THE FLYING TIGERS (57-61 all, 21-27 2nd half, 6th, 5.0 GB) ... Lakeland picked up two wins over Brevard County in their recent series. The two wins snapped a three-game skid for the Flying Tigers who are now 3-6 their last nine games. Lakeland is 30-30 at home this season and 27-31 on the road.
THE YANKEES (63-56, 26-24 2nd half, 2nd, 1.0 GB) ... Tampa dropped a 7-5 game to Dunedin on Monday dropping them 1.0 game behind the Blue Jays in the second-half standings. Abraham Almonte is fourth in the Florida State League with 76 runs scored and second with 10 triples. Almonte has also swiped a team-leading 24 stolen bases.
LAKELAND PROBABLE STARTERS ...
- Tuesday (8/16) - Mark Sorensen (2-2, 3.86) tossed six shutout innings in his last start on Aug. 11 against Daytona. Sorensen held the Cubs to five hits with four strikeouts in winning his second straight game. He now has a 2-1 record with a 1.89 ERA in his last three starts with 10 strikeouts.
- Wednesday (8/17) - Jared Wesson (12-9, 4.69) is 1-1 with a 2.65 ERA in three games against Tampa this season. He was tagged with the loss in his last start on Aug. 11 against Daytona despite holding the Cubs to two runs. His 12 wins is the fifth most in a single season for any Lakeland pitcher. With his next win he’ll move into a tie with five other pitchers at 13 wins, including Jordan Tata who was the last Tigers to pick up a baker’s dozen wins, doing so in 2005.
- Thursday (8/18) - Michael Morrison (2-2, 3.86) made his first professional career start on Aug. 12 working two no-hit, shutout innings with four strikeouts against Brevard County before rains suspended the game. It was his first start since starting a game in college for Cal State Fullerton in 2008. Morrison is 2-0 with a 3.13 ERA as reliever and now has 40 strikeouts in 39.1 innings pitched.
PLAGMAN IN THE BOOKS ... With a home run to drive in three runs on Sunday at Brevard, Tony Plagman moves into fifth place on the Lakeland single season RBI list with 88, one behind Chris Wakeland who finished the 1998 season with 89. Alejandro Freiere is third with 92 RBI in 1997, while Ryan Strieby is second with 94 in 2008. The Lakeland record of 102 runs batted in was set by Brent Clevlen in 2005.
TONY TERRIFIC ... His homer on Sunday gives Tony Plagman 17 round-trippers on the season, the eighth most homers in a single season for any Lakeland player. He is currently tied with Chris Maples who had 17 homes in 2004. His next homer will move Plagman into a six-way tie for seventh place with Jeff Larish (2006), Derek Nicholson, Brent Clevlen and Kelly Hunt (all in 2005) and Chris Wakeland (1998). Kabe Kapler is in sixth place with 19 homers in 1997. The Lakeland franchise record is 28 home runs set in 2008 by Ryan Streiby.
BRAVO BERGOLLA ... William Bergolla has seven hits in his last four games and has a pair of doubles and three homers in his last eight games.
JORDAN, JORDAN ... Jordan Lennerton has three doubles in the last four games and is 6-for-14 (.429) in those four games. His 87 walks on the season is second to Bernie Anderson’s franchise record of 114 in 1987.
NEIN ON NINE ... Lakeland hasn’t played a nine-inning game since Aug. 6 with one 13-inning contest and seven consecutive seven-inning games.
E. ROOF ROLLING ... Eric Roof has hits in seven of his last eight games going 10-for-26 for a .385 clip.
S. ROOF FLIES AWAY ... While his brother, Eric, is getting his trips around the bases, Shawn Roof is getting a trip North as the infielder was assigned to Erie on Monday. Roof had played in 14 games for Lakeland with a .348 average. He opened the season in Lakeland and went to Erie after just two games. At Erie, Roof batted .302 in 49 games before being sent to back to Lakeland on July 22.
NELSON TRADED TO TWINS ... Detroit acquired outfielder Delmon Young on Monday in exchange for Flying Tiger Cole Nelson and a player to be named later. Nelson was 5-11 overall for Lakeland with a 4.87 ERA in 26 games, including 17 starts. As a reliever, he had a 1-1 mark with a 2.50 ERA. Nelson is the second Flying Tiger involved in a trade this season joining Julio Rodriguez who was sent to Kansas City on July 20 as part of the Wilson Betemit deal.
HOMERS, ROUND-TRIPPERS AND DINGERS ... Whatever you want to call them, Lakeland has had a bunch of them as of late. The Flying Tigers have clubbed 15 home runs in the last 13 games with homers in 10 of the 13 games.
MULTI-GRAIN BREAD ... With two hits against Brevard on Aug. 13, Tony Plagman now has 30 games this season with two or more hits – the most multi-hit games of any Flying Tiger. Avisail Garcia is second with 28 games with two or more base hits while Corey Jones is third with 26. Wade Gaynor, Brent Wyatt and Jordan Lennerton all have 24 multi-hit games.
RIBBIES IN BUNCHES ... With his three-run homer on Sunday at Brevard, Tony Plagman also leads the Flying Tigers with 21 games with two or more runs batted in. Jordan Lennerton is second with 15 multi-hit RBI games while Wade Gaynor is third with 13 games with two or more RBI.
LET’S GET IT STARTED ... The Lakeland starting pitchers have allowed just seven earned runs over the last six games for a 2.10 earned run average in that stretch.
LEFTIES AND RIGHTIES ... Lakeland is hitting .258 against right handed pitchers and .259 against left handers. The difference, however, is with the long ball. The Flying have hit 53 home runs against righties, but just 19 against lefties.
HEY, NOAH! ... With all the rains Lakeland has experienced in the past week, the squad ought to managed by Noah. The Aug. 6 was delayed 34 minutes while rains forced a suspension of game one of a scheduled doubleheader on Aug. 7. That game was completed in 13 innings on Aug. 8. The Aug. 9 game at home with Daytona was called due to rain forcing a doubleheader on Aug. 10 which also got washed out. The team squeezed in a couple of games before Mother Nature again stepped to the plate suspending game two of the Aug, 12 doubleheader. Rains came once again on Aug. 14 forcing the cancellation of the second game of that doubleheader.
LAKELAND IN THE FSL ... Jared Wesson is second with 12 wins ... Kenny Faulk is third with 20 saves ... Trevor Feeney leads with 143.2 innings pitched and is third with 1.75 walks allowed per nine innings ... Tony Plagman is first with 88 runs batted in (eight more than the second place total), is fourth with 47 extra base hits and 205 total bases ... Jordan Lennerton is second with 87 walks ... Lakeland is second with a .979 fielding percentage ... Wade Gaynor leads all third baseman in fielding percentage (.956), games played (110), total chances (341), putouts (93), assists (233) and double plays (22).
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