game information indianapolis indians _______________________________________ [ Indianapolis Indians501 // CommunicationsWest Maryland Department Street ] - Indianapolis, IN 46225 ♦ (317) 269-3542 ♦ @IndyIndians ♦ IndyIndians.com/MediaKit[ IndyIndians.com // (317) 269-3524 ] Indianapolis Indians Friday, June 14, 2019 7:15 p.m. ET Pawtucket Red Sox 35-29 (2nd, -1.5 GB, IL West) Victory Field Indianapolis, IN 28-37 (6th, -10.5 GB, IL North) ♦ RHP Eduardo Vera (3-4, 6.14) Game #65 // Home #33 LHP Kyle Hart (2-1, 3.71) Radio/TV: Fox Sports 97.5 / AM 1260 / iHeart app / MiLB TV / Comcast 90 UPCOMING MATCHUPS DAY DATE OPPONENT PROBABLES TIME (ET) RADIO/TV Saturday June 15 vs. Pawtucket RHP Alex McRae (4-2, 5.18) vs. TBA 7:05 p.m. Fox Sports 97.5 / AM 1260 / iHeart app / MiLB TV / Comcast 90 Sunday June 16 vs. Pawtucket TBA vs. RHP Teddy Stankiewicz (3-4, 4.34) 1:35 p.m. Fox Sports 97.5 / AM 1260 / iHeart app / MiLB TV / Comcast 90 Monday June 17 OFF Tuesday June 18 at Buffalo RHP Luis Escobar (1-1, 2.19) vs. TBA 7:05 p.m. Fox Sports 97.5 / AM 1260 / iHeart app / MiLB TV 2019 indy bits Tribe Tips 2019 AT A GLANCE Day Games: 11-9 Overall 35-29 Night Games: 24-20 LAST NIGHT: The Indians never led in the series finale last night against Buffalo, falling 11-3 to get swept at home for the first Home 17-15 Before All-Star Break: 35-29 time this season. One night after seeing 27 total baserunners for Buffalo (16 hits, 11 walks), another 25 men got on base for Road 18-14 After All-Star Break: 0-0 Place 2nd April: 13-11 the visitors (15 hits, 9 walks, 1 hit batter). Trevor Williams started for Indy and threw 3.0 innings in his rehab start, allowing GA/GB -1.5 GB May: 18-9 Streak L3 June: 4-9 two runs on four hits and one walk with five punchouts. Jake Elmore (2-for-4, 2B, R) and Nick Franklin (2-for-4, HR, 2B, RBI, R) Home Streak L5 July: 0-0 August: 0-0 Road Streak W1 September: 0-0 were the lone bright spots for Indy's offense. Longest Winning Streak 6 (4/7-13) Longest Losing Streak 4 (2x, MR: 5/4-8) Monday: 4-0 Last 5 1-4 Tuesday: 4-6 Wednesday: 6-4 FIRST THINGS FIRST: The Indians have gone 21 consecutive games without scoring a run in the first inning. During that Last 10 3-7 Thursday: 6-4 Home Openings 32 Friday: 6-4 stretch, the Tribe offense has gone 1-2-3 11 times, put one runner on base eight times and two runners on just twice. Indy has Home Attendance 230,097 Saturday: 4-7 Avg. Home Attendance 7,191 Sunday: 5-4 had just 12 total baserunners in the first inning during the 21-game drought. The last first inning where Indy put runs on the League Rank (Total/Avg) (4th/4th) Scoring First: 21-5 scoreboard came on May 23 at Louisville in an 8-7 win. Opponent Scores First: 14-24 SERIES HISTORY Comeback Wins: 17 Opponent Comeback Wins: 11 2019 at Home: 0-0 Extra Innings: 3-4 THAT'LL DO: After falling below .500 at 15-16 following a loss on May 8 at Scranton/WB, the Indians have gone 20-13 to surge 2019 @ Pawtucket: 0-0 Shutout Record: 2-3 Doubleheaders: 0-0 six games over .500 at 35-29. The Tribe have gained two games in the standings during the stretch, going from 3.5 games out All-Time at Home: 45-46 (.495) Commit An Error: 15-14 All-Time @ Pawtucket: 47-43 (.522) Commit No Errors: 19-15 Walk-Off Wins: 2 to just 1.5 games back of Columbus. All-Time Totals: 92-89 (.508) Walk-Off Losses: 3 2019 league leaders vs. IL West: 20-14 vs. IL North: 5-6 THIS WILL NOT: The Indians have lost six of their last seven games after entering play on June 7 in Toledo with the Internation- Category Player No. Rank vs. IL South: 10-9 H Craig 64 T-10th al League's best record at 34-23. The tough stretch matches a late April slide, when the Tribe also lost six out of seven games HR Craig 15 T-6th Scoring 4+ Runs: 31-15 RBI Craig 40 T-10th Scoring 3 Or Fewer Runs: 4-14 from April 19-26. Outhit Opponent: 25-9 2B Hayes 20 1st Outhit By Opponent: 7-18 Kramer 19 T-2nd Teams Tie in Hits: 3-2 3B Martin/Robinson 3 T-6th Indy Hits HR: 26-19 RISP-Y BUSINESS: Over the last seven games, hitting with RISP has been a major issue for Indy's offense. The Tribe are TB Craig 120 8th Indy no HR: 9-10 Opp. Hits HR: 20-20 batting just .138 (9-for-65) during the stretch. On the season, Indy