Link Report for Fri. 6/19 -- Huge Double-Dip for Huntsville

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

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

 

For this Brevard County series, you can pick up the Hammerheads' audio via this link.

Nashville: LHP Chris Cody at Oklahoma City (Rangers), 6:40 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

 

Huntsville: LHP David Welch and LHP Josh Wahpepah in a doubleheader at Birmingham (White Sox), 4:45 PM pre-game; 5:00 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings

 

Brevard County: Idle until Monday; FSL All-Star Game Saturday night, which we'll cover in the Manatees' own thread this weekend

 

Wisconsin: LHP Evan Frederickson at Kane County (Athletics), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime; RHP Wily Peralta will back Frederickson up

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles: at the DSL Red Sox (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...

[Mass Haas]

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_06_19_nasaaa_orhaaa_1

 

Huntsville Game One:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_19_hunaax_biraax_1

 

Huntsville Game Two:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_19_hunaax_biraax_2

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_06_19_wisafx_kccafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&gid=2009_06_19_dobrok_drsrok_1&cid=3130&t=g_box

[Mass Haas]

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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We're going to include the link to Kraig McNutt's Nashville blog in the same post as the Nashville media notes link going forward.

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AAA All-Star voting is here with your MiLB.com online account.

[Mass Haas]

Be sure to check out Chris Mehring's blog posts, with specific Timber Rattler pre-game updates for tonight available shortly before gametime.

[Mass Haas]

Midwest League Standings

 

Dominican Summer League Standings

[Mass Haas]

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nashville 40 28 .588 - 23-15 17-13 L1 Iowa 36 32 .529 4.0 19-14 17-18 W3 Memphis 31 36 .463 8.5 19-15 12-21 L3 Omaha 26 41 .388 13.5 11-21 15-20 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 37 28 .569 - 14-16 23-12 L3 Carolina 37 29 .561 0.5 21-14 16-15 W1 Tennessee 29 38 .433 9.0 16-19 13-19 L1 Chattanooga 28 38 .424 9.5 15-17 13-21 W3 West Tenn 26 41 .388 12.0 13-19 13-22 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 40 21 .656 - 15-11 25-10 L3 Daytona 31 31 .500 9.5 16-13 15-18 L2 Clearwater 31 32 .492 10.0 15-16 16-16 W1 Dunedin 30 34 .469 11.5 12-21 18-13 L1 Lakeland 27 33 .450 12.5 15-17 12-16 W1 Tampa 28 36 .438 13.5 15-21 13-15 L5 

[Mass Haas]

Our regulars (and newcomers always welcome) can continue with their nightly updates before the full game summaries roll along, that's working out great.

 

Thanks to a certain former-Brewer-now-Brave broadcaster who appreciated our efforts here, my daughter and I will be taking in Braves-Sox at Fenway tonight. Catch you during the overnight, and thanks, JP. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

 

[tyguy20204]

That's awesome, Mass. Have a great time.

[twobrewers]

I'd say you are still very underpaid.

[TheCrew07]

Welch doin it up early, Stars lead 2-0 in game 1. 1, 2, 3 go back to back to back hits score 2 runs in the first for Huntsville.

[TheCrew07]

A Green error proves costly, pushing Huntsville into extra innings. Baron isn't giving me a warm and fuzzy, he's throwing more balls than strikes and as I type this he gives up the game winning run. Ouch...

[TheCrew07]

Nashville with a nice 1st, all of the big names participate including a Heether HR and a Salome 3B (scores on a 2 out Balk of all things) for a 5 run frame.

[trwi7]

Wisconsin game postponed.

 

Nashville up on Oklahoma City 6-0 after 3. The only players without hits are Bourgeois, Escobar (he's been hit by a pitch and walked) and Gillespie.

 

Edit: Bourgeois doubles, so take his name off the list.

[Southern Leaguer]

After losing game 1 in walkoff style in the 9th (and being no-hit after the 1st!), Stars fall behind 2-0 in the 2nd inning of game 2. Drew Anderson with 2 errors in LF during that 2nd inning and catcher Vinny Rottino ejected after a close paly at the plate.

[LakeCountyFan]

It is gonna be a fun two days with Huntsville and Carolina so close in the standings

[LakeCountyFan]

8 base runners stranded yikes (Huntsville)

[Southern Leaguer]

Green now with 2 errors in the 6th, Stars down 6-0 in the 6th. Barring a miracle in the top of the 7th, they will be in a flat tie with Carolina with 2 games to go.

