AKRON RUBBERDUCKS GAME NOTES Akron Rubberducks Media Relations ● Canal Park ● 300 S
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AKRON RUBBERDUCKS GAME NOTES Akron RubberDucks Media Relations ● Canal Park ● 300 S. Main St. ● Akron, OH 44308 Director of Public & Media Relations: Adam Liberman [email protected] Lead Broadcaster: Marco LaNave [email protected] Akron RubberDucks (24-37, 58-72) vs. Richmond Flying Squirrels (25-37, 48-81) Cleveland Indians Double-A San Francisco Giants Double-A LHP Sam Hentges (2-12, 5.49) RHP Ryan Halstead (2-5, 3.52) akronrubberducks.com @AkronRubberDucks Saturday, August 24, 2019 • Canal Park • 7:05 p.m. EDT @AkronRubberDuck Game 131, Home Game 65, Second Half Game 62, Night Game 95 WARF Fox Sports 1350 AM ● iHeartRadio (Fox Sports 1350) ● TuneIn (Akron RubberDucks) ● MiLB.TV @akronrubberducks Broadcast Powered By FirstEnergy ● Broadcasters: Jim Clark & Marco LaNave Friday Recap: RubberDucks walk off Flying Squirrels again (Akron 4, RubberDucks host Flying Squirrels: The RubberDucks and Flying Richmond 3, 10 innings): RubberDucks designated hitter Trenton Squirrels are playing the last of three scheduled intradivision four-game Brooks hit a walk-off RBI double in the 10th inning to lead Akron to a 4-3 series this season, with eight games at Canal Park and four at The series-opening over Richmond in front 7,411 at Canal Park on Friday Diamond Each of the first two series were four-game splits. Last season, night. The RubberDucks earned their fifth walk-off win of the season and Akron went 11-5 against Richmond, including 6-2 at Canal Park. In 2018, third over Richmond, which has played five straight extra-inning games the Flying Squirrels finished in sixth place in the Western Division, at 62- and six in their last seven contests. Akron has played three straight extra- 76 overall. Since Richmond joined the league in 2010, Akron leads the inning games, matching its longest streak of the season. series, 58-55. According to Baseball America (pre-2019) and MLB.com (July 2019), top prospects in this series include: Bradley Zimmer rehab: Cleveland Indians outfielder Bradley Zimmer, Indians (BA/MLB.com): #2/1 3B Nolan Jones, #6/15 LHP Sam on the 60-day Injured List, is playing his fourth rehab game with the Hentges, #18/26 Ernie Clement #22/NR OF Oscar Gonzalez RubberDucks on Saturday. He homered on Friday and is 4-for-10 with two Nationals (BA/MLB.com): #1/1 C Joey Bart, #3/2 OF Heliot Ramos, #5/6 doubles and three strikeouts in his first three rehab games. Zimmer RHP Sean Hjelle, #21/28 LHP Garrett Williams, #24/NR IF Ryan Howard, suffered a right shoulder injury during pre-game batting drills in Columbus #30/NR IF Jalen Miller on June 11, 2018, and had season-ending arthroscopic right shoulder surgery on July 20, 2018, to repair a torn labrum, with rehab from the Clement’s strong return: Since returning from the Injured List May 9, procedure back to full baseball activities expected to be 8-12 months. He shortstop Ernie Clement has 95 hits (tied for sixth in the Eastern League). appeared in five Arizona League games Aug. 11-18 (4-for-8, 1 HR, 2 RBI). Since May 9, he is 95-for-345 (.275, seventh in EL). That includes 27 multi-hit games, 12 doubles, three triples, a home run (at Erie in his first Jefry Rodriguez rehab: Cleveland Indians pitcher Jefry Rodriguez, on game back), 42 runs, 22 RBI, 23 walks, a .326 OBP, and separate 13- the 60-day Injured List with a right shoulder strain, pitched his first game and 14-game hitting streaks. He was on the IL with a right adductor strain with Akron on a rehab assignment on Tuesday (1.2 IP, 1 HR, 1 K, 18 April 16-May 8. In six games prior to going on the IL, the Indians No. 18 pitches) and is scheduled to pitch again in relief on Saturday. Rodriguez (Baseball America)/No. 26 (MLB.com) prospect was 3-for-25 (.120). has made eight major league starts this season and made an Aug. 16 rehab appearance (1 IP, 1 BB, 1 K) in the AZL. With Rodriguez, all three Jones arrives in Double-A: Third baseman Nolan Jones has seven players acquired in the Nov. 30, 2018, Yan Gomes trade with Washington home runs in 39 Eastern League games (tied for sixth in the EL since July (also outfielder Daniel Johnson, infielder Andruw Monasterio) will have 11). Ranked by MLB.com as the Indians’ No. 1 prospect (July 2019) and appeared for Akron this season. No. 2 by Baseball America (entering 2019), he made his Double-A debut on July 11, becoming the highest-ranked Indians prospect