NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (42-58) vs. Oklahoma City Dodgers (46-54) RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx (0-2, 5.30) vs. RHP Dustin May (1-0, 3.52) Game #101/Home Game #53 • Tuesday, July 22, 2019 • First Tennessee Park • 7:05 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Wednesday July 24 vs. Oklahoma City LHP Wes Benjamin (4-5, 6.37) RHP Brock Stewart (4-7, 7.91) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Thursday July 25 vs. Oklahoma City RHP Seth Maness (5-3, 5.55) RHP Tony Gonsolin (1-3, 4.81) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Friday July 26 at New Orleans TBD TBD 7:00 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Saturday July 27 at New Orleans TBD TBD 6:00 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight's Game: The Nashville Sounds and Oklahoma City Dodgers play the series opener of a three- game set tonight at First Tennessee Park. Nashville has won five-of-eight games against Oklahoma City SOUNDS VS. DODGERS Series (W-L-T): 7-14-4 this season. Tonight, right-hander Austin Bibens-Dirkx starts for the Sounds against right-hander 2019: 5-3 at Nashville: 3-2 Series Openers: 10-15 Dustin May for the Dodgers. All-Time: 158-186 at Okla. City: 2-1 Series Finales: 8-17 DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 1-4 Austin Bibens-Dirkx: 34-year-old Austin Bibens-Dirkx starts for the Sounds tonight. The right- 5/7 Oklahoma City W, 4-2 Day Games: 7-14 hander is 0-2 with a 5.30 ERA in 4 starts with Nashville. He has covered 18.2 innings and has allowed 5/8 Oklahoma City W, 13-6 Night Games: 35-44 20 hits and 7 walks while recording 17 strikeouts. He last pitched on July 17 and earned the loss at San 5/9 Oklahoma City L, 7-3 vs. RHP: 34-41 Antonio. He allowed 5 runs (all earned) 9 hits and 2 walks while recording 4 strikeouts. Bibens-Dirkx 5/10 Oklahoma City Susp. (8/20) vs. LHP: 8-16 started his 2019 with the Uni-President Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. 6/29 Nashville L, 10-7 April: 8-18 He pitched 15 games overseas, starting 9 of them. Overall, he went 2-5 with a 5.28 ERA (46.0 IP/27 6/30 Nashville L, 13-6 May: 14-15 ER) and 1.26 WHIP. Bibens-Dirkx split 2018 between Triple-A Round Rock and Texas. In his second 7/1 Nashville W, 4-3 June: 13-14 season with the Rangers, he went 2-3 with a 6.20 ERA in 13 games (6 starts). He went 3-6 with a 5.68 7/2 Nashville W, 6-4 ERA in 17 games (15 starts) for Round Rock. In 37 MLB games, Bibens-Dirkx is 7-5 with a 5.27 ERA July: 7-11 7/3 Nashville W, 14-11 (114.1 IP/67 ER) in 37 games (12 starts). In 339 MiLB games, he's 64-60 with a 4.18 ERA. Bibens-Dirkx 7/23 Nashville August: 0-0 was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 16th round of the 2006 MLB Draft. September: 0-0 7/24 Nashville 7/25 Nashville Monday: 7-5 Dustin May: 21-year-old Dustin May starts for the Dodgers tonight. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 3.52 Tuesday: 5-8 ERA in 3 starts with the Dodgers. May was added to Oklahoma City's roster on June 27. He was 3-5 8/19 Oklahoma City Wednesday: 4-8 with a 3.74 ERA in 15 starts with Double-A Tulsa. He covered 79.1 innings and allowed 71 hits and 20 8/20 Oklahoma City Thursday: 3-13 walks to go along with 86 strikeouts. He held Double-A opponents to a .237 batting average. The Texas 8/21 Oklahoma City Friday: 11-3 native last pitched on July 17 in a start at Iowa. He went 5.1 innings and allowed 1 earned run on 6 hits 8/22 Oklahoma City Saturday: 6-8 and a walk. May earned no decision while striking out 8 in the 7-5 loss. In his minor league career, May Sunday: 6-13 is 22-17 with a 3.58 ERA in 76 games (71 starts). He has recorded 384 strikeouts in 391.2 innings. The vs. Am. Northern: 15-22 Dodgers drafted May in the 3rd round of the 2016 MLB Draft. He is currently listed as the Dodgers' #3 prospect and the #50 prospect in all of baseball by MLB Pipeline. vs. Am. Southern: 21-28 TONIGHT’S MATCHUP vs. Pac. Northern: 3-4 Sounds Dodgers 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Divi- 42-58 Record 