River Cats Media Relations • 400 Ballpark Drive • West Sacramento, CA 95691 • P: (916) 376-4751 • F: (916) 376-4710 • @RiverCats Wednesday, July 18 SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS (41-55) 4th Pacific Northern Chukchansi Park - vs - Fresno, CA • 7:05 p.m (PT) FRESNO GRIZZLIES (55-40) 1st Pacific Northern Game 97 • Road Game 48 River Cats: RHP Casey Kelly (8-7, 5.20) • Grizzlies: RHP Cy Sneed (8-4, 3.11) Yesterday’s Game: The River Cats fell behind quickly in the third and fourth innings as LHP AT A GLANCE Daniel Camarena unfortunately continued his rough stretch of pitching with seven earned runs over 4.1 OVERALL HOME ROAD innings. A three-spot in the six for Sacramento put them within a bit of striking distance, but they would Record: 41-55 20-29 21-26 eventually fall 8-3 to the first-place Fresno Grizzlies. Doubles fromOF Chris Shaw and INF Ryder Jones Day: 12-13 8-5 4-8 Night: 29-42 12-24 17-18 provided all three runs for the River Cats, while INF Orlando Calixte went 3-for-4 with a double to give vs. RHP: 37-39 19-20 18-19 him five hits in his last two games. vs. LHP: 4-16 1-8 3-8 One-run games: 12-15 6-6 6-9 Today’s Starter: RHP Casey Kelly will be making his team-high 17th start of the season. Things Extra-inning games: 3-1 3-0 0-1 lately haven’t gone so well for the former high-school football standout as he’s allowed five or more earned Shutouts: 3-5 3-2 0-3 runs in each of his previous five outings, culminating in a 6.35 ERA and 40 hits in 28.1 innings pitched. Cats Score 1st: 30-14 14-4 16-10 Opp. Scores 1st: 11-41 6-25 5-16 He last faced Fresno on June 30 at Raley Field where he allowed seven hits, including three doubles and Leading after 7: 31-2 15-0 16-2 two home runs. Leading after 8: 32-2 15-0 17-2 No errors: 22-20 11-13 11-7 Lockdown Bullpen: The River Cats’ relief pitching staff has been shutdown over the past handful 1 error: 12-18 7-6 5-12 of days, including the most recent performance turned in by RHP Jose Valdez and LHP Steven Okert. In 2+ errors: 7-17 2-10 5-7 Series Play (W-L-S): 6-12-5 2-8-2 4-4-3 Tuesday night’s game, the pair combined for eight strikeouts, including five from Valdez, in 3.2 early perfect vs. Pacific Northern: 20-20 11-10 9-10 innings. July 14 was the last time the bullpen surrendered a run, and it came on a rare slip-up from RHP vs. Pacific Southern: 16-26 6-15 10-11 Tyler Rogers. Since then, they’ve tossed 14.2 scoreless frames. vs. American Northern: 3-4 3-4 0-0 vs. American Southern: 2-5 0-0 2-5 Slowed Sands: INF Jerry Sands had his five-game hitting streak snapped on Tuesday, though he did reach base with a walk. He’d recorded at least one hit in each of his first five games since joining the 2018 VS. FRESNO (7-4) River Cats from Double-A Richmond last week. In total, Sands has eight hits including two doubles in six Day Date Site Time/Result games played. Friday 5/4 Road L, 2-11 Saturday 5/5 Road W, 5-2 Sunday 5/6 Road W, 6-5 For the fourth straight game, INF Ryder Jones tallied an RBI in the scorebook. He Ryder’s Runs: Monday 5/7 Road W, 6-3 drove in two in the sixth inning with his 14th