COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2019 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (28-41, 52-83) @ Augusta GreenJackets (40-29, 76-61) RHP Daison Acosta (1-4, 3.42) vs. RHP Trenton Toplikar (5-2, 3.02) Mon., September 2, 2019 — SRP Park (North Augusta, SC) — First Pitch 2:05 p.m. — Game 136 LISTEN: FirefliesLiveStream.com / ColumbiaFireflies.com / TuneIn App WATCH: MiLB.TV GLOW POINTS NEWS AND NOTES CONTENTS LAST TIME OUT: Columbia played in one of the more compelling games of the Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL South 2H Standing: 6th (-12.0) season on Sunday. The Fireflies erased a two-run deficit but ultimately fell Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Home Record: 28-41 Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Road Record: 24-42 behind again after Augusta scored an eighth-inning run. The GreenJackets Day Record: 12-10 downed Columbia, 3-2, and clinched a playoff berth in the process. Nick Conti Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 40-72 smashed a clutch home run in the fifth inning to knot the score at 2-2. Augusta Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes punched back in the eighth with an Andres Angulo triple. He scored a few Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Road Trip: 0-3 moments later on Mikey Edie’s single to take the lead for good. Shervyen Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: L5 Page 12: Transactions Newton and Guillermo Granadillo each notched a pair of hits and Alec Sunday: 8-13 Kisena was brilliant at times on the mound. After allowing a first-inning home Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Monday: 9-8 run, Kisena didn’t allow a hit the rest of the way and pitched into the sixth. Tuesday: 8-9 vs. Augusta (6-10, 2-4 Away) Wednesday: 7-10 Thursday: 6-16 ONE LEFT: The Fireflies close out their 2019 season on Labor Day at SRP Friday: 8-12 Park. Columbia is 0-3 in season finales. So what’s the motivation today? Well, May 14 Away L, 3-2 Saturday: 6-15 with a win, the Fireflies will avoid tying their worst half-season record (28-42 - 2017, 2nd half). May 15 Away W, 3-1 April: 8-16 May: 12-18 May 16 Away W, 5-3 June: 9-14 FINISHING STRONG: Columbia’s leadoff hitter, Nick Conti, has performed July: 11-17 very well at the plate and in the field over the last week. Conti is on a six-game May 30 Home L, 3-2 August: 12-17 hitting streak and helped turn three double plays in Sunday’s game. September: 0-1 May 31 Home L, 8-6 Leading after six 34-7 THE ALL-STAR: There’s just one game left for Columbia’s lone All-Star in Tied after six: 9-9 2019, Ronny Mauricio. The top-rated Mets prospect came to the Palmetto June 1 Home W, 3-2 Trailing after six: 9-66 State with high expectations and he just about exceeded all of them. Mauricio Leading after seven: 32-4 set the Fireflies single-season hits record (125 and counting) and is going to June 2 Home L, 5-2 Tied after seven: 7-9 finish the year with the highest batting average for a Firefly who played in more Trailing after seven: 7-66 July 9 Home W, 4-1 Leading after eight: 37-4 than 100 games. At just 18 years old, Mauricio showed off above average Tied after eight: 4-5 fielding prowess, quickness and a deft glove at short. July 10 Home L, 2-0 Trailing after eight: 5-70 THESE GUYS MADE THEIR MARK: Another Mets prospect, Mark Vientos, is July 11 Home W. 5-2 Scoring first: 39-27 going to finish with one of the highest RBI totals in franchise history (62 and Opponents score first: 11-57 Shutout Wins/Loses: 5-13 counting) and maybe, just maybe, can tie the single-season home run mark July 23 Home W, 2-1 (13) with one more blast on Monday. Reliever Allan Winans will also finish with Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 41-72 the second-most saves in club history, too. Winans has gone 11-for-13 in save July 24 Home L, 5-0 Fireflies starter 6 or more IP: 11-9 chances. Fireflies starter 7 or more IP: 1-1 July 25 Home L, 4-3 vs. LH starters: 7-15 vs. RH starters: 45-67 DEVELOP AND ADVANCE: That really is the ultimate goal for these Fireflies August 30 Away L, 7-3 players and a total of 13 earned promotions at points during the 2019 season. Scoring less than three: 6-43 Congratulations to these 13 on advancing: Wagner Lagrange, Jose Medina, August 31 Away L, 5-4 Scoring three or four: 16-27 Hansel Moreno, Colin Holderman, Tylor Megill, Andrew Mitchell, Dedniel Scoring five or more: 30-13 Nunez, Conner O’Neil, Darwin Ramos, Luc Rennie, Thomas Szapucki, September 1 Away L, 3-2 One-run games: 15-27 Simeon Woods-Richardson, Ezequiel Zabaleta. Megill and Rennie each September 2 Away 2:05 p.m. Two-run games: 14-13 earned promotions to double-A Binghamton in 2019. 