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Hagerstown Suns: Game Notes

July 24, 2019 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Hagerstown Suns News Release


The Suns continue their three-game series with the Rome Braves tonight at 7:00 p.m. at State Mutual Stadium. Hagerstown's righty Jake Irvin (5-7, 4.63 ERA) toes the rubber, while Rome sends southpaw Dilmer Mejia (5-1, 2.61 ERA) to the bump.

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LATE SURGE AT PLATE FALLS SHORT IN OPENER: Despite getting a run in the top of the tenth, the Suns were not able to complete the comeback, falling to the Braves 5-4 in 10 innigns Tuesday evening at State Mutual Stadium. Christian Vann (L, 2-2) came on to close out of the eighth for Matt Cronin, but got caught in a jam in the 10th. He walked Braden Shewmake to start off the inning, then surrendered back-to-back one out singles to Griffin Benson and Greg Cullen to allow the Braves (47-55, 17-15) to walk-off 5-4. Jacob Rhinesmith, who started the tenth at second, advanced to third on a balk from Jose Montilla (3-7) before Israel Pineda drove him in with a sacrifice fly to center to put the Suns in front 4-3. Tomas Alastre lasted six innings, while limiting the Braves (46-55, 16-16) to just four hits and three runs. The righty fanned a handful of batters in the loss. Hagerstown's (43-58, 13-18) bats didn't go down without a fight, etching their first run in the seventh inning against starter Odalvi Javier. Javier worked out of jams with runners in scoring position in each of the first three innings and the sixth before the Suns tagged him with a Connell groundout to plate Phil Caulfield to cut the Braves lead to 3-1. Jacob Rhinesmith smacked his eighth homer of the season over the right field wall to draw Hagerstown within one in the eighth. The Braves gifted the Suns a run in the ninth, allowing Armond Upshaw to reach on an error from the shortstop Shewmake before scoring from a Drew Mendoza infield single poked up the middle.

IN THE VANN, AWAY FROM HOME: This season, Christian Vann has inherited 14 runners in 12 games. The 25th-round draftee has stranded all, but one of them (93%) on the basepaths. On average, Suns relievers strand 66% of inherited runners, the next-closest mark to Vann came from Aaron Fletcher, who stranded five of six inherited runners. Earlier this week, Fletcher, another lefty, made his Eastern-League debut with the Harrisburg Senators.

WRECKING RHINO: Jacob Rhinesmith capped off his third four-hit game of the season last night with his eighth homer of the season. The outfielder has hit seven of his eight homers in his 30 games played in the second half. In the first half he had one homer in 242 at-bats, but in the second half he is averaging one long ball in every 16.3 chances at the plate.

MULTI-BAG MENDOZA: Hagerstown's first baseman hit his sixth double in 15 games Thursday. To put that in perpective, Justin Connell has the second-most doubles on the team this season, slashing 16 in 79 games. If Drew Mendoza were to maintain this clip for that period of time, he would hit 32 doubles in just under 80 games, which would give him the most doubles on the Suns. The Florida State-product now has a .403 on-base percentage to compliment his 25 total bases in 17 games. If that weren't enough, he is also riding a season-high nine-game hitting streak. Including two from Mendoza, the Suns have just 12 hitting streaks that have spanned six games or more this season.

THROWING HIGH HEAT: Thursday, Angel Guillen fanned five batters, good for his third-most of the season. The righty has wrung up 16 hitters in 13.2 innings in July. The Venezuelan now has 66 strikeouts this season, which is the highest of any Suns reliever and the sixth-most amongst any Suns pitcher.

ONE RUN, NO FUN: After last night's loss, the Suns are now 17-22 in one-run games this season.

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