Link Report for Wed. 5/27 -- Huge Night for Heether; Status of Lawrie, Brewer in Question

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Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

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

 

For the Brevard County series, you can click on the audio link for the St. Lucie (Mets) feed.

 

Nashville: LHP Lindsay Gulin at Tacoma (Mariners), 1:15 PM pre-game; 1:30 gametime

 

Huntsville: RHP Mike Jones at Tennessee (Cubs), 6:00 PM pre-game; 6:15 gametime

 

Brevard County: RHP's Amaury Rivas and Evan Anundsen at home in a double-dip vs. St. Lucie (Mets), 4:00 PM gametime; each game slated for seven innings

 

Wisconsin: LHP Efrain Nieves at Dayton (Reds), 5:40 PM pre-game, 6:00 gametime

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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 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_27_nasaaa_tacaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_27_hunaax_tenaax_1

 

Brevard County Game One:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_27_sluafa_breafa_1

 

Brevard County Game Two:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_05_27_sluafa_breafa_2

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_05_27_wisafx_dayafx_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 25 21 .543 - 12-11 13-10 L2 Iowa 22 21 .512 1.5 11-10 11-11 L3 Memphis 22 21 .512 1.5 13-8 9-13 L4 Omaha 20 24 .455 4.0 9-12 11-12 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 22 20 .524 - 10-11 12-9 W1 Carolina 22 23 .489 1.5 10-11 12-12 W6 Tennessee 21 23 .477 2.0 10-12 11-11 L1 Chattanooga 18 26 .409 5.0 10-15 8-11 L6 West Tenn 17 26 .395 5.5 8-11 9-15 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 27 11 .711 - 11-5 16-6 W4 Clearwater 20 19 .513 7.5 8-11 12-8 L3 Daytona 19 20 .487 8.5 8-9 11-11 L1 Lakeland 17 19 .472 9.0 10-10 7-9 W2 Tampa 19 23 .452 10.0 11-13 8-10 W4 Dunedin 16 25 .390 12.5 5-16 11-9 W1 

[trwi7]

Adam Heether just hit his second homer in as many innings to give Nashville an 8-6 lead in the 9th.

[wibadgers23]

Escobar with his 4th error playing at 2nd base, but he has his average up to .290.

[Never Outhustled]

This chirade the Brewers are playing by pretending that Casey MaGehee is better than Adam Heether has to end. Heether has always been better and continues to improve. Heether is a late blooming MLB caliber middle infielder in the mold of Mike Aviles and Jeff Keppinger. The Brewers have a need, MaGehee isn't filling it, move on to a better option.

[TheCrew07]

I agree, I've always kind of liked Heether... never a top a prospect, but always solid results. If he wouldn't have had a pretty rotten 2006 campaign we probably would have discussed him more.

[TheCrew07]

I hope Rivas figures out his HR thing as he moves up and feeling left out Braddock gives up one as well. Gindl under .300 now but walked twice, Wheeler at SS... no Brewer for game 1.

 

Jones clean early, 1H, 0BB, 0K... Green batting 7th again, lame. Lucroy 0-1, hopefully he starts hitting soon.

 

Single, single, double, error on Lawrie and a single make a for a tough 1st inning for Nieves, and then gives up a solo shot in the 2nd. WI hitless and down 5-0 going to the 3rd. As long as I'm harping on the batting order tonight, Dennis is batting too low in WI as well.

[TheCrew07]

Dennis with 2 solo HRs... I rest my case.

[battlekow]

It took me way too long to figure out why the first BC game ended after 8 innings.

[DHonks]

I personally like the way McGehee plays. Solid defense, and the ball comes off his bat solidly...reminds me a bit of Ginter.

 

Nice job for Mike Jones to get out of a jam or two. So far he's just giving up a bunch of singles. In the first he got a DP to help get out of an error-induced jam. He's also throwing strikes at about a 2:1 ratio...a good sign towards helping him limit walks.

[battlekow]

Dayton Bottom 2nd

• Defensive switch from third base to second base for Juan Sanchez.
• Defensive Substitution: John Delaney replaces second baseman Brett Lawrie, batting 3rd, playing third base.

Again? Why? Anyone listening that can give details?

[battlekow]

By the way, that's agent39's JC Sulbaran dominating the non-Chris Dennis T-Rats tonight.

