COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2019 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (15-21, 39-63) vs. Hagerstown Suns (16-19, 46-59) RHP Christian James (3-8, 4.38) vs. RHP Jackson Stoeckinger (1-2, 3.63) Sun., July 28, 2019 — Segra Park (Columbia, SC) — First Pitch 5:05 p.m. — Game 103 LISTEN: FirefliesLiveStream.com / ColumbiaFireflies.com / TuneIn App WATCH: MiLB.TV GLOW POINTS NEWS AND NOTES CONTENTS Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL South 2H Standing: 6th (-5.0) LAST TIME OUT: The Fireflies dropped the second game of the series to Home Record: 22-33 Hagerstown on Saturday, 8-4. Ronny Mauricio drove in a pair of runs and Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Road Record: 17-30 Taylor Lane posted his first multi-hit game of the year. Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Day Record: 10-9 Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 28-55 HITS ON HITS ON HITS: Mauricio leads off on Sunday against the Suns. He’s Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Homestand: 1-4 sixth in the South Atlantic League with 103 hits. The Mets prospect is on pace Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: L4 for 137 hits this season with Columbia, which would smash the single-season record of 111 set by J.C. Rodriguez in 2016. Page 12: Transactions Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Sunday: 6-9 Monday: 8-5 Tuesday: 6-7 HE’S RED-HOT, TOO: The 18-year-old shortstop has now reached safely in six Wednesday: 5-8 straight games and is hitting .409 (9-for-22) during that span with five runs Thursday: 4-13 scored and three RBI. vs. Hagerstown (0-2, 0-2 Home) Friday: 5-10 Saturday: 5-11 HE WAS NUMBER ONE: MLB Pipeline, along with Baseball America, has long been the leader in MiLB prospect rankings. It recently re-ranked the Mets’ minor April: 8-16 May: 12-18 -league prospects and Fireflies shortstop Ronny Mauricio is now the top-rated July 26 Home L, 7-3 June: 9-14 prospect in the Mets system (and also ranks 84th across all of MiLB). July: 10-15 August: TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME: Segra Park has been busy this week- July 27 Home L, 8-4 September: end. Another crowd of more than 4,000 made it out to the park on Saturday Leading after six: 28-4 (4,858). In total, 13,916 fans have passed through the gates from Thursday Tied after six: 5-7 through Saturday. Based on Sunday’s projected attendance, this weekend has Trailing after six: 6-52 the chance to be the third-highest attended weekend of the season: July 28 Home 5:05 p.m. Leading after seven: 24-2 HIGHEST-ATTENDED WEEKENDS (THURS.-SUN.) IN 2019: Tied after seven: 5-5 1. April 4-7: 19,704 Trailing after seven: 4-53 2. May 2-5: 19,093 Leading after eight: 28-2 July 29 Home 7:05 p.m. Tied after eight: 2-3 3. July 25-28: *17,300 *projected Trailing after eight: 3-55 MEDINA’S MASHING: Medina has recorded five multi-hit games over his last Scoring first: 33-20 nine. He’s also reached safely in 14 of his last 15 games. August 3 Away 6:05 p.m. Opponents score first: 5-44 Shutout Wins/Loses: 4-9 MEDINA’S MASHING, Pt. II: The outfielder is hitting .333 (13-for-39) over his Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 29-54 last 11 games (since July 16) with six runs scored, three doubles, four homers Fireflies starter 6 or more IP: 9-8 and seven RBI. August 4 Away 2:05 p.m. Fireflies starter 7 or more IP: 0-1 vs. LH starters: 5-10 THE OTHER GUYS: Hagerstown has been a Nationals affiliate since 2007. vs. RH starters: 34-53 This season, six Nationals prospects are on the Suns roster, including Wash- August 5 Away 7:05 p.m. Scoring less than three: 6-30 ington’s first round draft choice (17th overall) from last month, Jackson Scoring three or four: 11-21 Rutledge (who made is South Atlantic League debut on Saturday): Scoring five or more: 22-12 3. RHP, Jackson Rutledge 11. LHP, Matt Cronin 7. 