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 (14-13, 43-54) at Montgomery Biscuits (15-13, 52-46) LHP Ricardo Sanchez (1-3, 5.06) vs. TBA/LHP Genesis Cabrera (6-6, 4.50) Game #98 • Road #49 (20-28) • 2nd Half #28 July 21, 2018 • 6:05 p.m. (CST) • Montgomery, AL • Riverwalk Stadium TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Montgomery Biscuits (TB) continue a five-game series (2-1) at Riverwalk Stadium tonight with the ninth meeting between the clubs this season. Montgomery Record Breakdown swept Mississippi in a five-game series at Trustmark Park, June 3-7. The Biscuits lead the all-time Score First ............................................. 32-12 Opponents Score First ...........................10-43 series 136-98 and at Riverwalk Stadium, 71-46. The M-Braves are coming off a 2-2 series split against Shutouts ................................................. 7-10 Score in 1 inning ......................................5-15 Pensacola in which the final game was cancelled by rain. Prior to the series split, Mississippi won Score in 2 innings ................................. 13-16 Score in 3 innings ..................................15-11 back-to-back series vs. Biloxi and at Birmingham, 3-1. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 6-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-1 LAST TIME OUT: RHP Kyle Wright tossed 7.0 innings of one-run baseball as Mississippi won Leading after 6 innings ........................... 33-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................34-5 their second-straight over Montgomery 4-1 on Friday night at Riverwalk Stadium. Wright gave Tied after 6 innings .................................. 6-5 Tied after 7 innings ...................................5-8 up just one run on two hits and struck out five, walking just one. LF Travis Demeritte was Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 3-42 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-37 2-for-3 with a double and solo home run. 2B Alejandro Salazar and SS Ray-Patrick Didder had two hits in the win. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 32-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-28 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-5 Score 3 Runs ..............................................8-7 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.30 ERA (51 ER/200.0 IP) with 217 strikeouts and Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 0-41 Score 4 or More Runs ............................27-15 just 68 walks over the past 35 games (17-18 record) with 22 quality starts dating back to June 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.77/9IP ratio. First Game of Series ............................... 9-11 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match ...9-9/3-5 First Game of Homestand ........................ 3-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................4-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-5 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-4 SAVING SOBOTKA: RHP Chad Sobotka has six saves and a win in eight relief outings during July, allowing no earned runs over 8.1 innings this month. Sobotka has struck out 11 and walked one Following an Off Day ................................ 2-5 1-Run Games .........................................10-15 this month. Overall Sobotka has a 1.93 ERA in 22 games with 37 strikeouts, 13 walks and a .170 Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-4 2-Run Games .............................................8-5 opponents batting average. I Errorless Games ................................... 19-15 3-Run Games .............................................9-8 With a Homer....................................... 26-18 Allow a Homer ......................................13-27 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: OF Travis Demeritte has homered in back-to-back games and has With No Homers .................................. 17-36 Allow No Homers ..................................28-29 four extra-base hits and six RBI over his last four games. Demeritte leads the club with 30 extra- base hits this season. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................36-46 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 35-47 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................7-8 ALE...ALEJANDRO: INF Alejandro Salazar has recorded multi-hits in his last four games, going 11- Following a Win ................................... 