Link Report for Tue. 6/2 -- Jeffress A Much-Needed Dominant Effort

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Tuesday'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 Fort Myers (Twins) feed.

 

Nashville: LHP Lindsay Gulin at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 6:35 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

 

Huntsville: LHP Bobby Bramhall at home vs. Birmingham (White Sox), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

 

Brevard County: RHP Jeremy Jeffress at home vs. Fort Myers (Twins), 6:05 PM gametime

 

Wisconsin: RHP Cody Scarpetta at home vs. Cedar Rapids (Angels), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles: at home vs. the DSL Yankees #1 squad (see this thread for some roster background) -- all games are 10:30 local time in the Dominican, and no need to ask about web audio; we usually won't see updated box scores until the overnight...

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Regarding the DSL, the Yankees, Cubs and Rangers have two teams apiece. The Orioles actually have 1.5 teams, with one shared with the Brewers.

 

As you can see from this DSL standings page, the teams are broken into different regions of the Dominican.

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Follow Tuesday'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_06_02_iowaaa_nasaaa_1

Huntsville:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_02_biraax_hunaax_1

Brevard County:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_02_ftmafa_breafa_1

Wisconsin:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_06_02_cedafx_wisafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&gid=2009_06_02_dyarok_dobrok_1&cid=3130&t=g_box

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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

 

Dominican Summer League Standings

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Rattler Radio Blog:

 

June 2, 2009: Game Notes

 

June 2, 2009: Tonight's Pitchers (Scarpetta / Nieves)

 

June 2, 2009: Starting Lineup

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A few Brewers farmhands (Eric Farris, Alcides Escobar, and Adam Stern) show up on this list from Baseball America of most aggressive base stealers.

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You'd think someone like Jose Duran would make a better left fielder than Brock Kjeldgaard, but as Cutter Dykstra showed, that's not always true.

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Nice work from Jeffress so far tonight: 4 IP, 3 K, 0 BB, and just one hit. He's outdueling Twins top prospect Carlos Gutierrez, though Gutierrez is continuing his crazy ground ball ways.

 

EDIT: 5 IP, 5 K, 0 BB, 1 H now. Awesome.

 

EDIT 2: Jeffress hit Ben Revere in the 6th, but that's it, and he struck out another batter. Two baserunners in six innings, with no walks, is brilliant.

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Bobby Bramhall gave up three runs in the first inning, but the Stars came back with six runs in the bottom of the inning, including consecutive two-run doubles from J.R. Hopf and Freddy Parejo, the 7th- and 8th-place hitters.

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Scarpetta struck out the side in the third.

 

Salome has a double.

[trwi7]

7 innings, 7 strikeouts and 0 walks now for Jeffress.

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And welcome to your Link Report, once and future home of Manny Parra.

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Final: DSL Yankees"1" 4, DSL Brewers / Orioles 0

Ages in parentheses...

 

DSL Brewers Box Score

RHP Edwin Linares (19 years old) 2.1 innings of shutout relief, has already made two appearances -- he made 13 relief appearances for the Maryvale kids last summer; infielder Joan Abreu (18) walked and singled out of the leadoff spot; left fielder Luis Chirinos (16), catcher Jhonatan Javier (21), and CF Juan Barrini (17) all 0-for-3, Barrini now 0-for-10 on the season...

 

DSL Brewers Game Log

[DHonks]

also wanted to mention Brent Brewer with 2 hits today.

 

I have to wonder what the plan is with Scarpetta. Do they plan on 1 full year of A, then jumping to AA? Or is he ticketed for Brevard County around July 1st? Either way, it would be nice for him to get that ERA into the 3's

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Through six innings, Chris Dennis has the only two Wisconsin hits, including a double. John Delaney has no official at-bats, having walked three times.

 

As for Scarpetta, he'll qualify for a 4th option year, and he's only 20, so there's no need to rush him unless he's blowing the doors off a league.

[battlekow]

And the T-Rats game ends on Delaney getting thrown out at second trying to advance on a wild pitch. Fitting.

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Final: Brevard County 5, Fort Myers (Twins) 0

 

Game Summary (OK, blurb) from the Miracle's Site

We love our friends with the Manatees' staff, but we shouldn't have to pick up timely game summaries from the opponent's site for home games...

 

Miracle can't solve Manatee pitching, shut out in second straight

 

VIERA -- The Manatees had two straight strong pitching performances and two straight shutouts of the Fort Myers Miracle at Space Coast Stadium as the two division leaders in the Florida State League split a four-game series.

