Link Report for Thurs. 6/25 -- Big League Matinee; Five Evening Audio Choices as part of '7-Pack'

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Thursday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

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

 

For this Brevard County series, the opponent (Palm Beach) audio is available via this link

Nashville: LHP Chris Cody at Albuquerque (Dodgers), 7:40 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime

 

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

 

Brevard County: RHP Amaury Rivas at home vs. Palm Beach (Cardinals), 6:05 PM gametime

 

Wisconsin: RHP Alex Periard at home vs. Peoria (Cubs), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime; LHP Dan Merklinger is scheduled to pitch in relief

 

Helena: RHP Damon Krestalude at home vs. Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime

 

Arizona Summer League: at home in Maryvale vs. the rookie Athletics; no more day games -- all games begin at 7:00 local time in the desert; no audio, naturally...

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles: at the DSL Cubs # 2 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...

[Mass Haas]

Follow Thursday'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_25_nasaaa_albaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_25_cngaax_hunaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_25_pbcafa_breafa_1

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_06_25_peoafx_wisafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t433&gid=2009_06_25_misrok_helrok_1&cid=433&t=g_box

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale):

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_06_25_athrok_brrrok_1

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&gid=2009_06_25_dobrok_dchrok_1&cid=3130&t=g_box

[Mass Haas]

Nashville fans willing to pay the associated fee can watch the Albuquerque series this weekend via MiLB.TV.

 

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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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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.

 

Time is running out -- vote through the 26th.

[Mass Haas]

Midwest League Standings

 

Arizona 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 42 31 .575 - 23-15 19-16 W1 Iowa 38 34 .528 3.5 21-16 17-18 L1 Memphis 34 38 .472 7.5 21-15 13-23 W2 Omaha 27 45 .375 14.5 11-21 16-24 L4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 2 1 .667 - 2-1 0-0 L1 Tennessee 2 1 .667 - 0-0 2-1 W1 Carolina 1 2 .333 1.0 1-2 0-0 L1 Chattanooga 1 2 .333 1.0 0-0 1-2 W1 West Tenn 0 3 .000 2.0 0-0 0-3 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 Clearwater 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 Daytona 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 Dunedin 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 Lakeland 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 Tampa 0 0 - - 0-0 0-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 1 1 .500 - 1-1 0-0 L1 Great Falls 1 1 .500 - 0-0 1-1 W1 Helena 1 1 .500 - 1-1 0-0 L1 Missoula 1 1 .500 - 0-0 1-1 W1 

[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Link Report was a bit more "active" than usual, as the start of rookie ball play has energized a few of our more regular posters.

 

While we don't anticipate very many future Link Reports being quite as enthusiastic http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif, I will let you know that the preliminary posts made by these posters most nights are very helpful to me, giving me some background on the evening's highlights prior to the formal game summary updates and notes you're accustomed to. Normally I don't jump fully on board until after Brewer big league games or even the following early morning.

It's unlikely you'd enjoy a Link Report that was purely "Mass Haas", anyway. I wouldn't.

 

There is a thread in the issues forum where this topic was brought up. If you feel strongly enough to comment on the topic, please do so there, and not within this Link Report.

 

But basically, we're going to take it steady as she goes and stay the current course. With three rookie ball seasons underway now, I may even be recruiting some of these same posters (or others) to assist with the more formal game posts. Goodness knows that a near 100% jump in daily game activity this time of year (much of it without formal game summaries) is going to make it near impossible for me to keep up this week's pace much longer.

 

Thanks, as always, to everyone for reading.

[Mass Haas]

Chris' Timber Rattler notes and such should be available at his site just before game time.

[battlekow]

Lucroy has a double and homer against Antonio Alberto Bastardo.

[battlekow]

John Delaney left the game after being hit by a pitch.

 

Alex Periard pitched pretty well in his third rehab start, though he didn't get the grounders we're accustomed to seeing.

[battlekow]

Brevard County is surely feeling the loss of Braddock, Wooten, and Axford. Amaury Rivas allowed two runs over six innings and left with a 5-2 lead, but two innings later, the bullpen has turned that into a 7-5 deficit. Jim Henderson's BC debut did not go well.

