Link Report for Games of Wednesday, July 2nd

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Mark DiFelice at Memphis (Cardinals), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 PM gametime

 

Audio link via WNSR, be sure to select the proper date (game will also archive at this link):

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/clubs/ip_index.jsp?sid=milb&cid=t556

Huntsville: RHP Donovan Hand at Tennessee (Cubs), 6:00 PM pre-game; 6:15 gametime

 

Audio link via WUMP, be sure to select the proper date (game will also archive at this link):

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/audio.jsp?sid=t559

 

Brevard County: First, it's the completion of Tuesday's suspended contest at Jupiter (Marlins), with the Manatees trailing 1-0 in the second inning, followed by a seven-inning nightcap; RHP Alex Periard is penciled in to start Game Two, but as sometimes happens in these cases, it wouldn't surprise us to see him pick up things in the first game; 4:00 game time for the start of the evening's action

 

Audio link via the Hammerhead's feed:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/audio.jsp?cid=503&sid=t503

 

West Virginia: Idle; well-deserved day off

Helena: RHP Santo Manzanillo at Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:50 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime; LHP Efrain Nieves is expected to piggy-back, with the two swapping roles next time through the rotation

 

Audio link via KCAP, be sure to select the proper date (game will also archive at this link):

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/clubs/ip_index.jsp?sid=milb&cid=t433

 

Arizona: Idle

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Follow Wednesday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Open the Nashville Gameday. For the others, choose "Log" or "Recap". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often.

 

Nashville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_02_nasaaa_mrbaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_02_hunaax_tenaax_1

 

Brevard County Completion of Suspended Game:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_01_breafa_jupafa_1

 

Brevard County Regularly Scheduled Game:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_02_breafa_jupafa_1

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_02_helrok_misrok_1

[Mass Haas]

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated several hours prior to gametime.

 

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

[Mass Haas]

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 51 36 .586 - 31-16 20-20 W4 Memphis 45 40 .529 5.0 21-20 24-20 L2 Omaha 41 42 .494 8.0 17-21 24-21 L2 Nashville 34 51 .400 16.0 17-22 17-29 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee 10 4 .714 - 5-3 5-1 W1 Carolina 7 6 .538 2.5 3-3 4-3 W1 Huntsville 7 7 .500 3.0 3-3 4-4 L1 Chattanooga 6 8 .429 4.0 4-4 2-4 L1 West Tenn 5 9 .357 5.0 1-5 4-4 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 8 4 .667 - 6-2 2-2 L1 Jupiter 5 4 .556 1.5 1-0 4-4 L2 Vero Beach 6 5 .545 1.5 1-2 5-3 L2 Palm Beach 5 5 .500 2.0 5-4 0-1 W1 Daytona 5 6 .455 2.5 2-1 3-5 W1 Brevard County 3 8 .273 4.5 1-4 2-4 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 9 4 .692 - 5-1 4-3 W5 Hagerstown 8 5 .615 1.0 3-4 5-1 L2 Lakewood 7 6 .538 2.0 4-2 3-4 W4 Lake County 6 7 .462 3.0 2-5 4-2 W2 Delmarva 5 8 .385 4.0 1-5 4-3 L5 Greensboro 5 8 .385 4.0 1-5 4-3 L6 Hickory 4 9 .308 5.0 1-4 3-5 L2 Lexington 3 10 .231 6.0 1-6 2-4 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Falls 10 5 .667 - 5-4 5-1 L2 Billings 9 6 .600 1.0 1-0 8-6 W2 Helena 7 8 .467 3.0 5-6 2-2 W1 Missoula 4 11 .267 6.0 1-8 3-3 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Arizona League (R) - Arizona League Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZL Angels 5 3 .625 - 2-2 3-1 L1 AZL Giants 5 3 .625 - 3-1 2-2 W1 AZL Padres 5 3 .625 - 4-0 1-3 W1 AZL Rangers 5 3 .625 - 2-2 3-1 W2 AZL Athletics 4 4 .500 1.0 2-2 2-2 W2 AZL Mariners 4 4 .500 1.0 2-2 2-2 L2 AZL Royals 4 4 .500 1.0 4-0 0-4 W1 AZL Cubs 3 5 .375 2.0 3-1 0-4 L1 AZL Brewers 1 7 .125 4.0 1-3 0-4 L4 

[Mass Haas]

Getting To Know Your Sounds: Mark DiFelice

 

My good buddy pogokat has kindly offered to give me a couple of evenings off from Link Report duty, although I may pop over with a comment or two. Enjoy his insights tonight, and catch you all in the AM with audio links, press reports and such.

