GAME INFORMATION Mississippi Braves Media Relations Department Trustmark Park • 1 Braves Way • Pearl, Ms • 39208 Mississippi Braves (15-14, 44-55) vs. Mobile BayBears (11-18, 48-49) LHP Max Fried (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Jose Rodriguez (6-7, 5.29) Game #100 • Home #50 (23-26) • 2nd Half #30 July 23, 2018 • 7:00 p.m. (CST) • Pearl, MS • Trustmark Park TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves and Mobile BayBears open a five-game series tonight, the 11th meeting between the clubs this season and sixth at Trustmark Park. The BayBears lead the season se- Record Breakdown ries 6-4 and the all-time series, 161-130. Mobile took three-of-five against the M-Braves here earlier Score First ............................................. 32-12 Opponents Score First ...........................11-44 this season, May 7-11. Mobile took three-of-five from the Braves in a series at Hank Aaron Stadium, Shutouts ................................................. 7-10 Score in 1 inning ......................................5-16 April 21-25. The M-Braves will return to “The Hank” one final time, August 19-23. The M-Braves are Score in 2 innings ................................. 13-16 Score in 3 innings ..................................16-11 coming off a 3-2 series win at Montgomery, July 18-22. Score in 4 innings ..................................... 6-1 Score in 5 > innings ...................................4-1 LAST TIME OUT: The M-Braves gave up five runs in the first inning and that would be all Leading after 6 innings ........................... 33-7 Leading after 7 innings ............................34-5 Montgomery would need in yesterday’s 5-1 loss to the Biscuits. Mississippi starter LHP Bruce Tied after 6 innings .................................. 7-5 Tied after 7 innings ...................................6-8 Zimmerman only recorded one out before pulled from last night’s game...He gave up two Trailing after 6 innings ........................... 3-43 Trailing after 7 innings .............................1-38 hits, five runs, four earned and four walks. DH Tyler Neslony scored the team’s only run and finished 1-for-4 on the night. Leading after 8 innings ........................... 32-2 Score 2 or Fewer Runs .............................5-29 Tied after 8 innings .................................. 5-5 Score 3 Runs ..............................................8-7 HEATING UP IN JULY: After an 8-18 June, Mississippi is off to a 12-8 record in July and have won Trailing after 8 innings ........................... 1-42 Score 4 or More Runs ............................28-15 three of the four series in July. The last series loss was at Pensacola, June 28-July 3. First Game of Series ............................... 9-11 Last Game of Series/Rubber Match . 9-10/3-5 AMERICAN LEAGUE STYLE BASEBALL: The M-Braves will be using the DH during each game First Game of Homestand ........................ 3-6 Last Game of Homestand ..........................4-4 First Game of Road Trip ........................... 4-5 Last Game of Road Trip .............................4-5 of the ten-game homestand with the Angels (Mobile) and White Sox (Birmingham) affiliates in town. The club played AL-style baseball the previous series at Montgomery (Tampa Bay) and will Following an Off Day ................................ 2-5 1-Run Games .........................................10-15 in the next series at Chattanooga (Twins). The DH is used any time an AL affiliate team is involved Final At-Bat Decisions .............................. 4-4 2-Run Games .............................................9-5 in a game. I Errorless Games ................................... 20-15 3-Run Games .............................................9-8 With a Homer....................................... 26-18 Allow a Homer ......................................14-27 STARTING PITCHING: M-Braves starters have a 2.58 ERA (59 ER/206.1 IP) with 218 strikeouts and With No Homers .................................. 18-37 Allow No Homers ..................................28-30 just 72 walks over the past 37 games (18-19 record) with 22 quality starts dating back to June 10. Starters have recorded a 10+ strikeout game in four of those outings with a 9.47/9IP ratio. Day (4 pm or earlier) ................................ 9-7 Vs. Righty Starters .................................36-46 Night (5 pm or later) ............................ 36-48 Vs. Lefty Starters .......................................8-9 THE PRIDE OF ARUBA: Aruba native (one of the four countries that form the Kingdom of the Following a Win ................................... 