Link Report for Games of Sunday, August 17th

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Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

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

 

Nashville: LHP Troy Cate at Round Rock (Astros), 5:50 PM pre-game; 6:05 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: Idle

Brevard County: TBD (twice) at home in a doubleheader vs. St. Lucie (Mets), 12:00 PM gametime; each contest seven innings; LHP Chris Cody will be one of the starters...

 

Sorry, no audio for this series...

West Virginia: LHP Lucas Luetge at Greenville (Red Sox), 2:50 PM pre-game, 3:00 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 Daniel Meadows at home vs. Orem (Angels), 4:55 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 at the Angels' complex in Tempe, 7:00 PM local Mountain Standard Time

 

Never any audio for the Maryvale Crew

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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 "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_08_17_nasaaa_rreaaa_1

 

Brevard County Game One:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_17_sluafa_breafa_1

 

Brevard County Game Two:

http://brevardcounty.manatees.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&gid=2008_08_17_sluafa_breafa_2&cid=503&t=g_box

 

West Virginia:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_17_wvaafx_capafx_1

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_17_orerok_helrok_1

 

Arizona:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_17_brrrok_angrok_1

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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):

 

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 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 75 52 .591 - 46-22 29-30 W5 Memphis 67 59 .532 7.5 32-30 35-29 W1 Omaha 54 74 .422 21.5 25-38 29-36 L1 Nashville 53 75 .414 22.5 25-38 28-37 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carolina 35 20 .636 - 18-7 17-13 W1 Tennessee 27 28 .491 8.0 13-17 14-11 W1 Huntsville 26 29 .473 9.0 14-16 12-13 L1 West Tenn 23 31 .426 11.5 11-18 12-13 L1 Chattanooga 23 32 .418 12.0 11-14 12-18 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jupiter 32 21 .604 - 15-11 17-10 W6 Daytona 29 22 .569 2.0 18-9 11-13 L1 St. Lucie 28 23 .549 3.0 12-11 16-12 W2 Palm Beach 28 26 .519 4.5 16-12 12-14 W1 Brevard County 25 29 .463 7.5 11-15 14-14 L2 Vero Beach 15 40 .273 18.0 6-22 9-18 L5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 37 18 .673 - 20-6 17-12 W3 Lakewood 35 20 .636 2.0 17-11 18-9 L2 Delmarva 30 24 .556 6.5 14-14 16-10 W3 Lake County 26 28 .481 10.5 12-14 14-14 W1 Greensboro 22 33 .400 15.0 10-16 12-17 L1 Hagerstown 21 34 .382 16.0 9-18 12-16 L4 Lexington 19 35 .352 17.5 9-18 10-17 L2 Hickory 16 39 .291 21.0 5-22 11-17 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 12 4 .750 - 9-3 3-1 L1 Great Falls 9 10 .474 4.5 6-4 3-6 L3 Helena 6 13 .316 7.5 1-7 5-6 L3 Missoula 4 15 .211 9.5 4-4 0-11 L1 

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Arizona League Standings

[homer]

Look forward to Lucas "With the Lid Off" Luetge's start today. He's had a nice run to start his pro career.

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Final, Game One: Brevard County 5, St. Lucie (Mets) 0

 

Brevard County Game One Box Score

LHP Chris Cody scattered eight hits in a seven-inning complete game shutout, walking only one and striking out six; clean defense behind Chris helped; seven of the nine Manatee starters had at least one hit; Brent Brewer and Jonathan Lucroy drove in two apiece, Brewer on base three times; Mel Stocker two hits including a double...

 

Brevard County Game One Game Log

Chris Cody will be 25 in January -- pencil in the super-effective soft-tosser into Huntsville's rotation to open '09 -- no, you can write it in ink; his 2008 numbers at West Virginia and Brevard here, wow...

[battlekow]

5/0 K/BB for Bramhall through 3 innings. He's been on fire lately.

[homer]

I think Cody has earned a promotion - not sure what his innings limit is but he's killing the FSL and needs another challenge.

 

It seems like the Brewers have a bunch of "good numbers but limited ceiling" type pitchers all of a sudden (Cody, Bramhall, etc). I hope a few can prove the scouting reports wrong.

[battlekow]

Scarpetta should be piggybacking on Meadows tonight. He said he felt a lot more comfortable his second time out. I'm irrationally excited about him.

