GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Contact: Chris Harris - [email protected] Mississippi Braves (34-26, 63-67) vs. Biloxi Shuckers (35-28, 76-57) LHP Ricardo Sánchez (2-4, 4.44) vs. RHP Trey Supak (4-6, 3.38) Game #131 • Home #68 (36-31) • 2nd Half #61 August 27, 2018 •7:00 pm (CT) • Pearl, MS • Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves continue their final homestand of 2018 on Saturday night with game four of a five-game series against the in-state rival Biloxi Shuckers. The M-Braves are 11- Record Breakdown 11 against the Shuckers this season, 6-1 at Trustmark Park. Mississippi won three of four against Biloxi, July 4-7. The M-Braves are 44-43 all-time against the Shuckers, 21-17 at Trustmark Park. Score First ............................................. 47-14 Opponents Score First ...........................15-54 • Winners of four-straight games, the M-Braves are 31-20 since July 1 and are alone in first place Shutouts ............................................... 12-11 Score in 1 inning ....................................11-24 in the Southern League South Division for the first time since starting the half 1-0 on June 21. Score in 2 innings ................................. 17-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................19-13 • Mississippi is coming off of a 2-2 series split at Mobile. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 9-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................7-1 LAST TIME OUT: RHP Ian Anderson, LHP Thomas Burrows and RHP Jason Hursh combined for a Leading after 6 innings ........................... 48-8 Leading after 7 innings ............................45-6 three-hit shutout on Sunday at Trustmark Park, helping the M-Braves clinch the series in the 2-0 Tied after 6 innings ................................ 10-7 Tied after 7 innings ...................................9-9 win. Anderson logged his first Double-A win in a quality start, logging 6.2 innings on three hits, Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 5-51 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-46 one walk and nine strikeouts. Burrows earned his first hold and Hursh saved his fifth-straight game and seventh overall. 1B Tyler Marlette and C Jonathan Morales collected RBI singles in the win. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 46-3 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................7-37 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ............................................13-8 VS. BILOXI AT TRUSTMARK PARK: The M-Braves have outscored Biloxi 21-11 over seven games Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-50 Score 4 or More Runs ............................38-16 played at Trustmark Park this season, including three shutouts, an average of 3.0 to 1.6 runs per game. First Game of Series ............................. 13-14 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 13-11/3-6 15 GAMES IN 13 DAYS TO CLOSE SEASON: The M-Braves are in the midst of playing 13 games First Game of Homestand ........................ 6-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................6-5 in 12 days (5-2) to close out the season, including three doubleheaders. Two doubleheaders are First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-7 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-6 scheduled for the final series of the year in Jacksonville on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1. Following an Off Day ................................ 3-6 1-Run Games .........................................13-20 WINNING WAYS: The M-Braves are 31-20 since July 1 after a 17-12 July and 14-8 start to August. Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 5-5 2-Run Games ...........................................13-8 Those 31 wins are tied for second-most in the Southern League over that period of time. Mont- I Errorless Games ................................... 28-19 3-Run Games ...........................................13-8 gomery has 32 wins and Biloxi has 31 wins. With a Homer....................................... 33-21 Allow a Homer ......................................18-33 With No Homers .................................. 29-47 Allow No Homers ..................................39-38 HOME WINS: The M-Braves are 8-1 at home in August and 18-8 at home since July 4. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................51-54 WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND: The M-Braves are 27-12 on the weekend this season, including Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 54-59 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................12-13 finishing the season at 11-0 on Saturday’s at home. Overall, the M-Braves are 17-5 on Saturday’s Following a Win ................................... 