Link Report for Games of Monday, August 25th -- One-Hitter for Helena!

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Monday's Daily Menu:

 

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

 

Nashville: LHP Chris Narveson at home vs. Albuquerque (Marlins), 5:45 PM pre-game; 6:00 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: LHP Brae Wright at home vs. Carolina (Marlins), 5:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 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 (likely LHP Bobby Bramhall) at home vs. Palm Beach (Cardinals), 6:00 PM gametime

 

Sorry, no audio for this series...

 

West Virginia: LHP Dan Merklinger at Lexington (Astros), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:05 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 at Great Falls (White Sox), 7:50 PM pre-game, 8:00 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 Cubs' brats in Maryvale, 7:00 PM local Mountain Standard Time

 

Never any audio for the Maryvale Crew

[Mass Haas]

Follow Monday'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_25_albaaa_nasaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_25_cmcaax_hunaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_25_pbcafa_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_25_wvaafx_lexafx_1

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_25_helrok_grfrok_1

 

Arizona:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_08_25_cubrok_brrrok_1

[Mass Haas]

REMINDER:

 

The big West Virginia series in Lexington is available on a live or archived basis via MiLB.TV.

 

It looks like $6.95 gets you all four games. So there you go, Power player family and friends, West Virginia fans in the Charleston area, Brewer front office staff, etc.

 

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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):

 

[Mass Haas]

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 80 55 .593 - 46-22 34-33 W1 Memphis 71 64 .526 9.0 33-30 38-34 L1 Omaha 59 77 .434 21.5 28-40 31-37 W1 Nashville 58 78 .426 22.5 28-40 30-38 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carolina 38 24 .613 - 20-10 18-14 W1 Tennessee 32 30 .516 6.0 14-18 18-12 W1 Huntsville 28 34 .452 10.0 15-17 13-17 L1 West Tenn 27 34 .443 10.5 13-18 14-16 W2 Chattanooga 26 36 .419 12.0 13-17 13-19 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daytona 32 22 .593 0.5 20-9 12-13 W3 Jupiter 36 25 .590 - 19-13 17-12 L1 St. Lucie 30 27 .526 4.0 13-14 17-13 L3 Palm Beach 30 29 .508 5.0 16-13 14-16 L1 Brevard County 28 33 .459 8.0 13-16 15-17 W1 Vero Beach 17 41 .293 17.5 6-22 11-19 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 41 22 .651 - 21-9 20-13 L1 Lakewood 38 24 .613 2.5 18-12 20-12 L3 Delmarva 34 27 .557 6.0 16-14 18-13 L2 Lake County 30 31 .492 10.0 15-16 15-15 W3 Greensboro 25 38 .397 16.0 12-18 13-20 L3 Hagerstown 24 38 .387 16.5 12-20 12-18 W2 Lexington 22 40 .355 18.5 12-21 10-19 W1 Hickory 20 43 .317 21.0 7-24 13-19 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 13 11 .542 - 10-5 3-6 L2 Great Falls 13 13 .500 1.0 7-6 6-7 L1 Helena 9 17 .346 5.0 2-10 7-7 W2 Missoula 7 18 .280 6.5 5-6 2-12 W1 

[Mass Haas]

Arizona League Standings

[foamboy1]

I can't believe what a turnaround the West Virginia club has made. Early in the year there was so little to be enthused about, with poor pitching and below average hitting. They have become so much more exciting.

[Mass Haas]

From Huntsville Staff:

 

Monday's game between the Stars and Mudcats has been rained out and is scheduled to be made up as part of a doubleheader beginning at 5 pm central time Tuesday night.

 

Huntsville will send left-handers Brae Wright and David Welch to the mound against Carolina southpaws Graham Taylor and Andrew Miller.

[Mass Haas]

West Virginia RBI machine Steffan Wilson out of the lineup tonight while the club determines the severity of a thumb injury -- big loss for now.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Site:

 

Tonight's scheduled series opener between the Nashville Sounds and Albuquerque Isotopes at Greer Stadium has been postponed due to rains as Tropical Depression Fay entered Middle Tennessee.

 

A makeup date for tonight's game has not been determined.

 

Tickets for tonight's game (August 25) may be exchanged for tickets of equal or lesser value, pending availability, to any remaining 2008 Sounds home game or to any 2009 Sounds home game. Please visit the Greer Stadium box office to exchange your tickets or for further information.

