AKRON RUBBERDUCKS GAME NOTES Akron RubberDucks Media Relations ● Canal Park ● 300 S. Main St. ● Akron, OH 44308 Director of Public & Media Relations: Adam Liberman [email protected] Lead Broadcaster: Marco LaNave [email protected] Akron RubberDucks (22-37, 56-72) vs. Richmond Flying Squirrels (25-35, 48-79) Cleveland Indians Double-A San Francisco Giants Double-A RHP Kyle Dowdy (0-0, 2.92) LHP Caleb Baragar (3-5, 3.45) akronrubberducks.com @AkronRubberDucks Thursday, August 22, 2019 • Canal Park • 7:05 p.m. EDT @AkronRubberDuck Game 129, Home Game 63, Second Half Game 60, Night Game 93 WARF Fox Sports 1350 AM ● iHeartRadio (Fox Sports 1350) ● TuneIn (Akron RubberDucks) ● MiLB.TV @akronrubberducks Broadcast Powered By FirstEnergy ● Broadcasters: Jim Clark & Marco LaNave Carlos Carrasco returns: Cleveland Indians right-hander Carlos RubberDucks host Flying Squirrels: The RubberDucks and Flying Carrasco (currently on the 60-day Injured List) is scheduled to pitch on Squirrels are playing the last of three scheduled intradivision four-game Thursday for Akron after his first rehab appearance Monday (1 IP, 1 BB, 1 series this season, with eight games at Canal Park and four at The K), marking his first game action since May 30 in Chicago against the Diamond Each of the first two series were four-game splits. Last season, White Sox. It was his fourth appearance for Akron, where he pitched one Akron went 11-5 against Richmond, including 6-2 at Canal Park. In 2018, start each in 2011, 2016 and 2018. Carrasco has been diagnosed with the Flying Squirrels finished in sixth place in the Western Division, at 62- treatable chronic myeloid leukemia. The Indians announced on July 7 that 76 overall. Since Richmond joined the league in 2010, Akron leads the he was cleared to resume strength and conditioning workouts and series, 56-55. According to Baseball America (pre-2019) and MLB.com throwing activity to tolerance. (July 2019), top prospects in this series include: Indians (BA/MLB.com): #2/1 3B Nolan Jones, #6/15 LHP Sam More rehabs: Cleveland Indians outfielder Bradley Zimmer and pitcher Hentges, #18/26 Ernie Clement #22/NR OF Oscar Gonzalez Jefry Rodriguez, both on the 60-day Injured List, played their first games Nationals (BA/MLB.com): #1/1 C Joey Bart, #3/2 OF Heliot Ramos, #5/6 with Akron on rehab assignments on Tuesday. Zimmer suffered a right RHP Sean Hjelle, #21/28 LHP Garrett Williams, #24/NR IF Ryan Howard, shoulder injury during pre-game batting drills in Columbus on June 11, #30/NR IF Jalen Miller 2018, and had season-ending arthroscopic right shoulder surgery on July 20, 2018, to repair a torn labrum, with rehab from the procedure back to Clement’s strong return: Since returning from the Injured List May 9, full baseball activities expected to be 8-12 months. He appeared in five shortstop Ernie Clement has 94 hits (seventh in the Eastern League). Arizona League games Aug. 11-18 (4-for-8, 1 HR, 2 RBI). Rodriguez, who Since May 9, he is 94-for-341 (.276, seventh in EL). That includes 27 has made eight major league starts this season, made an Aug. 16 multi-hit games, 12 doubles, three triples, a home run (at Erie in his first appearance (1 IP, 1 BB, 1 K) in the AZL in his return from a right shoulder game back), 42 runs, 22 RBI, 22 walks, a .325 OBP, and separate 13- strain. With Rodriguez, all three players acquired in the Nov. 30, 2018, and 14-game hitting streaks. He was on the IL with a right adductor strain Yan Gomes trade with Washington (also outfielder Daniel Johnson, April 16-May 8. In six games prior to going on the IL, the Indians No. 18 infielder Andruw Monasterio) will have appeared for Akron this season. (Baseball America)/No. 26 (MLB.com) prospect was 3-for-25 (.120). Wednesday Recap: Senators outlast RubberDucks for sweep Jones arrives in Double-A: Third baseman Nolan Jones has homered (Harrisburg 6, Akron 5, 10 innings): The Harrisburg Senators scored in back-to-back games and has seven in 38 Eastern League games. twice in the 10th inning to break a 4-4 tie on the way to a 6-5 win and Ranked by MLB.com as the Indians’ No. 1 prospect (July 2019) and No. 2 three-game sweep of the RubberDucks in front of 4,623 at Canal Park on by Baseball America (entering 2019), he made his Double-A debut on July Wednesday night. Indians outfielder Bradley Zimmer was 2-for-3 with a 11, becoming the highest-ranked Indians prospect to appear for Akron this