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MEDIA INFORMATION Down East Wood Ducks (10-5, 1st, 0.0 GB / Southern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Texas Rangers vs. Wilmington Blue Rocks (11-4, 1st, 0.0 GB / Northern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Game Nos. 16 & 17 • Home Game Nos. 9 & 10 • Frawley Stadium • Saturday, April 20, 2019 • 5:05 p.m. BLUE ROCKS BREAKDOWN Tonight’s Starting Pitchup Matchups HOME: 6-2 | AWAY: 5-2 | STREAK: W3 | LAST 5: 4-1 | LAST 10: 8-2 Wilmington: LHP Daniel Tillo (2-0, 1.38) TWICE THE FUN: The Wilmington Blue Rocks will play their third doubleheader of the 2019 season on Saturday. Friday’s game with Down East: RHP Reid Anderson (0-0, 1.00) Down East was rained out. The Rocks split two with Salem on April 6 and took both from Carolina on April 13. Wilmington: LHP Daniel Lynch (0-1, 7.15) ROCKS STAY HOT: A bases-clearing triple by Seuly Matias lifted Down East: RHP Noah Bremer (1-0, 3.72) the Wilmington Blue Rocks to a 4-3 victory over the Down East Wood Ducks in an early-season matchup of first-place teams at Frawley Sta- Tomorrow’s Starting Pitcher for Wilmington dium on Thursday. Matias’ big knock in the fifth marked the second Brady Singer gets the ball for the Blue time in the game Wilmington had erased a deficit. The win was the Blue Rocks. Singer was the Royals’ first of three Crew’s 11th in their last 13 games. first-round picks (No. 18 overall) in last June’s draft. The University of Florida prod- ROSTER MAINTENANCE: The Blue Rocks made their second uct chose the college route over signing with roster move of the season before the game on Thursday. Wilmington the Toronto Blue Jays, who originally drafted placed prospect outfielder Kyle Isbel on the injured list and him in the second round out of high school replaced him with Rudy Martin. Martin spent the 2018 season with in 2015. The patience paid off when Singer the Rocks, batting .232 with four homers, 21 extra-base hits and 37 signed for $4.25 million with the Royals last RBI in 75 games. Earlier in the week pitcher Marcelo Martinez summer. Singer won a national championship replaced Nolan Watson on the roster after Watson was placed on IL. with the Gators in 2017 and then earned the Martinez made quite the debut tossing five scoreless frames to earn Dick Howser Award last year despite pitching a win on Wednesday. Martin went 2-for-4 with a run scored and a through a nagging hamstring injury. stolen base in his 2019 debut with the Rocks on Thursday. PLENTY OF CLOSE CALLS: The Blue Crew won for the seventh time 2019 Regular-Season Series: WIL vs. DE this season in a game decided by only a single score. Wilmington is now 7-3 in one-run contests. The 10 games decided by just one run are the most in the Carolina League over the first two-plus weeks of the 2019 campaign. First Meeting in 2019 DEFENSIVE MISGIVINGS: The Blue Rocks continue to struggle defensively in 2019. Pitcher Jackson Kowar committed an error in the second inning on Thursday. It was Wilmington’s Carolina League- leading 21st defensive miscue of the season. The Rocks have gone just Date Site Result four games all season without committing at least one error. 4/18 Wilmington W, 4-3 TOUGH YARD TO LEAVE: The Blue Rocks hit eight home runs 4/19 Wilmington PPD during their first road trip of the season, but have managed just one at the pitcher-friendly confines of Frawley Stadium. Kyle Isbel hit Wilmington’s 4/20 Wilmington only home dinger of the young year on Opening Day. The Rocks have gone seven consecutive games in the First State without one since. 4/20 Wilmington 4/21 Wilmington SOUTHERN COMFORT: Wilmington may call the Carolina League’s Northern Division home, but in the early part of the season 7/26 Down East the Blue Crew will be much more familiar with the CL South. The Rocks are in the midst of 17 consecutive games against southern 7/27 Down East division foes. Wilmington swept a three-game series at home against 7/28 Down East the Dash and then took three of four at Carolina before taking two of three at Winston-Salem. The Rocks are in the midst of a four-game 8/16 Down East series at home against Down East before welcoming the Dash back 8/17 Down East to Frawley Stadium for three more. Wilmington is currently 9-2 during this long stretch of southern hospitality. 