double of the season, giving him 47 RBI this year. It’s been Friday 6/29 Home W, 4-0 a 45-game stretch of a hot bat from Jones, who over that timespan, dating back to May 17, has a batting Saturday 6/30 Home L, 3-4 line of .331/.368/.517 with seven doubles, two triples, and seven home runs to go along with a 17.3% Sunday 7/1 Home W, 3-1 strikeout rate. Monday 7/2 Home W, 4-3 Tuesday 7/3 Home L, 0-5 Monday 7/16 Road W, 4-3 This Day in River Cats History: July 18, 2009: In route to their eighth division title in 10 Tuesday 7/17 Road L, 3-8 years, the River Cats improve to 21 games over .500 (51-36) with a 5-2 win over the Reno Aces. INF Eric Wednesday 7/18 Road 7:05 p.m. (PT) Patterson finishes the night halfway to the cycle, recording a double and a triple in a 2-for-4 (2 runs) day. Thursday 7/19 Road 7:05 p.m. (PT) OF Travis Buck records two doubles and an RBI, finishing the day 3-for-4. RHP Chad Reineke picked up Tuesday 8/21 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) Wednesday 8/22 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) his fourth win of the year after 7 innings of work and RHP Jeff Gray pitched a scoreless ninth to pick up Thursday 8/23 Home 7:05 p.m. (PT) his 13th save. UPCOMING GAMES • PROBABLE STARTERS UPCOMING PROMOTIONS Day/Date Time Opp. Sacramento Probable Starters Opponent Probable Starters Tuesday, July 24 (7:05 p.m. PT)............................Dorados de Sacramento Thursday, July 19 7:05 p.m. (PT) @ FRE RHP Shaun Anderson (0-0, No ERA) RHP Mike Hauschild (7-6, 4.71) ..................................................................& Toyota Family Value Tuesday Friday, July 20 6:05 p.m. (PT) @ ELP RHP Chris Stratton (0-0, 9.00) TBA Wednesday, July 25 (7:05 p.m. PT)..........................Wet Nose Wednesday Saturday, July 21 6:05 p.m. (PT) @ ELP RHP Tyler Herb (1-1, 5.59) TBA Thursday, July 26 (7:05 p.m. PT).....................................Thirsty Thursday Sunday, July 22 6:05 p.m. (PT) @ ELP RHP Jordan Johnson (0-2, 7.11) TBA Friday, July 27 (7:05 p.m. PT).....Orange Friday, Fireworks, & Willie Mays Bobble RIVERCATS.COM | FACEBOOK.COM/RIVERCATSBASEBALL | @RIVERCATS | @RALEYFIELD TODAY’S STARTING PITCHER SEASON HIGHS/LOWS* CASEY KELLY STAT HIGH LOW IP 8.0 0.2 RIGHT-HANDED PITCHER H 11 1 R 9 0 Born: 10/4/1989 Bats/Throws: R/R ER 9 0 Resides: Sarasota, FL Height/Weight: 6-3 / 215 BB 5 0 Age: 27 MLB Debut: 8/27/12 SO 9 0 Originally Drafted: 1st round (2008) by the Boston Red Sox HR 3 0 7/27/17 Obtained by San Francisco: *Triple-A appearances only 2018 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 04/06/2018 1 TAC R 0.00 1 1 4.0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 0 1 2.00 0 .214 14 17 75-43 04/11/2018 1 RNO H W 1.00 1 1 5.0 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 8 0 2 1.00 1 .194 17 19 88-57 04/17/2018 1 SL R L 7.11 1 1 3.2 11 9 9 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.10 1 .327 21 22 83-49 04/22/2018 1 TAC R L 10.80 1 1 0.2 2 6 6 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 0.92 0 .339 4 9 37-12 04/28/2018 1 RNO H L 11.29 1 1 5.0 9 7 7 2 0 3 0 3 0 