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COLORADO SPRINGS SKY SOX 2016 GAME NOTES THURSDAY APRIL 28, 2016 - 5:38 PM (MDT) Colorado Springs Sky Sox Public Relations Department • Director: Nick Dobreff • (616) 485-3913 • [email protected] Director of Broadcasting • Dan Karcher • [email protected] www.SkySox.com Facebook.com/SkySoxBaseball @SkySox SkySoxBaseball TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS RECORD: 8-10 Colorado Springs: RHP Jorge Lopez (0-0, 7 .94) VS. Iowa: RHP Ryan Williams (1-1, 4 .85) SKY SOX SEASON AT A GLANCE Game Number . 19 Home Record . 3-3 Road Game Number . 13 Road Record . 5-7 Overall Record . 8-10 vs . RHP: . 6-6 vs . Pacific Northern . 0-0 vs . LHP . 2-4 vs . Pacific Southern . 0-0 Night . 5-7 vs . American Northern . 1-3 Day . 3-3 vs . American Southern . 7-7 Last 10 . 4-6 One-Run Games . .. 4-4 Current Streak . W1 RECORD: 7-11 LAST SERIES ARCIA LIVING UP TO HERALDED BILLING SKY SOX AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS u The Sky Sox lost their first series of the year, dropping 3-of-4 u Shortstop Orlando Arcia enters the 2016 season as the top AVERAGE Pina 5th .388 games against the Omaha Storm Chasers. prospect in the Brewers organization according to Baseball America SAVES Magnifico T-2nd 4 u INF Orlando Arcia led the Sky Sox offense hitting .429 and is rated the No. 6 overall minor league prospect on MLB.com. WALKS/9 IP Suter 1st 0.47 (6-for-14) with a grand slam home run and two runs. u Arcia was the Brewers Minor League Player of the Year OPPONENT AVG Guerra 5th .205 u OF Keon Broxton hit .316 in the series with two home runs. in 2015 after hitting .307 with eight home runs, 37 doubles, seven triples, 74 runs, 69 RBI and 25 SB in 129 gms with Double-A Biloxi. TONIGHT’S STARTER u Participated in the 2015 All-Star Futures Game in Cincinnati. TEAM RUNS SCORED: 8th 87 u RHP Jorge Lopez will make his fourth start of the year u Was named a Rawlings Minor League Gold Glove Award TEAM BATTING AVERAGE: T-5th .276 and his first career start against the Iowa Cubs. Winner following the 2015 season. TEAM ERA: 16th 5.87 u Lopez spent most of the 2015 season with Double-A Biloxi u Through the first 17 games of the season, Arcia is hitting going 12-5 with a 2.26 ERA and 137 strikeouts in 24 starts. .313 (21-for-67) with two home runs, 10 runs and 13 RBI. He has u He was named Brewers Minor League Pitcher of the Year reached base safely in 14-of-17 games overall. and Southern League Pitcher of the Year. u With the promotion of Rangers prospect Nomar Mazara, u Lopez ranked among the Southern League leaders in op- Arcia is now the youngest player in the PCL (21 years, 266 days). ponent batting average (1st, .205), wins (T-1st), ERA (2nd) and strikeouts (3rd). EY CLIMBING SKY SOX RECORD BOOKS u He made two starts with the Brewers after a September u OF Eric Young Jr. is back with the Sky Sox for the first time call-up on 9/22. His Major League debut came on 9/29 against San since the 2011 season . He played with the Sky Sox over parts of the PCL AMERICAN NORTH STANDINGS Diego where he picked up his first MLB win after allowing three 2009-11 seasons while a member of the Rockies Organization . TEAM W L PCT GB runs on eight hits over 5.0 IP. u Became the 9th player in Sky Sox history to score 200 runs OMAHA 13 7 .650 - u Lopez entered the 2016 rated by Baseball America as the with his 6th inning run scored against Memphis on April 7 . OKLAHOMA CITY 11 8 .579 1.5 No. 2 Prospect in the Brewers organization. u With his home run and run scored vs Omaha on 4/24, he SKY SOX 8 10 .444 4.0 u Played in the 2014 All-Star Futures game at Target Field. passed Beau Allred (205) for sixth place on the Sky Sox all-time runs scored list with 206 runs scored . IOWA 7 11 .389 5.0 PINA ON A HOT STREAK 2016 VS. