GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208
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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (2-1) vs. Tennessee Smokies (1-2) LHP Max Fried (0-0, --) vs. RHP Oscar De La Cruz (0-0, --) Game #4 • April 8, 2018 • 1:00 pm • Pearl, MS •Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The Mississippi Braves continue their opening 5-game home- stand against the Tennessee Smokies, AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs at Record Breakdown Trustmark Park. The M-Braves will look for their first series win of the 2018 Score First ................................................. 1-0 Opponents Score First ...............................0-0 Shutouts ................................................... 1-0 Score in 1 inning ........................................1-0 season with LHP Max Fried on the mound. Score in 2 innings ..................................... 0-1 Score in 3 innings ......................................1-0 Score in 4 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 LAST TIME OUT: On a cold and damp Saturday night at Trustmark Park, the Braves, and Smokies split two games with Tennessee taking Friday’s sus- Leading after 6 innings ............................. 2-0 Leading after 7 innings ..............................1-0 Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-0 Tied after 7 innings ...................................0-0 pended game 7-2 and the M-Braves coming from behind to win the night- Trailing after 6 innings ............................. 0-1 Trailing after 7 innings ...............................0-1 cap, 7-5. Tyler Neslony ended the night 3-for-7 in two games with a double and three RBI and is batting .455 through three games. M-Braves pitching Leading after 8 innings ............................. 1-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-1 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................1-0 recorded 26 strikeouts over the two games. Trailing after 8 innings ............................. 0-1 Score 4 or More Runs ................................1-0 FIRST ROUND PICKS: Today’s starter, RHP Max Fried is one of five first round First Game of Series ................................. 1-0 Last Game of Series ...................................0-0 First Game of Homestand ........................ 1-0 Last Game of Homestand ..........................0-0 selections on the M-Braves roster. Fried was selected by the San Diego Pa- ........................... 0-0 .............................0-0 dres in the first round (seventh overall) in 2012 First-Year. He was acquired First Game of Road Trip Last Game of Road Trip by the Atlanta Braves along with INF Jace Peterson, OF Dustin Peterson and Following an Off Day ................................ 0-0 1-Run Games .............................................0-0 OF Mallex Smith from the San Diego Padres in exchange for OF Justin Upton Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................1-0 In Errorless Games ................................... 1-0 3-Run Games .............................................1-0 and RHP Aaron Northcraft on December 19, 2014. With a Homer........................................... 1-0 Allow a Homer ..........................................0-0 With No Homers ...................................... 1-1 Allow No Homers ......................................2-1 HURSH NEARING M-BRAVES STRIKEOUT RECORD: Reliever Jason Hursh needs two strikeouts (currently at 200) to become M-Braves all-time leader Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 0-0 Vs. Righty Starters .....................................2-1 Night (5 pm or later) ................................ 2-1 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................0-0 in strikeouts (Scott Diamond, 201). Hursh has five over his first two outings, Following a Win ....................................... 0-1 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................2-1 covering 3.0 innings. Following a Loss ....................................... 1-0 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................0-0 In Decision By Starters ............................. 