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Columbus Clippers Game #107 Game Information Road Game #53 Media Relations Department - 330 Huntington Park Ln., Columbus, OH 43215 - (614)-462-5250 - [email protected] Tuesday, July 30 (7:05) - Victory Field Columbus Clippers Indianapolis Indians (Cleveland Indians) vs. (Pittsburgh Pirates) RHP Aaron Civale (3-1, 2.29) RHP James Marvel (3-0, 1.90) (61-45) (53-53) LAST GAME Upcoming Probables July 29 R H E LOB Wednesday, July 31 vs. Louisville (7:05): RHP Keury Mella (7-10, 4.55) vs. RHP Mitch Talbot (2-3, 6.25) Columbus10 13 1 9 Thursday, August 1 vs. Louisville (7:05): LHP Eric Stout (2-1, 6.06) vs. TBA Indianapolis 629 7 Friday, August 2 at Indianapolis (7:15): RHP Michael Peoples (7-5, 4.67) vs. TBA W: Jon Edwards (5-1) Saturday, August 3 at Indianapolis (7:05): RHP Shao-Ching Chiang (6-7, 5.67) vs. TBA L: Eduardo Vera (5-9) Tonight's Game S: The Clippers will send RHP Aaron Civale to the mound tonight, looking to complete their fifth road sweep of the season. Indianapolis HR: Barnes (24), will counter with RHP James Marvel. The Clippers are 38-36 (.514) against right handers this season. Marvel has pitched against the Bradley (26, 27); Kelley (4) Clippers once in his career, on 7/13 in Columbus (ND, 4.2IP, 6H, 5R, 5ER, 4BB, 2K). Highlights Bobby Bradley had his sixth vs. the Indians multi-HR game of the season Columbus is 10-8 against Indy this year, despite getting out-scored 105-104 (more wins, fewer runs than Indy in each of the last three and Ka'ai Tom tripled twice, seasons). Individually, Ka'ai Tom has batted .409 (9x22) with 9RBI in five games against Indianapolis and Daniel Johnson has hit .308 including a go-ahead, 3-run (12x39) with 4RBI in 10 games. Eric Haase has amassed 7HR and 26RBI in 37 games. triple in the 6th. Eric Stamets Time to Eat went 3x5. At the three-quarter pole, the Clippers were a couple lengths out in front of the IL West and down the stretch they play 31 of 34 against teams with a winning percentage below .525. If the Clippers go 16-1 against the remaining losing teams on the schedule, they could go 0- 17 against the winners and still likely make the playoffs, as 30 of 33 77-game winners in the IL West have made it since 1993. Unwelcome Guests CLIPPER QUICK FACTS The Clippers have homered in three straight games since a stretch of two homerless games in four days from 7/16-7/19. On the season, Current Streak: W1 the Clippers have gone deep in 46 of 52 on the road, clobbering 100HR (most in the IL; 73HR in 54 home games, 14 homerless). Road Streak: W3 Columbus has homered in all six games at Victory Field this year (10HR), after going deep in only five of 12 last year (5HR). Road: 35-17 July: 12-13 Ticking Tom Bomb Tuesday: 8-7 Ka'ai Tom has gone 10x34 in eight games since his 16 game hit streak (career high, .400, 24x60, 6/29-7/18) and 26 game on-base Night Games: 46-29 streak (.442OBP, 6/19-7/18) were snapped on 7/19. Going back to 5/21 with Akron, Tom has reached in 61 of 63, slashing vs. West: 29-21 .348/.435/.617 with 11HR and 46RBI (230AB). Saturday's HR snapped a streak of 74AB without (longest drought since 86AB, 4/16-5/10; Last 10: 4-6 9HR in next 72AB). Consecutive days in 1st: 52 Setting the Table Scoring at least 4 runs: 51-21 Daniel Johnson was kept off the bases Sunday, but rebounded to reach three of five times last night (has not been kept off consecutively Scoring less than 4 runs: 10-24 since 5/19-5/21 with Akron; 33 game on-base streak from 6/13-7/23). Johnson has scored 39 times since his debut, 8th most in the IL. Come from behind wins: 25 Brandon Barnes (leads time period with 44 runs) has driven Johnson in six times (leads time period with 52RBI). Last at bat wins: 13 Team Batting: .260, 11th Two Slumps Swatted Team Pitching: 4.85, 8th Brandon Barnes ended a five game homer drought Sunday and went deep again last night, marking the sixth time he has homered in Team Defense: .982, 3rd consecutive games this year (long streak of three games, 6/15-6/18). Bobby Bradley had hit just one out since getting optioned on 7/16, but turned