 

The Sounds and Isotopes are now scheduled to open their series at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at Greer Stadium. Left-hander Chris Narveson (6-12, 5.14) will man the bump for Nashville to face Albuquerque southpaw Chris Seddon (9-9, 5.21).

[wvpowerblkwel]

Power up 4-1 end of 7, Lakewood down 7-1 middle of 8....let's hope we can shave two off the magic # tonite!! Player of the week Caleb Gindl with a 2 out opposite field RBI double off the wall, 2-3 for the nite! I love MILBTV....wish someone besides Lexington had it in the SAL.

 

Power score is final! Lakewood did lose...Power magic # down to 4?

[trwi7]

Nieves with 6 one hit innings so far for Helena.

[trwi7]

Game over in Great Falls. Dykstra with a two run homer in the 9th were the only runs scored. Nieves was just awesome. 8 innings, 1 hit, 0 walks and 9 K's. http://www.realgm.com/boards/images/smilies/icon_ip2.gif

Sherrill closed it out with a perfect 9th.

[And That]

Allixon Cequea of the Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Brewers needs a shout-out. He has the chance to turn into something special.

[LouisEly]

What's up with McClendon being used in short outings out of the pen? He was pretty much used exclusively as a starter last year and was fairly highly regarded on this board, and had decent numbers in WV.

[And That]

McClendon has limited value as a middle 80's sinker pitcher.

[wvpowerblkwel]

Check out Bramhall's numbers over the course of the season...watched him here in WV at the end of last year, and he looks to me to have the big league make-up of one of those guys that doesn't over-power you, but has everyone off balance. Has to be something deceptive in the delivery, but I think he could be one to watch if he keeps putting up numbers like he has thus far.

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows -- the link includes audio calls from Helena's Steve Wendt:

 

Nieves, Brewers one-hit Voyagers

By John Torenli / Special to MLB.com

Helena's Efrain Nieves pitched the best eight innings of his career Monday night. The way Great Falls' Kevin Skogley was dealing, he had to.

Nieves and Garrett Sherrill combined on a one-hitter and Cutter Dykstra belted a two-run homer in the ninth inning as the Brewers pulled out a 2-0 victory over the Voyagers at Centene Stadium.

Having surrendered 15 earned runs over 11 2/3 innings in his previous three outings, Nieves (5-3) was desperate for a strong performance. The 18-year-old left-hander may have topped even his own expectations with Monday's effort.

Nieves, the Milwaukee Brewers' seventh-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, yielded only a leadoff double to Mike Grace in the second while striking out a career-high nine. He also did not issue a walk for the eighth time in 14 appearances this year.

"I felt pretty good," Nieves said. "First of all, my fastball command was phenomenal. I combined it with my changeup and curveball and kept the batters guessing."

Despite facing just one batter over the miniumum, however, Nieves knew his night was done when he walked off the mound in the eighth after striking out Lee Fischer.

"I did want to go out for the ninth, but my pitch count was 80 and I already passed it," Nieves revealed.

But Nieves wasn't even in line to get the win after watching Skogley scatter four hits and a walk with eight strikeouts over eight scoreless frames.

"It was amazing," Nieves said of the pitchers' duel. "I was trying to do my best to keep hitters off base and he was doing his best over there. It was a pretty nice game."

Dykstra followed John Delaney's leadoff triple in the ninth off Daniel Albritton (2-2) with his fifth homer of the season, snapping the scoreless deadlock and setting Nieves up for his first win since July 13.

"I was jumping up and down in the dugout when he hit hit," Nieves admitted. "I really, really wanted that game."

Sherrill made sure he got it. The 20-year-old right-hander retired the side in order in the ninth for his third save, nailing down the one-hitter and Helena's league high-tying fourth shutout of the season.

"I'm pretty confident in our closer," Nieves added. "He just went in and got it done."

Brock Kjeldgaard doubled in the second and Corey Kemp, Steven Braun and Erik Miller had the other hits for the Brewers (10-17), who won their third in a row.

The Voyagers (14-13) were shut out for the first time since a 5-0 loss to Ogden on July 20.

