River Cats Media Relations • 400 Ballpark Drive • West Sacramento, CA 95691 • P: (916) 376-4751 • F: (916) 376-4710 • @RiverCats Wednesday, August 29 ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES (61-73) 4th Pacific Southern Raley Field - vs - West Sacramento, CA • 7:05 p.m (PT) SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS (53-81) 4th Pacific Northern Game 135 • Home Game 69 Isotopes: LHP David Holmberg (7-7, 5.38) • River Cats: RHP Tyler Herb (1-8, 6.17) Yesterday’s Game: The River Cats walked off for the sixth time in 2018, winning the opener of a AT A GLANCE three-game set with Albuquerque 2-1 on OF Gregor Blanco’s solo home run. It was the second walk-off OVERALL HOME ROAD home run of the year, with the previous occurance taking place back on July 2 when it was OF Chris Record: 53-81 26-42 27-39 Day: 14-15 10-7 4-8 Shaw whose bomb ended things. RHP Jordan Johnson turned out his best start of the season with Night: 39-66 16-35 23-31 Sacramento, posting a 66 game score in six innings with just one run on two hits and two walks to his vs. RHP: 45-58 22-30 23-28 name. And once again, the bullpen was fantastic as RHPs Pierce Johnson and Ray Black combiend to vs. LHP: 8-23 4-11 4-12 allow just one hit and strike out five in three frames. One-run games: 16-19 9-8 7-11 Extra-inning games: 4-3 3-1 1-2 Shutouts: 5-10 5-4 0-6 Today’s Starter: RHP Tyler Herb will be looking to bounce back from a rough start last week Cats Score 1st: 40-20 18-6 22-14 against the Fresno Grizzlies where 12 hits were put up on the board against him to go along with nine Opp. Scores 1st: 13-61 8-36 5-25 runs — both of which are season-worsts for him. It will be Herb’s second time in the last three outings Leading after 7: 39-4 19-1 20-3 Leading after 8: 42-3 20-1 22-2 that he has faced the Isotopes. On August 18, he gave up four runs on eight hits over six innings of work No errors: 29-31 16-18 13-13 in Albuquerque. 1 error: 16-29 8-12 8-17 2+ errors: 8-21 2-12 6-9 Back and Forth: In six consecutive games, the River Cats have failed to finish the game in the same Series Play (W-L-S): 7-19-8 2-11-4 5-8-4 way as the previous one. Beginning August 23, Sacramento has gone loss, win, loss, win, loss, win, all of vs. Pacific Northern: 23-25 11-13 12-12 vs. Pacific Southern: 23-34 11-18 12-16 which came on the heals of a six-game losing skid. vs. American Northern: 4-10 4-10 0-0 vs. American Southern: 3-11 0-0 3-11 No Fooling Stassi: Yuba City High School standout INF Brock Stassi has an incredible 27.9% walk rate through 61 plate appearances with the River Cats and has now reached base in all 15 games since 2018 VS. ALBUQUERQUE (6-8) joining the club. Paired with his .386 batting average, Stassi is getting on base more than half of the time Day Date Site Time/Result with a .557 on-base average. Friday 5/25 Home L, 2-12 Saturday 5/26 Home W, 2-0 Calixte: With three more home runs this season, INF Orlando Calixte will tie his career high for dingers Sunday 5/27 Home L, 2-11 Monday 5/28 Home L, 2-4 with one team, which he set last year with 14 in a River Cats uniform. Last night’s 8th-inning solo shot was Tuesday 5/29 Home W, 8-1 Calixte’s first home run since July 21. All totaled, Calixte has 80 home runs in the minor leagues, though Monday 6/25 Road W, 9-4 he has not cleared the fence yet in his 58 major-league plate appearances. Tuesday 6/26 Road L, 8-13 Wednesday 6/27 Road W, 4-3 Thursday 6/28 Road L, 1-3 This Day in River Cats History: August 29, 2005: The Sacramento River Cats pulled out an Thursday 8/16 Road W, 4-2 8-6 win over the Fresno Grizzlies despite committing three errors. INF Brant Colamarino led the way for Friday 8/17 Road L, 7-8 Saturday 8/18 Road L, 6-2 the River Cats, going 3-for-4 with two runs, three RBI and also registered the only two extra-base hits Sunday 8/19 Road L, 1-7 (double and home run). DH Bobby Smith finished the game 4-for-5 with a run and RBI. Sacramento used Tuesday 8/28 Home W, 2-1 six different pitchers in the victory. RHP Jairo Garcia, now known as Santiago Casilla, picked up his 19th Wednesday 8/29 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) Thursday 8/30 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) save, going one inning and striking out two. UPCOMING GAMES • PROBABLE STARTERS UPCOMING PROMOTIONS Day/Date Time Opp. Sacramento Probable Starters Opponent Probable Starters Thursday, August 30 (7:05 p.m. PT).... Fan Appreciation Night & Player’s Night Thursday, August 30 7:05 p.m. (PT) vs. ABQ RHP Shaun Anderson (2-2, 3.61) RHP Jeff Hoffman (6-8, 4.69) ....................................................................................................................................... Friday, August 