Link Report for Mon. 7/20 -- Exciting Late Heroics for Brevard

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Monday's Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

Nashville: TBD at Memphis (Cardinals), 6:40 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime
Live Audio Link

Huntsville: Idle

Brevard County: RHP Alex Periard at home vs. Jupiter (Marlins), 6:05 PM gametime
Live Audio Link (Hammerheads' Feed)

Wisconsin: RHP Trey Watten at Lansing (Blue Jays), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime
Live Audio Link

Helena: TBD at Casper (Rockies), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime
Live Audio Link

Arizona Summer League: at the Mariners' complex in Peoria; 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 Blue Jays (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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Follow Monday'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_20_nasaaa_mrbaaa_1

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_20_jupafa_breafa_1

 

Wisconsin:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_20_wisafx_lanafx_1&did=t572&sid=t572

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_07_20_helrok_casrok_1&did=t433&sid=t433

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale):

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_20_brrrok_mrnrok_1

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_07_20_dobrok_dblrok_1

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The Nashville series at Memphis is available via the MiLB.TV subscription package

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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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"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

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 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nashville 52 42 .553 - 30-20 22-22 L2 Iowa 49 45 .521 3.0 28-18 21-27 W2 Memphis 47 46 .505 4.5 29-18 18-28 W2 Omaha 37 56 .398 14.5 16-26 21-30 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Tenn 16 9 .640 - 7-3 9-6 W1 Chattanooga 12 12 .500 3.5 6-4 6-8 L2 Tennessee 12 13 .480 4.0 4-6 8-7 L1 Huntsville 11 14 .440 5.0 4-6 7-8 L1 Carolina 9 16 .360 7.0 5-10 4-6 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tampa 12 7 .632 - 4-4 8-3 W3 Brevard County 13 8 .619 - 7-6 6-2 W1 Dunedin 13 9 .591 0.5 7-6 6-3 W2 Clearwater 11 10 .524 2.0 3-5 8-5 W1 Daytona 11 11 .500 2.5 4-8 7-3 W2 Lakeland 10 11 .476 3.0 3-5 7-6 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Falls 13 12 .520 - 7-5 6-7 L1 Helena 13 12 .520 - 5-7 8-5 L1 Missoula 13 12 .520 - 9-4 4-8 L4 Billings 8 17 .320 5.0 4-9 4-8 L3 

[Mass Haas]

This Midwestern blogger happened to the Wisconsin / Lansing game Sunday and made some unique observations. He'll probably wonder why his hit count jumps today.

[Mass Haas]

Remember that awesome first-half Brevard bullpen?

 

Rob Wooten and Zach Braddock are in Huntsville, John Axford is in Nashville, and now Roque Mercedes is a D-back farmhand. Now that's breaking up a good thing. For the moment, Brevard is playing two short of the roster limit.

 

As for the other trade implication, what happens to Adam Heether's playing time (again) in light of Mat Gamel's return to AAA? Talk about someone who needs to escape, do you realize that the Brewers have the ability to add Heether to the 40-man roster immediately after this season, at which point they would effectively "own" him for three more years that he could be kept at AAA even further? It won't happen to the maximum, but it goes to show that a team could actaully own a player for ten full seasons without that player seeing the big leagues.

[Never Outhustled]

As for the other trade implication, what happens to Adam Heether's playing time (again) in light of Mat Gamel's return to AAA?

You'd think he'd play 2B or LF, but Money is so dumb that he bats Heether, his only 900+ OPS hitter 6th, with sub-800 hitters batting 1-5 every night, so nothing would suprise me.

 

Heether with another HR tonight.

[dadofandrew]

Money plays who he is told to play. Prospects get the AB's, then the others. Heether has done nicely, butis still not considered much more than filler, a potential reserve. He's 27, he's noit going to get better.

[Never Outhustled]

Money plays who he is told to play. Prospects get the AB's, then the others.

That argument doesn't hold water, as Jason Bourgeois and Joe Koshansky are journeyman

He's 27, he's noit going to get better.

Why does he need to get better? His MLE's have him as an above average starter at 3B, SS, 2B, LF, and RF.

 

 

EDIT; To reduce my condesention

[jvrocksaz]

Money plays who he is told to play. Prospects get the AB's, then the others.

Way to do your homework. Jason Bourgeois and Joe Koshansky sure are bigtime prospects.

He's 27, he's noit going to get better.

Why does he need to get better? His MLE's have him as an above average starter at 3B, SS, 2B, LF, and RF.

Plus he HAS been better this season than any other... Some people can be so blind at times...

[twobrewers]

X - you can disagree without being condescending.

[YoungGeezy]

So with the Wisconsin lineup struggling does anyone else think maybe it's be nice if they promoted a college guy like Prince or Ellington? I know they already called up Fatse and he has been playing left field but Prince is red hot and really could help spark that lineup and is a huge upgrade over Marseco or anyone else they have throw at short. Then with Dennis still out they could use a guy like Ellington with a monster bat. Komatsu maybe if he is good to go.

Plus I'd really just like to see Prince play this this season.

[BrewCrew Fan]

I know of at least one person who's gotta love the AZL Mariners starting pitchers name tonight. Any relationship there?

[Minigoon]

Nic Bucci ("The Babyfaced Assassin" per Steve Wendt) continues his string of strong performances. 6 innings, 2 hits, 0 runs, 3 walks, 4 strikeouts. Helena up 7-0 in the 7th.

[TheCrew07]

For a SS pegged as a good defender coming out of college Prince sure does make his share of errors, already 8 on the season. I know quality of the infields and so on play a role, but even so that total is extremely high for the numbers of games played.

