Columbus Clippers Game #41 Game Information Home Game #18 Media Relations Department - 330 Huntington Park Ln., Columbus, OH 43215 - (614)-462-5250 - [email protected] Sunday, June 20 (2:05) - Huntington Park Toledo Mud Hens Columbus Clippers (Detroit Tigers) vs. (Cleveland Indians) LHP Locke St. John (2-0, 2.37) LHP Kirk McCarty (5-0, 4.44) (20-20) (19-21) LAST GAME Upcoming Probables June 19 R H E LOB Tuesday, June 22 vs. St. Paul (7:05): TBA vs. RHP Kevin Herget (1-2, 7.40) Toledo 4 11 0 1 Wednesday, June 23 vs. St. Paul (7:05): TBA vs. RHP Triston McKenzie (1-0, 1.08) Columbus12 14 0 10 Thursday, June 24 vs. St. Paul (7:05): TBA vs. LHP Logan Allen (0-2, 11.72) W: Ben Krauth (1-0) Friday, June 25 vs. St. Paul (7:05): TBA vs. RHP Heath Fillmyer (1-1, 9.00) L: Ricardo Pinto (1-1) Today's Game S: The Clippers will send LHP Kirk McCarty to the mound tonight, looking to win four straight at home for the first time since five straight HR: Mercado (5), Brooks (3), from 8/19-8/23/19 (clinched IL West on 8/23). Toledo will counter with LHP Locke St. John. The Clippers are 1-4 (.200) against left Gimenez (7) handers this year. St. John has faced the Clippers twice in his career, going 1-0 with a 0.00ERA (3.0IP, 3H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 4K). Highlights Andres Gimenez was 3x5 with vs. the Mud Hens a double, HR and 3RBI, while Columbus went 14-9 against the Mud Hens in 2019, snapping a two year losing streak (7-13 in 2018, 10-13 in 2017), while posting a Oscar Mercado was 1x5 with a margin of 4.6 in wins (seven by 4+) and losing by an average of 5.6 (six by 4+). Of the last 16 played between the two, nine have been HR and 3RBI. Connor decided by at least five runs. Andres Gimenez has hit .351 (13x37) with 5HR and 12RBI against Toledo this season (8G). Marabell rounded out the 3RBI Turning a Corner trio, going 2x5. Trenton Brooks After starting the season 5-1, the Clippers went 4-18 from 5/12-6/5 (worst 22G stretch since 4-18 from 6/13-7/4/09), but have rebounded was 3x5 with a HR and 2RBI. to go 10-2. The Clippers are hitting .285 (37x130) with runners in scoring position in the last 12 (.180, 34x189 in the 22G prior) and have scored at least four runs in 11 of 12 (had at least four runs once in previous nine; 9-run inning in 13-9 loss vs. Nashville on 5/28). Pummeled Pitching CLIPPER QUICK FACTS Huntington Park has zoomed back to the top of the IL in homers per game (3.29), following 35HR in the last 9G. Unfortunatley, 21 of Current Streak: W3 those 35 have been surrendered by Columbus (141HR allowed in last 70G in the regular season at HP). Almost 21% of hits allowed at Home Streak: W3 home have left the yard (33 of 158), the highest rate in the IL (led the league in 2019, as 20.4% of hits allowed at HP were homers). Home: 6-11 June: 11-6 Cursed at the Top Sunday: 2-3 Heading into 6/4, Clipper leadoff hitters were hitting an IL-worst .198. Oscar Mercado has taken over leadoff duties since then, hitting Day Games: 2-5 .322 (19x59) in 14G (leadoff now .238, 11th). Wednesday, he scored three runs, marking the first multi-run game for a leadoff man since vs. West: 19-15 Ka'ai Tom at Toledo in the 2019 season finale (has 4R in 3G since; 21 runs scored by leadoff this year, fewest in the IL). Last 10: 8-2 Consecutive days in 4th: 2 Take Two Scoring at least 4 runs: 16-7 The double from Nolan Jones last night was his IL-leading 13th of the season (tied with Oscar Mercado; Daniel Johnson is tied for 8th, Scoring less than 4 runs: 3-14 10) and gave him 12 doubles in his last 24G. As a team, the Clippers have doubled in 25 straight games and 39 of 40 on the year (went Come from behind wins: 9 doubleless in 25 games during 2019, eight times in first 40). Columbus is averaging almost three doubles a game in the last 11 (32). Last at bat wins: 4 Team Batting: .243, 8th Hammering Gimenez Team Pitching: 5.34, 12th Andres Gimenez has homered in each of the last six games, after never having homered in consecutive games in his