[TheCrew07]

This gave me a chuckle.

 

Tennessee Bottom 6th

• Russ Canzler lines out to shortstop Yohannis Perez.
• James Adduci singles on a line drive to left fielder Drew T. Anderson.
• Ty Wright grounds into double play, pitcher Mike Jones to shortstop Yohannis Perez to catcher Jonathan Lucroy to shortstop Yohannis Perez. James Adduci out at 2nd. Ty Wright out at 2nd.

[Never Outhustled]

I personally like the way McGehee plays. Solid defense,

MaGehee is a very good defender, but no better than Heether. MaGehee doesn't even play SS like Heether can.

 

and the ball comes off his bat solidly...reminds me a bit of Ginter.

Is that why he has a 289 slugging %? MaGehee has never had a good season at the plate, and has never hit as well Heether. I agree that MaGehee plays hard, but that doesn't make him any different than Heether. Heether is also a factor on the bases, whereas MaGehee is slow.

[TheCrew07]

Green Double Switched out... Hhhmph. He made a throwing error but that was in the 2nd... defensive replacement? Other issue?

Tennessee Bottom 8th

• Defensive switch from right field to first base for Vinny Rottino.
• Defensive switch from first base to third base for Kevin Melillo.
• Pitcher Change: Robert Hinton replaces Mike Jones, batting 7th, replacing third baseman Taylor Green.
• Freddy Parejo remains in the game as the right fielder.
• Brandon Guyer strikes out swinging.

Shane Justice looks like someone famous, but I can't peg who, his face is really familiar.

 

edit. Yikes, I jumped onto the WI broadcast to find out Scarpetta just gave up 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th, this WI game outside of Dennis is a disaster.

 

edit2. No reason given for Lawrie leaving the game, just that Delaney replaced him.

[TheCrew07]

MaGehee is a very good defender, but no better than Heether. MaGehee doesn't even play SS like Heether can.

Are you spelling his name wrong on purpose?

[Never Outhustled]

Are you spelling his name wrong on purpose?

Sorry, no disrespect to Mr. McGehee.

[True CryM]

Heether has had 26 stolen bases (against 16 CS) in 7 minor league seasons. I don't see how he could be considered a factor on the base paths with that amount of inactivity. Any improvement in a Heether for McGehee swap would be minimal at best.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Dayton (Reds) 14, Wisconsin 4

Wisconsin Site Game Summary

Dragons singe Rattlers

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

DAYTON, OH - The Dayton Dragons collected 17 hits and defeated the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 14-4 Wednesday night at Fifth Third Field. Miguel Rojas and Carlos Mendez each had three RBI for the Dragons. J.C. Sulbaran allowed two runs over six innings for his second win of the season.

Dayton (18-28) got to Rattler starting pitcher Efrain Nieves almost immediately. Rojas reached on a one-out bunt single in the first and a single to right by Andrew Means put runners on the corners. Cody Puckett doubled to left to drive in both runs. An error on a grounder to second allowed Puckett to score. Later in the frame, Mendez singled -- the first of his four hits in the game -- to drive in one more run for a 4-0 lead.

Rojas homered with two outs in the bottom of the second and the Dragons were up 5-0.

Chris Dennis hit a long homer to left-center to lead off the Rattlers third. Dennis, who was 4-for-4 on the evening, would homer again -- another leadoff shot -- in the fifth. But, 5-2 was as close as the Rattlers would get.

Dayton put the game away in the bottom of the fifth inning as they plated five runs. Nieves walked Puckett with one out and former Brewer farmhand Stephen Chapman followed with a single. Mendez doubled to center to knock in both runners and knock Nieves out of the game.

Kevin Coddington greeted Rattler reliever Brandon Ritchie with a single. Frank Pfister followed with an RBI single. Then, Yen-Wen Kuo doubled to left to drive a run and another run scored on an error on that play for a 10-2 lead.

Kuo and Dave Sappelt had back to back RBI hits in the bottom of the seventh. Rojas chased both of them home with a single and the Dragons stretched their lead to 14-2.

Jose Duran singled in two runs in the top of the eighth inning to wrap up the scoring.

The final game of the series with the Dragons is set for Thursday night. Trey Watten (2-5, 5.45) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Dayton will send Matt Fairel (3-2, 2.68) to the mound. Game time is 6:00 PM CDT.

