NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (7-16) vs. Omaha Storm Chasers (10-13) RHP Richelson Peña (1-3, 5.25) vs. RHP Zach Lovvorn (1-0, 11.45) Game #24/Home Game #12 • Monday, April 29, 2019 • First Tennessee Park • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Tuesday April 30 vs. Omaha RHP Phillips Valdez (0-2, 3.38) LHP Foster Griffin (1-1, 4.43) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Wednesday May 1 vs. Omaha RHP Tim Dillard (0-0, 7.53) LHP Jake Kalish (0-1, 1.50) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Thursday May 2 vs. Omaha RHP Ronald Herrera (0-1, 27.00) RHP Glenn Sparkman (0-0, 0.00) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Friday May 3 vs. Memphis TBD TBD 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Tonight's Game: The Nashville Sounds welcome the Omaha Storm Chasers to First Tennessee Park to begin SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS a four-game series tonight. It’s the first of 16 meetings between the two division rivals in 2019. Right-hander SOUNDS VS. STORM CHASERS Series (W-L-T): 0-5-1 Richelson Peña starts for the Sounds against right-hander Zach Lovvorn for the Storm Chasers. 2019: 0-0 at Nashville: 0-0 Series Openers: 2-4 All-Time: 151-153 at Omaha: 0-0 Series Finales: 1-5 Richelson Peña: 25-year-old Richelson Peña starts for the Sounds tonight. The right-hander is making his DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 0-0 5th start of the season. Peña is 1-3 with a 5.25 ERA and has covered 24.0 innings in first 4 outings. He last 4/29 Nashville Day Games: 3-4 pitched on April 22 against San Antonio and was tagged with a loss after he allowed 4 earned runs on 3 hits 4/30 Nashville and 2 walks in 5.1 innings. He struck out a pair and threw 88 pitches, 58 for strikes in the 5-0 setback. Peña Night Games: 4-12 5/1 Nashville split the 2018 season between Double-A Frisco and Round Rock. He began the season with Frisco and went 5/2 Nashville vs. RHP: 6-15 4-3 with a 2.43 ERA in 11 starts before being promoted to Round Rock where he went 4-2 with a 4.65 ERA. 7/4 Omaha vs. LHP: 1-1 Overall in 2018, the Dominican Republic native went 8-5 with a 3.38 ERA in 22 games (18 starts). He was April: 7-16 named a Texas League All-Star (midseason) for his efforts. In his minor league career, Peña is 52-39 with a 7/5 Omaha May: 0-0 3.75 ERA in 154 games (116 starts). He originally signed with the Texas Rangers as a non-drafted free agent 7/6 Omaha June: 0-0 on May 5, 2011. 7/7 Omaha 8/15 Nashville July: 0-0 8/16 Nashville August: 0-0 Zach Lovvorn: 24-year-old Zach Lovvorn starts for the Storm Chasers in tonight’s series opener. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 11.45 ERA in 5 games (2 starts) in 2019. Lovvorn has logged 11.0 innings and has 8/17 Nashville September: 0-0 allowed 21 hits and 10 walks to go along with 12 strikeouts. The Alabama native last pitched on April 24 in a 8/18 Nashville Monday: 1-2 start against Memphis and got a no-decision. He tossed 3.0 innings and allowed 3 hits and 2 walks to go along 8/26 Omaha Tuesday: 1-1 with 3 strikeouts in Omaha’s 7-5 loss. Lovvorn split his 2018 between Triple-A Omaha and Double-A North- 8/27 Omaha Wednesday: 0-3 west Arkansas where he combined to go 6-9 with a 5.20 ERA in 27 games (24 starts). He threw 143.2 innings 8/28 Omaha Thursday: 0-3 and yielded 160 hits and 49 walks with 82 strikeouts. In his Minor League career he’s 27-56 with a 4.88 ERA 8/29 Omaha Friday: 3-0 in 153 games (116 starts). The Kansas City Royals drafted him in the 6th round of the 2012 MLB Draft out of Saturday: 0-3 Oxford (Ala.) High School. Sunday: 2-4 vs. Am. Northern: 3-7 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division TONIGHT’S MATCHUP standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 0, Third: 4, Fourth: 19. vs. Am. Southern: 4-9 Sounds Storm Chasers vs. Pac. Northern: 0-0 7-16 Record 10-13 Wrong Side of the Record Book: The Nashville