46-54 vs. Pac. Southern: 3-4 sion standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 1, Third: 27, Fourth: 76. vs. NL Affiliate: 28-37 20-32 Home 20-27 vs. AL Affiliate: 14-21 May vs. Nashville: Dustin May pitched in his Triple-A debut against the Sounds at First Tennessee 22-26 Road 26-27 Lead After 6: 31-4 Park on June 30. He earned the win, going 5.0 innings and allowed 2 runs (both earned) on 5 hits, 2 Trail After 6: 6-47 walks and 2 hit batters. He struck out 3 hitters in the 13-6 win for Oklahoma City. Active Nashville L1 Streak W4 Tied After 6: 5-7 hitters have preformed as such against May this season: Matt Davidson, 1-3, RBI, K; Zack Granite, 0-3; 2-3 Last 5 4-1 Lead After 7: 32-4 Scott Heineman, 1-2, BB; Christian Lopes (also faced off in the Texas League), 3-8, 2B, 2 RBI; Juremi 3-7 Last 10 7-3 Trail After 7: 4-48 Profar (Texas League), 1-5, RBI, BB; Eli White, 1-2; Patrick Wisdom, 0-3, 2 K. Tied After 7: 6-6 .255 (15th) Batting Avg. .260 (14th) Season Series Advantage: With 8 games remaining in the season against Oklahoma City, Nashville Lead After 8: 34-1 121 (14th) HR 143 (10th) has had the better first half of the matchup by going 5-3. Hitters are batting .317 (79-for-249) and are 487 (16th) R 555 (10th) Trail After 8: 3-49 slashing .405/441/.847. Zack Granite is leading all hitters versus the Dodgers , hitting .571 (20-for-35) 71 (6th) SB 37 (16th) Tied After 8: 2-3 and is slashing .634/.714/1.348. Scoring First: 26-20 883 (10th) K (Batting) 886 (12th) Opp. Scoring First: 15-38 RISP Rebound: The Sounds couldn't record a hit with runners in scoring position on Sunday night, 366 (11th) BB (Batting) 399 (3rd) Scoring 4+ Runs: 33-29 going 0-for-11 in such opportunities. Overall, Nashville had just 4 hits that night. Despite winning 5.62 (10th) ERA 5.68 (11th) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 22-52 2-of-3 games in the series against Iowa, Sounds hitters could only manage hitting 2-for-21 with run- 831 (14th) K (Pitching) 941 (2nd) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 9-29 ners in scoring position. Nashville ranks last in the PCL with a .241 average with runners in scoring 359 (11th) BB (Pitching) 399 (11th) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 19-6 position. 614 (11th) R Allowed 596 (10th) Hit a HR: 33-36 129 (3rd) HR Allowed 130 (4th) Allow a HR 28-43 Sounds Tuning: Nashville made 2 transaction moves yesterday in conjunction with the Texas Rangers. .979 (9th) Fielding Pct. .976 (13th) Right-hander Rafael Montero had his contract selected by Texas, making his first action in the Majors Hit 2+ HR: 20-16 this season. To make room on the 40-man roster, Carlos Tocci was designated for assignment. Montero AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Allow 2+ HR: 11-26 is replacing Rangers' closer Shawn Kelly on the roster, who was placed on the 10-day injured list due to W L PCT GB Outhit Opponent: 26-9 biceps soreness. The Sounds are up to 178 transactions through 100 games this season, putting them on Iowa 56 45 .554 - Tie in Hits: 6-3 pace for 249. The Sounds had 195 total transactions last season and didn't reach 178 until August 31. Omaha 46 55 .455 10.0 Outhit by Opponent: 10-46 Nashville 42 58 .420 13.5 Record 10+ Hits: 21-12 Pain in the Batter's Box: 5 batters where hit-by-pitches in Sunday night's game, 4 of the batters playing Memphis 41 60 .406 15.0 Allow 10+ Hits: 12-37 for Nashville. Matt Davidson was a victim twice while Eli White and Carlos Tocci were also hit. Nash- Commit an Error: 20-29 ville ranks 4th in the PCL this season with hit-by-pitches at 59, trailing San Antonio (60), Oklahoma Commit No Errors: 22-29 City (63) and Memphis (70). Nashville pitchers lead the PCL in most hit batters at 72 with New Orleans UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS (62) being the runner-up. First Tennessee Park has seen the most hit batters overall this season with a Walk-Off Wins: 1 It's Tito’s Tail Waggin’ Tuesday! Fans can bring total of 74 hitters being hit, while the Shrine on Airline in New Orleans is second with 66.