SAL Hudson Valley Renegades

HVR Game Notes - June 19, 2022

Published on June 19, 2022 under South Atlantic League (SAL)
Hudson Valley Renegades News Release


Hudson Valley Renegades (31-31) vs. Greensboro Grasshoppers (26-35)

LHP T.J. Sikkema (0-1, 2.45 ERA) vs. RHP Domingo Gonzalez (3-2, 6.18 ERA)

| Game 63 | Road Game 33 | First National Bank Field | Greensboro, N.C. | June 19, 2022 | First Pitch 2 p.m. |

Game Notes and more are available in the Renegades Digital Press Room: www.bit.ly/HVRPressRoom

TWO WEEKS IN THE TRIAD: The Hudson Valley Renegades continue their 12-game road trip of the season this afternoon as they wrap up their six-game series with the Greensboro Grasshoppers. This is the lone 12-game trip of the year for Hudson Valley. Following this six-game series, the Renegades have a six-game date with the Winston-Salem Dash. This is the only series of the year between Hudson Valley and Greensboro, despite both playing in the North Division.

SO, ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The Renegades were swept in a doubleheader by the Greensboro Grasshoppers on Saturday night, falling 2-0 in the opener and 1-0 in the nightcap. Trey Sweeney had hits in both games of the doubleheader, while Everson Pereira went 2-for-3 in the second contest. Starters Beck Way and Josue Panacual combined to allow just two earned runs in 10.0 innings of work.

PEREIRA YARD WORK: Everson Pereira hit two home runs for the Renegades on Friday night, his fifth career multi-homer game. All four have come within the last calendar year, and four while a member of the Hudson Valley Renegades, including two this week. The two-homer game gave Pereira 20 home runs with Hudson Valley, making him just the second player in franchise history to hit 20 long balls with the team.

Pereira Career Multi-HR Games:

6/17/22 at Greensboro Grasshoppers

6/14/22 at Greensboro Grasshoppers

9/5/21 at Greensboro Grasshoppers -- 3 HR

8/12/21 vs. Jersey Shore BlueClaws

7/10/21 at Dunedin Blue Jays

GADES DIG THE LONG BALL: After hitting just 48 home runs in their first 57 games of the season, the Hudson Valley Renegades hit 13 home runs in the first three games of the series in Greensboro. That represents a whopping 21.3% of the team's total home runs on the season. The Gades have seen four players hit multiple home runs in a game (Everson Pereira 2x, Tyler Hardman and Carlos Narvaez), and on Friday hit a season-high six home runs in one game.

YANKEES AFFILIATES IN GREENSBORO: In the history of Greensboro baseball, the Yankees have fielded teams in the league several times. From 1958-68, the Yankees were affiliated with a Carolina League team, the Greensboro Yankees/Patriots. From 1980-84, the Yankees returned as the parent club of the South Atlantic League Greensboro Hornets. After a five-year hiatus, the Yanks returned from 1990-02 as the parent club of the Hornets/Bats.

START ME UP: In their last 28 games, Renegades starting pitchers have turned in some great individual performances, and as a unit have been performed at a high level. In those games, HV starters are 7-7 with a 2.82 ERA (42 ER/133.2 IP), with 119 hits allowed, 46 walks (3.09BB/9) and 128 strikeouts (8.62 K/9). The run has lowered the collective starting pitcher's ERA from 4.61 to 3.71, and the starters win total has quadrupled.

CLOSE GAME TROUBLE: Entering play on Sunday, the Renegades sit at exactly.500 with a 31-31 record, despite a +50 run differential, the second-best in the South Atlantic League North Division (36-26 pythag record). Part of the reason for this has been the Gades performance in one and two-run games this season. Hudson Valley is 9-11 (.450) in one-run games, and 7-11 (.389) in two-run games this season. Teams are typically around .500 in these kinds of games, indicating that the Gades have experienced some bad luck.

BOWMAN ON THE RUN: Cooper Bowman stole his 24th base of the season on Friday night in Greensboro. That is the most steals in a single season by a Renegades player since Jake Fraley set the franchise record with 33 in 2016. Bowman has been successful in eight straight attempts since he was last caught stealing, and is 37-for-41 (.902) on steals in his career.

ALVAREZ CLOSING IN ON RECORDS: Reliever Nelson Alvarez has his sights set on two of the Renegades all-time pitching records. He currently ranks fourth all-time in total appearances, just four shy of tying Oscar Bustillos and Jason Jimenez for the lead. Alvarez also has racked up seven wins out of the bullpen, which ties him with teammate Charlie Ruegger for third on the all-time relief wins list, two shy of Mike Venafro's mark set in 1995. Dubiously, Alvarez has issued 51 career walks with Hudson Valley, which ties him for fifth most, but he is still 42 shy of Rich Dorman's franchise mark of 93.

HARDMAN HEATING UP: After a slow start to the season, infielder Tyler Hardman has been swinging a hot bat lately, picking up hits in 14 of his last 16 games. The hot stretch has lifted his season batting line from .173/.279/.298 to .246/.328/.398, a 149-point jump in his OPS. The stretch was punctuated by his first career multi-homer game on 6/15 at Greensboro.

HUDSON VALLEY TO THE SHOW: The Renegades have had two 2021 alumni recently make their MLB debuts. Infielders Josh Smith and Ezequiel Duran both made their debuts with the Texas Rangers last week. They became the second and third Renegades, respectively, under the Yankees affiliation (2021 - Present) to debut in the Major Leagues, joining RHP Elvis Peguero, who saw his first MLB action August 26, 2021. Ironically, all three Yankees-era Renegades in the majors debut with other organizations after both were traded in 2021. Duran's debut marked the 110th former HV player to make it to MLB.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH: Today marks the annual celebration of Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865 after the Army's arrival in Galveston, Texas. G.O. No. 3 transmitted the news of the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Texas and freed all remaining enslaved people in the state, nearly two and a half years after the Proclamation was issued. The holiday has been celebrated annually since 1866, but was not made a Federal Holiday until 2021.

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