Link Report for Friday 5/22 -- Will Inman Takes on the Sounds

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Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Link here for the live audio choices - audio will no longer archive.

 

Sorry, no audio for this Brevard County series.

Nashville: LHP Sam Narron at Portland (Padres), 8:40 PM pre-game; 9:05 gametime

 

Huntsville: RHP Mike Jones at home vs. West Tenn (Mariners), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

 

Brevard County: TBD at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 6:00 PM gametime

 

Wisconsin: RHP Cody Scarpetta at Kane County (Athletics), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime

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Follow Friday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Tab or New Window". 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.

 

MiLB.com now has Gameday available for AA as well as AAA this season.

 

Nashville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_22_nasaaa_poraaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_22_wtdaax_hunaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_22_breafa_dunafa_1

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_05_22_wisafx_kccafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

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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 a few hours prior to gametime.

 

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

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Midwest League Standings

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 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nashville 23 18 .561 - 12-11 11-7 L1 Memphis 21 17 .553 0.5 13-8 8-9 L1 Iowa 21 18 .538 1.0 10-7 11-11 L1 Omaha 19 21 .475 3.5 8-9 11-12 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 18 18 .500 - 7-10 11-8 W2 Tennessee 18 19 .486 0.5 7-8 11-11 L1 Chattanooga 18 22 .450 2.0 10-11 8-11 L2 Carolina 17 23 .425 3.0 9-11 8-12 W1 West Tenn 16 23 .410 3.5 8-11 8-12 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 24 11 .686 - 11-5 13-6 W1 Clearwater 20 16 .556 4.5 8-11 12-5 W2 Daytona 19 19 .500 6.5 8-9 11-10 W2 Lakeland 17 19 .472 7.5 10-10 7-9 W2 Dunedin 15 22 .405 10.0 5-13 10-9 L2 Tampa 15 23 .395 10.5 7-13 8-10 L4 

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Rattler Radio Blog:

Probable Pitchers (@Beloit; @Dayton)

 

May 22, 2009: Game Notes

 

May 22, 2009: Tonight's Pitchers (Scarpetta / Nieves)

[battlekow]

From Gord Ash's twitter: "Brett Lawrie suffered a broken nose last night when struck by a bad hop ground ball. he is not expected to miss any significant time."

[DHonks]

wow, welcome back to AA Mike Jones! Interesting to read about the new delivery. Hopefully he has decent stuff still and can continue working on throwing strikes

[uwisfan]

maybe I haven't noticed before, but I can't recall the last time I saw all Brewer clubs (including the Milwaukee club) in sole possessions of first place across all levels of ball.

[bork]

maybe I haven't noticed before, but I can't recall the last time I saw all Brewer clubs (including the Milwaukee club) in sole possessions of first place across all levels of ball.

I believe it happened in the first half of 2007. Brewers were in first place. Nashville was in first the whole year. Everyone else except Arizona won the first half titles.

[brewmann04]

Jones with 6 strong tonight ina nice first start @ 2a

[jjjf44]

I guess 4 out of 5 isn't bad. Wisconsin, of the midwest league, is in 6th place.

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Final: Huntsville 1, West Tenn (Mariners) 0

 

Huntsville Site Game Summary

 

Second Shut Win of Season for Stars

More Ninth Inning Magic for Huntsville

By Brett Pollock / Huntsville Stars

 

Drew Anderson singled in the game-winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to lift Huntsville to a thrilling 1-0 win over West Tenn Friday night in the second of a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars improved to 19-18 with their sixth walkoff win of the season at home and lengthened their lead in the North Division to two games over Tennessee, which was swept in a doubleheader at home by Birmingham. The Diamond Jaxx fell to 16-24 and four and a half games behind in the division.

 

Nick Hill retired the first four hitters he faced before issuing a one-out walk in the ninth to Frank Catalanotto, who was replaced by Freddy Parejo as a pinch-runner. Hill then made an errant pickoff attempt at first base that allowed Parejo to advance to third base. The Jaxx looked like they were going to walk Jonathan Lucroy intentionally, issuing one wide one to square the count at 2-2 before deciding to pitch to him and eventually strike him out for the second out. Anderson sliced a line drive into left field on a 1-1 pitch to deliver the only run of the game and make a winner out of Donovan Hand, who threw 2.1 scoreless innings in relief. Huntsville managed only two hits after compiling 42 runs on 69 in hits in their first five games against the Jaxx.

