NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (61-71) vs. Omaha Storm Chasers (57-76) LHP Wes Benjamin (6-6, 5.72) vs. RHP Ofreidy Gomez (0-2, 8.53) Game #133/Road Game #67 • Wednesday, August 28, 2019 • Werner 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 Thursday August 29 at Omaha RHP Seth Maness (7-4, 5.51) LHP Brian Flynn (4-3, 3.86) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Friday August 30 vs. San Antonio RHP Phillips Valdez (1-7, 5.13) TBD 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Saturday August 31 vs. San Antonio RHP Pedro Payano (2-3, 5.70) RHP Zack Brown (3-7, 5.72) 7:05 p.m. MiLB TV//97.5 FM Sunrday September 1 vs. San Antonio RHP Tim Dillard (8-9, 4.80) RHP Thomas Jankins (10-5, 4.38) 6:15 p.m. MiLB TV//97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight's Game: The Nashville Sounds and Omaha Storm Chasers play game three of the four-game series at Werner Park. The Storm Chasers have won the first two games of the series. Tonight, left-hander Wes Benjamin starts for the SOUNDS VS. STORM CHASERS Series (W-L-T): 12-15-7 Sounds against right-hander Ofreidy Gomez. 2019: 4-10 at Nashville: 4-4 Series Openers: 16-19 Wes Benjamin: 26-year-old Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds tonight. The left-hander is making his 26th ap- All-Time: 155-163 at Omaha: 0-6 Series Finales: 14-20 DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 3-4 pearance (24th start) of the season and is 6-6 with a 5.72 ERA while covering 124.1 innings. Benjamin has yielded 142 hits and 51 walks to go with 104 strikeouts. Benjamin last pitched on August 23 at Oklahoma City and went 6.0 4/29 Nashville W, 5-4 Day Games: 8-15 innings. He limited the Dodgers to 1 run on 5 hits and 1 walk while striking out 7. He got a no decision in his 6th 4/30 Nashville L, 9-4 Night Games: 53-56 quality start of the season in the Sounds' 3-1 win. Benjamin spent the majority of his 2018 season with Double-A 5/1 Nashville L, 4-2 vs. RHP: 47-52 Frisco where he went 5-6 with a 3.62 ERA in 15 starts. The southpaw spent nearly two months on the disabled list 5/2 Nashville L, 4-2 vs. LHP: 14-19 from June 7-July 31 with a left elbow strain. Despite missing time, Benjamin led the Frisco staff in wins and ranked 7/4 Omaha L, 1-0 among team leaders in strikeouts (3rd), starts (T3rd) and innings (4th). In his minor league career, Benjamin is April: 8-18 27-24 with a 4.29 ERA while covering 87 games (82 starts). The Rangers drafted the Illinois native in the 5th round 7/5 Omaha L, 9-2 May: 14-16 of the 2014 MLB Draft out of Kansas University. 7/6 Omaha L, 11-3 June: 13-14 7/7 Omaha L, 10-5 July: 10-15 Ofreidy Gomez: 24-year-old Ofreidy Gomez starts for the Storm Chasers tonight. The right-hander was recently 8/15 Nashville W, 4-2 added to Omaha on August 10 and has pitched 4 games with them in 2019. Today will be his 5th appearance and August: 16-8 8/16 Nashville W, 5-3 1st start for the Storm Chasers. Gomez is 0-2 with a 8.53 ERA (6 ER/6.1 IP) with 7 walks and 7 strikeouts in his 8/17 Nashville W, 4-3 September: 0-0 first Triple-A action. His last appearance was on August 23 in relief at Memphis, when he worked 3.0 innings and Monday: 9-7 allowed a solo home run in Omaha's 9-1 loss. With Double-A Northwest Arkansas, he went 7-8 with a 4.05 ERA in 8/18 Nashville L, 7-4 Tuesday: 7-11 22 games (22 starts) in 2019. He was named a Texas League mid-season All-Star. He also won Texas League Picher 8/26 Omaha L, 5-0 Wednesday: 7-9 of the Week on April 21 for throwing 7.0 shutout innings with 7 strikeouts on April 17. The Dominican Republic 8/27 Omaha L, 8-5 native has a minor league career record of 28-44 with a 4.31 ERA in 129 games (91 starts). Kansas City signed him 8/28 Omaha Thursday: 6-14 as an undrafted free agent on November 3, 2012. 