[Never Outhustled]

Adam Heether is making a mockery out of AAA. He's been on all 5 times so far tonight, and is a triple away from the cycle.

 

Cody has been very good so far, 1 R through 7, with 13 groundouts.

 

Nashville is up 14-1, and is in the middle of another rally.

[wibadgers23]

Bourgeois continues to have an incredible June. He is 21 for his last 49 with 10 RBI's. I see he was a second round draft pick in 2000. He's put up fairly good numbers throughout his minor league career. I wonder how many opportunities he's had at the major league level? I also wonder how good of a centerfielder he is.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Pre-Game Audio Chat with Reliever Wes Littleton

 

Final: Nashville 14, Oklahoma City (Rangers) 3

Link for Adam Heether photo, text follows --

 

Sounds Pound RedHawks, 14-3

 

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Nashville Sounds put on an offensive show in a decisive 14-3 victory over the Oklahoma City RedHawks on Friday night at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.

 

The Sounds (41-28) had two five-run innings in the contest while recording a season-best 19 hits and equaling a season high with 14 runs scored.

 

Every Sound reached by a base hit, and six different players had multi-hit games, paced by three-hit games by near cycles by Brendan Katin, Angel Salome, and Adam Heether. Katin and Salome were home runs shy of the cycle, while Heether needed a triple.

 

Nashville took a five-run lead in the top of the first inning off Oklahoma City starter Elizardo Ramirez. Nine batters went to the plate in an inning that featured a five hits, including a team cycle, keyed by a two-run home run by Heether.

 

The Sounds added runs in the second, fourth, and two in the fifth to build a 9-0 lead. The RedHawks plated their first run in the sixth inning when Nate Gold drove in Joaquin Arias with a base hit.

 

Nashville scored five in the eighth off Oklahoma City reliever Luis Mendoza. Six of the first seven batters in the inning reached on base hits.

 

The RedHawks closed out the scoring with two runs in the bottom of the ninth.

 

Sounds starter Chris Cody (2-1) allowed two runs over eight innings and earned the win in his third Triple-A outing, working his third straight quality start for Nashville.

 

Ramirez (3-6) took the loss after allowing the first nine runs of the game in his four innings of action for Oklahoma City.

 

The contest also featured four hit batters and a warning to both dugouts by home plate umpire Jeff Macias.

 

Oklahoma City and Nashville will square off in the third game of the series at 7:05 PM on Saturday night at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark. Right-hander Mike Burns (7-2, 2.69) will toe the rubber for the Sounds to face RedHawks right-hander Bryan Corey (3-2, 4.75).

 

Nashville Box Score

This is a huge start for Mike Burns Saturday night -- but isn't everybody else thinking that southpaw Chris Cody is really planting seeds in the minds of the brass? Alcides Escobar reached four times (two HBP's); incredible amount of crooked numbers for you to digest offensively -- enjoy...

 

Nashville Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final, Game One: Birmingham (White Sox) 4, Huntsville 2, nine innings (scheduled for seven)

Final, Game Two: Birmingham 11, Huntsville 0

Huntsville Site Game Summary

 

Two Games, Two Days to Decide Division Winner

Barons Sweep Twin Bill From Stars

By Brett Pollock / Huntsville Stars

 

Matt Zaleski spun five scoreless innings and Birmingham broke open a close game with nine late runs in an 11-0 victory in the nightcap to complete a doubleheader sweep of Huntsville Friday night at Regions Park. The Stars have matched a season-high with five straight losses to fall to 37-30 and into a first place tie in the North Division with Carolina, which lost in the bottom of the ninth at Tennessee, while the Barons improved to 47-20, the most wins for any team in organized professional baseball.

 

Christian Marrero reached in the second inning on a fielder's choice and advanced to third base on a single by Javier Colina, who moved to second base when Drew Anderson overran the ball in left field. Lee Cruz flied out to Anderson, who sent a throw to the plate that hit a sliding Marrerro, allowing him to score. Pitcher Josh Wahpepah picked up the loose ball and threw home to Vinny Rottino, who appeared to have tagged out a sliding Colina, who was ruled to have moved safely around the tag to give the home side a 2-0 lead.

 

Zaleski got J.R. Hopf to pop out with the bases loaded to end the first inning and got Taylor Green to ground out with runners at the corners to end the fifth inning. He allowed four hits, walked three, hit a batter and fanned three to pick up the win to improve to 4-0. Matt Long worked around two hits to toss a scoreless sixth inning and Ryan Rote gave up two hits and issued a walk but left the bases loaded in seventh, as the Stars stranded 11 runners in being blanked for a third time this season.

