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NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Iowa Cubs (0-0) at Nashville Sounds (0-0) RHP Duncan Robinson (0-0, 0.00) vs. LHP Taylor Hearn (0-0, 0.00) Game #1/Home Game #1 • Thursday, April 4, 2019 • First Tennessee Park • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Friday April 5 vs. Iowa RHP Ariel Jurado (0-0, --) RHP Duane Underwood Jr. (0-0, --) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Saturday April 6 vs. Iowa LHP Wes Benjamin (0-0, --) RHP Matt Swarmer (0-0, --) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Sunday April 7 vs. Iowa RHP Richelson Peña (0-0, --) RHP Colin Rea (0-0, --) 2:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Monday April 8 vs. Iowa RHP Phillips Valdez (0-0, --) TBD 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight’s Game: The Nashville Sounds begin the 2019 season at First Tennessee Park this eve- ning when they host the Iowa Cubs at 6:35 p.m. Left-hander Taylor Hearn starts for Nashville SOUNDS VS. CUBS Series (W-L-T): 0-0-0 against right-hander Duncan Robinson for Iowa. It’s the season opener for both clubs. 2018: 9-7 at Nashville: 5-3 Series Openers: 0-0 All-Time: 163-139 at Iowa: 4-4 Series Finales: 0-0 Taylor Hearn: 24-year-old Taylor Hearn starts for the Sounds on Opening Day. He is currently DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 0-0 ranked by MLB Pipeline as the #11 prospect in the Texas organization. The left-hander went 4-8 4/4 Nashville Day Games: 0-0 with a 3.49 ERA in 24 starts in 2018. He racked up 140 strikeouts in 129.0 innings. Hearn split 4/5 Nashville Night Games: 0-0 last year between Double-A Altoona and Double-A Frisco after the Texas Rangers acquired him 4/6 Nashville vs. RHP: 0-0 from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a July 31 trade for reliever Keone Kela. Hearn is in his fifth pro- 4/7 Nashville vs. LHP: 0-0 fessional season and has a career mark of 11-20 with a 3.48 ERA in 73 games (60 starts). He was 4/8 Nashville April: 0-0 drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 5th round of the 2015 MLB Draft out of Oklahoma 4/24 Iowa May: 0-0 Baptist University. 4/25 Iowa June: 0-0 4/26 Iowa July: 0-0 4/27 Iowa Duncan Robinson: 25-year-old Duncan Robinson starts for the Cubs tonight. The right-hander August: 0-0 4/28 Iowa September: 0-0 went 8-4 with a 3.11 ERA in 26 starts in 2018. Robinson spent last season between Double-A 7/19 Nashville Monday: 0-0 Tennessee and Iowa. In 24 starts with the Smokies, Robinson went 7-4 with a 3.31 ERA. He was 7/20 Nashville Tuesday: 0-0 transferred to Iowa on August 22 and went 1-0 with a 0.82 ERA in 2 starts. In 141.2 innings 7/21 Nashville Wednesday: 0-0 overall, Robinson registered 119 strikeouts. In 59 career games (46 starts), Robinson has a 19-14 8/23 Iowa Thursday: 0-0 mark with a 2.78 ERA. The Chicago Cubs drafted Robinson in the 9th round of the 2016 MLB 8/24 Iowa Friday: 0-0 Draft out of Dartmouth. 8/25 Iowa Saturday: 0-0 Sunday: 0-0 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the Ameri¬can North- vs. Am. Northern: 0-0 ern Division standings in 2019: First: 0, Second: 0, Third: 0, Fourth: 0. TONIGHT’S MATCHUP vs. Am. Southern: 0-0 Sounds Cubs vs. Pac. Northern: 0-0 Opening Day History: Heading into year number 42, the Sounds are 19-22 all-time on Open- Record vs. Pac. Southern: 0-0 ing Day. In season openers at home, the Sounds are 25-16. The last time Nashville opened its Home vs. NL Affiliate: 0-0 season at home was in 2016 when they were blanked by Oklahoma City, 5-0, on April 4. Road vs. AL Affiliate: 0-0 Lead After 6: 0-0 Opening Day vs. Iowa: The Sounds have played Iowa four times on Opening Day and are 3-1 Streak Trail After 6: 0-0 in those games. The first Nashville opened its season against Iowa was on April 8, 1993 when Last 5 Tied After 6: 0-0 they topped the Cubs, 8-5. On April 7, 1998, Iowa won a 7-2 game. The Sounds edged out a 5-4 Last 10 Lead After 7: 0-0 win against Iowa on April 3, 2003 and then beat Iowa, 6-3, the last time they opened a season Trail After 7: 0-0 against each other on April 8, 2010. Batting Avg. Tied After 7: 0-0 HR Lead After 8: 0-0 Tennessee-Texas Two-Step: A new era of baseball begins tonight as the Sounds play their first R Trail After 8: 0-0 official game as the Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. The two clubs