COLORADO SPRINGS SKY SOX 2017 GAME NOTES SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 - 1:30 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 TODAY’S STARTING PITCHERS RECORD: 10-5 Colorado Springs: RHP Paolo Espino (2-0, 4 .76) VS. Nashville: RHP Zach Neal (1-1, 3 .77) SKY SOX SEASON AT A GLANCE Game Number . 16 Home Record . 6-3 Home Game Number . 10 Road Record . 4-2 Overall Record . 10-5 vs . RHP: . 9-4 vs . Pacific Northern . 0-0 vs . LHP . 1-1 vs . Pacific Southern . 0-0 Night . 7-2 vs . American Northern . 3-1 Day . 3-4 vs . American Southern . 7-4 Last 10 . 7-3 One-Run Games . .. 2-1 Current Streak . L1 RECORD: 6-9 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT TODAY’S STARTER SKY SOX AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS u Colorado Springs dropped its series opener to the Nashville u RHP Paolo Espino makes his fourth start of the season, Sounds, 5-2, Saturday afternoon, thanks to four Sounds runs in the and first in his career against the Nashville Sounds. RUNS: Sogard T-9th 12 final two innings. u The native of Panama and graduate of The Pendleton School DOUBLES: Cooper T-2nd 6 u The Sox engaged in a pitcher’s duel for a majority of the in Bradenton, Fla ., earned the win against the Memphis Redbirds BATTING AVG: Brinson 5th .395 game, but a late Nashville rally gave Colorado Springs its first loss for the second time in as many games, allowing four earned runs ON-BASE %: Brinson 9th .435 of the 2017 season to the Oakland Athletics’ top affiliate . in 5 .1 innings while striking out 5 Redbirds . SLUGGING %: Brinson 3rd .698 u Espino looks to move up the Pacific Coast League strikeout INSIDE THE GAME leaderboard, where he currently sits in a tie for seventh with 18 WINS: Woodruff T-1st 3 u Nashville jumped to an early lead in the first inning, but strikeouts (along with Albuquerque’s German Marquez and Salt INN. PITCHED: Hader 6th 20.0 the Sky Sox countered with a game-tying run of their own in the Lake’s Alex Meyer). STRIKEOUTS Espino T-7th 18 bottom of the first. u 2017 marks his 11th professional season, having been WHIP: Woodruff 12th 1.10 u Lewis Brinson extended his hitting streak with a leadoff drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 10th round of the 2006 Draft. single and came around to score on a two-out RBI double by Gar- u Spent 2016 with the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs (Washington), TEAM BATTING AVERAGE: 4th .283 rett Cooper. where he went 8-11 with a 3 .30 ERA in 26 appearances (24 starts) . TEAM SLUGGING PERCENTAGE: 2nd .451 u u With that double, Cooper moved into a tie for second in the Signed as a minor league free agent with the Brewers on TEAM ERA: 1st 2.98 Pacific Coast League with six doubles through 15 games in 2017. November 10, 2016, with an invitation to Spring Training included in the contract . TEAM HITS ALLOWED: 1st 111 Cooper is tied with New Orleans’ Matt den Dekker, Albuquerque u Represented his home country of Panama in the 2006 and TEAM RUNS/ER ALLOWED: 1st/1st 49/43 Raimel Tapia, and Memphis’ Luke Voit and Patrick Wisdom. 2009 World Baseball Classic, as well as in the 2013 and 2017 WBC PCL AMERICAN NORTH STANDINGS u The two teams engaged in a scoreless pitcher’s duel for the qualifiers . next five and a half innings, but the Sox took their first lead in the TEAM W L PCT GB bottom of the seventh inning, when Brett Phillips cranked his third ALLOW ME TO RE-INTRODUCE MYSELF... SKY SOX 10 5 .714 -- home run in as many games to right-centerfield off Tucker Healy to u Despite missing some time early in the season with an injury, OMAHA 9 7 .563 1.5 give his team a 2-1 lead . Brinson still sits among the offensive in the Pacific Coast League. u Hiram Burgos bested his first start by throwing five strong IOWA 9 8 .529 2.5 u innings, allowing a single run a three hits . Despite the first inning The No. 1 prospect in the Milwaukee system currently has OKLAHOMA CITY 8 8 .500 3.0 run, Burgos retired 14 of the 17 batters he faced after surrendering a 10-game hitting streak after his leadoff single in the first inning four earned runs in his season debut 4/9 against Omaha . of Saturday’s game. 2017 VS. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE u Through three games in the season series with the Sounds, u The outfielder currently leads the Sky Sox in batting average TEAM OVERALL HOME ROAD the road team has gone 3-0 by a combined 16-4 score . The Sox look (.395), on-base percentage (.435), slugging percentage (.698), OPS ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES 0-0 0-0 0-0 to become the first home team to win Sunday afternoon . (1.132), total bases (30) and stolen bases (tied with 2) EL PASO CHIHUAHUAS 0-0 0-0 0-0 FRESNO GRIZZLIES 0-0 0-0 0-0 u In the Pacific Coast League, Brinson sits in the top-10 in TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM IOWA CUBS 0-0 0-0 0-0 slugging percentage (3rd), batting average (5th) and on-base per- LAS VEGAS 51s 0-0 0-0 0-0 u After getting hit by a pitch in the seventh inning, Ivan De centage (9th). MEMPHIS REDBIRDS 5-3 3-1 2-2 Jesus has been hit four times in the past five games. u When Brinson first arrived in Colorado Springs, he finished NASHVILLE SOUNDS 2-1 0-1 2-0 u NEW ORLEANS BABY CAKES 0-0 0-0 0-0 To put this into perspective, De Jesus has been hit more in 2016 by hitting .382 with four homer uns, 20 RBIs and four stolen one week than Beau Allred, Luis Lopez and Jeff Manto (the 1991 OKC DODGERS 0-0 0-0 0-0 bases in 23 games for the Sox. OMAHA STORM CHASERS 3-1 3-1 0-0 leaders in HBP with 3) did in the entire 1991 season. u Brinson’s hitting streak is currently the longest active streak RENO ACES 0-0 0-0 0-0 u De Jesus still has a ways to go to catch the Sky Sox all-time on the team. During this streak, he is 17-for-43 with three home ROUND ROCK EXPRESS 0-0 0-0 0-0 SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS 0-0 0-0 0-0 season leader in hit-by-pitches. That honor belongs to infielder Clint runs, four doubles and seven runs batted in. Barmes, who was plunked 22 times in 2007. SALT LAKE BEES 0-0 0-0 0-0 TACOMA RAINIERS 0-0 0-0 0-0 2017 Season vs. NASHVILLE (2-1) • ALL-TIME (77-88) • HOME (42-41) RECENT TRANSACTIONS DATE W/L SCORE WP LP SV APRIL 21 4/15 @ NSH W 6-1 Suter (1-0) Blackburn (0-2) LHP Andy Oliver transferred to Triple-A Colorado Springs 4/16 @ NSH W 5-1 Hader (2-1) Smith (0-1) from Extended Spring Training 4/17 @ NSH POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN (Rescheduled to May 28) LHP Brent Suter recalled to Milwaukee 4/18 NSH L 5-2 Healy (1-1) Goforth (0-1) Wahl (3) UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND PITCHING PROBABLES DAY DATE OPP. TIME (MDT) SKY SOX STARTER OPPOSING STARTER Monday 4/24 NSH 6:40 PM RHP Brandon Woodruff (2-0, 0 .00) RHP Daniel Gossett (0-1, 6 .92) Tuesday 4/25 NSH 6:40 PM TBA TBA Thursday 4/27 @IOWA 5:38 PM LHP Josh Hader (2-2, 3 .15) TBA Friday 4/28 @IOWA 6:08 PM RHP Hiram Burgos (0-1, 4 .35) TBA TRIPLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS // PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: 1992 & 1995 SKY SOX STARTING PITCHER Complete bio information available on Page 35 of the 2017 Sky Sox Paolo Media Guide Espino #21@PaoloEspino10 BATS: RIGHT THROWS: RIGHT HEIGHT: 5-10 WEIGHT: 215 OPENING DAY AGE: 30 BORN: January 10, 1987 in Panama City, Panama RESIDENCE: Panama City, Panama YEARS PRO: 11 ACQUIRED: Signed as a free agent on Novemeber 11, 2016 THE ESPINO FILE: 2016: Spent the entirety of last season in the Washington Nationals system in Triple-A Syracuse, where Espino went 8-11 with a 3.30 ERA in 26 appearances (24 starts)...Gave up 56 earned runs and struck out 133 batters in 152.2 innings in the International League. 2015: Split the season between Double-A Harrisburg and Triple-A Syracuse...In Central Pennsylvania, Espino went 0-3 with a 4.26 ERA in 7 starts for the Senators, but improved when he made the jump to Syracuse...Went 8-6 with a 3.21 ERA in 19 starts for the Chiefs, allowing42 earned runs and striking out 88 batters in 117.2 innings. Miscellaneous/Personal: Graduated from Pendleton (FL) High School, where he was a teammate of current Milwaukee Brewers Spanish translator Carlos Brizuela... Played for Team Panama in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic, and also played for his country during the WBC qualifiers in 2012 and 2016...Was named an Eastern League All-Star in 2010 with Double-A Akron (CLE) and finished the year with a 9-4 record and a 4.00 ERA...Led the Carolina League in earned run average (2.59) and WHIP (1.04) while playing for Class-A Advanced Kinston (CLE)...Is married to wife Leslie and the two have a daughter named Alana.