[DHonks]

Wow, Dykstra's 1st season + has been awful. Let's hope he can finish strong, but he's more on the Josh Murray path than the JJ Hardy path.

[BrewCrew Fan]

You can bring in all of the offense that you want to Wisconsin but on this last road trip they have given up 11, 9, 7, 5, 7 and 15 runs. Hmmmm.... where's the problem?

[Diskono]

For a SS pegged as a good defender coming out of college Prince sure does make his share of errors, already 8 on the season. I know quality of the infields and so on play a role, but even so that total is extremely high for the numbers of games played.

Granted he was a lot younger, but Escobar made a ton of errors in his first few years too.

[YoungGeezy]

You can bring in all of the offense that you want to Wisconsin but on this last road trip they have given up 11, 9, 7, 5, 7 and 15 runs. Hmmmm.... where's the problem?

ha thats a good point but I didn't limit my comment to just the position players. I wouldn't mind Fiers, Bucci, Lamontagne, Odorizzi, or Rosario getting a call-up. Bucci definitally with his decent success in AA and the way he is carving teams up right now. I love how the Brewers took a chance by having Trejo and Zarraga in Wisconsin to start the season. Even if they did struggle thats fine, at least they were getting tested and seeing what they could handle. I wish the Brewers would do that with pitching. Take more chances cough cough Anundsen cough cough lol no way he should not be in AA yet.

 

Dykstra....... wow maybe his defense in centerfield wasn't so bad. Feel bad for the kid, he's not hitting, he's not fielding and then i dont know for a fact but the family stuff has to be tough on him to. As for Prince's defense I'm not tthat worried. Escobar is considered the by many the top defensive ss in the minor leagues and a future gold glover and even he has 13. I haven't listen to the games or seen any of them so I can't judge on the type of errors he's making. Like most of Escobars are from trying to make great plays but throw is off target. JJ also averaged around 13 errors a season.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Pre-Game Audio Chat with Pitcher Chris Cody

Detailed conversation regarding pitching strategies, including facing lefty bats...

 

Final: Nashville 7, Memphis (Cardinals) 6

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Adam Heether photo, text follows --

 

Sounds Take Close One From Redbirds, 7-6

 

MEMPHIS - The Nashville Sounds beat the Memphis Redbirds 7-6 on Monday night at AutoZone Park in Memphis. Matt Ginter picked up his first save of the year after stranding the tying run 90 feet away to end the game.

 

The Sounds jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning off Redbirds starter Clayton Mortensen. Outfielder Jason Bourgeois led off the game with a base hit and stole second base. Hernan Iribarren then brought Bourgeois home from second on a softly hit ball to center field for a 1-0 Nashville lead.

 

Later in the inning, Joe Koshansky added another RBI-base hit to score Iribarren and extended the Sounds' lead to 2-0. Adam Heether then hit his 11th home run of the season to right field, a two-run shot for a 4-0 Sounds' advantage.

 

AUDIO: Adam Heether Home Run

Absolute bomb...

 

The Redbirds tied the game at four on two long balls of their own off Sounds starter Chase Wright. Memphis' Tyler Greene led off with his bottom of the fifth with a solo homer to left field with Brian Barden hammering a three-run shot that tied the game.

 

The game stayed knotted at 4 until Wright scored on an Alcides Escobar single to centerfield in the top of the fourth inning that gave Nashville a 5-4 lead.

 

After Escobar and Iribarren reached base again to begin the top of the seventh inning, the Sounds added two more runs on sacrifice flies by Angel Salome and Koshansky for a 7-4 lead.

 

Memphis came within two runs at 7-5 in the eighth inning when Troy Glaus scored on a wild pitch from reliever Nick Green. The Redbirds plated another run in the bottom of the ninth on an RBI-single by Glaus, but couldn't do further damage and ended the game.

 

Wright (6-5) allowed four runs in the first inning, but kept the Redbirds scoreless over the next five frames to earn the win, striking out two in the process.

 

Mortensen (7-6) took the loss, surrendering six runs on 11 hits over six innings.

 

The Sounds and Redbirds continue with the second game of a four-game series at 7:05 PM CT on Tuesday night at AutoZone Park. Sounds right-hander Tim Dillard (9-4, 3.93) takes the hill against right-hander Blake Hawksworth for Memphis.

 

Nashville Box Score

Every spot in the batting order reached at least once, top of the order 7-for-15; Freddy Parejo is going to be the early beneficiary of Cole Gillespie's trade, wouldn't be surprising to see Drew Anderson return to Nashville soon; Hernan Iribarren 3-for-5, including a double, Adam Heether on base three times...

 

Nashville Game Log

[juancastillo3]

You can bring in all of the offense that you want to Wisconsin but on this last road trip they have given up 11, 9, 7, 5, 7 and 15 runs. Hmmmm.... where's the problem?

I heard Wisconsin is getting their CF back on Wednesday http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif That should add a spark to the offense. (Wonder if that means Cain will be moving up or if Miller will be playing the corner spots?) As for the recent run totals....yikes, not good.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Brevard County 2. Jupiter (Marlins) 1, ten innings

 

Brevard County Box Score

Wow, what a game -- the Manatees rallied to a walk-off victory as Chris Errecart's two-out, 10th-inning single scored Lee Haydel, who had tripled. Brevard tied it in the ninth on Caleb Gindl's one-out homer. Former first-round RHP Jeff Allison was shooting for the complete-game shutout when Gindl pulled his blast to right field. Excellent work from LHP Lucas Luetge, RHP Brandon Rapoza, and LHP Rafael Lluberes; Errecart reached four times in five trips; Martin Maldonado threw out both attempted basestealers as the 'Tees played perfect defense...

 

Brevard County Game Log

The Hammerheads walked the lefty Gindl to face Errecart in the final frame...