Link Report for Wed. 7/23 -- Three Matinees, Three Victories

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

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

 

Nashville: LHP Lindsay Gulin at home vs. Tacoma (Mariners), 11:45 AM pre-game; 12:00 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 Carolina (Marlins), 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: TBD (most likely RHP Jeremy Jeffress on five days' rest) at Tampa (Yankees), 6:00 gametime

 

Sorry, no audio for this series...

West Virginia: RHP R.J. Seidel at home vs. Rome (Braves), 10:55 AM pre-game, 11:05 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: Idle

Arizona: TBD vs. the cute lil' Angels in Maryvale, 10:30 AM local Mountain Standard Time

 

Never any audio for the Maryvale Crew

[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 "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_23_tacaaa_nasaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_23_hunaax_cmcaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_23_breafa_tbyafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_23_romafx_wvaafx_1

 

Arizona:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_23_angrok_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 62 42 .596 - 38-18 24-24 L1 Memphis 56 47 .544 5.5 26-22 30-25 L1 Omaha 48 55 .466 13.5 22-29 26-26 W2 Nashville 40 63 .388 21.5 19-28 21-35 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee 18 13 .581 - 9-7 9-6 L1 Huntsville 17 14 .548 1.0 8-7 9-7 L2 Carolina 16 15 .516 2.0 6-5 10-10 W1 Chattanooga 13 17 .433 4.5 6-9 7-8 L1 West Tenn 11 19 .367 6.5 4-11 7-8 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daytona 17 12 .586 - 9-5 8-7 W1 St. Lucie 17 12 .586 - 8-5 9-7 W2 Jupiter 15 14 .517 2.0 8-6 7-8 W1 Palm Beach 14 16 .467 3.5 10-6 4-10 L7 Brevard County 13 18 .419 5.0 6-10 7-8 W1 Vero Beach 11 20 .355 7.0 5-11 6-9 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 23 9 .719 - 13-4 10-5 W2 Lakewood 21 11 .656 2.0 9-5 12-6 L1 Delmarva 18 14 .563 5.0 6-8 12-6 W3 Hagerstown 14 18 .438 9.0 5-10 9-8 L2 Greensboro 13 19 .406 10.0 7-10 6-9 W3 Lake County 12 20 .375 11.0 5-10 7-10 L4 Hickory 11 21 .344 12.0 3-13 8-8 L8 Lexington 9 22 .290 13.5 6-12 3-10 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 21 13 .618 - 10-3 11-10 L1 Helena 18 16 .529 3.0 9-9 9-7 L1 Great Falls 17 17 .500 4.0 10-9 7-8 L1 Missoula 7 27 .206 14.0 3-15 4-12 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Arizona League (R) - Arizona League Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZL Angels 18 6 .750 - 9-4 9-2 W3 AZL Cubs 15 9 .625 3.0 10-2 5-7 W5 AZL Rangers 15 9 .625 3.0 7-5 8-4 W5 AZL Giants 13 12 .520 5.5 6-6 7-6 W1 AZL Royals 13 12 .520 5.5 9-4 4-8 L1 AZL Padres 12 13 .480 6.5 7-5 5-8 L3 AZL Athletics 9 15 .375 9.0 4-8 5-7 L5 AZL Mariners 9 15 .375 9.0 5-6 4-9 L1 AZL Brewers 5 18 .217 12.5 5-7 0-11 L3 

[BrewCrewWS2008]

rough 1st for Seidel to say the least, 5 runs, 3 earned, 3 doubles off 6 hits and a walk. Gindl 1-1 batting average up to .292!

[Mass Haas]

Wild one in Charleston, as the Power rally from 5-0 down to take an 8-5 lead, still very early on. Too bad the audio cut out -- should it return, someone please post the update here, thanks.

 

Nashville audio is functioning for those office lunch breaks today.

[Mass Haas]

Living up to the hype -- RHP Cody Scarpetta is your Maryvale starter today and is dealing through three innings thus far. Nice to see Shawn Zarraga back behind the plate after leaving the game earlier this week with an apparenly minor hand/wrist injury.

 

West Virginia audio is back, 8-7 Power in the 6th, listen in!

 

Sounds trail, 1-0, time running short.

[Bambis Bombers]

2008 ninth round pick Michael Bowman continues to impress. Two more scoreless innings with 3 Ks.

[LouisEly]

Farris with a nine game hitting streak, in which four of those games he had three hits. His early season struggles apparently are behind him. Needs to get his OBP up, but only two Ks on one walk in those nine games. He may be forcing things to try to make up for his early season struggles, but for now he is putting the bat on the ball and finding holes. Schafer seems to be adjusting to A-ball just fine.

 

Strong final three innings from Dillard and Pena. Looking forward to those two, Stetter, and DiFelice coming up on September 1st (or sooner).