 

Jeremy Jeffress (1-0) had his best outing of 2009 in a seven-inning performance with just one hit (Deibinson Romero), no walks, and seven strikeouts.

 

Carlos Gutierrez (2-3) suffered his third loss with a line of five innings, seven hits, two runs (earned), one walk, and one strikeout.

 

Brevard County Box Score

Will we look back on June 2nd, 2009 as the key turning point in Jeremy Jeffress' minor league career? Brandon Rapoza (ERA 0.00) and Rob Wooten complete the shutout; Chris Errecart solo home run, double, walk, three RBI, two runs scored...

 

Brevard County Game Log

Game log gives you a real sense of Jeffress' dominance on this evening...

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Looks like Brendan Katin had a nice outfield kill to keep the Sounds' lead at two runs in the 5th:

• Steve Clevenger grounds out, second baseman Hernan Iribarren to first baseman Joe Koshansky.
• Nate Spears singles on a line drive to center fielder Jason Bourgeois.
• Anderson Machado pops out to shortstop Alcides Escobar.
• With David Macias batting, Nate Spears steals (3) 2nd base.
• David Macias walks.
• Esmailin Caridad singles on a line drive to right fielder Brendan Katin. Nate Spears out at home on the throw, right fielder Brendan Katin to catcher Angel Salome.

[Never Outhustled]

Adam Heether keeps pounding on the door. With a 3-3 night including 2 doubles, his OPS is back over 1.000

[battlekow]

Uh, wow. Aguilar entrusted with a five-run lead and is only able to get one out before blowing it. He gave up a game-tying grand slam, the first homer he's allowed this year. At least he hasn't lost it (the game) yet.

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Final: Nashville 3, Iowa (Cubs) 0

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for new Lindsay Gulin photo, text follows --

 

Gulin, Heether Lead Sounds' Shutout Of Cubs

 

NASHVILLE - Left-hander Lindsay Gulin worked eight scoreless innings and the Nashville lineup produced three two-out RBI doubles to lead the Sounds to a 3-0 victory over the division-rival Iowa Cubs on Tuesday evening at historic Greer Stadium in the opener of a four-game series.

 

With the win, the first-place Sounds (29-24) notched their fourth shutout of the year and recorded back-to-back victories for the first time in over two weeks.

 

Gulin (3-2) turned in his best outing of the season, working a Sounds season-high eight innings and allowed only three hits while striking out four batters. Chris Smith closed out the victory with a scoreless ninth to notch his 11th save of the year.

 

Nashville third baseman Adam Heether powered the offense with a 3-for-3 evening that included a pair of RBI doubles.

 

The Sounds took a 1-0 lead in the second when Heether reached on a two-out infield single then scored when Angel Salome ripped an RBI double to left off Cubs starter Esmailin Caridad.

 

AUDIO: Angel Salome RBI Double

 

Nashville doubled the advantage to 2-0 in the fourth with a similar sequence of events. After the first two batters were retired, Joe Koshansky singled through the right side of the infield and came plateward a batter later when Heether doubled to the left-center gap.

 

Sounds right fielder Brendan Katin stifled the first Iowa scoring opportunity of the evening in the top of the fifth, gunning down Nate Spears at the plate as he attempted to score from second on a Caridad single to right.

 

Heether ripped his second run-scoring double of the night in the sixth, a two-out line drive to left that was just over the glove of third baseman Nate Spears' glove. Katin, who had been hit by a Caridad pitch, scored on the knock.

 

Caridad (3-6) took the loss after giving up three runs on five hits in six frames of action for the I-Cubs.

 

The teams continue their series with a noon matinee on Wednesday afternoon. Left-hander Chase Wright (3-5, 4.58) will man the bump for the Sounds to face Iowa left-hander J.R. Mathes (7-3, 2.89).

 

Nashville Box Score

With Mike Burns promotion (nice job in Florida tonight, Mike), there should not be a need for a roster move to activate Chase Wright off the Helena roster Wednesday morning; who would have fared better starting in Landshark Stadium tonight, Lindsay Gulin or Manny Parra? Closer Chris Smith has only 11 appearances since May 7th, so while he's been fantastic, he hasn't been on a Rob Wooten-like pace in our stream-of-consciousness; Adam Heether's 2009 AAA OPS is 1.001...

 

Nashville Game Log

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