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Class-A OFFICIAL GAME INFORMATION Lake County Captains (33-35, 73-64) vs. Great Lakes Loons (38-30, 81-54) Monday, September 2 • 1:00 p.m. • Classic Park • Broadcast: All Sports CLE & ESPN 970 WFUN Game #138 • Home Game #68 • Season Series: 5-6, 1 Game Remaining LHP Matt Turner (2-1, 2.56 ERA) vs. RHP Stephen Kolek (7-8, 5.05 ERA) SATURDAY: The Captains were shut out for the second night in a row, falling to the Great Lakes Loons, 6-0. Great Lakes scored Midwest League • Second Half four runs in the second inning on a pair of RBI fielder’s choices and a two-run double by Sam McWilliams. Brandon Lewis added a two-run home run in the sixth. Loons starter Zach Willeman held the Captains to one hit over six scoreless innings to earn the win and reliever Edward Cuello pitched three scoreless innings, allowing two hits, to notch the save. Captains starter Alex Royalty took Eastern Division W L GB the loss, allowing four runs over four innings. $ Bowling Green (Rays) 42 26 -- SCORELESS DROUGHT: With a 6-0 loss Saturday night, the Captains have been shut out in back-to-back games for the first time since April 25-26, 2017, when the Great Lakes Loons held Lake County scoreless two games in a row. The Captains have gone 25 @ Great Lakes (Dodgers) 38 30 4.0 straight innings without scoring a run. Lake County last scored in the second inning of Thursday’s 3-1 loss at Bowling Green on an RBI single by Daniel Schneemann. * South Bend (Cubs) 38 30 4.0 PLAYOFF PREVIEW: The Captains play their final game of the regular season today, facing the Great Lakes Loons, the same Lansing (Blue Jays) 35 34 7.5 team they will face in the first round of the playoffs. The Captains have gone 5-6 against Great Lakes this year, posting a 3.73 team ERA and hitting .224 as a team in the season series. Lake County has a -3 run differential in the series (38 R, 41 RA). Game one of % LAKE COUNTY (INDIANS) 33 35 9.0 the best-of-three playoff series is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, at 7:00 p.m. at Classic Park. Dayton (Reds) 29 40 13.5 CLINCHED: The Captains clinched a Midwest League playoff berth by winning the first half Eastern Division Wild Card. All of the playoff spots have been secured and all of the Eastern Division seeds are set. Quad Cities (first half champion), Cedar Rapids (first Fort Wayne (Padres) 29 40 13.5 half wild card), Clinton and Kane County will represent the Western Division. Great Lakes (first half champion), Lake County (first half wild card), Bowling Green (second half champion) and South Bend (second half wild card) will compete in the Eastern Division. West Michigan (Tigers) 28 41 14.5 The second half title and wild card spots in the Western Division will be decided today between Kane County and Clinton. Western Division W L GB PLAYOFF HISTORY: Lake County has now reached the postseason six times. The Captains made the South Atlantic League playoffs in 2003 and 2008. The Captains have reached the Midwest League postseason in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2019. They have Kane County (Diamondbacks) 45 24 -- won the division three times (2003, 2008, 2010) and the Wild Card three times (2012, 2014 and 2019). The Captains’ lone league championship was in the MWL in 2010. Clinton (Marlins) 44 25 1.0 PLAYOFF DÉJÀ VU: The Captains have faced the Great Lakes Loons once in a playoff series. In 2010, Lake County defeated the % Cedar Rapids (Twins) 38 31 7.0 Loons in the Eastern Division Finals, en route to the Captains’ only league championship in team history. After losing game one at Classic Park, 10-8, the Captains evened the series with a 7-6 victory at Dow Diamond in game two and won the decisive game on Wisconsin (Brewers) 38 31 7.0 the road, 6-1. @ Quad Cities (Astros) 35 34 10.0 BO KNOWS: Bo Naylor leads the Midwest League with 10 triples. He has more triples than any catcher in baseball (MLB and MiLB). Naylor needs two more to tie Donnie Webb’s Captains record of 12, set in 2009. Beloit (A’s) 27 42 18.0 CARRYING THE LOAD: Jose Fermin and Clark Scolamiero led the Captains’ offense during the month of August. Fermin Burlington (Angels) 27 42 18.0 finished the month with a team-best .333 average and was fifth in the league in runs scored (20), fourth in stolen bases (eight) and third in hits (34). Scolamiero had a team-high .823 OPS, tied for the league lead in runs (26) and tied with Fermin for fourth in steals Peoria (Cardinals) 24 45 21.0 (eight). @-1st