[Mass Haas]

Final: Nashville 3, Tacoma (Mariners) 2

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for photo from the winning hit, text follows --

 

Late Nelson Homer Gives Sounds 3-2 Win

NASHVILLE - Brad Nelson crushed a go-ahead, two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Nashville Sounds a 3-2 comeback victory over the Tacoma Rainiers on Wednesday afternoon at Greer Stadium.

 

The longball was Nelson's 13th on the year and helped the Sounds to only their second win when trailing after seven frames this season (2-57). It also gave them their eighth win in a one-run game, the second-lowest total in the PCL.

 

Sounds starter Lindsay Gulin pitched five innings and only gave up one unearned run on three hits with seven strikeouts but did not factor in the decision. After allowing six baserunners through the first two innings, Gulin settled in and only allowed only one hit while striking out four through his final three innings to lower his ERA to 3.48 on the season.

 

Andy Baldwin threw seven innings of one-run ball off only four hits for his sixth quality start for the Rainiers but was unable to get the win. At one point, Baldwin retired 11 consecutive Sounds batters before allowing a walk in the sixth inning.

 

The Rainiers scored their first run in unearned fashion in the top of the second inning. After a walk by Luis Valbuena and a single from Oswaldo Navarro, Matt Tuiasosopo was hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Gulin then induced a groundball from Wladimir Balentien to third base, but Chris Woodward was unable to field the ball cleanly, and all runners were safe including Valbuena, who scored on the play.

 

Tacoma tacked on another run in the top of the sixth inning when Oliveros scored on a sacrifice fly from Tuiasosopo off Nashville reliever Erasmo Ramirez.

 

The Sounds plated their first run in the bottom of the seventh when Nelson led off with a double then moved to third on a single from Laynce Nix. Nelson scored in the next at-bat on a sacrifice fly from Adam Heether, the infielder's ninth RBI in the last 16 games.

 

Nashville completed the comeback in the bottom of the eighth inning with the two-run blast from Nelson off Tacoma reliever Jared Wells (1-4). Joe Dillon, who scored on the homer, took a two-out walk to keep the inning alive in the previous at-bat.

 

AUDIO: Brad Nelson Go-Ahead HR

 

Sounds reliever Tim Dillard (5-0) picked up the win after contributing two innings of scoreless relief, and Luis Pena picked up his 15th save on the season with a perfect ninth inning to cap the Nashville comeback.

 

The teams continue the series tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. at Greer Stadium. Right-hander Richie Gardner (6-3, 4.57) will man the bump for the Sounds against lefty Ryan Feierabend (4-1, 2.15) for the Rainiers. It will be Thirsty Thursday at the ballpark with $1 draft beverage until 8:30 p.m. or the end of the fifth inning, whichever occurs first.

 

Nashville Box Score

Yay Brad! Fantastic season for Tim Dillard...

 

Nashville Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: West Virginia 12, Rome (Braves) 10

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

POWER WIN SLUGFEST AGAINST ROME

 

The West Virginia Power and Rome Braves combined to score 22 runs on 28 hits on Wednesday afternoon at Appalachian Power Park. The Power erased an early 5-0 deficit and came back to win their third game in a row with a 12-10 victory to close out their eight-game home stand.

 

The Braves plated five runs in the top of the first to take the early lead. Carlos Lee scored on Eric Fryer's fielding error at first base before Adam Coe doubled in Jason Heyward. Michael Fisher singled in the next two runs and Samuel Sime scored on Matt Cline's throwing error. Caleb Gindl singled in West Virginia's first run in the bottom of the first.

 

The Power scored five in the second to take the lead and never looked back. Anderson De La Rosa hit a three-run homer, his third of the season, before Cline doubled in Uly Snijders to tie the game and Eric Farris singled in Cline to give the Power the lead. They plated two more runs in the third. De La Rosa doubled in the first run and Cline reached on a fielder's choice to plate the next run. The Braves' David Berres made it a one-run game in the fourth inning with a two-run double.

 

West Virginia plated their final four runs with two outs. Logan Schafer doubled in a pair of runs in the sixth inning and two innings later, he and Fryer ripped back-to-back two-out RBI singles. The Braves got two more in the seventh on Cody Johnson's RBI double and Fisher's RBI groundout. Jason Heyward scored their final run on a wild pitch in the ninth.

 

Michael Bowman (1-0) tossed two scoreless innings of relief and fanned three batters to get the victory. Corey Frerichs (8) came in with one out in the ninth inning and recorded the final two outs in the ninth to get the save. Jeff Locke (4-10) allowed eight runs on ten hits over four innings and was tagged with the loss.

 

The Power improved to 56-46 on the year and 24-9 in the second half with the win. The Braves fell to 37-65 on the year and 15-18 in the second half with the loss. Eight Power players hit safely, and five turned in multi-hit games. De La Rosa and Farris paced the Power with three hits apiece. Cline reached three times and extended his on-base streak to 14 games. Farris went 3-for-5 and has hit safely in nine straight games since his 15-game hitting streak was snapped.

