NASHVILLE SOUNDS GAME INFORMATION WWW.NASHVILLESOUNDS.COM @NASHVILLESOUNDS FIRST TENNESSEE PARK 19 JUNIOR GILLIAM WAY NASHVILLE, TN 37219 Nashville Sounds (4-8) vs. Round Rock Express (7-5) LHP Wes Benjamin (0-1, 5.87) vs. RHP Brady Rodgers (0-0, 0.82) Game #13/Home Game #6 • Tuesday, April 16, 2019 • First Tennessee Park • 6:35 p.m. (CST) • MiLB TV • 97.5 FM Upcoming Probable Starting Pitchers DAY DATE OPPONENT SOUNDS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER TIME (CST) TV/RADIO Wednesday April 17 vs. Round Rock RHP Richelson Peña (1-1, 2.25) RHP Akeem Bostick (1-0, 3.86) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Thursday April 18 vs. Round Rock RHP Phillips Valdez (0-1, 2.35) RHP Corbin Martin (0-1, 2.70) 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Friday April 19 vs. San Antonio LHP Taylor Hearn (1-2, 3.86) TBD 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM Saturday April 20 vs. San Antonio RHP Ariel Jurado (2-0, 4.50) TBD 6:35 p.m. MiLB TV/97.5 FM SOUNDS BY THE NUMBERS Tonight’s Game: The Nashville Sounds start their seven-game homestand tonight against the Round Rock Express. Game one of the three-game series starts at 6:35. Nashville faced off against Round Rock SOUNDS VS. EXPRESS Series (W-L-T): 0-2-1 to start their road trip last week and dropped two of three games. Today, left-hander Wes Benjamin 2019: 1-2 at Nashville: 0-0 Series Openers: 2-1 starts for the Sounds against right-hander Brady Rodgers for the Express. All-Time: 112-116 at Round Rock: 1-2 Series Finales: 1-2 DATE SITE RESULT Series Sweeps: 0-0 Wes Benjamin: 25-year-old Wes Benjamin starts for the Sounds tonight. The left-hander is making 4/9 Round Rock W, 3-1 Day Games: 1-2 his third start of the season and his second against Round Rock. He's 0-1 with a 5.87 ERA in his first 4/10 Round Rock L, 9-5 (10) two starts, covering 7.2 innings. He last pitched on April 11 against Round Rock and earned a no Night Games: 3-6 4/11 Round Rock L, 8-6 decision, allowing four earned runs in five innings of work. Benjamin spent the majority of his 2018 vs. RHP: 4-7 4/16 Nashville vs. LHP: 0-1 season with Double-A Frisco where he went 5-6 with a 3.62 ERA in 15 starts. The southpaw spent nearly two months on the disabled list from June 7-July 31 with a left elbow strain. Despite missing 4/17 Nashville April: 4-8 time, Benjamin led the Frisco staff in wins and ranked among team leaders in strikeouts (3rd), starts 4/18 Nashville May: 0-0 (T3rd) and innings (4th). In his minor league career, Benjamin is 21-19 with a 3.76 ERA while cov- 5/16 Round Rock June: 0-0 ering 64 games (61 starts). The Rangers drafted the Illinois native in the 5th round of the 2014 MLB 5/17 Round Rock July: 0-0 Draft out of Kansas University. 5/18 Round Rock August: 0-0 5/19 Round Rock September: 0-0 Brady Rodgers: 28-year-old Brady Rodgers starts for the Express in tonight's game. The right-hander 5/20 Round Rock Monday: 1-1 is making his third start of the season and his second against Nashville. Rodgers is 0-0 with a 0.82 5/25 Nashville Tuesday: 1-0 ERA, covering 11.0 innings. He has allowed just 1 run, 11 hits and 4 walks to go along with 11 strike- 5/26 Nashville Wednesday: 0-1 outs. After recovering from right elbow surgery halfway through the 2018 season, Rodgers spent the 5/27 Nashville Thursday: 0-2 rest of the year with Triple-A Fresno where he went 3-3 with a 5.49 ERA in eight starts. In his minor 5/28 Nashville 5/29 Nashville Friday: 2-0 league career, Rodgers is 50-36 with a 4.02 ERA in 128 games (111 starts). Rodgers made his Major League debut in 2016 with the Houston Astros. He was drafted by Houston in the 3rd round of the Saturday: 0-2 2012 MLB Draft out of Arizona State University. Sunday: 0-2 vs. Am. Northern: 1-4 TONIGHT’S MATCHUP 2019 Standings: The Sounds have spent the following amount of days in the American Northern Sounds Express vs. Am. Southern: 3-4 Division standings in 2019: First: 1, Second: 0, Third: 4, Fourth: 7. vs. Pac. Northern: 0-0 4-8 Record 7-5 vs. Pac. Southern: 0-0 Power Surge: After hitting three home runs on Sunday, Nashville exploded for four home runs in 1-4 Home 4-3 vs. NL Affiliate: 3-6 Monday's series finale against San Antonio. After hitting just three homers on the season-opening 3-4 Road 3-2 vs. AL Affiliate: 1-2 homestand, the Sounds totaled 13 on the road trip. Out of the seven home runs in the past two games, Lead After 6: 3-1 Willie Calhoun and Matt Davidson each have two while Jett Bandy, Hunter Cole and Andy Ibáñez W1 Streak L1 Trail After 6: 1-6 each homered once. The Sounds are ranked sixth in the Pacific Coast League in home runs (16). 