GAME NOTES DOUBLE-A AFFILIATE OF THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING AND BASEBALL INFORMATION: JOSH CARAY - [email protected] MEDIA RELATIONS COORDINATOR: AARON CHERIS - [email protected] ROCKET CITY TRASH PANDAS (25-24) TENNESSEE SMOKIES (18-30) 3rd PLACE, DOUBLE-A SOUTH (NORTH) 4th PLACE, DOUBLE-A SOUTH (NORTH) G1-RHP KYLE TYLER (4-1, 2.52) AT G1-RHP DAKOTA CHAMBERS (0-0, 0.00) G2-LHP REID DETMERS (2-2, 3.95) G2-RHP JAVIER ASSAD (0-3, 4.58) SMOKIES STADIUM - KODAK, TN - FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2021 - 4:00 PM CT GAMES 50-51 | AWAY GAMES 27-28 | TODAY’S BROADCASTS ONLINE MiLB TV RADIO SPORTSRADIO 730 AM/103.9 FM THE UMP UPCOMING STARTERS ROCKET CITY STATS DATE TIME (CT) OPPONENT TRASH PANDAS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER Overall Record ....................... 25-24 Home Record ......................... 14-9 Saturday July 3 6:00 PM @ Tennessee RHP Cooper Criswell (5-3, 3.59) RHP Peyton Remy (0-1, 2.51) Road Record ........................... 11-15 Sunday July 4 6:00 PM @ Tennessee RHP Boomer Biegalski (2-3, 5.28) TBA vs. North Division .................. 20-17 Monday July 5 OFF vs. South Division .................. 5-7 vs RHP .......................................... 19-15 LAST TIME OUT: A costly error by Trash Pandas leftfielder Orlando Martinez led to six unearned runs in the sixth inning vs LHP .......................................... 6-9 Night ............................................ 21-20 as Rocket City fell to Tennessee 7-2 on Wednesday night before Thursday's matchup was rained out. Martinez dropped a Day ................................................. 4-4 fly ball with two out in a scoreless game to allow the inning to continue. The next five batters would reach base off Aaron Last 10 .......................................... 5-5 Streak ........................................... L2 Hernandez including two two-run doubles, an RBI double, and an RBI single by the Smokies. Designated hitter Ibandel 1-Run Games ........................... 5-6 Isabel lifted a two-run homer in the seventh for Rocket City’s only runs. Tennessee got a solo dinger in the bottom-half Home Attendance ................ 129,457 for the final tally. Hernandez allowed six unearned runs on six hits with three walks and six strikeouts over 3.1 innings to Home Avg. Attendance .... 6,165 Season Sellouts ...................... 3 take the loss. Angels reliever Chris Rodriguez started the game and tossed 2.2 scoreless innings with no hits, no walks and three strikeouts. TEAM STATS GETTING K’S: Rocket City pitchers are racking up the strikeouts against opposing hitters whiffing 514 batters through the Batting Average .................... .246 first 49 games. That is good enough for second in AA-South. The most the Trash Pandas have struck out in a game was 19, Hits .................................................. 397 Runs ............................................... 221 which happened on 6/26 against Chattanooga when starter Reid Detmers set a new season-high for Rocket City pitchers Runs/Game .............................. 4.5 with 16Ks followed by reliever Ryan Clark who punched out three more Lookouts. Twice the Trash Pandas have struck out Doubles ...................................... 66 16 batters. First on 5/11 when they K’d 16 Smokies in a 10-inning loss then on 6/16 when they shutout Biloxi. The also struck Triples ............................................ 6 Home Runs ............................... 72 out 15 Smokies in a shutout win on 5/13, 15 more against Birmingham on 5/25, and another 15 against Chattanooga on 6/5. RBI ................ ................................... 209 Southpaw Reid Detmers leads the way with 76 K’s after his 16-strikeout performance. Stolen Bases ............................. 33 Team ERA ................................... 4.44 Innings Pitched ..................... 422.0 READY FOR LAUNCH: The Trash Pandas have lived up to the Rocket City nickname by launching 72 homers, which leads Hits Allowed .............................. 400 all of AA. 12 of those dingers came in the first Tennessee series, including two grand slams in the series finale on 5/16. Third Strikeouts ................................... 514 baseman Mitch Nay leads the way with 12, which is tied for second in AA-South. In fact, the Trash Pandas possess four of the TRASH PANDAS LEADERS top 10 homerun hitters in AA-South on the team. Nay has 12, with outfielder Izzy Wilson right behind him at 11. Outfielder Games ......................................... Nay, 47 Orlando Martinez sits behind both at 10, while designated hitter Ibandel Isabel clocks in with nine. Batting Average ..................... MacKinnon, .331 At-Bats .......................................... Martinez, 177 Runs .............................................. 