NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (40-56) vs. San Antonio Missions (61-36) LHP Wes Benjamin (4-5, 6.56) vs. RHP Shelby Miller (0-0, ---) Game #97/Road Game #48 • Thursday, July 18, 2019 • Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium • 7:05 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Friday July 19 vs. Iowa LHP Joe Palumbo (1-0, 3.38) RHP Matt Swarmer (5-8, 5.76) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Saturday July 20 vs. Iowa RHP Seth Maness (5-3, 5.55) RHP Colin Rea (11-2, 3.17) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Sunday July 21 vs. Iowa RHP Pedro Payano (2-2, 4.34) RHP Trevor Clifton (3-8, 5.59) 6:15 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Monday July 22 OFF DAY SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight's Game: The Nashville Sounds and San Antonio Missions play the series finale of a four-game set -to night at Nelson W. Wolff Stadium. San Antonio has won the first three games of the series. Tonight, left-hander SOUNDS VS. MISSIONS Series (W-L-T): 6-13-4 Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds against right-hander Shelby Miller for the Missions. Series Openers: 9-15 2019: 3-8 at Nashville: 1-3 All-Time: 3-8 at San Antonio: 2-5 Series Finales: 8-15 Wes Benjamin: 25-year-old Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds in tonight's finale. The left-hander is making Series Sweeps: 1-3 his 19th appearance (18th start) of the season and is 4-5 with a 6.56 ERA while covering 83.2 innings. Ben- DATE SITE RESULT Day Games: 7-14 jamin has yielded 101 hits and 40 walks to go with his 71 strikeouts. His last outing was on July 12 in a start 4/12 San Antonio W, 7-3 Night Games: 33-42 against New Orleans at First Tennessee Park. He logged a quality start (6.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K) and 4/13 San Antonio L, 5-3 vs. RHP: 32-39 did not factor into the decision in Nashville's 7-4 loss. Benjamin spent the majority of his 2018 season with 4/14 San Antonio L, 5-4 vs. LHP: 8-16 Double-A Frisco where he went 5-6 with a 3.62 ERA in 15 starts. The southpaw spent nearly two months on 4/15 San Antonio W, 10-5 the disabled list from June 7-July 31 with a left elbow strain. Despite missing time, Benjamin led the Frisco April: 8-18 4/19 Nashville PPD staff in wins and ranked among team leaders in strikeouts (3rd), starts (T3rd) and innings (4th). In his minor May: 14-15 4/20 Nashville L, 5-2 league career, Benjamin is 25-23 with a 4.32 ERA while covering 80 games (76 starts). The Rangers drafted 4/21, G1 Nashville W, 3-1 (7) June: 13-14 the Illinois native in the 5th round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of Kansas University. July: 5-9 4/21, G2 Nashville L, 6-0 (7) August: 0-0 Shelby Miller: 28-year-old Shelby Miller starts for San Antonio tonight. The right-hander is making his first 4/22 Nashville L, 5-0 September: 0-0 career appearance in the Milwaukee organization. Miller began the 2019 season with the Texas Rangers and 7/15 San Antonio L, 11-1 Monday: 7-5 went 1-3 with an 8.59 ERA in 19 games (8 starts). He covered 44.0 innings and allowed 58 hits and 29 walks 7/16 San Antonio L, 6-5 Tuesday: 5-8 to go with 30 strikeouts. Big league hitters had a .317 batting average against him. Miller was designated 7/17 San Antonio L, 7-5 Wednesday: 4-8 for assignment on July 1 and released on July 4. The Major League veteran has pitched in 150 games at the 7/18 San Antonio big league level and is 38-56 with a 4.11 ERA. He has logged over 750 innings in the big leagues. Milller has Thursday: 3-12 8/30 Nashville pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (2012-14), Atlanta Braves (2015), Arizona Diamondbacks (2016-18) and 8/31 Nashville Friday: 10-3 the Texas Rangers (2019). He was drafted by the Cardinals in the 1st round (19th overall) of the 2009 MLB 9/1 Nashville Saturday: 5-8 Draft out of Brownwood (TX) High School. Sunday: 6-12 9/2 Nashville vs. Am. Northern: 13-21 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division vs. Am. Southern: 21-27 standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 