GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208
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GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (17-17, 46-58) vs. Birmingham Barons (53-50, 21-14) RHP Bryse Wilson (2-5, 4.13) vs. LHP Tanner Banks (2-1, 2.70) Game #105 • Home #55 (25-29) • 2nd Half #35 July 28, 2018 • 6:00 p.m. (CST) • Pearl, MS • Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves begin the second-leg of the ten-game hometsand with game one of a five-game series tonight against the Birmingham Barons (CWS) at Trustmark Park. Mississippi won Record Breakdown three of four against the Barons in Birmingham, July 8-11. The Braves lead to all-time series, 107-98 Score First ............................................. 34-12 Opponents Score First ...........................12-46 and are 55-40 at Trustmark Park. The M-Braves are coming off a 3-2 series loss to Mobile. Shutouts ................................................. 7-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................5-17 Score in 2 innings ................................. 13-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................16-11 LAST TIME OUT: The M-Braves dropped the rubber match of the five-game series against the Score in 4 innings ..................................... 8-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-1 Mobile BayBears on Friday night, 3-2. The loss was the third-straight in the series, after winning the first two games, Monday and Tuesday. The series loss was the first in July and seventh- Leading after 6 innings ........................... 35-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................36-5 straight to Mobile. M-Braves starter, LHP Bruce Zimmermann recorded a no-decision and gave Tied after 6 innings .................................. 7-6 Tied after 7 innings ...................................6-9 up just two runs on four hits over 7.0 innings with one walk and two strikeouts. 3B Daniel Lock- Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 3-45 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-40 hart was 2-for-4 and DH Luis Valenzuela was 1-for-3 with a walk and RBI. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 34-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-32 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.64 ERA (69 ER/235.2 IP) with 241 strikeouts and Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ..............................................8-7 just 81 walks over the past 42 games (20-22 record) with 25 quality starts dating back to June 10. Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-44 Score 4 or More Runs ............................30-15 Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.19/9IP ratio. First Game of Series ............................. 10-11 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match . 9-11/3-6 WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND: The M-Braves are 19-10 on the weekend this season, including First Game of Homestand ........................ 4-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................4-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-5 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-5 7-0 on Saturday’s at home. Mississippi is 27-48 during the week in 2018. Following an Off Day ................................ 2-5 1-Run Games .........................................10-17 14 WINS AND COUNTING IN JULY: After an 8-18 June, Mississippi is off to a 14-11 start to July. Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-4 2-Run Games .............................................9-5 The 14 wins is the most in a single month during the 2018 season and most since going 15-14 in I Errorless Games ................................... 20-17 3-Run Games .............................................9-8 May, 2017. The club record for wins in July is 18 (‘08 & ‘16). With a Homer....................................... 28-18 Allow a Homer ......................................14-29 With No Homers .................................. 18-40 Allow No Homers ..................................29-32 REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 11-straight games and 15 of 16 games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .319 (15- Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 8-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................38-49 for-47) with a .418 on-base percentage. Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 38-51 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................8-9 Following a Win ................................... 20-26 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................7-21 NEW MLB PIPELINE PROSPECT RANKING FEATURES FIVE M-BRAVES: RHP Kyle Wright Following a Loss ................................... 26-30 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................39-37 is now the No. 25 prospect in all of baseball (previously No. 28) according to the new MLB. In Decision By Starters ......................... 27-38 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................19-19 com prospect ranking on July 26. In the Atlanta Braves organization, Wright ranks No. 2 behind former M-Brave Mike Soroka. RHP Bryse Wilson (14), LHP Thomas Burrows (22), OF Travis De- meritte (25) and LHP Ricardo Sanchez (29) are among Atlanta’s Top 30 prospects. Daily & Monthly Breakdown Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total THE WRIGHT WAY: RHP Kyle Wright has recorded four-straight quality starts and has six in his last Monday 2-5 2-5 4-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 seven starts. The 2017 first round selection is 2-1 with a 2.33 ERA (7 ER/27.0 IP), seven walks, 21 Tuesday 3-4 3-2 6-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 strikeouts over four July starts. Wright is 4-2 with a 2.94 ERA over his last 10 starts with 21 walks Wednesday 2-4 2-6 4-10 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 and 62 strikeouts. Thursday 5-5 3-4 8-9 July 7-6 7-5 14-11 Friday 3-7 2-4 5-11 August - - - EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: OF Travis Demeritte leads the club in home runs (11), extra-base Saturday 7-0 4-5 11-5 September - - - hits (33) and RBI (47). The New York, NY native has 12 extra-base hits in July. Sunday 3-3 5-3 8-5 Postseason - - - Total 25-29 21-29 46-58 25-29 21-29 46-58 FASTEST GAME IN CLUB HISTORY: The 1:54 game on Wednesday night against Mobile set a new club record, surpassing the 1:55 game earlier this year on June 15 at Biloxi. Prior to 2018, the quickest game in M-Braves history was 1:57, set on May 8, 2010 vs. Birmingham. M-Braves vs Barons 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 STELLAR JULY FOR BRYSE WILSON: 20-year-old RHP Bryse Wilson has four quality starts (three shutout performances) so far in July. The Hillsborough, NC native is 1-0 with a 0.66 ERA at Trustmark Park 1-5 4-6 7-3 6-5 3-8 7-2 2-3 (2 ER/27.1 IP), four walks and 34 strikeouts, posting a miniscule 0.70 WHIP and .160 opponents at Birmingham 4-3 3-2 6-4 4-6 3-6 7-8 0-5 batting average. Total 5-8 7-8 13-7 10-11 6-14 14-10 2-8 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 AMERICAN LEAGUE STYLE BASEBALL: The M-Braves will be using the DH during each game at Trustmark Park 6-2 3-2 5-0 3-2 4-1 4-1 0-0 of the ten-game homestand with the Angels (Mobile) and White Sox (Birmingham) affiliates in at Birmingham 5-5 3-7 5-5 2-3 3-2 4-1 3-1 town. The club played AL-style baseball the previous series at Montgomery (Tampa Bay) and Total 11-7 6-9 10-5 5-5 7-3 8-2 3-1 will in the next series at Chattanooga (Twins). The DH is used any time an AL affiliate team is involved in a game. Alltime at Trustmark Park 55-40 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 6th in the SL with at Birmingham 52-58 a .280 batting average. RHPKyle Wright is tied for 2nd in starts (20), ranks 6th in innings pitched Total 107-98 (109.1) and 11th in ERA (3.70). 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. M-Braves vs Barons Day-by-Day Astudillo joined OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. Date Result Record W-L-S Att (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. OF Michael Reed has previ- 7/8 W, 1-0 1-0 Wilson-Hansen-Sobotka 4,517 ously made his MLB debut for Milwaukee, but made his debut with Atlanta after opening the 2018 season in Mississippi on July 23 at Miami. 7/9 L, 8-1 1-1 Lambert-Sanchez 3,454 7/10 W, 3-1 2-1 Zimmermann-Flores-Sobotka 7,104 Southern League Standings 7/11 W, 9-2 3-1 Franco-Banks 5,385 NORTH REC GB 7/28 BIR (CHW) 21-14 - On the Web MTG (TB) 20-15 1.0 7/29 JXN (ARI) 17-18 4.0 7/30 TNS (CHC) 15-20 6.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 14-21 7.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 7/31 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 8/1 PNS (CIN) 24-10 - player and the organization overall. Follow the links to listen to the M-Braves live BLX (MIL) 20-14 4.0 audio stream all season long. 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