28-34 Starter Goes <5 Innings .........................10-26 Following a Loss ................................... 35-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................53-41 and 10-7 on Sunday’s. Mississippi is 36-55 during the week in 2018. In Decision By Starters ......................... 38-44 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................25-22 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.01 ERA (123 ER/367.2 IP) with 369 strikeouts and just 127 walks over the past 67 games (36-31 record) with 33 quality starts dating back to June 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in six of those outings with a 9.02/9IP ratio. Daily & Monthly Breakdown Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total VIVA LA VALENZUELA: INF Luis Valenzuela has recorded multi-hit games in five of his last eight Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 games and leads the club with 27 this season. He currently ranks 5th in the league with a .284 bat- Tuesday 4-5 3-3 7-8 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 ting average. In 11 games since Aug. 6, Valenzuela is batting .390 (16-for-41) and has four doubles, Wednesday 4-4 3-7 7-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 a triple, 10 RBI and eight runs scored. Thursday 5-6 5-6 10-12 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 Friday 4-7 2-6 6-13 August 8-1 6-7 14-8 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: LF Travis Demeritte has four doubles, four home runs, 12 RBI, 10 Saturday 11-0 6-5 17-5 September - - - walks and 15 runs scored over his last 16 games, batting .353 (18-for-51) and a .468 OBP. Sunday 5-3 5-4 10-6 Postseason - - - • His multi-homer game on August 9 was the ninth of his career and first this season. Demer- itte had two multi-homer games for Mississippi in 2017, on August 2 at Mobile, and June 3 at Total 36-31 27-36 63-67 36-31 27-36 63-67 Jackson, TN. Demeritte had five two-homer games in 2016 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organization. • Demeritte is just the fourth M-Braves player since 2005 to record 16 homers in a single season M-Braves vs Shuckers (Matt Esquivel, 2007 - 19, Mauro Gomez, 2010 - 16, Ernesto Mejia, 2011 - 26) • He leads the club in runs (64), extra-base hits (40), home runs (16), RBI (58), total bases (163), 2015 2016 2017 2018 Alltime games (118) and walks (55). at Trustmark Park 4-6 5-5 8-5 6-1 23-17 at Biloxi 7-6 3-6 6-4 5-10 21-26 THE SECOND-YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Total 11-12 8-11 14-9 11-11 44-43 Pache, the Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipe- line has hit in 16 of his first 21 Mississippi starts (9 multi-hit). He is batting .306 (26-for-85) with three doubles, a triple, home run, six RBI and nine runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until Novem- M-BRAVES VS. SHUCKERS: The Magnolia State rivalry enters its fourth season in 2018 with the ber 19 and is second to only Mobile’s Jo Adell as the youngest in the league. M-Braves holding a 44-43 all-time series advantage. The in-state rivals are scheduled to play 24 games this season during the regular season with 15 games being played at MGM Park and nine 11 MLB DEBUTS BY M-BRAVES ALUMNI IN 2018: RHP Bryse Wilson pitched 5.0 innings of games at Trustmark Park. The first meeting took place on May 6, 2015 with Biloxi serving as the shutout baseball on Monday night at Pittsburgh, earning the win. He became the 140th M-Braves home team at Trustmark Park. The Shuckers won the first ever meeting 8-7, but the M-Braves alum and 11th this season to move on and make their MLB debut. Wilson joins RHP Touki Tous- won the “road” series 3-2. saint (August 13) RHP Chad Sobotka (August 11), RHP Wes Parsons (August 9), LHP Adam McCre- ery (August 9), LHP Kolby Allard (July 31) C Willians Astudillo (June 30, Twins) OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 139 players, have gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. OF Michael Reed had previously made his MLB debut for Milwaukee, but made his debut with Atlanta after opening the 2018 season in Mississippi on July 23. M-Braves vs Shuckers Day-by-Day Date Result Record W-L-S Att ROSTER FEATURES SEVEN TOP 30 PROSPECTS: The Mississippi Braves now feature seven of the Atlanta Braves Top 30 prospects and two Top 100 MLB Prospects according to MLB Pipeline’s 4/11 L, 2-0 0-1 Ortiz-Wright-Griep 3,052 July 26 update. RHP Ian Anderson (#3 and #39 in all of MLB), OF Cristian Pache (#5 and #58 in all of 4/12 L, 6-5 0-2 Ramirez-Graham-Griep 2,436 MLB), LHP Kyle Muller (#11), LHP Thomas Burrows (#20), OF Travis Demeritte (#23), LHP Ricardo 4/13 L, 5-4 0-3 Olczak-McCreery-Griep 2,005 Sanchez (#27) and RHP Josh Graham (#29) are among Atlanta’s Top 30 prospects.