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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 (8-20, 42-55) vs.Binghamton Rumble Ponies (13-16, 48-45) Cleveland Indians Double-A New York Mets Double-A RHP Jake Paulson (6-7, 4.11) RHP Tony Dibrell (FSL: 8-4, 2.39) akronrubberducks.com @AkronRubberDucks Friday, July 19, 2019 • Canal Park • 7:05 p.m. EDT @AkronRubberDuck Game 98, Home Game 48, Second Half Game 29, Night Game 71 WARF Fox Sports 1350 AM ● iHeartRadio (Fox Sports 1350) ● TuneIn (Akron RubberDucks) ● MiLB.TV @akronrubberducks Broadcast Powered By FirstEnergy ● Broadcaster: Marco LaNave Thursday Recap: Rumble Ponies trample RubberDucks (Binghamton Ducks visit Rumble Ponies: The RubberDucks and Rumble Ponies are 7, Akron 2): The Binghamton Rumble Ponies took the lead with a three- playing the fourth of five scheduled series this season, with 10 games at run second inning and added two in the fourth on the way to a 7-2 win Canal Park and seven at NYSEG Stadium. Binghamton leads the season over the RubberDucks in front of 5,651 at Canal Park on Thursday night. series, 8-3, including 3-1 in Akron. Last season, Akron went 10-3 against Binghamton, including 4-2 at NYSEG Stadium. In 2018, Binghamton Clement’s strong return: Since returning from the Injured List on May 9, finished fifth in the Eastern Division, at 64-76. Since 2005, Akron leads the shortstop Ernie Clement has played 59 games, collecting 72 hits (second series, 118-90, winning eight, losing five, and tying one season series. in the Eastern League) and going 72-for-238 (.303, third in the EL) to move to seventh in league with a .285 average with 20 multi-hit games, Jones arrives in Double-A: Third baseman Nolan Jones, ranked by eight doubles, three triples, a home run, 30 runs, 14 RBI, 14 walks, a .350 Baseball America and MLB.com as the Indians No. 2 prospect, made his OBP and separate 13- and 14-game hitting streaks. He was on the Injured Double-A debut on July 11. A second-round pick in 2016 from Holy Ghost List with a right adductor strain April 16-May 8. In six games prior to going Preparatory School (Bensalem, PA), he became the highest-ranked on the IL, the Indians No. 15 (MLB.com)/No. 18 (Baseball America) Indians prospect to appear for Akron this season. A 2019 Carolina League prospect was 3-for-25 (.120). Mid-Season All-Star with Class-A Advanced Lynchburg, Jones led the league in walks (65), on-base percentage (.435) and OPS (.860) at the Warming up the infield bats: Shortstop Ernie Clement had a 17-game time of his promotion to Akron. He also led Lynchburg with 48 runs. He on-base streak snapped Thursday, three shy of his season high. Third played 77 games and hit .286 with seven home runs, 41 RBI, and a .456 baseman Nolan Jones came within a double of the cycle while hitting his slugging percentage. He also represented the Indians in the SiriusXM All- first Double-A home run Monday, homered again Tuesday and finished 6- Star Futures Game at Progressive Field on July 7, starting at third base for-13 with a triple, two home runs, four RBI and three runs in three games and grounding out to the pitcher in his only at bat. in Erie. Second baseman Andruw Monasterio went 0-for-4 Thursday after he was 5-for-12 on the three-game road trip, and has seven hits in Ducks flying out of the park: The RubberDucks have hit an Eastern eight games since the All-Star break. First baseman Nellie Rodriguez is League-leading 82 home runs while allowing only 63 home runs (fourth 4-for-12 in his last three games and has hit safely in four of his last five fewest among EL clubs) for a league-best +19 home run differential. In 47 games. His 10 home runs lead the RubberDucks’ active roster. home games, Akron has hit 30 home runs, allowing 27 (+3 differential). Of the RubberDucks’ 82 home runs this season, 52 (63 percent) have come Otero makes rehab appearance: Cleveland Indians right-hander Dan in 19 multi-homer games, including 13 in four straight games May 9-13. Otero made his first rehab appearance with Akron for a scoreless seventh Akron’s six home runs on May 11 in Reading were the most for the club inning Thursday. He was placed on the Injured List June 2 with right since hitting seven on July 2, 2008, in a 10-6 win at Erie. shoulder inflammation and made one appearance for Mahoning Valley. RubberDucks All-Stars: The RubberDucks had five players selected as Salazar makes rehab