double while playing five innings in center field in his second rehab game. season. A 2019 Carolina League Mid-Season All-Star with Class-A Advanced Lynchburg, Jones led the league in walks (65), on-base Since the All-Star break: Since the Eastern League All-Star break, Akron percentage (.435) and OPS (.860) at the time of his promotion to Akron. is 15-24, but a few RubberDucks have posted numbers among the league He also led Lynchburg with 48 runs. He played 77 games and hit .286 with leaders since the break. Trenton Brooks has a league-leading 23 extra- seven home runs, 41 RBI, and a .456 slugging percentage. He also base hits, 16 doubles (tied for the lead), 73 total bases (fourth), a .521 played in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Progressive Field on July slugging percentage (third), .856 OPS (seventh) and 23 RBI (tied for 7, starting at third base and grounding out to the pitcher in his only at bat. 10th). Nolan Jones, called up to Double-A for the first time during the break, has seven home runs (tied for fourth), 22 walks (third) and 28 runs Flying out of the park: The RubberDucks have hit 12 home runs over the (tied for third). Ernie Clement has nine stolen bases (tied for sixth). Jake past 12 games after hitting just three in the previous 20 games. In the past Paulson has five wins (tied for the lead), Sam Hentges has 40 strikeouts 32 games, Akron has 15 home runs while allowing 29. Overall, the (tied for fifth), and Dalbert Siri has six saves (tied for sixth). RubberDucks have 97 home runs (fourth in the Eastern League) while allowing 90 (sixth fewest in the EL) for a +7 home run differential. Of the Gonzalez warms up to the EL: Outfielder Oscar Gonzalez, who was RubberDucks’ 97 home runs this season, 59 (61 percent) have come in promoted to Akron on Aug. 1, has hit safely in nine of 12 games Aug. 6- 22 multi-homer games, including 13 in four straight games May 9-13. 19, including a six-game hitting streak Aug. 6-13 (8-for-22, three doubles, Akron’s six home runs on May 11 in Reading were its most since hitting a home run, five runs and five RBI) after going hitless in his first three seven on July 2, 2008, in a 10-6 win at Erie. Akron allowed six home runs Eastern League games (0-for-10). The Carolina League All-Star left to Binghamton on July 20, marking its most allowed since May 29, 2009, Lynchburg with a league-best .319 average, 123 hits and 175 total bases. when Erie hit six in an 11-8 win over the Aeros. The last season Akron led He had eight home runs, 61 RBI (fourth), 33 extra-base hits (sixth), .455 the Eastern League in home runs was 2005, when the Aeros hit 151, led SLG (fifth) and .797 OPS (second). by Jonathan Van Every’s 27 (tied for second in the league). UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS (ALL TIMES EASTERN) – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Friday, Aug. 23 7:05 p.m. LHP Adam Scott (4-4, 3.63) vs. Richmond RHP Alfred Gutierrez (8-4, 4.07) Saturday, Aug. 24 7:05 p.m. LHP Sam Hentges (2-12, 5.49) vs. Richmond RHP Ryan Halstead (2-5, 3.52) Sunday, Aug. 25 2:05 p.m. LHP Tanner Tully (7-11, 4.72) vs. Richmond RHP Brandon Lawson (5-8, 3.56) Monday, Aug. 26 6:00 p.m. TBA at Altoona TBA Double-A Eastern League Affiliate of the Cleveland Indians RUBBERDUCKS STARTING PITCHER #13 Kyle Dowdy…RHP, 6-1, 195, Age 26 (2/3/93), Resides: Escondido, CA Acquired: Returned to the Indians on July 28, 2019, after being a Rule 5 pick (by the Mets) designated for assignment by the Rangers on July 25 Twitter: @kyle_dowdy116 Instagram: @kyle_dowdy116 Throws: Fastball, Slider, Curveball, Changeup 2019: Claimed by Texas, off waivers from the New York Mets, on March 26 and made his MLB debut March 28. Placed on MLB Injured List June 1 (right elbow impingement), made 10 rehab appearances June 27-July 21, before being designated for assignment July 25. 2018: Acquired by the Indians with OF Leonys Martín for INF Willi Castro on July 31, then selected by the Mets from Cleveland in the MLB Rule 5 Draft on Dec. 13. Pitched 30 games (20 starts) and went 9-12 with a 5.15 ERA in 124 IP between Erie (AA-Detroit), Toledo (AAA-Detroit) and Akron 2017: Ranked among Florida State League leaders in walks per 9 IP (1.85, third), strikeouts (121, fifth), WHIP (1.27, fifth) and ERA (3.83, eighth). 2016: Went 10-3 (tied for second-most wins in Midwest League) with a 2.84 ERA in 107.2 IP across 23 games (16 starts).