GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (8-10) at Mobile BayBears (8-9) RHP Wes Parsons (0-0, 0.84) vs. LHP Jose Suarez (0-0, 2.45) Game #19 • April 24, 2018 • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • Mobile, AL •Hank Aaron Stadium TODAY’S GAME: The Mississippi Braves will face the Mobile BayBears in game four of their five game series tonight at Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, AL. Record Breakdown RHP Wes Parsons (0-0, 0.84) will make his fourth start of the 2018 season Score First ................................................. 6-3 Opponents Score First ...............................1-6 Shutouts ................................................... 2-2 Score in 1 inning ........................................1-0 with the M-Braves tonight. Parosns has appeared in a total of four games Score in 2 innings ..................................... 3-3 Score in 3 innings ......................................3-4 with the M-Braves this season, with one appearance being a relief appear- Score in 4 innings ..................................... 1-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 ance. ............................. 6-2 ..............................6-1 Leading after 6 innings Leading after 7 innings Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-0 Tied after 7 innings ...................................1-1 LAST TIME OUT: The Mississippi Braves took on the Mobile BayBears in a Trailing after 6 innings ............................. 2-7 Trailing after 7 innings ...............................0-7 double header on Monday night. The M-Braves and the BayBears split the double-header. Mississippi won game one by a score of 6-3 while Mobile Leading after 8 innings ............................. 5-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-4 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................4-1 took game two by a score of 5-2. Left fielder, Travis Demeritte, who has Trailing after 8 innings ............................. 0-7 Score 4 or More Runs ................................4-5 been absent from the M-Braves lineup in recent games, collected his second 5 homerun of the season in game one of Monday’s double-header. MS Farm First Game of Series ................................. 2-2 Last Game of Series ...................................1-2 First Game of Homestand ........................ 1-1 Last Game of Homestand ..........................0-2 Bureau Pitcher of the Week (April 16-22), Jacob Webb earned his third save ........................... 1-1 .............................1-0 of the season after tossing a scoreless ninth inning in game one, a team high First Game of Road Trip Last Game of Road Trip amongst M-Braves pitchers in 2018. Following an Off Day ................................ 0-1 1-Run Games .............................................1-3 Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................3-1 In Errorless Games ................................... 3-3 3-Run Games .............................................3-2 THIS DAY IN BRAVES HISTORY: In 1965, Casey Stengel won his 3,000th game With a Homer........................................... 5-3 Allow a Homer ..........................................1-3 as a manager when his Amazin’ Mets scored three runs in the top of the With No Homers ...................................... 3-7 Allow No Homers ......................................7-7 ninth inning to beat San Francisco at Candlestick Park, 7-6. The ‘Old Perfes- sor’, who served as the skipper for the Dodgers, Braves, and Yankees, won Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 3-2 Vs. Righty Starters ...................................7-10 Night (5 pm or later) ................................ 5-8 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................1-0 more than a third of his games (1,149) during his 12-year tenure with the Following a Win ....................................... 3-5 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................4-4 Bronx Bombers. Following a Loss ....................................... 4-5 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................4-6 In Decision By Starters ............................. 