Richmond Flying Squirrels (SFG) (36-33) vs. Bowie Baysox (BAL) (31-39) LHP Conner Menez (1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs RHP Lucas Long (1-8, 5.25 ERA) Friday, June 22 | 7:05 p.m. The Diamond, Richmond, VA Game # 70 Home Game #36 (18-17) Radio: Fox Sports 910 (6:35 p.m.) Internet: FoxSportsRichmond.com UPCOMING GAMES AND PROBABLE STARTERS Saturday, June 23 GM 1 vs Bowie Baysox LHP Garrett Williams (2-5, 5.50 ERA) vs TBD 5:05 p.m. Saturday, June 23 GM 2 vs Bowie Baysox TBD vs LHP Luis Ysla (3-2, 5.12 ERA) Sunday, June 24 vs Bowie Baysox TBD vs RHP Gabrial Ynoa (0-0, 2.57 ERA) 1:05 p.m. Squirrels Slide Through Altoona Series: + At a rain-soaked Diamond last night, The Flying Squirrels managed to maintain a one run lead over Altoona through four and a half innings to complete a 2-1 win and a series victory. With the game tied, 1-1, in the bottom of the third inning, Squirrels short- 2018 SQUIRRELS AT A GLANCE stop C.J. Hinojosa led off the inning with a solo home run through the rain over the left-centerfield wall to give the Squirrels a 2-1 lead. The home run was Hinojosa’s first of the 2018 season. Squirrels starter Jordan Johnson held Altoona to one run on four Regular Season Record ........................36-33 hits over 5.0 innings of work. Johnson now has thrown two complete games this season, both were shortened five innings games. vs. Western Division .............................15-21 Richmond welcomes in Bowie for a three-day four-game series over the weekend. vs. Eastern Division ...............................21-12 Home .......................................................18-17 Up Next In Funnville: Road .........................................................18-16 + Friday, June 22 - Free Shirt Friday Vintage Green 3/4 Sleeve Shirt Giveaway + Saturday, June 23 - Super Blast Fireworks, Swm Team Night Doubleheader Place EL Western.......................................4th + Sunday, June 24 - Dinasour Day Featuring Dinasour Train’s Buddy the T-Rex Games Behind .............................................3.5 Scouting The Baysox Last 15 .........................................................8-7 + Richmond welcomes in the Bowie Baysox for the third time this season. Richmond has 4-4 record against the Baysox through Last 10 .........................................................4-6 eight games played. Bowie has struggled over the past few weeks and have slid into last place in the Western Division with a 31- Last 5............................................................2-3 39 record, nine games back from first place Akron and five games back from the Squirrels. Bowie houses a couple top prospects in the Orioles system including outfielder Austin Hayes and second baseman Corban Joseph who is amongst the league leaders 2018 Home Attendance.................. 185,052 with a .336 batting average. Home Dates .................................................66 Nightly Average Attendance ...............5,783 Lovable Lipka Eastern League Rank .................................1st Flying Squirrels outfielder Matt Lipka has improved drastically over the past couple weeks from his poor start to the season. Lipka hit .216 in the month of April, .163 in the month of May, but has been hitting to a .364 average over 15 games played in June. The former first round selection by the Texas Rangers has hit more doubles (4) and has driven in more runs (7) in 11 SQUIRRELS JUNE SCHEDULE games played this month than the first two months of the season combined. Lipka has had at least one base hit in nine of his last 6/1 @ REA W 7-6 (10) ten games played. 6/2 @ REA L 5-4 6/3 @ REA W 4-3 Dingin’ Doubles: 6/4 @REA L 6-5 (10) + The Flying Squirrels offense has come alive in the month of June hitting to a team batting average of .243. But more impres- 6/5 @TRE L 8-1 sively, the Squirrels have hit a total of 39 doubles in 19 games played so far this month. Jerry Sands, Ryan Howard and Matt Lipka 6/6 @TRE W 5-1 combine for 16 of the teams 39 doubles with Sands smacking eight and Howard and Lipka contributing four each. Ten different 6/7 @TRE W (6-3) Squirrels have at least two doubles or more already in June. As a team, the Squirrels hit 51 doubles in the month of May and just 6/8 vs. HBG L (7-8) 6/9 (DH) vs. HBG W (3-0) 24 doubles in April. 