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Tacoma Rainiers Game Notes: vs. Sacramento (6:05 p.m. PT)

June 14, 2022 - Pacific Coast League (PCL)
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Notes for Tuesday's Tacoma Rainiers series opener vs. Sacramento are attached. Tacoma is 2-1 on this nine-game homestand.

Tacoma Rainiers (23-36) vs. Sacramento River Cats (24-36)

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 6:05 p.m. PT | Cheney Stadium: Tacoma, WA

LHP Tommy Milone (2-0, 1.38) vs. RHP Tristan Beck (0-4, 9.20)

AWARDS SZN: When Marcus Wilson homered in all three games of Tacoma's weekend series win over Round Rock, it locked up PCL Player of The Week honors for the period of June 6-12. Wilson batted .389 (7-for-18) over six games, with 4 HR, 10 RBI, 6 BB, 9 runs scored and a stolen base. He OPS'd 1.709 for the week (.542/1.167) over 24 plate appearances. It was Wilson's third career Player of The Week award (2017- Midwest League, Kane County & 2019- Carolina League, Salem). He's now won a weekly award in each of the three organizations he's played with (Arizona, Boston, Seattle).

The Rainiers have secured either PCL Pitcher or Player of Week accolades for consecutive weeks, and three times in four weeks, following superb starts by RHP Konner Wade (5/20 at Sacramento: 6.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 K) and LHP Justus Sheffield (6/2 at Reno: 6.0 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K).

EXCEEDINGLY BRASH: After he finished Wednesday's 13-6 win at Salt Lake by striking out the side in order in the ninth, Rainiers right-hander Matt Brash pitched in consecutive games for the first time this season, and pitched five times in nine days on the recent road trip (June 1-9). Brash currently has a streak of eight consecutive scoreless appearances dating to May 25, each of which were 1.0 IP: 4 H (.148 BAA), 2 BB (0.75 WHIP), 12 K.

HE'S AN O'K PLAYER: After an RBI double in the first inning on Sunday, Tacoma catcher Brian O'Keefe has reached base with either a walk or base hit in 25 of the 27 games he's played this season, after returning from a broken hamate bone on 4/27 at Las Vegas. O'Keefe is batting .327 with a .992 OPS (.421/.571), with four home runs, 14 extra-base hits and 15 walks since returning to action.

SUMMER SLAM: It took 55 games this season for the first Rainiers grand slam (Scott Heineman, 6/8 at Salt Lake), but then Tacoma hit two in three days. Friday night's Alex Blandino walk-off slam with nobody out was Tacoma's first game-ending grand slam since Chris Mariscal, on June 24, 2019 vs. El Paso. Mariscal won that game with two out in the bottom of the 10th, trailing by a run, for a 7-4 final (GS off Trevor Megill). Last season the Rainiers had four bases loaded homers, including one against Sacramento at Cheney Stadium (Jack Reinheimer on September 9).

R GUYS ARE HOT: Jarred Kelenic has compiled the longest Tacoma hit streak this season, 13 games (5/24-6/8) and has hit safely in 15 of 16...Marcus Wilson has a hit in six straight with four homers...Alex Blandino has hit in five of six with a pair of homers. It's a season-high hit streak for Wilson as well.

LEADE-R-BOARD: Marcus Wilson has drawn the 10th most walks in the PCL with 30...Forrest Wall has the second-most stolen bases in the league with 20 (Sam Haggerty, 13, T-7th, Erick Mejia, 12, T-9th)...Darren McCaughan is tied for ninth in the PCL with 55 strikeouts and is second with 59.1 IP...reliever Patrick Weigel has made the fifth-most appearances in the league (22 G).

FRENEMIES: While an early season flurry of transactions between the San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners saw infielders Mike Ford (Triple-A Gwinnett Braves), Kevin Padlo (back to the Rainiers for a second time) and Donovan Walton (Giants, MLB) all suit up for Sacramento and Tacoma this season, all three have vacated the California capital.

The River Cats still have former Rainiers infielder Wyatt Mathisen on their active roster (32 games with Tacoma in 2021). Sacramento Manager Dave Brundage led the Rainiers for one season, skippering a 74-70 campaign in 2006.

On Tacoma's active roster, former River Cats include LHPs Fernando Abad (2019) and Tommy Milone (2014) and infielders Alex Blandino (2022) and Zach Green (2019). Milone pitched for Sacramento during their Oakland A's affiliation.

A TRIPLE-A RATING: Of the 30 clubs at the highest level of Minor League Baseball, the Rainiers have the second-most stolen bases this season with 83 (Buffalo has 84), have hit the third-most home runs with 87 (Memphis has 100, El Paso has 89) and are one of 14 teams with at least 13 triples. The Rainiers' 37 errors as a club are the fourth-fewest in Triple-A, and second-fewest in the PCL behind only Reno (31).

UNI WATCH: The 2022 Tacoma Rainiers have the following win-loss record by uniform top: Home white (5-8), red (12-15), navy blue (1-3), road grey (4-5), "La Familia de Tacoma" (1-2, Copa de la Diversion), specialty auction (0-3). Tacoma will wear their 2022 "Copa" uniforms at home for the first time this evening, after the 5/28 home debut vs. Las Vegas was rained out.

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