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Potomac Nationals Game Notes vs. Wilmington Blue Rocks

May 6, 2015 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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The P-Nats, after being washed away last night in the series opener with Wilmington, will now play their fourth double header of the season at Pfitzner Stadium. Potomac won the opening series between these two clubs 2-1 and looks to snap their worst stretch of baseball in the Tripp Keister era, having lost nine of ten.

Potomac sends the #3 prospect in the Nationals organization RHP Reynaldo Lopez (0-0, 0.00) to the mound for his much anticipated Carolina League debut tonight in Game One. Following in Game Two will be RHP Dakota Bacus (0-0, 3.21), making his fourth start of the season. Wilmington will counter in the twin bill with LHP Luis Rico (2-0, 2.93) in Game One and RHP Yender Caramo (0-1, 3.00) toes the slab in Game Two.

Lucas Giolito's talents made the ace the top ranked Washington Nationals farmhand by Baseball America and MLB.com in 2015. Meanwhile, Lopez is logged as the number three BA prospect in Washington's system and the number four prospect in the organization by MLB.com. Both hurling phenoms began the 2015 Minor League Baseball season at Washington Nationals Extended Spring Training in Viera, FL and will now enter the Potomac Nationals' starting pitching rotation. In 2014, as Giolito was set for his first full-season in pro ball with the Class-A Hagerstown Suns, Baseball America recognized the six-foot, six-inch, 255-pound power righty for owning the "Best Fastball" and "Best Curveball" in the Washington Nationals Minor League system for the second straight year, and Giolito did not disappoint. En route to claiming 2014 Washington Nationals Pitcher of the Year honors, Giolito hurled to a (10-2) record on the mound while maintaining an anemic 2.20 ERA and a 1.00 walks and hits per innings pitched ratio to complement a whopping 110 strikeouts and only 28 walks in 98.0 frames (20 starts). At season's end, Giolito won the 2014 South Atlantic League Most Outstanding Pitcher Award and was ticketed as the South Atlantic League's "Top Major League Prospect" after dominating the circuit to the tune of a 10.1 strikeouts per nine innings ratio and a .197 opposing batting average against. Reynaldo Lopez logged a 1.92 groundball-to-flyball ratio and a 7.5 strikeout per nine inning ratio in 2014. Lopez ranked as the number 49 prospect in all of Major League Baseball entering the 2015 slate after striking out 70 batters and walking just 26 men in 83.1 frames last year over two levels and allowing just one home run all season. Following his '14 year, Lopez was rated by BA as the number three prospect in the South Atlantic League and the number two prospect in the New-York Penn League. The dominant righty subdues hitters with an electric fastball that often sits between 96 and 99 miles per hour, a power curve with 11-to-5 bite, and a changeup that covets command.

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