GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (25-23, 54-64) at Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (19-29, 47-69) RHP Ian Anderson (0-0, --) vs. RHP Max Duval (2-11, 7.46) Game #119 • Road #60 (25-34) • 2nd Half #49 August 12, 2018 •2:05 pm (CT) • Jacksonville, FL • The Baseball Grounds TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves conclude their 10-game road trip (4-5) today with the rubber game (2- 2) of a five-game series against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp at The Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Record Breakdown • The M-Braves are 8-7 against the Jumbo Shrimp this season and 85-87 all-time, 46-46 all-time in Score First ............................................. 41-13 Opponents Score First ...........................12-52 Jacksonville. This is the first series between the clubs at The Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville since Shutouts ................................................. 9-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................8-22 a five-game set, August 10-14, 2017. The M-Braves were 8-12 against Jacksonville last season, Score in 2 innings ................................. 14-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................17-12 including 3-7 in Jacksonville. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 8-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................7-1 • The M-Braves are 3-6 in rubber games of a series this season. • This series marks an end to 20 straight games playing AL-style baseball. This is the first NL style Leading after 6 innings ........................... 40-8 Leading after 7 innings ............................41-6 series since facing Pensacola, July 12-15. The next 10 games will be back to AL style baseball. Tied after 6 innings .................................. 9-7 Tied after 7 innings ...................................8-9 • The Braves are coming off a 3-2 series loss at Chattanooga in the first-leg of the 10-game road trip. Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 4-49 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-45 LAST TIME OUT: LF Travis Demeritte, 1B Tyler Marlette and RF Connor Lien hit home runs as Leading after 8 innings ........................... 41-3 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-35 the M-Braves beat Jacksonville on Saturday night 6-4 to even the series at 2-2. LHP Kyle Muller Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ..............................................9-8 made his second Double-A start and earned his second win, logging 5.2 innings of work, giving up Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-49 Score 4 or More Runs ............................36-16 three runs on four hits with 10 strikeouts and just two walks. CF Cristian Pache was 2-for-5 and Demeritte reached base safely four times finishing 2-for-3 with two runs, two walks and the homer. First Game of Series ............................. 11-13 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 11-11/3-6 First Game of Homestand ........................ 4-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................5-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-6 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-5 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.05 ERA (103 ER/304.1 IP) with 316 strikeouts and just 104 walks over the past 56 games (28-28 record) with 28 quality starts dating back to June Following an Off Day ................................ 2-6 1-Run Games .........................................11-19 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.35/9IP ratio. Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-5 2-Run Games ...........................................11-6 I Errorless Games ................................... 25-19 3-Run Games ...........................................10-8 POWER SURGE: The M-Braves have hit eight home runs over their last four games and have 11 With a Homer....................................... 32-20 Allow a Homer ......................................17-32 home runs in the month of August, ranking second behind only Birmingham (12) in the Southern With No Homers .................................. 22-44 Allow No Homers ..................................34-35 League this month. Overall this season, Mississippi is T-9th (Jackson) in the league with just 70 home runs. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 8-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................43-53 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 46-56 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................11-11 WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND: The M-Braves are 23-11 on the weekend this season, including Following a Win ................................... 