GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (11-15) at Pensacola Blue Wahoos (11-15) LHP Michael Mader (1-0, 2.81) vs. RHP Keury Mella (3-0, 0.00) Game #27 • May 3, 2018 • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • Pensacola, FL •Blue Wahoos Stadium TODAY’S GAME: The Mississippi Braves continue a five-game road series with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos at Blue Wahoos Stadium today at 6:35 p.m. (CST). Pensacola Record Breakdown leads the season series against the M-Braves, 4-2 taking the five-game set at Trust- Score First ................................................. 8-4 Opponents Score First .............................2-10 Shutouts ................................................... 3-2 Score in 1 inning ........................................1-3 mark Park, April 16-20, 3-2. LHP Michael Mader (1-0, 2.81) will face off against Cincin- Score in 2 innings ..................................... 4-3 Score in 3 innings ......................................5-6 nati Reds’ No. 20 overall prospect RHP Keury Mella (3-0, 0.00). Score in 4 innings ..................................... 1-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 LAST TIME OUT: Mississippi lost an early lead and dropped yesterday’s series opener Leading after 6 innings ............................. 9-3 Leading after 7 innings ..............................9-1 Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-0 Tied after 7 innings ...................................1-1 to Pensacola 9-5. 3B Austin Riley drove in three runs while going 2-for-4 with a home Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 2-11 Trailing after 7 innings .............................0-12 run, his fifth of the season. M-Braves starter RHP Kyle Wright gave up six hits, four runs, two earned and one walk in 6.0 inning with five strikeouts. OF Michael Reed Leading after 8 innings ............................. 8-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-7 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................4-1 scored three times and finished 2-for-4 with a solo home run. Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 0-12 Score 4 or More Runs ................................7-7 M-BRAVES VS. BLUE WAHOOS: The Braves and Wahoos will meet 25 times in 2018 First Game of Series ................................. 3-3 Last Game of Series ...................................2-3 with 10 games being played at Blue Wahoos Stadium and 15 games at Trustmark Park. First Game of Homestand ........................ 1-2 Last Game of Homestand ..........................1-2 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 1-2 Last Game of Road Trip .............................1-1 The Braves are 60-57 all-time against the Wahoos and 27-28 at Blue Wahoos Stadium. Following an Off Day ................................ 0-2 1-Run Games .............................................2-4 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: The RHP Mike Soroka became the third M-Brave alum Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................3-1 In Errorless Games ................................... 5-4 3-Run Games .............................................4-2 to make his MLB debut in 2018 on Tuesday in New York. The Calgary, Canada native With a Homer........................................... 6-5 Allow a Homer ..........................................1-5 joins OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted With No Homers .................................... 5-10 Allow No Homers ....................................9-10 this season. In total, 132 players, have gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 4-3 Vs. Righty Starters ...................................9-14 Night (5 pm or later) .............................. 7-12 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................2-1 Following a Win ....................................... 4-7 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................5-7 RILEY AND WEBB EARN ORGANIZATIONAL AWARDS FOR APRIL: The At- Following a Loss ....................................... 6-8 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................6-8 lanta Braves announced the first minor league pitchers and players of the month dur- In Decision By Starters ........................... 