MEDIA INFORMATION Winston-Salem Dash (3-3, 3rd, 1.0 GB / Southern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Chicago White Sox vs. Wilmington Blue Rocks (4-2, 1st, 0.0 GB / Northern) Carolina League Affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Game No. 7 • Home Game No. 7 • Frawley Stadium • Wednesday, April 10, 2019 • 10:35 a.m. BLUE ROCKS BREAKDOWN Tonight’s Starting Pitchup Matchups HOME: 4-2 | AWAY: 0-0 | STREAK: W4 | LAST 5: 4-1 | LAST 10: 4-2 Wilmington: LHP Daniel Lynch (0-1, 12.00) EXTRA EFFORT: Nick Pratto’s RBI-single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Wilmington Blue Rocks a 2-1 victory over the Winston- Winston-Salem: RHP Zach Lewis (1-0, 0.00) Salem Dash on Tuesday at Frawley Stadium. It was Wilmington’s first Tomorrow’s Starting Pitcher for Wilmington walk-off win since May 28, 2018 and extended the team’s season-high winning streak to four. Pratto’s game-winning single started the 10th in- Daniel Lynch makes his second start of the ning. In Minor League Baseball each offense starts extra innings with a season for the Blue Rocks on Wednesday. runner in scoring position. The real drama came in the top of the 10th. He is one of three first-round selections the Wilmington reliever Holden Capps (1-0) worked his way out of a first- Royals used on starting pitching in the 2018 and-third jam with no outs, courtesy of three straight punchouts. Draft. Lynch was the 34th overall pick out of the University of Virginia and signed for WHATEVER IT TAKES: The Blue Rocks continue to struggle to both catch and hit the ball. Wilmington committed three errors on Tuesday. It $1.7 million. He struggled his first two seasons marked the second time the Blue Crew had three defensive miscues in as a Cavalier, posting a combined ERA of a contest. Wilmington has now committed an error in all but one game over five as a freshman and sophomore, this year and leads the Carolina League with 11 total defensive miscues but saw things click in 2018. As a junior he in 2019. Meanwhile, on offense the Rocks managed just one hit over the lowered his ERA to 3.88 and struck out 105 game’s first nine innings. They are last in the 10-team loop with a team in only 88.2 innings. Then he split his debut batting average of just .142 after six games. Nevertheless Wilmington professional season between Low-A Lexington has won four straight games for the first time since last July, when the and Rookie-Burlington. Lynch allowed one club took six straight from July 23-28. run or fewer in 10 of his total starts. He is BLASTS FROM PAST: For the first time this decade Wilmington the organization’s fourth-ranked prospect faced two former Blue Rock pitchers on consecutive days. Cristian according to MLB.com. Castillo yielded just one run and one hit in five innings of a no-decision on Tuesday. Meanwhile, on Monday Kyle Kubat had also allowed just one run through five frames until he ran out of gas in the bottom of the 2019 Regular-Season Series: WIL vs. WS sixth when the lefty surrendered two tallies in the frame and took a no- decision in an eventual Winston-Salem setback. Kubat called Frawley Stadium home in 2016, going 4-1 with a 4.28 ERA in 25 total games First Meeting in 2019 and two starts. Castillo spent two seasons as a Blue Rock. He went (WS Won Series, 9-5 in 2018) 7-12 with a 4.13 ERA in 26 starts in 2017. Last year Castillo was the Blue Rocks’ Opening Night starter, but injuries plagued his season as he finished 4-5 with a 5.16 ERA in 17 games and nine starts. Date Site Result ALL GOOD THINGS MUST END: In a sport where there is a game 4/8 Wilmington W, 5-3 virtually every single night, it is not often something occurs that hadn’t in almost 17 years, but that’s exactly what happened in the bottom of 4/9 Wilmington W, 2-1 (10) the second inning on Tuesday. Sebastian Rivero came to