NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (40-52) vs. New Orleans Baby Cakes (50-43) LHP Joe Palumbo (1-0, 3.86) vs. RHP Joe Gunkel (1-1, 3.90) Game #93/Home Game #49 • Sunday, July 14, 2019 • First Tennessee Park • 6:15 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Monday July 15 at San Antonio RHP Seth Maness (5-2, 4.97) LHP Gio Gonzalez (0-0, ---) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Tuesday July 16 at San Antonio RHP Pedro Payano (2-2, 3.08) LHP Drew Smyly (1-0, 3.00) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Wednesday July 17 at San Antonio RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx (0-1, 3.68) RHP Aaron Wilkerson (6-1, 2.72) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Thursday July 18 at San Antonio LHP Wes Benjamin (4-5, 6.56) RHP Thomas Jankins (8-2, 3.58) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight's Game: The Nashville Sounds and New Orleans Baby Cakes play the finale of a four-game series tonight at First Tennessee Park. Nashville looks to to win its seventh series of the season and to take the season SOUNDS VS. BABY CAKES Series (W-L-T): 6-12-3 series lead against the Baby Cakes. Tonight, left-hander Joe Palumbo starts for Nashville against right-hander 2019: 6-6 at Nashville: 3-4 Series Openers: 9-14 Joe Gunkel for New Orleans. All-Time: 183-157 at New Orleans: 3-2 Series Finales: 8-14 DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 1-3 Joe Palumbo: 24-year-old Joe Palumbo starts for the Sounds in tonight's series finale. The left-hander is 5/30 Nashville L, 5-3 Day Games: 7-14 making his third start with the Sounds tonight. His last start with Nashville was on July 1 versus Oklahoma 5/31 Nashville W, 6-5 Night Games: 33-38 City, where he earned his first career Triple-A win. He allowed one unearned run on five hits and three 6/1 Nashville L, 3-0 vs. RHP: 32-38 walks while tying his season-high of 10 strikeouts. The Sounds won the game 4-3. The New York native has 6/2 Nashville L, 7-4 vs. LHP: 8-14 spent the majority of his 2019 season at Double-A Frisco where he is 0-0 with a 3.19 ERA in 11 games (10 starts). He has covered 53.2 innings and has allowed 43 hits and 25 walks to go along with 69 strikeouts. 6/20 New Orleans L, 6-2 April: 8-18 Palumbo has made three appearances (two starts) for Texas, his last appearance coming in relief on July 7 at 6/21 New Orleans W, 6-5 May: 14-15 Minnesota. He threw 3.0 shutout innings in the 4-1, 11-inning win over the Twins. Overall, Palumbo is 0-1 6/22 New Orleans W, 10-3 June: 13-14 with an 11.00 ERA pitching for Texas. He's currently listed as the #7 Rangers prospect by MLB Pipeline. The 6/23 New Orleans L, 8-5 July: 5-5 Rangers drafted him in the 30th round of the 2013 MLB Draft out of St. John the Baptist (NY) High School. 6/24 New Orleans W, 6-5 August: 0-0 7/11 Nashville W, 11-7 September: 0-0 Joe Gunkel: 27-year-old Joe Gunkel starts for the Baby Cakes in tonight's game. The right-hander is 1-1 7/12 Nashville L, 7-4 Monday: 7-4 with a 3.90 ERA in 10 games (6 starts) for New Orleans in 2019. He has also pitched in 2 games for Ad- 7/13 Nashville W, 3-2 Tuesday: 5-7 vanced-A Jupiter and is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA in Advanced-A this year. Gunkel last pitched on July 7 versus 7/14 Nashville Wednesday: 4-7 San Antonio and threw 5.0 innings in a start with the Baby Cakes. He allowed just one run on six hits and a walk while striking out 4 batters. He earned no decision in the 3-2 win for New Orleans. Gunkel spent the 7/26 New Orleans Thursday: 3-12 2018 season between the GCL Marlins and New Orleans, where he combined for a 2-2 record and allowed 7/27 New Orleans Friday: 10-3 just a 3.07 ERA in 22 games (6 starts). In his minor league career, Gunkel is 38-38 with a 3.57 ERA in 163 7/28 New Orleans Saturday: 5-8 games (101 starts). He was acquired by Miami on April 27, 2017 after being claimed off waivers from the Sunday: 6-11 Los Angeles Dodgers. He was originally drafted by Boston in the 18th round in the 2013 MLB Draft out of vs. Am. Northern: 13-21 West Chester. TONIGHT’S MATCHUP vs. Am. Southern: 21-23 Sounds Baby Cakes vs. Pac. Northern: 3-4 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division 40-52 Record 50-43 vs. Pac. Southern: 3-4 standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 1, Third: 19, Fourth: 76. 