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Delmarva Shorebirds Game Notes

July 8, 2022 - Carolina League (CarL)
Delmarva Shorebirds News Release


LAST TIME OUT: What looked like a close game got blown open late as the 'Birds suffered a 12-4 loss to the Red Sox on Thursday.

It was a see-saw battle through the first five innings until Salem scored 10 unanswered runs in the final four innings. The 'Birds grabbed a 4-2 lead with a three-run fourth, with Stiven Acevedo beating out an RBI infield single and Luis Valdez driving in two with a double. Salem answered back with authority with three in the fifth, and then six in the ninth to blow the game open. Deivy Cruz punched out seven, tying a career high in 4.1 innings in his start.

TODAY'S OPPONENT: Angel Bastardo toes the rubber for Salem on Friday night. Bastardo threw a gem his last time out, firing six innings of one run ball against Lynchburg on July 2, striking out two without issuing a walk, allowing just five hits. The 'Birds saw Bastardo on June 15, chasing him after 2.1 frames, as he allowed three runs on four hits and three walks while also hitting a batter.

KJERSTUD: Heston Kjerstad finally debuted after being selected 2nd overall in the 2020 draft by the Orioles and hasn't missed a beat since returning. Kjerstad missed two seasons thanks to myocarditis and then a hamstring strain this past spring training, but has flourished with the Shorebirds in his first 20 games, going 33-for-74 (.446) with seven doubles, two homers and 15 driven in. Kjerstad already has 12-multi hit games, including a three-hit game on June 19 which included a two-out, two-run go-ahead single in the ninth against Salem. Kjerstad just wrapped a 14-game hitting streak (the longest this season for a 'Bird), slashing .472/.547/.679 with two homers and 10 driven in during the run.

FRESH ARMS: The Shorebirds have remade their starting rotation with names like Miguel Padilla, Deivy Cruz, and Edgar Portes making their Single-A debuts in prominent starting roles. The trio have combined to post 38.0 innings through their first nine out- ings, allowing just 14 earned runs (3.31 ERA).

THE H IS SILENT, BUT HE ISN'T: Noelberth Romero just wrapped a 6-for-18 series against the Hillcats two weeks ago, smashing three hoemrs and driving in 10 runs. He now leads the ballclub with seven dingers, more than doubling his entire output from last season (3). Romero was acquired by the Orioles from the Red Sox back in 2019 as part of the Andrew Cashner deal.

FREDDY BASE KNOCKS: All Frederick Bencosme has done since join the 'Birds is pile up the hits. He is 31-for-83 (.375) for the 'Birds, having posted a 5-for-5 game June 19, running out five more multi-hit games since, giving him eight on the season. Ben- cosme is still just 19 and has barely played stateside, having spent all of 2021 in the DSL.

RUN, LUIS, RUN: MLB.com recently crowned Valdez the fastest player in the O's system, and that's been bearing fruit on the bases. Valdez leads the league with 36 stolen bases, having been caught just 10 times. This comes after Valdez failed to steal a base in hus first nine games this season. Valdez is currently on an eight game hitting streak, slashing .378.410/.460.

DE LE ON TRACK: Isaac De León got off to a putrid start this season (7-for-56, .125/.319/.161) but then found his groove over his next 24 games where he's slashed .256/.419/.359 with five doubles, a homer and 18 driven in. He had five multi-hit efforts during the stetch and five multi-RBI games too. De León leads the Carolina league in walks (58) as well and paces the 'Birds with 34 RBIs.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT: Although save opportunites have been few and far between for the 'Birds this season, when they have needed to close down a win, Preston Price has been money. The righty is 5-for-6 in save opportunites, tying him for the third most saves in the Carolina league.

TIDE, RISEN: The Orioles front office's meticulous approach in the recent rebuild has started to bear fruit, as the Orioles minor league system was named the No. 1 farm system in baseball for the second consecutive ranking by MLB Pipeline. Current top-30 O's prospects on the 'Birds roster are: No. 9 Heston Kjerstad, No. 27 Carter Baumler, and No. 30 Anthony Servideo.

AVG.. .............. Heston Kjerstad (.446) H ............................... Luis Valdez (72) RBI ........................Isaac De León (34) R ............................... Luis Valdez (49) 2B .................... Bellony/De León (10) 3B ............................... Luis Valdez (3) HR ...................Noelberth Romero (7) XBH ........................Isaac Bellony (17) TB ............................. Luis Valdez (90) BB .........................Isaac De León (58) OBP ................ Heston Kjerstad (.533) SLG ................. Heston Kjerstad (.622) SB .............................. Luis Valdez (36) ERA ................. Carter Baumler (1.54) W ...........................Beltran/Grady (3) IP............... Juan De Los Santos (58.2) QS ............................. Shane Davis (2) G ............................Hugo Beltran (22) SV............................ Preston Price (5) HLD ....................... Thomas Girard (3) K .................. Juan De Los Santos (69) WHIP............... Carter Baumler (1.20) Last Time Out

R H E SAL 12 9 1 DEL 4 8 3 W: De La Rosa (1-0) L: Beltran (3-5) SV: Hoffman (1) Shorebirds Coaching Staff Manager: Felipe Rojas Alou Jr. - Takes the helm of the Shorebirds after spending time as the Director of the Orioles' Dominican Republic Academy. His father, Felipe, played in the Majors for 15+ years before managing the Expos ('92-'01) and Giants ('03-'06). Alou's brother, Luis Rojas, was the manager of the Mets and is currently on the Yankees coaching staff.