 

Christian Marrero's three-run triple off of Derrick Ellison, who surrendered five runs without recording an out, was the big blow in a nine-run sixth inning, the most runs the Stars have allowed in any single frame this season. Omar Aguilar gave up four runs on five hits while recording two outs before Juan Sandoval came on to record the final out in the Barons' biggest scoring inning of the season.

 

Huntsville Game Two Box Score

What can you say about the 40-man roster's Omar Aguilar at this point? If your pitchers are going to get rocked, you may as well get six errors out of the way and get ready for weekend action; because third catcher J.R. Hopf was already the second game designated hitter, Vinny Rottino's early ejection forced Jonathan Lucroy back behind the plate in the Birmhingham heat and humidity after an 11-inning opener -- thanks, Vinny, yikes...

 

Huntsville Game Two Game Log

 

Adam Stern started the opener with a triple, his first hit in 15 at-bats, and scored when Shane Justis followed with a double. Jonathan Lucroy singled in Justis to give the visitors a 2-0 lead three batters into the game. Barons' starter John Ely then settled down by retiring the next 18 batters in succession before issuing a leadoff walk to Anderson in the seventh that was quickly erased when Green grounded into a double play. Ely went seven frames, giving up three hits, walking one and fanning six.

 

Stefan Gartrell's two-run home run in the fifth inning, his 11th, tied the game at two. It came two batters after Dayan Viciedo had reached when Green and Rottino collided trying to make the catch on an infield pop up. Stars' starter David Welch then gave up two singles before retiring Robbie Hudson and John Shelby to end the inning. Welch went six innings, giving up two runs, one earned, on four hits, while fanning three.

 

John Lujan earned the win, his first, with two scoreless hitless innings, as Huntsville did not collect a hit after the first inning. Casey Baron took over for Welch and tossed a scoreless seventh inning and then struck out Tyler Flowers with two on to end the eighth inning. He walked David Cook with one out in the ninth before Gartrell drove a 3-2 offering over the wall in straightaway center field to give the Barons their second straight walk-off win and seventh of the season. It was the second home run allowed by Baron this season and the first since May 14.

 

The series continues Saturday night with Huntsville southpaw Bobby Bramhall taking the hill against Barons' right-hander Daniel Hudson. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 PM central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Game One Box Score

Bobby Bramhall has pitched better as of late, but this AA White Sox club is just ridiculous -- it's going to be tough Saturday night...

 

Huntsville Game One Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: DSL Red Sox 4, DSL Brewers / Orioles 3

DSL Brewers / Orioles Box Score

Walk-off loss for RHP Edwin Linares on an unearned run -- in the 8th inning, Linares lost the save when he surrendered his first earned run of the season; lefty Jose Ramos didn't retire any of the three batters he faced in the 7th as the Brewers / Orioles lost a 3-0 lead after six innings; 17-year-old SS Andres Martinez struck out swinging in the top of the 1st, and then was pulled before taking the field in the 2nd; 21-year-old catcher Jhonatan Javier continues to hit well, .321 with an .837 OPS, two hits with a triple here; 16-year-old OF Luis Chirinos 3-for-4 as the DH; LF Juan Barrini came in late, was HBP and stole a base...

 

DSL Brewers / Orioles Game Log

[Mass Haas]

From Huntsville's Buck Rogers:

If the Stars and Carolina Mudcats end up tied for the lead we will settle it right here at The Joe on Monday, July 21st when the Mudcats come to play. It would be winner-take-all just like the West Tenn game last season. Two years in a row would be something right out of The Twilight Zone.

[Mass Haas]

RATTLERS AND COUGARS RAINED OUT

GENEVA, IL - Friday's scheduled Midwest League between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Kane County Cougars at Elfstrom Stadium was rained out. The teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday. Game one, scheduled for seven innings, will start at 4:30 PM. Game two, also scheduled for seven innings, will follow the conclusion of game one by 30 minutes.

Wisconsin has Alex Periard (0-0, 6.00) scheduled to pitch the first game and Evan Frederickson (3-3, 5.16) to start game two. Kane County has slated Matt Fitts (2-5, 4.86) as the starting pitcher in game one. Anthony Capra (1-4, 4.04) is scheduled to star the nightcap for the Cougars.