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NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (6-15) vs. Iowa Cubs (13-8) Game 1: LHP Wes Benjamin (0-3, 8.97) vs. LHP Mike Montgomery (MLB Rehab) Game 2: RHP Ronald Herrera (0-1, 27.00) vs. RHP Duane Underwood Jr. (0-3, 8.47) Game #22 & 23/Road Game #11 & 12 • Sunday, April 28, 2019 • Principal Park • 1:08 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Monday April 29 vs. Omaha RHP Richelson Peña (1-3, 5.25) RHP Zach Lovvorn (1-0, 11.45) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Tuesday April 30 vs. Omaha RHP Phillips Valdez (0-2, 3.38) LHP Foster Griffin (1-1, 4.43) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Wednesday May 1 vs. Omaha TBA RHP Glenn Sparkman (0-0, 0.00) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Thursday May 2 vs. Omaha TBA RHP Scott Blewett (2-0, 4.32) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Today's Games: The Nashville Sounds play games four and five against the Iowa Cubs to finish the series. The SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Sounds are 2-6 against the Cubs this season. Today, left-hander Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds against SOUNDS VS. CUBS Series (W-L-T): 0-4-1 left-hander Mike Montgomery for the Cubs for game one. Game two will be a matchup between Nashville's right-hander Ronald Herrera and Iowa's right-hander Duane Underwood Jr. 2019: 2-6 at Nashville: 1-4 Series Openers: 2-4 All-Time: 165-145 at Iowa: 1-2 Series Finales: 1-3 Wes Benjamin: 25-year-old Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds in game one. The left-hander is making his DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 0-0 fifth start of the season and is 0-3 with a 8.97 ERA while covering 14.1 innings. Benjamin has yielded 22 hits 4/4 Nashville L, 5-4 and 9 walks to go with his 12 strikeouts. He last worked on April 21 in game two of a doubleheader against Day Games: 2-3 San Antonio earned the loss, allowing 4 earned runs on 3 hits in 1.2 innings. Benjamin spent the majority 4/5 Nashville W, 8-2 Night Games: 4-12 of his 2018 season with Double-A Frisco where he went 5-6 with a 3.62 ERA in 15 starts. The southpaw 4/6 Nashville L, 10-4 vs. RHP: 6-14 spent nearly two months on the disabled list from June 7-July 31 with a left elbow strain. Despite missing 4/7 Nashville L, 5-3 time, Benjamin led the Frisco staff in wins and ranked among team leaders in strikeouts (3rd), starts (T3rd) 4/8 Nashville L, 6-5 vs. LHP: 0-1 and innings (4th). In his minor league career, Benjamin is 21-21 with a 3.93 ERA while covering 66 games April: 6-15 (63 starts). The Rangers drafted the Illinois native in the 5th round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of Kansas 4/24 Iowa L, 6-4 May: 0-0 University. 4/25 Iowa L, 8-4 June: 0-0 4/26 Iowa W, 2-1 Ronald Herrera: 23-year-old Ronald Herrera starts for the Sounds in game two. The right-hander is making 4/27 Iowa PPD July: 0-0 his second start of the season. It will be Herrera's second start of the series, where he pitched on April 25 4/28, G1 Iowa August: 0-0 and allowed three earned runs in one inning. He spent the entire 2018 season on Texas' 60-day disabled list (injured list) due to right shoulder inflamation and eventually recieved shoulder surgery. Herrera spent most 4/28, G2 Iowa September: 0-0 of 2017 in the minor leagues, where he combined for a 8-1 record with a 1.91 ERA between the GCL Yankees 7/19 Nashville Monday: 1-2 East, Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre. He served two stints with the New York 7/20 Nashville Tuesday: 1-1 Yankees and made two appearances. Herrera was traded to Texas from New York-AL in exchange for Reiver Sanmartin on November 20, 2017. He was originally signed by the Oakland Athletics on May 31, 2012. 7/21 Nashville Wednesday: 0-3 8/23 Iowa Thursday: 0-3 Mike Montgomery: 29-year-old Mike Montgomery starts for the Cubs in game one. He is making his third 8/24 Iowa Friday: 3-0 start on Major League rehab, making a start with Single-A South Bend on April 17 and with Double-A Tennessee on April 22. He is 0-0 with a 16.88 ERA in four relief appearances with Chicago-NL this season. 