Link Report for Games of Sunday, July 13th

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central except Arizona League; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP's Steve Hammond and Lindsay Gulin in a double-dip at home vs. New Orleans (Mets), 4:45 PM pre-game; 5:00 gametime; each contest seven innings...

 

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: Idle -- Southern League All-Star Game Monday

 

Brevard County: TBD (it's RHP Alex Periard's turn) at Sarasota (Reds), 12:00 gametime

 

Sorry, no audio for this series...

West Virginia: LHP Dan Merklinger at Charleston (Yankees), 2:50 PM pre-game, 3:05 gametime

 

Audio link via WSWW, 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=t525

 

Helena: LHP Efrain Nieves (oh, yeah) at home vs. Casper (Rockies), 4:50 PM pre-game, 5:05 gametime

 

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: TBD vs. the baby A's in Maryvale, 10:30 AM local Mountain Standard Time

 

Never any audio for the Maryvale Crew

[Mass Haas]

Follow Sunday'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 Game One:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_nozaaa_nasaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Two:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_nozaaa_nasaaa_2

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_breafa_sarafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_wvaafx_crdafx_1

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_casrok_helrok_1

 

Arizona:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_13_athrok_brrrok_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 60 38 .612 - 36-17 24-21 W4 Memphis 53 44 .546 6.5 25-21 28-23 L1 Omaha 45 51 .469 14.0 20-26 25-25 W1 Nashville 39 58 .402 20.5 19-25 20-33 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee 16 9 .640 - 9-6 7-3 L2 Huntsville 14 11 .560 2.0 5-5 9-6 L1 Carolina 12 13 .480 4.0 5-5 7-8 L2 Chattanooga 11 14 .440 5.0 6-9 5-5 W1 West Tenn 8 17 .320 8.0 1-9 7-8 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Palm Beach 13 8 .619 - 9-5 4-3 W5 Daytona 13 9 .591 0.5 6-3 7-6 W2 St. Lucie 13 9 .591 0.5 8-5 5-4 L2 Jupiter 10 9 .526 2.0 5-2 5-7 L1 Vero Beach 10 12 .455 3.5 4-7 6-5 L2 Brevard County 7 15 .318 6.5 3-9 4-6 L5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 18 5 .783 - 8-2 10-3 W8 Lakewood 14 9 .609 4.0 8-4 6-5 L1 Delmarva 12 11 .522 6.0 5-7 7-4 L1 Lake County 11 11 .500 6.5 5-7 6-4 W1 Hagerstown 10 13 .435 8.0 4-9 6-4 L5 Hickory 10 13 .435 8.0 3-6 7-7 W4 Greensboro 7 16 .304 11.0 2-8 5-8 L3 Lexington 5 17 .227 12.5 2-9 3-8 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 15 10 .600 - 5-1 10-9 W2 Great Falls 14 11 .560 1.0 8-4 6-7 L4 Helena 12 13 .480 3.0 7-9 5-4 W1 Missoula 5 20 .200 10.0 2-14 3-6 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Arizona League (R) - Arizona League Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZL Angels 11 5 .688 - 5-3 6-2 L1 AZL Cubs 10 6 .625 1.0 7-1 3-5 W6 AZL Padres 10 6 .625 1.0 6-1 4-5 W4 AZL Giants 9 8 .529 2.5 5-3 4-5 W1 AZL Royals 9 8 .529 2.5 6-2 3-6 W1 AZL Rangers 8 8 .500 3.0 4-5 4-3 L2 AZL Mariners 7 10 .412 4.5 4-5 3-5 L1 AZL Athletics 6 10 .375 5.0 3-5 3-5 L3 AZL Brewers 3 12 .200 7.5 3-5 0-7 L1 

[TheCrew07]

With Scarpetta(first game action), Periard, Nieves, and Hammond this should be a decent prospect day. Gulin hasn't been too shabby this year either, but it's hard to qualify him as a "prospect"

 

edit. BTW, that's a neat shirt graphic.

[foamboy1]

Is that shirt available for purchase?

[bretsky07]

I'm actually wearing that shirt right now.

[TheCrew07]

Scarpetta didn't make it out of the 1st, 2/3 of inning with 3 BBs, a WP, 2 SBs, and 1 ER.

[DHonks]

Scarpetta with the pro-debut out of the way. I'd assume he left due to pitch count issues...or at least I hope

[NDBrewerfan]

Periard with another really nice line today (4 hits 0 ER through 7). Do we know how hard he throws?

[And That]

Periard throws his fastball in the low-middle 90's with heavy sink, with a plus curveball and an average changeup.

[DHonks]

Just thought to look at Mercedes' stats, and his last 10 outings have mostly been good. But here are his June/July splits:

 

June 6 games 3.93 ERA 18.1 IP 16 H 1 BB 22 K

July 2 games 0.82 ERA 11.0 IP 6 H 1 BB 5 K

 

It appears that the talented youngster may be turning a corner.

[foamboy1]

Scarpetta didn't make it out of the 1st, 2/3 of inning with 3 BBs, a WP, 2 SBs, and 1 ER.

