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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (29-24, 58-65) at Mobile BayBears (24-30, 61-61) Game 1: RHP Ian Anderson (0-0, 2.25) vs. RHP Jesus Castillo (8-4, 4.81) Game 2: LHP Ricardo Sánchez (2-4, 4.27) vs. RHP Matt Ball (1-0, 1.80) Game #124/125 • Road #60 (25-34) • 2nd Half #54/55 August 21, 2018 •5:05 pm (CT) • Mobile, AL • Hank Aaron Stadium TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Mobile BayBears open a five-game series on Tuesday at Hank Aaron Stadium with a doubleheader. The M-Braves are 6-9 against the BayBears this season, 2-3 Record Breakdown at Hank Aaron Stadium. The BayBears took three of five from the Braves, April 21-25, in the last Score First ............................................. 43-13 Opponents Score First ...........................14-53 meeting at Hank Aaron Stadium. The M-Braves are 132-164 all-time against the BayBears, 55-76, Shutouts ................................................. 9-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................9-23 at Hank Aaron Stadium. Score in 2 innings ................................. 16-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................17-12 • 20-year-old RHP Ian Anderson, the No. 3 prospect for the Braves and No. 39 prospect in base- Score in 4 innings ..................................... 9-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................7-1 ball, makes his second Double-A start for the M-Braves on Sunday. Anderson was the 3rd overall selection in the 2016 draft out of Shenendehowa High School in Clifton Park, New York. 21-year- Leading after 6 innings ........................... 43-8 Leading after 7 innings ............................42-6 old Ricardo Sánchez starts the nightcap, his 11th start of the season, coming off his second Tied after 6 innings ................................ 10-7 Tied after 7 innings ...................................9-9 quality start. Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 4-50 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-46 • The M-Braves are 26-18 since July 1 and are in 2nd place in the SL South, 3.5 games back with 16 games remaining in the 2018 season. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 43-3 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................6-36 • The M-Braves are in a stretch of playing American League style baseball in 30 of 35 games. Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ............................................11-8 • Mississippi is coming off of a 4-1 series win over Chattanooga at Trustmark Park. Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-50 Score 4 or More Runs ............................37-16 LAST TIME OUT: The M-Braves and Mobile BayBears were postponed for the second-straight day First Game of Series ............................. 12-13 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 12-11/3-6 on Monday. The postponements set up back-to-back doubleheaders on Tuesday and Wednesday First Game of Homestand ........................ 5-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................6-5 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-6 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-5 at Hank Aaron Stadium. Following an Off Day ................................ 3-6 1-Run Games .........................................13-19 16 GAMES IN 14 DAYS TO CLOSE SEASON: The M-Braves will close out the 2018 regular Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 5-5 2-Run Games ...........................................12-6 season with 16 games in 14 days, including four doubleheaders. I Errorless Games ................................... 26-19 3-Run Games ...........................................11-8 With a Homer....................................... 33-20 Allow a Homer ......................................18-32 IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE AT THING GO RIGHT: The M-Braves started the season 3-6 in With No Homers .................................. 25-45 Allow No Homers ..................................35-36 doubleheader games, but have won five of six and are now 8-7 in doubleheader games, 75-73 all- time. Today’s doubleheader is the seventh this season, plus three con Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................46-53 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 49-57 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................12-12 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.08 ERA (113 ER/330.2 IP) with 339 strikeouts Following a Win ................................... 