River Cats Media Relations • 400 Ballpark Drive • West Sacramento, CA 95691 • P: (916) 376-4751 • F: (916) 376-4710 • @RiverCats Saturday, April 21 SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS (6-9, 3rd Pacific Northern) Cheney Stadium - vs - Tacoma, WA • 5:05 p.m (PT) TACOMA RAINIERS (8-7, 2nd Pacific Northern) Game 16 • Road Game 10 River Cats: LHP Andrew Suarez (0-0, 0.00) • Bees: RHP Casey Lawrence (1-0, 0.00) Yesterday’s Game: The River Cats crawled back from a 4-0 defecit to bring it to a one-run game AT A GLANCE by the eighth inning, but were not able to tie the score, losing 4-3 in the series finale in Salt Lake City.RHP OVERALL HOME ROAD Record: 6-9 2-4 4-5 Tyler Beede made his first start of the season for the River Cats after making two spot starts for the San Day: 2-2 1-1 1-1 Francisco Giants. Beede allowed four earned runs on five hits and three walks, but struck out seven and Night: 4-7 1-3 3-4 generally kept his team close, and his bullpen fresh with six innings of work. INF Chase d’Arnaud hit his vs. RHP: 6-8 2-4 4-4 third home run of the year, while leadoff man OF Eury Perez collected the only multi-hit game for the River vs. LHP: 0-1 0-0 0-1 One-run games: 2-4 0-2 2-2 Cats with a single and a double. Extra-inning games: 0-0 0-0 0-0 Shutouts: 0-1 0-0 0-1 Tonight’s Starter: LHP Andrew Suarez will make his second start of the year for the River Cats Cats Score 1st: 3-2 1-0 2-2 Opp. Scores 1st: 3-7 1-4 2-3 after his previosuly scheduled home debut was rained out on April 16 against Reno. This will be the second Leading after 7: 4-0 2-0 2-0 time Suarez has pitched in Tacoma already, as he started opening day back on April 5 and went four one-hit Leading after 8: 4-0 2-0 2-0 innings allowing four walks and no runs with four punch outs. Since that day, Suarez has made a spot start No errors: 2-5 1-2 1-3 1 error: 1-2 0-0 1-2 for San Francisco and was moved to San Jose to maintain regular rest. He pitched 6.2 innings of one-run 2+ errors: 3-2 1-2 2-0 ball in San Jose for his former club while striking out seven and allowing eight hits and two walks. Series Play (W-L-S): 1-2-0 0-1-0 1-1-0 vs. Pacific Northern: 5-6 2-4 3-2 vs. Pacific Southern: 1-3 0-0 1-3 Striking Out Shaw: Corner OF Chris Shaw is having trouble making contact in his last two games, vs. American Northern: 0-0 0-0 0-0 striking out six times in eight total plate appearances. Dating back to April 12, he has 15 strikeouts in 32 vs. American Southern: 0-0 0-0 0-0 plate appearances, and his strikeout rate so far in 2018 is 38.1% -- up nearly 8% from a season ago with the River Cats. 2018 VS. TACOMA (4-4) Major-League Mac: Inserted into Friday night’s lineup against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Day Date Site Time/Result Thursday 4/5 Road L, 0-5 OF Mac Williamson crushed his first big-league home run of the new season. He planted a two-run shot Friday 4/6 Road W, 8-2 into the right field bleachers off Angels LHP Andrew Heaney to give the Giants a 3-0 lead. The ball left his Sunday 4/8 Road L, 6-7 bat at 114 miles per hour and travelled 434 feet to the opposite field. Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Monday 4/9 - GM1 Road W, 3-2 Monday 4/9 - GM2 Road W, 6-5 during the pregame show that Williamson would be in Saturday night’s lineup, as well. Friday 4/13 Home L, 2-3 Saturday 4/14 Home W, 12-7 Sunday 4/15 Home L, 5-15 This Day in River Cats History: April 21, 2009: The River Cats defeated the Portland Beavers Saturday 4/21 Road 5:05 p.m. (PT) 4-2. OF Sean Doolittle hit a solo home run in the first inning and C Eric Munson followed with a solo Sunday 4/22 Road 1:05 p.m. (PT) homer in the second. DH Eric Patterson joined the party with a solo home run of his own in the third. Monday 4/23 Road 11:35 a.m. (PT) Saturday 5/12 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) The back-to-back-to-back inning home runs were supported by the River Cats defense as RHP James Sunday 5/13 - GM1 Home 1:05 p.m. (PT) Simmons went six innings allowing six hits and two runs. The River Cats bullpen combined for a total of Sunday 5/13 - GM2 Home TBA Monday 5/14 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) just one hit in three innings. Tuesday 5/15 Home 12:05 p.m. (PT) UPCOMING GAMES • PROBABLE STARTERS UPCOMING PROMOTIONS Day/Date Time Opp. Sacramento Probable Starters Opponent Probable Starters Wednesday, April 25 (7:05 p.m.)