Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (9-4) at Norfolk Tides (3-10) vs. THE TIDES 2021 vs. Tides .......................................................................5-2 Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 6:35 p.m. ET in Jacksonville .............................................................4-2 Game No. 14 • Road Game No. 8 in Norfolk ...................................................................1-0 Harbor Park • Norfolk, Va. Since 2021 vs. Norfolk ..........................................5-2 (..714) MiLB.tv • ESPN 690 AM • JaxShrimp.com • MiLB First Pitch App 2020 vs. Tides .......................................................................0-0 in Jacksonville .............................................................0-0 RHP Josh A. Smith (1-0, 3.12 ERA) vs. LHP Zac Lowther (0-1, 4.15 ERA) in Norfolk ...................................................................0-0 JACKSONVILLE BLANKS NORFOLK 4-0 MEN OF STEAL JUMBO SHRIMP BY THE NUMBERS Jesús Sánchez homered and Elieser Hernández and Nick Through the season’s first seven games, Jacksonville Record ....................................................................................9-4 Neidert combined to shut out the Norfolk Tides Tuesday mustered just two stolen bases in five attempts, ranking Home Record .......................................................................4-2 in the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp’s 4-0 win at Harbor Park. the club in a tie for 17th in the 20-team Triple-A East. Since Road Record .........................................................................5-2 Sánchez broke a scoreless tie in the fourth with an inside- then, however, the Jumbo Shrimp have ran wild. Over the Current Streak .....................................................................W2 the-park home run on a ball that hit off the center field wall. past six games, Jacksonville has ripped off 11 steals, the Jacksonville added a pair in the fifth inning thanks to Brian highest total in Triple-A and tied for the ninth-most among Runs Scored .............................75 (5.8 per game)/4th-Most Runs Allowed ...........................63 (4.8 per game)/9th-Most Navarreto’s RBI single and Lewin Díaz’s sacrifice fly. A Corey the 120 teams that make up Minor League Baseball. In Run Differential............................................................+12/6th Bird RBI double in the seventh capped the scoring with a addition to the high quantity of successful stolen bases, the Pythagorean Record ............................................................8-5 4-0 Jumbo Shrimp advantage. The four runs of offense were Jumbo Shrimp have only been caught three times, a success Southeast Division Standing/GB .............................T-1st/0.0 plenty for Hernández and Neidert. The former exited his rate of 78.6 percent. Current Standings Streak ........ T-1st, 1 day (5/18-present) MLB rehab start after three hitless innings. Neidert went the Long Standings Streak .....................2nd, 3 days (5/15-5/17) distance from there, firing six scoreless frames, scattering ZERO TO HERO Series Record ....................................................................2-0-0 six hits without walking a batter. Jacksonville recorded its first shutout of the season on Series Streak .........................................................................W2 Tuesday in Norfolk. The blanking marked the first shutout Jumbo Shrimp Sweeps .......................................................N/A 25 OR 6 2004 for the Jumbo Shrimp since beating Tennessee 2-0 on Sweeps of the Jumbo Shrimp...........................................N/A The Jumbo Shrimp beat Norfolk 4-0 on Tuesday to reach August 17, 2019. The 2019 season fairly frequently saw 9-4 on the season - Jacksonville’s best start to a campaign a Jumbo Shrimp game end without one team scoring; Batting Average/Rank ................................................ .273/4th On-Base Percentage ................................................. .351/6th since also starting 9-4 in 2013. Another win on Wednesday Thirty-five of the Jumbo Shrimp’s 137 contests in 2019 (25.5 Slugging Percentage ................................................... .488/3rd would push the Jumbo Shrimp to 10-4, which would mark percent) ended in a shutout. Unfortunately for Jacksonville, OPS .............................................................................. .840/3rd Jacksonville’s best beginning to a season to 2004, when though, they were on the wrong end of a blanking 25 times, BABIP ........................................................................... .333/4th the club began the year with an 11-3 mark through the which tied a Southern League record. Strikeouts ........................................................116/6th-Fewest first 14 games. That 2004 squad may also soon elicit more K% (MLB avg: ~24.2%)....................................................23.9% comparisons; this year’s Jumbo Shrimp squad has won its Walks ..............................................................48/T-5th-Fewest STRESS RELIEF BB% (MLB avg: ~8.6%) ......................................................9.9% first two series’ of the season for the first time since 2013. Through the club’s first 112.0 innings of the season, Hits ................................................................................. 