WICHITA WIND SURGE GAME INFORMATION Double-A Affiliate of the WICHITA WIND SURGE (15-11) Minnesota Twins vs Riverfront Stadium- Wichita, KS ARKANSAS TRAVELERS (13-12) Game #26 Thursday, June 3, 2021 Home Game #15 PROBABLE PITCHING MATCH-UPS (all game times are Central): Radio/TV Online 7:05 Thursday vs. Arkansas: RH Josh Winder (1-0, 1.48) vs. LH Ian McKinney (2-0, 1.17) KGSO 1410, 93.9 7:05 Friday vs. Arkansas: RH Cole Sands (0-0, 2.45) vs. RH Penn Murfee (1-1, 6.75) KGSO 1410, 93.9 6:05 Saturday vs. Arkansas: TBA vs RH Devin Sweet (1-1, 3.92) KGSO 1410, 93.9 1:05 Sunday vs Arkansas: RH Chris Vallimont (0-1, 4.15) vs RH Tyler Herb (1-2, 1.42) KSGO, 1410, 93.9 WINDSURGE BY THE SURGE – The Wichita Wind Surge continue their second homestand of the season and will host THE NUMBERS Arkansas for six games. The Surge and Cardinals split their series to open this 12-game homestand. Wichita three game win streak ended last night and the series is even at one. The Surge and Tulsa are tied for first place and lead Arkansas by a game and a half. Current Streak: L1 Home: 7-7 FROM WICHITA TO THE BIGS- Gilberto Celestino became the first Wind Surge player to make it to Streak: L1 Major League Baseball. He was promoted yesterday and was 0x2 in the Twins loss at Baltimore. Road 8-4 Streak W2 Last 10: 6-4 LAST GAME – The Wind Surge made four errors and left ten men on base and dropped a 5-2 game to vs. RHP (starter) 12-8 Arkansas. The Travelers scored a pair in the first inning and added runs in the third, fifth and ninth innings. vs LHP (starter) 3-3 Jermaine Palacios and Ernie De La Trinidad each had a pair of hits and an RBI for Wichita. T vs Division 12-8 vs AL Affiliates 1-1 THE HOMESTAND -- The Surge are 21x83 with runners in scoring position in the homestand and are batting vs NL Affiliates 14-9 .250 (72x267).270. Day 3-1 Night 12-10 THE MIGHTY PEN – The Wind Surge bullpen allowed an unearned run last night, but has not allowed an Extra Innings - earned run in its last 17 innings worked and has allowed just two unearned runs in that stretch. The pen is 12-4 Shutouts 4-1 on the season with a 2.59 ERA. One Run Games 7-4 Score 5+ Runs 9-1 ON THE HILL – Josh Winder will make his sixth start of the season for the Surge. Winder is third in the Scoring first 11-2 league with a 1.48 ERA, tenth in strikeouts with 30, and ninth in innings pitched. Opponents are batting just Opp Score First 4-9 .190 against him. In his last start he allowed two runs in five innings in a no-decision. The Surge are 5-0 in Commit Error 8-11 Hit HR 7-5 Winder’s starts even though he has just one decision. Hit Multi-HR 4-0 Quality Start 1-0 HOMEFIELD - The team is 7-7 at Riverfront Stadium. The Surge are hitting .248 at home and .264 on the Outhit Opp 14-4 road. The club has a 3.79 ERA at home and a 3.44 road ERA. Lead After 6 9-1 Trail After 6 4-9 BJ THE HITTING MACHINE – In his Wichita debut, BJ Boyd had the first four hit game for the Wind Lead After 7 11-0 Surge and drove home three runs on Saturday. Boyd has a hit in his first four games and is batting .571, 8x14 Trail After 7 1-10 with 4RBI and 4 walks. Lead After 8 12-0 Trail After 8 0-9 MIRANDA - Infielder Jose Miranda 24 RBI lead the league, his six home runs is fifth in the league and his 32 Series Record 1-0-3 hits is tied for the league lead. Named Twins Daily Minor League Hitter of the Month for May. He has Series Openers 2-3 also started at all of the infield positions, 1b, 2b, 3b, and SS. Series Finales 3-1 Doubleheader games - STEAL EM – The Surge set a new season high last night with four stolen bases on Tuesday night. The Surge Sweep/Swept/Split 0/0/0 Come from behind wins 7 have stolen six bases in the first two games against Arkansas. Aaron Whitefield is tied for