Link Report for Wed. 7/8 -- Four Audio Inteviews, including Escobar

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Nick Green at home vs. Round Rock (Astros), 6:35 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Josh Wahpepah at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 6:00 PM pre-game; 6:15 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Amaury Rivas at home vs. Clearwater (Phillies), 6:05 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series

Wisconsin: RHP Cody Scarpetta at home vs. West Michigan (Tigers), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime; LHP Efrain Nieves will pitch in relief

Live Audio Link

 

Helena: RHP Hiram Burgos at home vs. Idaho Falls (Royals), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Arizona Summer League: Idle; this league has 11 teams, so somebody's off every day

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles: at home vs. 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 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_07_08_rreaaa_nasaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_08_hunaax_cngaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_08_clrafa_breafa_1

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_08_wmiafx_wisafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_08_idarok_helrok_1&did=t433&sid=t433

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&gid=2009_07_08_dchrok_dobrok_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.

Kraig's blog is a must-view tonight, fun stuff with Tommy Lasorda, a cute little fan in Nashville, Brendan Katin's HR and Erick Almonte's walk-off single, all on video.

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"Voice of the Rattlers" Chris Mehring's informative and entertaining Rattlers Radio Blog includes game notes an hour or two before gametime.

[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 48 37 .565 - 27-18 21-19 W1 Iowa 44 41 .518 4.0 25-17 19-24 L1 Memphis 41 43 .488 6.5 26-16 15-27 W4 Omaha 34 50 .405 13.5 15-23 19-27 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Tenn 11 5 .688 - 4-2 7-3 W6 Tennessee 8 8 .500 3.0 3-3 5-5 L2 Chattanooga 7 8 .467 3.5 4-2 3-6 L1 Huntsville 7 9 .438 4.0 4-6 3-3 L5 Carolina 5 11 .313 6.0 3-7 2-4 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dunedin 8 3 .727 - 5-2 3-1 W1 Clearwater 8 4 .667 0.5 1-2 7-2 L1 Brevard County 7 4 .636 1.0 3-3 4-1 W2 Tampa 6 4 .600 1.5 3-3 3-1 L3 Daytona 6 7 .462 3.0 2-5 4-2 L1 Lakeland 4 7 .364 4.0 1-3 3-4 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Falls 9 5 .643 - 5-2 4-3 W1 Helena 8 6 .571 1.0 3-3 5-3 L1 Missoula 8 6 .571 1.0 5-2 3-4 W1 Billings 4 10 .286 5.0 2-6 2-4 W2 

[Mass Haas]

Mike Roberts must be one athletic dude, transitioning to the outfield, specifically center field, from catcher -- he'd be a good pre-game guest if he hasn't been one already (hint to Steve Wendt), and how about TheCrew07 with these audio captures, huh? Outstanding!

Helena's play-by-play voice Steve Wendt helps us out --

Interviewed Roberts on July 4th, sorry it got missed. He said that he was proud of the fact that he could play both positions and thought that other players respected his athleticism because of it. He talked about how much he's grown as a player but also a person in just one year. He also discussed that he was really frustrated by being sent down (from a brief stay at Brevard) but talked with Rene Gonzales and was told that he will play here and have opportunities. He and Gonzo have a terrific relationship.

[Mass Haas]

News from Brevard:

 

Tonight's game between the Clearwater Threshers and the Brevard County Manatees has been postponed due to heavy rain and wet field conditions. The game will be rescheduled as part of a doubleheader on Thursday, July 9. Both games will be seven innings, and the doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 5:00 PM (4:00 Central).

[TheCrew07]

Not that Rottino is any great prospect, or ever was, but he's been disappointing this season given he was better in his previous 2 stints in AA than he is now. I was hoping he'd perform well enough to get a shot someplace... As far as tonight's game goes, you'll see the E in the box score, but he actually double clutched the throw before letting it go, it was a ball he should have eaten given the double clutch.

[Mass Haas]

McCalvy:

Bush to begin rehab Friday in Appleton

[Mass Haas]

Sounds Site:

 

Katin To Participate In Triple-A Home Run Derby

Two Portland area high school players who qualified through preliminaries earlier this season at PGE Park will join the Triple-A sluggers.

 

That's cool.

[TheCrew07]

Scarpetta really has it going on, locating and mixing in his Change Up early.

[TheCrew07]

Chris interviews Dan Merklinger about his fantastic performance last night in the rain, his career thus far, and the baseball program at Seton Hall. I didn't realize so many quality big leaguers have come out of the program.

 

[TheCrew07]

Sanchez now has 9 outfield assists on the season... not too shabby.

[wibadgers23]

Green is 3 for 3 with a double and 2 rbi's and Scarpetta is pitching very well so far.

[TheCrew07]

Steve interviews catching prospect Shawn Zarraga. If you have the time, this is a must listen, what an amazing story of how he ended up playing baseball in the states. They discuss catching, Shawn's path to professional baseball, Aruba, that Shawn is Tri-lingual, and Shawn's following at home. How the Brewers end up with so many great stories in the organization is truly amazing.

 

[TheCrew07]

Scarpetta his given up 1 hit, a 2B, which Sanchez and Lawrie erased trying to stretch into a triple. He just K'd 2 more hitters in the 5th.

[TheCrew07]

Scarpetta done, Nieves in, that's 3 consecutive scoreless outings for Cody, lowering his ERA to 3.09...

[wibadgers23]

Wow, Scarpetta struck out half the batters he faced. Ended up with 9 in six innings.

[TheCrew07]

In Nashville Green and Littleton aren't exactly setting the world on fire tonight, Nashville with just 2 hits losing 8-0 in the 5th.

 

Huntsville has come back to tie the game at 5s, Lucroy also has a 2B in addition to Green's excellent night at the plate.

 

Helena scores 2 runs in the 1st, up 2-0 early.

[BrewPackBuck]

Scarpetta his given up 1 hit, a 2B, which Sanchez and Lawrie erased trying to stretch into a triple. He just K'd 2 more hitters in the 5th.

 

I would love to see him and Peralta in Brevard before the end of the minor league season.

[twobrewers]

I would love to see him and Peralta in Brevard before the end of the minor league season.

I would think that is pretty much a given at some point.

[wibadgers23]

Scarpetta done, Nieves in, that's 3 consecutive scoreless outings for Cody, lowering his ERA to 3.09...

His walk totals are also relatively down. Since June 7th (6 outings and about 24 IP), he has 7 walks and 29 strikeouts. 77 SO/30 BB on the year.

[TheCrew07]

Huntsville's pitching just horrid tonight, the Stars are now down 9 to 5. Much like Dillard, I'm not sure I like the idea of trying to recycle pitchers who stunk as SP, had success as RP, and putting them back in a starting role. All it's doing is backing up the train of legitimate prospects coming up the chain.

[TheCrew07]

Wisconsin wins 1-0, Scarpetta and Nieves each allow 1 hit, nice defensive plays by Lawrie (ball up the middle), Kemp (staying on the bagon Lawrie's play) and Sanchez (sliding catch) in addition to the play where Sanchez/Lawrie erased the runner stretching a double helped the cause.