GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Contact: Chris Harris - [email protected] Mississippi Braves (0-1) at Tennessee Smokies (1-0) By The Numbers All-Time Record (since 2005) ................................. 939-992 LHP Kyle Muller (0-0, --) vs. RHP Cory Abbott (0-0, --) 2019 at Trustmark Park .................................................. 0-0 2019 on the Road ........................................................... 0-1 Game #2 • Road Game #2 Last 10 ............................................................................ 0-1 Day Games ..................................................................... 0-0 April 5, 2019 • 6:00 pm (CT) • Kodak, TN • Smokies Stadium Night Games .................................................................. 0-1 TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Tennessee Smokies continue the series-opening five-game series at Smokies Stadium. Atlanta Braves No. 13 overall prospect LHP Kyle Muller faces off against Chicago M-Braves vs Smokies Cubs’ No. 9 prospect RHP Cory Abbott. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 This marks the second-straight season that the M-Braves and Smokies have faced each other to open at Trustmark Park 2-1 2-3 2-3 4-1 3-2 2-8 4-2 the year. The M-Braves took the five-game series at Trustmark Park, 3-2 and lead the all-time series, at Tennessee 3-1 3-2 1-3 3-2 4-1 2-3 2-3 78-75 Total 5-2 5-5 3-6 7-3 7-3 4-11 6-5 This is the first road series to begin a season since 2008. This is just the fourth time in 15 seasons that 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Mississippi has opened a season away from Trustmark Park. at Trustmark Park 2-3 4-1 4-1 2-3 3-2 2-3 3-2 at Tennessee 1-4 3-2 4-6 1-4 7-3 3-2 2-3 LAST TIME OUT: The M-Braves fell to 5-10 all-time in season openers with Thursday night’s 7-5 loss Total 3-7 7-3 8-7 3-7 10-5 5-5 5-5 at Tennessee. RHP Ian Anderson made the start and worked 4.0 innings, giving up one run on three hits with seven strikeouts and three walks. At the plate, OF Drew Waters was 3-for-4 with a double, 2019 Alltime run and walk in his Double-A debut. OF Cristian Pache was 1-for-5 with a triple, RBI, run and two at Trustmark Park 0-0 39-35 stolen bases. C Jonathan Morales finished 1-for-4 with a double and two RBI. at Tennessee 0-1 39-40 MULLER TIME: Atlanta’s No. 13 prospect according to MLB.com, Kyle Muller makes his first start of Total 0-0 78-75 2019 in game two of the series at Tennessee. Muller was promoted to Mississippi in early August last season and faced Jacksonville and Chatta- Record Breakdown nooga twice, as well as Biloxi. The big left-hander was brilliant posting a 4-1 record and 3.10 ERA with Score First ................................................. 0-0 Opponents Score First ...............................0-1 27 strikeouts and just six walks (0.97 WHIP). Muller became the first M-Braves pitcher to win his first four starts (8/6-8/28/18). Shutouts ................................................... 0-0 Score in 1 inning ........................................0-0 Score in 2 innings ..................................... 0-1 Score in 3 innings ......................................0-0 OPENING DAY ROSTER: The M-Braves Opening Day roster has 25 active players and three on the Score in 4 innings ..................................... 0-0 Score in 5 > innings ...................................0-0 injured list to begin the season. Leading after 6 innings ............................. 0-0 Leading after 7 innings ..............................0-0 Overall the initial roster has 14 players returning to Mississippi from 2018, 13 that were drafted by Tied after 6 innings .................................. 0-1 Tied after 7 innings ...................................0-0 the Braves, four minor league free agents, four non-drafted free agents, three acquired via trade and Trailing after 6 innings ............................. 0-0 Trailing after 7 innings ...............................0-1 one selected in the Rule 5 draft. The roster contains three with MLB experience (Jason Hursh, Ben Rowen, Andy Wilkins), seven Leading after 8 innings ............................. 0-0 Score 2 or Fewer Runs ...............................0-0 countries represented (United States, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Aruba, Columbia, Mexico and Tied after 8 innings .................................. 0-0 Score 3 Runs ..............................................0-0 the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico) Trailing after 8 innings ............................. 