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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (5-8, 34-49) vs. Biloxi Shuckers (6-6, 47-35) LHP Bruce Zimmermann (0-0, 1.42) vs. RHP Luis Ortiz (1-3, 4.20) Game #84 • Home #43 (19-23) • 2nd Half #14 July 5, 2018 • 7:00 p.m. (CST) • Pearl, MS •Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Biloxi Shuckers play game two of a four-game homestand (1-0) tonight at Trustmark Park. This is the 17th of 24 meetings between the Mississippi professional Record Breakdown baseball teams. The M-Braves are coming off a 1-5 road trip at Pensacola and will head to Birming- Score First ............................................. 26-12 Opponents Score First .............................7-38 ham for a four-game set, July 8-11 after the series. Shutouts ................................................. 5-10 Score in 1 inning ......................................3-13 Score in 2 innings ................................. 10-14 Score in 3 innings ..................................11-11 LAST TIME OUT: The M-Braves withstood two rain delays and scored single runs in the 2nd and Score in 4 innings ..................................... 6-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-0 3rd innings to beat the Biloxi Shuckers in a five-inning rain-shortened game at Trustmark Park on Independence Day, 2-0. LHP Ricardo Sanchez was credited with a complete-game shutout after 5.0 Leading after 6 innings ........................... 27-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................28-5 innings of shutout baseball on five hits with three walks and three strikeouts. 3BLuis Valenezuela Tied after 6 innings .................................. 4-4 Tied after 7 innings ...................................3-7 and LF Travis Demeritte collected RBI’s. The game duration was just 1 hour, 20 minutes with 1 Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 2-38 Trailing after 7 innings .............................0-33 hour, 13 minutes of delay time. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 26-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................2-25 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.14 ERA (29 ER/122.2 IP) with 139 strikeouts Tied after 8 innings .................................. 2-4 Score 3 Runs ..............................................5-7 and just 34 walks over the past 21 games (8-13 record) with 14 quality starts dating back to June Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 0-37 Score 4 or More Runs ............................24-13 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 10.4 SO/9IP ratio. First Game of Series ................................. 8-9 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match ...7-9/3-5 ........................ 3-5 ..........................3-4 ROSTER MOVES: The Atlanta Braves promoted M-Braves RHP Touki Toussaint to Triple-A Gwin- First Game of Homestand Last Game of Homestand First Game of Road Trip ........................... 3-4 Last Game of Road Trip .............................3-4 nett on Wednesday. Toussaint, 22, was was 4-6 with a 2.93 ERA (28 ER/86 IP) and 107 strikeouts in 16 starts for the M-Braves. The Coral Springs, FL native led the league and ranks fifth in all of Minor Following an Off Day ................................ 2-4 1-Run Games ...........................................6-15 League Baseball in strikeouts. Toussaint ranked fifth in the Southern League in ERA, third in op- Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 3-4 2-Run Games .............................................6-5 ponents batting average (.208) and fifth in innings pitched (86.0)...Also INF Alejandro Salazar was I Errorless Games ................................... 13-14 3-Run Games .............................................7-6 transferred to Mississippi from High-A Florida and LHP Ricardo Sanchez was activated from the DL. With a Homer....................................... 19-18 Allow a Homer ......................................10-24 With No Homers .................................. 15-31 Allow No Homers ..................................22-27 THE K MAN, BRUCE ZIMMERMANN: LHP Bruce Zimmermann ranks T-4th in MiLB with 109 strikeouts in 15 starts and 91.0 innings pitched. The 23-year-old was promoted to Mississippi from Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................30-42 Low-A Rome on June 28. Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 25-42 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................4-7 Most Strikeouts in Minor League Baseball Following a Win ................................... 