[battlekow]

Seth Lintz is starting down in Maryvale.

[twobrewers]

It's really hard for me to follow Helena and Arizona.

 

They both start so late that by the time I go to bed the games just started - and by morning I have forgotten all about it!

[battlekow]

"That was...kind of...cool."

 

Steve Wendt on Derrick McPhearson's foul ball in which he fouled it straight down and then hit it again with his backswing as it bounced back up.

 

Box score hasn't caught up yet and I don't know what happened because I wasn't listening, but it's 3-0 Helena and they've gone through the order twice already. Trejo has a double and McPhearson has a single, walk, and stolen base. Very encouraging early work from the super-athlete.

 

EDIT: As I posted, Josh Prince lined an RBI single. Wendt says it's his second hit of the game. I'm not sure if Prince went to second on the play, on which McPhearson was thrown out at third...no he didn't, he just took second on a wild pitch.

[Minigoon]

Seth Lintz is starting down in Maryvale.

Rough 1st inning for Seth. 3 runs, 2 walks allowed. On the upside, 2 strike outs. Hopefully 1st game of the season jitters for Seth and he can settle down.

[battlekow]

Rough 1st inning for Seth. 3 runs, 2 walks allowed. On the upside, 2 strike outs. Hopefully 1st game of the season jitters for Seth and he can settle down.

Yeah, and two strikeouts for the Brewers in their half of the first, too. Franklin Romero has now struck out in 8/18 PAs.

[bretsky07]

holy crap, Zach Braddock just hit a grand slam!!!

[battlekow]

holy crap, Zach Braddock just hit a grand slam!!!

Uh wow, really? I was just going to post that he'd worked a perfect 2/3 of an inning with a strikeout, but yours trumps mine.

 

1.2 perfect innings now with three strikeouts. Glad he wasn't too tired from his home run trot.

[battlekow]

Damon Krestalude allowed two singles in the first inning but has set down 11 in a row now subsequently.

[battlekow]

Ooh, Josh Prince got caught stealing in the first inning. They're catching on.

[Minigoon]

Damon Krestalude allowed two singles in the first inning but has set down 11 in a row now subsequently.

Tuesday night, Nic Bucci had a very good start as well. I wonder if getting a couple games in at Brevard County and Huntsville prior to starting the season in Helena had anything to do with it? Probably not, but you never know. Maybe a confidence boost going into the season?

[TheCrew07]

I was at the T-Rats game. Delaney appeared to be okay, I have video of him being hit in the head by the pitch. I'll get thoughts and video up later, I'm going to take the rest of the night off from the minors and own up some COD for a while.

[battlekow]

Rough 1st inning for Seth. 3 runs, 2 walks allowed. On the upside, 2 strike outs. Hopefully 1st game of the season jitters for Seth and he can settle down.

He walked two but struck out two more in the second without allowing another run. He's done after two; Pedro Lambertus relieved him, so I guess his suspension is indeed over.

 

Good to see Shawn Zarraga in the lineup for Helena for the first time, particularly because he's catching.

[battlekow]

EDIT: As I posted, Josh Prince lined an RBI single. Wendt says it's his second hit of the game. I'm not sure if Prince went to second on the play, on which McPhearson was thrown out at third...no he didn't, he just took second on a wild pitch.

The box score appears to be calling this a SB for now. Nevermind, I just lost track of how many times Prince had been up. He stole a base after walked in the third. Krestalude is still in there in the 6th, much to Steve Wendt's amazement.

 

EDIT: Six shutout innings for Krestalude. Very impressive. He sounded like he was strong as ever in the 6th and flashed a great changeup.

[battlekow]

Though he failed to hit a grand slam or indeed homer at all (what a bum), Wooten also had a successful AA debut, striking out two and allowing a hit to lock down the victory.

 

Continuing his perfect night and hot start, McPhearson just doubled in Hitaniel Arias, who'd a moment earlier just notched his first safety of the year.