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Jankowski, Gomber Dominate, Earn Weekly Recognition

April 30, 2018 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1) News Release


El Paso Chihuahuas outfielder Travis Jankowski
El Paso Chihuahuas outfielder Travis Jankowski
(El Paso Chihuahuas, Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

ROUND ROCK, Texas - The Pacific Coast League announced Monday that El Paso Chihuahuas outfielder Travis Jankowski and Memphis Redbirds left-hander Austin Gomber have been named the Player and Pitcher of the Week for the period of April 23-29, 2018. Jankowski reached base in 18-of-23 plate appearances, while Gomber had a record-tying performance in his only start of the week.

Jankowski's .783 on-base percentage led the PCL, along with his .706 batting average, 12 hits and 1.724 OPS. In five games, Jankowski totaled 16 bases (1 double, 1 home run), drove in four runs, scored five runs and walked five times to only one strikeout. The 26-year-old recorded multiple hits in each game, highlighted by a three-hit, three-RBI, one-walk performance in an April 23 win against Las Vegas. He also reached base four times in two other El Paso wins, April 25 against Salt Lake (three hits, one walk) and April 28, also against the Bees (two hits, two walks). Jankowski's hot play earned him a promotion to San Diego; he got recalled on April 29.

The Pennsylvania native has been in the San Diego organization for his entire seven-year career after being drafted out of Stony Brook University in the first round (44th overall) in 2012. Jankowski has hit .363 (29-for-80) with a .452 on-base percentage and a .902 OPS in 22 games with the Chihuahuas this year. He has spent parts of three seasons in El Paso and batted .329 (104-for-316) with a home run, 34 RBI and 21 stolen bases in 81 games. Jankowski has also played in 193 career Major League contests, collecting 116 hits, including four home runs. This is his first career Player of the Week award.

On April 23 at Iowa, Gomber tied Memphis' single-game franchise record with a 16-strikeout performance. He went eight shutout innings, didn't issue a walk and gave up only six singles, throwing strikes on 85 of his 112 pitches (75.9 percent). After the first three Iowa batters reached base, the southpaw set down the next 16 hitters. The 16 strikeouts matched Lance Lynn's for the franchise mark; Lynn's performance came on September 10, 2010 in a playoff game at Oklahoma City. Additionally, Gomber recorded the most strikeouts in a PCL regular season game in over 10 years, with the last such performance authored by Sacramento's Dallas Braden on August 27, 2007, when he fanned 17 in a three-hit shutout.

Gomber, tabbed as the Cardinals' top left-handed pitching prospect by Baseball America, received his first Major League call-up on April 29. He began the year with Memphis, his first such at the Triple-A level, and made four starts, going 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA (25.2 IP, 7 ER), recording 27 strikeouts to only nine walks. The Winter Garden, Florida native is in his fifth year in the St. Louis organization after getting selected by the Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft out of Florida Atlantic University. Gomber spent all of last season with Double-A Springfield, where he made 26 starts and had a 3.34 ERA (143.0 IP, 53 ER). This is his third career Pitcher of the Week, with the previous honors coming in 2015 with Single-A Peoria and in 2016 with the Arizona Fall League's Glendale Desert Dogs.

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Memphis Redbirds pitcher Austin Gomber
Memphis Redbirds pitcher Austin Gomber
(Brian Philbrick)		 El Paso Chihuahuas outfielder Travis Jankowski
El Paso Chihuahuas outfielder Travis Jankowski
(Ivan Pierre Aguirre)		  



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