2-6 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................6-3 HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as the M-Braves manager and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mis- Daily & Monthly Breakdown sissippi State University in 1983. Day Home Road Month Home Road Monday 0-2 1-1 April 5-5 3-5 • Maloney spent the previous six years on the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Tuesday 0-1 0-0 May - - coaching staff as the team’s third base coach (2016-July 2017) and first base Wednesday 1-0 0-1 June - - coach (2012-15). Thursday 2-0 0-1 July - - Friday 0-2 0-1 August - - • Prior to joining the Cardinals, Maloney was the Memphis Redbirds (AAA) Saturday 1-0 1-0 September - - manager for five seasons (2007-11), leading the team to winning records in Sunday 1-0 1-1 Postseason - - four of his five seasons. Total 5-5 3-5 Total 5-5 3-5 • Maloney ranks ninth among active minor league managers in wins with 1,350 entering the 2018 season. M-Braves vs BayBears PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked by MLB Pipeline 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 as No. 2 in Major League Baseball. The M-Braves roster features two of the at Trustmark Park 6-4 7-8 5-9 6-4 5-5 9-7 4-11 Top 100 in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 30) and INF Austin Riley (No. 97). The ros- at Mobile 1-5 5-4 5-5 6-9 4-1 2-5 3-11 ter has six of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright (No. 2), Riley (No. 8), Total 7-9 12-12 10-14 12-13 9-6 11-12 7-22 RHP Touki Toussaint (No. 11), C Alex Jackson (No. 14), OF Travis Demeritte 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 (No. 21), LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 27). at Trustmark Park 6-4 3-7 7-8 5-6 6-3 4-6 0-0 at Mobile 7-6 6-4 8-1 1-7 4-6 1-9 2-1 VIDEO BOARD: In its second season above the LF wall, at 68 feet wide by Total 13-10 9-11 15-9 6-13 10-9 5-15 2-1 28 feet high (1,904 square feet), the state-of-theart Panasonic HD video Alltime board is approximately four-times larger than the previous video display at at Trustmark Park 73-82 Trustmark Park (2005-2016). The board is the largest single display in the at Mobile 55-74 Southern League and the largest in Central and South Mississippi. Total 128-156 M-Braves vs. BayBears Day-by-Day 2018 Date Result Record W-L-S Att 4/21 W, 3-1 1-0 Wright-Rodriguez, J-Webb 1,901 4/23 (G1: DH) W, 6-3 2-0 Graham-Custred-Webb N/A 4/23 (G2: DH) L, 5-2 2-1 Rhoades-Pike-Lillis-White 602 Southern League Standings NORTH REC GB JXN (ARI) 15-2 - On the Web TNS (CHC) 9-8 6.0 CHA (MIN) 9-9 6.5 BIR (CHW) 8-10 7.5 For all of your M-Braves information MTG (TB) 6-12 9.5 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) 11-7 - player and the organization overall. Follow MOB (LAA) 8-9 2.5 the links to listen to the M-Braves live MIS (ATL) 8-10 3.0 audio stream all season long. PNS (CIN) 8-10 3.0 Social Media JAX (MIA) 6-11 4.5 facebook.com/mbraves On the Airways 2018 marks the 10th @mbraves season of M-Braves base- ball on the FM dial with instagram.com/mbraves WYAB 103.9 FM. The Voice of the Mississippi Braves, Derrel Palmer enters his second season as youtube.com/mississippibraves 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 25 Mobile BayBears RHP Enderson Franco (0-1, 6.00) vs. Jesus Castillo (1-1, 6.39) 11:05 AM April 26 Jackson Generals RHP Kyle Wright (1-2, 2.45) vs. RHP Jon Duplantier (1-0, 3.60) 7:00 PM April 27 Jackson Generals RHP Touki Toussaint (0-1, 6.57) vs. RHP Justin Donatella (1-0, 0.00) 7:00 PM April 28 Jackson Generals LHP Michael Mader (1-0, 2.84) vs. LHP Alex Young (3-0, 3.43) 6:00 PM Page 1 Today’s Starter Parsons’ 2018 Day-by-Day #26 Wes Parsons • RHP • 6’5” • 204 • Clarksville, TN • 25 yrs MISSISSIPPI Date Opp. Decision IP H R ER BB SO HR 0-0, 0.84 ERA 4/19 PNS ND, (W, 3-2) 4.0 0 0 0 1 7 0 vs. Righties: .227, 0 HR 4/15 BLX ND, (W, 3-0) 4.0 3 0 0 1 1 0 vs. Lefties: .125, 0 HR 4/11 TNS ND, (L, 2-0) 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4/07 TNS ND, (W, 7-5) 1.2 3 4 1 3 2 0 TODAY’S GAME • RHP Wes Parsons will make his fourth start and fifth appearance of the season in tonight’s game against the Mobile BayBears. Parsons will be coming off of what has been his best performance of the 2018 season, which came on April 19 against the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. Mississippi won the game by a final score of 3-2. LAST TIME OUT • In his last outing on April 19 against the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, Parsons earned the start and tossed 4.0 innings of scoreless baseball. The right-hander did not allow a hit, walked one and struck out seven. ACQUIRED • Signed by the Braves as a non-drafted free agent on July 30, 2012 2017 NOTES • Appeared in 30 games (11 starts) between Double-A Mississippi and Triple-A Gwinnett, combining to go 3-3 with a 3.15 ERA (39 ER/111.1 IP) and 108 strike- outs...The 111.1 innings came after throwing 86.1 combined innings over the previous two seasons...Ranked in the Top 10 among Braves farmhands (min.