 

Fredricksen-like

 

 

I'm actually wearing that shirt right now.

I don't see it for sale on the site. Any thoughts on where to find it?

[And That]

I don't see it for sale on the site. Any thoughts on where to find it?

Whamo!

 

[TheCrew07]

Love the shirt, but I didn't see it when I was in the store at Miller Park and I'm not buying it online, DHL will never deliver a package to my house for personal reasons, I wish consumers had a choice of carrier.

[And That]

I would not buy it due to omission of the AZL Brewers. Booo!

[wvpowerblkwel]

The shirt is a Brevard County Manataees shirt, and my guess is you'll find it on their website. I know they sell it at their stadium. Try this link Road to the Show

[foamboy1]

Thanks, guys. I love shopping without moving.

[DHonks]

wow, 10 errors for the AZ Brewers. Yikes!

[TheCrew07]

I thought it was 11 but I'm not going to go back and count em up again. With that many errors I was surprised how many earned runs were given up...

[battlekow]

Hitaniel Arias got his first pro home run. Congrats. Anyone have a picture of him?

 

Another great start for Efrain Nieves, and another awesome stat line from Erik Komatsu. It seems logical to promote Eric Fryer to BC to take Scott Houin's place in the starting lineup and bump Komatsu up to WV in Fryer's stead.

[Never Outhustled]

Another great start for Efrain Nieves, and another awesome stat line from Erik Komatsu. It seems logical to promote Eric Fryer to BC to take Scott Houin's place in the starting lineup and bump Komatsu up to WV in Fryer's stead.

 

Komatsu has been good, but Brock Kjeldgaard has been even better, with a 982 OPS. Pretty impressive for someone who hasn't hit for a few years. He's a legit prospect, Rene Gonzalez stated at the beginning of the season the Brock is " an elite athlete, one of the best in the system". I love what Fryer is doing at the plate, but I wouldn't promote him as he's been catching more lately, and promoting him to the same team as Lucroy would cut into that again. It would be nice to promote a few guys to eliminate non-prospects from getting regular time, but Helena has too few bodies already. Maybe that can change when Cutter Dykstra gets back.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Charleston (Yankees) 9, West Virginia 3

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

RIVERDOGS SNAP POWER WINNING STREAK

 

The Charleston Riverdogs took an early 8-0 lead after two innings of Sunday night's game at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Ballpark and snapped the West Virginia Power's eight-game winning streak with a 9-3 victory.

 

Bradley Suttle and Carmen Angelini ripped RBI singles in the first inning and Austin Krum drove in two with a triple. In the second, Angelini and Brandon Laird singled in runs while Austin Romaine's double scored Abraham Almonte and Justin Snyder scored on Suttle's sacrifice fly.

 

West Virginia was held without a hit through the first three and two-thirds before Caleb Gindl ripped a two-out single in the fourth inning. Gindl scored on Zelous Wheeler's double. The Power plated their final two runs in the seventh inning when Lee Haydel's triple plated Steffan Wilson and Uly Snijders. The Riverdogs scored one final time in the eighth inning when Matt Morris touched home plate after Matt Cline's fielding error.

 

Wilkins De La Rosa (5-3) allowed just a run on three hits over six innings and earned the victory. Dan Merklinger (3-6) allowed four runs on four hits over two-thirds of the first inning and was tagged with the loss. Jose Garcia offered three scoreless innings of relief.

 

The Power fell to 50-43 on the year and 18-6 in the second half with the loss. The Riverdogs improved to 54-38 on the year and 9-13 in the second half with the loss. Wilson went 1-for-4 and has reached safely in 13 consecutive games and extended his road hitting streak to 19 games. Eric Fryer went 0-for-4 to end his 13-game hitting streak while Eric Farris went 0-for-4, putting an end to his 15-game hitting streak.

 

The Power will finish the four-game series against Charleston Monday night. Left hander Evan Frederickson (0-0, 6.23) will make the start for the Power and the Riverdogs will counter with right hander Dellin Betances (4-3, 3.74). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score

Wow, talk about a quick hook -- starter Dan Merklinger faces seven batters, and considering at one point he had two outs with only one run in, how quickly did reliever Reed Dickert get ready? Maybe there were some extremely high pitch counts in those early AB's -- Brewer coaches won't let someone have a 35-pitch inning, for instance; Caleb Gindl threw out a man at third base from right field in the 2nd -- seems to these eyes we've seen quite a bit of throwing success from Mr. Gindl this season, I could be mistaken...

 

West Virginia Game Log

How often do you see this? Anderson de la Rosa and Eric Fryer switched positions for whatever reason to start the 8th -- so de la Rosa moved behind the plate and Fryer to left field, de la Rosa had committed an E-7 throwing error earlier and then committed an E-2 throwing error...

[pogokat]

not mistaken mass...Gindl's arm is better than his bat...

 

as for Merklinger, he told me he was pitching hurt for most of the year a few days ago, but said the brewers brass want him to rehab on field...which should upset most of you guys...