4-11 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................7-4 ing the 2018 season as RHP Jacob Webb and 3B Austin Riley take home the honors for the Double-A M-Braves during April. Riley closed out the month of April with a .310 batting average (26-for-84) in 23 games played. The Atlanta Braves No. 8 overall Daily & Monthly Breakdown prospect also finished the month of April as the team leader in doubles (8), triples Day Home Road Month Home Road Monday 1-2 1-1 April 8-7 3-7 (3), homeruns (4) and RBI (15). Webb finished the month of April with a team best Tuesday 0-1 0-1 May - 0-1 0.77 ERA in 10 relief appearances. Webb, who has assumed the closer role for the Wednesday 1-0 0-3 June - - M-Braves, allowed just six hits, two runs, one earned run, one home run, issued four Thursday 2-1 0-1 July - - walks, and recorded 19 strikeouts in 11.2 innings pitched during the month of April. Friday 1-2 0-1 August - - Saturday 2-0 1-0 September - - Sunday 1-1 1-1 Postseason - - THIS DAY IN BRAVES HISTORY: On this day in 2009, in the eighth inning of the Rays’ Total 8-7 3-8 Total 8-7 3-8 5-3 victory over Boston, Carl Crawford steals his sixth base of the game to become the fourth major leaguer to accomplish the feat. The 27 year-old perennial American League stolen base champ joins Eddie Collins (twice 1912 - A’s ), Otis Nixon (Braves - M-Braves vs Blue Wahoos 1991), and Eric Young (Rockies - 1996) as the only players to pilfer a half dozen bags 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 in a contest since 1900. at Trustmark Park 4-5 6-4 9-1 5-3 3-7 4-6 2-3 at Pensacola 3-2 6-3 3-2 5-5 5-5 5-10 0-1 Total 7-7 12-7 12-3 10-8 8-12 9-16 2-4 HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as the M- Alltime Braves manager and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. at Trustmark Park 33-29 • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mississippi at Pensacola 27-28 State University in 1983. Total 60-57 • 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 coach (2012-15). • Prior to joining the Cardinals, Maloney was the Memphis Redbirds (AAA) manager for five seasons (2007-11), leading the team to winning records in four of his five seasons. • Maloney ranks ninth among active minor league managers in wins with 1,350 entering the 2018 season. M-Braves vs Blue Wahoos Day-by-Day PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked by MLB Pipeline as No. 2 in Major League Baseball. The M-Braves roster features two of the Top 100 in RHP Kyle Date Result Record W-L-S Att Wright (No. 30) and INF Austin Riley (No. 97). The roster has six of the Top 30 Atlanta 4/16 L, 8-3 0-1 D. Wright-K.Wright 1,179 prospects in Wright (No. 2), Riley (No. 8), RHP Touki Toussaint (No. 11), C Alex Jackson 4/17 L, 8-4 0-2 Mella-Gohara-Powers 1,474 (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 21), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 27). 4/18 W, 9-4 1-2 Clouse-De Paula 4,644 4/19 W, 3-2 2-2 Watts-Reyes-Webb 1,663 4/20 L, 5-0 2-3 Strahan-Franco 2,945 Southern League Standings 5/2 L, 9-5 2-4 Mitchell-Graham 3,789 NORTH REC GB JXN (ARI) 17-8 - On the Web CHA (MIN) 14-12 3.5 BIR (CHW) 13-13 4.5 TNS (CHC) 12-12 5.0 For all of your M-Braves information MTG (TB) 10-16 7.5 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves BLX (MIL) 16-10 - player and the organization overall. Follow the links to listen to the M-Braves live JAX (MIA) 12-13 3.5 audio stream all season long. 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Upcoming Probable Starters & Schedule Date Opponent Probable Starters Time (CT) May 4 at Pensacola RHP Touki Toussaint (1-1, 4.44) vs. RHP Jesus Reyes (0-4, 5.06) 6:35 PM May 5 at Pensacola RHP Wes Parsons (0-2, 2.20) vs. RHP Vladimir Gutierrez (0-4, 5.14) 6:05 PM May 6 at Pensacola RHP Enderson Franco (1-2, 3.68) vs. RHP Wyatt Strahan (3-2, 5.48) 1:05 PM May 7 vs. Mobile RHP Kyle Wright (1-3, 4.26) vs. RHP Luis Pena (0-3, 7.29) 7:00 PM Page 1 Today’s Starter Mader’s 2018 Day-by-Day #33 Michael Mader • LHP • 6’2” • 205 • Mariana, FL• 24 yrs Mississippi Date Opp. Decision IP/P H R ER BB SO HR 1-0, 2.81 ERA 4/27 JXN ND, (W, 6-3) 3.1/69 4 1 1 2 4 0 vs. Righties: .205, 1 HR 4/23 MOB ND, (L, 5-2) 3.0/49 3 1 1 1 4 0 vs. Lefties: .350, 0 HR 4/18 PNS ND, (W 9-4) 2.1/29 1 0 0 0 3 0 4/15 BLX ND (L, 7-4) 1.0/37 3 2 2 1 0 1 TODAY’S GAME 4/11 BLX ND, (L, 2-0) 2.0/34 2 1 1 0 2 0 • LHP Michael Mader will make his eighth appearance and third consecutive start 4/8 TNS ND (W, 5-3) 2.0/40 1 0 0 2 1 0 of 2018 when he takes the mound against the Blue Wahoos tonight in Pensacola.