held a joint press SB Tied After 8: 0-0 conference at First Tennessee Park on September 20, 2018 to announce the four-year Player K (Batting) Scoring First: 0-0 Development Contract. Several notable former Sounds also played for the Rangers at one point BB (Batting) Opp. Scoring First: 0-0 in their career, including Prince Fielder, Nelson Cruz, Yovani Gallardo, Jonathan Lucroy and ERA Scoring 4+ Runs: 0-0 Jeremy Jeffress. K (Pitching) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 0-0 BB (Pitching) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 0-0 What a Day for Davidson: Matt Davidson etched his name into the Major League Baseball R Allowed Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 0-0 history book last year when he hit three home runs for the Chicago White Sox on Opening Day. HR Allowed Hit a HR: 0-0 In a 14-7 win over the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium, Davidson hit a solo blast in the Fielding Pct. Allow a HR 0-0 4th inning, another solo shot in the 5th inning and finished his historic day with a 3-run homer AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Hit 2+ HR: 0-0 in the 8th. Davidson joined the Tigers’ Dmitri Young (2005 vs. Kansas City), the Cubs’ Tuffy W L PCT GB Allow 2+ HR: 0-0 Rhodes (1994 vs. New York-NL) and the Blue Jays’ George Bell (1988 vs. Kansas City) as the Nashville 0 0 .000 - Outhit Opponent: 0-0 only Major Leaguers to hit three home runs on Opening Day. Iowa 0 0 .000 - Tie in Hits: 0-0 Memphis 0 0 .000 - Outhit by Opponent: 0-0 In the Pipeline: Four current Sounds are listed among MLB Pipeline’s Top 30 Texas Rangers Omaha 0 0 .000 - Record 10+ Hits: 0-0 prospects. Leading the group at #11 is left-handed pitcher Taylor Hearn. Left-handed reliever Allow 10+ Hits: 0-0 CD Pelham checks in at #15, infielder Eli White follows at #16 and catcher Jose Trevino is the Commit an Error: 0-0 25th-ranked prospect in the system. UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS Commit No Errors: 0-0 Opening Day at First Tennessee Park will dou- Walk-Off Wins: 0 Jason Wood at the Helm: Jason Wood was named the 29th manager in Nashville Sounds ble up as a Throwback Thursday with discount- Walk-Off Losses: 0 franchise history on January 8, 2019. The California native is managing the Rangers’ Triple-A ed Budweiser and Pepsi products. Fans can stick Extra-Innings: 0-0 team for the fifth consecutive season and has a career managerial mark of 582-536. As part of around for the first postgame fireworks show of Sounds starter 6+IP: 0-0 an 18-year professional playing career, Wood played for the Sounds in 2000 and 2001 and is the season. Sounds starter 7+ IP: 0-0 now the second former Sounds player to return and manage the club (Marty Brown, a player in Sounds starter 8+ IP: 0-0 1988-89, a manager in 2001-02). THIS DATE IN HISTORY Longest Win Streak: 0 Three of Nashville's last six Opening Day games Longest Losing Streak: 0 have been played on April 4. In 2013, Nashville White Jerseys: 0-0 topped New Orleans, 5-4. In 2014, Nashville beat Gray Jerseys: 0-0 Omaha 4-2 in the season opener. The Sounds lost Navy Jerseys: 0-0 their most recent opener on April 4, 5-0 to Oklaho- ma City in 2016. Red Jerseys: 0-0 Specialty Jerseys: 0-0 TONIGht’S STARTER - #48 LHP TAYLOR HEARN HT/WT: 6’5”/227 40-MAN ROSTER: Yes BORN: August 30, 1994 in Royse City, Texas (24) SERVICE TIME: 0.000 RESIDES: Royse City, Texas FIRST MLB WIN: N/A OBTAINED: Traded to Texas from Pittsburgh on July 31, 2018 FIRST MLB STRIKEOUT: N/A DRAFTED: Drafted by Washington in the 5th round of the 2015 MLB Draft TWITTER: @thearn14 YEAR CLUB W-L ERA G GS CG SH SV IP H R ER HR HB BB SO WP 2015 GCL Nationals (R) 0-0 0.00 2 1 0 0 0 5.0 4 1 0 0 0 2 7 0 Auburn (A-) 1-5 3.98 10 10 0 0 0 43.0 49 22 19 2 2 13 38 4 2016 GCL Nationals (R) 0-0 1.42 2 2 0 0 0 6.1 2 1 1 1 0 6 8 1 Hagerstown (A) 1-0 3.18 8 2 0 0 0 22.2 25 13 8 3 0 7 31 3 West Virginia (A) 1-1 1.99 8 3 0 0 0 22.2 15 6 5 2 0 10 36 4 2017 Bradenton (A+) 4-6 4.12 18 17 0 0 0 87.1 65 41 40 8 2 37 106 6 GCL Pirates (R) 0-0 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2018 Altoona (AA) 3-6 3.12 19 19 2 1 0 104.0 75 41 36 6 3 38 107 6 Frisco (AA) 1-2 5.04 5 5 0 0 0 25.0 29 14 14 5 0 9 33 0 2019 Nashville (AAA) Minor League Totals 11-20 3.48 73 60 2 1 0 318.0 264 139 123 27 7 122 369 24 Against Opponent: Hearn has never faced Iowa in his career.