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HVR Game Notes - June 26, 2022

June 26, 2022 - South Atlantic League (SAL)
Hudson Valley Renegades News Release


Hudson Valley Renegades (34-34, 0-2) vs. Winston-Salem Dash (35-33, 2-0)

LHP T.J. Sikkema (0-1, 3.50 ERA) vs. RHP Andrew Dalquist (3-4, 5.63 ERA)

| Game 69 | Road Game 39 | Truist Stadium | Winston-Salem, N.C. | June 26, 2022 | First Pitch 1 p.m. |

THIS IS THE END: The Hudson Valley Renegades finish the second leg of their two-week, 12-game road trip Sunday afternoon as they take on the Winston-Salem Dash, the High-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. The Renegades are 6-5 in the first 11 games of the road trip, which is comprised of the only series that Hudson Valley will play with both Greensboro and Winston-Salem this season.

SO, ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The Renegades fell on Saturday night at Winston-Salem 6-3. Aaron Palensky starred for Hudson Valley, going 3-for-4 with a home run at the plate. Yoendrys Gómez allowed one run in 2.0 innings in his third start of the season coming back from Tommy John surgery last August. The Dash took the lead for good in the sixth against Josue Panacual, who allowed five runs in 3.0-plus innings of long relief.

DAY MAN (AAH AAH AAH): Renegades starter T.J. Sikkema is slated to make his seventh start in a day game this season, with only one of his appearances coming in a night game (1.2 IP in night games).

BACK-TO-BACK: With losses on both Friday and Saturday at Winston-Salem, the Renegades have lost games on consecutive days for the first time since May 27 & 28 against Rome. In the 25-game span in between, the Renegades were swept twice in doubleheaders. Hudson Valley has not had a three-game losing streak of any kind since May 22-24.

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 road trip. 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 have hit 23 home runs on the current road trip. That represents a whopping 32.3% of the team's total home runs on the season in 16.2% of the team's games. 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. Hardman, Pereira and Narvaez all have four total homers on the trip as well.

AIR-LOS: With his second inning home run on Wednesday, Carlos Narvaez has four home runs and nine RBIs in his last seven games played. This surge comes after Narvaez had only two home runs and five RBIs in his first 36 games of the season.

SPEED DEMON: Cooper Bowman stole his 27th and 28th bases of the season on Saturday night in Winston-Salem. 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 12 straight tries since he was last caught, and is 41-for-45 (.911) on steals in his career.

BOWMAN HEATING BACK UP: Since last Wednesday's contest at Greensboro, infielder Cooper Bowman has been one of the hottest hitters in the Renegades lineup. He is batting .324/.400/.500 (11-for-34, 7 R, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 3 BB, 3 K, 6-6 SB) across eight games, and has at least two hits in four of the eight. Bowman is second on the team with 11 multi-hit games, trailing only Everson Pereira, who has 17.

HISTORIC THIEVES: The Renegades have stolen 134 bases on the season this year, already tied for the second-highest total in team history (2009). Hudson Valley's all-time record is 149 in 2021. Infielder James Nelson has 31 career SB with HV, just 2 shy of Jake Fraley's team record, while Cooper Bowman is closing in as well with 28.

ALVAREZ CLOSING IN ON RECORDS: Reliever Nelson Alvarez has his sights set on two of the Renegades all-time pitching records. He currently ranks tied for third all-time in total appearances with 46, just two shy of tying Oscar Bustillos and Jason Jimenez for the lead. Alvarez also has racked up seven wins out of the bullpen, which puts him just behind teammate Charlie Ruegger (8) for second on the all-time relief wins list, two shy of Mike Venafro's mark (9) set in 1995. Dubiously, Alvarez has issued 52 career walks with Hudson Valley, which ties him for fifth most, but he is still 41 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 19 of his last 22 games. The hot stretch has lifted his season batting line from .173/.279/.298 to .255/.332/.436, a 193-point jump in his OPS. The stretch was punctuated by his first career multi-HR game on 6/15 at Greensboro.

NEW HALF, NEW ME: Friday night marked the 67th game of the regular season and the official start of the second half of the South Atlantic League schedule. The half means team records are wiped clean and a fresh start for everyone around the league. The Aberdeen IronBirds and Bowling Green Hot Rods clinched playoff spots by winning their respective divisions in the first half, and they await the second half division winners in the South Atlantic League Playoffs in September. The Renegades finished the first half in third place in the North Division with a record of 34-32, 9.0 games back of Aberdeen.

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