career (Fernando Team Defense: .981, 10th Seguignol homered in five straight from 6/30-7/4/03, previous long in the Anthony Slosser Era, 2003-21). Prior to his surge, Gimenez laid down three sac bunts over the course of four games from 6/6-6/9 (3-0 when Gimenez executes a sac bunt, 6-1 when he homers). LEAGUE STANDINGS South W - L Pct GB Work to Do DUR 27 - 13 .675 - Owen Miller returned to Columbus Tuesday after a three week stint in Cleveland (5x46, 23K). At the time of his first ever promotion to NAS 25 - 14.641 1.5 the Big Leagues, Miller ranked 3rd in batting in the IL at .406 (26x64). He is 15PA short of qualifying for the batting title and adding them JAX 23 - 17 .575 4.0 as hitless at bats would place him in 6th. Miller has three hitless games since his return (5G; had four hitless in 16G prior). GWN 21 - 19 .525 6.0 CHA 16 - 24 .400 11.0 Swinging Hard NOR 15 - 23.395 11.0 The Clippers have two among the top four in the IL in strikeouts, as Daniel Johnson ranks 3rd (52K) and Nolan Jones sits in 4th (51K). MEM16 - 25 .390 11.5 Friday night marked the 34th game that the pair has played with each other and the first in which neither of them struck out (first time both had multi-hit games, second time both had homers). Last night, both batters put the ball in play every at bat again. West W - L Pct GB OMA 28 - 12 .700 - Bringing it Home IND 22 - 18 .550 6.0 Connor Marabell reached base in nine of 10 on the roadtrip, batting .387 (12x31). That hot trip bumped his career average on the road TOL 20 20 .500 8.0 in the IL to .300 (42x140), compared to a dismal .174 (23x132) in Huntington Park. However, Marabell put forth back to back multi-hit COL 19 - 21 .475 9.0 games on 6/15 and 6/16 (three multi-hit games in HP career prior) and is hitting .389 (7x18) on the home stand (now .200 in HP career). STP 19 -22 .463 9.5 IOW 14 - 25 .359 13.5 ORGANIZATION REPORT vs. TOLEDO LOU 14- 26 .350 14.0 Cleveland (38-30), 2nd place Akron (23-16), 4th place All-Time June 19 R H E 6/19 at Bowie, won, 17-9 (12) Home Road Overall League Notes Cleveland 3 60 6/20 at Bowie, 1:35 217-190 214-202 431-392 Pittsburgh 615 Lake County (22-19), 2nd place 2021 W- Stratton (2-0), L- Shaw (1-2) 6/19 vs. West Michigan, lost, 9-2 (7) Home Road Overall HR- Ramirez (4, 5), Rivera (1); Perez (5), 6/20 vs. West Michigan, 1:30 4-1 2-4 6-5 Reynolds (12) Lynchburg (22-17), 2nd place 2019 Parker: 1.0IP, 0H, 0R, 0BB, 1K 6/19 at Frederickburg, won, 8-2 Home Road Overall 6/20 at PIT, 1:05 (Hentges vs. Brubaker) 6/20 at Frederickburg, 1:35 5-6 9-3 14-9 Governors' Cup Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2019 IL West Division Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Columbus Clippers Game Information Sunday, June 20 This Date in Clipper History Huntington (Small) Park 6/20/1992 In each of the first 11 years since the move downtown, Huntington Park has ranked among the top two in the IL in homers per game, Bernie Williams provided all the totaling 2.25 per contest (1,763HR, 783 games). In 2019, HP averaged over three per game for the first time ever (seventh time scoring Columbus needed with averaging over a pair), as the Clippers surrendered a record 127HR and just missed out on triple digits themselves (97HR was second a 3-run HR at Rochester in a 3-1 highest team total). Including the postseason, the Clippers have been out-homered over the life of the park (956 to 917). win. He played 95 games for the best team in Clipper history yeargms COL opp total avgrankyear gms COLopp total avg rank year gms COL opp total avg rank (95-49) before being 200971 57 73 130 1.83 2nd 201372 63 72 135 1.88 2nd 2017 71 95 88 183 2.58 1st 2010 72 90 83 173 2.40 2nd2014 7264 85 149 2.07 2nd 2018 69 68 76 144 2.09 2nd permanently recalled by New 2011 72 100 77 177 2.46 1st 2015 72 62 64 126 1.75 2nd 2019 69 97 127 224 3.25 2nd York, spending the next 15 years 2012 71 91 88 179 2.521st 2016 72 74 69 143 1.99 1st 2021 17 23 33 56 3.29 1st patrolling the Yankee Stadium outfield.