Link Report for Wed. 7/15 -- Bush Ineffective, Throws Only 40 Pitches

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Menu:

 

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: Idle -- All-Star Game is Wednesday evening at 9:00 PM on ESPN2, more details can be found here

 

Huntsville: RHP David Bush makes a rehab start at Mississippi (Dodgers), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Amaury Rivas or RHP Alex Periard at Clearwater (Phillies), 6:00 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series

Wisconsin: RHP Trey Watten at Great Lakes (Dodgers), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Helena: RHP Nick Bucci at Idaho Falls (Royals), 8:00 PM pre-game; 8:15 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Arizona Summer League: vs. the Athletics' rookies at home in Maryvale; 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 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 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.

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t559&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_hunaax_msbaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_breafa_clrafa_1

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_wisafx_swmafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_helrok_idarok_1&did=t433&sid=t433

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale):

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_athrok_brrrok_1

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_15_dobrok_drsrok_1

[Mass Haas]

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

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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 51 39 .567 - 30-20 21-19 W2 Iowa 46 44 .511 5.0 25-17 21-27 L2 Memphis 44 45 .494 6.5 29-18 15-27 W1 Omaha 36 53 .404 14.5 15-23 21-30 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Tenn 14 6 .700 - 7-3 7-3 W1 Chattanooga 9 10 .474 4.5 6-4 3-6 W1 Huntsville 9 11 .450 5.0 4-6 5-5 L1 Tennessee 9 11 .450 5.0 4-6 5-5 W1 Carolina 7 13 .350 7.0 3-7 4-6 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 10 6 .625 - 6-5 4-1 W1 Tampa 9 6 .600 0.5 4-4 5-2 L1 Dunedin 10 7 .588 0.5 7-6 3-1 W1 Clearwater 9 7 .563 1.0 1-2 8-5 L1 Daytona 8 9 .471 2.5 3-6 5-3 W1 Lakeland 8 9 .471 2.5 1-3 7-6 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missoula 12 8 .600 - 9-4 3-4 W1 Great Falls 11 9 .550 1.0 5-2 6-7 L2 Helena 10 10 .500 2.0 5-7 5-3 L1 Billings 6 14 .300 6.0 2-6 4-8 W1 

[Minigoon]

Alex Periad the starter for Brevard County tonight. Rough 1st inning after 2 outs.

 

Clearwater Bottom 1st

• Javis Diaz grounds out, second baseman Eric Farris to first baseman Chris Errecart.
• Fidel Hernandez reaches on throwing error by shortstop Brent Brewer.
• With Steve Susdorf batting, Fidel Hernandez caught stealing 2nd base, catcher Martin Maldonado to shortstop Brent Brewer.
• Steve Susdorf doubles (5) on a fly ball to right fielder Caleb Gindl.
• Tim Kennelly doubles (27) on a line drive to center fielder Logan Schafer. Steve Susdorf scores.
• Matthew Rizzotti doubles (13) on a fly ball to right fielder Caleb Gindl. Tim Kennelly scores.
• Michael Durant doubles (15) on a line drive to left fielder Steffan Wilson. Matthew Rizzotti scores.
• Cody Overbeck reaches on throwing error by second baseman Eric Farris. Michael Durant scores. Cody Overbeck to 2nd.
• Derrick Mitchell flies out to left fielder Steffan Wilson.

[TheCrew07]

Wheeler... wow... a 2 month long slump... is it a slump after a 2 months or something else? Brewer with his 20th error, at a premium defensive position. Gindl with 3 BBs so far, he's on a similar pace to last years BB rate while reducing his Ks, he continues to impress.

 

Wisconsin plays much worse defense than shows in the box score, letting 2 pop ups fall, one of which they recorded an out, the other started Watten on his poor day, it seems that if Trey doesn't have the sinker, he doesn't have enough in the arsenal to overcome it.

 

In Huntsville Bush just okay in his rehab start, nothing earth shattering, not much else going on early there.

[trwi7]

Dykstra with a 2 run single. Fell behind in the count 0-2 and lined a single up the middle after working it back to 3-2 I believe.

[TheCrew07]

Steve gets all the best guests this time of year as everyone of significance comes out to the see the newly drafted players in Helena. Today he interviews the Milwaukee Brewers Director of Baseball Operations Tom Flanagan. Tom discusses his duties, some insights on the daily work each coaching staff puts into paperwork alone, and his career path. I didn't realize that Nichols monitors the bottom 3 teams and Ash monitors AA and AAA, maybe that just slipped past me in the past.

 

[TheCrew07]

 

Brett interviews Shane Justis regarding his All-Star experience.

 

[TheCrew07]

I just wanted to say... it's Bucci time! Steve just called him the "Baby Face Assassin", not sure why, but I thought that was funny.

[trwi7]

Wish there was a radar gun. Bucci looks like he's throwing pretty hard.

