COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2018 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (28-24) @ Rome Braves (32-22) LHP David Peterson (1-3, 2.03) vs. LHP Bruce Zimmerman (6-2, 2.22) Sat., June 2, 2018 — State Mutual Stadium (Rome, GA) — First Pitch 6:00 p.m. — Game 53 LISTEN: Fox Sports Radio 1400 AM / ColumbiaFireflies.com / iHeartRadio App GLOW POINTS NEWS & NOTES CONTENTS ABOUT LAST GAME: Rome bested the visiting Fireflies at State Mutual Stadium on Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL South 1H Standing: 4th (-6.0) Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Home Record: 17-11 Friday, 7-1. The Atlanta Brave rehab starter Mike Soroka hurled 3.2 perfect innings Road Record: 11-13 of work. Raphael Gladu tallied three of Columbia’s four hits. Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Day Record: 5-3 Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 23-21 STREAKIN’: Outfielder Raphael Gladu extended his franchise-record hit streak to Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes 17 straight games on Friday. Gladu tied Asheville’s Shael Mendoza (17 games, April Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Road Trip: 2-2 17-May 10) for the longest hit streak in the SAL and all of low-A baseball in 2018. Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: L2 Page 12: Transactions Gladu is hitting .377 (23-for-61) during the hit streak. Sunday: 3-4 Longest Fireflies Hit Streaks (2016-pres.): Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Monday: 2-3 1. 17—Raphael Gladu … May 9-pres. Tuesday: 4-4 T-2. 11—Rigoberto Terrazas … April 9-20, 2018 Wednesday: 6-1 Thursday: 4-5 T-2. 11—David Thompson … April 7-17, 2016 vs. Rome (0-1, 0-1 Away) Friday: 6-2 Saturday: 3-5 STREAKIN’ x 2: There have been three different Fireflies this season to record on- base streaks of 16 games or longer: April: 12-12 May: 16-12 1. 29, Jeremy Vasquez (April 5-May 6)* *SAL & franchise-best June 1 Away L, 7-1 June: 2. 22, Raphael Gladu (May 2-present) 3. 16, Scott Manea (April 21-May 12) July: August: ANOTHER STELLAR MATCHUP: Today, David Peterson (Mets 2017 1st round September: draft choice) faces Bruce Zimmerman (Braves 2017 5th round draft choice) on the June 2 Away 6:00 p.m. Leading after six: 18-2 mound. The two southpaw were terrific in the month of May: Tied after six: 2-4 • Peterson: 5 GS, 1.10 ERA, 4 ER, 32.2 IP, 32 K, 8 BB Trailing after six: 8-18 Leading after seven: 19-2 • Zimmerman: 6 GS, 4-1, 1.72 ERA, 7 ER, 36.2 IP, 53 K, 12 BB Tied after seven: 1-3 June 3 Away 2:00 p.m. Trailing after seven: 8-19 MAY STARS: Raphael Gladu led the team with a .325 batting average in May, but Leading after eight: 22-1 Blake Tiberi (.294) and Matt Winaker (.284) were not far behind. Tiberi (.415) and Tied after eight: 5-4 Winaker (.410) led the club in on-base percentage. Columbia’s starters posted a Trailing after eight: 1-18 7:00 p.m. 2.97 ERA in the month, led by David Peterson: 1.10 ERA (4 ER, 32.2 IP). July 23 Away Scoring first: 15-6 Opponents score first: 13-18 SUPERB VISON: Columbia is one of two teams in MiLB with three players leading Shutout Wins/Loses: 1-4 their respective league in total walks, the other being the Fresno Grizzlies (HOU): July 24 Away 7:00 p.m. Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 13-17 South Atlantic League (Low A) Pacific Coast League (AAA) Fireflies starter 6+ IP: 14-7 1. Blake Tiberi (COL) - 34 1. Drew Ferguson, 38 Fireflies starter 7+ IP: 5-3 2. Jeremy Vasquez (COL) - 30 T-2. A.J. Reed, 36 vs. LH starters: 12-4 3. Matt Winaker (COL) - 29 T-2. Tyler White, 36 vs. RH starters: 16-20 July 25 Away 1:00 p.m. Tiberi, Vasquez and Winaker have drawn 93 total walks, that’s the second-highest Scoring less than three: 3-16 total for a trio of players in MiLB (of course, behind this trio from Fresno--110). Scoring three or four: 5-2 Scoring five or more: 20-6 ON THIS DATE, 2017: Columbia defeats Hagerstown, 8-7, in 10 inn. in a game that July 26 Away 7:00 p.m. featured four ties, two lead changes, three runs in both the top and bottom of the 9th One-run games: 11-10 Two-run games: 6-2 and one Brandon Brosher solo homer in the 10th to put the Fireflies up for good. 5+ run games: 8-5 ROSTER BREAKDOWN FROM COLA TO THE BIGS Extra Innings: 5-3 