8/18 Down East PROSPECT-LADEN ROSTER FOR THE ROCKS: The 2019 Wilmington Blue Rocks roster features six of the Kansas City Royals’ top seven prospects and 11 of the organization’s top 27 according to MLB.com. The team also includes six players with previous experience in Wilmington. Upcoming Probable Starters and Schedule Sunday, April 21 vs. Down East 1:35 p.m. RHP Brady Singer (1-1, 2.87) vs. RHP Jason Bahr (1-0, 0.82) 89.7 WGLS-FM Monday, April 22 vs. Winston-Salem 6:35 p.m. LHP Marcelo Martinez (1-0, 0.00) vs. TBA 89.7 WGLS-FM Tuesday, April 23 vs. Down East 6:35 p.m. RHP Jackson Kowar (1-0, 1.80) vs. TBA 89.7 WGLS-FM RADIO: Rowan Radio, 89.7 WGLS-FM WEBCAST: wgls.rowan.edu or bluerocks.com Wilmington Blue Rocks Game Notes MEDIA INFORMATION CONTINUED HOME RUN NOTES Blue Rocks vs. the Carolina League Blue Rocks 2-HR GAMES BY BLUE ROCKS (2 IN 2018 ) Opponent Record Home Road 4.14.19 Seuly Matias at CAR (Solo HR & 2-R HR) Frederick 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-HR GAMES BY BLUE ROCKS (HAS NEVER HAPPENED) Lynchburg 0-0 0-0 0-0 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) Potomac 0-0 0-0 0-0 LAST TIME: 7.9.18 D.J. Burt & Emmanuel Rivera at FRE Salem 2-2 2-2 0-0 LEADOFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) Northern Div. 2-2 2-2 0-0 4.14.19 7.10.18 Nick Heath at FRE (Off big-league rehabber Chris Tillman) Opponent Record Home Road GRAND SLAM HOME RUNS (3 IN 2018) LAST TIME: 6.24.18 Meibrys Viloria at POT (off Jeremy Hellickson) Carolina 3-1 0-0 3-1 WALK-OFF HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Down East 1-0 1-0 0-0 LAST TIME 7.24.17 Chase Vallot vs. SAL (10th inning) Fayetteville 0-0 0-0 0-0 PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS (1 IN BOTH 2018) Myrtle Beach 0-0 0-0 0-0 LAST TIME: 5.16.15 Dex Kjerstad at LYN Winston-Salem 5-1 3-0 2-1 INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (2 IN 2018) Southern Div. 9-2 4-0 5-2 LAST TIME: 8.19.18 @ W-S Oliver Nunez (4th inning, solo HR) BLUE ROCKS HOME RUNS: 9 (63 IN 2018 / 23 HOME & 40 AWAY) Runners Left On Base Carolina 6 Lynchburg 0 Blue Rocks: 74| Opponents: 93 Down East 0 Myrtle Beach 0 Fayetteville 0 Potomac 0 Numbers With RISP Frederick 0 Salem 1 Blue Rocks: .186 Avg. (22-for-118) Winston-Salem 2 Blue Rocks On... FRAWLEY 1 ROAD 8 Mondays: 1-1 April: 11-4 Tuesdays: 1-0 May: 0-0 Opponents Wednesdays: 1-1 June: 0-0 2-HR GAMES BY OPPONENT (4 IN 2018) Thursdays: 1-2 July: 0-0 LAST TIME 8.19.18 Yermin Mercedes (Solo HR & GW 3-R HR) Fridays: 0-0 Aug: 0-0 3-HR GAMES BY OPPONENT (1 IN 2018) Saturdays: 3-1 Sept: 0-0 LAST TIME: Michael Chavis (SAL) 4.19.17 at Hayley Toyota Sundays: 2-0 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2017/0 IN 2016) First Game of Series: 3-3 LAST TIME 8.10.18 Jared Young & Andruw Monasterio off Nolan Waston at MB Last Game of Series: 4-0 BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK (0 IN 2018) Series Won: 3 LEADOFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2017) Series Lost: 0 LAST TIME: 7.3.18 Luis Gonzalez (W-S) off Gerson Garabito at Wilmington Series Split: 1 GRAND SLAM HOME RUNS (3 IN 2018) Series Swept: 1 LAST TIME: 7.21.17 Drew Turbin (FRE) off Cristian Castillo (5-3 Loss) Rubber Matches: 0-0 WALK-OFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) LAST TIME: 8.19.18 Yermin Merceds at Frederick 2019 Roster (26) PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Pitchers (14) Holden Capps Infielders (6) INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) J.C. Cloney Ricky Aracena Daniel Duarte Dennicher Carrasco HOME RUNS ALLOWED TO: 6 (92 in 2018/ 33 Home & 59 AWAY) Angelo Castellano Carolina 1 Lynchburg 0 Robert Garcia Down East 0 Myrtle Beach 0 Jackson Kowar Cristian Perez Fayetteville 0 Potomac 0 Rito Lugo Nick Pratto Frederick 0 Salem 1 Winston-Salem 4 Daniel Lynch Marcelo Martinez FRAWLEY 2 ROAD 4 Tad Ratliff Outfielders (5) Brady Singer Marten Gasparini Collin Snider Brewer Hicklen Daniel Tillo Kyle Isbel Nolan Watson Rudy Martin Tyler Zuber Seuly Matias Blake Perkins Catchers (2) MJ Melendez Sebastian Rivero TODAY’S BLUE ROCKS STARTING PITCHER #45 LHP Daniel Tillo Acquired: Third-Round Pick in 2017 Draft Born: Sioux City, IA Age: 22 (June 13, 1996) Resides: Sioux City, IA Ht: 6’5 Wt: 215 College: Iowa Western Community College Bats/Throws: L/L Pitch Repertoire: 4FB, 2FB, SL, CH THE BOOK ON DANIEL TILLO: Daniel Tillo will make his second start of the 2019 campaign on Saturday.