May 22, 2024 – Pacific Coast League (PCL)
Tacoma Rainiers News Release
TACOMA RAINIERS (24-21) vs. LAS VEGAS AVIATORS (23-22)
Wednesday, May 22 – 6:05 PM – Cheney Stadium – Tacoma, WA
RHP Levi Stoudt (3-3, 5.40) vs. RHP Luis Medina (0-0, -.–)
TONIGHT’S GAME: Tacoma and Las Vegas will begin their series tonight after yesterday’s game was postponed due to inclement weather. Levi Stoudt will take the ball for the Rainiers, set to make his eighth start and pitch in his ninth game of the year. Through his first eight games, the right-hander is 3-3 with a 5.40 ERA, allowing 22 earned runs on 41 hits including seven home runs. He has walked 19 batters compared to 25 strikeouts over hits 36.2 innings, allowing opponents to hit .287 against him. Stoudt allowed three earned runs on four hits and four walks while striking out four in 4.0 innings back on April 17 in his first-career matchup against the Aviators. Opposite Stoudt will be Major League rehabber Luis Medina toeing the rubber for Las Vegas. Medina was placed on the 15-day injured list with a right knee MCL sprain back on March 28 and was transferred to the 60-day injured list with the same injury on April 11. He was sent on a rehab assignment to the ACL Athletics on May 15 and allowed six earned runs on six hits while striking out three in 2.0 innings of work. Tonight will be his first start of the season with Las Vegas after going 0-1 with a 6.48 ERA in six games last season for the Aviators.
BACK IN ACTION: Outfielder Jonatan Clase is back with the Tacoma Rainiers and expected to play in tonight’s game against Las Vegas. Clase never left Tacoma’s roster, but was sent to Baltimore and was on Seattle’s Taxi Squad after Friday night’s game. In his last game with Tacoma, Clase went 3-for-3 with a run scored, a double, a walk and a stolen base. He has recorded two or more hits in four of his last seven games, dating back to May 10 against Reno.
OUT OF RELIEF: For the first time this season, Michael Mariot pitched out of relief for Tacoma on Sunday. He entered the game in the 10th inning, tied at 2-2. After recording the first two outs of the inning, Mariot allowed a three-run home run, and the deficit was too much for Tacoma to overcome. He suffered his second loss of the season, coming in back-to-back outings. Mariot is now 2-2 with a 6.27 ERA through eight games with the Rainiers this year.
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