 

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I'll link to Cutter Dykstra's home run audio, and fill in all the usual, including Brevard and West Virginia victories (as the Power near a playoff spot), later this AM.

 

The Arizona Brewers game was canceled -- due to wet grounds, will not be made up.

[colbyjack]

I can't believe what a turnaround the West Virginia club has made. Early in the year there was so little to be enthused about, with poor pitching and below average hitting. They have become so much more exciting.

 

It has been fun to watch the second-half turnarounds of players such as Eric Farris and Caleb Gindl, whose numbers are much more respectable now then they were at the beginning of the year. Eric Fryer also has been a big part of the Power's success, Logan Schafer has been a good callup, and Lee Haydel quietly is having a very good season. Haydel has a lot to work on, but he's Dave Krynzel part 2, minus the first-round hype.

 

What an awesome Helena game, and good call on Cequea Toby.

[Mass Haas]

Helena Pre-Game Audio with Outfielder and "Rapper" Erik Komatsu

Click on the KCAP archive of August 25th, then browse to the 09:15 minute mark; his home runs are "Komalished", among other humorous nickname words; "lovin' life"...

 

Listen to John Delaney's triple followed by Cutter Dykstra's Two-Run 9th inning Home Run

Same link as above, then browse to the 02:04:00 hour / minute mark...

 

Helena Box Score

Ten groundouts, five flyouts in eight brilliant Efrain Nieves innings; one hour, 50 minute game -- wow...

 

Helena Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: Brevard County 7, Palm Beach (Cardinals) 3

 

Brevard County Box Score

Big night for J.R. Hopf, two hits, including a double, and drove in four; Manatees led 5-1 after three and did not look back; Brent Brewer on base four times -- something has definiely clicked; Jonathan Lucroy two singles, two runs scored; Bobby Bramhall, as was noted above, solid again, this time through five innings as four relievers finished up...

 

Brevard County Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: West Virginia 4, Lexington (Astros) 1

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

POWER HOLD LEGENDS TO THREE HITS IN 4-1 VICTORY

 

Dan Merklinger, Corey Frerichs and Rob Wooten held the Legends to just a run on three hits at Applebee's Park on Monday night as the Power took the third game of the series with a 4-1 victory.

 

West Virginia took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Curt Rindal began the inning with a double. He moved to third base on Matt Cline's first of three base hits and scored on Lee Haydel's single. Haydel scored the final run of the inning on Eric Farris's two-out base hit.

 

The Legends plated their lone run of the game in the bottom of the fourth. Brandon Barnes ripped a two-out double and scored on Jonathan Fixler's base hit.

 

West Virginia plated a pair of insurance runs with two outs in the seventh. Caleb Gindl doubled off the wall in left field to score Eric Fryer and he scored on Zelous Wheeler's opposite field double a few pitches later.

 

Corey Frerichs (6-8) pitched two perfect innings of relief to get the victory. Rob Wooten (4) tossed three scoreless innings of relief and fanned four batters to get the save. Jeff Icenogle (3-10) allowed a pair of runs on nine hits over five innings and was tagged with the loss. Dan Merklinger pitched well, allowing just a run on three hits over four innings but did not last long enough to get the decision.

 

The Power improved to 74-59 on the year and 42-22 in the second half with the win. The Legends fell to 43-89 on the year and 22-41 in the second half with the loss. Five Power players turned in multi-hit games, including Caleb Gindl and Lee Haydel. They both extended their hitting streaks to eleven games. Matt Cline paced the Power with a 3-for-4 performance. Eric Fryer did not reach, bringing his on base streak to an end at 33 games. West Virginia now has a 3.5 game lead on the second place Lakewood BlueClaws with six games remaining.

 

The Power will finish the four game series against Lexington Tuesday night. The Power will start right hander Evan Anundsen (11-7, 4.20) and the Legends will counter with left hander Anthony Bello (7-6, 3.88). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score

 

West Virginia Game Log

[battlekow]

Listen to Komo rap.

[battlekow]

Caleb Gindl named BA's Sally League Prospect of the Day:

West Virginia (Brewers) right fielder Caleb Gindl went 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in a 4-1 win over Lexington (Astros). Gindl is riding an 11-game hitting streak that includes seven multi-hit games, and his advanced bat has helped him hit .345/.416/.545 since the all-star break, putting his line for the year at .306/.386/.478.