2018 GAME NOTES Dunedin Blue Jays 2017 Florida State League Co-Champions www.DunedinBlueJays.com/Media Game #77/#9 Home #37 (18-18), Dunedin Blue Jays (35-41, 4-4) vs. Bradenton Marauders (37-36, 1-6) Saturday, June 30 PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS: (All Times Eastern) RHP Patrick Murphy (4-4, 3.03 ERA) vs. LHP Oddy Nunez (3-5, 3.24 ERA) Saturday, June 30, Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Bradenton Marauders, 6:30 PM Sunday, July 1, Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Bradenton Marauders, 1:00 PM, LHP Zach Logue vs. RHP Luis Escobar Monday, July 2, Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Tampa Tarpons, 6:30 PM, TBD vs. TBD Tuesday, July 3, Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Tampa Tarpons, 6:30 PM, TBD vs. TBD 2018 At A Glance BLUE JAYS vs. MARAUDERS Record 35-41, 4-4, T4th, 2.5 GB 2018: 2-5 Home: 2-2 Road: 0-3 2017: 5-8 Home Attendance (Total & Average) 17,211/492 The Blue Jays and Marauders will square off 12 times during the 2018 season. The Blue Jays are 1-5 against Bradenton entering this season despite a 2.65 team Come From Behind Wins 17 ERA against the Marauders. In his first outing against Bradenton this season, LHP Last Shutout by Blue Jays 3, 6/2 vs. TAM Tayler Saucedo tossed 8.0 IP, allowing just 4 hits and no earned runs. Last Shutout by Opponent 4, 5/16 @ TAM Dunedin has hit .244 against Bradenton entering this series. Eduard Pinto (.316) Vs. RHS/LHS 23-26/12-15 and Josh Palacios (.300) have paced the offense. Blue Jays/Opponents scoring first 23-16/13-23 2018 Matchups: GMS decided in final AB/Walk-Off 7-7/5-3 May 1-3 in Bradenton (0-3) 1-Run Games 14-19 May 7-9 in Dunedin (1-2) Home/Road 18-18/17-23 June 29-July 1 in Dunedin (1-0) Series Openers/Finales 13-11/7-14 August 24-26 in Bradenton (3) After 7.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing 26-3/3-4/2-29 Princesses and Pirates After 8.0, Ahead/Tied/Trailing 26-2/5-2/1-29 The Blue Jays will host their annual Princesses and Pirates Night this evening. The kid- Extra-Inning Games/Home/Road 4-4/3-3/1-1 friendly promotion will feature numerous princesses and pirates in costume to meet young fans, a bounce house and pirate ship, face painting, balloon animals, a costume contest, and kids run the bases post-game. Yesterday’s Game The Blue Jays will follow with Canada Day on Sunday and Hometown USA on Tuesday. The Blue Jays offense knocked 17 hits in the team’s biggest win of the year, beating Bradenton 11-1. LHP Tayler Saucedo continued his torrid streak, allowing just one run Big Month For Big Murph on three hits over 7.0 IP while striking out 7. RHP Patrick Murphy has been lights out in the month of June. In five starts, Murphy holds a Saucedo allowed the first runner of the game to reach and score, but was lights out 2-0 record and 0.93 ERA, throwing 29.0 IP, striking out 28, and holding opposing hitters to a after, not allowing another hit until the seventh inning after giving up a double in the .219 average. first. RHP William Ouellette and RHP Jonny Cheshire each tossed a scoreless inning of relief. Blue Jays Acquire Santiago Espinal After taking a 5-1 lead, the Jays opened the seventh inning by stringing together seven On Thursday, the Blue Jays swapped veteran IF/OF Steve Pearce for Red Sox prospect IF consecutive base hits, scoring six times before Bradenton recorded the first out of the Santiago Espinal. After hitting .280 with 4 HR for the Greeneville Drive in 2017, Espinal broke inning. Eduard Pinto and Kevin Smith each had three hits. Josh Palacios, David Jacob, out as a legitimate prospect in 2018, slashing .313/.363/.477 with 7 HR in 65 games for the Alberto Mineo, and John La Prise had two apiece. A+ Salem Red Sox. The right-handed hitting former 10th round pick from Miami Dade CC crushes left-handed pitching (.360/.392/.653) and has played short, third, and second this season. 