1, Third: 23, Fourth: 76. TONIGHT’S MATCHUP vs. Pac. Northern: 3-4 Sounds Missions vs. Pac. Southern: 3-4 Andy Ibáñez Powers Up: Infielder Andy Ibáñez hits his 11th home run of the season last night - a go-ahead 40-56 Record 61-36 two-run blast. Ibáñez is two longs ball shy of his single-season career-high of 13 in 2016 with Single-A vs. NL Affiliate: 26-35 18-31 Home 37-15 Hickory (7) and Double-A Frisco (6). Three of his home runs have been go-ahead homers and two have been 22-25 Road 24-21 vs. AL Affiliate: 14-21 game-tying. Lead After 6: 29-4 Trail After 6: 6-46 Eli Streaks Again: Shortstop/center fielder Eli White has hit safely in seven consecutive games. It's the fifth L4 Streak W7 Tied After 6: 5-6 time this season he has put together a hitting streak of at least seven games (7, 8, 10, 7, 10). Over the current 1-4 Last 5 5-0 Lead After 7: 30-4 seven-game stretch, White has exactly one hit in each contest and is hitting .241 (7-for-29) with 4 runs 2-8 Last 10 9-1 Trail After 7: 4-46 scored, 1 triple, 2 home runs, 6 RBI, 1 walk and 1 stolen base. Tied After 7: 6-6 .255 (16th) Batting Avg. .268 (12th) Avoiding the Sweep: Nashville needs a win tonight to avoid being swept in a four-game series for the second Lead After 8: 32-1 112 (14th) HR 130 (10th) time in 2019. The Sounds lost all four games in Omaha heading into the All-Star break. They have also 467 (16th) R 516 (10th) Trail After 8: 3-47 suffered a pair of three-game sweeps to Round Rock and Reno. Tied After 8: 2-3 65 (6th) SB 84 (5th) Scoring First: 25-18 100 Multi-RBI Games: Andy Ibáñez had two RBI in last night's loss and had the 100th multi-RBI game by a 848 (11th) K (Batting) 862 (13th) Opp. Scoring First: 14-38 Sounds player in 2019. Matt Davidson leads the team with 17 and is followed by Patrick Wisdom with 9 and 349 (T10th) BB (Batting) 355 (8th) Scoring 4+ Runs: 31-28 Eli White with 8. 5.62 (10th) ERA 3.75 (1st) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 20-50 805 (13th) K (Pitching) 861 (5th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 9-28 Davidson's On-Base Streak: Infielder Matt Davidson has reached base safely in 13 consecutive games, tied 348 (6th) BB (Pitching) 326 (4th) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 19-6 for the 9th-longest active streak in the Pacific Coast League. During the streak, Davidson has an on-base per- 592 (11th) R Allowed 405 (1st) centage of .357 and is hitting .300 (15-for-50) with 6 runs scored, 3 doubles, 2 home runs, 9 RBI and 4 walks. Hit a HR: 31-34 127 (5th) HR Allowed 105 (1st) Allow a HR 27-42 Granite Swipes #17: Outfielder Zack Granite stole his 17th base of the season Tuesday night. He is tied for .979 (8th) Fielding Pct. .978 (11th) Hit 2+ HR: 18-16 7th-most in the Pacific Coast League (Sam Hilliard, Albuquerque). Granite's single-season high for stolen AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Allow 2+ HR: 11-26 bases is 56 with Double-A Chattanooga in 2016. Ian Miller of Tacoma leads the league with 25. W L PCT GB Outhit Opponent: 25-9 Iowa 55 42 .567 - Tie in Hits: 6-3 Struggling vs. San Antonio: The Sounds and Missions have played 11 times in 2019 and the Missions have won eight, including five straight. In the 11 head-to-head games, Nashville is hitting .210 with 27 walks and a Omaha 44 53 .454 11.0 Outhit by Opponent: 9-44 Nashville 40 56 .417 14.5 Record 10+ Hits: 20-12 .672 OPS. San Antonio is hitting .282 with 44 walks and an .838 OPS. Nashville's staff ERA is 5.80 (90.0 IP/58 ER) and San Antonio's is 3.16 (94.0 IP/33 ER). Memphis 38 59 .392 17.0 Allow 10+ Hits: 12-36 Commit an Error: 19-28 Three-Headed Monster: Outfielder Scott Heineman rejoined Nashville on June 25 and is hitting .409 (27- Commit No Errors: 21-28 for-66) since then, good for the 4th-highest average in the Pacific Coast League. During that same timeframe, UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS Walk-Off Wins: 1 Christian Lopes has the 6th-highest average in the league at .400 (22-for-55) and Zack Granite has the The four-game road trip concludes tonight with Walk-Off Losses: 3 8th-highest mark at .397 (23-for-58).