Sounds have been etched into the Pacific Coast League 2-9 Home 4-7 vs. Pac. Southern: 0-0 record book after yesterday’s first inning of game two. The 15 runs allowed by Nashville pitchers in the first vs. NL Affiliate: 6-12 inning matches the modern-day PCL record by most runs scored in a single inning. The first team to score 5-7 Road 6-6 vs. AL Affiliate: 1-4 15 in one inning was Indianapolis against Seattle on May 16, 1964 and the second to do it was Hawaii vs. Salt Lead After 6: 6-1 Lake City on May 19, 1975. The Sounds are the third team in modern PCL history to allowed 15 runs in one L1 Streak W1 Trail After 6: 1-13 inning. The pitching staff also allowed a franchise-high 15 walks in the game. The previous record was 14 2-3 Last 5 1-4 Tied After 6: 0-2 walks issued on August 15, 1987 vs. Denver. 3-7 Last 10 3-7 Lead After 7: 5-1 Davidson’s Power Binge: Nashville first baseman hit his 7th home run of the season in game one yesterday .226 (16th) Batting Avg. .267 (8th) Trail After 7: 1-15 and his 8th of the year in game two. He is now tied for 6th in the PCL with the 8 homers. All of Davidson’s 27 (T12th) HR 18 (15th) Tied After 7: 1-0 home runs have come since April 12 when he hit his first of the campaign in San Antonio. In that time frame, Lead After 8: 4-0 Davidson is hitting .270 (14-for-52) with 12 runs scored and 15 RBI. 93 (15th) R 119 (12th) Trail After 8: 0-14 11 (13th) SB 28 (1st) Tied After 8: 1-0 Going Streaking: Sounds SS/CF Eli White extended his hitting streak to 9 games with knocks in both of 198 (7th) K (Batting) 178 (4th) Scoring First: 4-6 yesterday’s tilts. White is hitting .394 (13-for-33) with 6 runs, 3 doubles, 2 triples, 1 home run, 2 RBI and 2 83 (T13th) BB (Batting) 100 (5th) Opp. Scoring First: 3-10 walks during the streak. It’s the longest hitting streak by a Sounds player in 2019 and tied for the second-lon- 5.64 (10th) ERA 5.76 (11th) gest active streak in the Pacific Coast League behind Salt Lake’s Cesar Puello (10 games) and Michael Gettys Scoring 4+ Runs: 4-9 194 (11th) K (Pitching) 178 (15th) (9 games). Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 1-16 95 (T9th) BB (Pitching) 102 (T11th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 3-7 That’s Defensive: Nashville continues to play sounds defensively as a team. After two more errorless games 137 (9th) R Allowed 135 (8th) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 6-0 yesterday in Des Moines, they are now third in the Pacific Coast League with a .983 fielding percentage. Only 25 (T3rd) HR Allowed 25 (T3rd) Hit a HR: 7-9 Iowa (.985) and Round Rock (.984) are better defensive teams. .983 (3rd) Fielding Pct. .976 (10th) Allow a HR 5-11 AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Homeward Bound: The Sounds begin an 8-game homestand tonight and will try to turn things around at Hit 2+ HR: 3-5 W L PCT GB First Tennessee Park where they own a 2-9 mark. In the 11 games at home, Nashville is hitting .221 with 5 Allow 2+ HR: 1-5 Iowa 14 9 .609 - Outhit Opponent: 5-3 home runs and a .651 OPS. In 12 road games (5-7), the Sounds are hitting .231 as a team with 22 home runs and a .775 OPS. Memphis 13 10 .565 1.0 Tie in Hits: 0-1 Omaha 10 13 .435 4.0 Outhit by Opponent: 2-12 Dilly Dilly!: In his first start of the season Friday night, Tim Dillard threw five shutout innings and allowed Nashville 7 16 .304 7.0 Record 10+ Hits: 3-1 one hit and struck out three batters. He now has 10 strikeouts this season, giving him 344 in his Nashville Allow 10+ Hits: 1-8 career. He is eight punchouts shy of matching the franchise record held by Jamie Werly (352). Werly pitched Commit an Error: 1-7 for the Sounds in 1980-81 and again in ‘83. UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS Commit No Errors: 6-9 Nashville’s 8-game homestand begins tonight Walk-Off Wins: 0 In the Pipeline: Three current Sounds are listed among MLB Pipeline’s Top 30 Texas Rangers prospects. with another Kroger Plus Monday.