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

[Mass Haas]

Final: Lansing (Blue Jays) 15, Wisconsin 1

 

Wisconsin Site Game Summary

 

Rough end to Rattlers road trip

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

LANSING, MI - The Lansing Lugnuts hit three homers and banged out 21 hits in a 15-1 win over the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers on Monday night at Oldsmobile Park. Wisconsin ended the six game road trip to Great Lakes and Lansing with a 1-5 record and got outscored 54-22.

 

Lansing (34-58 overall, 8-15 second half) broke in front in the first inning. Johermyn Chavez drove the run that put the Lugnuts up 1-0 with a sacrifice fly.

 

Mike McDade hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the third inning. One out later, Jon Talley hit a solo shot. Later in the frame, an error and a bad hop single kept the inning alive for Chris Emanuele. The Lansing Lugnut hitter picked up an RBI single, his third hit of the game for a 5-0 lead.

 

It took the Rattlers (46-47, 12-11) awhile, but they finally solved Lansing starter Chad Beck. Brett Lawrie singled with one out in the seventh and stole second. Jose Duran singled with two outs to drive in Lawrie and cut the Lugnut lead to 5-1. But, that was it for Wisconsin's offense.

 

But, Lansing put a crooked number on the board in the bottom of the seventh by scoring five runs with two outs. A two-run single by Luis Fernandez was followed by an RBI double off the bat of Brian Van Kirk. That double knocked Rattlers reliever Pedro Lambertus out of the game. Chavez welcomed Liam Ohlmann to the game with a two-run homer and the Lugnuts were up 10-1.

 

Lansing added five more in the eighth inning. Van Kirk was up with two outs, the bases loaded, and a 3-2 count. He looped a fly ball into right field for a single to drive in two runs. The ball also got past right fielder Juan Sanchez for an error to allow the runner at first to come around to score. Ohlmann walked Chavez and Wisconsin called on Rigoberto Almonte to get out of the eighth.

 

He would allow a two-run double to McDade to account for hit number 21 and run number 15 for the Lugnuts before getting the final out.

 

Wisconsin went down quietly in the top of the ninth inning and finished the season series 1-5 against the team with the worst record in the Midwest League.

 

The Rattlers are off on Tuesday and return to action on Wednesday at Time Warner Cable Field. Wisconsin will host the Dayton Dragons, the Midwest League affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. Lefty Daniel Meadows (11-1, 3.60) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Dayton has J.C. Sulbaran (2-2, 5.12) as their scheduled starter. Game time is 7:05 PM.

 

Wisconsin Box Score

An abomination in every aspect...

 

Wisconsin Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: Helena 7, Casper (Rockies) 0

 

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Brewers shut out Ghosts behind strong pitching

By PETE NICKEAS - Casper Star-Tribune

 

CASPER - One night after putting up a season-high 11 runs against the visiting Helena Brewers, the Casper Ghosts couldn't muster a single run.

 

The Brewers tagged Ghosts starter Ricardo Ferrer for two runs before the Ghosts even saw a pitch.

 

Ferrar settled into a groove and retired nine of the next 10 batters until the fifth inning, when Helena's eighth and ninth batters reached safely.

 

Josh Prince, leadoff man for the Brewers who reached in his two previous at bats, doubled the two baserunners home and Prince advanced to third on an overthrow by Ghosts center fielder Eliezer Mesa. Brewer third baseman Mike Brownstein singled Prince home and Scott Krieger hit his third home run in as many games, giving the Brewers a 7-0 lead.

 

It was Ferrer's meltdown that put the game out of reach for the Ghosts. Ferrer faced six batters in the fifth inning without recording an out before Ghosts manager Tony Diaz gave Ferrer the hook.

 

If there was a silver lining, it was the five innings of relief tossed by the Ghosts relievers. They scattered four hits without allowing a single run, walking just one batter.

 

"The bullpen looks like it settled down," Diaz said after the game. "They stopped the bleeding, they gave us a chance to come back, but it wasn't there offensively for us tonight."

 

Brewers starter Nick Bucci pitched six shutout innings, allowing just two hits while striking out four and walking three. He worked with a "catch-throw-catch-throw" pace that kept the Ghosts off balance all night.