22-31 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................8-24 8-0 on Saturday’s at home. Overall, the M-Braves are 14-5 on Saturday’s and 9-6 on Sunday’s. Mis- Following a Loss ................................... 32-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................46-40 sissippi is 31-53 during the week in 2018. In Decision By Starters ......................... 32-41 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................22-22 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: LF Travis Demeritte recorded the first five-run game for Missis- sippi since Luis Bolivar scored five runs on April 18, 2010 at West Tenn. Demeritte has three home Daily & Monthly Breakdown runs and eight total runs scored over his last three games. His multi-homer game on Thursday was Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total the ninth of his career and first this season. Demeritte had two multi-homer games for Mississippi Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 on August 2 at Mobile and June 3 at Jackson, TN. Demeritte had five two-homer games in 2016 Tuesday 3-5 3-2 6-7 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organization. Demeritte leads the club in runs (60), Wednesday 3-4 2-7 5-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 extra-base hits (37), home runs (15), RBI (54), total bases (150), games (109) and walks (52). Thursday 5-5 4-5 9-10 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 Friday 3-7 2-6 5-13 August 1-0 4-5 5-5 DEMERITTE AND LIEN HAVE MULTI-HOMER GAMES: For the second time in club history, Saturday 8-0 6-5 14-5 September - - - M-Braves players had two-homer games on back-to-back days. The only other time was Septem- Sunday 4-3 5-4 9-6 Postseason - - - ber 2-3, 2011 from Ed Lucas and Ernesto Mejia. Total 29-30 25-34 54-64 29-30 25-34 54-64 ROSTER FEATURES SEVEN TOP 30 PROSPECTS: The Mississippi Braves now feature seven of the Atlanta Braves Top 30 prospects and two Top 100 MLB Prospects according to MLB M-Braves vs Jumbo Shrimp Pipeline’s July 26 update. RHP Ian Anderson (#3 and #39 in all of MLB), OF Cristian Pache (#5 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 and #58 in all of MLB), LHP Kyle Muller (#11), LHP Thomas Burrows (#20), OF Travis Demer- itte (#23), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (#27) and RHP Josh Graham (#29) are among Atlanta’s Top at Trustmark Park 2-4 2-3 2-3 2-3 1-3 2-1 2-3 30 prospects. at Jacksonville 6-3 3-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-3 4-6 Total 8-7 5-6 4-6 6-4 4-5 4-4 6-9 THE YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Pache, the 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipeline has hit in at Trustmark Park 3-2 2-3 3-2 4-1 5-5 5-5 6-5 seven of his first 10 Mississippi games (five multi-hit). He is batting .317 (13-for-41) with a double, triple, two RBI and four runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until November 19. at Jacksonville 1-3 2-3 4-1 4-5 6-4 3-7 2-2 Total 4-5 4-6 7-3 8-6 11-9 8-12 8-7 REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 26 of 28 Alltime games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .318 (28-for-88) with a .396 at Trustmark Park 41-43 on-base percentage. Didder reached base safely in his first 15 games with Mississippi. at Jacksonville 46-46 Total 87-89 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 9th in the SL with a .271 batting average. INFAlejandro Salazar leads the league in sacrifice hits (7). M-Braves vs Jumbo Shrimp Day-by-Day HAPPY TRAILS: RHP Touki Toussaint, LHP Bruce Zimmermann, RHP Kyle Wright and RHP Bryse Wil- son were all in Mississippi’s rotation to start the second half. All have since been promoted or traded. Date Result Record W-L-S Att In 21 starts, they combined for a 2.23 ERA (29 ER/117.2 IP), 41 walks and 129 strikeouts, 9.83 SO/9IP. 5/23 L, 8-1 0-1 Mahoney-Wright 1,888 17 WINS IN JULY: After an 8-18 June, Mississippi finished 17-12 in July. The 17 wins are the most in 5/24 L, 3-0 0-2 P. Lopez-Toussaint-Quijada 2,336 a single month during the 2018 season and most since finishing 18-11 in July, 2016. The M-Braves hit .231 for the month and posted a team 3.10 ERA, outscoring the opposition 107-101. 5/25 W, 8-6 (10) 1-2 Sobotka-Keller 1,994 5/26 W, 8-4 2-2 Santiago-Poteet 2,620 Southern League Standings 5/27 W, 10-2 3-2 McCreery-Graves 1,666 SOUTH REC GB 6/21 W, 11-2 4-2 Wright-Poteet 2,292 MTG (TB) 28-20 - On the Web 6/22 L, 10-3 4-3 Duval-Wilson 2,114 BIR (CHW) 24-25 4.5 JXN (ARI) 23-25 5.0 6/23 W, 4-3 5-3 Clouse-Keller 2,423 TNS (CHC) 22-25 5.5 For all of your M-Braves information 6/24 W, 17-1 6-3 Toussaint-Gonzalez 1,618 CHA (MIN) 20-27 7.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com.