13-20 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................6-16 Following a Loss ................................... 21-27 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................28-33 Player Team MLB Club G GS IP SO In Decision By Starters ......................... 21-32 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................13-16 Josh James Fresno San Francisco 15 13 71.2 114 Dean Kremer Rancho Cucamonga LA Dodgers 16 16 79.0 114 Jalen Beeks Pawtucket Boston 15 15 82.2 110 Daily & Monthly Breakdown Rico Garcia Hartford Colorado 17 16 106.0 109 Bruce Zimmermann Mississippi Atlanta 15 15 91.0 109 Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total Monday 1-5 2-4 3-9 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 M-BRAVES VS. SHUCKERS: The Magnolia State rivalry enters its fourth season in 2018 with the Tuesday 2-4 2-2 4-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 Shuckers holding a 42-39 all-time series advantage. The Shuckers lead the 2018 series 10-6. The Wednesday 2-3 1-5 3-8 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 in-state rivals are scheduled to play 24 games this season during the regular season with 15 games Thursday 4-3 2-4 6-7 July 1-0 1-2 2-2 being played at MGM Park and nine games at Trustmark Park. The first meeting took place on May 6, Friday 2-5 1-4 3-9 August - - - 2015 with Biloxi serving as the home team at Trustmark Park. The Shuckers won the first ever meet- Saturday 5-0 3-5 8-5 September - - - ing 8-7, but the M-Braves won the “road” series 3-2. Sunday 3-3 4-2 7-4 Postseason - - - Total 19-23 15-26 34-49 19-23 15-26 34-49 JUNE BY THE NUMBERS: The M-Braves finished the month of June, 8-18, which tied for the few- est wins during the month of June in club history. The club was only outscored 111-101. The offense posted a .229 batting average (9th in SL) with 101 runs scored and 16 home runs (T-7th in SL). M- M-Braves vs Shuckers Braves pitchers recorded a 3.58 ERA (3rd in SL) and 233 strikeouts (1st in SL) over 226 innings pitched. 2015 2016 2017 2018 Alltime M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: RHP Kyle Wright is 4th in innings pitched at Trustmark Park 4-6 5-5 8-5 1-0 18-16 (88.1). INF Alay Lago is the 2nd-toughest player in the league to strikeout (1 SO/9.09 PA). at Biloxi 7-6 3-6 6-4 5-10 21-26 INF Luis Valenzuela is 5th in the SL with a .297 batting average. LHP Corbin Clouse is T-4th Total 11-12 8-11 14-9 6-10 39-42 in appearances with 27. A-JAX HEATING UP IN JUNE: C Alex Jackson is batting .341 (15-for-44) over his last 12 games with six doubles, one home run, eight runs, six RBI and four walks. Jackson batted .265 in June with an .819 OPS after posting just a .663 OPS in April and .493 OPS in May. VIVA LA VALENZUELA: Since May 26, INF Luis Valenzuela is batting .347/.367/.453 with 15 runs, seven doubles, one home run, 11 RBI, three walks and two stolen bases in 30 games. That AVG ranks second behind Jackson’s Josh Prince (.352) in the Southern League over that period of time. MARLETTE KEEPS MASHING: Since May 4, INF Tyler Marlette is batting .315/.416/.461 with 32 runs, 11 doubles, five home runs, 18 RBI and 30 walks in 54 games. He’s raised his batting average from .185 to .280. M-Braves vs Shuckers Day-by-Day Date Result Record W-L-S Att FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: 2016 M-Braves catcher Willians Astudillo made his MLB debut for the Twins on June 30, becoming the fifth M-Braves alum to make their MLB debut this season. 4/11 L, 2-0 0-1 Ortiz-Wright-Griep 3,052 Astudillo joined OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. 4/12 L, 6-5 0-2 Ramirez-Graham-Griep 2,436 (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have 4/13 L, 5-4 0-3 Olczak-McCreery-Griep 2,005 gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. 4/15 G1 L, 7-4 (7) 0-4 Jankins-Sanchez -- 4/15 G2 W, 3-0 (7) 1-4 Webb-Kuntz-Graham 2,154 Southern League Standings 5/29 W, 11-1 2-4 Wright-Jankins 1,784 NORTH REC GB 5/30 L, 6-3 2-5 Ponce-Toussaint-Ortiz 1,753 MTG (TB) 8-5 - On the Web TNS (CHC) 8-5 - 5/31 L, 9-1 2-6 Brown-Wilson 2,858 BIR (CHW) 7-6 1.0 6/1 L, 5-4 2-7 Ramirez-McCreery-Griep 2,862 JXN (ARI) 6-7 2.0 For all of your M-Braves information 6/2 W, 6-1 3-7 Franco-Supak 3,743 CHA (MIN) 4-9 4.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 6/13 L, 6-5 3-8 Griep-Sobotka 2,086 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 6/14 W, 5-4 (10) 4-8 Vasquez-Olczak 2,572 PNS (CIN) 10-3 - player and the organization overall.