the plate with two on and nobody out, but a potential rally ended promptly when 4/10 Wilmington the Wilmington catcher grounded into an around-the-horn triple play. The Rocks had not hit into a triple play since September 4, 2002 in 4/15 Winston-Salem Game One of the Carolina League Northern Division Championship Series. To put it into perspective how odd that is, the Blue Crew turned 4/16 Winston-Salem three triple plays in the 2015 season alone, with the last coming on 4/17 Winston-Salem August 4 at Myrtle Beach. That season Wilmington also turned three at Winston-Salem, which marked the second straight year the Rocks 4/22 Wilmington authored a triple play against the Dash. 4/23 Wilmington PROSPECT-LADEN ROSTER FOR THE ROCKS: The 2019 Wilmington Blue Rocks roster features six of the Kansas City Royals’ top 4/24 Wilmington seven prospects and 11 of the organization’s top 27 according to MLB. 7/17 Winston-Salem com. The team also includes six players with previous experience in Wilmington. 7/18 Winston-Salem STACKED STARTING ROTATION: The Rocks pitching staff will be anchored by three first round picks from last June. Kansas City’s top 7/19 Winston-Salem prospect, Brady Singer, is making his professional debut on the River- front in 2019. He will be joined on the Frawley Stadium mound by fel- low 2018 first-rounders Jackson Kowar and Daniel Lynch. Wilming- ton also brings back left-hander Daniel Tillo, who enters this year as the Royals’ 25th-ranked prospect and another former first-round pick in Nolan Watson, who was the 33rd overall selection in 2015. Upcoming Probable Starters and Schedule Thursday, April 11 at Carolina 7:00 p.m. RHP Brady Singer (0-1, 3.38) vs. RHP Nelson Hernandez (1-0, 1.80) 89.7 WGLS-FM Friday, April 12 at Carolina 7:00 p.m. RHP Jackson Kowar (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Noah Zavolas (1-0, 1.80) 89.7 WGLS-FM Saturday, April 13 at Carolina 5:00 p.m. TBA 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 LAST TIME: 5.2.18 Chase Vallot at POT (Solo HR & 3-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 Potomac 0-0 0-0 0-0 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (1 IN 2018) LAST TIME: 7.9.18 D.J. Burt & Emmanuel Rivera at FRE Salem 2-2 2-2 0-0 Northern Div. 2-2 2-2 0-0 LEADOFF HOME RUNS (1 IN 2017 / 0 IN 2016) 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 0-0 0-0 0-0 WALK-OFF HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Down East 0-0 0-0 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 2-0 2-0 0-0 INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (2 IN 2018) Southern Div. 2-0 2-0 0-0 LAST TIME: 8.19.18 @ W-S Oliver Nunez (4th inning, solo HR) BLUE ROCKS HOME RUNS: 1 (63 IN 2018 / 23 HOME & 40 AWAY) Runners Left On Base Carolina 0 Lynchburg 0 Blue Rocks: 20| Opponents: 39 Down East 0 Myrtle Beach 0 Fayetteville 0 Potomac 0 Numbers With RISP Frederick 0 Salem 1 Blue Rocks: .171 Avg. (6-for-35) Winston-Salem 0 Blue Rocks On... FRAWLEY 1 ROAD 0 Mondays: 1-0 April: 4-2 Tuesdays: 1-0 May: 0-0 Opponents Wednesdays: 0-0 June: 0-0 2-HR GAMES BY OPPONENT (4 IN 2018) Thursdays: 0-1 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: 1-1 Sept: 0-0 LAST TIME: Michael Chavis (SAL) 4.19.17 at Hayley Toyota Sundays: 1-0 BACK-TO-BACK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2017/0 IN 2016) First Game of Series: 0-1 LAST TIME 8.10.18 Jared Young & Andruw Monasterio off Nolan Waston at MB Last Game of Series: 1-0 BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK (0 IN 2018) Series Won: 1 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: 0 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 (25) PINCH-HIT HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) Pitchers (13) Infielders (6) Holden Capps Ricky Aracena INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUNS (0 IN 2018) J.C.