 

Mike Jones made his first start for the Stars this season and worked out of trouble in the fifth inning by striking out Guillermo Quiroz and getting Oswaldo Navarro to pop out with runners at the corners. The right-hander went six shutout innings, allowing five hits, walking one and fanning four. The Stars last three starters have gone a combined 21 innings, allowing two runs on 14 hits, walking one and fanning 15.

 

Casey Baron took over in the seventh and gave up a leadoff double to Matt Mangini, who advanced to third base on a Brent Johnson fly ball out. Ronnie Prettyman bounced out against a drawn-in infield before Hand came on to retire Quiroz on a groundout to end that threat. In the ninth, Hand struck out Prettyman and got Quiroz to ground out to end the inning with runners at second and third. Kyle Parker threw seven scoreless innings for West Tenn, walking two and striking out two and was denied a win for a third time in a scoreless start this season.

 

The series continues Saturday night with left-hander Bobby Bramhall starting for Huntsville against West Tenn right-hander Luis Munoz. Coverage of the game begins at 5:45 PM central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score

Mike Jones with 86 pitches over his six stellar innings of work, you have to be happy for the guy -- let's see if this continues, Jones could actually force the Brewers to add him to the 40-man roster at the end of the season, as he'd be free to test the waters otherwise...

 

Huntsville Game Log

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David Weiser's starsboxscore.com

 

Jones Gets a Hand

Mike goes six scoreless in impressive comeback

 

Scoreless for eight innings, Drew Anderson and the Huntsville Stars capitalized on a throwing error on a pickoff throw to get pinch-runner Freddy Parejo in the 9th and parlayed it into another last-at-bat, one-run victory on a warm, but windy Friday night at the friendly confines. With a 0-1 count, Anderson greeted a belt-high fast ball and lined it into left field close to the line, scoring Parejo from third to give the Stars their 3rd straight win and put them, once again, over .500 and back in 1st place in the Southern League North....... The Stars, who've made clutch hitting a specialty this year, are 11-5 in one-run games. It was also the 10th time this year the Stars have won with a late-inning (7th or later) comeback.

 

OPPONENT	SCORE
Apr. 14 vs. Braves	5-4	Rottino GW hit in the 13th
Apr. 15 vs. Braves	4-3	Caufield 1-out RBI single in the 9th
Apr. 16 vs. Braves	4-3	Errecart 2-run single in the 9th
Apr. 17 vs. Braves	7-6	Anderson GW one-out sac fly in the 9th
Apr. 21 at Mudcats	2-1	2-out bases loaded error in the 7th
Apr. 24 at Mudcats	12-9	2-run single by Stern in 9th + sac fly
May 5 at Diamond Jaxx	13-10	Stars score 6x in final two innings
May 7 at Diamond Jaxx	6-5	Stern GWRBI double in the 11th
May 11 vs. Lookouts	2-1	Rottino 2 RBIs, incl. GW sac fly in 9th
May 22 vs. D'Jaxx	1-0	Anderson, GWRBI single in the 9th

 

Mike Jones, who went at least five innings only once in 12 stars last year, did not win for lack of support, but he supplied a fine six-inning outing and gave fans hope for more strength to what has been, in my opinion, the weakest and least successful starting rotation in many years. Jones threw 89 pitches, 53 for strikes (59.5%).