in his sixth 2HR game of the year last night. Eric Haase is still struggling however, with a single bomb over his last 14 games. LEAGUE STANDINGS North W - L Pct GB Yu Better Believe It SWB 61 - 46 .570 - Yu Chang has played in 30 games since returning from the DL, already putting up 40 hits and 22RBI (had eight hits and 9RBI in 15 BUF 56 - 51 .523 5.0 games before injury). Chang has slashed .336/.409/.555 in those 30, collecting 13 multi-hit games and 15XBH. He has seen his season SYR 53 - 54 .495 8.0 average increase to .279 from .151, while also seeing jumps of 128 and 221 points in OBP and SLG, respectively. ROC 52 - 55 .486 9.0 LHV 51 - 54 .486 9.0 Under the Radar PAW 47 - 59 .443 13.5 In a season filled with homer highlights, Ryan Flaherty is getting it done with more than just power. He currently sits in a tie for 26th in South W - L Pct GB the IL with 16HR (most since 19HR in 2011), but is tied for 7th with 63RBI. Of his RBI, 57% have come without the aid of a homer (4th GWN 63 - 44 .589 - best among 12 players with at least 60RBI). Over his last 59 games, Flaherty has turned in a line of .304/.408/.558 with 13HR and 43RBI. DUR 62 -46 .574 1.5 CHA 56 - 51 .523 7.0 Here We Go Again NOR 41 - 66 .383 22.0 The lineup had 9K last night, the 17th time in 18 games since the Break that the Clippers had at least 9K. They have opened up a 52K West W - L Pct GB team lead in the IL (only +15 prior) and have long since topped 1,000 for the year (ninth straight season; once from 1977-2010). All four COL 61 - 45 .575 - of the 20HR guys have at least 17K since 7/11 (combined: .173, 34x197, with 11HR and 87K), as does Yu Chang (.343, 23x67, 3HR). IND 53 - 53 .500 8.0 TOL 47 - 60 .439 14.5 ORGANIZATION REPORT vs. INDIANAPOLIS LOU 44 - 63 .411 17.5 Cleveland (62-43), 2nd place Akron (34-35), 3rd place; (14-24), 6th place All-Time July 29 R H E 7/29 OFF DAY Home Road Overall League Notes OFF x x x 7/30 vs. New Hampshire, 7:05 127-103 101-108 228-211 Chris Owings (PAW) was DAY x x x Lynchburg (32-35), 2nd place; (17-19), 4th place 2019 named Batter of the Week for Lindor: .302/.353/.524, 18HR, 43RBI, 16SB 7/29 OFF DAY Home Road Overall 7/22-7/28 and Randy Dobnak Mercado: .295/.342/.473 , 8HR, 31RBI, 9SB 7/30 at Winston-Salem, 7:00 5-7 5-1 10-8 (ROC) was selected as Pitcher Bieber: 10-3, 3.44ERA, 133.1IP, 29BB, 166K Lake County (40-29), 2nd place*; (20-16), 3rd place 2018 of the Week. Plutko: 3-2, 4.83ERA, 54.0IP, 8BB, 32K 7/29 at Bowling Green, lost, 10-0 Home Road Overall 7/30 vs. HOU, 7:10 (Verlander vs. Bieber) 7/30 vs. Lansing, 7:00 9-4 4-8 13-12 Governors' Cup Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2010, 2011, 2015 IL West Division Champions: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 Columbus Clippers Game Information Tuesday, July 30 This Date in Clipper History Huntington (Small) Park 7/30/2014 In each of the first 10 years since the move downtown, Huntington Park has ranked among the top two in the IL in homers per game, Tyler Cloyd twirled the first no- totaling 2.16 per contest (1,539HR, 714 games). Last year, HP averaged over a pair per game for the second straight year (sixth time hitter in Huntington Park history, overall), but needed 5HR (all by the Clippers) on the season's final day to jump into 2nd place. The team total of 68HR was the lowest coming within one hit batter of a since 2015. Over the life of the park, the Clippers have hit fewer long balls than the opposition (878 to 837). perfect game (plunked Donnie Murphy to lead off the 9th). year gms COL opp total avg rankyeargms COL opp total avg rank year gms COL opp total avg rank 2009 71 57 73 130 1.83 2nd 201372 63 72 135 1.88 2nd 2017 71 95 88 183 2.58 1st The crowd of 10,100, and Cloyd, 2010 72 90 83 173 2.40 2nd 2014 72 64 85 149 2.07 2nd 2018 69 68 76 144 2.09 2nd had some lengthy layoffs on the 2011 72 100 77 177 2.46 1st 2015 72 62 64 1261.75 2nd 2019 54 73 103 176 3.26 2nd way to history, as the Clippers 20127191 88 179 2.52 1st 2016 72 74 69 143 1.99 1st scored five times in the 7th and four in the 8th on the way to a 13- Record Pace 0 win.