@ROCREDWINGS REDWINGSBASEBALL.COM TRIPLE-A AFFILIATE GAME NOTES Rochester Red Wings (3-9) vs. SYRACUSE METS (7-6) Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 12:35 p.m. ET - Frontier Field - Rochester, NY Radio: Fox Sports 1280 TV: MiLB.tv LHP Lewis Thorpe (0-2, 15.58) vs. RHP Chris Mazza (NR) Game 13 Home Game 6 WINGS AT A GLANCE THE LAST TIME OUT: Zander Wiel hit a solo home run in the 6th inning of game one WINGS vs. SYRACUSE Place in Division ........................6th but Syracuse rebounded with a two-hit shutout in game two as the Red Wings and Mets Current Streak ............................L1 Games Back (DIV) ....................-5.5 split a doubleheader Tuesday night at Frontier Field. Rochester loaded the bases with 2019 Record ..............................2-3 Games Back (WC) ....................-5.0 2019 at Home .............................1-1 one out in the 7th inning of game two but a double play ended the game. Tomás Telis Home .........................................1-4 2019 on Road .............................1-2 Road ..........................................2-5 drove in two runs and hit a solo home run in the first game. Fernando Romero bounced Record Since 1990 ............. 272-235 Series .....................................0-3-0 back from Saturday's outing with three strikeouts in 2.0 perfect innings in game two. Home Record Since 1990 ... 143-108 Series Openers..........................2-2 Road Record Since 1990 .... 128-127 Series Finales ............................1-2 ROSTER MOVES: Minnesota recalled RHP Tyler Duffey yesterday and LHP Andrew 2019 Game Log Rubber Games ............................... Vasquez was optioned to Rochester. Vasquez is active and available today. Date Score Win/Loss/Save Sweeps ......................................0-1 4/8 L, 5-4 Flexen/Nicolino/Rhame Doubleheaders .......................0-1-1 4/9 L, 7-5 Taylor/Stewart/Zamora April ..........................................3-9 FAMILIAR FACES: Rochester is in the midst of 17 consecutive games against Lehigh 4/10 W, 8-2 Poppen/Santiago/Adams May ................................................ Valley or Syracuse. The Red Wings do not play another team until they welcome 4/16 W, 3-2 (7) Nicolino/Peterson/Morin June ................................................ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to Frontier Field on Monday, April 22. L, 3-0 (7) Taylor/Eades/Caminero July ................................................. 4/17 August ............................................ 6/3 September ..................................... HOMER HAPPY: Rochester has hit 17 home runs to produce 27 of the 52 total runs 6/4 vs. IL North ................................3-9 scored this season. The Red Wings hit just seven April homers last year, all coming on 6/5 vs. IL South ...................................... or before April 20. The 17th Wings homer of 2018 did not come until May 22 and the 6/6 vs. IL West ....................................... 18th, 19th, and 20th long balls didn't come until May 23, the team's 40th game. 7/1 vs. LH starter ..............................3-3 7/2 vs. RH starter .............................0-6 CÉSAR SALAD: Randy César is off to a hot start at the plate in his Triple-A debut 7/3 Wings score first ........................3-0 8/23 Opponent scores first ................0-9 season, batting .323/.400/.613 with three doubles, two homers, four RBI, and eight runs 8/24 Comeback wins ............................1 scored in nine games. He hit in his first seven games through April 13 but has still 8/25 Leading after 7/8 inn. ......... 3-0/2-1 reached base safely in all nine games. 8/30 Trailing after 7/8 inn. .......... 0-8/0-5 8/31 Tied after 7/8 inn. ............... 0-1/0-0 RISPY BUSINESS: The Red Wings were batting .154 (8-for-52) with runners in scoring 9/1 Extra-innings .............................0-1 9/2 1-run games ..............................1-1 position this season entering Saturday before going 6-for-14. The Wings are up to .213 Wings out-hit opp. .....................2-2 this season in those situations. Rochester was last in the league with a .212 average HOMESTAND (1-4) Wings get Quality Start ................... with RISP in 2018. Batting Average ... .255 (41-for-161) Wings starter goes 6+ IP ................ Runs/Game ..........................27/5.4 Wings score 4+ .........................2-4 Home Runs ...................................8 WIEL IN THE SKY: Zander Wiel homered in back-to-back games on Saturday and RISP ......................... .265 (9-for-34) Wings score 3- .........................1-5 game one on Tuesday. Saturday's game included his second multi-homer effort in just Wings-high hits ..........................22 Errors ...........................................7 Wings-high runs .........................18 his 23rd Triple-A game. He had just three games with multiple home runs in 370 minor Team ERA ...........7.50 (35 ER, 42 IP) Opp.