Half Title $-2nd Half Title %-1st-half Wild Card *-2nd-half Wild Card ADVANCED STATS: Jose Fermin owns the lowest strikeout percentage in the Midwest League (8.8%) and the second-lowest swinging strike percentage (3.9%). Bo Naylor is sixth in the league in line drive percentage (20.1%) and eighth in the league in isolated slugging (.178). HEY, NEW GUY: The Captains welcomed OF George Valera, the Indians #6 prospect, according to MLB.com to the roster Monday. Valera, 18, played 46 games with Short-Season Mahoning Valley this year and slashed .236/.356/.446 with eight home Captains Contacts runs, en route to a New York-Penn League All-Star selection. Valera’s .802 OPS was good for 10th in the NYPL at the time of his promotion. Tim O’Brien: [email protected] POST-SEASON ALL-STARS: The Midwest League announced its Post-Season All-Star selections Friday, as voted on by the Andrew Luftglass: [email protected] league’s managers. Outfielder Will Benson and lefty reliever Skylar Arias were both honored. Benson was promoted to High-A Telephone: 440-975-8085 Lynchburg at the All-Star Break and hit 18 homers in just half a season. He led the league in homers, slugging percentage (.604), Twitter: @LCCaptains OPS (.975), RBI (55) and total bases (131) at the time of his promotion. Arias posted a 1.79 ERA for Lake County across 60.1 innings before his promotion to Lynchburg in mid-August. The southpaw struck out 27.8% of batters he faced and allowed a .173 batting average against. TOP PROSPECTS: The Captains currently feature five of the Indians’ Top 30 Prospects in C Bo Naylor (#5), OF George Valera UPCOMING SCHEDULE(#6), RHP AND Ethan HankinsPROBABLE (#8), INF Raynel PITCHING Delgado (#28) and MATCHUPS RHP Luis Oviedo (#14). Date Opp. Time (ET) Captains Starter 2019 ALL-STARS: OF WillOpponent Benson (now Starter at High -A Lynchburg), SS Tyler Freeman (now at HighLive-A Lynchburg) Audio (Subject and RHP to Manuel Change) 9/4 vs. Great Lakes 7:00 p.m. RHP Shane McCarthy Alvarez(4-3, 4.14 (now ERA) at High -A Lynchburg)RHP Ryan represented Pepiot (the0-0, Captains 2.45 ERA) at the 55th MWL All-Star Classic on June 18 at Four WindsAll SportsField in CLE 9/5 at Great Lakes 7:05 p.m. RHP Ethan Hankins (0South-3, 4.64 Bend, ERA) IN. Benson wasLHP named Robinson an All-Star Ortiz starter, (4-5, while 4.59 Freeman ERA) and Alvarez were reserves. Alvarez is the onlyAll player Sports CLE 9/6 at Great Lakes 7:05 p.m. LHP Eli Lingos (3-4, 3.66remaining ERA) on the active rosterRHP after Jose Benson Chacin and Freeman(11-8, 4.68 were ERA) promoted to High-A. All Sports CLE & ESPN 970 WFUN BIG MOMENTS: Will Benson hit four home runs in one game on April 18 against the South Bend Cubs, becoming the firs player in Captains history in the fifth in the history of the Midwest League to accomplish the rare feat. Ruben Cardenas hit an inside-the-park home run on April 16 in Bowling Green, marking the Captains’ first inside-the-park round-tripper since Sam Haggerty hit one on LAKE COUNTY CAPTAINS GAME NOTES PAGE 2 TODAY’S CAPTAINS STARTING PITCHER #34 MATT TURNER LHP 2019 Game-By-Game Date Opp Dec IP H R ER HR SO BB Result Born (Age): August 4, 1999 (19) 6/16 BAT ND 5.0 4 2 2 1 6 0 W, 9-7 Hometown: Miami, FL 6/21 AUB L 4.0 5 4 4 0 5 1 L, 8-1 School: Miami Palmetto HS (FL) 6/27 at SC L 6.0 6 3 3 1 1 3 L, 3-1 HT: 6’4” │WT: 180 lbs │ Bats: L │Throws: L 7/2 at WIL W 5.0 3 0 0 0 2 0 W, 7-0 7/8 WIL W 6.0 3 0 0 0 4 0 W, 4-0 Acquired: 2017 MLB Draft – Round 11 7/14 HV ND 5.0 5 1 1 0 5 1 L, 5-2 Pitch Selection: Fastball, slider, changeup 7/22 PEO ND 5.2 6 1 1 0 4 1 W, 2-1 7/28 at BG W 5.0 5 2 2 1 2 0 W, 8-4 8/2 LAN W 5.0 1 0 0 0 3 4 W, 5-1 2019 Statistics 8/7 at GL L 4.0 4 3 2 0 2 2 L, 4-1 Team W L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR HBP BB SO 8/12 WM ND 4.0 7 5 2 1 1 1 W, 13-6 MV 2 2 2.90 6 6 1 1 31.0 26 10 10 2 2 5 23 8/18 at WM ND 4.0 5 2 2 0 2 3 L, 4-2 LC 2 1 2.56 8 8 0 0 38.2 38 15 11 2 1 13 24 8/23 BG ND 5.0 6 1 1 0 5 1 L, 3-2 Total 4 3 2.71 14 14 1 1 69.2 64 25 21 4 3 18 47 8/28 at BG ND 6.0 4 1 1 0 5 1 W (10), 5-1 Total 4-3 69.2 64 25 21 4 47 18 Career Statistics Year Team W L ERA G GS CG SHO IP SO BB WHIP * Relief Appearance 201 7 AZL IND 1 2 6.75 10 3 0 0 24.0 22 8 1.83 2018 AZL IND1 3 3 3.75 11 3 0 0 36.0 36 8 1.19 2019 MV 2 2 2.90 6 6 1 1 31.0 23 5 1.00 2019 LC 2 1 2.56 8 8 0 0 38.2 24 13 1.32 Total 4 Teams 8 8 3.75 35 20 1 1 129.2 105 34 1.30 LAST TIME OUT: Turner held the Hot Rods to one run over six innings on Wednesday at Bowling Green.