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Game Information: Indianapolis Indians (9-8) at Columbus Clippers (8-10)

April 27, 2018 - International League (IL1)
Indianapolis Indians News Release


The Indians open a six-game road trip tonight with Game 1 of a weekend series at Columbus. Indy took two out of three games against the Clippers at Victory Field to begin the 2018 season.

Location: Huntington Park

First Pitch: 7:15 p.m. ET

Game #18 / Road #6: Indianapolis Indians (9-8) @ Columbus Clippers (8-10)

Probables: RHP Austin Coley (1-1, 10.80) vs. LHP Adam Wilk (1-0, 2.04)

Radio: Fox Sports 97.5 / AM 1260 / iHeart App

TV: MiLB TV

From the Notes

ABOUT WEDNESDAY: Indianapolis had a 2-0 lead slip away in the late innings on Wednesday as Syracuse rallied for a 4-2 win in 10 innings at Victory Field. Indy still finished the homestand with a pair of series victories but couldn't close out a second consecutive chance at its first series sweep of 2018. Clay Holmes tossed five shutout innings and departed in line for the win thanks to a run-scoring groundout by Kevin Newman in the third. Jacob Stallings later worked a bases-loaded walk in the sixth to put the Tribe up 2-0. Tribe reliever Tyler Jones was charged with two runs in the eighth when Irving Falu reached on an infield single that plated two Chiefs, and Falu got the best of Damien Magnifico in the 10th with another two-run knock -- this one to left field -- to cap the scoring. Indy, playing in extras for the first time with the new interna-tional extra-inning rule in effect, left the tying runs in scoring position as both Austin Meadows and Jordan Luplow were retired by David Goforth.

FOR STARTERS: The Tribe rotation found their groove this past homestand, going 2-1 with a 0.85 ERA (3 ER/31.2 IP). The only loss came on Sunday when Nick Kingham suffered a tough-luck defeat after yielding two runs (one earned) in 5.2 innings pitched in a 7-2 loss to Charlotte. In the Tribe's nine wins this season, the rotation has a collective 5-0 record and 1.17 ERA (6 ER/46.1 IP). In their eight losses, the rotation is 0-6 with a 8.10 ERA (27 ER/30.0 IP).

25 INNINGS: Indianapolis posted shutouts in back-to-back games to start its series with Syracuse, winning 2-0 and 4-0, respectively. Indy then carried a shutout into the eighth before yielding two runs Wednesday, snapping its scoreless-inning streak at 25 innings, four shy of matching the Victory Field Era record 29 set from April 27-30, 2012. The Tribe have never recorded three consecutive shutouts in the Victory Field Era.

HUNTING FOR HOMERS: Huntington Park was kind to the Indians' bats in 2017. Indianapolis belted 21 home runs in 13 games at Columbus, going 7-6 in those contests. Huntington Park, known as one of the more hitter-friendly parks in the International League, saw Indy rip over 20% of its home runs for the entire season within its confines (21 of 104 total home runs). The Tribe matched a single-game franchise record with seven home runs in a 21-1 win on July 6 at Columbus last year, as well.

EXTRA BASES: Indy leads the International League with 41 doubles and nine triples but sits dead last in all of professional baseball with just one home run. Indianapolis led the entire IL in doubles last year with 279 two-baggers.

POWER OUTAGE: Through 17 games this season the Indians have hit just one home run -- off the bat of Jose Osuna -- the lowest team home run total in professional baseball. The next closest team to Indy's home run total of one is Low-A West Michigan with three. Since 2005, the Indians' lowest home run total in a single month is eight long balls over 22 games in April 2015. Deibinson Romero clubbed four of the eight homers that month, while Elias Diaz, Gorkys Hernandez, Brent Morel and Tony Sanchez all chipped in with one apiece.

NO. 13 REACHES 14: Tribe 3B/OF Jose Osuna is riding a 14-game hitting streak to start the season, batting .347 (17-for- 49) with six doubles, two home runs and 11 RBI during the stretch. The first 13 games came with Indy and is the longest hitting streak in the IL this season. He was recalled as the 26th man for Pittsburgh's doubleheader Wednesday against Detroit, and he clubbed a three-run homer in his first MLB at-bat of 2018 off southpaw Matthew Boyd. Osuna finished 2-for-4 in the Pirates' 8-3 win. The 14-game streak is the sixth double-digit hitting streak of his career and ties his career-high streak of 14 games, previously accomplished twice, most recently from July 16-30, 2016 with Indianapolis.

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