 

West Tennessee pitcher Kyle Parker was successful in keeping Huntsville hitters from going deep (12 groundouts to 7 flyouts). In fact, the Stars didn't get the ball out of the infield until Vinny Rottino singled to right-center over the leaping glove of 2nd baseman Ron Prettyman with two out. That was the Stars first and only hit until the 9th inning game-winner. Only one other ball was hit in the outfield in the first five innings for the Stars -- a weak pop up to Prettyman by Yohannis Perez in the 5th...... The Stars put runners on 1st and 2nd in the 2nd thanks to a bad hop grounder that went through Prettyman and a two-out walk to newcomer Taylor Green, but Kevin Melillo bounced out weakly to first to end the inning........ After Shane Justis struck out swinging to open the bottom of the 9th, reliever Nicolas Hill walked another fresh face, Frank Catalanotto, on a 3-1 pitch. Pinch-runner Parejo then made it to third when Hill, who was 1-and-2 on Jonathan Lucroy, threw over the head of 1st baseman Marshall Hubbard, allowing Parejo to third, setting up Anderson and the game-winning hit on an 0-1 pitch.

 

Baseball Card night attracted only a little more than 1,200. The cards, printed by Grandstand, a major company that has done minor league cards for years, are picture-framed by a heavy red and blue border in the motif of the Stars logo. In the lower left corner is Pepsi's new logo and on the right, the name of the player. The team name "Huntsville Stars" is inside the border, in upper and lower case in blue with a white border on the left side of the card extending almost up to the corner, then in the upper left, leaving some space in the corner where the team name ends, is the year, "2009". In the upper right corner is the Stars logo.... The photos and the design were selected by media relations man Brian Massey with a little help from his friends. I got more than a dozen autographed tonight. Nicest autograph: Adam Stern. Derrick Ellison's autograph included a bible reference to Hebrews 11:6. Jeremy Jeffress and Chris Errecart, who are not with the team, are included in the set.

 

Saturday, Bobby Bramhall will try to get his first win and extend the Stars' winning streak to four against Luis Munoz (1-1). Munoz started the season with Class AAA-Tacoma (PCL) and was sent down with an 0-3 record to the Diamond Jaxx on May 19.

 

Kevin Melillo is struggling through a 3-for-27 slump....... Freddy Parejo is 5-for-36 (.139) with one RBI...... Adam Stern is in a bit of a slump. He's 5-for-30 going back to the start of the Mobile series....... Who's hot? Vinny Rottino. 9-for-25 in seven games with three doubles and seven RBIs and Shane Justis, who despite his 0-for-4 night, is 14-for-28.

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Link Report Bonus:

A sword-swallowing extravaganza in Huntsville -- check this out.

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Final: Nashville 5, Portland 4, 11 innings

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Joe Koshansky photo, text follows --

 

Sounds Edge Beavers In Extras, 5-4

PORTLAND, Ore. - Joe Koshansky's bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the top of the eleventh inning propelled the Nashville Sounds to a 5-4 victory over the Portland Beavers late Friday evening at PGE Park in the second game of a four-game set.

 

The extra-inning contest was the second of the year for Nashville (24-18).

 

After Portland rallied to erase a two-run deficit against the Sounds' bullpen in the eighth and ninth frames, Nashville loaded the bags in the eleventh against Jonathan Ellis on singles by Jason Bourgeois and Alcides Escobar followed by an intentional walk to Adam Heether. Koshansky lifted an 0-2 offering to center to plate Bourgeois from third with the go-ahead run.

 

The Beavers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Brett Dowdy opened the frame with a double off Sounds starter Sam Narron and later scored on a groundout. Portland doubled the advantage in the third on Will Venable's seventh home run of the year, a two-out solo shot to right.

 

Nashville jumped on the board in the fourth when Brendan Katin belted his third home run of the season, a leadoff solo blast to left off Beavers starter Will Inman.

 

The Sounds used the longball to knot the contest at 2-2 in the sixth as Koshansky led off with a solo shot to right off Inman, his eighth roundtripper of the year. Nashville took its first lead of the night later in the frame when Angel Salome doubled and later scored on a throwing error by Dowdy at third base following a Cole Gillespie single.

 

AUDIO: Brendan Katin Home Run

 

The visitors tacked on an insurance run in the eighth against Portland reliever Scott Patterson, upping the lead to 4-2 when Koshansky walked and scored on Hernan Iribarren's RBI double to left.

 

Lindsay Gulin followed Narron with two scoreless frames for Nashville before ex-Sound Emil Brown pulled Portland back within a run at 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth with a solo homer to center off Chris Smith.

