Columbia Fireflies 2018 Game Notes
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COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2018 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (30-36, 64-69) @ Augusta GreenJackets (29-39, 66-70) RHP Zac Grotz (3-6, 4.68) vs. Norwith Gudino (3-2, 3.55) Mon., Sept. 3, 2018 — SRP Park (No. Augusta, SC) — First Pitch 2:05 p.m. — Games 135 LISTEN: Fox Sports Radio 1400 AM / ColumbiaFireflies.com / iHeartRadio App GLOW NOTES NEWS & NOTES CONTENTS LAST TIME OUT: The Fireflies blanked the GreenJackets 1-0 at SRP Park on Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL Southern 2nd H Standing: 5th (-8.5) Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Home Record: 34-34 Sunday evening. Dionis Paulino’s solo home run was the difference in the game. Road Record: 30-35 Tony Dibrell and Aaron Ford were unstoppable on the mound. Dibrell punched out Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Day Record: 11-9 nine batters across six frames. Ford followed that up with eight strikeouts in just three Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 52-59 innings. Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Road Trip: 1-2 ONE FINAL TIME: The Fireflies play their final game of the season today at SRP Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: W1 Park. Columbia finished its home schedule on Thursday night. The 2018 season at Page 12: Transactions Sunday: 11-9 Spirit Communications Park was filled with great fun and breath-taking excitement. Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Monday: 7-9 Take a look back at the best moments. Tuesday: 8-8 • Seven walk-off wins (five in May) vs. Augusta (13-11, 6-7 Away) Wednesday: 10-6 April 5 Home Thursday: 9-13 • First GS by a Firefly at Spirit Communications Park (Gio Alfonso: May 5) W, 4-2 Friday: 11-9 • Six Fireflies made SAL All-Star Game April 6 Home W, 7-2 Saturday: 8-15 *1B Jeremy Vasquez, RHP Joe Cavallaro, RHP Stephen Villines, RHP Trey Cobb, April 7 Home L, 6-2 LHP David Peterson, C Scott Manea* April: 12-12 April 8 Home L, 10-5 May: 16-11 April 27 Away L, 6-0 June: 11-14 LOOK AT THIS: Aaron Ford and Yeizo Campos have each put together a stellar July: 11-18 relief appearance at SRP this season. April 28 Away L, 3-2 August: 14-14 April 29 Away L, 2-0 September: • Campos (July 27 @ Augusta): 4.2 IP, 0 ER, 9 K *9 strikeouts is the most by a Columbia reliever this season* June 8 Home W, 4-1 Leading after six: 44-7 • Ford (September 2 @ Augusta): 3.0 IP, 0 R, 8 K June 9 Home W, 2-1 (10) Tied after six: 11-8 Trailing after six: 9-53 June 10 Home W, 4-0 PAULINO’S PARK: Dionis Paulino is 13-for-35 (.371 BA) at SRP Park this season. Leading after seven: 49-6 June 30 Away W, 3-2 Tied after seven: 6-7 Three of his six homers this season have occurred here. Trailing after seven: 8-52 July 1 Away L, 11-2 Leading after eight: 51-2 BACK, BACK, BACK...GONE!: Columbia blasted nine homers during its eight-game July 2 Away W, 16-8 Tied after eight: 9-10 Trailing after eight: 1-50 homestand (August 23-30). As a team, the Fireflies have drilled 88 homers in 2018, a July 3 Away W, 2-1 new single-season team record. The Fireflies have 29 in August (28 games). July 19 Home W, 5-2 Scoring first: 41-18 Opponents score first: 24-50 RECORDS ON RECORD ON RECORDS: Tony Dibrell finished the 2018 campaign July 20 Home L, 5-3 Shutout Wins/Loses: 7-12 with 147 strikeouts in 131.0 innings this year. That’s the new single-season Fireflies July 21 Home L, 7-5 (11) record after the righty passed Joe Shaw (134 in 2016) on August 28. That’s not all. July 22 Home W, 2-1 Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 26-47 Edgardo Fermin’s triple on the 28th was his seventh of the year, tying him with Fireflies starter 6+ IP: 30-22 July 27 Away L, 2-1 (10) Fireflies starter 7+ IP: 16-9 Kevin Kaczmarski (2016) for the most in a single season. On August 30th, Matt vs. LH starters: 23-21 Winaker smashed his 13th home run of the year, tying him for single-season July 28 Away W, 5-1 franchise record: vs. RH starters: 41-47 July 29 Away W, 4-0 1. Matt Winaker (2018), Dash Winningham & Brandon Brosher (2017) - 13 August 31 Away L, 4-0 Scoring less than three: 10-45 2. Dash Winningham (2016) - 12 Scoring three or four: 13-9 September 1 Away L, 8-3 Scoring five or more: 41-15 3. Scott Manea (2018) - 12 4. Quinn Brodey (2018) - 10 September 2 Away W, 1-0 One-run games: 