8/29 Omaha Friday: 15-5 Saturday: 9-10 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Division stand- Sunday: 8-15 ings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 1, Third: 46, Fourth: 91. TONIGHT’S MATCHUP Sounds Storm Chasers vs. Am. Northern: 20-26 Nashville vs. Gomez: Right-handed pitcher Ofreidy Gomez has faced Nashville once this season in relief on vs. Am. Southern: 26-32 August 16 at First Tennessee Park. He was unable to record an out, allowing 3 runs on 4 hits and 2 walks. He was 61-71 Record 57-76 vs. Pac. Northern: 9-5 tagged with the loss in the Sounds' 5-3 win. Gomez has faced four active hitters for the Sounds: Preston Beck 27-39 Home 30-34 vs. Pac. Southern: 6-8 (Frisco), 0-6, 3 K; Zack Granite, 1-1, RBI; Ronald Guzmán, 0-0, BB; Christian Lopes (Frisco and Nashville), 3-5, 2 34-32 Road 27-42 2B, 2 RBI, BB, 2 K. vs. NL Affiliate: 44-47 vs. AL Affiliate: 17-24 Wes Side Story: Southpaw Wes Benjamin has had a better 2nd half of the season than the 1st. In his last 13 appear- L2 Streak W2 Lead After 6: 45-6 ances (since June 9), Benjamin is 5-1 with a save and has a 4.16 ERA (33 ER/71.1 IP). He has limited PCL hitters to a 2-3 Last 5 23 Trail After 6: 8-56 .253 average in the span. In his first 12 games of the season, Benjamin was 1-5 with a 7.81 ERA (46 ER/53.0 IP) and 6-4 Last 10 5-5 allowed a .327 average. Since June 9, Benjamin ranks 3rd in ERA and 4th in opponent's batting average among 11 Tied After 6: 8-9 qualified pitchers in the Pacific Coast League. Lead After 7: 47-6 .260 (15th) Batting Avg. .263 (14th) Trail After 7: 5-59 Thirty For Now: Infielder Matt Davidson launched his 30th home run of the season for Nashville last night, 169 (14th) HR 148 (16th) Tied After 7: 8-6 becoming the eighth Sound in history to reach the single-season mark. He is tied-for-seventh on the single-season 670 (t15th) R 670 (t15th) home run list with Drew Denson, who dropped 30 in 1994. Renato Nuñez was the last Nashille hitter to reach 30, 83 (6th) SB 143 (1st) Lead After 8: 48-1 knocking out 32 in 2017. Davidson is the third hitter overall to reach the mark in this millennium, with Craig Trail After 8: 3-60 Wilson hitting 33 in 2000. The home run record is 34, shared by Steve Balboni (1980) and Brian Dayett (1982). 1,130 (t4th) K (Batting) 1,057 (2nd) Tied After 8: 6-5 470 (13th) BB (Batting) 462 (14th) Chasing Homers Scoring First: 41-26 All Sorts of Lists: Not only is Davidson climbing the franchise leaderboard in 5.55 (9th) ERA 5.42 (8th) single-season home runs, he also cracked the top 10 in single-season RBI. His Matt Davidson and Patrick Wisdom Opp. Scoring First: 20-45 1,102 (13th) K (Pitching) 1,009 (16th) three RBI last night gives him 91 of the season, tying Anthony Garcia (2018) and are climbing Nashville's single-sea- Scoring 4+ Runs: 50-38 Dan Pasqua (1984) for the 10th-most in team history. Brendan Katin's 92 RBI in son home run list. Here is where 474 (6th) BB (Pitching) 552 (13th) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 31-63 both currently stand: 2009 is next on the list. The single-season leader is Steve Balboni who drove in 1. Steve Balboni - 34 (1980) 787 (9th) R Allowed 774 (8th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 11-33 122 runs in 1980. t1. Brian Dayett - 34 (1982) 169 (3rd) HR Allowed 210 (9th) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 30-7 3. Dan Pasqua - 33 (1984) .980 (8th) Fielding Pct. .977 (11th) Early Inning Woes: In Tuesday night's loss, five of Omaha's runs came in the first Hit a HR: 51-46 t3. Craig Wilson - 33 (2000) three innings. Four of those runs came in the first inning. Through the first three 5. Chad Hermansen - 32 (1999) AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Allow a HR 42-53 innings, Sounds pitchers are allowing a 6.18 ERA (272 ER/396.0 IP ER) versus a t5. Renato Nuñez - 32 (2017) W L PCT GB Hit 2+ HR: 29-18 5.22 ERA (437 ER/753.2 IP) for the remainder of the game. 7. Drew Denson - 30 (1994) Iowa 71 63 .530 - Allow 2+ HR: 16-33 t7.