is batting .252 (155-for-615) with RISP, third worst in the W Keller 5 T-2nd Opp. no HR: 15-9 ERA Keller 3.10 1st Lead After 6: 29-1 league and ahead of only Syracuse (.250) and Gwinnett (.248). WHIP Keller 1.31 7th Trail After 6: 1-21 AVG vs. Keller .238 5th Tied After 6: 5-7 IP Vera 66.0 4th Lead After 7: 30-2 Trail After 7: 3-24 SO Keller 74 2nd Tied After 7: 2-3 MORE MOVES: The Indians made three more roster moves today, one retroactive to last night's contest. RHP Montana GIDP McRae 8 T-5th Lead After 8: 31-1 Agrazal 7 T-7th Trail After 8: 2-24 DuRapau was added just before last night's game against Buffalo and was forced into action in the ninth, despite Indy trailing SAVES Brentz 6 T-4th Tied After 8: 2-3 big. He recorded one out in relief. RHP Alex McRae was also added to Indy's roster today after being optioned by Pittsburgh Neverauskas 5 T-10th Vs. LH Starter: 8-6 HOLDS Waddell 7 T-1st Vs. RH Starter: 27-23 on June 11, and RHP Dario Agrazal was placed on the taxi squad in advance of his anticipated MLB debut tomorrow night in Liranzo 5 T-4th Series (W-L-S): 11-8-1 Miami. 2019 TEAM COMPARISON Sweeps: 4-2 Indians PawSox 2019 IL STANDINGS .262 Batting Avg .250 SWEPT BY BUFFALO: Since rejoining the International League in 1998, the Indians have now been swept by the Bisons four 312 Runs 313 WEST 566 Hits 517 Team W-L GB total times after the fate of a three-game sweep was sealed last night. The first occurrence was a four-game sweep at Victory 152 Doubles 108 COL 37-28 - 14 Triples 7 IND 35-29 1.5 Field in 1999, the second was a three-game sweep at Buffalo in 2003 and the third was a three-game sweep at Victory Field 72 Home Runs 71 TOL 26-38 10.5 287 RBI 292 in 2016. Indy has only swept Buffalo once, doing so in 2015 on the road. 964 Total Bases 852 LOU 26-40 11.5 221 Walks 246 NORTH 532 Strikeouts 492 10+ RUNS TWICE: Indy has allowed 14 runs and 11 runs in their last two games. The last time the Indians surrendered 43 Stolen Bases 34 Team W-L GB 24 Caught Stealing 20 SWB 38-26 - 10-plus runs in consecutive games came on June 29-30, 2018 at Columbus, when they lost 10-6 and 10-9 in back-to-back .336 OBP .333 LHV 32-31 5.5 .447 SLG .413 SYR 32-34 7.0 games. It also happened earlier in the 2018 campaign at Durham on May 18-19; Indy lost 12-3 and 10-7 in consecutive games. BUF 30-34 8.0 565.2 Innings Pitched 537.1 ROC 29-34 8.5 4.53 ERA 4.95 CURRENT HOMESTAND BY THE NUMBERS 1.40 WHIP 1.54 PAW 28-37 10.5 Games 3 ERA 8.33 (25er/27.0ip) 23 Saves 19 SOUTH Record 0-3 Starter W-L 0-2 0-2 543 Hits Allowed 558 Average .196 (19-for-97) Starter ERA 3.38 (5er/13.1ip) 309 Runs Allowed 343 Team W-L GB Runs (Avg/Gm) 9 (3.0) Reliever W-L 0-1 The Tribe were swept at home twice in 2018 and went 0-2 in 285 ER Allowed 295 DUR 40-26 - XBH (Avg/Gm) 9 (3.0) Reliever ERA 13.17 (20er/13.2ip) 63 HR Allowed 81 CHA 36-29 3.5 Home Runs 1 Walks 24 games immediately following the sweep, one at home and 26 Hit Batters 34 GWN 36-29 3.5 Stolen Bases 1 Strikeouts 27 248 Walks 269 NOR 27-37 12.0 RISP .138 (4-for-29) Save/Opps 0/1 one on the road. 567 Strikeouts 483 EDUARDO VERA PG. 58 of media guide HT/WT: 6'2”/195 B/T: R/R BORN: July 3, 1994 (24) BIRTHPLACE: Merida, Mexico OBTAINED: Non-drafted free agent, 3/5/2012 Year Team W/L ERA G/GS IP H R ER HR HB BB SO BAA WHIP 2012 DSL Pirates 1 0-0 5.68 4/0 6.1 11 5 4 0 0 4 5 .367 2.37 2012 DSL Pirates 2 2-0 3.06 12/4 32.1 25 13 11 2 3 12 26 .216 1.14 2013 DSL Pirates 2 1-0 1.95 14/13 60.0 53 22 13 1 4 14 44 .233 1.12 2014 GCL Pirates 3-1 4.80 17/0 30.0 29 17 16 3 2 5 18 .257 1.13 2015 DNP (Tommy John surgery) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2016 GCL Pirates 0-1 4.15 7/0 8.2 6 4 4 0 0 2 4 .188 0.92 2017 WV Power 8-7 3.33 27/19 132.1 133 54 49 13 10 14 109 .258 1.11 2018 Bradenton 3-2 2.95 9/9 58.0 48 19 19 6 4 10 30 .230 1.00 2018 Altoona 8-3 3.62 17/17 97.0 83 41 39 11 5 23 68 .231 1.09 2019 Indianapolis 3-4 6.14 12/12 66.0 80 48 45 7 6 17 47 .308 1.47 MiLB Totals 28-18 3.67 119/74 490.2 468 223 200 43 34 101 351 .251 1.16 MLB Totals -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Tonight's Starter: Right-hander Eduardo Vera will try to right the Tribe ship at home tonight against Pawtucket.