COLORADO SPRINGS SKY SOX 2016 GAME NOTES TUESDAY JUNE 7, 2016 - 10:00 AM (MDT) Colorado Springs Sky Sox Public Relations Department • Director: Nick Dobreff • (616) 485-3913 • [email protected] Director of Broadcasting • Dan Karcher • [email protected] www.SkySox.com Facebook.com/SkySoxBaseball @SkySox SkySoxBaseball TODAY’S STARTING PITCHERS RECORD: 26-27 Colorado Springs: LHP Brent Suter (1-2, 4 .28) VS. New Orleans: RHP Jose Urena (1-1, 6 .30) SKY SOX SEASON AT A GLANCE Game Number . 54 Home Record . 13-11 Road Game Number . 30 Road Record . 13-16 Overall Record . 26-27 vs . RHP: . 17-21 vs . Pacific Northern . 3-4 vs . LHP . 9-6 vs . Pacific Southern . 3-3 Night . 16-19 vs . American Northern . 8-7 Day . 10-8 vs . American Southern . 12-13 Last 10 . 7-3 One-Run Games . .. 9-11 Current Streak . W1 RECORD: 25-31 LAST TIME OUT THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GLOVE SKY SOX AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS u The Sky Sox scored two runs in the ninth inning, picking u Shortstop Orlando Arcia entered the 2016 season as the top AVERAGE Pina T-4th .345 up a 2-1 comeback victory over New Orleans. prospect in the Brewers organization according to Baseball America WALKS Reed T-1st 34 u Trailing 1-0 in the 9th, C Manny Pina delivered the tying and is rated the No. 6 overall minor league prospect on MLB.com. SAVES Magnifico T-3rd 9 run with an RBI double, scoring Garin Cecchini. Pina would score u Arcia was the Brewers Minor League Player of the Year GMS FINISHED Magnifico 2nd 18 the winning run on a two-out double by OF Michael Reed. in 2015 after hitting .307 with eight home runs, 37 doubles, seven u The two runs snapped a 26.2 inning scoreless streak for the triples, 74 runs, 69 RBI and 25 SB in 129 gms with Double-A Biloxi. Sky Sox, the third-longest in team history (27 innings: April 25-29, u Participated in the 2015 All-Star Futures Game in Cincinnati. TEAM RUNS SCORED: 9th 270 2006; 29 innings: July 18-20, 2014). u Was named a Rawlings Minor League Gold Glove Award TEAM BATTING AVERAGE: 4th .276 u OF Michael Reed finished with two of the team’s four hits Winner following the 2015 season. TEAM ERA: 14th 4.86 in the game going 2-for-3. u Through his first 51 games of the season, Arcia is hitting u RHP Corey Knebel started for the second-straight night .305 (64-for-210) with four home runs, 33 runs and 25 RBI. He has as he continued his Major League rehab assignment with the Sky reached base safely in 43-of-51 games and has 19 multi-hit games. Sox. In two starsts, Knebel struck out three over 2.2 scoreless and u With the call-up of Rangers prospect Nomar Mazara, Arcia hitless innings. is now the youngest position player in the PCL 21 years, 304 days). TODAY’S STARTER PINA ON A HOT STREAK PCL AMERICAN NORTH STANDINGS u LHP Brent Suter will make his 12th appearance and seventh u C Manny Pina has been on a tear of late hitting .374 TEAM W L PCT GB start of the season tonight against the New Orleans Zephyrs. (47-for-127) with four home runs, two triples, 14 doubles, 20 runs IOWA 28 27 .509 - u In his last outing, a start against the Omaha Storm Chasers scored and 28 RBI over his last 34 games. During that span he’s OKLAHOMA CITY 28 27 .509 - on June 1, Suter picked up his first win of the season allowing six collected 14 multi-hit games including six three-hit games. SKY SOX 26 27 .491 1.0 hits and inducing four double plays over 6.0 shutout innings. u His 13-game hitting streak ended against Omaha on June 3. OMAHA 27 29 .482 1.5 u In his first career appearance against New Orleans on May During the streak he hit .382 (21-for-55) with 11 runs and 11 RBI. 12th, Suter allowed a hit and struck out two over 2.0 scoreless relief u Pena is tied for 4th in the PCL with a .345 batting average. 2016 VS. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE innings. u He ranks 3rd in the PCL in cutting down opposing base TEAM OVERALL HOME ROAD runners having thrown out 39.5% (17-of-43) so far this season. ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES 0-0 0-0 0-0 THE NEED FOR SPEED u He was named Brewers Minor League Player of the Month EL PASO CHIHUAHUAS 0-0 0-0 0-0 u The Sky Sox lead the PCL with 82 steals so far this season, and Sky Sox Co-Player of the Month for the month of May. FRESNO GRIZZLIES 2-1 0-0 2-1 IOWA CUBS 1-2 0-0 1-2 led by Keon Broxton’s 15. The second place team, the Iowa Cubs, LAS VEGAS 51s 1-3 1-3 0-0 have 75 steals this year. The last time the Sky Sox led the PCL in PROSPECTING MEMPHIS REDBIRDS 3-3 1-1 2-2 steals for a season was in 2009 when they stole 169 bases. u Seven of the Brewers’ Top-30 prospects according to Base- NASHVILLE SOUNDS 4-4 2-2 2-2 ball America are currently on the Sky Sox roster. Those players are NEW ORLEANS ZEPHYRS 4-3 0-0 4-3 OKC DODGERS 2-2 2-2 0-0 COMEBACK KIDS SS Orlando Arcia (1), RHP Jorge Lopez (2), OF Michael Reed OMAHA STORM CHASERS 5-3 4-0 1-3 u The Sky Sox lead the PCL with nine wins when trailing (17), INF Yadiel Rivera (21), RHP Ariel Pena (27), OF Kyle RENO ACES 0-0 0-0 0-0 after six innings so far this season. They also lead the league in Wren (28) and RHP Damien Magnifico (30). Arcia (1), Lopez ROUND ROCK EXPRESS 1-3 1-3 0-0 wins when trailing after seven innings with seven. On the season, (3) and Reed (18) are also ranked among the organization’s Top-20 SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS 1-3 0-0 1-3 they also have 12 wins when the opponent scores first. SALT LAKE BEES 2-0 2-0 0-0 prospects according to MLB.com’s list. TACOMA RAINIERS 0-0 0-0 0-0 2016 Season vs. NEW ORLEANS (4-3) • ALL-TIME (86-68) • ROAD (47-35) RECENT TRANSACTIONS JUNE 5 DATE W/L SCORE WP LP SV RHP Corey Knebel transferred from Class-A Brevard County 5/10 @ NEW L 0-1 Axelrod (1-1) Burgos (1-3) Rienzo (4) on Major League rehab 5/11 @ NEW W 9-5 Dillard (2-0) Adkins (0-1) 5/12 @ NEW W 4-2 (12) Chapman (2-0) Tomshaw (0-1) Magnifico (8) 5/13 @ NEW W 10-3 Jungmann (1-2) Cosart (1-2) JUNE 4 5/14 @ NEW L 0-3 Clemens (5-4) Jungmann (1-3) OF Keon Broxton optioned from Milwaukee 5/15 @ NEW L 0-3 Axelrod (3-2) Lopez (1-4) Ege (2) OF Kyle Wren transferred from Double-A Biloxi 5/16 @ NEW W 2-1 Magnifico (1-4) Breslow (0-2) Freeman (1) OF Shane Peterson placed on the disabled list UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND PITCHING PROBABLES DAY DATE OPP. TIME (MDT) SKY SOX STARTER OPPOSING STARTER Thursday 6/9 @MEM 6:05 PM RHP Tyler Cravy (1-1, 3 .92) RHP Mike Mayers (1-1, 2 .45) Friday 6/10 @MEM 6:05 PM RHP Taylor Jungmann (1-3, 9 .67) RHP Arturo Reyes (5-3, 4 .10) Saturday 6/11 @MEM 5:35 PM RHP Jorge Lopez (1-4, 6 .04) RHP Jerome Williams (0-1, 5 .40) Sunday 6/12 @MEM 5:05 PM RHP Hiram Burgos (2-4, 4 .28) RHP Deck McGuire (4-6, 4 .22) TRIPLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS // PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: 1992 & 1995 SKY SOX STARTING PITCHER Complete bio information available on Page 58 of the 2016 Sky Sox Brent Suter #14 Media Guide (SOOT-er) @bruter24 BATS: LEFT THROWS: LEFT HEIGHT: 6-4 WEIGHT: 214 OPENING DAY AGE: 26 BORN: August 29, 1989 in Chicago, Illinois RESIDENCE: Cincinnati, Ohio YEARS PRO: 4 ACQUIRED: Selected by Milwaukee in the 31st round, June 2012 First-Year Player Draft THE SUTER FILE: 2015: Went 5-3 with a 1.95 ERA (18 ER/83.0 IP) in 20 appearances including 11 starts with Double-A Biloxi...Named Southern League Pitcher of the Week for the period of June 15-21 tossing 13 shutout innings while striking out 12...Promoted to Colorado Springs on August 4...Went 3-1 with a 3.31 ERA (13 ER/35.1 IP) in six starts with the Sky Sox. 2014: Went 10-10 with a 3.96 ERA (67 ER/152.1 IP) and 118 strikeouts in 28 games (27 starts) with Double-A Huntsville...Was a Southern League midseason All-Star...ranked among the SL leaders in strikeouts (T-4th) and starts (5th). 2013: Went a combined 7-10 with a 3.43 ERA (53 ER/139.0 IP) in 24 games (23 starts) between Class-A Wisconsin and Class-A Brevard County...was named Florida State League Pitcher of the Week for 6/24-6/30...ranked among the FSL leaders in ERA (10th). 2012: Went a combined 4-2 with a 3.61 ERA (21 ER/52.1 IP) and two saves in 14 games (2 starts) between Rookie Helena and Class-A Wisconsin...earned the save in Wisconsin’s 4-2 win at Fort Wayne to clinch the Midwest League Championship on 9/16.