6/9 vs. HBG L (2-3) 6/10 vs. HBG L (6-7) Extra Inning Lingo 6/11 OFF +Minor League Baseball’s new rules for extra innings provides each team with a runner on second base to start the frame. The 6/12 vs POR W (2-1) runner is the player who made the last out in the inning, albeit can be pinch run also. The runner on second was not really given 6/13 vs. POR W (3-0) a name or a term to refer to him so the Flying Squirrels have deemed that the “gifted runner” at second base. Richmond played 6/14 vs. POR L (2-4) a pair of extra inning games in the previous series against Reading, winning one and losing one. The Flying Squirrels are 2-2 in 6/15 @ HBG L (0-3) extra innings this season and none of the extra inning games have gone longer than 10 innings. Richmond won the first extra in- 6/16 @HBG W (5-1) ning contest on April 8 in Trenton, but lost the second extra inning affair on May 2 against Altoona. Three of the four extra inning 6/17 @HBG L (5-6) 6/18 OFF games have been on the road. 6/19 vs. ALT PPD 6/20 GM 1 vs. ALT L (1-5) 40-Man Squirrels: 6/20 GM 2 vs. ALT W (5-1) +The Flying Squirrels have three current 40-man members on the active roster. Second baseman Miguel Gomez is batting .302 6/21 vs. ALT W (2-1) with 22 RBI and four home runs in 47 games played with Richmond. Gomez has played in nine games with the Giants this season 6/22 vs. BOW 7:05 p.m. and had four hits in 15 at bats for a .267 average. Catcher Aramis Garcia entered the 2018 season ranked the #7 prospect in the 6/23 (DH) vs. BOW 6:05 p.m. Giants system but has struggled hitting to a .197 average but does have nine doubles and 18 RBI’s. Finally, starting pitcher Chase 6/23 vs. BOW TBD Johnson has allowed just four earned runs in 20.2 innings pitched this season for a 1.74 ERA in seven starts. The righty has a 1.11 6/24 vs. BOW 1:05 p.m. WHIP and has walked just four batters all season. 6/25 @HFD 7:05 p.m. 6/26 @HFD 7:05 p.m 6/27 @HFD 7:05 p.m. Today’s Starter’s: Richmond’s Conner Menez 6/28 @HFD 7:05 p.m. + Left-hander Conner Menez will make his second start for the Squirrels tonight and his first at The Diamond. The lefty was pro- 6/29 @HBG 7:00 p.m. moted from San Jose (A+) on June 14, and dazzled in his Double-A debut against Harrisburg. Menez tossed 6.0 scoreless innings while allowing just three hits with four strikeouts over 94 pitches. Menez also made two starts for Sacramento (AAA) this year and was named the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week after tossing 7.0 scoreless innings against El Paso allowing just one hit with eight strikeouts. The 23-year-old was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 14th round of the 2016 MLB June draft RECENT TRANSACTIONS out of The Master’s College. 6/12: Franklin Van Gurp transferred from RICH to AUG 6/12: Ryan Howard placed on the RICH DL (hamstring) Today’s Starter: Bowie’s Lucas Long 6/14: Mike Connolly transferred from RICH to SAC + Right-hander Lucas Long will make his ninth start of the seasona and his second against the Squirrels. Long struggled in his first 6/14: Dillon Dobson activated from the RICH DL start against the Squirrels allowing five earned runs on 11 hits over 5.2 innings earning the loss. Long has struggled this season 6/16: Conner Menez transferred from SJ to RICH pitching to a 1-8 record and a 5.25 ERA. The righty’s last time out was against Portland on June 17, where he tossed 4.0 innings 6/19: Ronnie Jebavy placed on the RIchmond DL allowing five earned runs on seven hits. Long was drafted in the 24th round of the 2014 MLB June draft out of the University of 6/19: Dylan Rheault transferred from SJ to RICH San Diego. FOR UP-TO-DATE PLAYER AND TEAM NEWS, STATS, AND OTHER INFORMATION VISIT SQUIRRELSBASEBALL.COM TODAY’S FLYING SQUIRRELS STARTER 2 LHP Conner Menez HT: 6-3 WT: 205 BATS/THROWS: L/L PRO EXPERIENCE: 3rd Season AGE: 23 BORN: May 29, 1995 in Hollister, CA RESIDENCE: Hollister, CA ACQUIRED: Selected by the Giants in the 14th roud in the 2016 MLB June Draft - The Master’s College 2018 SEASON STATISTICS CLUB W-L ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB SO AVG Richmond 1-0 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 6.0 3 0 0 0 2 4 .083 2018 MISC: 2018 Game Log ** Named Pacific Coast League POW after tossed 7.0 scoreless in- nings in his second start at Triple-A with Sacramento.