[jjfanec]

Luetge with another nice start. 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 K's. It is nice to have some college arms pitching well this year with Wooten and Luetge looking really good. The young high school arms Ordrizzi, Lintz, and Scarpetta (who I am just acting like was in this draft) have great potential, but are obviously a little ways away.

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Final: West Virginia 5, Greenville (Red Sox) 2

And just like that, the division lead is back to three -- fantastic...

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

POWER WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT

 

Eric Fryer drove in three runs and Lucas Luetge tossed six strong innings at Fluor Field on Sunday evening as the West Virginia Power won their fourth game in a row, defeating the Greenville Drive 5-2.

 

Fryer gave West Virginia an early lead on a two-run homer in the top of the first inning. The blast was his tenth of the season. Fryer struck again in the third inning, driving in Eric Farris on an RBI groundout to give the Power a 3-0 lead. Greenville scored their first run of the game on Oscar Tejada's two-out RBI double in the fourth.

 

The Power added a pair of big insurance runs in the eighth inning. Fryer began the inning with a base hit and scored on Zelous Wheeler's double off the mini monster in left field. Caleb Gindl scored the next run on a wild pitch. The Drive plated their final run in the bottom of the eighth inning on Jered Stanley's solo home run.

 

Luetge (2-1) tossed six strong innings, allowing just a run on six hits and fanned four in a winning effort. Reed Dickert (3) struck out the side in the ninth inning to earn the save and Jose Capellan (3-5) was tagged with the loss after allowing three runs on six hits over five innings.

 

The Power improved to 70-55 on the year and 38-18 in the second half with the win. The Drive fell to 64-61 on the year and 24-31 in the second half with the loss. Three Power players turned in multi-hit games and all nine batters reached at least once. Logan Schafer paced the Power with a 3-for-5 performance. Fryer went 2-for-5, giving him five straight multi-hit games.

 

The Power will finish the four game series against Greenville Monday night. The Power will start right hander R.J. Seidel (7-5, 5.23) and the Drive will counter with right hander Terumasa Matsuo (5-4, 4.59) The first pitch is scheduled for 7:00 PM (6:00 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score

You can debate how many big-time future major leaguers will come from this squad, but there is no doubt they have come together to be an absolute force within this minor league second half season, firing on all cylinders...

 

West Virginia Game Log

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Photos by (HEIDI HEILBRUNN / GreenvilleOnline Staff)

Greenville's Carlos Fernandez (12) slides in at second ahead of the tag by West Virginia's Eric Farris during Sunday's game at Fluor Field.

 

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I believe this is Matt Cline in each of the photos below...

 

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A little help identifying our upside-down Power player here?

 

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Steffan Wilson (14) and Logan Schafer (35) congratulate Eric Fryer.

 

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Helena Pre-Game Audio Interview with switch-hitting middle infielder Miguel Vasquez

Click on the KCAP archive of August 17th, then browse to the 11:45 minute mark; New York City kid bouncing back from a hamate injury last season...

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Final: Orem (Angels) 9, Helena 5

 

Helena Site Game Summary:

 

Brewers Swept

 

The Helena Brewers lost their fourth straight game to the Orem Owlz 9-5 and were swept in the season series in the process.

 

For the Owlz, the win gives them their 14th straight and runs their record to 16-4 in the second half. The Brewers fall to 6-14 and remain in third place behind the Great Falls Voyagers.

 

The Brewers started out hot as they plated four runs in the first inning with a double by David Fonseca and singles by Erik Komatsu, Brock Kjeldgaard and Chris Dennis. Orem would answer back in the top of the third inning, as the Owlz would score six runs on four singles, one Brewer error and one hit batsman.

 

The Orem bullpen shut down the Brewer offense, not allowing a base runner over the last ten hitters and the Brewers only had three hits after the first inning. Jayson Miller earned his sixth victory of the year, as he surrendered five runs on seven hits while striking out four. Daniel Meadows was saddled with the loss for the Brewers, as the left-hander started out well but ran into trouble in the fourth inning. Roberto Lopez, Angel Castillo and Luis Jimenez all had multi-hit games for the Owlz.

 

The Brewers face the Ogden Raptors in a three-game series starting Monday.

