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Braves Hot as Summer Approaches

June 3, 2006 - Southern League (SL1)
Mississippi Braves News Release


Mississippi has won the last five games and seven of the last eight overall to move into third place in the league. The five-game winning streak is the fourth such streak in the short history of the team. The Braves longest win streak is seven games. Mississippi is 7-3 over the last 10 games.

The Mississippi Braves won back-to-back games five times in '06 before ever claiming a three-game win streak. The Braves held off until they faced the team with the best record in the league coming into the series, the Chattanooga Lookouts. Mississippi won four of five games at Chattanooga before taking the first game in their series at perennial Southern League power, Carolina.

They lost the first game of the series at Chattanooga, but won the next four making it only the second road series the Braves have won all year and only the third series overall the Braves have won this year. Michael Rosamond belted four homeruns through the first month of the season, but fell into a dry spell for most of the month of May. He turned it on in Chattanooga as his power numbers went through the roof. On 5/30-31, he hit a three-run homer and a solo shot becoming the first Mississippi Brave to ever homer in consecutive games. His seven homers lead the team and his recent offensive onslaught has put him in third place on the team with 21 RBI.

The Braves hottest player lately has been Barbaro Canizares. Over the last five games he's batting .444 with six RBIs and two runs scored. Over the last 10 games, he's batting .405 with eight RBI and seven runs scored. Eight of his 17 RBI on the season have come in the last 10 games, and six of those 17 have come in the last five games. He's hit safely in 25 of the last 27 games including 13 multi-hit games. On 6/1 at CHA, Canizares went 3-4 with three RBI as the Braves downed the Lookouts 3-1.

Over the Braves last five games, all Mississippi wins, the pitching staff has been nothing less than spectacular. Jose Ascanio, a recent addition to the AA staff, is 2-0 and got his first AA hit on 6/2, a solo homerun. Paul Bush, Chris Waters, and Matt Wright each went 1-0 with Bush and Wright tying for the team lead in wins with four.

The Braves have four more games in Carolina and an off day before returning home on June 8 to take on the Southern League North Division leading Chattanooga Lookouts in the first five games of a 10-game home stand. Southern League South Division leader Jacksonville comes to Pearl for five games beginning on June 13.

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