NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (59-68) vs. Iowa Cubs (69-60) LHP Wes Benjamin (6-6, 5.93) vs. RHP Adbert Alzolay (2-4, 4.92) Game #128/Road Game #62 • Friday, August 23, 2019 • Principal Park • 7:08 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Saturday August 24 at Iowa RHP Seth Maness (7-4, 5.69) RHP Colin Rea (13-3, 3.71) 7:08 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Sunday August 25 at Iowa RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx (1-3, 7.83) RHP Alec Mills (6-3, 4.78) 1:08 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Monday August 26 at Omaha RHP Pedro Payano (2-2, 5.29) TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Tuesday August 27 at Omaha RHP Tim Dillard (8-8, 4.61) TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight's Games: The Nashville Sounds and Iowa Cubs play their series open of a quick three-game set tonight. The Sounds trail the season series 5-8. Tonight, left-hander Wes Benjamin will pitch for the Sounds against right-hander SOUNDS VS. CUBS Series (W-L-T): 11-15-7 Adbert Alzolay. Series Openers: 15-18 2019: 5-8 at Nashville: 3-5 Series Finales: 12-20 Wes Benjamin: 26-year-old Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds tonight. The left-hander is making his 25th ap- All-Time: 168-147 at Iowa: 2-3 Series Sweeps: 3-4 pearance (23rd start) of the season and is 6-6 with a 5.93 ERA while covering 118.1 innings. Benjamin has yielded DATE SITE RESULT 137 hits and 50 walks to go with 97 strikeouts. Benjamin last pitched on August 18 versus Omaha and went 6.0 Day Games: 7-15 4/4 Nashville L, 5-4 innings. He limited the Storm Chasers to 3 runs on 6 hits and 2 walks but still earned his 6th loss of the year. Benja- 4/5 Nashville W, 8-2 Night Games: 52-53 min spent the majority of his 2018 season with Double-A Frisco where he went 5-6 with a 3.62 ERA in 15 starts. The vs. RHP: 45-50 southpaw spent nearly two months on the disabled list from June 7-July 31 with a left elbow strain. Despite missing 4/6 Nashville L, 10-4 vs. LHP: 14-18 time, Benjamin led the Frisco staff in wins and ranked among team leaders in strikeouts (3rd), starts (T3rd) and 4/7 Nashville L, 5-3 April: 8-18 innings (4th). In his minor league career, Benjamin is 27-24 with a 4.32 ERA while covering 86 games (81 starts). 4/8 Nashville L, 6-5 The Rangers drafted the Illinois native in the 5th round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of Kansas University. May: 14-16 4/24 Iowa L, 6-4 June: 13-14 Adbert Alzolay: 24-year-old Adbert Alzolay starts for Iowa in the series opener tonight. The right-hander is 2-4 4/25 Iowa L, 8-4 July: 10-15 with a 4.92 ERA in 13 starts with Iowa in 2019. He has logged 56.2 innings while allowing 50 hits and 27 walks to 4/26 Iowa W, 2-1 August: 14-5 go with 79 strikeouts. He has also pitched in 3 games (2 starts) with Chicago, going 1-1 with a 7.15 ERA. Alzolay 4/27 Iowa PPD last pitched in a start at Memphis on August 18. He allowed 4 runs (all earned) on 7 hits and 1 walk in 4.0 innings. September: 0-0 4/28 Gm. 1 Iowa W, 7-3 He struck out 4 batters and earned the loss in Memphis' 13-2 win. Alzolay's 2018 season was spent with Iowa, 4/28 Gm. 2 Iowa L, 19-5 Monday: 9-6 totaling a 2-4 record with a 4.76 ERA in 8 starts, striking out 27 batters to 13 walks. His season was ended short Tuesday: 7-10 after being placed on the injured list on May 30 due to a lat strain. He was originally signed by the Chicago Cubs as 7/19 Nashville W, 6-5 Wednesday: 7-9 a nondrafted free agent on March 8, 2013. 