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MWL Dayton Dragons

Dayton Dragons GameDay Notes

June 7, 2022 - Midwest League (MWL)
Dayton Dragons News Release


Tuesday, June 7, 2022 l Game # 51

Day Air Ballpark l Dayton, Ohio l 7:05 p.m.

Radio: Fox Sports 980 WONE

Great Lakes Loons (27-23) at Dayton Dragons (34-15)

RH Kendall Williams (1-2, 3.86) vs. RH Joe Boyle (2-0, 0.72)

Today's Game: The Dayton Dragons (affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds) host the Great Lakes Loons (affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers) at Day Air Ballpark in the heart of the Water Street District. This is the first game of a six-game series. Season Series vs. Great Lakes: First meeting tonight.

Best Ever: The Dragons record of 35-15 is the best in franchise history through the first 50 games of a season. The previous best over the first 50 games was 33-17 in 2007.

Dragons in the Standings: Dayton is in first place in the MWL East Division, seven and one-half games ahead of Great Lakes with 16 games to play in the first half season. The final day of the first half is June 23. The Dragons "magic number" is nine to eliminate Great Lakes and eight to eliminate Lake County.

Last Game: Sunday: Dayton 8, South Bend 3. The Dragons won their fourth straight game and took five of six in the series with South Bend. Garrett Wolforth had two hits including a two-run triple. The Dragons set a season high for hits in an inning with six in their five-run third. Dragons pitchers posted a 2.62 ERA in the series against the Cubs, who led the league in runs scored when the series began. Dayton committed just three errors in the series, matching their season best for a six-game set.

Team Notes

The Dragons 35-15 (.700) record is second best of all Minor League Baseball.

The Dragons are 11-3 in one-run games; 19-5 in games decided by two or less.

Dayton leads the MWL in home runs with 58, one more than Quad Cities.

The Dragons team ERA in their 35 wins is 2.11 (299 IP, 70 ER). Their team ERA in their 15 losses is 8.23 (117 IP, 107 ER).

Dragons starting pitchers have a full-season ERA of 3.27 to rank second in the MWL.

The Dragons have played nine series, winning eight and splitting one.

Player Notes

Elly De La Cruz has a 12-game hitting streak, batting .353 with four home runs and 10 extra base hits. De La Cruz is now tied for third in the MWL in extra base hits (24), second in slugging percentage (.573), tied for fourth in home runs (10), and tied for fifth in RBI (32).

Connor Phillips leads the MWL in strikeouts with 72. Since April 28, Phillips has made six starts, posting a 1.54 ERA (35 IP, 18 H, 8 R, 6 ER, 11 BB, 51 SO).

Nick Quintana is batting .333 over his last 10 games.

Rece Hinds led the MWL in batting average (.388), slugging percentage (.672), on-base percentage (.474), and OPS (1.146) in the month of May.

Alex McGarry leads the Midwest League in slugging percentage (.645) and OPS (.976). He is tied for third in extra base hits (24) while ranking third in home runs (11) and third in runs batted in (35)...McGarry has 24 extra base hits in 37 games, an average of .65 extra base hits per game. Over the Dragons history, the top two ranked hitters in extra base hits per game (minimum 50 games) are Nick Senzel (.57 per game in 2016) and Jay Bruce (.54 per game in 2006)...McGarry connected on his 10th homer on May 12. Since daily records became available in 2005, the earliest that a previous Dayton hitter had reached 10 home runs was May 21 (2008, Brandon Waring). Next earliest is May 28 (Jay Bruce in 2006; Juan Francisco in 2007).

Donovan Benoit over his last 12 relief appearances: 1-0, 6 saves, 1.08 ERA (16.2 IP, 2 R).

Upcoming Probable Pitchers (Game times are Dayton time) (All games on WONE 980 AM and www.daytondragons.com)

Wednesday, June 8 (7:05 p.m.): Great Lakes RH Ben Casparius (0-0, 6.00) at Dayton TBA

Thursday, June 9 (7:05 p.m.): Great Lakes RH Nick Nastrini (0-2, 5.52) at Dayton RH Thomas Farr (0-1, 5.40)

Friday, June 10 (7:05 p.m.): Great Lakes LH Lael Lockhart (1-0, 2.29) at Dayton RH Connor Phillips (3-2, 2.57)

Saturday, June 11 (7:09 p.m.): Great Lakes RH Kyle Hurt (4-1, 3.04) at Dayton RH Christian Roa (1-1, 3.94)

Sunday, June 12 (1:09 p.m.): Great Lakes RH Kendall Williams at Dayton RH James Proctor (4-2, 4.54)

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