 

Helena Box Score

Deflating loss after the big first inning; RHP Santo Manzanillo with his first appearance since July 30th, not sure of why he's been absent; RHP Cody Scarpetta allowed two unearned runs in his two innings; H-Crew's home record in the second half just 1-8, 10-19 overall at home, 16-13 on the road...

 

Helena Game Log

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Final, Game Two: St. Lucie (Mets) 5, Brevard County 4

Brevard County Game Two Box Score

Manatees score four in the first inning, led this seven-inning affair 4-0 after four innings, but let the Mets claw back, with closer Mike McClendon serving up a three-spot in the St. Lucie 7th; Mel Stocker (three hits), Charlie Fermaint (two doubles, two RBI), Brent Brewer (single, HBP), and Jonathan Lucroy (2-for-4) with the good games offensively...

 

Brevard County Game Two Game Log

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Final: Arizona Angels 9, Arizona Brewers 2

 

Arizona Box Score

Eight losses in a row; RHP Luis Guerrero with three solid relief innings (one run); catcher Shawn Zarraga threw out only one of six attempted base stealers -- you wonder if he's getting any help from the young pitchers at all; Zarraga is certainly getting his share of experience this summer, and once he survives this first professional season, he should be ready to thrive as projected, but he'll certainly be ready for some rest soon...

 

Arizona Game Log

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Final: Round Rock (Astros) 6, Nashville 5

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Tony Gwynn photo, text follows --

 

Road Win Streak Ends With 6-5 Loss To Express

 

ROUND ROCK, Texas - The Nashville Sounds had their five-game road winning streak snapped with a 6-5 loss to the Round Rock Express on Sunday evening at The Dell Diamond.

 

The Sounds (53-76) held a 5-1 lead in the contest only to watch Round Rock rally with five unanswered runs to record the victory.

 

Nashville took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on Chris Woodward's two-out, two-run double to center off Round Rock starter Josh Muecke before Express right fielder Ray Sadler, who produced a game-high three hits on the evening, halved the lead with a two-out RBI double off Troy Cate in the bottom of the frame.

 

AUDIO: Chris Woodward Two-Run Double

 

The Sounds extended the lead to 5-1 on Adam Heether's third-inning RBI single combined with a pair of fourth-inning scores against Muecke. Cate helped his own cause with an RBI single that plated Vinny Rottino before Carlos Corporan scored the second Nashville run on the frame on a Tony Gwynn groundout.

 

Round Rock rallied to tie the contest with a four-run rally in the bottom of the fourth. After Sadler singled and Nick Gorneault flew out to start the inning, Richie Gardner relieved Cate, who allowed two runs on four hits over 3 1/3 innings in his spot start for Nashville.

 

Danny Klassen greeted Gardner with a walk before Chris Johnson, Yordany Ramirez, and pinch-hitter and former Brewer farmhand Richard Paz followed with three straight singles to make it a 5-3 contest. Facing a bases-loaded jam, Gardner issued a run-scoring walk to Tommy Marzella before permitting a game-tying sacrifice fly off the bat of J.R. Towles.

 

The Express scored the go-ahead run in the seventh with three consecutive two-out singles off Randy Choate. After the first two batters of the frame were retired, Sadler and Gorneault singled before Klassen gave the home team its only lead of the evening at 6-5 with an RBI knock to center.

 

The Sounds put the potential tying run on second base with two outs in the top of the ninth courtesy of Heether's double but Dave Borkowski retired Woodward on a groundout to preserve the one-run advantage and notch his second save of the year.

 

Express reliever Fernando Nieve (2-5) was awarded the victory after working 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Choate (0-4) took the loss for the Sounds after giving up one run on three hits over two innings of work.

 

The teams continue the series with a 7:05 p.m. CT meeting on Monday night. Left-hander Lindsay Gulin (5-7, 3.95) will take the hill for Nashville to face Round Rock right-hander Jack Cassel (8-3, 3.02).

 

Nashville Box Score

Other than Yovani Gallardo's three early-season rehab starts, the only Sounds games this year to be started by a pitcher the Brewers drafted were by since-traded Steve Hammond (four games); Joe Dillon on base four times, but did not score a run nor drive one in; Vinny Rottino your left fielder; Mitch Stetter counting the days to September 1st...

 

Nashville Game Log

[LouisEly]

Look forward to Lucas "With the Lid Off" Luetge's

 

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