[battlekow]

...and the BC continued game still hasn't started, let alone the scheduled one.

[battlekow]

Brett Wallace, the Cards' 3B of the future, is making his pro debut tonight for Quad Cities.

[battlekow]

Hey, Cain inaugurates the resumption (finally) of the suspended game with a three-run bomb. Awesome.

[lovehate]

The Stars are at it again, didn't they rough up Cubs prospect Donnie Veal earlier this season as well?

[twobrewers]

I don't appreciate Cain nearly enough.

[homer]

Cain was one of my faves last year - hopefully he puts it all together and has a big second half.

[battlekow]

Huntsville lost on a walk-off homer. Would be nice if either Sandoval or Aguilar could get it together.

[battlekow]

Nice game for Efrain Nieves: Four innings allowing only a leadoff triple in the 7th that scored on a WP. 4/0 K/BB.

[Minigoon]

The Santo Manzanillo from last season showed up tonight. Rough outing for the kid with 8 runs (6 earned) and 5 walks in 3 1/3 but his teammates are doing their best for him. Efrain Nieves looking strong tonight. 4 innings of relief, 1 run, 1 hit, no walks, 4 strikeouts. Pitcher turned first baseman Brock Kjeldgaad with home run # 4. Three hit nights for both Erik Komatsu and John Delaney with Delaney adding his 2nd long ball of the season. David Fonseca has been returned to Helena and he celebrated with 2 hits including a homer. Adam Arnold pitched the 9th to pick up his 3rd save.

[pogokat]

Final: Helena 11, Missoula (D Backs) 10

 

Mass should get some news articles in the morning

 

Helena Box Score

Cutter Dykstra's 0-5 lowers his average about 50 points...which goes to remind that it's really way to early to try and derive any thing from the stats these guys are throwing out

Helena Game Log

 

You should probably avert your eyes from the bottom of the 4th here..

[pogokat]

Final: Memphis (St. Louis) 3, Nashville 2

Redbirds Stage Late Rally To Defeat Sounds

Date Posted: 7/2/2008

Link

 

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Redbirds plated a pair of runs in the seventh inning to register a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Sounds on Wednesday evening at AutoZone Park.

 

Seven Memphis hurlers held the Sounds to a season-low four hits on the evening.

 

The Sounds grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the third inning. Hernan Iribarren doubled with one out to chase rehabbing Memphis starter Anthony Reyes from the contest. Two batters later, Vinny Rottino ripped a two-out RBI single off Hugo Castellanos to plate the game's first run. Brendan Katin added a run-scoring double later in the frame, which extended the outfielder's season-best hitting streak to seven games.

 

Memphis got on the board in the bottom of the fifth when Sounds starter Mark DiFelice hit Rico Washington with a pitch with the bases loaded and two outs.

 

DiFelice allowed one run on three hits over five innings in his first start since returning to the Sounds and took a no-decision.

 

The Redbirds rallied to grab the lead in the seventh against Nashville reliever Ben Howard. Jarrett Hoffpauir led off with a double and scored the tying run two batters later on a Washington RBI single. Joe Mather gave the home team a 3-2 advantage later in the frame with a two-out RBI single to left that plated Washington.

 

Mark Worrell retired the Sounds in order in the eighth before Kelvin Jimenez worked a 1-2-3 ninth to notch his sixth save of the year for the Redbirds.

 

Memphis reliever Ron Flores (2-3) worked a scoreless inning to earn the victory, while Howard (2-4) took the loss for the Sounds after giving up two runs in his 1 1/3 frames of action.

