GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (31-26, 60-67) Vs
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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (31-26, 60-67) vs. Biloxi Shuckers (35-25, 76-54) LHP Michael Mader (4-3, 4.12) vs. RHP Thomas Jankins (10-8, 4.42) Game #128 • Home #65 (33-31) • 2nd Half #58 August 24, 2018 •7:00 pm (CT) • Pearl, MS • Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves open their final homestand of 2018 on Friday night with game one of a five-game series against the in-state rival Biloxi Shuckers. The M-Braves are 8-11 against the Record Breakdown Shuckers this season, 3-1 at Trustmark Park. Mississippi won three of four against Biloxi, July 4-7. The M-Braves are 41-43 all-time against the Shuckers, 20-17 at Trustmark Park. Score First ............................................. 45-14 Opponents Score First ...........................14-54 • The M-Braves are 28-20 since July 1 and are in 3rd place in the SL South, 2.5 games behind 1st Shutouts ................................................. 9-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................9-24 place Biloxi and 1.0 game behind 2nd place Pensacola with 11 games left in the 2018 season. Score in 2 innings ................................. 16-17 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: The M-Braves and Mobile BayBears split two games at Hank Aaron Stadium on Leading after 6 innings ........................... 45-8 Leading after 7 innings ............................42-6 Thursday night with Mobile taking game one, 3-2 and the M-Braves taking the nightcap, 7-4. RHP Tied after 6 innings ................................ 10-7 Tied after 7 innings ...................................9-9 Enderson Franco logged his second complete game in game one, tossing 6.0 innings of three-run Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 5-51 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-46 baseball, on five hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Six M-Braves pitchers saw duty in game two with LHP Daniel Lietz making his first start since 2015. Lietz allowed one run in the first 3.0 Leading after 8 innings ........................... 43-3 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................6-37 innings and LHP Rex Brothers got the win, issuing a scoreless 4th. RF Tyler Neslony, 1B Tyler Mar- Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ............................................11-8 lette and DH Luis Valenezuela recorded two hits apiece in the win. RHP Jason Hursh pitched the Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-50 Score 4 or More Runs ............................38-16 final 2.0 innings to secure his fifth-straight save. First Game of Series ............................. 12-14 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 13-11/3-6 13 GAMES IN 12 DAYS TO CLOSE SEASON: The M-Braves are in the midst of playing 13 games First Game of Homestand ........................ 5-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................6-5 in 12 days to close out the season, including three doubleheaders. Two doubleheaders are sched- First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-7 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-6 uled 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 FIRST NINE INNING GAME IN EIGHT DAYS: Today’s game will mark the first nine-inning game Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 5-5 2-Run Games ...........................................12-7 since last Thursday, Aug. 16 vs. Chattanooga. The M-Braves have played six-straight seven-inning I Errorless Games ................................... 26-19 3-Run Games ...........................................12-8 games going 4-2. With a Homer....................................... 33-21 Allow a Homer ......................................18-33 With No Homers .................................. 27-46 Allow No Homers ..................................36-38 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.16 ERA (122 ER/348.0 IP) with 350 strikeouts and just 119 walks over the past 64 games (33-31 record) with 30 quality starts dating back to Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................48-54 June 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in six of those outings with a 9.05/9IP ratio. Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 51-59 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................12-13 Following a Win ................................... 25-34 Starter Goes <5 Innings .........................10-26 WINNING WAYS: Mississippi’s 28 wins since July 1 is third-most in the Southern League over that Following a Loss ................................... 35-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................50-41 period of time. Biloxi (31) and Montgomery (30) lead the league. In Decision By Starters ......................... 35-44 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................25-22 VIVA LA VALENZUELA: INF Luis Valenzuela has recorded multi-hit games in five of his last six games and leads the club with 27 this season. He currently ranks T-4th in the league with a .287 Daily & Monthly Breakdown batting average. In 10 games since Aug. 6, Valenzuela ranks T-2nd in the league with a .421 batting average (16-for-38) and has four doubles, a triple, 10 RBI and eight runs scored. Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: LF Travis Demeritte has two doubles, four home runs, nine RBI, Tuesday 4-5 3-3 7-8 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 nine walks and 13 runs scored over his last 12 games, batting .341 (14-for-41) and a .471 OBP. Wednesday 4-4 3-7 7-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 • His multi-homer game on August 9 was the ninth of his career and first this season. Demeritte had two Thursday 5-6 5-6 10-12 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 multi-homer games for Mississippi in 2017, on August 2 at Mobile, and June 3 at Jackson, TN. Demer- Friday 3-7 2-6 5-13 August 5-1 6-7 11-8 itte had five two-homer games in 2016 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organization. Saturday 10-0 6-5 16-5 September - - - • Demeritte is just the fourth M-Braves player since 2005 to record 16 homers in a single season Sunday 4-3 5-4 9-6 Postseason - - - (Matt Esquivel, 2007 - 19, Mauro Gomez, 2010 - 16, Ernesto Mejia, 2011 - 26) Total 33-31 27-36 60-67 33-31 27-36 60-67 • He leads the club in runs (64), extra-base hits (40), home runs (16), RBI (58), total bases (163), games (118) and walks (55). M-Braves vs Shuckers THE SECOND-YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Pache, the Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipe- 2015 2016 2017 2018 Alltime line has hit in 14 of his first 18 Mississippi starts (8 multi-hit). He is batting .311 (23-for-74) with at Trustmark Park 4-6 5-5 8-5 3-1 20-17 three doubles, a triple, home run, six RBI and eight runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until No- at Biloxi 7-6 3-6 6-4 5-10 21-26 vember 19 and is second to only Mobile’s Jo Adell as the youngest in the league. Total 11-12 8-11 14-9 8-11 41-43 REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 32 of 36 games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .290 (31-for-107) with a .379 M-BRAVES VS. SHUCKERS: The Magnolia State rivalry enters its fourth season in 2018 with the on-base percentage. Didder reached base safely in his first 15 games with Mississippi. Shuckers holding a 43-41 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 10 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 Sanchez (#27) and RHP Josh Graham (#29) are among Atlanta’s Top 30 prospects.