GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (0-0) vs. Tennessee Smokies (0-0) RHP Kyle Wright (0-0, --) vs. RHP Trevor Clifton (0-0, --) Game #1 • April 5, 2018 • 7:00 pm • Pearl, MS •Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The Mississippi Braves open the 2018 regular season against the Tennessee Smokies, the AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs at Trustmark Record Breakdown Park. Last season the M-Braves were 5-5 vs. the Smokies, 2-3 at home and Score First ................................................. 0-0 Opponents Score First ...............................0-0 Shutouts ................................................... 0-0 Score in 1 inning ........................................0-0 3-2 in Kodak, TN. The M-Braves lead the all-time series, 73-69. Score in 2 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 3 innings ......................................0-0 Score in 4 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 OPENING DAY: 2018 marks the 10th consecutive year the M-Braves have opened the season at home dating back to 2009, and the 11th time total in Leading after 6 innings ............................. 0-0 Leading after 7 innings ..............................0-0 Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-0 Tied after 7 innings ...................................0-0 14 seasons. The M-Braves are 3-6 in their last nine Opening Day games (all Trailing after 6 innings ............................. 0-0 Trailing after 7 innings ...............................0-0 at home), but are 3-10 all-time on Opening Day. The Braves have lost the last four Opening Day contests, including a 7-2 loss to Jacksonville in 2017. Leading after 8 innings ............................. 0-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-0 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................0-0 Trailing after 8 innings ............................. 0-0 Score 4 or More Runs ................................0-0 LAST SEASON: In 2017, the M-Braves saw its first losing campaign since 2012, going 58-80 and finishing fifth in the Southern League South Division. The M- First Game of Series ................................. 0-0 Last Game of Series ...................................0-0 First Game of Homestand ........................ 0-0 Last Game of Homestand ..........................0-0 Braves played to a 34-36 record in the season’s first half, before going 24-44 ........................... 0-0 .............................0-0 after the All-Star break. First Game of Road Trip Last Game of Road Trip • For the fourth consecutive season the M-Braves housed the organization’s Following an Off Day ................................ 0-0 1-Run Games .............................................0-0 Player and Pitcher of the Year honorees, as OF Ronald Acuña Jr. played 57 Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................0-0 In Errorless Games ................................... 0-0 3-Run Games .............................................0-0 games with the M-Braves and RHP Mike Soroka spent his full season in the With a Homer........................................... 0-0 Allow a Homer ..........................................0-0 Mississippi rotation. With No Homers ...................................... 0-0 Allow No Homers ......................................0-0 • Acuña Jr. won both the MiLB.com Hitter of the Year Award and Baseball America’s Minor League Player of Year Award after batting a combined .325 Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 0-0 Vs. Righty Starters .....................................0-0 Night (5 pm or later) ................................ 0-0 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................0-0 with 21 home runs and 44 stolen bases across three levels of the Braves farm Following a Win ....................................... 0-0 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................0-0 system, including a .326 average with 24 extra-base hits and 19 steals in 57 Following a Loss ....................................... 0-0 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................0-0 games with Mississippi. In Decision By Starters ............................. 0-0 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................0-0 • Soroka made 26 starts for the M-Braves and pitched to an 11-8 record with a 2.75 ERA and 125 strikeouts. He paced the Atlanta farm system in wins (11) and innings pitched (153.2), while ranking in the Top 10 in starter’s ERA (5th, Daily & Monthly Breakdown 2.75),K/BB ratio (T6th, 3.68) and strikeouts (8, 125). Soroka earned Southern Day Home Road Month Home Road Monday 0-0 0-0 April - - League Mid-Season All-Star honors and was selected to pitch for the World Tuesday 0-0 0-0 May - - Team in the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. Wednesday 0-0 0-0 June - - Thursday 0-0 0-0 July - - Friday 0-0 0-0 August - - HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as Saturday 0-0 0-0 September - - the M-Braves manager and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. Sunday 0-0 0-0 Postseason - - • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mis- Total 0-0 0-0 Total 0-0 0-0 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 M-Braves vs Smokies coach (2012-15). 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 • Prior to joining the Cardinals, Maloney was the Memphis Redbirds (AAA) at Trustmark Park 2-1 2-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-8 4-2 manager for five seasons (2007-11), leading the team to winning records in at Tennessee 3-1 3-2 1-3 3-2 4-1 2-3 2-3 four of his five seasons. Total 5-2 5-5 3-6 7-3 7-3 4-11 6-5 • Maloney ranks ninth among active minor league managers in wins with 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 at Trustmark Park 2-3 4-1 4-1 2-3 3-2 2-3 0-0 1,350 entering the 2018 season. at Tennessee 1-4 3-2 4-6 1-4 7-3 3-2 0-0 Total 3-7 7-3 8-7 3-7 10-5 5-5 0-0 PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked by MLB Pipeline Alltime as No. 2 in Major League Baseball. The M-Braves roster features three of the at Trustmark Park 36-33 Top 100 in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 30), LHP Max Fried (No. 83) and INF Austin at Tennessee 37-36 Riley (No. 97). The roster has seven of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright Total 73-69 (No. 2), Fried (No. 7), Riley (No. 8), RHP Touki Toussaint (No. 11), C Alex Jack- son (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 21), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 27). M-Braves vs Smokies Day-by-Day VIDEO BOARD: In its second season above the LF wall, at 68 feet wide by 28 Date Result Record W-L-S Att feet high (1,904 square feet), the state-of-theart Panasonic HD video board 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- ern League and the largest in Central and South Mississippi. Southern League Standings NORTH REC GB BIR (CWS) 0-0 -- On the Web CHA (MIN) 0-0 -- JXN (ARI) 0-0 -- MTG (TB) 0-0 -- For all of your M-Braves information TEN (CHC) 0-0 -- 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) 0-0 -- player and the organization overall. Follow JAX (MIA) 0-0 -- the links to listen to the M-Braves live MIS (ATL) 0-0 -- audio stream all season long. MOB (LAA) 0-0 -- Social Media PNS (CIN) 0-0 -- 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 6 Tennessee Smokies RHP Touki Toussaint (0-0, --) vs. RHP Duncan Robinson (0-0, --) 7:00 PM April 7 Tennessee Smokies LHP Tyler Pike (0-0, --) vs. RHP Thomas Hatch (0-0, --) 6:00 PM 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 Page 1 Today’s Starter Wright’s 2018 Day-by-Day #23 Kyle Wright • RHP • 6’4” • 215 0-0, 0.00 ERA Mississippi vs. Righties: .000, 0 HR Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR vs. Lefties: .000, 0 HR TODAY’S GAME • Wright makes his Double-A debut today against the Tennessee Smokies. LAST TIME OUT • Made his professional debut in 2017 with rookie-level GCL Braves and Single-A Florida, going a combined 0-1 with a 2.65 ERA in nine games, all starts…Fanned 18 while walking six. Wright’s 2017 Day-by-Day HIGHLIGHTS GCL Braves • Selected by the Atlanta Braves in the first round (fifth overall) of the 2017 draft Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR out of Vanderbilt. 7/17 GCL NY ND, L 7-3 1.2 1 1 1 1 3 0 7/22 GCL TOR ND, W 1-0 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 0 • Ranked as the No. 30 overall prospect in MLB.com’s Top 100 ranking. In the At- 7/27 GCL PIT ND, W 8-6 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 0 lanta Braves organization ranked No.