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GAME NOTES DOUBLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING AND BASEBALL INFORMATION: JOSH CARAY - [email protected] MEDIA RELATIONS COORDINATOR: AARON CHERIS - [email protected] ROCKET CITY TRASH PANDAS (13-16) CHATTANOOGA LOOKOUTS (17-12) 3rd PLACE, DOUBLE-A SOUTH (NORTH) VS 2nd PLACE, DOUBLE-A SOUTH (NORTH) RHP TYLER DANISH (0-0, 1.35) RHP MATT PIDICH (0-2, 7.94) TOYOTA FIELD - MADISON, AL - SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021 - 2:35 PM CT GAME 30 | HOME GAME 18 | TODAY’S BROADCASTS ONLINE MiLB TV RADIO SPORTSRADIO 730 AM/103.9 FM THE UMP UPCOMING STARTERS ROCKET CITY STATS Overall Record ....................... 13-16 DATE TIME (CT) OPPONENT TRASH PANDAS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER Home Record ......................... 10-7 Monday, June 7 OFF Road Record ........................... 3-9 Tuesday, June 8 6:00 PM @ Tennessee TBA TBA vs. North Division .................. 12-11 Wednesday, June 9 6:00 PM @ Tennessee TBA TBA vs. South Division .................. 1-5 vs RHP .......................................... 9-9 LAST TIME OUT: The Trash Pandas rocketed three solo-homers and struck out 15 Lookouts hitters as Rocket City vs LHP .......................................... 4-7 Night ............................................ 12-13 defeated Chattanooga 3-1 Saturday night. All the homeruns came in the second and erased a 1-0 deficit as Dalton Day ................................................. 1-4 Pompey, Izzy Wilson and Gavin Cecchini did the honors. Wilson and Cecchini went back-to-back to complete the Last 10 .......................................... 5-5 Streak ........................................... W1 onslaught. On the mound, the Trash Pandas got a five-inning, 10-strikeout performance from starter Reid Detmers 1-Run Games ........................... 2-5 who collected his first professional win. Reliever Keith Rogalla followed by tossing three shutout innings as the setup Home Attendance ................ 98,336 man, then closer Connor Higgins escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam to end the game. Pompey and Wilson each Home Avg. Attendance .... 6,146 Season Sellouts ...................... 2 homered and singled to lead the Rocket City attack as the Trash Pandas collected eight hits. GETTING K’S: Rocket City pitchers are racking up the strikeouts against opposing hitters whiffing 293 batters through TEAM STATS the first 29 games. That is good enough for 3rd in Double-A South. Included is a 15-strikeout performance of Birming- Batting Average .................... .230 ham on 5/25 and Chattanooga on 6/5. The most the Trash Pandas have struck out in a game was 5/11 when they K’d Hits .................................................. 219 Runs ............................................... 121 16 Smokies in a 10-inning loss. The also struck out 15 Smokies in a shutout win on 5/13, 15 more against Birmingham Runs/Game .............................. 4.2 on 5/25, and another 15 against Chattanooga on 6/5. Doubles ...................................... 31 Triples ............................................ 3 Home Runs ............................... 40 DETMERS DEALING: The 10th overall pick of the 2020 Draft, Reid Detmers has quickly become a contender to see RBI ................ ................................... 118 a trip to “The Show” within the next year or so. Despite a rough outing on 5/30, Detmers had dominated Double-A Stolen Bases ............................. 16 Team ERA ................................... 3.80 hitters over his last three previous starts. In that span, he had allowed only three ER in the final 15.2 innings. His best Innings Pitched ..................... 251.1 performance came on 5/25 when he allowed an unearned run on one infield single in six innings of work with 10 strike- Hits Allowed .............................. 235 outs against one of the top hitting teams in AA, Birmingham. Unfortunately, the Trash Pandas only provided Detmers Strikeouts ................................... 293 three runs of support over those three outings, leading to three straight no-decisions. Detmers finally notched his TRASH PANDAS LEADERS first professional win as he K’d 10 and walked none on five hits over five innings in a 3-1 win over Chattanooga on 6/5. Games ......................................... 3 Tied, 27 Batting Average ..................... Stefanic, .345 At-Bats .......................................... Martinez, 113 READY FOR LAUNCH: The Trash Pandas have lived up to the Rocket City nickname by launching 40 homers, good Runs .............................................. Martinez, 16 enough for second in Double-A South and third in all of Double-A. 12 of those dingers came in the Tennessee series, Hits ................................................. 