 

The Power are off on Thursday but will begin a four-game series against Rob Bryson and the Lake County Captains at Classic Park in Eastlake, Ohio on Friday night. The first pitch will be delivered at 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score

This was strictly a chance to rest Steffan Wilson and Curt Rindal, so Eric Fryer with a spot start at first base; Matt Cline with a nice offensive contribution, but we should note he's up to 29 errors now bouncing around the Brevard and West Virginia infields; great to see Logan Schafer acclimating to A-ball so quickly (13-for-39, seven extra-base hits)...

 

West Virginia Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Brewers 6, Arizona Angels 4

 

Arizona Box Score

A-Crew survives a shaky 9th inning to hang on, thanks to a throw to the plate from 17-year-old right fielder Hitaniel Arias; Cody Scarpetta with a nice effort (again), as noted above; the Brewers like just-turned 18-year-old RHP Luis Guerrero quite a bit and this was his best outing since his Opening Day starting nod; CF Cutter Dykstra played three innings as he eases his way back into action, flew out twice; we're still waiting for our first attendance notation in one of these Arizona box scores this year...

 

Arizona Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Good organizational vibes from the kids this afternoon -- three wins -- not that CC and the boys in St. Louis tonight need extra vibes right now...

[TheCrew07]

2008 ninth round pick Michael Bowman continues to impress. Two more scoreless innings with 3 Ks.

He's studly...

The longball was Nelson's 13th on the year and helped the Sounds to only their second win when trailing after seven frames this season (2-57).

That my friends is the most depressing statistic I've seen in a long time.

[jjfanec]

With Ordorizzi, Lintz, Bowman, (and even Fredrickson while in rookie ball) pitching well and then a guy like Scarpetta pitching well in his first season the young pitchers really could boost the farm system and make pitching the strength in 2-3 years. Lately, we have had a lot of hitting with guys like Yo and Parra being the minority in terms of solid pitching prospects. It would be nice to see Jeffress, Periard, Braddock, and Anundson, headlining a solid group with the aforementioned guys.

[BrewersNation]

I would add Robert Wooten to that list too jjfanec. If the Crew decide to groom him as a closer/reliever (and I assume that is still the plan), he could shoot up the system. He's dominated so far.

[TheCrew07]

There's all kind of names you could list from R through A+ right now. I'll be very interested to see how things shake out at AA and above, especially for young men like Anundsen and Cody who from the reports we've gotten don't have "wow" factor but get very good results, maybe good bullpen guys down the road.

[NDBrewerfan]

The rookie league squad is still only 6-18, but they seem to interest me a lot more this year than in the past few years of lurking with that solid pitching staff.

[Mass Haas]

Wow, rain delay again in Tampa -- just a brutal stretch of interruptions for the Manatees and staff the past month or so...

[Mass Haas]

Huntsville rained out at Carolina -- while it's up, here's what the lineup would have been.

[jjfanec]

I would add Robert Wooten to that list too jjfanec. If the Crew decide to groom him as a closer/reliever (and I assume that is still the plan), he could shoot up the system. He's dominated so far.

I totally forgot about Wooten. I also forgot about Trey Watten, Willinsky (if he can get his walks down), Peralta (I might be a sucker on this one), Luetge, Sherrill, Efrain Nieves, Mike Ramlow, and Amaury Rivas who really intrigue me.

 

Other guys like Daniel Meadows, Brandon Ritchie, Santo Manzanillo, Damon Krestalude, Nick Tyson, Mercedes, and Corey Frerichs are guys to watch as well, but not as much so for me as the other guys. Although guys the list is pretty interchangeable since I don't know a ton about the guys stuff.

[battlekow]

Jose Garcia is totally the forgotten pitching prospect. He deserves to be mentioned ahead of a bunch of those guys even though he's been terrible this year.

 

To recap, he's 6'4" and put up this line in Helena last year as a 19-year-old: 76.3 IP, 78 H, 53 R, 49 ER, 10 HR, 22 BB, 69 K, 2.62 GO/AO.

[jjfanec]

Jose Garcia is totally the forgotten pitching prospect. He deserves to be mentioned ahead of a bunch of those guys even though he's been terrible this year.

 

To recap, he's 6'4" and put up this line in Helena last year as a 19-year-old: 76.3 IP, 78 H, 53 R, 49 ER, 10 HR, 22 BB, 69 K, 2.62 GO/AO.

I am sure you are right. Your knowledge of prospects is much better than mine. I was mainly going off stats looking at WHIP and K/9 to see who I was excited about. Garcia's WHIP is bad this year and I have not really followed the minors much until this year. Thanks for the insight. Who of the young pitchers really excites you?

 

[battlekow]

Oh I wasn't chiding you, sorry if it came off that way. I really just have heard almost nothing said about him this year. As far as my personal favorite, I love Cody Scarpetta. I'm excited to see what he can do at Helena. Hopefully he and Odorizzi can form a tag-team of Italian-surnamed aces as they move up the ladder. Maybe we can call them the Luparas?