Northridge, 2017 on May 7 in th th th Navy Jerseys: 9-11 – 7 ), Trey Cobb (Oklahoma State, 2017 – 8 ), Stephen Villines (Kansas, 2017 – 10 ) Cincinnati. The Specialty Jerseys: 2-0 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2016 Mets Minor League Pitcher of Home crowds of 5,000+: 5 the Year hurled 3.2 Home crowds of 6,000+: 3 IP, struck out a Home crowds of 7,000+: batter and evened /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies smacked a base hit Sellouts at Spirit Communications Park: in his second at- ColumbiaFireflies.com bat. Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers Friday, May 25 vs. Greenville 7:05 p.m. LHP Anthony Kay (1-2, 4.04) vs. RHP Alex Scherff (0-3, 6.91) Saturday, May 26 vs. Greenville 6:05 p.m. LHP David Peterson (1-2, 1.91) vs. RHP Hildemaro Requena (0-0, 45.00) Sunday, May 27 vs. Greenville 6:05 p.m. Monday, May 28 vs. Greenville 12:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 29 @ Charleston 7:05 p.m. Media Contact: Kevin Fitzgerald — [email protected] — 803-888-3040 (Office) — 908-745-9385 (Cell) FCORTOLUMBIA WAYNE FIREFLIES TINCAPS 2018 2014 G AMEGAME N OTESNOTES TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER 23 Joe Cavallaro HT: 6-4 WT: 190 B/T: R/R HOMETOWN: Venice, FL AGE: 22 BORN: July 19, OBTAINED: Selected by the Mets in the 24th round of the 2017 MLB 1995 First-Year Player Draft out of the Univ. of South Florida YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 17 Kingsport (Adv-R) 3-1 2.34 11-5 0 0 34.2 23 13 9 10 35 .183 MiLB CAREER 3-1 2.34 11-5 0 0 34.2 23 13 9 10 35 .183 2018 STARTS (*Relief Appearance) NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • College: Three years at the University of South Florida...appeared in 60 games and made 23 starts… finished with a 3.63 ERA in his career with 193 strikeouts 5/18 @ Charleston W 7.0 4 1 1 2 9 W, 3-1 & 93 walks 5/11 Hickory W 5.2 7 3 3 3 7 W, 8-3 • Junior season with the Bulls (2017): 30 appearances, 0 starts, team-best 2.28 ERA, which ended up as his best ERA in three years at USF *5/4 Lakewood W 4.0 3 0 0 2 4 W, 2-1 • Teammates with Kevin Merrell at USF, who was selected in the first round of 2017 MLB Draft by Oakland (33rd 4/27 @ Augusta L 5.0 4 2 2 2 6 L, 6-0 overall - the highest a South Florida player has gone since 1997—Jason Dellaero) 4/20 Hickory W 6.0 2 2 1 2 6 W, 6-3 • History major at USF 4/12 @ Asheville ND 7.0 4 5 1 1 4 W, 7-5 • Born in Portland, Maine, before moving to Florida • High School: Sarasota (FL)...All-County Honorable 4/6 Augusta W 6.0 6 2 2 2 8 W, 7-2 Mention as a senior, going 6-1 with a 1.06 ERA...same high school that produced current MLB SS Ian Desmond • Also lettered in basketball in high school...father, Steve, was the varsity basketball head coach for 21 years at Sarasota and Venice High School (~30 minutes apart) Links: Joe’s 2017 Draft Profile (Amazin’ Avenue) CAREER MARKS IP H R ER BB K 7.0, 3x (Last: 5/18/18 @ CHS) 7 (5/11/18 @ HIC) 5 (4/12/18 @ ASH) 3, 2x (Last: 5/11/18 @ HIC) 4 (8/29/17 v.
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