...............................Wet Nose Wednesday Sunday, April 22 1:35 p.m. (PT) @ TAC RHP Casey Kelly (1-1, 7.11) TBA Thursday, April 26 (7:05 p.m.)..........................................Thirsty Thursday Monday, April 23 11:35 a.m. (PT) @ TAC RHP Tyler Herb (1-0, 5.65) RHP Rob Whalen (2-0, 3.78) Friday, April 27 (7:05 p.m.)...............................Orange Friday & Fireworks Wednesday, April 25 7:05 p.m. (PT) vs. RNO RHP Dereck Rodriguez (0-0, 4.97) TBA Saturday, April 28 (7:05 p.m.)........Salute to First Responders - Hat Auction Thursday, April 26 7:05 p.m. (PT) vs. RNO RHP Tyler Beede (0-1, 6.00) TBA .........................................................................& Sutter Health Fireworks RIVERCATS.COM | FACEBOOK.COM/RIVERCATSBASEBALL | @RIVERCATS | @RALEYFIELD TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER SEASON HIGHS/LOWS* ANDREW SUAREZ STAT HIGH LOW IP 4.0 4.0 LEFT-HANDED PITCHER H 1 1 R 0 0 Born: 9/11/1992 Bats/Throws: L/L ER 0 0 Resides: Miami, FL Height/Weight: 6-0 / 185 BB 4 4 Age: 25 MLB Debut: N/A SO 4 4 Originally Drafted: 2015 (2nd Round) by the San Francisco Giants HR 0 0 Obtained by San Francisco: Same *Triple-A appearances only *2017 WITH AAA SACRAMENTO Date G# OPP H/R DEC ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF NP-S IR-IRS 04/07/2017 1 TAC H W 5.06 1 5.1 6 3 3 1 2 2 0 3 0 0 1.80 0 .261 23 27 104-66 0-0 06/17/2017 1 ABQ H L 6.55 1 1 5.2 10 5 5 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 1.33 0 .333 25 26 100-66 0-0 06/22/2017 1 FRE R W 5.29 1 1 6.0 7 3 2 0 0 4 0 2 0 1 1.62 4 .329 22 26 96-53 0-0 06/28/2017 1 ELP R W 3.91 1 1 6.0 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 1.14 1 .304 22 25 103-64 0-0 07/03/2017 1 FRE H L 4.20 1 1 7.0 6 4 4 2 0 2 0 8 0 0 1.28 0 .288 26 28 97-63 0-0 07/17/2017 1 ELP H L 4.98 1 1 4.1 7 5 5 0 0 3 1 5 0 0 1.32 0 .299 19 23 99-64 0-0 07/22/2017 1 TAC R L 4.69 1 1 6.0 7 3 2 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 1.08 1 .296 25 28 107-66 0-0 07/27/2017 1 RR H W 4.18 1 1 7.0 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 9 0 1 0.98 0 .278 25 27 99-65 0-0 08/01/2017 1 NO H W 3.64 1 1 7.0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 1.00 2 .270 24 26 103-66 0-0 08/07/2017 1 IOW R 3.52 1 1 7.0 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0.98 0 .265 27 27 99-65 0-0 08/12/2017 1 SL H L 3.36 1 1 8.1 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 1.14 0 .259 28 30 107-74 0-0 08/17/2017 1 RNO R W 3.25 1 1 5.0 6 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1.19 0 .261 21 21 74-46 0-0 08/22/2017 1 ABQ H 3.28 1 5.0 5 2 2 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 1.24 0 .260 21 24 73-50 0-0 08/28/2017 1 LV H 3.19 1 1 5.0 6 1 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 1.30 2 .262 20 22 70-43 0-0 09/03/2017 1 ELP H L 3.55 1 1 4.0 8 6 5 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 1.34 1 .270 20 22 75-51 0-0 W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF NP-S IR-IRS Total 6-6-0 3.55 15 13 88.2 94 39 35 7 3 27 2 80 0 3 1.34 11 .270 348 382 0-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF NP-S IR-IRS Home Games 3-5-0 4.30 10 8 58.2 63 29 28 6 3 17 2 59 0 2 1.69 5 .273 231 255 0-0 Away Games 3-1-0 2.10 5 5 30.0 31 10 7 1 0 10 0 21 0 1 0.91 6 .265 117 127 0-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W-L-S ERA G GS CG SHO SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO BK WP GO/AO GIDP AVG AB TBF NP-S IR-IRS April 1-0-0 5.06 1 5.1 6 3 3 1 2 2 0 3 0 0 1.80 0 .261 23 27 0-0 June 2-1-0 3.57 3 3 17.2 22 8 7 0 0 8 0 16 0 1 0.94 5 .319 69 77 0-0 July 1-3-0 4.44 4 4 24.1 24 13 12 2 0 10 1 26 0 1 0.84 1 .253 95 106 0-0 August 2-1-0 1.93 6 5 37.1 34 9 8 2 1 6 1 30 0 1 1.82 4 .241 141 150 0-0 September 0-1-0 11.25 1 1 4.0 8 6 5 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 3.00 1 .400 20 22 0-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP NP-S vs Left .355 124 14 44 5 2 1 12 6 0 19 2 0 .389 .452 .841 0 2 1 5 vs Right .223 224 25 50 6 1 6 25 21 2 61 3 0 .294 .339 .634 1 1 2 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP NP-S Leading Off .247 85 1 21 1 2 1 1 6 0 16 0 0 .304 .341 .646 0 0 1 0 Bases Empty .269 197 5 53 4 3 5 5 14 0 40 0 0 .321 .396 .717 0 0 1 0 Runners On .272 151 34 41 7 0 2 32 13 2 40 5 0 .335 .358 .693 1 3 2 11 R.O.