start: Cleveland Indians right-hander Danny Western Division All-Stars, and four played in the Eastern League All-Star Salazar (currently on the 60-day Injured List) made his second Double-A Game, won by the Western Division, 5-0, on July 10 in Richmond. rehab start with the RubberDucks in Erie on Tuesday, allowing an earned Connor Marabell played the entire game as the designated hitter, going run on three hits with two walks and four strikeouts in three innings. In his 0-for-4 with a strikeout. Ka’ai Tom went 1-for-2 with a strikeout and was first Double-A start July 11, he took a loss (2.2 IP, 2 K) and allowed an promoted afterward to Triple-A Columbus. Right-hander Eli Morgan earned run on two hits and a walk in the third inning. Salazar made two allowed one of the two Eastern Division hits but was the only Western rehab starts June 30 and July 5 for the rookie Arizona League Indians (0- Division pitcher to strike out two batters in his scoreless fifth inning. Left- 1, 6.23 ERA, 4.1 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 11 K), his first regular season action hander Kyle Nelson struck out Binghamton’s Braxton Lee to end the since he was placed on the Injured List for the entire 2018 regular season seventh inning. Wilson Garcia did not participate (right foot sprain). with right shoulder rotator cuff tendonitis. He has not pitched in the major leagues since the 2017 American League Division Series. After 13 starts Call named Player of the Week: RubberDucks center fielder Alex Call for Akron between 2012 and 2013 (6-3, 2.26 ERA, 67.2 IP, 74 K), Salazar was named the Eastern League Player of the Week for June 24-30, after has pitched 2013-2017 in the major leagues with the Indians. he led the league with 22 total bases and was tied for the lead with three home runs (including consecutive games Saturday, when he hit Akron’s League leaders: Akron leads the league in games (97), at-bats (3,241), first grand slam of the season, and Sunday), five extra-base hits, and hits (785), home runs (82) and total bases (1,226), and are tied with Bowie eight RBI. He hit safely in six of seven games on the road trip, going 10- for the lead in runs (401). The RubberDucks average 4.13 runs per game for-32 with a double, a triple, and four runs. He is the second RubberDuck this season, but since June 5, they have scored 141 total runs in the last to be named Player of the Week (Ka’ai Tom was May 20-26). 41 games (3.43/game, 13-28 W-L), scoring 5 or more in 11 games (8-3). UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS (ALL TIMES EASTERN) – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Saturday, July 20 7:05 p.m. RHP Chih-Wei Hu (0-0, 3.38) vs. Binghamton RHP Kevin Smith (FSL: 5-5, 3.05) Sunday, July 21 2:05 p.m. LHP Tanner Tully (6-7, 4.54) vs. Binghamton RHP Harol Gonzalez (4-4, 3.52) Monday, July 22 7:00 p.m. TBA at Trenton TBA Tuesday, July 23 7:00 p.m. TBA at Trenton TBA Double-A Eastern League Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians RUBBERDUCKS STARTING PITCHER #40 Jake Paulson…RHP, 6-7, 225, Age 27 (2/17/92), Resides: Wixom, MI Acquired: Signed as a minor league free agent by the Cleveland Indians on March 21, 2018. Twitter: @JakePaulson Instagram: @JakePaulson17 Throws: Fastball, Slider, Changeup LAST OUTING (Sunday, July 14 at Bowie, L in 4-2 loss): Paulson allowed a second-inning run after a leadoff double and two more in the fourth on a sacrifice fly, Paulson’s throwing error and an RBI single. Paulson pitched scoreless frames in the fifth and sixth, but gave up one in the seventh before being replaced by Jared Robinson, who combined with Robert Broom to finish the game without further runs in a 4-2 loss. 2018 • Began the season with Lynchburg (A-Adv), making four starts in April, before his first promotion to Double-A on May 3, joining the RubberDucks. • Pitched the rest of the season with Akron and led the EL in ERA (3.04) and was 2nd in WHIP (1.18). • Named Eastern League Mid-Season All-Star, the first All-Star selection of his pro career. • Finished the year tied for the team lead in wins (8) and was second on the team in innings pitched (115.1) and strikeouts (91). • Started Game 2 of the Eastern League Western Division Series against Altoona (ND, 7.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 HR, 2 BB, 4 K), which the RubberDucks won on a 10th-inning walk-off home run by Nellie Rodriguez at Canal Park.