 

Wisconsin Box Score

Chris Dennis, a 20-year-old LH slugger who also takes his walks (48 walks, 83 K's in 270 professional AB's); Erik Miller drew only his 9th walk of the season in 173 AB's -- he also singled twice, if he drew more walks, he'd be an exciting, athletic CF prospect; opponents now hitting .310 against LHP Efrain Nieves - ouch; Nieves and Cody Scarpetta combine to allow 12 runs, 11 earned, in 6.1 innings...

 

Wisconsin Game Log

Brett Lawrie called up to Milwaukee in the 2nd inning to fill Rickie Weeks' spot; we'll try and learn more...

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Final, Game One: Brevard County 6, St. Lucie (Mets) 5, eight innings (scheduled for seven)

Final, Game Two: St. Lucie 5, Brevard County 0

 

Brevard County Site Doubleheader Summary

 

Manatees Split Doubleheader with Mets

Maintain 7.5 Game Lead over Clearwater in FSL North

By Tyler Stover / Brevard County Manatees

 

(Viera, FL) For the first time in 10 days, the rain held off long enough for the Brevard County Manatees to take the field at Space Coast Stadium. They won the thrilling opener of their doubleheader with St. Lucie, 6-5, in eight innings, but failed to complete the sweep, dropping the second game, 5-0.

 

The Manatees rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the first game to eventually pull out a victory over the Mets. They tied the game at 5-5 in the sixth inning on Martin Maldonado's RBI double to the center field wall and Eric Farris' RBI groundout. With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, Caleb Gindl delivered a walk-off single up the middle, bringing home Sergio Miranda for the winning run. John Axford (4-0) maintained his perfect record by picking up the win in relief. He retired the side in order in the top of the eighth inning. The Manatees were able to get the victory despite allowing three home runs to the Mets in the game.

 

Brevard County Game One Box Score

Uneven start (four walks, two scored) for Amaury Rivas; Zach Braddock now with a 22-to-2 K/BB ratio in 12 innings, he did allow a solo home run in his two innings here; 26-year-old RHP John Axford's numbers are worth reviewing here, a bump to AA should be forthcoming by the All-Star break; Manatees successfully stole bases in all four attempts (including a double steal), while Brevard catcher Martin Maldonado again gunned down the only attempt against him; Brent Brewer with a late appearance, not at the plate; all Manatee hitters reached at least once, despite 11 K's...

 

Brevard County Game One Game Log

Small ball, and a key wild pitch on a strikeout, wins it in extra innings...

 

St. Lucie rebounded to blank the Manatees in the nightcap, 5-0. Eric Niesen (3-2) shut down the high-octane Brevard County offense, scattering five hits and two walks over six scoreless innings to earn the win. Evan Anundsen (5-3) was roughed up for three runs on seven hits over five innings. He was saddled with his first loss since April 23 at Tampa. Eric Farris was the lone bright spot for the Manatee offense, with two hits and a stolen base.

 

Brevard County now heads to St. Lucie for two games to finish out the four-game series. Thursday, Jeremy Jeffress (0-0, 9.00) will make his second appearance and first start since rejoining the Manatees. He will take on Scott Shaw (1-3, 3.57) of the Mets. The Manatees return to Space Coast Stadium on Saturday to open a four-game set with the Fort Myers Miracle, who currently reside in first place in the FSL South Division.

 

Brevard County Game Two Box Score

Brent Brewer attempted to start the game, but was pulled after just one inning in the field -- something's not right; Evan Anundsen had one rough inning, allowing three runs -- all four hits (one was an infield hit) in that inning were on ground balls, although we imagine a couple of those were hit hard, including a double;

 

Brevard County Game Two Game Log

Anundsen escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 1st; center fielder Logan Schafer doubled up a runner off first base in the 2nd; ground-ball base hits hurt reliever Mark Willinsky as well...

 

John Axford is 4-0 with a 1.35 ERA, and has struck out 29 batters in 20.0 innings in 2009. (MiLB.com Photo by Dennis Greenblatt)

 

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Brett Lawrie called up to Milwaukee in the 2nd inning to fill Rickie Weeks' spot; we'll try and learn more...

Just making sure folks know that was kidding...