5+ run games: 8-24 Extra Innings: 3-5 2020 FIREFLIES SCHEDULE RELEASE STAR POWER AT SHORT Walk-Off Wins: 3 In conjunction with the South Atlantic League, the Columbia Fireflies have officially released Fireflies shortstop and top-rated their schedule for the 2020 season. Opening day is set for Thursday, April 9 which will mark Out-hitting opponent: 32-18 Mets prospect Ronny Mauricio was Being out-hit: 11-58 the fifth season of Fireflies baseball at Segra Park. named a South Atlantic League All- Same number of hits: 8-8 Star. The switch-hitting infielder Columbia begins the year with seven straight games at home, four against the Augusta GreenJackets (San Francisco Giants) and three against the Kannapolis Intimidators (Chicago ripped a double in his lone plate Series W-L-T (Home): 7-12-2 appearance at Appalachian Power Series W-L-T (Road): 4-12-3 White Sox). Series W-L-T (Total): 11-24-5 Park on June 18. The Fireflies play a 140-game schedule in the SAL with 70 home games played at Segra Park Series Sweeps (Home): 1-3 - the 2018 South Atlantic League's Best Playing Surface and 2016 Ballpark Digest Ballpark of Mauricio is just 18 years old and Series Sweeps (Road): 1-3 the Year. Check out the highlights of the 2020 home schedule: initially signed with the Mets in the Series Sweeps (Total): 2-6 summer of 2017. The shortstop has - Home on July 4 - 12 Budweiser Thirsty Thursdays had a stellar season and set the White Jerseys: 0-1 - 11 Splash Sundays - 22 Saturday & Friday night games (with fireworks) new Fireflies single-season hits Gray Jerseys: 4-16 Yellow Jerseys: 15-13 The Fireflies will play home games on Mother's Day (Sunday, May 10 vs. CSC) and Inde- record on August 6 in Hagerstown. Navy Jerseys: 30-40 pendence Day (Saturday, July 4 vs. Hickory) in 2020. That day, Specialty Jerseys: 3-9 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES Mauricio notched his Home crowds of 4,000+: 35 112th hit, Home crowds of 5,000+: 11 topping J.C. Home crowds of 6,000+: 6 Rodriguez’s Home crowds of 7,000+: 1 prior mark /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies Sellouts at Segra Park: of 111 from ColumbiaFireflies.com 2016. Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers NEXT GAME: Thursday, April 9, 2020 vs. Augusta 7:05 ET, Segra Park THANK YOU, FANS, FOR A WONDERFUL 2019 SEASON! 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 18 Daison Acosta HT: 6-2 WT: 160 B/T: R/R HOMETOWN: Paraiso, Dominican Republic AGE: 21 BORN: August 24, OBTAINED: Signed by the Mets as an international free agent on July 1998 2, 2016 YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 16 DSL Mets 1 (R) 0-1 3.86 3/3 0 0 11.2 14 6 5 6 8 .311 17 GCL Mets (R) 0-2 3.27 6/4 0 0 22.0 18 8 8 7 19 .237 18 Kingsport (Adv-R) 2-5 4.46 10/9 0 0 42.1 38 28 21 18 46 .236 MiLB CAREER 2-8 4.03 19/16 0 0 76.0 70 42 34 31 73 .261 2019 STARTS NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • Transferred to Columbia’s roster on July 7 from short- season A Brooklyn 8/28 Hickory L 5.2 6 3 3 5 3 L, 7-0 • Allowed just 1 ER in three starts (16.1 IP) from August 8/23 @ Rome ND 5.0 9 4 4 2 5 W, 7-5 6-August 17 (0.55 ERA) 8/17 Rome L 6.0 3 2 0 2 4 L, 4-0 • Posted one of the finest starts of his career on July 14 vs. Charleston - 6.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R and a career-high 9 8/12 @ Charleston ND 5.1 6 0 0 3 5 L, 3-2 (10) Ks … had allowed just one hit in three other outings in his career, but did not last six innings in any of those 8/6 @ Hagerstown ND 5.0 3 1 1 3 1 W, 5-3 (10) prior three 8/1 @ Kannapolis ND 2.1 4 3 3 1 5 L, 6-4 • Four outings with Brooklyn in 2019: 1-0, 0.98 (4 GP, 3 GS), 25 K, 6 BB, 18.1 IP, .150 BAA 7/26 Hagerstown L 3.2 6 6 3 1 4 L, 7-3 • Youngest starter in Columbia’s rotation (21) 7/20 @ Greenville ND 4.1 3 2 1 4 5 W, 6-3 • 46 strikeouts with Kingsport in 2018 were second on 7/14 Charleston W 6.0 1 0 0 2 9 W, 5-0 (7) the team 7/7 @ Hickory L 4.0 5 5 3 2 3 L, 6-5 • Signed by the Mets as an international free agent on July 2, 2016 … received a $70,000 signing bonus CAREER MARKS IP H R ER BB K 7.0 (7/2/17 @ NAT GCL) 9 (8/23 @ ROM) 7 (8/9/18 @ Danville) 5 (8/16/18 @ Pulaski) 5 (8/28 v.