May 4, 2018 | 6:05 pm CT | The Ballpark at Jackson | Jackson, Tenn. | Game #27 | Home Game #18 | First Half Game #27 Jackson Generals (18-8) vs. Montgomery Biscuits (10-17) RHP Taylor Widener (0-0, 3.05 ERA) vs. RHP J.D. Martin (0-4, 5.76 ERA) Series Schedule, Probable Starters & Notes Wed. 5/2 6:05pm CT MONTGOMERY RHP Sam Lewis (2-2, 4.05 ERA) vs. RHP Genesis Cabrera (2-2, 2.57 ERA) Montgomery wins, 12-5 Thu. 5/3 6:05pm CT MONTGOMERY LHP Alex Young (3-1, 3.33 ERA) vs. RHP Zach Lee (3-0, 1.30 ERA) GENERALS WIN, 10-4 Fri. 5/4 6:05pm CT MONTGOMERY RHP Taylor Widener (0-0, 3.05 ERA) vs. RHP J.D. Martin (0-4, 5.76 ERA) Food Truck Friday/Hub City Hippos Sat. 5/5 6:05pm CT MONTGOMERY RHP Ryan Atkinson (1-2, 4.08 ERA) vs. RHP Eduar Lopez (1-2, 5.40 ERA) STAR WARS NIGHT/Fireworks Sun. 5/6 2:05pm CT MONTGOMERY RHP Jon Duplantier (2-0, 1.80 ERA) vs. RHP Benton Moss (1-2, 3.09 ERA) -- Mon. 5/7 7:15pm ET at Chattanooga TBA (Jackson Generals) vs. TBA (Chattanooga Lookouts) NEXT HOMESTAND: 5/12-5/16 vs MISSISSIPPI General Notes Most Recent Game Result This Series | The Jackson Generals (Double-A, Arizona Diamondbacks) host the Montgomery Biscuits (Tampa Bay Rays) in their fourth home series of 2018 and their sixth series overall. The Generals and Biscuits will face each other 20 times this season, splitting two First May 3 R H E Half series home-and-home The Biscuits will host Jackson at the end of this month (May 29-June 2). Montgomery 4 9 3 SEASON SERIES: AT JACKSON: May 2-6, August 14-18 AT MONTGOMERY: May 29-June 2, July 28-August 1 AGGREGATE SCORE: Meetings: 2 Generals: 15 Biscuits: 16 GENERALS 10 11 4 Win: Alex Young (4-1, 3.66) HOME RUNS About Last Night | Jackson, Tenn. – Rudy Flores’ 100th career minor league home run helped propel the Jackson Generals past the Montgomery Biscuits 10-4 on Wednesday night. The victory brought the Generals (18-8) even in their series with Mont- Loss: Zach Lee (3-1, 2.18) JXN: Rudy Flores (5) gomery (10-17), 1-1, heading in to Friday’s contest. Jackson is now 12-1 on the year when hitting a home run. The Southern League-leading Generals offense whirred to life on Wednesday near the end of the outing for Montgomery start- Save: n/a OPP: n/a er Zach Lee (3-1, 2.18 ERA). Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Flores led the charge into the lead with a one-out, three-run blast, his fifth of the year, to put the Generals in front. The dinger marked a turning point in the contest, as the Generals would score five more runs through the later innings, while the Biscuits were held to just one further tally. Flores, hitting cleanup behind Juniel Querecuto and Kevin Generals At A Glance Medrano, combined with the two men ahead of him to go 6-for-13 with six runs scored and eight RBI. 1st Half W-L/Rank 18-8/1st, North Pitching-wise, the Generals had good-enough work from Alex Young (4-1, 3.66 ERA), who gave up three runs in five innings 2nd Half W-L/Rank n/a while striking out four. Behind Young, Mason McCullough allowed a run in the sixth inning to Montgomery, but Gabe Speier and Kirby Bellow pitched the final three frames with more combined strikeouts (four) than baserunners (three). Home Record 13-4 Road Record 5-4 Put a Hurtin' on Them | Perhaps the most remarkable point of the Generals' 17-8 start was the way they played in Current Streak W1 spite of a roster impacted by early injuries. Ryan Atkinson and Jon Duplantier both missed starts after joining the team late from Extended Spring Training to finish individual rehab work, andMarty Herum and Jay Gonzalez each spent time on the DL during the first month of the year with injuries. Herum and Gonzalez accounted for 21 runs through the season's first 20 games while hitting a combined .344 (30-for- Start-of-Series Team Stats 87), while Atkinson and Duplantier struck out 29 batters in the first 22.2 innings they pitched.Ben DeLuzio made a team-high 18 starts JXN (at 17-7) STAT & RANK MTG (at 9-16) (all in center field) through the team's first 20 games before being placed on the DL 4/27 as the team leader in stolen bases.Matt Jones, .793 - 1st OPS .657 - 10th a catcher, was leading the team in home runs when he went on the DL 4/28. Most recently, veteran catcher Alberto Rosario became the 135 - 1st Runs 93 - 8th fourth General hurt in the space of a week (and the second catcher), when he landed on the DL on 5/2. Rosario was batting .288 at the 17 - 3rd HR 12 - 10th time of his departure, having caught 11 of Jackson's 17 wins to date. Former General Marcus Littlewood ('15, '16) was added in his place. 