-high hits ............................21 league games before joining the Red Wings on August 21 last season. Starters W-L ...............................0-2 Opp.-high runs ...........................20 Starters ERA ....6.75 (10 ER, 13.1 IP) Relievers W-L .............................1-2 Walk-offs ........................................ MORE FROM SATURDAY: Rochester and Lehigh Valley combined for 38 runs, 43 hits, Relievers ERA ..7.85 (25 ER, 28.2 IP) Shutouts .....................................0-3 and 15 home runs as the IronPigs beat the Red Wings 20-18 in 10 innings Saturday Most games over .500 ...................1 Saves/Opportunities ................. 1/1 Most games under .500 ........ 6 (2x) afternoon at Frontier Field in a game that lasted 3 hours, 55 minutes. • The 15 combined home runs is a Frontier Field record. The previous high of eight STREAKS RECENT TRANSACTIONS Current Streak ............................L1 was accomplished twice: August 12, 2016 and April 25, 2009, both vs. Scranton/ 4/14 + Magill rehab Last 5 Games .............................1-4 + Maggi from AA WB. Last 10 Games ...........................2-8 - Sawyer to IL • The 38 combined runs tie a Frontier Field record, set when Buffalo beat Rochester Last 25 Games ...........................3-9 4/11 + Baxendale from IL 25-13 on April 29, 2004. Longest Winning Streak ............ W1 + De Jong from MIN • Lehigh Valley had hit just three home runs in nine games this season before Longest Losing Streak .................L5 - Poppen to AA launching a franchise-record nine on Saturday. Individual 4/10 + Poppen from AA Player Type Games • Dylan Cozens and Andrew Romine hit back-to-back home runs in back-to-back Andreoli On-Base 10 - Vasquez to MIN innings (5th and 6th). César On-Base 9 4/6 - De Jong selected • Jan Hernandez, Dylan Cozens, Andrew Romine, and Sean Rodriguez of Lehigh Rooker On-Base 3 4/4 - Baxendale on DL Valley and Zander Wiel of Rochester all recorded multi-homer games. Hernandez Sawyer On-Base 5 - Gonsalves on DL Wiel On-Base 3 - Gordon on DL and Rodriguez each drove in a game-high five runs. Six total players registered at - Weiss on DL least four RBI while Wiel also scored a game-high four times. • Rochester had allowed eight home runs in nine games this season before surrendering nine on Saturday. UPCOMING GAMES Date Opponent Time Wings Probable Opponent Probable Radio Television April 18 at Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. RHP Zack Littell (0-2, 7.71) RHP Enyel De Los Santos (2-0, 0.75) Fox Sports 1280 MiLB.tv April 19 at Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. RHP Chase De Jong (0-0, 4.91) LHP Ranger Suarez (1-0, 8.00) Fox Sports 1280 MiLB.tv April 20 at Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. TBA LHP JoJo Romero (0-1, 10.13) Fox Sports 1280 MiLB.tv April 22 SCRANTON/WB 6:05 p.m. TBA TBA Fox Sports 1280 MiLB.tv Red Wings Starting Pitcher - LHP Lewis Thorpe Height: 6-1 Weight: 220 Bats/Throws: Right/Left Age: 23 (11/23/95 in Melbourne, AUS) Resides: Melbourne, AUS Signed: By Minnesota as an International free agent on July 12, 2012 2019 Stats TEAM W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR HBP BB SO WP GIDP BAA Rochester 0-2 15.58 2 2 0 0 8.2 17 15 15 2 0 7 9 0 0 .405 2018 Stats TEAM W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR HBP BB SO WP GIDP BAA Chattanooga (AA) 8-4 3.58 22 21 0 0 108.0 105 57 43 13 1 30 131 12 9 .251 Rochester 0-3 3.32 4 4 0 0 21.2 20 11 8 3 0 6 26 2 1 .244 TOTALS 8-7 3.54 26 25 0 0 129.2 125 68 51 16 1 36 157 14 10 .250 2019 Day-By-Day with Rochester DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER HR BB SO PITCHES/STRIKES LEFT/FINAL NOTES 4/6-G1 at LHV L1 4.0 10 9 9 2 2 4 83-50 2-9/3-12 Tied a career-high with 9 runs and 10 hits 4/11 LHV L2 4.2 7 6 6 0 5 5 92-54 3-4/6-13 ROC Home Opener - LHV scored 3 in 1st Notes Miscellaneous Numbers LAST START: Lehigh Valley jumped on Thorpe for three runs in the 1st inning 2018 Splits with Chattanooga and added another run in the 3rd inning to take a 4-0 lead. Rochester AVG AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB responded with three runs in the 4th but the IronPigs scored three times in vs. Left .230 122 28 6 0 4 17 10 38 2 the 5th, two inherrited runners were charged to Thorpe after he departed vs. Right .259 297 77 15 5 9 34 20 93 2 with two on and two out. Thorpe was charged with six runs on seven hits RISP .278 90 25 4 1 3 39 9 24 3 and five walks with five strikeouts over 4.2 innings. RISP/2 outs .286 35 10 2 1 1 18 3 8 1 FIRST START: Thorpe started game one of the doubleheader last Friday at W-L ERA G-GS IP H R ER HR BB SO AVG Lehigh Valley...after retiring the first two batters in the 1st, Thorpe allowed Home 5-3 3.01 14-13 71.2 64 35 24 7 19 87 .234 four straight to reach base including back-to-back home runs to put the Road 3-1 4.71 8-8 36.1 41 22 19 6 11 44 .281 IronPigs ahead 4-0.