GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (24-22, 53-63) at Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (18-28, 46-68) RHP Kelvin Vasquez (3-2, 5.93) vs. RHP Robert Dugger (4-5, 5.15) Game #117 • Road #58 (24-33) • 2nd Half #47 August 10, 2018 •6:05 pm (CT) • Jacksonville, FL • The Baseball Grounds TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves continue their 10-game road trip (3-4) today with the third game (1-1) of a five-game series against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp at The Baseball Grounds of Jack- Record Breakdown sonville. Score First ............................................. 40-13 Opponents Score First ...........................12-51 • The M-Braves are 7-6 against the Jumbo Shrimp this season and 84-86 all-time, 45-45 all-time in Shutouts ................................................. 9-11 Score in 1 inning ......................................8-22 Jacksonville. This is the first series between the clubs at The Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville since Score in 2 innings ................................. 14-17 Score in 3 innings ..................................16-11 a five-game set, August 10-14, 2017. The M-Braves were 8-12 against Jacksonville last season, Score in 4 innings ..................................... 8-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................7-1 including 3-7 in Jacksonville. • This series marks an end to 20 straight games playing AL-style baseball. This is the first NL style Leading after 6 innings ........................... 39-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................40-5 series since facing Pensacola, July 12-15. 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 went 3-for-4 with two home runs, four RBI and five runs Leading after 8 innings ........................... 40-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-35 scored in the Mississippi Braves’ 16-8 rout of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp on Thursday night to Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-6 Score 3 Runs ..............................................9-8 even the series. The five runs scored were a career high for Demeritte, while he recorded his ninth Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-49 Score 4 or More Runs ............................35-15 career two-homer game and first of 2018. 3B Luis Valenzuela was 2-for-5 with a double, triple and a career-high five RBI. RFTyler Neslony finished 3-for-6 with a home run, career-high four RBI and First Game of Series ............................. 11-13 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match 11-11/3-6 three runs scored. Neslony is now riding a seven-game hitting streak. The 16 runs and 18 hits were 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 both the second-most posted this season by the Braves. There were six home runs, 24 total runs and 30 hits between the clubs. Following an Off Day ................................ 2-6 1-Run Games .........................................11-18 Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-4 2-Run Games ...........................................10-6 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 3.03 ERA (99 ER/294.2 IP) with 305 strikeouts and I Errorless Games ................................... 25-18 3-Run Games ...........................................10-8 just 101 walks over the past 54 games (27-27 record) with 28 quality starts dating back to June 10. With a Homer....................................... 31-19 Allow a Homer ......................................16-31 Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.34/9IP ratio. With No Homers .................................. 22-44 Allow No Homers ..................................34-35 DEMERITTE’S FIVE-RUN GAME: LF Travis Demeritte recorded the first five-run game for Missis- Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 8-8 Vs. Righty Starters .................................42-52 sippi since Luis Bolivar scored five runs on April 18, 2010 at West Tenn. The multi-homer game was Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 45-55 Vs. Lefty Starters ...................................11-11 the ninth of his career and first this season. Demeritte had two multi-homer games for Mississippi Following a Win ................................... 22-30 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................8-23 on August 2 at Mobile and June 3 at Jackson, TN. Demeritte had five two-homer games in 2016 Following a Loss ................................... 31-31 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................45-40 while playing for High Desert in the Rangers organization. In Decision By Starters ......................... 31-41 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................22-21 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 Daily & Monthly Breakdown Pipeline’s July 26 update. RHP Ian Anderson (#3 and #39 in all of MLB), OF Cristian Pache (#5 Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total and #58 in all of MLB), LHP Kyle Muller (#11), LHP Thomas Burrows (#20), OF Travis Demer- Monday 3-5 3-5 6-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 itte (#23), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (#27) and RHP Josh Graham (#29) are among Atlanta’s Top Tuesday 3-5 3-2 6-7 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 30 prospects. Wednesday 3-4 2-7 5-11 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 Thursday 5-5 4-5 9-10 July 10-7 7-5 17-12 THE YOUNGEST PLAYER IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE: 19-year-old OF Cristian Pache, the Friday 3-7 2-5 5-12 August 1-0 3-4 4-4 Atlanta Braves No. 5 prospect and No. 58 prospect in baseball according to MLB Pipeline has hit in Saturday 8-0 5-5 13-5 September - - - six of his first eight Mississippi games. He is batting .314 (11-for-35) with a double, triple, two RBI Sunday 4-3 5-4 9-6 Postseason - - - and four runs scored. Pache will not turn 20 until November 19. Total 29-30 24-33 53-63 29-30 24-33 53-63 REACHING RAY-PATRICK DIDDER: INF Ray-Patrick Didder has reached base safely in 24 of 26 games since being promoted to Double-A on July 9. Didder is batting .325 (26-for-80) with a .409 M-Braves vs Jumbo Shrimp on-base percentage. Didder reached base safely in his first 15 games with Mississippi. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 8th in the SL with a at Trustmark Park 2-4 2-3 2-3 2-3 1-3 2-1 2-3 .274 batting average. LHP Corbin Clouse is 3rd in appearances (38) and 2nd among SL relievers at Jacksonville 6-3 3-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-3 4-6 with an 11.94 SO/9IP ratio. Total 8-7 5-6 4-6 6-4 4-5 4-4 6-9 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 HAPPY TRAILS: RHP Touki Toussaint, LHP Bruce Zimmermann, RHP Kyle Wright and RHP Bryse at Trustmark Park 3-2 2-3 3-2 4-1 5-5 5-5 6-5 Wilson were all in Mississippi’s rotation to start the second half. All have since been promoted or traded. In 21 starts, they combined for a 2.23 ERA (29 ER/117.2 IP), 41 walks and 129 strikeouts, at Jacksonville 1-3 2-3 4-1 4-5 6-4 3-7 1-1 9.83 SO/9IP. Total 4-5 4-6 7-3 8-6 11-9 8-12 7-6 Alltime 17 WINS IN JULY: After an 8-18 June, Mississippi finished 17-12 in July. The 17 wins are the most in at Trustmark Park 41-43 a single month during the 2018 season and most since finishing 18-11 in July, 2016. The M-Braves at Jacksonville 45-45 hit .231 for the month and posted a team 3.10 ERA, outscoring the opposition 107-101. Total 86-88 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: RHP Wes Parsons and LHP Adam McCreery made their Major League debut for the Braves on August 9 at Washington, becoming the 136th and 137th M- Braves alum and seventh and eighth this season to move on and make their MLB debut. Parsons M-Braves vs Jumbo Shrimp Day-by-Day and McCreery join LHP Kolby Allard (July 31) C Willians Astudillo (June 30, Twins) OF Dustin Date Result Record W-L-S Att Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have gone on to make their 5/23 L, 8-1 0-1 Mahoney-Wright 1,888 MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. OF Michael Reed has previously made his MLB 5/24 L, 3-0 0-2 P. Lopez-Toussaint-Quijada 2,336 debut for Milwaukee, but made his debut with Atlanta after opening the 2018 season in Missis- sippi on July 23 at Miami. 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) 27-19 - On the Web 6/22 L, 10-3 4-3 Duval-Wilson 2,114 BIR (CHW) 23-24 4.5 JXN (ARI) 22-24 5.0 6/23 W, 4-3 5-3 Clouse-Keller 2,423 TNS (CHC) 21-24 5.5 For all of your M-Braves information 6/24 W, 17-1 6-3 Toussaint-Gonzalez 1,618 CHA (MIN) 19-26 7.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com.