18-30 Home 25-24 vs. NL Affiliate: 26-31 22-22 Road 25-19 Nashville vs. Gunkel: The Sounds faced Baby Cakes' starter Joe Gunkel once this season, back on June 21 in vs. AL Affiliate: 14-21 New Orleans. He lasted 4.0 innings, allowing two runs on six hits and one walk while striking out 3 batters. W1 Streak L1 Lead After 6: 29-4 The Sounds won that game 6-5 after hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs by Tyler Pill, Patrick Wisdom Trail After 6: 6-42 and Matt Davidson in the top of the 9th inning to overcome a late two-run deficit. Active hitters preformed 2-3 Last 5 2-3 Tied After 6: 5-6 against Gunkel as such: Zack Granite, 0-2; Andy Ibáñez, 1-2, RBI; Tyler Pill, 1-1, RBI; Carlos Tocci, 1-1, BB; 5-5 Last 10 5-5 Lead After 7: 30-3 Eli White, 1-2; Patrick Wisdom, 1-2. Trail After 7: 4-43 .257 (14th) Batting Avg. .270 (10th) Tied After 7: 6-6 Wisdom Walking Off: Last night's walk-off home run by infielder Patrick Wisdom was the first walk-off 108 (14th) HR 136 (T7th) win for the Sounds this season. The last walk-off home run by Nashville came over two years ago, on June Lead After 8: 32-1 453 (16th) R 481 (13th) 20, 2017. It was game two of a double-header against New Orleans. Matt Olson was the hero, launching a 62 (T6th) SB 103 (2nd) Trail After 8: 3-43 three-run home run in the bottom of the 7th inning. Tied After 8: 2-3 803 (T7th) K (Batting) 798 (5th) Scoring First: 25-18 Against the Grain: Nashville punched out 14 batters for a second consecutive night in Saturday night's win, 339 (8th) BB (Batting) 278 (16th) Opp. Scoring First: 14-34 tying the team's season-highs. It was the 5th time Nashville did so this season, (July 12 vs. New Orleans, 5.48 (10th) ERA 4.35 (3rd) Scoring 4+ Runs: 31-26 July 1 vs. Oklahoma City, May 24 vs. Memphis, April 4 vs. Iowa). New Orleans hitters are usually tough 774 (13th) K (Pitching) 846 (3rd) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 20-46 to strikeout ranking 5th in the PCL for the least amount of strikeouts. Meanwhile, Nashville pitchers find 327 (5th) BB (Pitching) 284 (1st) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 9-26 themselves ranked 13th in the PCL in pitching strikeouts. Last night, starter Tim Dillard struck out 9 batters 559 (11th) R Allowed 425 (3rd) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 19-6 in 6.0 innings of work, setting his season-high and marking him one shy of his career-high set back on April 121 (6th) HR Allowed 129 (8th) 14, 2005 with High-A Brevard County versus Jupiter. The last time he had nine strikeouts was back in the .978 (10th) Fielding Pct. .976 (13th) Hit a HR: 31-31 same season in 2005 on August 21 at Palm Beach. Allow a HR 27-39 AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Hit 2+ HR: 18-15 Red-Hot Heineman: After going 1-for-4 with a home run last night, outfielder Scott Heineman has reached W L PCT GB Allow 2+ HR: 11-23 base safely in 19 consecutive games. During the streak, Heineman is hitting .431 (31-for-72) with 19 runs Iowa 53 40 .570 - Outhit Opponent: 25-9 scored, 4 doubles, 2 triples, 4 home runs, 12 RBI and 12 walks. Heineman's on-base percentage during the Omaha 42 51 .452 11.0 streak is .511. His streak is currently ranked the 2nd longest on-base streak among active PCL hitters, trail- Tie in Hits: 6-3 Nashville 40 52 .435 12.5 ing Kristopher Negrón of Tacoma who is at 20. Since Heineman rejoined Nashville on June 25, he is among Outhit by Opponent: 9-40 Memphis 37 57 .394 16.5 Record 10+ Hits: 20-12 Pacific Coast League leaders in average (2nd, .463), OPS (2nd, .1.374), on-base percentage (3rd, .559), runs (T3rd, 16), total bases (T4th, 44) and walks (T8th, 12).