22-17 September 3 Away 2:05 p.m. Two-run games: 13-14 5+ run games: 15-21 2019, HERE WE COME! FROM COLA TO THE SHOW Extra Innings: 7-9 Walk-Off Wins: 7 In conjunction with the South Atlantic League, the Columbia Fireflies have released the Here’s a list of the first wave schedule for the fourth season of professional baseball at Spirit Communications Park in Out-hitting opponent: 45-9 downtown Columbia! of former Fireflies to reach Being out-hit: 13-56 the big leagues (all in 2018): Same number of hits: 6-5 The Columbia Fireflies open the 2019 season at Spirit Communications Park on Thursday, April 4, 2019, against one of their Southern Division rivals, the Charleston RiverDogs. 1. RHP Merandy Gonzalez Series W-L-T (Home): 6-9-5 Team: Miami Marlins Series W-L-T (Road): 8-9-2 The Fireflies play a 140-game schedule in the South Atlantic League, with 70 home games Debut: April 19, 2018 Series W-L-T (Total): 14-18-7 played at Spirit Communications Park - the 2016 Ballpark Digest Ballpark of the Year. Result: 2 scoreless innings @ Milwaukee Check out the highlights of the 2019 home schedule: Series Sweeps (Home): 1 2. LHP P.J. Conlon Series Sweeps (Road): 1 - 12 Budweiser Thirsty Thursdays - 11 Friday night games (with fireworks) Team: New York Mets Series Sweeps (Total): 2 - 10 Splash Day Sundays - 11 Saturday night games (with fireworks) Debut: May 7, 2018 Result: 3.2 innings, single, run scored White Jerseys: 12-14 @ Cincinnati Gray Jerseys: 8-10 The Fireflies will play home games on Mother's Day (Sunday, May 12 vs. Rome) and Yellow Jerseys: 6-4 Father's Day (Sunday, June 16 vs. Lexington) in 2019. The annual Independence Day 3. OF Kevin Kaczmarski Navy Jerseys: 33-35 celebration will be held on Wednesday, July 3 vs. Greenville. Team: New York Mets Specialty Jerseys: 3-5 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES Debut: June 24, 2018 Result: Pinch-hit appearance vs. Los Home crowds of 4,000+: 31 Angeles (grounded out) Home crowds of 5,000+: 9 Home crowds of 6,000+: 4 4. RHP Tyler Bashlor Home crowds of 7,000+: 1 Team: New York Mets /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies Debut: June 25, 2018 Result: 2 innings, 1 hit vs. Pittsburgh Sellouts at Spirit Communications Park: 1 ColumbiaFireflies.com Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers THANK YOU, FANS, FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING THE 2018 SEASON! 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 15 Zac Grotz HT: 6-2 WT: 195 B/T: R/R HOMETOWN: Pacifica, CA AGE: 25 BORN: February OBTAINED: Signed with the Mets as a non-drafted free agent on June 17, 1993 15, 2018 YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 15 Tri-City (HOU, SS) 4-3 4.24 16-0 0 0 17.0 16 8 8 4 11 .250 15 Greenville (HOU, Adv-R) 1-0 0.00 3-0 0 0 5.0 1 0 0 1 4 .063 16 Ogden (LAD, Adv-R) 4-0 0.50 5-2 0 0 18.0 15 9 1 3 11 .211 16 Washington (Ind.) 4-2 1.36 29-1 0 0 46.1 32 8 7 9 51 -- 17 Bridgeport (Ind.) 4-3 3.77 67-0 0 0 74.0 84 39 31 30 80 -- PRO CAREER 17-8 2.64 120-3 0 0 160.1 148 64 47 47 157 -- 2018 STARTS NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • 2018: Struck out a career-high 10 batters on 8/23 vs. Asheville ... Signed by 8/29 Charleston L 6.1 5 3 1 2 8 L, 6-1 the Mets on June 15 … pitched previously for the York (PA) Revolution in the Independent Atlantic League … 2-1 with a 2.53 ERA in seven outings (4 8/23 Asheville W 7.0 5 0 0 0 10 W, 8-5 of which were GS) for York in 2018 ...33 K, 11 BB in 32.0 IP 8/15 West Virginia W 7.0 5 2 2 0 6 W, 5-2 • Spent 2017 in the Atlantic League as well pitching for the Bridgeport (CT) Bluefish … exclusively out of the bullpen: 67 GP, 4-3, 3.77 ERA, 80 K, 30 8/8 Greenville L 5.1 9 4 4 0 6 L, 7-1 BB … 2017 Bridgeport team also had former big leaguers Sean Burroughs & Manny Parra on roster 8/1 West Virginia ND 6.0 6 1 1 1 5 W, 3-1 7/26 @ Rome L 5.0 12 9 6 1 1 L, 14-5 • Last played in affiliated baseball in 2016 with the Los Angeles Dodgers advanced-rookie level affiliate in the Pioneer League the Odgen (UT) Raptors … signed by LAD in August 2016 after having appeared in 29 7/20 Augusta L 6.1 5 5 3 2 4 L, 5-3 games for the independent Washington (PA) WildThings in the Frontier League 7/13 @ Hagerstown ND 5.0 10 5 5 1 4 W, 7-6 7/6 Greenville L 5.0 8 6 6 1 8 L, 7-3 • Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 28th round of the 2015 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Embry-Riddle Univ.