2 Tied, 27 TEEING OFF ON TENNESSEE: Of the 72 homeruns hit by Rocket City this season, 51 have come against the state of Ten- Hits ................................................. MacKinnon, 49 nessee. The team clubbed five homers in a win over Chattanooga on 6/27 giving the Trash Pandas 26 blasts against the Doubles ....................................... MacKinnon, 12 Triples ............................................ Didder, 4 Lookouts this season. In addition, the Trash Pandas have 25 homers this season against the Smokies, the second-most Home Runs ............................... Nay, 12 against any team. RBI ................................................... Martinez, 28 Stolen Bases ............................. Wilson, 11 Walks ............................................ Nay, 21 TODAY'S STARTING PITCHERS: Taking the hill for Rocket City in Game 1 will be righty Kyle Tyler who is coming off an poor On-Base % ................................ MacKinnon, .415 performance against Chattanooga on 6/25 when he allowed five runs on five hits over four innings in a no-decision. He held Slugging % ............................... MacKinnon, .534 Innings Pitched ..................... Criswell, 52.2 a 9-0 lead after four before the Lookouts began to rally against him on their way to a 10-9 victory. After a rough outing to Wins .............................................. Criswell, 5 begin the season at Chattanooga on 5/6 and an uneven performance on 5/12 against Tennessee, Tyler has settled in nicely. ERA ................................................ Tyler, 2.52 He compiled 23.2 consecutive scoreless innings since firing 1.2 scoreless ball to wrap up his 5/12 outing. He followed that Strikeouts ................................... Detmers, 76 Saves .............................................. Higgins, 5 up with six more scoreless frames on two hits with nine Ks in another win over Birmingham on 5/26. He went the furthest any Trash Pandas hurler has gone in a game on 6/1 when tossed eight-plus innings, allowed four hits, struck out seven and vs DOUBLE-A SOUTH walked none. He allowed the leadoff man to reach in the ninth, was removed from the game, then saw that runner score OVERALL HOME ROAD two outs later to end the streak. After receiving a no-decision despite six shutout innings on 6/13 against Tennessee, Tyler BUFFALOBIRMINGHAM 2- 4 2- 4 0--0 fired the first complete-game in Trash Pandas history after going seven innings and allowing a run on two hits in a 6-1 win COLUMBUSCHATTANOOGA 81--19 3-- 2 51-17 over Biloxi on 6/20. LHP Reid Detmers is scheduled to start the nightcap in his first start after being named to the All-Star DURHAMTENNESSEE 105--64 55--41 05-23 Future Game on Wednesday. The Angels No. 2 prospect has been stellar of late, recording a career-high in strikeouts in GWINNETTNORTH DIVISION 2010-175 105--37 105-210 each of his last two starts. First in the opener of a doubleheader against Biloxi on 6/20, he gave up two runs and struck out INDIANAPOLIS 3-7 1-2 2-5 14 over six innings to earn the victory. In his most recent start, he upped his strikeout total to 16, a Trash Pandas single game LEHIGHMISSISSIPPI VALLEY (NOT ON2- 12021 SCHEDULE2-1 - ) record, but did not factor in the final decision after giving up three home runs. Detmers finished June with a 2-0 record, a LOUISVILLEBILOXI 62-32 45-12 01--20 3.86 ERA and 46 strikeouts after going 0-2 with a 4.05 ERA and 30 strikeouts in May, his first month of professional baseball. NORFOLKMONTGOMERY 70--40 30--00 40--40 PAWTUCKETPENSACOLA 1-5 0- 0 1-5 PROSPECT RANKINGS: The Trash Pandas' current active roster features four of the Angels’ Top 30 prospects (according ROCHESTERSOUTH DIVISION 3-33-7 3-04-2 0-31-5 to MLB.com): left-handed pitcher Reid Detmers (Angels’ No. 2, No. 57 in all of baseball), right-handed pitcher Oliver Ortega SCRANTON/WB - - - (No. 14), outfielder Orlando Martinez (No. 16), and right-handed pitcher Aaron Hernandez (No. 22). SYRACUSE 3-3 2-1 1-2 TOLEDO 4-2 2-1 2-1 WHAT IS A TRASH PANDA? The name was chosen in a name-the-team contest and is a reference to the area's association with the space industry and the determination and ingenuity of raccoons, aka trash pandas. Trash Pandas, slang for raccoon, was included in the original 10 nominations following several Brandiose-led focus groups in Madison and Huntsville. The ballot descriptor read: Our community is known for engineering, and no creature in our galaxy is as smart, creative, determined and ingenious a problem solver - dedicated to the challenge at hand - as our local raccoons! In July 2018, after the results from several focus groups in Madison and Huntsville,10 names were selected, based on their uniqueness and how each name relates to the character- istics of