 

The teams wrap up the series with a 7:05 p.m. finale on Thursday evening. Left-hander Lindsay Gulin (4-4, 3.15) will make the start for Nashville. Memphis will counter with right-hander Clayton Mortensen (2-1, 3.42).

Nashville Box Score

 

Mark Difelice unleashes just his second walk of the entire season in the majors or minors

Nashville Game Log

[pogokat]

Final: Tennessee (Cubs) 6, Huntsville 5

 

Smokies Rally From Early Deficit for Comeback Win

By Brett Pollock / Huntsville Stars

Link

 

Doug Deeds' two-run walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom half of the ninth inning lifted Tennessee to a dramatic 6-5 comeback win over Huntsville Wednesday night in the third of a four-game set at Smokies Park. The Smokies won their second straight to lift their second half record to a league-best 11-4, while the Stars slipped to 7-8 in the half and 48-37 overall. It was the Stars' fourth walk-off loss of the year.

 

Juan Sandoval, who had entered the ninth inning having thrown 13 1/3 straight shutout frames retired the first two hitters before Matt Craig singled to left and was lifted for a pinch-runner. Deeds took a first pitch strike and then launched a long, high home run onto the grassy berm area in right field for his fourth hit of the night and seventh long ball. It was the second time Sandoval has surrendered a walk-off home run on the road this season.

 

Alcides Escobar led off the seventh with an infield single, moved to second base on an Angel Salome ground out and scored on a Matt LaPorta single with two outs to give the Stars the lead back at 5-4. Steve Bray gave up one-out singles to Deeds and Nate Spears in the bottom of the inning but got Mark Reed to ground into an inning-ending double play to keep the visitors on top.

 

Freddy Parejo started the game with a single, moved to second base on an Escobar sacrifice bunt and scored on a two-out single by Salome, who has driven in a run in eight of his last 12 games. Chris Errecart's lead off home run in the second, his second of the season against Donnie Veal, pushed the Huntsville lead to 2-0. Parejo and Escobar kept the inning going with singles and scored on a double by Mat Gamel that made it 4-0 Stars. Veal then settled down and blanked the Stars over the next three frames on one hit and departed allowing nine hits, walking one and not recording a strikeout. Veal had lost each of his five prior starts against Huntsville, dating back to last season.

 

The Smokies scored an unearned run in the second inning and crept to within 4-3 with a pair of runs in the fifth against Donovan Hand on a run-scoring triple by Matt Camp, who then came in on a scoring fly ball to shallow right field by Tyler Colvin, the current hitter of the week in the league. Hand was lifted after five frames, allowing two earned runs on six hits, while walking four and fanning one. The Huntsville-area native is still searching for his first win after eight appearances, including seven starts.

 

Bray took over in the sixth and gave up a two-out single to Camp that plated Reed, who had singled to start the inning, with the tying run. Bray gave up a run on four hits over his two innings and was followed by David Johnson, who set down the side in order in the eighth.

 

The series wraps up on Thursday night with right-hander Nic Ungs taking the hill for Huntsville against Smokies' right-hander Alex Maestri. Coverage of the game begins at 6:00 pm central time and can be heard locally on SportsRadio 730 WUMP and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com and www.730ump.com.

 

This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.

 

Huntsville Box Score

 

Gamel now has 31 doubles...He and Alcides are both on pace for 200 hits...Gamel could reach 230-240..

 

Huntsville Game Log

[pogokat]

Final (Completion of Game 1): BC 9, Jupiter (Marlins) 5

 

This game was the completion of yesterday's game---naturally, the regularly scheduled game did not get played.

Brevard County Box Score

 

Lucroy is having a truly awesome first month in BC. Im getting to the point where I'm not so sure that he's not the best catching prospect in the system. All things equal, take the guy that projects the best as a catcher. Lorenzo Cain deserves to be in Huntsville.

 

Brevard County Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Thanks, pogo!

