NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION Nashville Sounds (25-14) vs. Gwinnett Stripers (21-19) RHP Josh Lindblom (1-0, 0.60) vs. RHP Connor Johnstone (1-4, 5.34) Game #40/Road Game #22 • Sunday, June 20, 2021 • Coolray Field • 12:05 p.m. (CDT) • MiLB TV • ESPN 94.9 FM UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS SOUNDS VS. STRIPERS DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CDT) TV/RADIO 2021: 7-3 at Nashville: 6-0 All-Time: 7-3 at Gwinnett: 1-3 Tuesday 6/22 vs. Charlotte TBD TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV / 94.9 FM Date Site Result Wednesday 6/23 vs. Charlotte TBD TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV / 94.9 FM 5/18 Nashville W, 9-8 Thursday 6/24 vs. Charlotte TBD TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV / 94.9 FM 5/19 Nashville W, 5-4 (10) Friday 6/25 vs. Charlotte TBD TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV / 94.9 FM 5/20 Nashville W, 3-1 5/21 Nashville W, 3-2 Saturday 6/26 vs. Charlotte TBD TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV / 94.9 FM 5/22 Nashville W, 2-1 SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Today's Game: The Nashville Sounds and Gwinnett Stripers play the finale of the series today. Gwinnett has won 3 of the 4 games. The Sounds let an early lead turn into an extra-inning loss on Friday night, as a 5/23 Nashville W, 1-0 Series (W-L-T): 3-0-3 6-0 advantage became an 8-7, 10-inning defeat at Coolray Field Right-hander Josh Lindblom starts for the 6/15 Gwinnett L, 2-1 Series Openers: 3-4 Sounds against right-hander Connor Johnstone for the Stripers. 6/16 Gwinnett L, 9-3 Series Finales: 3-3 6/17 Gwinnett W, 3-2 Series Sweeps: 2-0 Josh Lindblom: 34-year-old Josh Lindblom makes his fifth start (sixth appearance) for the Sounds today. Home Games: 12-6 He has compiled a 1-0 record and a 0.60 ERA in 15.0 IP. In his last start on June 15 vs. Gwinnett, the right- 6/18 Gwinnett L, 8-7 (10) Road Games: 13-8 hander pitched 3.2 innings and gave up 1 run on 3 hits. Lindblom has eight appearances with Milwaukee 6/19 Gwinnett PPD Day Games: 2-3 where he was 0-0 with a 9.72 ERA prior to being designated for assignment on May 26. He was then sent 6/20 Gwinnett outright to Nashville on May 28. Lindblom signed a three-year deal with the Brewers on December 16, 2019. Night Games: 23-11 7/6 Gwinnett vs. RHP: 18-13 Connor Johnstone: 26-year-old Connor Johnstone makes his 11th appearance (eighth start) for 7/7 Gwinnett vs. LHP: 7-1 Gwinnett today. He has faced Nashville 3 times this season going 0-1 with a 3.24 ERA (3 ER/8.1 IP). He 7/8 Gwinnett vs. NL Affiliate: 13-9 last pitched on June 16 vs. Nashville and gave up 1 run in 2.0 innings. In his minor league career, the 7/9 Gwinnett vs. AL Affiliate: 12-5 Californian is 12-12 with a 4.07 ERA in 78 games (30 starts). Atlanta drafted him in the 21st round of the Lead After 6: 20-1 2017 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Wake Forest. 