22 - 3rd SB 23 - 2nd 2.64 - 1st ERA 3.99 - 7th Josh, Prince of Thieves | Two Generals--outfieldersJay Gonzalez and Ben DeLuzio--traded the league lead in stolen bases back and forth early in the 2018 season, with Gonzalez stealing five bags through his first three games and DeLuzio swiping nine 1.14 - 1st WHIP 1.30 - 3rd through his first 20 contests. On May 4, the Generals received infielderJosh Prince from Triple-A Reno to supplement to the team's ver- 250 - 1st Strikeouts 207 - 5th satility and speed. Prince, who played 8 games with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2013, was a 2014 Southern League All-Star and the SL's "Best Hustler" that year, stealing a league-high 37 bases for the Huntsville Stars. Prince stole 217 bases in his MILB career before being 1st Half Southern League Standings added to the Generals' roster; defensively, he's proven an adaptable asset, playing 355 games in the infield and 276 games in the outfield. North Division W-L GB Jackson Generals (ARI) 18-8 -- Poche Poached | Generals rookie Colin Poche was outstanding early in 2018. Poche struck out 23 batters over his first Chattanooga Lookouts (MIN) 15-12 3.5 11.0 IP without allowing a run, and the performance was good enough to earn him Southern League Relief Pitcher of the Month honors. Tennessee Smokies (CHC) 13-13 5.0 However, Poche was dealt to the Tampa Bay Rays on May 1 as a final piece in a three-team trade that sent Rays outfielder Steven Souza Birmingham Barons (CWS) 13-14 5.5 Jr. to Arizona earlier this year. Poche was assigned to the Montgomery Biscuits, meaning he merely had to walk to the visitor's clubhouse at The Ballpark at Jackson to switch teams--Montgomery's series with the Generals began a day after Poche was traded. Full details of the Montgomery Biscuits (TB) 10-17 8.5 three-team trade are listed below, and they involved multiple players who figure to be extensively involved in the Southern League: D-BACKS RECEIVED: NYY RHP Taylor Widener (now AA/Jackson), TB OF Steven Souza Jr. (now MLB/Arizona) South Division W-L GB YANKEES RECEIVED: ARI 2B Brandon Drury (now MLB/NY Yankees) Biloxi Shuckers (MIL) 17-10 -- RAYS RECEIVED: NYY OF Nick Solak (now AA/Montgomery), ARI LHP Anthony Banda (now AAA/Durham), ARI LHP Colin Poche (now AA/ Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (MIA) 12-14 4.5 Montgomery), ARI RHP Sam McWilliams (now A+/Charlotte) Mobile BayBears (LAA) 12-14 4.5 Pensacola Blue Wahoos (CIN) 12-15 5.0 Cribbs Rocking | Do-it-all General Galli Cribbs hit for the cycle on April 18 vs. Birmingham, collecting an inside-the-park Mississippi Braves (ATL) 11-16 6.0 home run, a triple, a double, and a single in that order in an 8-1 win. It was the first cycle for a General since current Kansas City Royals outfielder Abraham Almonte completed the ten-base feat in 2013. Cribbs hit 2 of his 3 career HR (in 300+ career games) in April 2018.. Cribbs' 1.097 OPS led all active Southern League players through the season's first month. He also led the league with 20 runs in April. Generals vs. Southern League North Division Games Home Road Overall Streak Lean, Clean Defensive Machine | Following the April 16 contest against Birmingham, the Generals had ten players on their roster who had already played multiple defensive positions in the first ten games of the year. The only players not to Birmingham (CHW) 26 5-0 5-0 W5 play more than one position in that span were center fielderBen DeLuzio and catcher Alberto Rosario. Additionally, the Generals played 9 Chattanooga (MIN) 20 3-2 3-2 L2 straight error-free games in streak that ended April 20, going 8-1. Through the first month of the season,Kevin Medrano, Galli Cribbs, Jay Montgomery (TB) 20 1-1 1-1 W1 Gonzalez, and Jason Morozowski have all played three different positions; Jose Vinicio and Juniel Querecuto manned four each. Tennessee (CHC) 24 3-1 3-1 W1 The Hits Just Keep On Comin' | In their April 21 win over Chattanooga, Jackson snagged 10+ hits for the vs. North 90 9-3 3-1 12-4 W1 8th game in a row; the streak broke with 9 hits in a 7-inning win over the Lookouts two days later.