 

Isaias Ascencio of the Missoula Osprey is tagged out at home plate by Helena catcher Mike Roberts during the third inning Wednesday night at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

 

http://www.missoulian.com/content/articles/2008/07/03/sports/sports01.jpg

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

Text also added from the Helena Independent Record game summary within...

Brewers win again: Helena takes second straight from Osprey

By CHAD DUNDAS of the Missoulian

 

For the Missoula Osprey and Helena Brewers, familiarity appears to be breeding contempt for the scorekeeper.

As the two teams met for the eighth time during the Pioneer League season's first 16 games, it was the Brewers who finally scored the 11-10 win on Wednesday in a peculiar game where seven runners scored on wild pitches and passed balls, both teams squandered good-sized leads and Missoula walked in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth.

 

The score was tied 9-all in the final frame when Pedro Rodriguez's full-count pitch to John Delaney sailed too far inside, bringing home Brock Kjeldgaard after the Brewers loaded the bases with no outs. Helena made it a two-run affair as Corey Kemp scored on an error by shortstop Reynaldo Navarro during the next at bat.

 

The Osprey tried to rally in their half of the inning, with Ryne White smacking a lead-off double off the wall in right field. White scored on a wild pitch to Alberto Diaz two batters later to cut the lead to one. Diaz, though, grounded out to short to end the quirky duel just after 10 o'clock at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

 

Not that the game was devoid of entertainment, either. It turned out to be a wild, competitive battle.

 

The Brewers hit three home runs, Missoula batted around in the fourth inning and then turned a crisp double play in the fifth before falling to 4-12 on the season and to Helena for the fifth time.

 

Delaney and Erik Komatsu both finished 3-for-4 to lead the Brewers. It was Delaney's solo shot in the eighth off Rodriguez that tied the back-and-forth game for the fourth and final time. Kjeldgaard and David Fonseca homered earlier for Helena.

 

After dropping behind 3-0 in the first, the Osprey rallied to take an 8-4 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Rafael Hilario led off that frame with a double and then ended it with a strike out after Missoula had cycled all the way through its batting order, scoring five runs.

 

Isaias Ascencio paced the Osprey at the plate, finishing 2-for-5. Brett Reynolds pitched six innings and struck out four while walking two.

 

Brewers' starter Santo Manzanillo retired the first five batters he faced before losing the handle on his control. He left after 3 1/3 innings, with one strike out and five walks.

 

Efrain Nieves (3-1), who came in to relieve for the Brewers in the fifth, scored the win. He went four innings, giving up one earned run on one hit while striking out four.

 

Adam Arnold recorded his third save.

 

Delaney and Komatsu led the Brewers at the plate, both going 3-for-4. Delaney finished with two RBI and a run while Komatsu scored three times.

 

Asencio went 2-for-5 to lead the Osprey.

 

Kjeldgaard, who finished 1-for-5, is now tied with Chris Dennis for the most home runs with four. Kjeldgaard, a former pitcher who played the last two seasons with the Brewers before converting to first base, has been picking up steam in the clean-up spot.

 

Komatsu, who is 19-for-50 at the plate, leads Helena with a .380 batting average.

 

The Osprey and Brewers will close out their six-game set against each other on Thursday night, with Randy Rodriguez getting the call for the Osprey. Helena will counter with Nick Tyson, just sent to the rookie Brewers from Class A West Virginia.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Pre-Game Chat with ESPN Baseball Reporter Buster Olney (Part 3 of 3)

Discusses the NL Central, Ned Yost, and other aspects of the parent club...

[Mass Haas]

Helena Pre-Game Audio Interview with just-turned 19-year-old outfielder Cutter Dykstra

Click on the KCAP archive of July 2nd, then browse to the 13:00 minute mark; good stuff, quite the golfer, athletic mom, speed from her, not dad -- they will be in the new Billings ballpark for an upcoming series...

[TheCrew07]

Nashville Pre-Game Chat with ESPN Baseball Reporter Buster Olney (Part 3 of 3)

Discusses the NL Central, Ned Yost, and other aspects of the parent club...

Nashville does so many things so well, the whole stadium situation is a shame... If the Brewers leave I'll truly miss all of the perks that Sounds provide.