0 1.06 0 .359 22 27 91-53 05/03/2018 1 LV R W 9.25 1 1 6.0 6 2 2 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0.96 1 .337 23 24 86-63 05/08/2018 1 SL H W 7.24 1 1 8.0 6 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0.91 1 .310 28 29 101-69 05/13/2018 1 TAC H L 6.81 1 1 6.0 6 3 3 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 0.90 0 .301 24 25 99-68 05/19/2018 1 SL R W 7.27 1 1 5.0 10 6 6 3 1 2 0 3 0 0 0.90 0 .318 23 27 97-62 05/24/2018 1 LV H 6.26 1 1 7.0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0.82 0 .288 22 23 91-58 05/29/2018 1 ABQ H W 5.65 1 1 7.0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0.78 1 .279 24 24 95-71 06/03/2018 1 ELP R L 5.54 1 1 6.0 9 5 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0.82 2 .286 26 26 92-66 06/08/2018 1 COS H W 5.12 1 1 7.0 5 1 1 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 0.85 0 .277 26 28 107-70 06/14/2018 1 RR R 4.77 1 1 7.0 5 1 1 0 0 2 0 8 0 0 0.92 0 .270 26 28 104-74 06/19/2018 1 NO R 5.03 1 1 5.0 9 5 5 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0.98 0 .279 23 25 80-61 06/25/2018 1 ABQ R W 5.09 1 1 6.0 9 4 4 1 0 2 1 6 0 0 0.94 0 .283 27 29 97-63 06/30/2018 1 FRE H L 5.21 1 1 5.0 7 4 4 2 0 3 0 4 0 0 0.89 1 .286 20 23 103-60 07/06/2018 1 RNO R W 5.15 1 1 6.1 6 4 3 0 1 2 0 5 0 0 0.92 0 .284 25 28 104-68 07/13/2018 1 SL H L 5.20 1 1 6.0 9 7 4 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0.99 1 .287 26 28 98-63 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 Total 8-7-0 5.20 19 19 105.2 121 67 61 15 4 32 1 83 0 4 0.99 9 .287 421 461 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Home Games 4-4-0 3.54 9 9 56.0 51 25 22 7 1 14 0 43 0 2 0.86 5 .244 209 226 Away Games 4-3-0 7.07 10 10 49.2 70 42 39 8 3 18 1 40 0 2 1.17 4 .330 212 235 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Day Games 2-2-0 6.08 5 5 23.2 25 16 16 3 1 8 0 24 0 3 0.83 2 .272 92 102 Night Games 6-5-0 4.94 14 14 82.0 96 51 45 12 3 24 1 59 0 1 1.03 7 .292 329 359 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP vs Left .298 208 36 62 9 2 6 33 16 1 41 2 1 .352 .447 .800 1 2 2 4 vs Right .277 213 31 59 15 2 9 30 16 0 42 2 1 .332 .493 .825 1 0 2 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP Leading Off .272 103 3 28 7 1 3 3 4 0 23 0 0 .299 .447 .746 0 0 0 0 Bases Empty .265 249 5 66 17 1 5 5 17 0 58 0 0 .320 .402 .721 0 0 3 0 Runners On .320 172 62 55 7 3 10 58 15 1 25 4 2 .374 .570 .943 2 2 1 9 Runners On w/ 2 Outs .289 76 25 22 3 1 4 25 10 1 12 2 1 .379 .513 .892 0 0 1 0 Scoring Position .326 89 50 29 2 1 6 47 12 1 17 2 1 .398 .573 .971 2 2 0 1 RISP w/ 2 Outs .250 44 19 11 1 1 1 19 8 1 10 1 1 .365 .386 .752 0 0 0 0 Bases Loaded .333 6 9 2 0 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 .429 .333 .762 0 0 0 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS SF SAC HBP GIDP Ahead in Count .192 156 22 30 5 1 5 22 0 0 52 2 0 .201 .333 .535 1 1 2 2 Behind in Count .362 105 25 38 9 3 6 24 32 1 8 0 0 .514 .676 1.191 0 0 1 2 Tomorrow’s Starting Pitcher RHP Shaun Anderson (0-0, No ERA) • Acquired on July 26, 2017 in the deal that sent INF the University