0-1 Score 4 or More Runs ................................0-1 Nine top 30 prospects according to MLB.com (Ian Anderson (3), Cristian Pache(4), Drew Waters (8), First Game of Series ................................. 0-1 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match .......0-0/0-0 Joey Wentz (12), Kyle Muller (13), Patrick Weigel (19), Tucker Davidson (22), C.J Alexander (23) and First Game of Homestand ........................ 0-0 Last Game of Homestand ..........................0-0 Ray-Patrick Didder (30)...three top 100 prospects in baseball according to MLB.com (Anderson (32), Pache (36) and Waters (84)). First Game of Road Trip ........................... 0-1 Last Game of Road Trip .............................0-0 The roster contains five players that are 21-years-old, or younger to begin the season. OFDrew Wa- Following an Off Day ................................ 0-0 1-Run Games .............................................0-0 ters is the youngest (20, 12/30/98), followed by OF Cristian Pache (20, 11/19/98), RHP Ian Anderson Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 0-0 2-Run Games .............................................0-1 (20, 5/2/98), LHP Joey Wentz (21, 10/6/97) and LHP Kyle Muller (21, 10/7/97). Errorless Games ....................................... 0-0 3-Run Games .............................................0-0 With a Homer........................................... 0-0 Allow a Homer ..........................................0-1 HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney “Hammer” returns for his second season as With No Homers ...................................... 0-1 Allow No Homers ......................................0-0 M-Braves manager. Maloney, 57, the seventh skipper in franchise history attended Jackson’s St. Jo- seph High School and went on to play collegiate baseball at Mississippi State University, graduating in 1983. White Jersey ............................................. 0-0 Vs. Righty Starters .....................................0-1 Red Jersey ................................................ 0-1 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................0-0 During his first season in 2018, Maloney guided the M-Braves to a 67-71 record, boasting a 38-30 Navy Blue Jersey ...................................... 0-1 Starter Goes <5 Innings .............................0-1 mark in the second half of the season, missing out on the playoffs by just one game in the standings. Gray Jersey .............................................. 0-0 Starter Goes 5> Innings .............................0-0 Maloney enters 2019 ranked eighth among active minor league managers with 1,417 wins (1,417- In Decision By Starters ............................. 0-0 In Decision By Bullpen ..............................0-1 1,321 overall record, .518 winning percentage) and has guided his clubs to winning records in 11 of 21 seasons and league championships in 1993 (Savannah Cardinals, South Atlantic League) and 2009 (Memphis Redbirds, Pacific Coast League). On the Web 11 M-BRAVES ALUMS MADE MLB DEBUTS IN 2018: RHP Bryse Wilson became the 140th Social Media M-Braves alum and 11th in 2018 to move on and make their MLB debut on August 21. Wilson joined RHP Touki Toussaint (August 13) RHP Chad Sobotka (August 11), RHP Wes Parsons (August 9), LHP Adam McCreery (August 9), LHP Kolby Allard (July 31) C Willians Astudillo (June 30, Twins) OF facebook.com/mbraves Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. (April 25) and LHP Jesse For all of your M-Braves information Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 139 players, have gone on to make their MLB needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. 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JACKSON (TN) (ARI) 1-0 -- BILOXI (MIL) 0-0 -- MONTGOMERY (TB) 1-0 -- MOBILE (LAA) 0-0 -- TENNESSEE (CHC) 1-0 -- PENSACOLA (MIN) 0-0 -- BIRMINGHAM (CHW) 0-0 0.5 JACKSONVILLE (MIA) 0-1 0.5 CHATTANOOGA (CIN) 0-1 1.0 MISSISSIPPI (ATL) 0-1 0.5 Upcoming Probable Starters & Schedule - All Times CT Date Opponent Probable Starters Time (CT) Sat, April 6 at Tennessee LHP Joey Wentz (0-0, --) vs. RHP Keegan Thompson (0-0, --) 6:00 PM Sun., April 7 at Tennessee RHP Patrick Weigel (0-0, --) vs. LHP Justin Steele (0-0, --) 1:00 PM Mon., April 8 at Tennessee LHP Tucker Davidson (0-0, --) vs. RHP Tyson Miller (0-0, --) 6:00 PM Tues., April 9 OFF DAY Today’s Starter Muller’s 2019 Day-by-Day MISSISSIPPI #8 Kyle Muller (0-0, 0.00) Date Opp. Decision IP/P H R ER BB SO HR LHP • 6’7” • 250 • Dallas, TX • 21 yrs vs.