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Tacoma Rainiers Game Notes: at Sacramento

July 19, 2023 - Pacific Coast League (PCL)
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Last night, Cade Marlowe achieved Tacoma's first four-stolen base game in over 21 years (Jermaine Clark, 6/21/02 at Colorado Springs). Marlowe also extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a ninth inning single, and is nine shy of the franchise record (more below).

Tacoma Rainiers (45-46, 8-8) @ Sacramento River Cats (40-50, 6-10)

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 12:05p.m. PT | Sutter Health Park: West Sacramento, CA

LHP Tommy Milone vs. RHP Mason Black

WHEN WERE YOU THERE AGAIN?: Four alums of Saugus (CA) High School have reached the Major Leagues, including today's Rainiers starting pitcher, southpaw Tommy Milone. All four have played for Seattle: LHP Shawn Barton (1992), RHP Roger Salkeld (1993-94), Milone (2019, 2022-23) and INF Zach Vincej (2018). Vincej, the current manager at Class A Modesto was also Tacoma's 3B/INF coach in 2022, while Milone pitched for the Rainiers (11 G, 10 GS, 40.1 IP). Salkeld pitched 4x (3 GS) for the 1995 Rainiers, during the first season of the franchise's affiliation with the Mariners.

WHAT A BUNCH OF HOMERS: Tacoma has hit 43 home runs over their last 22 games, and the Rainiers' 72 total home runs with at least one runner on base are the most in Triple-A, by three (Las Vegas, 69).

FUTURES GAME: Entering today's action, Seattle Mariners MiLB affiliates (all levels) have the third-best combined winning percentage of the 30 organizations, at .537 (217-187). Double-A Arkansas has already clinched a postseason berth, after a 45-24 first half to win the Texas League's North Division. Only Philadelphia (.547) and Los Angeles-NL (.630) are winning at a higher MiLB clip so far this season.

FAST FRIENDS: Tacoma's 126 stolen bases are most in the PCL (Salt Lake, 121), with three teammates in the league top 10 (Cade Marlowe- 25, Mason McCoy- 20, Cooper Hummel- 18); on Tuesday, Marlowe had Tacoma's first game with four stolen bases since 2002 (Jermaine Clark, 6/21/02 at Colorado Springs). A season ago, the Rainiers led all of Triple-A (by 13) with a franchise record 205 steals.

BUH-LAK-EH: Tacoma lefty Blake Weiman has worked 10 consecutive scoreless outings since June 18, striking out 12 batters over 13.0 IP; Weiman has issued only one walk during this span (9 H, 0.77 WHIP, .188 BAA). The southpaw was a NRI to Seattle's MLB spring training.

KO-SIGN: Rainiers right-hander Stephen Kolek is excelling in a long relief role, and has gone scoreless in six of his last seven appearances. Kolek has allowed only one run during his last 12.1 IP since June 21 (0.73 ERA), with 12 strikeouts. Kolek's WHIP is 0.81 (5 H, 5 BB) during this span, while holding batters to a .128 average. He's throwing 66% of his pitches for strikes during this stretch.

HIGHS & MARLOWE: Tacoma outfielder Cade Marlowe has reached base safely in 23 straight games, dating to June 16. During this stretch he's batting .330 (31x94, 13 XBH, 17 RBI, 17 BB, 1.070 OPS, 14 SB, 25 R). Marlowe has a hit in 17 consecutive games (since 6/23), the longest Rainiers hitting streak this season (by three). Marlowe has homered in seven of those 17 games, batting .368 (25x68), with 16 RBI and 21 runs scored (14 BB, .476 OBP, 13 SB). Marlowe's six triples are second-most in the PCL (tied).

The longest hitting streak in franchise history is shared at 26 games apiece, by Rex Johnston of the 1965 Tacoma Giants and Chad Akers of the 1999 Rainiers.

SCHEIN BRIGHT: Rainiers INFJake Scheiner leads all of Triple-A in both home runs (24) and RBI (82); his 71 runs scored are second at the level but are most in the Pacific Coast League...the PCL MVP candidate also ranks top three on the circuit in walks (56), extra-base hits (43) and total bases (178). Scheiner is batting .356 (37x104) with RISP (13 HR). His 82 RBI are already the most in a season for Tacoma since 2017, when Daniel Vogelbach drove in 83 runs.

YO...JAKE!: Rainiers 3B/1B Jake Scheiner hit his 24th home run (3-R) in game #82 of his Triple-A debut season on Tuesday, extending an already career-high total. He hit 21 homers last year at Double-A Arkansas.

Scheiner has homered 14x during home games, and is threatening Adrian Garrett's record of 19 homers in a season at Cheney Stadium (1971). Garrett, an outfielder for the 1971 Tacoma Cubs, still holds the franchise single-season home run record, with 43 (131 GP). Originally a 4th round draft pick of Philadelphia in 2017, Scheiner was traded to Seattle for OF Jay Bruce on 6/2/19.

SLUGGING (TAYLOR'S VERSION): Since being optioned to Tacoma on June 1, outfielder Taylor Trammell is slugging .549 (10 HR) with a .938 OPS (27 RBI, 26 BB, 25 R)...he's played in 34 games since June 4, and 17 of his 36 hits in this span have gone for extra bases (seven doubles).

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