117/4th Taking at least four of the six games in this series with Jacksonville relievers (57.0 IP) have actually totaled more Doubles ............................................................................26/4th Norfolk would mean Jacksonville would open a campaign frames than the club’s starters (55.0 IP). Interestingly, Triples ..............................................................................6/T-1st with at least three set victories for the first time since five despite a heavier workload than usual (in 2019, Jumbo Home Runs ......................................................................18/7th Stolen Bases.....................................................................13/5th straight series triumphs to begin the 2004 season. Shrimp starting pitchers worked 730.2 of the club’s 1,192.2 innings, or 61.3 percent.), the club’s bullpen has Defensive Efficiency (MLB avg: ~.705) ......................... .692 JESÚS WALKS actually outperformed the Jumbo Shrimp starting rotation. Errors ....................................................................14/2nd-Most Jacksonville outfielder Jesús Sánchez has gotten off to Jacksonville relievers have posted a better ERA (3.47 to a scorching start at the plate this season. The native of 4.91), strikeout rate (11.1 K/9 to 10.0) and walk rate (1.9 FIP ..........................................................................................4.21 Higuey, in the Dominican Republic has at least one hit in BB/9 to 4.1). Another interesting difference between the ERA ............................................................................... 4.10/9th 10 of the 11 games he has appeared in, going 21-for-44 at BABIP .................................................................................. .308 two parts of the club’s staff is that Jumbo Shrimp starters Strikeouts ...................................................................... 131/7th the plate. Entering play on Wednesday, Sánchez ranks first are recording more ground ball outs; Jacksonville starters K% (MLB avg: ~24.2%)....................................................27.2% in Triple-A East in slugging percentage (1.045), OPS (1.556), have recorded 1.48 ground-outs-per-air-out, a figure that Walks .........................................................................37/Fewest RBIs (18) and triples (3), second in batting average (.477), places fourth among all starting units in Triple-A East. The BB% (MLB avg: ~8.6%) ......................................................7.7% home runs (6) and extra-base hits (10), third in hits (21) and club’s relievers have registered a 0.63 mark, the second- Hits Allowed .......................................................108/8th-Most fourth in on-base percentage (.511). Nearly one-quarter lowest among all Triple-A East bullpens. Home Runs ...........................................................19/6th-Most of Jacksonville’s 75 runs this season have been plated by WHIP ............................................................................ 1.29/6th Sánchez, and he has combined with Jumbo Shrimp first SHRIMP TAIL SOUTHEAST DIVISION STANDINGS baseman Lewin Díaz to drive in 31 of Jacksonville’s 75 runs Lewin Díaz has the 18th-lowest BABIP (.200) out of 212 on the campaign, a total of 41.3 percent. qualified Triple-A hitters. Team W-L GB Jacksonville 9-4 -- THE WEEK AHEAD Gwinnett 9-4 -- DATE TIME OPPONENT JUMBO SHRIMP STARTER OPPONENT STARTER Thu. May 20 12:05 ET at Norfolk LHP Daniel Castano (0-1, 11.25) LHP Alex Wells (0-2, 14.29) Durham 8-5 1.0 Fri. May 21 7:05 ET at Norfolk TBA RHP Tom Eshelman (0-1, 11.81) Nashville 7-5 1.5 Sat. May 22 7:05 ET at Norfolk LHP Shawn Morimando (0-0, 5.11) LHP Josh Rogers (0-2, 7.50) Charlotte 6-7 3.0 Sun. May 23 1:05 ET at Norfolk RHP Elieser Hernández (0-0, 0.00) RHP Spenser Watkins (0-2, 4.50) Mon. May 24 OFF DAY Memphis 4-9 5.0 Tue. May 25 7:05 ET Durham TBA TBA Norfolk 3-10 6.0 Wed. May 26 7:05 ET Durham TBA TBA SHRIMP AND GRITS Jorge Alfaro: 0-for-3 in first game of MLB rehab assignment; .229/.250/.257, 2B, 3 RBIs in 10 games w/MIA Monte Harrison: 12-for-50, .240/.269/.440, 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 10 RBIs in first 12 games with Jacksonville Eddy Alvarez: One hit