7/10 Gwinnett Trail After 6: 4-13 7/11 Gwinnett Tied After 6: 1-0 2021 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following number of days in the Triple-A East Southeast 8/24 Nashville Lead After 7: 21-1 Division standings in 2021: First: 23, Second: 7, Third: 1, Fourth: 13, Fifth: 2, Sixth: 0, Seventh: 0. Trail After 7: 2-12 8/25 Nashville Tied After 7: 2-0 Blown Lead: The Sounds jumped out to a 6-0 lead on Friday but had that deficit erased making it 8/26 Nashville Lead After 8: 22-1 their biggest blown lead of the season. It is the largest blown lead for Nashville since July 30 vs. Salt 8/27 Nashville Lake (6 runs). Trail After 8: 0-12 8/28 Nashville Tied After 8: 1-0 Double Digits for Hiura: Hiura has reached base in a team-best 18 consecutive games, batting .391 8/29 Nashville Scoring First: 19-4 (25-for-64) with 11 runs, 8 doubles, 3 home runs, 11 RBI and 12 walks. Hiura hit safely in 12 straight 9/14 Gwinnett Opp. Scoring First: 6-10 games from May 18-June 16. Scoring 4+ Runs: 20-5 9/15 Gwinnett Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 10-11 Have a Series: Infielder/outfielder Jamie Westbrook had quite the series against Indianapolis and 9/16 Gwinnett Scoring 3 or < Runs: 5-8 extended his hit streak to 10 games on Friday. During the 10-game stretch, Westbrook is batting .455 9/17 Gwinnett Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 13-3 (20-for-44) with 9 runs, 6 doubles, 2 home runs, 10 RBI and 1 walk. Additionally, he has 6 multi-hit 9/18 Gwinnett Hit a HR: 21-7 efforts during that span. Allow a HR 13-11 9/19 Gwinnett Hit 2+ HR: 13-4 Extra, Extra: Nashville went to extra-innings for the third time this season and were handed their Allow 2+ HR: 3-10 first loss in extras. It also marked the first time the Sounds have been on the losing end of a walk-off Sounds Stripers Outhit Opponent: 21-6 this season. 25-14 Record 21-19 Tie in Hits: 1-1 12-6 Home 13-9 Outhit by Opponent: 3-7 Grand Slam: Zach Green hit the first grand slam of the year for Nashville in the third inning of Friday night's contest. It was the first grand slam hit by a Sound since August 13, 2019 at Sacramento 13-8 Road 8-10 Record 10+ Hits: 12-3 (Andy Ibáñez). Allow 10+ Hits: 1-6 L1 Streak W1 1-4 Last 5 3-2 Commit an Error: 14-9 Another Streak for Pérez: Hernán Pérez has hit safely in 7 straight games for the second time this Commit No Errors: 11-5 season. Pérez is batting .406 (13-for-32) with 2 doubles and 5 RBI during the streak. He has also 4-6 Last 10 6-4 Walk-Off Wins: 2 recorded 4 consecutive multi-hit games. Pérez is 1 of 4 Sounds to have 2 hit streaks of at least 5 games .253 BA .250 Walk-Off Losses: 1 (Zach Green, Corey Ray and Dustin Peterson). 58 HR 52 Extra-Innings: 2-1 Sounds starter 6+IP: 4-2 Close as Can Be: Nashville's six-game series sweep of Gwinnett from May 18-23 was nearly as close 217 R 220 Sounds starter 7+ IP: 1-1 as a series can get. The Sounds won five of the six games by one run and the other game by two runs. 399 K (Bat) 374 Sounds starter 8+ IP: 0-0 Nashville only scored 23 runs and hit .223 as a team but the pitching staff limited the Stripers to a .189 178 BB (Bat) 195 team average and only 16 runs. Longest Win Streak: 15 3.94 ERA 3.72 Longest Losing Streak: 4 How Sweet It Is: Manager Rick Sweet is at the helm for the Sounds in 2021, as he was in 2014 when 391 K (Pitch) 385 THIS DATE IN HISTORY he led the club to a 77-67 record. Sweet has managed for all or parts of 30 seasons in the minor leagues 156 BB (Pitch) 125 and has compiled a managerial record of 2,052-1,935. The 2,052 wins are 11th-most all-time among all 172 R Allowed 160 On June 20th, 1999, the Nash- minor league managers. 