COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2018 GAME NOTES Columbia Fireflies (8-4) @ Greenville Drive (3-9) LHP David Peterson (First Start of 2018) vs. RHP Kutter Crawford (0-0, 0.00) Wed., April 18, 2018 — Fluor Field (Greenville, SC) — First Pitch 7:05 p.m. — Game 13 LISTEN: Fox Sports Radio 1400 AM / ColumbiaFireflies.com / iHeartRadio App GLOW POINTS NEWS & NOTES CONTENTS ABOUT LAST GAME: Columbia’s successful road trip continued on Pages 2: Today’s Starting Pitcher SAL South 1H Standing: T-1st (+1.0) Page 3: Manager & Coaching Staff Home Record: 4-3 Tuesday night. The Fireflies defeated the Drive at Fluor Field, 7-5, and go Road Record: 4-1 for their first series sweep of the year on Wednesday. Columbia’s offense Pages 4-6: Individual Hitting Notes Day Record: 0-1 delivered 11 more hits and the pitching staff struck out 13 more batters. Page 7: Extra Hitting Notes Night Record: 8-3 Pages 8-9: Bullpen Notes Also, eight of the nine hitters in Columbia’s batting order hit safely and all Page 10: Miscellaneous Pitching Notes Road Trip: 4-1 nine reached base safely in a dominating effort. Page 11: Season Highs and Lows Streak: W3 Page 12: Transactions Sunday: 0-1 CAN’T HANDLE THE HEAT: Columbia’s pitching staff has fanned 130 Page 13: Day-by-Day Results Monday: 2-0 hitters through 12 games - the most in the SAL by a wide margin. The Tuesday: 1-1 pitching staff has fanned 60 batters during the five-game road trip vs. Greenville (2-0, 2-0 Away) Wednesday:1-0 compared to just 11 walks (six coming in one game on Monday, April 16). Thursday: 2-0 Friday: 1-1 Saturday: 1-1 STARTER’S SUCCESS: Columbia’s starting pitchers have been marvelous April 16 Away W, 7-1 April: 8-4 to begin the year (Tony Dibrell, Joe Cavallaro, Jake Simon, Anthony April 17 Away W, 7-5 May: Kay, Chris Viall, Marcel Renteria). The starters’ combined ERA is 2.89 June: (62.2 IP, 20 ER) through 11 games. July: April 18 Away 7:05 p.m. August: September: WE’RE GOING STREAKING: Both Blake Tiberi (2-for-5, 2B, RBI) and Jeremy Vasquez (1-for-2, 2B, 2 BB, RBI) reached base again on Tuesday. May 25 Home 7:05 p.m. Leading after six: 6-0 Those two hitters have reached base safely in all 11 games they’ve played Tied after six: 1-0 Trailing after six: 1-4 in this season. Just as impressive, Tiberi is 3rd in SAL in batting average May 26 Home 6:05 p.m. Leading after seven: 5-0 (.381) and Vasquez is tops in the league in walks (13). Tied after seven: 1-0 May 27 Home 6:05 p.m. Trailing after seven: 2-4 Leading after eight: 6-0 WE’RE GOING STREAKING, Pt. II: Four Fireflies hitters are currently on Tied after eight: 1-0 hit streaks longer than five games: Rigoberto Terrazas (7), Walter May 28 Home 12:05 p.m. Trailing after eight: 1-4 Rasquin (7), Quinn Brodey (6), Edgardo Fermin (5). Scoring first: 7-1 July 4 Home 6:05 p.m. Opponents score first: 1-3 THESE GUYS CAN HIT...: The Fireflies are arguably the best offense in Shutout Wins/Loses: 0-0 the league. Matter of fact, Columbia is first in the South Atlantic League in July 5 Home 7:05 p.m. Fireflies starter less than 6 IP: 5-3 batting average (.283), hits (115), triples (8) and walks (54) and second in the league in doubles (21) and runs (66). Fireflies starter 6+ IP: 3-1 July 6 Home 7:05 p.m. Fireflies starter 7+ IP: 1-0 vs. LH starters: 3-1 ...ESPECIALLY LATELY: 51 hits for the club during the 5-game road trip. vs. RH starters: 5-3 August 7 Home 7:05 p.m. Scoring less than three: 0-2 DID WE SAY THEY CAN HIT?: Six Fireflies hitters are batting .300 or Scoring three or four: 1-1 August 8 Home 7:05 p.m. Scoring five or more: 7-1 better 12 games into the season: Blake Tiberi (.381), Scott Manea (.348), Edgardo Fermin (.326), Quinn Brodey (.310), Walter Rasquin (.310), August 9 Home 7:05 p.m. One-run games: 1-0 Gio Alfonzo (.308). Two-run games: 3-0 5+ run games: 4-2 PROSPECTS IN COLUMBIA ROSTER BREAKDOWN Extra Innings: 1-0 Walk-Off Wins: 0-0 Columbia’s 2018 roster is filled with plenty of skilled Mets farmhands. Here’s the break- down: 19-year-olds: 1 23-year-olds: 8 Out-hitting opponent: 6-1 20-year-olds: 0 24-year-olds: 2 Being out-hit: 1-3 METS PROSPECTS (according to MLB.com & Baseball America) 