8/25 Iowa Saturday: 0-3 The left-hander went 5-6 with a 3.99 ERA in 38 games (19) starts with Chicago-NL in 2018. In Montgomery's Sunday: 1-3 Major League career, he is 20-25 with a 3.68 ERA in 151 games (56 starts). He was originially drafted by the vs. Am. Northern: 2-6 Kansas City Royals in the first round (36th overall) in the 2008 MLB Draft. The Cubs traded for him along TONIGHT’S MATCHUP with right-handed pitcher Jordan Pries on July 20, 2016 with Seattle in exchange for right-handed pitcher Sounds Cubs vs. Am. Southern: 4-9 Paul Blackburn and first baseman Daniel Vogelbach. vs. Pac. Northern: 0-0 6-15 Record 13-8 vs. Pac. Southern: 0-0 Duane Underwood Jr.: 24-year-old Duane Underwood Jr. starts for the Cubs in game two today. The 2-9 Home 5-4 right-hander is making his fifth start of the season. He is currently 0-3 with an 8.47 ERA in 17.0 innings of 4-6 Road 8-4 vs. NL Affiliate: 5-11 work. Underwood spent nearly the entire 2018 season with Iowa and went 4-10 with a 4.53 ERA in 27 games vs. AL Affiliate: 1-4 (20 starts). He covered 119.1 innings with the Cubs and yielded 127 hits and 37 walks to go along with 105 Lead After 6: 5-1 strikeouts. Underwood Jr. was called up by Chicago and made his Major League debut on June 25, 2018 at W1 Streak L1 Dodger Stadium. He went 4.0 innings and allowed 1 run on 2 hits. He was tagged with the loss in Chicago's 1-4 Last 5 3-2 Trail After 6: 1-12 2-1 setback. The Cubs drafted Underwood Jr. in the 2nd round of the 2012 MLB Draft out of Pope (GA) High Tied After 6: 0-2 School. 3-7 Last 10 6-4 Lead After 7: 4-1 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division .220 (16th) Batting Avg. .249 (14th) Trail After 7: 1-14 standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 0, Third: 4, Fourth: 18. Tied After 7: 1-0 23 (T12th) HR 22 (14th) Lead After 8: 4-0 Dilly Dilly!: In his first start of the season Friday night, Tim Dillard threw five shutout innings and allowed 81 (16th) R 108 (12th) one hit and struck out three batters. He now has 10 strikeouts this season, giving him 344 in his Nashville ca- 10 (13th) SB 11 (12th) Trail After 8: 0-14 reer. He is eight punchouts shy of the franchise record held by Jamie Werly. At Dillard's pace of 6.28 strikeouts Tied After 8: 1-0 per nine innings, it will take him 11.2 more innings to tie the record. 180 (5th) K (Batting) 187 (8th) Scoring First: 3-5 77 (14th) BB (Batting) 81 (12th) Willie Back at Second: For the first time this season, Willie Calhoun played second base for Nashville Friday 4.95 (7th) ERA 4.37 (4th) Opp. Scoring First: 3-10 night. The last time he played second base was on September 3, 2017 for Triple-A Round Rock, where he Scoring 4+ Runs: 3-8 started 74 games at the position that season. Calhoun came into the league exclusively as a second baseman, 181 (12th) K (Pitching) 165 (16th) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 1-15 making most of his starts there from 2015 to 2017. 77 (4th) BB (Pitching) 89 (T9th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 3-7 Coming Up Clutch: Willie Calhoun's go-ahead RBI double in the top of the ninth Friday night sealed the 115 (T6th) R Allowed 92 (2nd) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 5-0 win for the Sounds. It was Nashville's 16th run scored in the ninth this season, the most they've scored in 20 (T2nd) HR Allowed 19 (1st) Hit a HR: 6-8 any inning this season, with 13 runs being scored in the second and 11 coming in the fifth. The 16 runs have .982 (3rd) Fielding Pct. .989 (1st) accounted for 19.8% of Nashville's runs this season. Allow a HR 4-10 AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Hit 2+ HR: 2-4 Déjà Vu: On Friday night, Hunter Cole tied his single-game career-high of three walks. The last time he W L PCT GB Allow 2+ HR: 1-4 achieved the feat was exactly two years earlier on April 26, 2017 when he was playing for Double-A Rich- mond versus Bowie.