Hitting Coach: Brink Ambler - Was the Shorebirds 2021 Minor League Technology Coordinator helping lead the Shorebirds to one of the best offensive seasons in franchise history.Ambler is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

Pitching Coach: Joe Haumacher - Spent the 2021 season as the pitching coach at the Orioles Florida complex league. After playing his college days at Old Dominion University, Haumacher began his coaching career in 2012 serving time on four collegiate staffs including four seasons as a rotational athlete specialist at the University of Southern California.

Fundamentals Coach: Daniel Fajardo - Fajardo eight seasons in the Orioles minor league system and parts of two with the Shorebirds. Fajardo spent 2021 in the Dominican as tech coordinator.

Development Coach: Collin Murray - Prior to joining the Orioles, Murray worked with three other MLB clubs (Tigers, Marlins, and Angels), most recently as a Baseball Information Assistant with the Detroit Tigers in 2021.

Trainer: Julio Ibarra (1st yr w/DEL) Strength & Conditioning: Liz Pardo (2nd yr w/DEL) Game #13/78| Delmarva Shorebirds (BAL) vs. Salem Red Sox (BOS) | Arthur W. Perdue Stadium Sam Jellinek, Dir. of Broadcasting & Communications Arthur W. Perdue Stadium 6400 Hobbs Road | Salisbury, MD 21804 O: 410-219-3112 ext. 169 | C: 215-450-4049 sjellinek@theshorebirds.com | www.theshorebirds.com 1997 & 2000 SAL Champions | Northern Division Champs - '96, '98, '02, '05, '19 | 26th Season of Baseball 2nd Half League Standings NORTH DIVISION Team Record GB Fredericksburg 10-2 0.0 Salem 7-5 3.0 Carolina 6-5 4.0 Down East 6-5 4.0 Lynchburg 5-7 4.0 Delmarva 2-10 8.0 SOUTH DIVISION Team Record GB Columbia 9-2 0.0 Kannapolis 8-4 1.5 Myrtle Beach 6-5 3.0 Charleston 6-6 3.5 Fayetteville 3-8 6.0 Augusta 2-10 7.5 2022 Team Statistics

Batting Avg. - .227 (8th) Runs - 329 (10th) 2B - 95 (11th) 3B - 15 (t-9th) HR - 43 (11th) SB - 89 (9th) Pitching ERA - 5.64 (12th) K - 714 (11th) SV - 12 (t-9th) HLD - 9 (10th)

Fielding Field% - .953 (11th) E - 127 (2nd) 2022 Team Leaders BASEBALL

TODAY'S SHOREBIRDS STARTER | RHP #10 EDGAR PORTES (0-3, 3.86) Height: 6-2 Weight: 165 Age: 19 (10/2/02) Hometown: Santo Domingo, D.R.

Acquired: INTL FA (2019) 2022 GAME-BY-GAME (5 G, 4 GS) *Starts in Bold DATE OPP.

DEC IP H R ER HR BB K PIT Left 6/7 FAY ND 4.0 4 5 4 2 3 6 78 Leading 6-5 6/14 @SAL -- 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 3 32 L,12-3 6/18 @SAL L 4.0 5 4 3 2 4 2 81 Trailing 4-1 6/24 LYN L 5.0 1 2 1 0 2 4 82 Trailing 2-1 7/1 @FBG L 6.0 4 2 1 0 1 4 81 Trailing 2-1 TODAY'S STARTER: Edgar Portes gets the chance to toe the rubber Friday night after a solid outing last time out against the FredNats, twirling his first Quality Start with the 'Birds.

LAST OUTING (7/1 @ Fredericksburg): After another rocky first (Portes missed on his first eight pitches, walking one and hitting another and issued a balk), Portes found his groove, tossing six innings while allowing just two runs (one earned) on four hits and a walk, striking out four. Portes retired the final seven bat- ter he faced in the game.

vs. SALEM: Portes made two outings against Salem on the road back in June, allowing four runs over six total innings, going 0-1 with six walks and four strikeouts.

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: Added to Shorebirds roster, 6/6...First ca- reer start, career high 4IP, 6K's, 6/7vsFAY...5IP, 2R/1ER, 1H, 4Ks, 6/24vsLYN...Quality Start (6IP, 1ER), 7/1@FBG...

FIRST TIME IS ALWAYS MEMORABLE: Portes' first start with the Shorebirds represented the first start in his career as well as the first time he has pitched outside of the Florida Complex in Sarasota. All 14 of Portes' outings last season came out of the bullpen. Portes signed as an International Free Agent in 2019, but didn't debut until 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. He spent all of 2021 in the FCL.