2018 Offensive Season Leaders Games: Josh Palacios 70 Pinto Promoted Eduard Pinto has been promoted to AA-New Hampshire. Pinto led the Blue Jays with a .308 Runs: Rodrigo Orozco 36 average in 63 games in 2018, knocking a team-high 15 doubles and stealing 8 bases. Pinto Hits: Josh Palacios 75 hit .462 over his last ten games with Dunedin. Doubles: Pinto, Adams 15 Pinto has been the hardest batter to strike out in the Florida State League by a significant margin in 2018. Averaging 16.7 plate appearances per strikeout, Pinto has struck out just 16 Triples: 4 tied 2 times in 229 at-bats. Home Runs: Smith, Jones 5 Runs Batted In: Josh Palacios 41 Emerging Power Total Bases: Josh Palacios 101 Dunedin has average 4.9 runs per game in June, up from 3.8 per game in May, thanks to an uptick in power. The Blue Jays have hit as many HR (16) in June than they did in April (10) Average: Eduard Pinto .308 and May (6) combined. On Base +Slugging Eduard Pinto .766 Dunedin is hitting .272 in the month of June, up from .243 in May and .253 in April. 2018 Pitching Season Leaders Palacios In The Clutch Games: Jake Fishman 23 The bigger the situation, the better Josh Palacios has been this season. Hitting just .227 with Wins: Tayler Saucedo 6 the bases empty, Palacios has hit .350 with runners on (103 at-bats). More impressively, Starts: Tayler Saucedo 15 Palacios is hitting .379 with runners in scoring position (66 ABs) and .433 with runners in Complete Games: Saucedo, Zeuch 1 scoring position and two outs (30 ABs). Saves: Jackson McClelland 4 Too Much Sauce Innings Pitched: Tayler Saucedo 85.0 Following a tough April (6.00 ERA), Jays LHP Tayler Saucedo made minor mechanical Strikeouts: Patrick Murphy 67 changes with pitching coach Mark Riggins that have led to stellar results. Since May 1st, Tayler Saucedo has been one of the FSL’s top starting pitchers. In 10 starts, he’s picked up ERA: Patrick Murphy 3.03 5 wins, thrown 61.0 IP, and holds a 2.51 ERA and 0.98 WHIP. WHIP: Tayler Saucedo 1.13 Holds: Travis Bergen 4 Mineo Factor The Blue Jays acquired C Alberto Mineo in last December’s MiLB Rule 5 Draft, expecting him to be a strong defender behind the dish and the results have been spectacular. Blue Jays Around the Farm pitchers have a 2.66 ERA when pitching to Mineo (compared to a 3.83 ERA when throwing Buffalo allowed four runs in the 8th in a 5-4 loss to Syracuse. Anthony Alford had three hits, to other catchers). At the plate, Mineo has hit .284 and reached base at a .383 clip. falling a triple shy of a cycle. Lourdes Gurriel doubled in a 2-5 day. Bo Bichette had three hits including a double and HR (8), scored three times, and drove in Patience At The Plate two in New Hampshire’s 7-6 loss to Trenton. Harold Ramirez was 2-3 with a HR (4). As a team, the Jays are tied for the Florida State League lead in walks (253). The Lansing Lugnuts beat Great Lakes 3-1. Kevin Vicuna had two knocks while Maverick Buffo tossed 7.0 scoreless innings to earn his 9th win of the season. Brett Wright HR’d (1) Re-stocked with Fish and Will McAffer threw 3.1 hitless in relief to pick up his third win. After one shutout outing with the AAA Buffalo Bisons, LHP Jake Fishman returned to the Vancouver beat Salem-Keizer 11-1. Bryan Lizardo was 4-4 with 3 runs and 3 RBI. Griffin Blue Jays yesterday. Since May 1st, Fishman has posted a 0.87 ERA in 16 appearances for Conine went 3-5 with 2 RBI, 2 runs, and a triple. the D-Jays, striking out 25 in 20.2 IP and allowing just 2 earned runs. Bluefield scored 21 times on 20 hits in a 21-11 win over Greeneville. Otto Lopez was 5-6 with 2 2Bs and a triple. Luis De Los Santos HR’d (4) and tripled and John Aiello HR’d. Josh Keeping It Close Almonte threw 2.0 hitless innings of relief, striking out 3. The Blue Jays have played in 33 one-run games during the 2018 season, the most in the The GCL Blue Jays fell to the Phillies 6-4. Jordan Groshans doubled in a 1-3 day. Florida State League. Dunedin has gone 14-19 in those games. 48 of the team’s 76 games have been decided by two runs or less. BLUE JAYS GAME NOTES Page 2 STARTING PITCHER Patrick Murphy, RHP, #25 Born: Chandler, AZ Age: 23 Year Team W-L ERA G GS IP H ER BB SO AVG SINGLE-GAME HIGHS 2016 Vancouver 4-5 2.84 13 13 69.2 71 22 23 48 .264 2017 2018 A+ 7.0, 3 times IP 7.0, 2 times 2016 Lansing 0-1 4.29 8 2 21.0 24 10 14 20 .285 9, 4/8 vs. GL H 10, 2 times 2017 Bluefield 1-0 0.00 3 2 9.0 7 0 1 15 .212 6, 4/8 vs, GL ER 4, 2 times 2017 Lansing 4-3 2.94 15 15 88.2 87 29 33 57 .269 4, 3 times BB 6, 6/19 vs.