 

The Beavers rallied to tie the contest at 4-4 in the bottom of the ninth against Smith, who suffered his second blown save of the year. Eliezer Alfonzo led off with a single and was sacrificed to second before pinch-hitter Vince Sinisi laced a game-tying single to center.

 

Ryan Houston (1-1) picked up the victory for the Sounds following two innings of scoreless relief. The right-hander has yet to allow a run in his 10 1/3 frames of work for Nashville on the year.

 

Ellis (5-1) took the loss for Portland after surrendering the game-winning run in his lone inning of work.

 

Narron, who departed in line for a win, took a no-decision in his first start for Nashville since April 14 after missing over a month due to left elbow soreness. The left-hander allowed two runs on seven hits in his five innings of work.

 

The teams continue the series with a 9:05 PM CT matchup on Saturday night. Right-hander Mike Burns (6-0, 2.15) will man the bump for the Sounds to face Portland southpaw Cesar Ramos (2-3, 3.27).

 

Nashville Box Score

Will Inman threw over 100 pitches through 5.2 innings, but with nine K's, that's understandable -- the Padres must be pleased with his first AAA start; Sam Narron did not walk a batter in a nice return to the starting rotation; Sounds 4-for-4 on the basepaths; Cole Gillespie with a triple, single, and two walks in front of the hometown crowd; Adam Heether on base four more times, he played third base as Alcides Escobar shifted back to shortstop for a game...

 

Nashville Game Log

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Nashville Pre-Game Audio Chat with Outfielder Cole Gillespie

Good listen, check this out, too...

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Final: Kane County (Athletics) 6, Wisconsin 3

Wisconsin Site Game Summary

 

Early deficit sends Rattlers to loss

By Chris Mehring / MiLB.com

 

GENEVA, IL - The Kane County Cougars scored five times in the first three innings and Pedro Figueroa pitched seven solid innings to defeat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Friday night at Elfstrom Stadium. Franklin Hernandez drove in three runs in the 6-3 Kane County win.

The Cougars (25-16) put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the first inning. Wisconsin starting pitcher Cody Scarpetta retired the first two batters of the inning with strikeouts. But, he walked the next batter and gave up a single to Steve Kleen. A two-run double to right by Hernandez made the score 2-0. Jeremy Barfield followed with an RBI single for a 3-0 lead.

Kane County added an unearned run in the bottom of the second. Dusty Coleman's RBI grounder plated a runner from third to push the Cougars lead to 4-0.

Scarpetta got himself in trouble with back-to-back two-out walks in the third. Juan Nunez made him pay with an RBI single to put the Cougars up 5-0.

The Rattlers (18-23) chipped away at the lead with a two-out rally of their own in the top of the fourth. Michael Vass doubled in the first run and Michael Marseco followed with an RBI double. Then, in the fifth, Erik Miller tripled to start the inning. He would score on an RBI grounder by Jose Duran.

Kane County added an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh. Grant Desme tripled to start the inning. A sacrifice fly by Hernandez knocked in Desme and the Cougars went up 6-3.

Wisconsin put two runners on with one out against Kane County reliever Justin Murray in the top of the eighth inning. But, Murray induced an inning-ending double play to stop the rally in its tracks. Mickey Storey worked a 1-2-3 ninth for the save.

The Timber Rattlers continue their 12-game road trip with game one of a three-game series at Beloit on Friday night. Wisconsin has Trey Watten (1-5, 6.19) as the scheduled starting pitcher. The Snappers will send Bobby Lanigan (4-2, 5.86) to the hill. Game time is 6:30 PM.

 

Wisconsin Box Score

After all the nice things we posted about Cody Scarpetta in the latest Power 50, a rough night; LHP Daniel Meadows was the bridge to Efrain Nieves' scheduled piggyback outing, and Meadows outshined both Scarpetta and Nieves again, stranding two of Cody's runners and tossing an additional two scoreless innings, walking none -- give this guy his own show; Jose Duran two errors at second base, in for Brett Lawrie, who missed the game with a broken nose; third baseman Edgar Trejo two more hits -- it'd be fantastic if the light indeed went on for him recently, as he's riding a six-game hitting streak...

