GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (1-0) vs. Tennessee Smokies (0-1) RHP Wes Parsons (0-0, --) vs. RHP Thomas Hatch (0-0, --) Game #3 • April 7, 2018 • TBD • Pearl, MS •Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The Mississippi Braves continue their opening 5-game home- stand against the Tennessee Smokies, AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs at Record Breakdown Trustmark Park. Today’s regularly scheduled game will take place 30 minutes Score First ................................................. 1-0 Opponents Score First ...............................0-0 Shutouts ................................................... 1-0 Score in 1 inning ........................................1-0 after the conclusion of Friday’s suspended game. Score in 2 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 3 innings ......................................0-0 Score in 4 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 FRIDAY NIGHT’S GAME SUSPENDED IN 3RD INNING: Friday night’s game was suspended when heavy rains and storms struck Trustmark Park in the Leading after 6 innings ............................. 1-0 Leading after 7 innings ..............................1-0 Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-0 Tied after 7 innings ...................................0-0 3rd inning. The Smokies have a 5-1 lead and will be batting with 2 outs in the Trailing after 6 innings ............................. 0-0 Trailing after 7 innings ...............................0-0 top of the 3rd inning when play resumes today at 5:00 pm. Leading after 8 innings ............................. 1-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-0 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................1-0 OPENING DAY LOSING SKID SNAPPED: The M-Braves won for the first time Trailing after 8 innings ............................. 0-0 Score 4 or More Runs ................................0-0 in five seasons on Opening Day Thursday with a 3-0 shutout of Tennessee. Kyle Wright, Michael Mader, Jason Hursh and Josh Graham combined for First Game of Series ................................. 1-0 Last Game of Series ...................................0-0 the five-hit shutout. The M-Braves snapped the 0-0 tie in the sixth inning First Game of Homestand ........................ 1-0 Last Game of Homestand ..........................0-0 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 0-0 Last Game of Road Trip .............................0-0 with three runs thanks to an RBI single from Mike Snyder and a two-run single by Alay Lago. The M-Braves are now 4-10 on Opening Day. Following an Off Day ................................ 0-0 1-Run Games .............................................0-0 Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................0-0 In Errorless Games ................................... 1-0 3-Run Games .............................................1-0 HURSH NEARING M-BRAVES STRIKEOUT RECORD: Reliever Jason Hursh With a Homer........................................... 0-0 Allow a Homer ..........................................0-0 needs three strikeouts (currently at 198) to become M-Braves all-time leader With No Homers ...................................... 1-0 Allow No Homers ......................................1-0 in strikeouts (Scott Diamond, 201). Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 0-0 Vs. Righty Starters .....................................1-0 Night (5 pm or later) ................................ 1-0 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................0-0 HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as Following a Win ....................................... 0-0 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................1-0 the M-Braves manager and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. Following a Loss ....................................... 0-0 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................0-0 • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mis- In Decision By Starters ............................. 