Walk-Off Wins: 5 Columbia’s 2018 roster is filled with plenty of skilled Mets farmhands: Out-hitting opponent: 22-3 METS PROSPECTS (according to MLB.com & Baseball America) Being out-hit: 7-18 2. LHP, David Peterson (1st round—20th, ‘17) 22. OF, Quinn Brodey Same number of hits: 1-3 14. LHP, Anthony Kay (1st round—31st, ‘16) 27. C, Ali Sanchez 19. OF, Wuilmer Becerra Series W-L-T (Home): 4-1-2 Series W-L-T (Road): 3-4-0 METS STERLING AWARD WINNERS (awarded to best player at each Mets MiLB level) Columbia had its first two former Series W-L-T (Total): 7-5-2 Nicolas Debora, RHP (2017 Brooklyn Cyclones, 2015 DSL Mets) players make their Major League debuts in 2018. Right-hander Rigoberto Terrazas, INF (2017 Kingsport Mets) Series Sweeps (Home): Merandy Gonzalez (above) was the Series Sweeps (Road): 1 TOP 10-ROUND METS DRAFT PICKS: first. The 2017 SAL All-Star pitched Series Sweeps (Total): 1 two scoreless innings for the Miami David Peterson (Oregon, 2017 - 1st round) Anthony Kay (UConn, 2016 - 1st), Quinn Brodey (Stanford, 2017 – 3rd), Blake Tiberi (Louisville, 2016 – 3rd), Tony Dibrell (Kennesaw Marlins on April 19. Left-hander P.J. White Jerseys: 5-6 th th th Gray Jerseys: 5-2 State, 2017 – 4 ), Matt Winaker (Stanford, 2017 – 5 ), Chris Viall (Stanford, 2016 – 6 ), Conlon (below) started for the Mets th Yellow Jerseys: 4-1 Marcel Renteria (New Mexico State, 2017 – 6 ), Conner O’Neil (Cal. State Northridge, 2017 on May 7 in th th th Navy Jerseys: 12-14 – 7 ), Trey Cobb (Oklahoma State, 2017 – 8 ), Stephen Villines (Kansas, 2017 – 10 ) Cincinnati. The Specialty Jerseys: 2-0 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2016 Mets Minor League Pitcher of Home crowds of 5,000+: 5 the Year hurled 3.2 Home crowds of 6,000+: 3 IP, struck out a Home crowds of 7,000+: batter and evened /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies smacked a base hit Sellouts at Spirit Communications Park: in his second at- ColumbiaFireflies.com bat. Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers Sunday, June 3 @ Rome 2:00 p.m. LHP Jake Simon (0-3, 3.71) vs. RHP Odalvi Javier (2-2, 4.28) Monday, June 4 OFF DAY Tuesday, June 5 vs. Charleston 7:05 p.m. RHP Tony Dibrell (2-2, 3.88) Wednesday, June 6 vs. Charleston 7:05 p.m. RHP Joe Cavallaro (6-1, 2.22) Thursday, June 7 vs. Charleston 7:05 p.m. LHP Anthony Kay (2-3, 4.40) Media Contact: Kevin Fitzgerald — [email protected] — 803-888-3040 (Office) — 908-745-9385 (Cell) FCORTOLUMBIA WAYNE FIREFLIES TINCAPS 2018 2014 G AMEGAME N OTESNOTES TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER 30 David Peterson HT: 6-6 WT: 240 B/T: L/L HOMETOWN: Denver, CO AGE: 22 BORN: September OBTAINED: Selected by the Mets in the 1st round (20th overall) of the 3, 1995 2017 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of the Univ. of Oregon YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 17 Brooklyn (SS) 0-0 2.45 3-3 0 0 3.2 4 1 1 1 6 .267 MiLB CAREER 0-0 2.45 3-3 0 0 3.2 4 1 1 1 6 .267 2018 STARTS NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • 2018: Posted the 2nd-best ERA in the SAL in the month of May - 1.10 (8th-best in all of MiLB) … has not walked a batter in 16.2 IP 5/27 Greenville L 6.2 7 2 2 0 7 L, 3-0 • Mets 2017 first round draft choice (20th overall) … first U. of Oregon Duck taken in the first round by the Mets … only the 2nd Duck taken in the 1st round since the program reinstated baseball as a varsity sport in 2009 (no varsity baseball 5/20 @ Charleston L 7.0 5 2 1 0 7 L, 2-1 from 1982-2008) • College: University of Oregon (‘15-’17)...became the first Duck in modern era to 5/14 Delmarva L 7.0 2 1 1 3 4 L, 1-0 earn consensus All-American honors...received first-team recognition from DI Baseball, Perfect Game, & NCBWA 5/7 Lakewood ND 7.0 3 0 0 1 8 L, 5-1 (10) • First-Team All-Pac 12 in 2017...went 11-4 with a 2.51 ERA and set a school record for strikeouts in a season (140)...only issued 15 walks in 100.1 innings 5/1 Lexington ND 5.0 4 2 0 4 6 L, 7-6 • Finished a stellar career at Oregon with 273 strikeouts, which is second-most in school history...also pitched in 256.2 innings and that’s tied for sixth-most in school history 4/24 @ Charleston ND 5.2 9 5 5 1 3 L, 7-5 (8) • On April 28, 2017, Peterson matched a school record with 20 strikeouts in one game vs.