21-year-olds: 3 25-year-olds: 1 Same number of hits: 1-0 14. LHP Anthony Kay 22. Quinn Brodey 22-year-olds: 10 METS STERLING AWARD WINNERS Series W-L-T (Home): 1-0-1 Drafted, Signed out of HS: 1 Series W-L-T (Road): 2-0-0 Nicolas Debora, RHP (2017 Brooklyn Cyclones, 2015 DSL Mets) Drafted, Signed out of College: 16 Series W-L-T (Total): 3-0-1 Rigoberto Terrazas, INF (2017 Kingsport Mets) International Signings: 6 Series Sweeps (Home): TOP 10-ROUND METS DRAFT PICKS: Undrafted Free Agent Signings: 2 Series Sweeps (Road): Anthony Kay (UConn, 2016 - 1st round), Quinn Brodey (Stanford, 2017 – 3rd), Blake States (12) / Countries (5) Series Sweeps (Total): Tiberi (Louisville, 2016 – 3rd), Tony Dibrell (Kennesaw State, 2017 – 4th), Matt Winaker th th Represented (18): AZ, CA, GA, FL, (Stanford, 2017 – 5 ), Chris Viall (Stanford, 2016 – 6 ), Marcel Renteria (New Mexico White Jerseys: 1-2 th th IL, KY, MA, NY, OK, PA, TX, UT, Gray Jerseys: 3-0 State, 2017 – 6 ), Conner O’Neil (Cal. State Northridge, 2017 – 7 ), Trey Cobb (Oklahoma State, 2017 – 8th), Cannon Chadwick (Arkansas, 2017 – 9th) Canada, Dominican Republic, Yellow Jerseys: 2-0 Mexico, Venezuela Navy Jerseys: 2-2 #CONNECT WITH THE COLUMBIA FIREFLIES Specialty Jerseys: 0-0 Most of 2017 Season Spent In: Home crowds of 5,000+: 1 COLUMBIA (A) - 3 Home crowds of 6,000+: 1 Brooklyn (SS) - 13 Home crowds of 7,000+: Kingsport (Adv-R) - 6 /ColumbiaFireflies @ColaFireflies @ColaFireflies Columbia Fireflies DNP, Injury - 2 Sellouts at Spirit Communications Park: Ind. (Atlantic Lg.) - 1 ColumbiaFireflies.com Upcoming Schedule (ET) with Probable Pitchers Wednesday, April 18 @ Greenville 7:05 p.m. RHP Tony Dibrell (0-0, 2.70) vs. RHP Kutter Crawford (0-0, 2.00) Thursday, April 19 vs. Hickory 7:05 p.m. RHP Joe Cavallaro (1-0, 2.08) Friday, April 20 vs. Hickory 7:05 p.m. LHP Jake Simon (0-2, 2.45) Saturday, April 21 vs. Hickory 6:05 p.m. LHP Anthony Kay (0-0, 2.70) Sunday, April 22 vs. Hickory 2:05 p.m. RHP Chris Viall (1-0, 2.00) Media Contact: Kevin Fitzgerald — [email protected] — 803-888-3040 (Office) — 908-745-9385 (Cell) FCORTOLUMBIA WAYNE FIREFLIES TINCAPS 2018 2014 G AMEGAME N OTESNOTES TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER 30 David Peterson HT: 6-6 WT: 240 B/T: L/L HOMETOWN: Denver, CO AGE: 22 BORN: September OBTAINED: Selected by the Mets in the 1st round (20th overall) of the 2017 3, 1995 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Oregon YR CLUB W-L ERA G/GS CG SHO IP H R ER BB K BAA 17 Brooklyn (SS) 0-0 2.45 3-3 0 0 3.2 4 1 1 1 6 .267 MiLB CAREER 0-0 2.45 3-3 0 0 3.2 4 1 1 1 6 .267 2018 STARTS NOTES & LINKS Date Opponent Dec IP H R ER BB K RESULT • College: University of Oregon (‘15-’17)...became the first Duck in modern era to earn consensus All-American honors...received first-team recognition from DI Baseball, Perfect Game, & NCBWA • First-Team All-Pac 12 in 2017...went 11-4 with a 2.51 ERA and set a school record for strikeouts in a season (140)...only issued 15 walks in 100.1 innings • Finished a stellar career at Oregon with 273 strikeouts, which is second-most in school history...also pitched in 256.2 innings and that’s tied for sixth-most in school history . • Attended Regis Jesuit High School (Aurora, CO)...Had a terrific senior season (24.1 innings, 1.15 ERA, 40 strikeouts)...earned first-team All-Continental League honors • Spent 2016 summer with the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team under Manager George Horton who is also the Head Coach at Oregon CAREER MARKS IP H R ER BB K 1.2 (8/11/17 @ HV) 2, 2x (Last: 8/11/17 @ HV) 1 (8/4/17 v. TRI) 1 (8/4/17 v. TRI) 1 (8/4/17 v. TRI) 3 (8/4/17 v. TRI) START ME UP (2018 STARTERS) Pitcher Games Started W-L Team W-L Run Support Runs/Game RHP Tony Dibrell 2 0-0 2-0 3 1.5 RHP Joe Cavallaro 2 1-0 2-0 12 6 LHP Jake Simon 2 0-2 0-2 0 0 LHP Anthony Kay 2 0-0 1-1 8 4.0 RHP Chris Viall 2 1-0 2-0 12 6 RHP Marcel Renteria 2 1-1 1-1 9 4.5 Page 2 COLUMBIA FIREFLIES 2018 GAME NOTES 2018 FIREFLIES MANAGER & COACHING STAFF MANAGER PEDRO LOPEZ On January 17, 2018, the New York Mets named two-time Eastern League (AA) Manager of the Year Pedro Lopez the next Fireflies skipper.