0-0 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................2-1 RED-HOT NESLONY: The former Texas Tech Red Raider Tyler Neslony is 5-for- 11 through his first 3 games on the season, batting .455 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI. Daily & Monthly Breakdown Day Home Road Month Home Road Monday 0-0 0-0 April 2-1 - HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as Tuesday 0-0 0-0 May - - the M-Braves manager and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. Wednesday 0-0 0-0 June - - • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mis- Thursday 1-0 0-0 July - - Friday 0-1 0-0 August - - sissippi State University in 1983. Saturday 1-0 0-0 September - - • Maloney spent the previous six years on the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Sunday 0-0 0-0 Postseason - - coaching staff as the team’s third base coach (2016-July 2017) and first base Total 2-1 0-0 Total 2-1 0-0 coach (2012-15). • Prior to joining the Cardinals, Maloney was the Memphis Redbirds (AAA) manager for five seasons (2007-11), leading the team to winning records in M-Braves vs Smokies four of his five seasons. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 • Maloney ranks ninth among active minor league managers in wins with at Trustmark Park 2-1 2-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-8 4-2 1,350 entering the 2018 season. at Tennessee 3-1 3-2 1-3 3-2 4-1 2-3 2-3 Total 5-2 5-5 3-6 7-3 7-3 4-11 6-5 PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked by MLB Pipeline 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 at Trustmark Park 2-3 4-1 4-1 2-3 3-2 2-3 2-1 as No. 2 in Major League Baseball. The M-Braves roster features three of at Tennessee 1-4 3-2 4-6 1-4 7-3 3-2 0-0 the Top 100 in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 30), LHP Max Fried (No. 83) and INF Total 3-7 7-3 8-7 3-7 10-5 5-5 1-0 Austin Riley (No. 97). The roster has seven of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects Alltime in Wright (No. 2), Fried (No. 7), Riley (No. 8), RHP Touki Toussaint (No. at Trustmark Park 37-33 11), C Alex Jackson (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 21), LHP Ricardo at Tennessee 37-36 Sanchez (No. 27). Total 75-70 VIDEO BOARD: In its second season above the LF wall, at 68 feet wide by 28 feet high (1,904 square feet), the state-of-theart Panasonic HD video M-Braves vs Smokies Day-by-Day board is approximately four-times larger than the previous video display at Date Result Record W-L-S Att Trustmark Park (2005-2016). The board is the largest single display in the Southern League and the largest in Central and South Mississippi. 4/5 W, 3-0 1-0 Mader-Clifton-Graham 3,717 4/6 L, 7-2 1-1 Hedges-Toussaint 1,565 4/7 W, 7-5 2-1 Graham-Pugliese-Hursh 2,048 Southern League Standings NORTH REC GB JXN (ARI) 2-0 -- On the Web BIR (CWS) 1-0 0.5 MTG (TB) 1-0 1.0 CHA (MIN) 0-1 1.5 For all of your M-Braves information TEN (CHC) 0-1 1.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves MIS (ATL) 1-0 -- player and the organization overall. Follow BLX (MIL) 1-1 0.5 the links to listen to the M-Braves live MOB (LAA) 1-1 0.5 audio stream all season long. PNS (CIN) 1-1 0.5 Social Media JAX (MIA) 0-2 1.5 facebook.com/mbraves On the Airways 2018 marks the 10th @mbraves season of M-Braves baseball on the FM dial instagram.com/mbraves with WYAB 103.9 FM. 2013 and 2017 Southern League Broadcaster of the Year Chris Harris enters youtube.com/mississippibraves his first season as the radio voice of the M-Braves. WYAB airs all 140 games plus the postseason! Upcoming Probable Starters & Schedule Date Opponent Probable Starters Time (CT) April 9 Tennessee Smokies LHP Ricardo Sanchez (0-0, --) vs. RHP Michael Rucker (0-0, --) 10:35 AM April 11 at Biloxi Shuckers RHP Kyle Wright (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Luis Ortiz (0-0, 3.60) 6:35 PM April 12 at Biloxi Shuckers RHP Touki Toussaint (0-1, 16.88) vs. RHP Zack Brown (0-0, 3.60) 6:35 PM April 13 at Biloxi Shuckers RHP Wes Parsons (0-0, 5.40) vs. LHP Kodi Medeiros (1-0, 0.00) 6:35 PM Page 1 Today’s Starter Fried’s 2018 Day-by-Day #27 Max Fried• LHP • 6’4” • 190 • Henderson, NV • 24 yrs MISSISSIPPI 0-0, 0.00 ERA Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR vs. Righties: .000, 0 HR vs. Lefties: .000, 0 HR TODAY’S GAME Fried’s 2017 Day-by-Day • Fried makes his first start of the 2018 season in the third game of the season opening home series against the Tennessee Smokies. MISSISSIPPI Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR LAST TIME OUT 4/06 JAX L1, (L, 7-2) 1.2 4 4 2 3 2 0 • Fried made his final start of 2017 on 8/30 against the Norfolk Tides and took a no 4/15 @TNS ND, (L, 2-3) 6.0 2 1 1 2 4 0 decision after tossing 2.0 innings of shutout baseball without allowing a hit. Fried 4/20 MOB L2, (L, 12-1) 3.0 6 6 6 4 2 1 4/25 @MTG W1, (W, 3-2) 7.0 1 0 0 1 6 0 did not walk a batter in his outing. 5/1 TNS L3, (L, 6-3) 4.0 7 6 6 3 6 2 5/6 @ BIR W2, (W, 5-3) 6.1 6 3 3 1 10 1 ACQUIRED 5/11 MOB L4, (L, 6-0) 5.0 7 4 4 1 4 0 • Acquired by the Atlanta Braves along with INF Jace Peterson, OF Dustin Peterson 5/17 @ BLX L5, (L, 1-4) 6.2 7 4 3 2 5 0 and OF Mallex Smith from the San Diego Padres in exchange for OF Justin Upton 5/22 @JAX L6, (L, 2-5) 6.0 6 4 4 3 6 2 and RHP Aaron Northcraft on December 19, 2014.