25-32 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................9-25 and just 113 walks over the past 60 games (31-29 record) with 29 quality starts dating back to June Following a Loss ................................... 33-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................49-40 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.22/9IP ratio. In Decision By Starters ......................... 34-42 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................24-22 WINNING WAYS: Mississippi’s 26 wins since July 1 is tied for thirdt-most in the Southern League over that period of time. Montgomery (29), Biloxi (27) and Pensacola (26) lead the league. Daily & Monthly Breakdown Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total POWER SURGE: The M-Braves have hit 12 home runs so far in 15 games during August after hit- Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 ting just 14 during the entire month of July. Mississippi is last in the Southern League with 71 long Tuesday 4-5 3-2 7-7 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 balls this season. Wednesday 4-4 2-7 6-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 Thursday 5-6 4-5 9-11 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: LF Travis Demeritte has four home runs, nine RBI and 10 runs Friday 3-7 2-6 5-13 August 5-1 4-5 9-6 scored over his last eight games, batting .370 (10-for-27). Saturday 8-0 6-5 14-5 September - - - • His multi-homer game on August 9 was the ninth of his career and first this season. Demer- Sunday 4-3 5-4 9-6 Postseason - - - itte had two multi-homer games for Mississippi in 2017, on August 2 at Mobile, and June 3 at Total 31-31 25-34 56-65 33-31 25-34 58-65 Jackson, TN. Demeritte had five two-homer games in 2016 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organization. • Demeritte is just the fourth M-Braves player since 2005 to record 16 homers in a single season M-Braves vs BayBears (Matt Esquivel, 2007 - 19, Mauro Gomez, 2010 - 16, Ernesto Mejia, 2011 - 26) • He leads the club in runs (62), extra-base hits (39), home runs (16), RBI (58), total bases (161), 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 games (114) and walks (53). at Trustmark Park 6-4 7-8 5-9 6-4 5-5 9-7 4-11 at Mobile 1-5 5-4 5-5 6-9 4-1 2-5 3-11 THE SECOND-YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Total 7-9 12-12 10-14 12-13 9-6 11-12 7-22 Pache, the Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipe- line has hit in 11 of his first 14 Mississippi games (seven multi-hit). He is batting .322 (19-for-59) 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 with two doubles, a triple, four RBI and seven runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until November at Trustmark Park 6-4 3-7 7-8 5-6 6-3 4-6 4-6 19 and is second to only Mobile’s Jo Adell as the youngest in the league. at Mobile 7-6 6-4 8-1 1-7 4-6 1-9 2-3 Total 13-10 9-11 15-9 6-13 10-9 5-15 6-9 REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 30 of 33 Alltime games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .310 (31-for-100) with a .397 at Trustmark Park 77-88 on-base percentage. Didder reached base safely in his first 15 games with Mississippi. at Mobile 55-76 Total 132-164 10 MLB DEBUTS BY M-BRAVES ALUMNI IN 2018: RHP Bryse Wilson pitched 5.0 innings of shutout baseball on Monday night at Pittsburgh, earning the win. He became the 140th M- Braves alum and 11th this season to move on and make their MLB debut. Wilson joins RHP M-Braves vs. BayBears Day-by-Day 2018 Touki Toussaint (August 13) RHP Chad Sobotka (August 11), RHP Wes Parsons (August 9), LHP Adam McCreery (August 9), LHP Kolby Allard (July 31) C Willians Astudillo (June 30, Twins) OF Date Result Record W-L-S Att 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, 139 players, have gone on to make 4/21 W, 3-1 1-0 Wright-Rodriguez, J-Webb 1,901 their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. OF Michael Reed had previously made his 4/23 G1 W, 6-3 2-0 Graham-Custred-Webb N/A MLB debut for Milwaukee, but made his debut with Atlanta after opening the 2018 season in Mississippi on July 23. 4/23 G2 L, 5-2 2-1 Rhoades-Pike-Lillis-White 602 4/24 L, 8-4 2-2 Suarez, J-Parsons 610 Southern League Standings 4/25 L, 2-1 2-3 Castillo-Franco-Lillis-White 1,001 SOUTH REC GB 5/7 L, 5-0 2-4 Pena, L-Wright 1,389 MTG (TB) 33-24 - On the Web TNS (CHC) 28-27 4.0 5/8 W, 10-3 3-4 Wilson-Rodriguez-Mader 1,595 BIR (CHW) 28-29 5.0 5/9 L, 4-2 3-5 Rhoades-Webb 3,525 JXN (ARI) 27-30 6.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 22-33 10.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com.