7/20 Nashville W, 7-4 Thursday: 6-14 7/21 Nashville L, 8-4 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division stand- 8/23 Iowa Friday: 14-5 ings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 1, Third: 41, Fourth: 91. Saturday: 9-9 8/24 Iowa Sunday: 7-15 Wes Side Story: Southpaw Wes Benjamin has had a better 2nd half of the season than the 1st. In his last 12 appear- 8/25 Iowa vs. Am. Northern: 18-23 ances (since June 9), Benjamin is 5-1 with a save and has allowed a 4.41 ERA (65.1 IP/32 ER). He has limited PCL vs. Am. Southern: 26-32 hitters to a .256 average in the span. In his first 12 games of the season, Benjamin was 1-5 with a 7.81 ERA (53.0 TONIGHT’S MATCHUP IP/46 ER) and allowed a .327 average. Since June 9, Benjamin ranks 3rd in opponent's batting average and 4th in Sounds Iowa vs. Pac. Northern: 9-5 ERA among 11 qualified pitchers. vs. Pac. Southern: 6-8 58-68 Record 59-68 vs. NL Affiliate: 42-46 Davidson Has Been Crushing: Infielder Matt Davidson has recorded a multi-hit game in 5 straight games and has 27-39 Home 27-39 vs. AL Affiliate: 17-22 totaled 11 multi-hit efforts in his last 18 games. In that span (since July 25), Davidson is batting .342 (27-for-79) 32-29 Road 32-29 with 11 runs, 5 doubles, 5 home runs, 18 RBI and is slashing .350/.595/.945. He has also been playing more 3rd base Lead After 6: 44-6 since Ronald Guzmán was optioned to Nashville, playing 9 games at the hot corner since July 26. In his 21 games Trail After 6: 8-53 at third base this season, Davidson is hitting .338 (27-for-80) with 7 doubles, 3 home runs, 17 RBI, 4 BB, and is W3 Streak W1 Tied After 6: 7-9 slashing .404/.538/.942. 4-1 Last 5 3-2 Lead After 7: 46-6 8-2 Last 10 5-5 Trail After 7: 5-56 Hot at the Wrong Time: The Sounds are the hottest team in the PCL since August 7, going 12-2. However, the second-hottest team is Memphis at 11-4 and Iowa kept at a decent pace at 8-7. Overall, American North Division .261 (15th) Batting Avg. .254 (16th) Tied After 7: 7-6 has been the best division in the PCL, with the Pacific South just trailing at 35-24. Iowa currently owns a 5 game Lead After 8: 47-1 magic number to clinch the American North. 167 (13th) HR 165 (14th) Trail After 8: 3-57 652 (16th) R 656 (14th) Tied After 8: 5-5 Guzmán Stays Hot: First baseman Ronald Guzmán had a monster game in Wednesday night's win, going 4-for-4 82 (6th) SB 70 (t10th) with 3 runs, a double, a home run, an RBI and a walk. He has been on fire since August 7, hitting .415 (22-for-53) 1,095 (5th) K (Batting) 1,105 (8th) Scoring First: 39-25 with 12 runs, 6 doubles, 4 home runs, 10 RBI and 7 walks (.483 OBP) in 13 games. 6 of those games were multi-hit Opp. Scoring First: 20-43 efforts. His on-base percentage ranks 5th in the PCL and his average ranks 9th in 458 (13th) BB (Batting) 480 (8th) Scoring 4+ Runs: 49-37 that span. Wednesday night's 4 hits set his season-high and the 3 runs matched Chasing Homers 5.57 (9th) ERA 4.68 (3rd) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 30-60 his career-high. Matt Davidson and Patrick Wisdom 1,059 (12th) K (Pitching) 1,142 (6th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 10-31 are climbing Nashville's single-sea- 463 (6th) BB (Pitching) 509 (11th) Rubber Bandy Man: Catcher Jett Bandy has homered in back-to-back nights son home run list. Here is where Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 29-7 and in three of his last four games. The last time he homered in consecutive both currently stand: 763 (9th) R Allowed 640 (3rd) Hit a HR: 50-45 games was in 2017 from April 17 - 20, where Bandy homered in three straight 1. Steve Balboni - 34 (1980) 163 (3rd) HR Allowed 177 (5th) Allow a HR 41-51 games for Milwaukee. He now has 12 home runs this season, one shy of his single t1. Brian Dayett - 34 (1982) .980 (8th) Fielding Pct. .983 (3rd) Hit 2+ HR: 29-18 season-high of 13 set in 2014 with Double-A Arkansas. 3. Dan Pasqua - 33 (1984) t3. Craig Wilson - 33 (2000) AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Allow 2+ HR: 15-31 The Home Run Pace: Nashville has clubbed 167 home runs in 2019, the 5. Chad Hermansen - 32 (1999) W L PCT GB t5. Renato Nuñez - 32 (2017) Outhit Opponent: 39-10 fourth-fewest in the Pacific Coast League.