third in the league Bat around For/Against 2/1 with 7 stolen bases and the team has 22 stolen bases.. Longest Win Streak 3 th Longest Lose Streak 3 JERMAINE- Palacios has reached base in 24 of his 25 games this season, and is 4 best in the league with a High Water Mark 6 .316 batting average. He is 15x35, batting .429 with 2HR and 7RBI in his last eight games. He has reached Low Water Mark - base in ten consecutive games. White Jersey 2-6 Grey Jersey 3-1 NOTES – Wichita leads the league with a .256 team batting average. The Surge pitchers are second in the lead Red Jersey 9-4 with 4 shutouts and fourth with a 3.63 team ERA. The game on July 14th vs Tulsa has been moved to a 12:05 Misc Jersey 1-0 start time. Ernie De la Trinidad has a hit in six of last eight and is batting 7x23, .304 with 3RBI. WICHITA WIND SURGE STARTING PITCHER #36 JOSH WINDER Height - 6-5 Bats - R Birthdate – October 11, 1996 (24) Birthplace – Richmond, VA Weight - 240 Throws - R College – Virginia Military Institute Resides – Richmond, VA CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Twins in the seventh round, in 2018 player draft from VMI. 2020: Ranked as the 28th-best prospect in the Twins farm system by MLB.com...The 2020 minor league season was cancelled due to Covid-19...2019: Placed on the 7-day IL between July 30 and August 6...spent the season with Single-A Cedar Rapids, going 7-2 with a 2.65 ERA (125.2 IP, 37 ER), 30 walks and 118 strikeouts in 21 starts...ranked as the prospect with the best curveball in the Twins minor league system by Baseball America...2018: Spent the season with Rookie-Elizabethton, going 3-1 with an 3.72 ERA (38.2 IP, 16 ER), six walks and 42 strikeouts. Background - Broke VMI single-season records for strikeouts (112) and innings pitched (107 2/3); All-SoCon second team as a sophomore. In 2018, he was 5-6 with 5.40 ERA, 91 strikeouts, 19 walks in 85 innings; All-SoCon second team. He was the third-highest pick in VMI history. Day by day- Date Opp Result D IP H R ER BB SO HR RunSupp. Notes 5/4 at SPR W ND 4.2 5 0 0 1 6 0 0 81/57 5/9 at SPR W ND 5.0 6 2 2 2 5 0 1 87/55 5/14 AMA W W 5.2 3 0 0 1 8 0 2 91/59 5/19 at TUL W ND 4.0 0 0 0 1 4 0 3 47/33 Rain Delay 5/29 SPR W ND 5.0 2 2 2 1 7 1 7 86/58 6/3 ARK Josh Winder - pitching - stat splits - 2021 - Regular Season Split Team W L ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO WHIP AVG AB WP BK GIDP TBF NP-S Home Games WCH 1 0 1.69 2 2 0 0 0 10.2 5 2 2 1 0 2 0 15 0.66 .135 37 1 0 0 40 177 - 117 Away Games WCH 0 0 1.32 3 3 0 0 0 13.2 11 2 2 0 0 4 0 15 1.10 .234 47 0 0 0 51 215 - 145 Josh Winder - opposing hitting - stat splits - 2021 - Regular Season Split Team AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS PA HBP SAC SF GIDP vs Left WCH .171 35 2 6 0 0 1 2 6 0 13 1 1 .293 .257 .550 41 0 0 0 0 vs Right WCH .204 49 2 10 2 0 0 2 0 0 17 4 1 .200 .245 .445 50 0 0 1 0 Scoring Position WCH .133 15 3 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 8 5 0 .176 .133 .310 17 0 0 1 0 No Outs WCH .111 27 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 0 .111 .222 .333 27 0 0 0 0 One Out WCH .286 35 2 10 1 0 0 2 4 0 14 3 0 .350 .314 .664 40 0 0 1 0 Two Outs WCH .136 22 1 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 10 2 2 .208 .182 .390 24 0 0 0 0 Wichita Wind Surge Hitting Capsules #5 ANDREW BECHTOLD Last game: 0x2, 2BB Series: 1x6, 2B, R, 2BB Last HR: 5/25 vs SPR Current Hit Streak: +2 Long Hit Streak :5 *2019: Played 125 games between Single-A Cedar Rapids and Single-A Ft. Myers, hitting .261 (103-for-395) with 50 runs scored, 22 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 63 walks and 51 RBI...set career highs in several categories including: hits, runs scored, doubles, triples, home runs, RBl and walks.