0-0 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................1-0 sissippi State University in 1983. • Maloney spent the previous six years on the St. Louis Cardinals Major League coaching staff as the team’s third base coach (2016-July 2017) and first base Daily & Monthly Breakdown coach (2012-15). Day Home Road Month Home Road Monday 0-0 0-0 April 1-0 - • Prior to joining the Cardinals, Maloney was the Memphis Redbirds (AAA) Tuesday 0-0 0-0 May - - manager for five seasons (2007-11), leading the team to winning records in Wednesday 0-0 0-0 June - - four of his five seasons. Thursday 1-0 0-0 July - - Friday 0-0 0-0 August - - • Maloney ranks ninth among active minor league managers in wins with Saturday 0-0 0-0 September - - 1,350 entering the 2018 season. Sunday 0-0 0-0 Postseason - - Total 1-0 0-0 Total 1-0 0-0 PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked by MLB Pipeline as No. 2 in Major League Baseball. The M-Braves roster features three of the Top 100 in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 30), LHP Max Fried (No. 83) and INF Austin M-Braves vs Smokies Riley (No. 97). The roster has seven of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (No. 2), Fried (No. 7), Riley (No. 8), RHP Touki Toussaint (No. 11), C Alex Jack- at Trustmark Park 2-1 2-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-8 4-2 son (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 21), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 27). at Tennessee 3-1 3-2 1-3 3-2 4-1 2-3 2-3 Total 5-2 5-5 3-6 7-3 7-3 4-11 6-5 After two Southern League Champi- 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 ON THIS DAY IN M-BRAVES HISTORY: at Trustmark Park 2-3 4-1 4-1 2-3 3-2 2-3 1-0 onships throughout its 20-plus year history in Greenville, SC, the Atlanta at Tennessee 1-4 3-2 4-6 1-4 7-3 3-2 0-0 Braves decided to move the AA franchise to Pearl, MS. The M-Braves played Total 3-7 7-3 8-7 3-7 10-5 5-5 1-0 its first game at Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium on April 7, 2005. The M- Alltime Braves lineup featured future big-leaguers Jeff Francoeur, Bran MCCann, at Trustmark Park 37-33 Scott Thorman, Gregor Blanco, Luis Hernandez and Anthony Lerew. Fran- at Tennessee 37-36 coeur and McCann both homered in their first AA game, but the Braves lost Total 74-69 to Montgomery 9-8. VIDEO BOARD: In its second season above the LF wall, at 68 feet wide by 28 M-Braves vs Smokies Day-by-Day feet high (1,904 square feet), the state-of-theart Panasonic HD video board Date Result Record W-L-S Att is approximately four-times larger than the previous video display at Trust- mark Park (2005-2016). The board is the largest single display in the South- 4/5 W, 3-0 1-0 Mader-Clifton-Graham 3,717 ern League and the largest in Central and South Mississippi. Southern League Standings NORTH REC GB JXN (ARI) 2-0 -- On the Web BIR (CWS) 1-0 0.5 MTG (TB) 1-0 1.0 CHA (MIN) 0-1 1.5 For all of your M-Braves information TEN (CHC) 0-1 1.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves MIS (ATL) 1-0 -- player and the organization overall. Follow BLX (MIL) 1-1 0.5 the links to listen to the M-Braves live MOB (LAA) 1-1 0.5 audio stream all season long. PNS (CIN) 1-1 0.5 Social Media JAX (MIA) 0-2 1.5 facebook.com/mbraves On the Airways 2018 marks the 10th @mbraves season of M-Braves baseball on the FM dial instagram.com/mbraves with WYAB 103.9 FM. 2013 and 2017 Southern League Broadcaster of the Year Chris Harris enters youtube.com/mississippibraves his first season as the radio voice of the M-Braves. WYAB airs all 140 games plus the postseason! Upcoming Probable Starters & Schedule Date Opponent Probable Starters Time (CT) April 8 Tennessee Smokies LHP Max Fried (0-0, --) vs. RHP Oscar De La Cruz (0-0, --) 1:00 PM April 9 Tennessee Smokies LHP Ricardo Sanchez (0-0, --) vs. RHP Michael Rucker (0-0, --) 10:35 AM April 11 at Biloxi Shuckers RHP Kyle Wright (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Luis Ortiz (0-0, 3.60) 6:35 PM April 12 at Biloxi Shuckers RHP Touki Toussaint (0-0, --) vs. RHP Zack Brown (0-0, 3.60) 6:35 PM Page 1 Today’s Starter Parsons’ 2018 Day-by-Day #26 Wes Parsons • RHP • 6’5” • 204 • Clarksville, TN • 25 yrs MISSISSIPPI 0-0, 0.00 ERA Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR vs. Righties: .000, 0 HR vs. Lefties: .000, 0 HR TODAY’S GAME Parsons’ 2017 Day-by-Day • Parsons makes his first start of the 2018 season in the second game of tonight’s doubleheader with the Smokies. Parsons made one appearance against the Smok- MISSISSIPPI ies in 2017 on 4/14 at Smokies Stadium and pitched 3.0 innings, allowing one Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR unearned run on 2 hits behind Matt Withrow, who earned the win in the 10-2 4/06 JAX ND, (L, 7-2) 3.1 3 2 0 1 5 0 M-Braves victory. 4/10 JAX ND, (W, 7-4) 2.0 3 3 3 2 1 0 4/14 at TNS S1, (W, 10-2) 3.0 2 1 0 1 0 0 4/19 MOB ND, (L, 5-1) 3.0 7 3 3 0 4 0 LAST TIME OUT 4/23 at MTG L1, 2-1 3.0 4 2 2 1 2 0 • Parsons made his final start of 2017 on 9/3 vs. Birmingham and took a no decision 5/4 @ BIR S2, (W, 3-0) 3.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 after tossing 4.0 innings of shutout baseball on 5 hits.