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE u C Manny Pina has been an RBI machine of late, collecting ON THE OFFENSIVE 11 RBI over his last five games. Over his last seven games, he’s u TEAM OVERALL HOME ROAD The Sky Sox offense has been clicking as of late, scoring 45 ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES 0-0 0-0 0-0 hitting .538 (14-for-26) with a home run, five doubles, four runs runs over their last 6 games . They had previously scored just 42 runs EL PASO CHIHUAHUAS 0-0 0-0 0-0 scored and 11 RBI. over the first 12 games of the season . In that span, they’ve gone from FRESNO GRIZZLIES 0-0 0-0 0-0 u On the season, he leads the Sky Sox with a 13 RBI. and 15th in the PCL in runs scored to 8th and 12th in batting average IOWA CUBS 0-0 0-0 0-0 ranks 5th in the PCL in batting average at .388 (19-for-49). LAS VEGAS 51s 0-0 0-0 0-0 ( .240) to 5th ( .276) . MEMPHIS REDBIRDS 3-3 1-1 2-2 NASHVILLE SOUNDS 4-4 2-2 2-2 NEW ORLEANS ZEPHYRS 0-0 0-0 0-0 2015 Season vs. IOWA (5-11) • ALL-TIME (81-98) • HOME (46-45) OKC RED HAWKS 0-0 0-0 0-0 OMAHA STORM CHASERS 1-3 0-0 1-3 DATE W/L SCORE WP LP SV RENO ACES 0-0 0-0 0-0 4/25 vs IA W 9-8 Knebel (1-0) Ortiz (0-1) ROUND ROCK EXPRESS 0-0 0-0 0-0 4/27 vs IA W (7) 7-0 Leroux (1-2) Wada (0-2) 4/28 (1) vs IA L (7) 1-7 Roach (2-0) Additon (1-2) SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS 0-0 0-0 0-0 4/28 (2) vs IA L (7) 3-6 Russell (2-0) Knebel (1-1) SALT LAKE BEES 0-0 0-0 0-0 5/8 @ IA L 0-4 Roach (4-0) Gagnon (1-3) TACOMA RAINIERS 0-0 0-0 0-0 5/9 @ IA W 3-1 Roenicke (2-0) Jokisch (1-1) Knebel (5) 5/10 @ IA L 2-14 Pimentel (2-2) Cravy (2-4) 5/11 @ IA W 13-7 Wooten (1-0) Cooper (2-1) RECENT TRANSACTIONS 5/12 (1) @ IA L 0-2 Paulino (1-3) Gagnon (1-8) Schlitter (5) 5/12 (2) @ IA L 0-1 Pimentel (4-4) Dillard (1-1) Edwards (1) APRIL 28TH 5/13 @ IA W 4-1 Cravy (7-4) Roach (6-1) Chapman (3) INF Hernan Perez selected by Milwaukee 5/14 @ IA L (10) 7-8 Germen (4-0) Henderson (0-1) LHP Mitch Lambson placed on the disabled list 8/1 vs IA L 8-13 Wada (3-4) Roenicke (5-8) 8/2 vs IA L 7-9 Beeler (3-5) Cravy (7-7) Schlitter (15) RHP Drew Gagnon transferred from Double-A Biloxi 8/3 vs IA L 10-12 Ortiz (3-1) Wooten (4-2) Edwards Jr. (2) C Adam Weisenburger transferred from Rookie Helena 8/4 vs IA L 5-6 Pimentel (8-5) Strong (0-1) Schlitter (16) UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND PITCHING PROBABLES DAY DATE OPP. TIME (MDT) SKY SOX STARTER OPPOSING STARTER Friday 4/29 @IA 6:08 PM RHP Hiram Burgos (0-2, 10 .64) RHP Jake Buchanan (0-1, 14 .54) Saturday 4/30 @IA 6:08 PM RHP Ariel Pena (0-0-, 3 .18) RHP Drew Rucinski (0-2, 6 .04) Sunday 5/1 @IA 12:08 PM RHP Junior Guerra (0-2, 4 .63) RHP Pierce Johnson (0-0, 1 .13) Monday 5/2 RR 6:35 PM LHP Brent Suter (0-2, 7 .45) TBA TRIPLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS // PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: 1992 & 1995 SKY SOX STARTING PITCHER Complete bio information available on Page 41 of the 2016 Sky Sox Jorge Lopez #28 Media Guide @yabiee18 BATS: RIGHT THROWS: RIGHT HEIGHT: 6-3 WEIGHT: 193 OPENING DAY AGE: 23 BORN: February 10, 1993 in Cayey, Puerto Rico RESIDENCE: Caguas, Puerto Rico YEARS PRO: 6 ACQUIRED: Selected in the 2nd round, June 2011 First-Year Player Draft THE LOPEZ FILE: 2015: Named Brewers Minor League Pitcher of the Year and Southern League Pitcher of the Year after going 12-5 with a 2.26 ERA (36 ER/143.1 IP) in 24 starts for Double-A Biloxi...Ranked among the Southern League leaders in opponents batting average (1st, .205), wins (T-1st), ERA (2nd), and strikeouts (3rd, 137)...His contract was selected by Milwaukee on 9/22...He made two starts with the Brewers including picking up the win in his Major League debut on 9/29 at San Diego. 2014: Participated in the All-Star Futures Game for the World Team at Target Field, retiring the only batter he faced...ranked among the Florida State League leaders in strikeouts (3rd, 119) with Class-A Brevard County...Had a six-game winning streak from 4/28-6/16. 2013: Went 7-8 with a 5.23 ERA (68 ER/117.0 IP) in 25 games (22 starts) for Class-A Wisconsin. 2012: Entered the season as the ninth-best prospect in the Brewers organization according to Baseball America.