Game Notes: Toledo Mud Hens (17-27) at Louisville Mashers (18-29)
May 25, 2019 - International League (IL1)
Louisville Bats News Release
Game 48, Home 25
Toledo Mud Hens (17-27) at Louisville Mashers (18-29)
RHP Jackson Stephens (3-2, 3.86) vs. TBA
6:30 PM | Saturday, May 25, 2019 | Louisville Slugger Field
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LET'S MASH: The Louisville Bats will rebrand as the "Mashers" for the first of 3 times this season, with Louisville ready to play its 25th home game at beautiful Louisville Slugger Field in 2019. Right-hander Jackson Stephens is set to make his second start of the season for Louisville, and it's still luck of the draw as to who starts for the Toledo Mud Hens on Saturday night.
AGAINST TOLEDO: The Bats and Mud Hens played for the first time in Louisville last night, opening a 4-game series. It's the latest into a season that the clubs have met at one of their respective homes since Louisville's been affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds (2000), with 2007 being the closest, when the clubs met at Toledo for the first time from May 15-18.
LONGHI WENT LONG-HI: Designated hitter Nick Longhi had another great showing on Friday night, reaching base 4 times with a 2-for-2 night, clubbing a 3-run home run and drawing 2 walks. The 23-year-old is batting .393 (22-for-56) in May with 12 runs scored, 4 home runs, 10 RBI and a 1.069 OPS. Longhi is putting up a solid case to win Louisville's second straight International League Player of the Month Award, after Josh VanMeter took home the honors for April.
BRIAN'S SONG: Also making a case for May's IL Player of the Month Award is Louisville first baseman Brian O'Grady, who is batting .307 (23-for-75) with 8 home runs and 15 RBI in the month. He hit home runs in back-to-back games to start the month on May 1-2, and hit 6 homers in a 4-game span from May 19-23, including becoming the seventh player in Louisville franchise history to hit 3 home runs on a game, accomplishing the feat on 5/19 at Buffalo.
CURSED FIRST: The Mud Hens scored 9 runs off Louisville pitching in the top of the first inning, the most runs the Bats have surrendered in an inning since July 7, 2017, when the Charlotte Knights scored 9 runs in the top of the eighth in a 16-4 Bats loss. Toledo's first inning burst accounted for the most runs Louisville's ever surrendered in the opening frame since they have been affiliated with the Reds (2000). LOU has been outscored 46-17 in the first this season, their worst inning by run differential.
PAIR OF BATS DEBUTS: There were 2 players making their Louisville debuts on Friday night, infielder Alberti Chavez and right-handed reliever Johendi Jiminian. Chavez started at second base and went 0-for-3 with a hit by pitch and run scored, while Jiminian came into the game in the first inning for Rob Wooten, going 5.0 innings and giving up 5 runs on 9 hits, walking and striking out a pair in his return to Triple-A after appearing in 18 games with the Albuquerque Isotopes in 2017. For Chavez, it was his Triple-A debut, becoming the eighth player to do that with Louisville in 2019:
Louisville Player Triple-A Debut
OF Aristides Aquino April 4
C Chris Okey April 5
RHP Vladimir Gutierrez April 7
OF Courtney Hawkins April 12
IF Luis Gonzalez May 2
OF Narciso Crook May 7
RHP Alex Powers May 24
IF Alberti Chavez May 25
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