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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (13-13, 42-54) at Montgomery Biscuits (15-12, 52-45) RHP Kyle Wright (5-7, 4.10) vs. RHP Benton Moss (2-3, 4.69) Game #97 • Road #48 (19-28) • 2nd Half #27 July 20, 2018 • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • Montgomery, AL • Riverwalk Stadium TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Montgomery Biscuits (TB) continue a five-game series (1-1) at Riverwalk Stadium tonight with the eighth meeting between the clubs this season. Montgomery Record Breakdown swept Mississippi in a five-game series at Trustmark Park, June 3-7. The Biscuits lead the all-time Score First ............................................. 31-12 Opponents Score First ...........................10-43 series 136-97 and at Riverwalk Stadium, 71-45. The M-Braves are coming off a 2-2 series split against Shutouts ................................................. 7-10 Score in 1 inning ......................................5-15 Pensacola in which the final game was cancelled by rain. Prior to the series split, Mississippi won Score in 2 innings ................................. 13-16 Score in 3 innings ..................................14-11 back-to-back series vs. Biloxi and at Birmingham, 3-1. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 6-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-1 LAST TIME OUT: RHP Bryse Wilson, LHP Corbin Clouse and RHP Chad Sobotka combined for Leading after 6 innings ........................... 32-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................33-5 a five-hit shutout and LF Travis Demeritte hit a 9th inning two-run home run in the 2-0 win Tied after 6 innings .................................. 6-5 Tied after 7 innings ...................................5-8 over Montgomery on Thursday night. The game was scoreless entering the 9th inning until Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 3-42 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-37 Demeritte’s two out long ball, his 10th on the season. The win was the first against the Biscuits this season in seventh chances. Wilson tossed 7.0 shutout innings on three hits with just one Leading after 8 innings ........................... 31-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-28 walk and nine strikeouts. 2B Alejandro Salazar was 2-for-4 with a run. Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-5 Score 3 Runs ..............................................8-7 Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 0-41 Score 4 or More Runs ............................26-15 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.33 ERA (50 ER/193.0 IP) with 212 strikeouts and just 67 walks over the past 34 games (16-18 record) with 21 quality starts dating back to June 10. First Game of Series ............................... 9-11 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match ...9-9/3-5 Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.89/9IP ratio. First Game of Homestand ........................ 3-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................4-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-5 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-4 STELLAR JULY FOR BRYSE WILSON: 20-year-old RHP Bryse Wilson leads all of Minor League Following an Off Day ................................ 2-5 1-Run Games .........................................10-15 Baseball with 34 strikeouts over four starts in the month of July. In his four quality starts (three Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-4 2-Run Games .............................................8-5 shutout performances), the Hillsborough, NC native is 1-0 with a 0.66 ERA (2 ER/27.1 IP), four I Errorless Games ................................... 18-15 3-Run Games .............................................8-8 walks and 34 strikeouts, posting a miniscule 0.70 WHIP and .160 opponents batting average. With a Homer....................................... 25-18 Allow a Homer ......................................13-27 With No Homers .................................. 17-36 Allow No Homers ..................................27-29 CONSISTENT CLOUSE: LHP Corbin Clouse has given up just one run over his last 18 innings and 15 relief outings (0.50 ERA) and just two runs over his last 26 innings and 21 outings (0.69 ERA). Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................35-46 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 34-47 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................7-8 SAVING SOBOTKA: RHP Chad Sobotka has five saves and a win seven relief outings in July, allow- Following a Win ................................... 17-24 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................6-20 ing no earned runs over 7.1 innings in July. Sobotka has struck out 10 and walked none this month. Following a Loss ................................... 25-28 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................36-34 Overall Sobotka has a 2.00 ERA in 21 games with 36 strikeouts, 12 walks and a .176 opponents In Decision By Starters ......................... 25-35 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................17-18 batting average. ALE...ALEJANDRO: INF Alejandro Salazar has recorded multi-hits in his last three games, going Daily & Monthly Breakdown 9-for-14 with four runs, a double, three RBI and a stolen base. His 5-for-5 game on Sunday was the Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total first five-hit game by a Mississippi player this season. Monday 1-5 2-5 3-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 Tuesday 2-4 3-2 5-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 THE K MAN, BRUCE ZIMMERMANN: LHP Bruce Zimmermann ranks T-4th in MiLB with 123 Wednesday 2-3 2-6 4-9 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 strikeouts in 18 starts and is 9-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 106.0 innings pitched this season for Rome and Thursday 5-4 3-4 8-8 July 5-3 5-4 10-7 Mississippi. The 23-year-old was promoted to Mississippi from Low-A Rome on June 28. Friday 3-6 1-4 4-10 August - - - Saturday 7-0 3-5 10-5 September - - - Most Strikeouts in Minor League Baseball Sunday 3-3 5-2 8-4 Postseason - - - Player Team MLB Club G GS IP SO Total 23-26 19-28 42-54 23-26 19-28 42-54 Emilio Vargas Visalia Arizona 18 17 96.1 129 Josh James Fresno San Francisco 17 15 80.2 128 Dean Kremer Tulsa LA Dodgers 17 17 86.0 125 M-Braves vs Biscuits Sean Reid-Foley Bufalo Toronto 19 19 104.0 123 Bruce Zimmermann Mississippi Atlanta 18 18 106.0 123 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Michael Kopech Charlotte White Sox 18 18 88.1 122 at Trustmark Park 6-6 3-6 5-6 3-2 3-7 4-6 2-3 at Montgomery 2-9 4-11 4-6 7-3 4-5 1-4 6-4 39 GAMES IN 40 DAYS: Mississippi is currently in a stretch of playing 39 games in 40 days from June 28 through August 6 (10-10). The only day off between those two dates is July 17. Total 8-15 7-17 9-12 10-5 7-12 5-10 8-7 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 6th in the SL with at Trustmark Park 4-6 5-5 6-4 6-4 3-2 2-3 0-5 a .284 batting average. at Montgomery 2-3 5-5 5-10 1-4 1-4 2-3 1-1 Total 6-9 10-10 11-14 7-8 4-6 4-6 1-6 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: 2016 M-Braves catcher Willians Astudillo made his MLB debut for the Twins on June 30, becoming the fifth M-Braves alum to make their MLB debut this season. Alltime Astudillo joined OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. at Trustmark Park 52-65 (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have at Montgomery 45-71 gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. Total 97-136 PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked 2nd in Major League Baseball by 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 three of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright (No. 2), RHP M-Braves vs Biscuits Day-by-Day Bryse Wilson (No. 12), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 19) and LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 24). Date Result Record W-L-S Att HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as the M-Braves manager 6/3 L, 5-0 0-1 Martin-Wright 1,566 and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mississippi State University 6/4 L, 3-0 0-2 G. Cabrera-Toussaint-Hall 1,334 in 1983. 6/5 L, 8-2 0-3 McWilliams-Wilson 1,514 Southern League Standings 6/6 L, 6-4 0-4 Lawson-Santiago-Hall 1,970 NORTH REC GB 6/7 L, 5-2 0-5 Lopez-Mader-Hall 2,776 BIR (CHW) 15-12 - On the Web MTG (TB) 15-12 - 7/18 L, 6-2 0-6 McWilliams-Franco 3,060 TNS (CHC) 14-13 1.0 7/19 W, 2-0 1-6 Clouse-Ott-Sobotka 3,497 JXN (ARI) 13-14 2.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 9-18 6.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 7/20 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 7/21 PNS (CIN) 18-8 - player and the organization overall. Follow the links to listen to the M-Braves live 7/22 BLX (MIL) 15-11 3.0 audio stream all season long.