 

Edit: Bucci just carved up a Chukars hitter on three pitches right after he fell behind 3-1 on a hitter and then came back to strike him out.

[TheCrew07]

Err, apparently after I tuned out Huntsville for Helena things got ugly, Bush's line is not pretty.

[TheCrew07]

Wish there was a radar gun. Bucci looks like he's throwing pretty hard.

 

Edit: Bucci just carved up a Chukars hitter on three pitches right after he fell behind 3-1 on a hitter and then came back to strike him out.

Are you posting from the game?

[trwi7]

Are you posting from the game?

Just watching it on the internet. At least I was until my feed went out.

[trwi7]

This Marimon guy for Idaho Falls has absolutely no command. He can't throw it over the plate and when he does, it's right down the middle.

 

Helena leads 4-0 with one out in the 2nd and the bases loaded.

 

Edit: He's now out of the game.

[TheCrew07]

Due to Adam Sandler I simply cannot take anyone with the name of Lafferty seriously... I'm glad the Brewers didn't draft this guy even though his stats prior to this game were very nice.

[TheCrew07]

If you're into offensive shows of force, it's worth it to tune into the H-Crew tonight, they just scored 6 more runs, currently 12-0

[Minigoon]

Jose Romero making the start tonight for the AZ Brew. 1st inning 3 run homer for Sean Halton. Early 3-0 lead for the Brewers.

[wibadgers23]

So it officially time to get excited about this Bucci kid? 7 strikeouts through 4 innings so far.

[battlekow]

Wow, Brendan Katin just crushed a 70 mph curveball from JD Martin for a solo homer in the AAA All-Star Game.

[battlekow]

The control is not strong with Seth Lintz.

[BoKnowsBall]

Bucci is still pretty young- he turns 19 at midnight tonight (youngest pitcher on the staff and third youngest player on the team). Happy birthday kid. Hes had two blowup starts but otherwise has been pretty good for the H-crew. One to keep an eye on?

 

Brownstein now playing in right field tonight. He has put up very good numbers at the plate in hits, walks, and strikeouts but not showing much pop- prospect or another Marseco?

[Mass Haas]

Final: Mississippi (Braves) 6, Huntsville 2

Huntsville Site Game Summary

 

Braves Take First Game Back After Break

Mississippi Does It's Damage Against Big Leaguer Bush

By Brett Pollock / Huntsville Stars

 

Edgar Osuna spun five shutout frames and youngsters Jason Heyward and Freddie Freeman each drove in a pair of runs to lead Mississippi past Huntsville 6-2 Wednesday night in the opener of a five-game set at Trustmark Park. The Braves improved to 8-13 in the second half and 39-52 overall, while the Stars slipped to 9-12 in the second half and 47-43 overall. The Braves have won the last two games over Huntsville after dropping the first four.

 

Freeman led off the second with a double against Brewers' right-hander Dave Bush, who was making a rehab start, and advanced to third base on a Concepcion Rodriguez infield single before Eric Campbell grounded into a double play to chase in the game's first run. Bush was recovering from a micro-tear in his right triceps muscle suffered after he was hit by a Hanley Ramirez line drive on June 4.

 

Bush loaded the bases in the third with two walks and a hit batter before Heyward singled into right field to deliver two runs. Vinny Rottino overran the ball, allowing Kody Kirkland to score from first base and Heyward to advance to second base, from where he scored on a Freeman single that made it a 5-0 game. Bush was lifted after three frames, allowing six hits, walking two and striking out two in his second rehab start after being placed on the disabled list June 23. Freeman's sacrifice fly in the fifth inning against Josh Wahpepah pushed the home team's lead to 6-0. Wahpepah allowed three hits, walked one and fanned three over three innings of work.

 

Osuna allowed three hits, walked one and struck out three to earn the win and improve to 3-2. He did not allow a runner to advance past second base and was relieved by Deunte Heath. The Stars climbed back into the game against Heath with a pair of runs in the seventh inning on a pinch-hit run-scoring single by Adam Stern and a run-scoring hit by Michael Garciaparra. South Division all-star Matt Young made an outstanding running catch in the gap in left-center field to take away extra bases from Drew Anderson and two runs from the Stars to end the inning. Tim Gustafson then tossed two scoreless innings in relief to close out the game.

 

The series continues Thursday night with Stars right-hander Mike Jones taking the hill against Braves' right-hander Ryne Reynoso. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 PM central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score

Less than half of Dave Bush's 40 pitches for strikes, not an encouraging outing in length or effectiveness; LHP Bobby Bramhall made his first relief appearance after 16 mostly sub-par starts and was pefect in two innings, striking out three; Jonathan Lucroy (.367 OBP, 52 BB's, 42 K's in 267 AB's -- three walks here) also teamed up with Bush to throw out the only attempted Brave basestealer; Taylor Green 0-for-4, but still hitting .389 in his last ten games...

 

Huntsville Game Log