 

Wisconsin Game Log

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Final: Brevard County 3, Dunedin (Blue Jays) 0

 

Game Summary from the Dunedin Site

Manatees shutout Jays 3-0 in series opener

Jays now 0-7 against Brevard County; Outhit Manatees 7-4 in loss

By Tim Livingston / MiLB.com

 

Baseball has always been called "a game of inches" and for one ground ball in the eighth inning, one more inch forward or backward could have made a world of difference.

 

Instead, the spot where the ball bounced off the bat of Zelous Wheeler just in front of John Tolisano on the right side of the infield sealed yet another victory for the Brevard County Manatees over the Dunedin Blue Jays, 3-0.

 

The play in question saw a chopper towards Tolisano with two outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd base with the Manatees up, 1-0. Tolisano charged toward the infield grass on the ball, but it landed right on the edge of where the grass meets the dirt, taking an awkward hop right over Tolisano's glove as it rolled into shallow right field.

 

Eric Farris and Caleb Gindl scored on the play to put the Manatees on the fast track to their seventh consecutive victory over the Blue Jays, but before that play occurred, you would have never known that the Blue Jays were a fifth place team going up against the top dogs in the FSL North Division.

 

A pitcher's duel broke out between Manatees ace Evan Anundsen, the man who owns the only no-hitter thrown by an FSL pitcher this season, and Blue Jays starter Andrew Liebel, who came into the game at 0-5 on the season, but was coming in after a solid performance in his last start against the Tampa Yankees.

 

That momentum carried over into this start, as he was superb against the Manatees, giving up only one run on two hits in his six innings, striking out five, but ended up taking the hard luck loss in the process, falling to 0-6.

 

The problem was that while the Blue Jays pitchers were good, the Manatees pitchers were that much better. Anundsen (5-2) went five innings and scattered four hits while striking out five batters of his own.

 

He was followed by a superb three inning performance from Amaury Rivas, who bridged the gap between starter and closer, setting up FSL saves leader Rob Wooten to close out his 14th game this year in 14 chances.

 

The Blue Jays got a two-hit game from both Darin Mastroianni and Manny Rodriguez in the loss, but never got a runner past second base after the first inning, when Moises Sierra was standing on third on Tolisano's inning ending fly out in the first.

 

For Dunedin, it marked their third straight loss overall, and they have now committed 10 errors in only three games, including one by Justin Jackson in Friday night's game. Jackson has made six of those 10 errors.

 

However, even on a night where he committed an error and went 0-for-4 at the plate, Jackson made a couple of outstanding plays up the middle for Dunedin, including laying out on a diving stop of a soft liner from Gindl in the 6th. He also cut down Sergio Miranda trying to score in the ninth on a smooth backhanded play with the infield playing in.

 

With the good things Dunedin did tonight, they will look to have them carry over into Saturday's contest, where they will send Kenny Rodriguez to the hill, fresh off the best start by a Dunedin pitcher this season, a seven-inning shutout performance where he outdueled Chicago Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano as he was making a rehab start on Sunday.

 

The first pitch is set for 7:00 PM (6:00 Central).

 

Brevard County Box Score

Evan Anundsen, Amaury Rivas, and Rob Wooten all build on our positive Power 50 comments; it's possible that Anundsen was pulled after only five innings simply because Rivas needed the work as well with all the recent rainouts; Eric Farris with a double, single, sacrifice, and his 20th stolen base in as many attempts...

 

Brevard County Game Log

There's no apparent reason why Brent Brewer was pulled defensively in the 8th...

[wvpowerblkwel]

Did anyone actually get to take in the Nashville game? I would like to hear a firsthand report about how Inman looked. I know I made a bunch of noise about the Linebrink trade (of which I still believe was a mistake) but I'd like to know if Inman is maturing into an MLB pitcher or not.

[Never Outhustled]

Great to see Jones get off to a great start in AA, especially pitching in front of the home crowd. They were pretty merciless to him last season, but I'm sure they'll cheer him now. The batter Jones struck out to get out of a jam in the 5th, Quiroz, has spent parts of the past 5 seasons in the majors.