2 Tied, 30 including two grand slams in the series finale on 5/16. Outfielders Orlando Martinez and Izzy Wilson lead the way Doubles ....................................... Martinez, 7 Triples ............................................ Didder, 3 with five apiece. Three of the five from Martinez came on 5/7 in a 12-10 win at Chattanooga. During the Pensacola Home Runs ............................... Wilson, 7 series though, the Trash Pandas could only muster two dingers with the wind blowing in from Pensacola Bay for RBI ................................................... Martinez, 19 Stolen Bases ............................. 3 Tied, 4 most of the series. Walks ............................................ Nay, 13 On-Base % ................................ Stefanic, .406 DIDDER DONE DO GOOD: Infielder Ray-Patrick Didder got off to a slow start by going 5-53 (.094) through his first 15 Slugging % ............................... Martinez, .487 Innings Pitched ..................... Tyler, 29.1 games. However, over the last 10 contests the former Braves farmhand has come around going 12-34 (.353). Didder Wins .............................................. Tyler, 3 holds a place in Trash Pandas lore as his bases-clearing triple on 5/6 in game two of a doubleheader against Chat- ERA ................................................ Tyler, 2.15 Strikeouts ................................... Detmers, 40 tanooga broke a 7-7 tie and proved to be the difference as the Trash Pandas topped the Lookouts 10-7 for their first Saves .............................................. Higgins, 3 ever win in team history. vs DOUBLE-A SOUTH TODAY'S STARTING PITCHER: Former Major-Leaguer Tyler Danish will make his third appearance and first start for OVERALL HOME ROAD the Trash Pandas against the Lookouts today. He has allowed one earned run over 6.2 innings so far as a Trash Panda BUFFALOBIRMINGHAM 2- 4 2- 4 0--0 with nine strikeouts. In his Rocket City debut on 5/23, Danish tossed three shutout innings on two hits and struck out COLUMBUSCHATTANOOGA 51-16 3-- 2 21-14 three against Pensacola. He followed that up with another strong performance on 5/28 against Birmingham. Danish DURHAMTENNESSEE 55--61 55--41 0-20 struck out six and allowed a run on two hits while recording the save. Signed by the Angels on 5/20, the right-hander GWINNETTNORTH DIVISION 1012-115 105--37 52-24 appeared in 11 games combined from 2016-18 for the pale hose, putting together a 2-0 record and 4.85 ERA. Of those INDIANAPOLIS 3-7 1-2 2-5 11 games, Danish started one contest. That was in May of 2017 when he tossed five shutout innings in game one of a LEHIGHMISSISSIPPI VALLEY (NOT ON2- 12021 SCHEDULE2-1 - ) doubleheader against Detroit, garnering his first MLB win. LOUISVILLEBILOXI 60-30 05-01 01--20 NORFOLKMONTGOMERY 70--40 30--00 40--40 PROSPECT RANKINGS: The Trash Pandas' current roster features four of the Angels’ Top 30 prospects (according PAWTUCKETPENSACOLA 1-5 0- 0 1-5 to MLB.com): left-handed pitcher Reid Detmers (Angels’ No. 2, No. 60 in all of baseball), right-handed pitcher Oliver ROCHESTERSOUTH DIVISION 3-31-5 3-00-0 0-31-5 Ortega (No. 15), outfielder Orlando Martinez (No. 17), and right-handed pitcher Denny Brady (No. 28). SCRANTON/WB - - - SYRACUSE 3-3 2-1 1-2 TOLEDO 4-2 2-1 2-1 WHAT IS A TRASH PANDA? The name was chosen in a name-the-team contest and is a reference to the area's association with the space industry and the determination and ingenuity of raccoons, aka trash pandas. Trash Pandas, slang for raccoon, was included in the original 10 nominations following several Brandiose-led focus groups in Madison and Huntsville. The ballot descriptor read: Our community is known for engineering, and no creature in our galaxy is as smart, creative, determined and ingenious a problem solver - dedicated to the challenge at hand - as our local raccoons! In July 2018, after the results from several focus groups in Madison and Huntsville,10 names were selected, based on their uniqueness and how each name relates to the character- istics of the area: (Alphabetically) Army Ants, Comet Jockeys, GloWorms, Lunartics, Moon Possums, Puffy Head Bird Legs, Space Chimps, Space Sloths, ThunderSharks and Trash Pan- das. The focus groups were led by San Diego-based Brandiose, the Minor League Baseball industry's premiere branding partner. Over the next few weeks, two rounds of online voting took place. The frst round narrowed the list to Comet Jockeys, Moon Pos- sums, Space Chimps, ThunderSharks and Trash Pandas. Trash Pandas won the fnal round with 44.75 percent of the vote to ThunderSharks 19.25 percent. Moon Possums was third (12.57 percent); Space Chimps fourth (12.05 percent); and Comet Jockeys ffth (11.38 percent). By the way, Trash Pandas dominated both rounds. More than 28,500 nominations and