1B, Drew Mendoza 14. RHP, Reid Schaller August 6 Away 10:35 p.m. One-run games: 11-18 Two-run games: 9-7 10. C, Israel Pineda 18. RHP, Joan Adon 5+ run games: 7-23 PROSPECTS IN COLUMBIA Extra Innings: 2-3 STAR POWER AT SHORT Walk-Off Wins: 2 Columbia’s 2019 roster is filled with plenty of skilled Mets farmhands, including Fireflies shortstop and Mets an opening-day record-tying six New York prospects. Here’s the breakdown: prospect Ronny Mauricio was Out-hitting opponent: 27-14 Being out-hit: 8-42 named a South Atlantic League All- Same number of hits: 4-7 METS PROSPECTS (according to MLB.com & Baseball America) Star. The switch-hitting infielder ripped a double in his lone plate at- 1. Ronny Mauricio, SS 8. Mark Vientos, 3B Series W-L-T (Home): 6-10-1 bat at Appalachian Power Park on Series W-L-T (Road): 3-7-3 10. Shervyen Newton, INF 24. Christian James, RHP June 18. Series W-L-T (Total): 9-17-4 There are also several former Sterling Award winners, an award given annually Mauricio is just 18 years old, and Series Sweeps (Home): 1-2 to the top player at each Mets minor league level: initially signed with the Mets in the Series Sweeps (Road): 0-2 summer of 2017. Former Fireflies Series Sweeps (Total): 1-4 pitching coach Royce Ring (who’s METS STERLING AWARD WINNERS (4) White Jerseys: since been promoted to the triple-A Gray Jerseys: 2-11 Ronny Mauricio (GCL Mets, 2018) Jaison Vilera (GCL Mets, 2017) Syracuse Yellow Jerseys: 11-11 Carlos Sanchez (GCL Mets, 2016) Walter Rasquin (DSL Mets, 2014) Mets) also Navy Jerseys: 23-29 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES served on Specialty Jerseys: 3-8 the Southern Home crowds of 4,000+: 21 Division’s Home crowds of 5,000+: 8 Home crowds of 6,000+: 4 coaching staff during Home crowds of 7,000+: 1 /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies the All-Star Sellouts at Segra Park: 1 ColumbiaFireflies.com Game. Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers Monday, July 29 vs. Hagerstown 7:05 p.m. RHP Bryce Hutchinson (4-5, 3.44) vs. RHP Tomas Alastre (3-10, 6.44) Tuesday, July 30 OFF DAY Wednesday, July 31 @ Kannapolis 7:00 p.m. RHP Jose Butto (4-9, 3.86) Thursday, August 1 @ Kannapolis 7:00 p.m. Friday, August 2 @ Kannapolis 7:00 p.m. Media Contact: Kevin Fitzgerald — [email protected] — 803-888-3040 (Office) — 908-745-9385 (Cell) FCORTOLUMBIA WAYNE FIREFLIES TINCAPS 2019 2014 G AMEGAME N OTESNOTES TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER 30 Christian James HT: 6-3 WT: 210 B/T: R/R HOMETOWN: Tarpon Springs, FL AGE: 21 BORN: May 24, OBTAINED: Drafted by the Mets in the 14th round of the 2016 1998 MLB First-Year Player Draft YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 16 GCL Mets 0-1 0.52 14/0 0 0 17.1 11 2 1 5 15 .177 17 Kingsport 2-3 4.18 11/11 0 0 51.2 54 29 24 16 58 .267 18 Brooklyn (Short-A) 4-2 2.01 13/13 0 0 71.2 61 22 16 20 45 .200 18 Binghamton (AA) 0-1 2.25 1/1 0 0 4.0 3 1 1 1 4 .056 18 St. Lucie (Adv-A) 0-0 0.00 1/1 0 0 5.0 1 1 0 0 5 .232 MiLB CAREER 6-7 2.53 40/26 0 0 149.2 130 55 42 42 127 .232 2019 STARTS (*RELIEF APPEARANCE) NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • THROWS: FB, CB, SL, CH 7/15 @ West Virginia L 5.0 8 4 4 1 5 L, 5-0 • On Columbia’s injured list from July 18-28 7/9 Augusta W 6.1 5 1 1 2 3 W, 4-1 • 24th-rated Mets prospect (according to MLB.com) 7/2 Greenville L 2.0 4 6 2 2 1 L, 10-4 • Has allowed 3 or fewer earned runs in 12 of his 14 starts 6/27 Hickory L 7.0 4 1 1 3 2 L, 1-0 6/22 @ Asheville ND 5.0 6 4 4 2 6 L, 6-5 • Had a 4-3 record with a 1.90 ERA over 15 starts in 2018 … 13 GS with Brooklyn (Short-A) and 1 GS each with Binghamton (AA) 6/14 Lexington L 5.2 8 5 3 3 3 L, 5-1 and St. Lucie (Adv-A) … allowed more than 2 ER just twice in 6/1 Augusta W 5.2 6 2 2 3 1 W, 3-2 2018 5/26 @ Charleston ND 6.0 4 0 0 1 4 L, 5-3 • Induced ground-ball contact at 58-percent rate in 2018 (according to MLB.com) … has only allowed 12 HRs in 234.0 IP in MiLB 5/21 Greenville ND 5.0 5 2 2 2 3 W, 5-2 career 5/16 @ Augusta* ND 5.2 8 2 2 0 2 W, 5-3 • 2.01 ERA in 13 GS for Brooklyn was 2nd-best in New York-Penn 5/11 Rome* W 4.0 3 2 2 0 4 W, 6-2 (6) League … 71.2 IP were 5th in league 5/4 Lexington* ND 4.2 10 8 8 1 3 L, 11-1 • Selected by the Mets out of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, in the 14th round of the 2016 MLB First-Year 4/30 Delmarva L 4.0 6 4 2 0 3 L, 6-3 Player Draft 4/24 @ West Virginia L 5.0 3 2 0 1 7 L, 2-1 • Was committed to Florida International before signing with the 4/18 Hickory — 4.1 5 3 3 2 5 W, 4-3 Mets for an estimated $100,000 signing bonus 4/13 @ Lexington L 5.0 4 3 3 3 5 L, 3-1 • East Lake High is the alma mater of former NL Rookie of the Year, Chris Coghlan 4/7 Charleston L 4.0 5 5 2 2 5 L, 7-2 CAREER MARKS IP H R ER BB K 8.0 (8/24/18 vs.