2-3 Last 5 3-2 Tied After 6: 0-1 3-7 Last 10 6-4 The Producers: Along with their home run production, Willie Calhoun and Matt Davidson have each Lead After 7: 3-1 knocked in 8 RBI, tying for the Nashville lead. Their 16 RBI have accounted for 29.1% of all Sounds' .246 (12th) Batting Avg. .237 (15th) Trail After 7: 1-7 RBI production. Calhoun has at least one RBI in five of his last six games, including yesterday being 16 (6th) HR 23 (1st) Tied After 7: 0-0 his first multi-RBI affair (3). Davidson recorded two 3-RBI games in the recent four-game series Lead After 8: 4-0 against San Antonio after having just one RBI in his first eight games of the season. 62 (6th) R 58 (8th) Trail After 8: 0-8 6 (T10th) SB 11 (6th) Tied After 8: 0-0 We Meet Again: Today starts the second series between Nashville and Round Rock in 2019. The 101 (6th) K (Batting) 106 (T7th) Scoring First: 2-4 Sounds won the series opener 3-1 last time around but lost heartbreakers in a 9-5, 10 inning loss in 47 (9th) BB (Batting) 49 (8th) Opp. Scoring First: 2-4 game two, and gave up a five-run comeback in an 8-6 loss in the series finale. In an odd PCL schedul- 4.37 (5th) ERA 4.76 (10th) Scoring 4+ Runs: 3-6 ing quirk, the two teams play each other 16 times in April and May. 113 (T3rd) K (Pitching) 106 (7th) Opp. Scoring 4+ Runs: 1-8 44 (T7th) BB (Pitching) 47 (10th) Scoring 3 or < Runs: 1-2 El Jurado: In his third start on Monday, Ariel Jurado earned his second win of the season after he 64 (T11th) R Allowed 60 (9th) allowed 4 runs on 10 hits in 5.0 innings. He didn't walk anybody and struck out 7 San Antonio hitters. 12 (T5th) HR Allowed 14 (10th) Opp. Scores 3 or < Runs: 3-0 He is now tied for the Pacific Coast League in wins and is ranked among league leaders in innings Hit a HR: 4-5 (T4th, 16.0) and strikeouts (T7th, 15). He trails only Taylor Hearn for the team lead in strikeouts, who .982 (3rd) Fielding Pct. .981 (4th) Allow a HR 4-4 ranks second in the league with 20. AMERICAN NORTHERN DIVISION Hit 2+ HR: 2-2 W L PCT GB Allow 2+ HR: 1-2 The Pen is Mightier: Brett Martin and Zac Curtis combined for 4.0 shutout relief innings to follow Iowa 7 4 .636 - Outhit Opponent: 3-2 Ariel Jurado's start on Monday. They combined for five strikeouts and stranded seven runners on base. Omaha 6 5 .545 1.0 Tie in Hits: 0-1 Memphis 5 7 .417 2.5 Starting Hot: Andy Ibáñez went hitless for the first time on Monday, going 0-for-5. However, he has Outhit by Opponent: 1-5 Nashville 4 8 .333 3.5 Record 10+ Hits: 2-1 hit safely in eight of his first nine games this season. After beginning the campaign back in Arizona Allow 10+ Hits: 1-3 due to an oblique injury, Ibáñez ranks first on Nashville among qualified batters with a .353 batting Commit an Error: 1-4 average, .568 slugging percentage and a .952 OPS. He also ranks among team leaders in hits (T1st, 13), UPCOMING EVENTS & PROMOS total bases (2nd, 21), RBI (3rd, 7) and runs (4th, 6). Commit No Errors: 3-4 The Sounds return to Nashville for a sev- Walk-Off Wins: 0 RISP Struggles: Nashville's 10 runs on Monday were helped by a 3-for-8 day with runners in scoring en-game homestand that starts with a three- Walk-Off Losses: 1 position. Still, the Sounds are currently tied for last in the PCL (Iowa) with a .200 (23-for-115) batting game series against Round Rock. Tonight will Extra-Innings: 0-1 average with RISP. be the first Tail Waggin' Tuesday, where fans can Sounds starter 6+IP: 1-1 bring their dogs to First Tennessee Park.