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Game Information: Indianapolis Indians (41-46) at Columbus Clippers (51-38)

July 17, 2022 - International League (IL)
Indianapolis Indians News Release


LOCATION: Huntington Park

FIRST PITCH: 4:05 PM ET

GAME #88/ Road #47: Indianapolis Indians (41-46) at Columbus Clippers (51-38)

PROBABLES: RHP Miguel Yajure (2-2, 8.22) vs. LHP Konnor Pilkington (0-0, 6.38)

RADIO: FoxSportsIndy.com / Fox Sports 1260 / iHeart app

TV: MiLB TV

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Despite scoring a run in each of their first two innings, the Indians dropped their fourth consecutive game to the Clippers on Saturday night, 4-2. After an RBI single in the first by Rodolfo Castro, Hoy Park tallied the Indians second run in as many innings with a solo shot over the center field fence to take a quick 2-0 lead. Indy would be held scoreless for the remainder of the contest after grabbing a pair of runs in the first two innings. The Clippers strung together three consecutive innings with a run scored to take the lead. Oscar Mercado plated the go-ahead run with a triple to score Bo Naylor. With the win on Saturday, the Clippers earned a series victory to make the even the season series (1-1-1) after three meetings.

MAGNIFICENT MATSON: Zach Matson extended his scoreless streak to 7.2 innings after posting a zero in his 1.0 inning of work last night. This is his longest scoreless streak since he had thrown 10.2 scoreless innings with Double-A Altoona (4/26-5/22) prior to being promoted to Triple-A. In his first eight appearances (three starts) with Indy, he was 0-1 with a 7.94 ERA (10er/11.1ip) with 14 hits allowed, seven walks and seven strikeouts. Since June 29, he owns a 0.00 ERA (0er/7.2ip) in six appearances (three starts) with three hits allowed, three walks and four strikeouts. During this stretch, he has lowered his season ERA with Indy from 7.94 to 4.74 along with trimming his WHIP to 1.42 from 1.85.

EXTRA BASES: Major league rehabber Greg Allen went 1-for-3 with a double on Saturday night. He now has an extra-base hit in three of four games with Indy and is hitting .429 (6-for-14) with a home run, two doubles, three RBI and four runs scored. After suffering a hamstring injury during spring training, he has been sidelined for the first half of the season and has yet to make his Pirates debut. He began his rehab assignment with Single-A Bradenton on 7/6, and he hit .333 (3-for-9) in three games. Pittsburgh claimed the outfielder off waivers from New York (AL) on Nov. 5, 2021.

ONE SHY: Mason Martin is currently one home run shy of 100 career home runs. The slugger has launched 14 home runs this season and two this month. He has double-digit home runs in each of his five professional seasons and his career-high most home runs in a season came in 2019 when he hit 35 with Single-A Greensboro (23) and High-A Bradenton (12).

A WALK IN THE PARK: Hoy Park went 2-for-4 with a home run on Saturday night, continuing his success against Columbus pitching. Park is hitting .395 (15-for-38) with two home runs, four doubles and seven RBI in 11 games against Columbus this season. In 46 plate appearances, he is reaching base safely nearly half the time with a .489 on-base percentage and seven walks. Park's splits against Columbus compared to the rest of the league are listed below:

Versus Columbus (11 games): .395 AVG, 2 HR, 7 RBI, 9 R, 4 2B, 7 BB, 8 K, .489 OBP

Versus Rest of League (32 games): .178 AVG, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 13 R, 2 2B, 23 BB, 33 K, .331 OBP

MR. RELIABLE: Bligh Madris has a hit in each of the five games against Columbus this week and is hitting .353 (6-for-17). Madris has an active five-game hitting streak, which is the fifth stretch this season where he has had a hitting streak of five games or more. His longest hitting streak of the season was nine games (6/1-11). The lefty slugger has hit safely in 38 of his 54 games played this season, good for a .301 batting average (55-for-183). He has picked up right where he left off with Indy after spending a month in Pittsburgh and making his MLB debut. Madris has hits in five of seven games with Indy this month - including two multi-hit games. Prior to having his contract selected on 6/20, he had eight multi-hit performances in 16 June games.

TODAY: The Indians will look to end a four-game skid against the Clippers in the series finale today at 4:05 PM ET. After yesterday's loss, the Clippers have earned the series victory and taken a 9-8 lead in the season series. The Clippers have outscored the Indians 114-83 over the 17 games, and nine of the 17 games in their season series have been decided by two runs or less. Today, right-hander Miguel Yajure will take the mound for his 10th appearance and ninth start with the Indians this season. Yajure is 2-2 with a 8.22 ERA (21er/23.0ip) with 13 walks and 22 strikeouts. In two starts against Columbus, Yajure is 0-2 and has surrendered eight runs in 4.1 innings. Columbus will counter with left-hander Konnor Pilkington, who will make his sixth start of the season for the Clippers. Pilkington has a 6.38 ERA (13er/18.1ip) with a 1.85 WHIP. In his last, he surrendered five runs on nine hits in 4.0 innings on 6/22 at Omaha. Pilkington has never faced Indy before.

THIS DATE IN 2014: With a 1-0 win over Columbus at Huntington Park, the Indians remained in or with a share of first place for the 67th day (65 games) in a row. En route to the win, Brandon Cumpton improved to 5-1 on the season with 8.0 two-hit innings. The game remained scoreless as the Clippers pitching staff gave up just three hits in the first seven innings, before the Indians scored one run on a Dean Anna RBI for the win in the ninth.

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