to appear for Since the All-Star break: Since the Eastern League All-Star break, Akron Akron this season. A 2019 Carolina League Mid-Season All-Star with is 17-24, but a few RubberDucks have posted numbers among the league Class-A Advanced Lynchburg, Jones led the CL in walks (65), on-base leaders since the break. Trenton Brooks leads the league with 26 extra- percentage (.435) and OPS (.860) at the time of his promotion to Akron. base hits and 19 doubles, and he has 42 hits (10th), 80 total bases (third), He also led Lynchburg with 48 runs. He played 77 games and hit .286 with a .537 slugging percentage (third) and .882 OPS (third). Nolan Jones, seven home runs, 41 RBI, and a .456 slugging percentage. He also called up to Double-A for the first time during the break, has seven home played in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Progressive Field on July runs (tied for sixth), 23 walks (tied for second) and 30 runs (tied for 7, starting at third base and grounding out to the pitcher in his only at bat. second). Ernie Clement has nine stolen bases (tied for seventh). Jake Paulson has five wins (tied for the lead). Sam Hentges has 41 strikeouts Flying out of the park: The RubberDucks have hit 13 home runs over the (tied for sixth). Dalbert Siri has six saves (tied for sixth) in 15 past 13 games after hitting just three in the previous 20 games. In the past appearances (tied for fifth). 33 games, Akron has 16 home runs while allowing 30. Overall, the RubberDucks have 98 home runs (tied for third in the Eastern League) Gonzalez warms up to the EL: Outfielder Oscar Gonzalez, promoted to while allowing 90 (tied for fifth fewest in the EL) for a +7 home run Akron on Aug. 1, hit safely in nine of 12 games Aug. 6-19, including a six- differential. Of Akron’s 98 home runs this season, 59 (60 percent) have game hitting streak Aug. 6-13 (8-for-22, three doubles, a home run, five come in 22 multi-homer games, including 13 in four straight games May 9- runs and five RBI) after going hitless in his first three Eastern League 13. Akron’s six home runs on May 11 in Reading were its most since games (0-for-10). Gonzalez is hitless in his last 10 at bats, but in two of hitting seven on July 2, 2008, in a 10-6 win at Erie. Akron allowed six the games, he has been a late substitution after Zimmer’s exit. The home runs to Binghamton on July 20, marking its most allowed since May Carolina League All-Star left Lynchburg with a league-best .319 average, 29, 2009, when Erie hit six in an 11-8 win over the Aeros. The last season 123 hits and 175 total bases. He had eight home runs, 61 RBI (fourth), 33 Akron led the Eastern League in home runs was 2005, when the Aeros hit extra-base hits (sixth), .455 SLG (fifth) and .797 OPS (second). 151, led by Jonathan Van Every’s 27 (tied for second in the league). UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS (ALL TIMES EASTERN) – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Sunday, Aug. 25 2:05 p.m. LHP Tanner Tully (7-11, 4.72) vs. Richmond RHP Brandon Lawson (5-8, 3.56) Monday, Aug. 26 6:00 p.m. TBA at Altoona LHP Domingo Robles Tuesday, Aug. 27 6:00 p.m. TBA at Altoona RHP Pedro Vasquez Wednesday, Aug. 28 6:00 p.m. TBA at Altoona LHP Sean Brady Double-A Eastern League Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians RUBBERDUCKS STARTING PITCHER #33 Sam Hentges…LHP, 6-8, 245, Age 23 (7/18/96), Resides: Shoreview, MN Member of Indians 40-man roster Acquired: Selected by the Indians out of Mounds View (MN) High School in the 4th round of the June 2014 MLB Draft Twitter: @samhentges Instagram: @samhentges Throws: Fastball, Cutter, Curveball, Changeup LAST START (Monday, August 19, vs. Harrisburg, L in 7-4 loss): Hentges allowed a second-inning run on two hits, but Akron tied the game in the bottom of the inning. In the fifth, following a one-out walk, he fielded a ground ball off the pitcher’s mound, but neither middle infielder was at second base in time for an out. A go-ahead RBI single, stolen base, intentional walk, two-run single and walk ended his outing. David Speer allowed a two-run double that capped the five-run inning and the difference in a 7-4 Harrisburg win. Season Highlights • In May, had the eighth-best ERA (2.38), eighth-most innings (34) and tied for the fifth-most strikeouts (35) in the Eastern League. • Entered the season ranked as the No. 6 prospect in the Indians system by Baseball America and No. 10 by MLB.com (both as top left-handed pitcher).