September 14, 2022 – Southern League (SL) – Mississippi Braves News Release
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 6:35 PM CT | Trustmark Park | Pearl, MS
Mississippi Braves (ATL) (59-72, 30-32, 3rd SL South, -9.0) vs.
Montgomery Biscuits (TB) (68-58, 40-24, 1st SL South, +7.0)
Starting Pitchers: LHP Dylan Dodd (1-4, 3.27) vs. RHP Michael Mercado (4-7, 4.92)
Game #132 | 2nd Half #63 | Home Game #63
Today’s Roster Moves
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Today’s Promotions:
First Responders Wednesday: First responders receive free field or general admission tickets with valid ID at the Trustmark Park Box Office, presented by AMR!
Join Us 4 A Jackson: For just $20, receive a pack of four Field Level tickets and four soda vouchers! For $40, fans can get the same pack at the diamond level! Tickets must be purchased at M-Braves box office.
TODAY’S GAME: The M-Braves start a six-game series against the Montgomery Biscuits at Trust- mark Park. This is the final series of the regular season.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The M-Braves lost the series opener 2-0. RHP Allan Winans struck out a career-high 10 batters over seven shutout innings. The game stayed scoreless until the ninth when Alejandro Pie snuck a groundball through the middle for a two-run single after RHP Kyle Wilcox walked the bases loaded. The M-Braves picked up just four hits. Their best threat came in the fifth when Riley Delgado reached second base after a leadoff single and a wild pitch.
THE SLUGBAUER MAKING MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: 1B Drew Lugbauer has hit a club-record 45 career M-Braves home runs over two seasons and 207 games. He hit 18 home runs in 2021 and leads the league with 27 in 2022. On Sept. 9 at Biloxi, he broke the franchise single-season home run record, surpassing Ernesto Mejia (2011) and Mike Hessman’s (2001) single-season franchise record (26). Lugbauer also set a club record with seven RBI on Saturday, July 2 at Biloxi.
– Lugbauer hit a walk-off three-run homer on July 8 vs. Pensacola and a walk-off single on June 3 vs. Montgomery. He is in the league’s top 10 in…home runs (27, 1st), RBI (79, 1st), XBH (51, 2nd), walks (74, 3rd), doubles (24, 9th), and total bases (200, 2nd).
GIVE ME MO MORITZ: Andrew Moritz homered in back-to-back games on Tuesday and Wednesday- day, for his first two long balls of the season, logging four hits in each game. In the series, the outfielder went 9-for-18 with two homers, three doubles, five RBI, and seven runs. Moritz became the first M-Brave to log back-to-back four-hit games since Emerson Landoni…
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