 

"He worked fast, and we were unable to break his rhythm," Diaz said. "You try to do that when a pitcher has that type of fast tempo on the mound, but you have to give him credit."

After the Ghosts' 11-3 shellacking of the Brewers Sunday, Diaz spoke high praise of his team's situational hitting. But the offensive outburst was a distant memory.

 

The Ghosts couldn't advance a runner to third base until the sixth inning and had just five hits all night. With the bases loaded and no outs in the ninth inning, threatening for the first time all game, Nick Valdez and Jose Rivera struck out and Joe Scott flew out to right field to end the game.

 

"You like to capitalize in that situation but realistically, that's the only inning we put any pressure on," Diaz said.

 

Helena Box Score

Check out Nick Bucci's last three starts -- wow; how about the power show Scott Krieger is putting on?

 

Helena Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Brewers 5, Arizona Mariners 1

 

Arizona Box Score

Rehabbing LHP Jose Romero was the listed starter, but apparently never threw a pitch; fantastic effort from 22-year-old RHP Caleb Thielbar, six innings allowing only one unearned run; RHP Seth Lintz (24 walks in 18.2 IP) managed two innings of shutout ball despite four walks, his own throwing error, and a wild pitch; SS Carlos George tripled and doubled (.295, .791 OPS) and is also displaying better defense; rehabbing OF Erik Komatsu singled and hit a sacrifice fly in his five innings of work...

 

Arizona Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Final: DSL Blue Jays 5, DSL Brewers / Orioles 3

 

DSL Brewers / Orioles Box Score

Closer Edwin Linares fell to 2-4 with his third blown save, allowing two inherited runners to score and then three (unearned) of his own in a disastrous five-run Blue Jay 8th inning that defies description with three errors, two wild pitches an HBP, a runner out at the plate, and a partridge in a pear tree; Jhonatan Javier was your DH, and yes, was HBP again -- the 14th time in 165 AB's; SS Andres Martinez a late pinch-hit strikeout...

 

DSL Brewers / Orioles Game Log

 

DSL Blue Jays Bottom 8th

• Defensive Substitution: Moises Arias replaces first baseman Dick Guanipa, batting 7th, playing first base.
• Pitcher Change: Kelvin Santana replaces Jose Mota.
• Carlos Ramirez pops out to shortstop Octavio Wilson.
• Alvaro Blanco walks.
• With Miguel Monges batting, Alvaro Blanco steals (3) 2nd base.
• Miguel Monges singles on a ground ball to third baseman Jose Jabalera.
• Fausto Natera doubles (7) on a fly ball to right fielder Edwin Wilson. Alvaro Blanco scores. Miguel Monges to 3rd.
• Pitcher Change: Edwin Linares replaces Kelvin Santana.
• Manuel Falcon singles on a fly ball to center fielder Wilmer Portes. Miguel Monges scores. Fausto Natera out at home on the throw, center fielder Wilmer Portes to first baseman Moises Arias to third baseman Jose Jabalera.
• Leonardo Hernandez hit by pitch. Manuel Falcon to 2nd.
• Offensive Substitution: Pinch runner Leonardo Ferrini replaces Leonardo Hernandez.
• With Sony Javier batting, wild pitch by Edwin Linares, Manuel Falcon to 3rd. Leonardo Ferrini to 2nd.
• Sony Javier reaches on fielding error by shortstop Octavio Wilson. Manuel Falcon scores. Leonardo Ferrini to 3rd.
• With John Delgado batting, Sony Javier steals (1) 2nd base, Leonardo Ferrini scores. Sony Javier scores. Throwing error by catcher Wilder Aguirre.
• John Delgado reaches on fielding error by first baseman Moises Arias.
• Offensive Substitution: Pinch runner Daniel Arcila replaces John Delgado.
• With Emilio Bejas batting, Daniel Arcila steals (9) 2nd base.
• With Emilio Bejas batting, wild pitch by Edwin Linares, Daniel Arcila to 3rd.
• Emilio Bejas pops out to first baseman Moises Arias.

[battlekow]

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

Not to mention that Gillespie was at the very bottom of the order most of the time.

[jjfanec]

Good to see Komatsu back in action even. I like him a lot and am excited to see how he can finish the year.