10th on the list is Lefty O’Doul who won 2,094 games from 1935-57. ville Sounds extended their win- 41 HR Allowed 39 ning streak to a franchise-best The Milwaukee Era: A new era of Nashville Sounds baseball began on February 12, 2021 when the club .975 Fielding Pct. .985 15 games with a win in Tucson. announced its affiliation with the Milwaukee Brewers. The affiliation with Milwaukee came after the The feat was matched by this UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS year's Sounds team as well. Sounds signed a 10-year Professional Development License (PDL) with Major League Baseball as part of the 20-team Triple-A East League. Within the Triple-A East League, the Sounds are a member of the seven-team Southeast Division. The Sounds return to First Horizon Park on Tuesday, June 22 to begin a 12-game, 13-day homestand against the Charlotte Knights (June 22-27) and Louisville Bats (June 29-July 4). WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST HORIZON PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 TODAy’S STARTER - RHP JOSH LINDBLOM HT/WT: 6’3”/241 40-MAN ROSTER: No BORN: June 15, 1987 in Lafayette, Indiana (34) SERVICE TIME: 2.151 RESIDES: Lafayette, Indiana FIRST MLB WIN: 8/15/11 w/ Los Angeles-NL v. Houston ACQUIRED: Signed as a free agent by Milwaukee on December 16, 2019 FIRST MLB STRIKEOUT: 6/5/11 w/ Los Angeles-NL at Cincinnati (Drew Stubbs) CAREER STATISTICS YEAR CLUB W-L ERA G GS CG SH SV IP H R ER HR HB BB SO WP 2008 Great Lakes 0-0 1.86 8 8 0 0 0 29.0 14 6 6 2 1 4 33 0 Jacksonville 0-0 3.60 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 5 2 2 0 1 1 4 1 2009 Chattanooga 3-5 4.71 14 11 0 0 0 57.1 55 35 30 4 5 14 46 3 Albuquerque 3-0 2.54 20 3 0 0 1 39.0 34 11 11 3 3 12 36 1 2010 Albuquerque 3-2 6.54 40 10 0 0 0 95.0 143 79 69 12 7 32 84 6 2011 Chattanooga 1-3 2.13 34 0 0 0 17 42.1 30 10 10 3 4 14 54 2 LOS ANGELES-NL 1-0 2.73 27 0 0 0 0 29.2 21 9 9 0 2 10 28 3 2012 LOS ANGELES-NL 2-2 3.02 48 0 0 0 0 47.2 42 16 16 9 3 18 43 1 PHILADELPHIA 1-3 4.63 26 0 0 0 1 23.1 19 15 12 4 1 17 27 1 2013 Round Rock 8-4 3.08 20 18 0 0 0 108.0 86 39 37 12 7 31 79 2 TEXAS 1-3 5.46 8 5 0 0 0 31.1 35 19 19 4 0 11 21 2 2014 Sacramento 4-3 5.79 17 16 0 0 0 84.0 92 60 54 10 3 26 60 1 OAKLAND 0-0 3.86 1 1 0 0 0 4.2 5 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 2015 Lotte (KBO) 13-11 3.56 32 32 2 1 0 210.0 196 86 83 28 12 52 180 12 2016 Lotte (KBO) 10-13 5.28 30 30 1 1 0 177.1 197 109 104 28 9 77 148 7 2017 Indianapolis 0-2 4.06 17 4 0 0 0 37.2 37 17 17 5 3 8 33 1 PITTSBURGH 0-0 7.84 4 0 0 0 0 10.1 18 9 9 0 0 3 10 0 Lotte (KBO) 5-3 3.72 12 12 0 0 0 72.2 66 31 30 10 2 18 76 3 2018 Doosan (KBO) 15-4 2.88 26 26 0 0 0 168.2 142 56 54 16 8 38 157 10 2019 Doosan (KBO) 20-3 2.50 30 30 0 0 0 194.2 165 57 54 13 6 29 189 6 2020 MILWAUKEE 2-4 5.16 12 10 0 0 0 45.1 42 26 26 6 3 16 52 2 2021 MILWAUKEE 0-0 9.72 8 0 0 0 0 16.2 23 18 18 5 3 10 17 0 Nashville 1-0 0.60 5 4 0 0 0 15.0 8 1 1 0 1 7 14 1 Major League Totals 7-12 4.78 134 16 0 0 1 209.0 205 114 111 29 13 87 200 12 Minor League Totals 23-19 4.16 176 75 0 0 18 512.1 504 260 237 51 34 149 443 18 Foreign League Totals 63-34 3.55 130 130 3 3 0 823.1 766 339 325 95 37 214 750 39 LAST OUTING: Lindblom’s last time out was a start against the Gwinnett Stripers on June 15 at Coolray Field.