Oklahoma City Dodgers Game Information Pacific Coast League Affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark | 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive | Oklahoma City, OK 73104 | Phone: (405) 218-1000 Alex Freedman: (405) 218-2126 | [email protected] | Lisa Johnson: (405) 218-2143 | [email protected] Oklahoma City Dodgers (27-13) vs. Memphis Redbirds (26-18) Los Angeles Dodgers vs. St. Louis Cardinals Game #41 of 140/Road #17 of 70 (7-9) Pitching Probables: OKC-LHP Manny Bañuelos (4-2, 3.55) vs. MEM-LHP Austin Gomber (2-3, 4.61) Monday, May 21, 2018 | AutoZone Park | Memphis, Tenn. | 6:35 p.m. CT Radio: KGHM AM-1340 The Game, 1340thegame.com, iHeartRadio - Alex Freedman Today’s Game: The Oklahoma City Dodgers open a nine-game road trip in the state of Tennessee, as the Dodgers face the Memphis Redbirds OKC Dodgers Trends Overall Record ............................. 27-13 beginning at 6:35 p.m. at AutoZone Park. The Dodgers pace the PCL with a 27-13 record — tied for the team’s best record through 40 games Home Record.................... ............ 20-4 since rejoining the PCL in 1998 (also 2015). Road Record.................... ............... 7-9 Current Streak.................... ............. W2 Current Road Trip............... .............. 0-0 Last Game: Jake Peter hit two of the Dodgers’ four home runs in an 11-2 win against Nashville Sunday afternoon at Chickasaw Bricktown Last Road Trip..................... ............ 0-3 Ballpark. Donovan Solano finished a triple shy of the cycle, picking up a game-high four hits. His home run to center field gave the Dodgers Current Homestand ............................... Last Homestand............................... 3-1 a 1-0 lead in the fourth. A two-run single by Kyle Garlick later in the inning extended OKC’s lead to 3-0. After Nashville got on the board in the Last 5 Games...................... ............ 3-2 top of the fifth inning, Travis Taijeron answered in the bottom half of the frame with a two-run single. Peter’s solo homer in the sixth pushed Last 10 Games.................... ............ 5-5 Series Record ............................... 7-1-2 OKC’s lead to 6-1. Taijeron led off the eighth inning with a solo homer and Peter’s three-run blast later in the inning pushed OKC’s lead to 10-1. Scoring 3 or less ............................. 7-8 Needing a triple to complete the cycle, Solano hit a fly ball to deep right field with two outs in the eighth inning. He rounded second, but was Scoring 4-6 ................................... 10-4 Scoring 7+ .................................... 10-1 tagged out just shy of third base. However, his double did score Oklahoma City’s 11th run. Dodgers reliever Joe Broussard (3-0) was credited Allowing 3 or less ........................... 21-4 with the win while Nashville starting pitcher Frankie Montas (1-5) was charged with the loss. Allowing 4-6 ..................................... 4-3 Allowing 7+ ..................................... 2-6 Shutouts.......................................... 3-1 Today’s Probable Pitcher: Lefty Manny Bañuelos (4-2) looks for a win after suffering his first two losses of 2018 in back-to-back starts... In One-Run Games............ ................ 8-6 Bañuelos pitched a season-low three innings May 14 at Colorado Springs. He allowed four runs and six hits, with two walks and three strikeouts In Two-Run Games.............. .............. 6-2 vs. LH Starting Pitcher......... ............. 5-2 and was charged with the loss in OKC’s 8-5 defeat...Over his last 6.0 innings, Bañuelos has allowed nine runs and 14 hits, including nine extra- vs. RH Starting Pitcher....... ........... 22-10 base hits. Prior to the recent rough patch, he’d allowed a total of seven runs over 32.0 innings while holding the opposition to a .196 batting Day Games/AM Start.................. 5-5/0-4 Night Games (5 p.m.or later)..... ...... 22-8 average...His 1.21 WHIP ranks seventh in the PCL and he also leads the team in starts, wins and strikeouts (41)...Left-handed batters are just Score First........... ......................... 20-4 4-for-27 against him this season...He signed with the Dodgers as a free agent Nov. 14, 2017 after spending 2017 with Triple-A Salt Lake in Opponent Scores First .............. ........7-9 Outhit Opponent ............. ................19-7 the Los Angeles Angels organization...Bañuelos appeared in a team-leading 39 games (nine starts) with Salt Lake, pitching 95.0 innings with a Outhit by Opponent ................ ..........5-4 5-6 record, 4.93 ERA and 85 K’s...Bañuelos has appeared in seven career ML games (six starts), all with Atlanta in 2015...Tonight is Bañuelos’ Equal Hits ................ ........................3-2 Walkoff Wins .............................4 (1 HR) third career appearance and second start of the season against the Redbirds. In his first meeting with Memphis this season May 9 at home, Come-from-Behind Wins .....................12 Bañuelos took the loss after allowing season highs with five runs and eight hits over 5.0 innings, as OKC fell, 7-2. Largest Deficit in W .............................5 Losses after Leading ...........................5 Largest Lead in L ................................4 Against the Redbirds: 2018: 4-4 2017: 8-7 All-time: 172-155 At MEM: 75-90 Extra Innings.......... .......................... 3-2 vs. AL Affiliates ................................ 9-2 The Dodgers and Redbirds are meeting for their third series of the season and third of the month of May...The teams have split each of their vs. NL Affiliates ............................ 18-11 first two series of 2018, April 30-May 3 in Memphis and May 8-11 in OKC. The Dodgers have now won or split 10 straight series against the defending PCL champion Redbirds...The Dodgers have slightly outscored the Redbirds, 33-32, this season, and they have pitched shutouts in After Six Innings: Lead: 19-1..Tied: 4-1...Trail: 4-11 three of the four wins...Rocky Gale enters this series with 11 hits in six games and Kyle Garlick has four homers...The Dodgers won the 2017 After Seven Innings: series, 8-7, and have won five consecutive season series against Memphis. OKC has not lost a season series to the Redbirds since 2011, Lead: 21-1..Tied: 2-1...Trail: 4-11 After Eight Innings: and the Dodgers were the only team in the PCL last season to have winning record against the 91-win Redbirds...OKC went 4-3 at AutoZone Lead: 21-1..Tied: 4-1...Trail: 1-11 Park in 2017 and has finished with a winning record in Memphis each of the past five seasons, going 25-14 over that span. Vs. American Northern.......... ........ 10-5 Vs. American Southern .................. 17-8 Santana’s Town: Dennis Santana was named PCL Pitcher of the Week today after firing six shutout innings in his Triple-A debut Saturday Vs. Pacific Northern................. ....... 0-0 Vs. Pacific Southern.................. ...... 0-0 against Nashville in OKC. He allowed three singles and racked up 11 strikeouts, tying his career high and setting the benchmark for the most Travel Days: Bus/Fly.......... ........ 3-1/0-1 by an OKC pitcher this season. Santana retired the first nine Sounds batters of the game, with six via strikeout. After allowing two hits in the After Off Day....................... ............ 2-0 fourth, the right-handed pitcher retired nine of the final 10 batters he faced. The Sounds only put one runner in scoring position and did not Doubleheader Games/Series.....1-1/0-0-1 have a runner advance to third base...Although Santana has received Mid-Season All-Star honors in each of the last two seasons, this is the Series Openers: 8-3 first weekly award of his career...This is the second straight week a Dodgers pitcher has won the award, following Justin DeFratus last week. Home: .... 5-1 Road: .... 3-2 It’s the first time OKC has nabbed back-to-back PCL Pitcher of the Week honors since Trevor Oaks and Jose De Leon in August 2016. Series Finales: 8-3 Home: .... 5-1 Road: .... 3-2 Bumps in the Road: Although the Dodgers have a sterling 20-4 record at home, it has not been the same story on the road. The Dodgers are 7-9 in road games and have lost five of their last six road games, as well as seven of their last nine. Of the nine total road losses, seven have PCL Standings come by one or two runs, with the lone exceptions being a pair of three-run losses. The last seven road losses have been by a combined 10 American Northern Record GB runs...The Dodgers have been held to two or fewer runs four times over the last nine road games, with three games tallying one or no runs. Oklahoma City (LAD) 27-13 -- The team is slashing .247/.309/.377 with 3.8 runs per game on the road compared to .317/.379/.493 with 6.1 runs per game at home. Colorado Springs (MIL) 25-16 -2.5 Omaha (KC) 16-27 -12.5 Iowa (CHC) 14-27 -13.5 Dominant Donovan: OKC hits leader Donovan Solano connected on a season-high four knocks in Sunday’s game against Nashville and became the first Dodger this season with three extra-base hits in one game. Needing a triple to complete the cycle in the eighth inning, Solano American Southern Record GB Memphis (STL) 26-18 -- hit a fly ball near the wall in deep right field, but he was thrown out at third base by a few feet...Solano has hit safely in six straight games to New Orleans (MIA) 22-21 -3.5 tie his season-high hit streak, going 12-for-27 (.444) with eight RBI and four runs scored...He paces the Dodgers with 52 hits and 17 multi-hit Nashville (OAK) 21-21 -4.0 games over 36 contests.