18-24 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................6-20 for-17 with five runs, two doubles, three RBI and a stolen base. His 5-for-5 game on Sunday was Following a Loss ................................... 25-28 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................37-34 the first five-hit game by a Mississippi player this season. In Decision By Starters ......................... 26-35 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................17-18 STELLAR JULY FOR BRYSE WILSON: 20-year-old RHP Bryse Wilson leads all of Minor League Baseball with 34 strikeouts over four starts in the month of July. In his four quality Daily & Monthly Breakdown starts (three shutout performances), the Hillsborough, NC native is 1-0 with a 0.66 ERA (2 Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total ER/27.1 IP), four walks and 34 strikeouts, posting a miniscule 0.70 WHIP and .160 opponents Monday 1-5 2-5 3-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 batting average. Tuesday 2-4 3-2 5-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 Wednesday 2-3 2-6 4-9 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 CONSISTENT CLOUSE: LHP Corbin Clouse has given up just one run over his last 18 innings Thursday 5-4 3-4 8-8 July 5-3 6-4 11-7 and 15 relief outings (0.50 ERA) and just two runs over his last 26 innings and 21 outings Friday 3-6 2-4 5-10 August - - - (0.69 ERA). Saturday 7-0 3-5 10-5 September - - - Sunday 3-3 5-2 8-4 Postseason - - - THE K MAN, BRUCE ZIMMERMANN: LHP Bruce Zimmermann ranks T-6th in MiLB with 123 Total 23-26 20-28 43-54 23-26 20-28 43-54 strikeouts in 18 starts and is 9-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 106.0 innings pitched this season for Rome and Mississippi. The 23-year-old was promoted to Mississippi from Low-A Rome on June 28. M-Braves vs Biscuits Most Strikeouts in Minor League Baseball 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Player Team MLB Club G GS IP SO at Trustmark Park 6-6 3-6 5-6 3-2 3-7 4-6 2-3 Michael Kopech Charlotte White Sox 19 19 94.1 131 at Montgomery 2-9 4-11 4-6 7-3 4-5 1-4 6-4 Emilio Vargas Visalia Arizona 18 17 96.1 129 Total 8-15 7-17 9-12 10-5 7-12 5-10 8-7 Josh James Fresno San Francisco 17 15 80.2 128 Dean Kremer Tulsa LA Dodgers 17 17 86.0 125 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Eli Morgan Lynchburg Cleveland 19 19 104.2 124 at Trustmark Park 4-6 5-5 6-4 6-4 3-2 2-3 0-5 Sean Reid-Foley Bufalo Toronto 19 19 104.0 123 at Montgomery 2-3 5-5 5-10 1-4 1-4 2-3 2-1 Bruce Zimmermann Mississippi Atlanta 18 18 106.0 123 Total 6-9 10-10 11-14 7-8 4-6 4-6 2-6 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 6th in the SL with Alltime a .284 batting average. RHP Kyle Wright is tied for the league lead in starts (19). at Trustmark Park 52-65 at Montgomery 46-71 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: 2016 M-Braves catcher Willians Astudillo made his MLB debut for Total 98-136 the Twins on June 30, becoming the fifth M-Braves alum to make their MLB debut this season. Astudillo joined 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, 134 players, have gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. M-Braves vs Biscuits Day-by-Day Date Result Record W-L-S Att PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked 2nd in Major League Baseball by MLB.com prior to th season. The M-Braves roster has one Top 100 prospect in RHP Kyle Wright 6/3 L, 5-0 0-1 Martin-Wright 1,566 (No. 28). The roster has a total of three of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright (No. 2), RHP Bryse Wilson (No. 12), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 19) and LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 24). 6/4 L, 3-0 0-2 G. Cabrera-Toussaint-Hall 1,334 6/5 L, 8-2 0-3 McWilliams-Wilson 1,514 Southern League Standings 6/6 L, 6-4 0-4 Lawson-Santiago-Hall 1,970 NORTH REC GB 6/7 L, 5-2 0-5 Lopez-Mader-Hall 2,776 BIR (CHW) 16-12 - On the Web MTG (TB) 15-13 1.0 7/18 L, 6-2 0-6 McWilliams-Franco 3,060 TNS (CHC) 14-14 2.0 7/19 W, 2-0 1-6 Clouse-Ott-Sobotka 3,497 JXN (ARI) 13-15 3.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 10-18 6.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 7/20 W, 4-1 2-6 Wright-Moss-Sobotka 4,438 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 7/21 PNS (CIN) 19-8 - player and the organization overall. Follow the links to listen to the M-Braves live 7/22 BLX (MIL) 16-11 3.0 audio stream all season long. 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