2022 HIGHS CAREER HIGHS Low Runs ............. 0 (6/14@SAL) High Runs ...............5 (6/7vsFAY) Low Hit ................ 0 (6/14@SAL) High Hits .............. 5 (6/18@SAL) Innings ................6.0 (7/1@FBG) Walks ................... 4 (6/18@SAL) Strikeouts ...............6 (6/7vsFAY) LOCATION & TIME LEFT/RIGHT SPLITS

W L ERA GS IP ER Home 0 1 5.00 2 9 5 Road 0 2 3.00 2 12 5 Day 0 0 0.00 0 2 0 Night 0 3 4.26 4 19 9

AVG H HR BB SO vs. Left: .180 9 2 7 12 vs.

Right: .179 5 2 5 7 TOTALS: .179 14 4 12 19 INNING-BY-INNING Inning ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO AVG 1 2.25 4.0 2 3 1 0 4 4 .133 2 2.25 4.0 1 3 1 0 4 2 .071 3 6.75 4.0 4 3 2 2 1 5 .267 4 9.00 4.0 7 4 4 2 1 2 .368 5 0.00 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 6 0.00 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 7 0.00 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 2 .000 8 0.00 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 9+ MONTH-BY-MONTH Month Record ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO AVG June 0-2 4.80 15.0 10 11 8 4 11 15 .182 July 0-1 1.50 6.0 4 2 1 0 1 4 .174 CAREER STATISTICS Season Team W-L ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO 2021 FCL O's 2-1 6.84 25.0 27 22 19 1 19 25 2022 DEL 0-3 3.86 21.0 14 13 9 4 12 19 TOTALS 2-4 5.48 46.0 41 35 28 5 31 44 TOMORROW'S STARTER: Ryan Long and Darlin Alcantara team up to take on the Red Sox on Saturday night.

Low Runs .......................... 0 (2x) High Runs .....6 (8/28/21vsORIB) Low Hit ............................. 0 (2x) High Hits .......7 (8/28/21vsORIB) Innings ................6.0 (7/1@FBG) Walks ................... 4 (6/18@SAL) Strikeouts ...............6 (6/7vsFAY)

STARTS BY POSITION RECORD BY BATTING ORDER Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Acevedo 0-4 2-6 Bencosme 0-1 4-12 0-3 Craig 1-0 0-2 2-19 1-3 7-5 0-3 De 2B 3B SS LF CF RF DH Acevedo 1 4 5 2 Bencosme 5 1 15 Craig 30 1 8 5 De León 3 30 31 1 Deson 8 33 3 8 Grullon 5 1 2 Kjerstad 15 5 Mantecón 17 1 Martinez 8 4 1 Prado 4 11 1 5 Servideo 1 2 4 Romero 20 27 5 4 Valdez 32 1 5 26 Willems 35 4 3 ERRORLESS STREAKS Player Active Last Error Longest Acevedo 4 (RF, CF) E8, 6/18@SAL 5 (6/9-6/17) Bencosme 3 (SS) E6, 7/2@FBG 10 (6/15-6/28) Craig 44 (CF, LF, RF) De León 4 (1B, 3B) E5, 6/30@FBG 10 (6/9-6/23g1) Deson 14 (CF, RF) E8 6/3@MB 32 (4/8-6/2) Grullon 7 (C, 1B) Kjerstad 3 (RF) E9, 6/29@FBG (6/10-6/28) Mantecón 20 (C, 1B, 2B, RF) Martinez 2 (1B, 2B) E4, 6/7vsFAY 7 (6/8-7/1) Prado E8, 7/7vsSAL 9 (5/30-7/6) Servideo E6, 7/6vsSAL 2 (6/24-7/4) Romero 1 (3B) E5, 7/3@FBG 11 (5/22-6/5) Valdez E4, 7/7vsSAL 21 (4/25-5/25) Willems 13 (C, 1B) E2, 6/11vsFAY 6 (2x) PLAYERS USED (57) Pitchers (33): Davis, Girard, Federman, LaRoche, Price, Grady, Lopez, Monroy, Lleras, Carter, Lloyd, De Los Santos, Mendez, Rangel, Long, Hammer, Reyes, Chace, Beltran, Lyons, Pham, Gillies, Vargas, Baumler, Portes, Benitez, Richmond, Rivera, Heid, Cruz, Alcantara, Perez, Padilla Catchers (4): Hernandez, Mantecon, Willems, Grullon Infielders (12): Ramirez, Valdez, Hernaiz, De Leon, Romero, Cruz, Cullen, Long Jr., Placencia, Martinez, Bencosme, Servideo Outfielders (8): Higgins, Deson, Bellony, Tavarez, Craig, Prado, Acevedo, Kjerstad RECORD BY POSITION Game #13/78| Delmarva Shorebirds (BAL) vs. Salem Red Sox (BOS) | Arthur W. Perdue Stadium Player C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF DH Acevedo 0-1 1-3 1-4 0-2 Bencosme 1-4 0-1 3-11 Craig 9-20 1-0 1-7 0-5 De León 2-1 5-24 11-20 0-1 Deson 3-5 11-23 0-3 1-7 Grullon 0-4 0-1 0-2 Kjerstad 3-11 1-4 Mantecón 4-13 0-1

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