31 7:05 p.m. (PT) @ LV TBA LHP Matt Gage (4-8, 6.79) ....................................................................................................................................... Saturday, September 1 7:05 p.m. (PT) @ LV TBA RHP Scott Copeland (3-2, 3.02) ....................................................................................................................................... Sunday, September 2 7:05 p.m. (PT) @ LV TBA RHP Drew Gagnon (6-6, 4.74) ....................................................................................................................................... RIVERCATS.COM | FACEBOOK.COM/RIVERCATSBASEBALL | @RIVERCATS | @RALEYFIELD TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER SEASON HIGHS/LOWS* TYLER HERB STAT HIGH LOW IP 6.0 3.0 RIGHT-HANDED PITCHER H 12 4 R 9 2 Born: 4/28/1992 Bats/Throws: R/R ER 9 2 Resides: Harrisburg, PA Height/Weight: 6-3 / 200 BB 4 1 Age: 25 MLB Debut: N/A SO 9 1 Originally Drafted: 2014 (29th Round) by the Seattle Mariners HR 3 0 Obtained by San Francisco: Traded to San Francisco on 7/3/17 *Triple-A appearances only 2018 WITH AAA SACRAMENTO DATE G# OPP H/R DEC ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF NP-S 04/08/2018 1 TAC R 15.00 1 1 3.0 8 5 5 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0.17 1 .500 16 20 74-40 04/13/2018 1 TAC H 7.00 1 1 6.0 4 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 0 1 0.64 0 .324 21 24 86-56 04/18/2018 1 SL R W 5.65 1 1 5.1 5 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0.88 1 .298 20 23 91-51 04/23/2018 1 TAC R L 5.59 1 1 5.0 6 3 3 1 0 1 0 4 0 1 1.05 1 .303 19 20 80-51 07/21/2018 1 ELP R L 6.66 1 1 5.0 6 6 6 1 0 2 0 5 0 0 0.96 0 .299 21 23 76-47 07/27/2018 1 IOW H L 6.23 1 1 6.0 6 3 3 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0.79 0 .297 21 23 87-48 08/02/2018 1 MEM R L 5.70 1 1 6.0 8 2 2 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 0.80 1 .301 25 27 92-61 08/07/2018 1 NAS R L 5.31 1 1 6.0 8 3 2 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0.87 3 .309 22 25 104-61 08/13/2018 1 RNO R L 5.03 1 1 6.0 7 2 2 0 0 1 0 9 0 0 0.86 1 .309 23 24 96-60 08/18/2018 1 ABQ R L 5.13 1 1 6.0 8 6 4 1 1 1 0 3 0 1 1.02 1 .311 24 27 74-47 08/23/2018 1 FRE H L 6.17 1 1 4.0 12 9 9 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0.97 0 .332 23 25 99-66 W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF Total 1-8-0 6.17 11 11 58.1 78 43 40 8 2 22 1 45 0 3 0.97 9 .332 235 261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF Home Games 0-2-0 7.88 3 3 16.0 22 14 14 4 0 6 0 12 0 1 0.60 0 .338 65 72 Away Games 1-6-0 5.53 8 8 42.1 56 29 26 4 2 16 1 33 0 2 1.16 9 .329 170 189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF Day Games 0-1-0 7.36 1 1 3.2 5 3 3 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 0.50 0 .357 14 18 Night Games 1-5-0 5.18 8 8 41.2 43 26 24 2 0 26 0 25 1 1 1.07 5 .274 157 189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP vs Left .393 89 15 35 8 1 5 15 12 0 18 0 2 .471 .674 1.145 0 0 1 5 vs Right .295 146 28 43 13 2 3 27 10 1 27 3 2 .342 .473 .814 1 1 1 4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP Leading Off .418 55 3 23 4 1 3 3 3 0 8 0 0 .458 .691 1.149 0 0 1 0 Bases Empty .317 120 3 38 11 1 3 3 11 0 23 0 0 .379 .500 .879 0 0 1 0 Runners On .348 115 40 40 10 2 5 39 11 1 22 3 4 .406 .600 1.006 1 1 1 9 Runners On w/ 2 Outs .257 35 11 9 2 1 1 11 5 1 7 1 1 .350 .457 .807 0 0 0 0 Scoring Position .276 76 31 21 6 2 2 31 8 1 12 1 2 .349 .487 .836 1 0 1 5 RISP w/ 2 Outs .250 28 11 7 1 1 1 11 4 1 3 0 0 .344 .464 .808 0 0 0 0 Bases Loaded .333 6 3 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .667 0 0 0 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP Ahead in Count .205 78 16 16 3 1 3 16 0 0 25 1 2 .205 .385 .590 0 0 0 2 Behind in Count .450 80 14 36 10 0 4 14 22 1 9 0 0 .563 .725 1.288 1 0 0 2 RHP Shaun Anderson (2-2, 3.61) • Acquired on July 26, 2017 in the deal that sent INF the University of Florida Eduardo Nunez from the Giants to the Red Sox • Assigned to Double-A to begin the season, where he • Taken by Boston in the 3rd round of the 2016 draft out of struck out hitters at a 23.7% clip in nearly 100 innings W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF Total 2-2-0 3.61 7 7 42.1 38 22 17 5 1 11 0 31 0 2 1.21 4 .236 161 176 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP vs Left .276 76 7 21 5 0 0 5 5 0 13 0 3 .321 .342 .663 0 1 0 2 vs Right .200 85 15 17 1 1 5 12 6 0 18 1 0 .258 .412 .670 1 1 1 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAT TRACKS 2018 SEASON HIGHS & LOWS MISC.