19-25 Starter Goes <5 Innings ...........................6-21 Netherlands) Ray-Patrick Didder has recorded back-to-back multi-hit games and is batting .375 (9- Following a Loss ................................... 25-28 Starter Goes 5> Innings .........................38-34 for-24) over his last six games with two doubles, a triple, three runs, three walks and a stolen base. In Decision By Starters ......................... 26-36 In Decision By Bullpen ..........................18-18 ALE...ALEJANDRO: INF Alejandro Salazar has hit in six-straight games and recorded multi-hits in five of those, going 14-for-25 (.560) with five runs, two doubles, five RBI and a stolen base. His Daily & Monthly Breakdown 5-for-5 game on July 15 was the first five-hit game by a Mississippi player this season. Day Home Road Total Month Home Road Total Monday 1-5 2-5 3-10 April 8-7 3-7 11-14 EARNING YOUR DEMERITTE: OF Travis Demeritte has homered twice in the series at Mont- Tuesday 2-4 3-2 5-6 May 5-5 8-10 13-15 gomery and has four extra-base hits and six RBI over his current six-game hitting streak. Demeritte Wednesday 2-3 2-6 4-9 June 5-11 3-7 8-18 leads the club with 11 home runs and 30 extra-base hits this season. Thursday 5-4 3-4 8-8 July 5-3 7-5 12-8 Friday 3-6 2-4 5-10 August - - - STELLAR JULY FOR BRYSE WILSON: 20-year-old RHP Bryse Wilson leads all of Minor League Saturday 7-0 4-5 11-5 September - - - Baseball with 34 strikeouts over four starts in the month of July. In his four quality starts (three Sunday 3-3 5-3 8-5 Postseason - - - shutout performances), the Hillsborough, NC native is 1-0 with a 0.66 ERA (2 ER/27.1 IP), four Total 23-26 21-29 44-55 23-26 21-29 44-55 walks and 34 strikeouts, posting a miniscule 0.70 WHIP and .160 opponents batting average. CONSISTENT CLOUSE: LHP Corbin Clouse has given up just one run over his last 19 innings M-Braves vs BayBears and 16 relief outings (0.47 ERA) and just two runs over his last 27 innings and 22 outings (0.67 ERA). 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 at Trustmark Park 6-4 7-8 5-9 6-4 5-5 9-7 4-11 LEFTY HEAVY PITCHING STAFF: With the addition of LHP Max Fried on a rehab appearance, at Mobile 1-5 5-4 5-5 6-9 4-1 2-5 3-11 the M-Braves have 15 pitchers on the current roster and nine are left-handed. Total 7-9 12-12 10-14 12-13 9-6 11-12 7-22 M-BRAVES AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS: INF Luis Valenzuela ranks 6th in the SL with 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 a .280 batting average. RHPKyle Wright is tied for 2nd in starts (19). at Trustmark Park 6-4 3-7 7-8 5-6 6-3 4-6 2-3 at Mobile 7-6 6-4 8-1 1-7 4-6 1-9 2-3 FROM PEARL TO ATLANTA: 2016 M-Braves catcher Willians Astudillo made his MLB debut for Total 13-10 9-11 15-9 6-13 10-9 5-15 4-6 the Twins on June 30, becoming the fifth M-Braves alum to make their MLB debut this season. Alltime Astudillo joined OF Dustin Peterson (May 28), RHP Mike Soroka (May 1), OF Ronald Acuña Jr. at Trustmark Park 75-85 (April 25) and LHP Jesse Biddle (April 21) to have debuted this season. In total, 134 players, have at Mobile 55-76 gone on to make their MLB debuts after playing in Pearl since 2005. Total 130-161 PROSPECTING: The Atlanta Braves farm system was ranked 2nd in Major League Baseball by MLB.com prior to th season. The M-Braves roster has one Top 100 prospect in RHP Kyle Wright (No. 28). The roster has a total of three of the Top 30 Atlanta prospects in Wright (No. 2), RHP M-Braves vs. BayBears Day-by-Day 2018 Bryse Wilson (No. 12), OF Travis Demeritte (No. 19) and LHP Ricardo Sanchez (No. 24). Date Result Record W-L-S Att HAMMER TIME: Jackson, MS native Chris Maloney enters his first season as the M-Braves manager 4/21 W, 3-1 1-0 Wright-Rodriguez, J-Webb 1,901 and is the seventh skipper in franchise history. 4/23 G1 W, 6-3 2-0 Graham-Custred-Webb N/A • Maloney attended Jackson’s St. Joseph High School and graduated from Mississippi State University in 1983. 4/23 G2 L, 5-2 2-1 Rhoades-Pike-Lillis-White 602 4/24 L, 8-4 2-2 Suarez, J-Parsons-N/A 610 Southern League Standings 4/25 L, 2-1 2-3 Castillo-Franco-Lillis-White 1,001 NORTH REC GB BIR (CHW) 17-13 - On the Web 5/7 L, 5-0 2-4 Pena, L-Wright-N/A 1,389 MTG (TB) 16-14 1.0 5/8 W, 10-3 3-4 Wilson-Rodriguez-Mader 1,595 JXN (ARI) 14-16 3.0 5/9 L, 4-2 3-5 Rhoades-Webb-N/A 3,525 TNS (CHC) 14-16 3.0 For all of your M-Braves information CHA (MIN) 12-18 5.0 needs, click over to mississippibraves.com. 5/10 W, 3-2 4-5 Vasquez, K-Clark-McCreery 2,333 There you’ll find photos, videos, live game SOUTH REC GB stats and articles detailing every M-Braves 5/11 L, 14-3 4-6 Castillo-Franco-N/A 3,851 PNS (CIN) 21-8 - player and the organization overall.