Link Report for Wed. 8/19 -- Tough Night for Jones; A Capuano Sighting; A DVR Alert for Thurs.

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Menu:

 

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Mike Jones at home vs. Sacramento (Athletics), 6:35 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Josh Butler at home vs. West Tenn (Mariners), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: TBD (likely RHP Mark Rogers) at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 6:00 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series

Wisconsin: Idle

 

Helena: RHP Damon Krestalude at Ogden (Dodgers), 7:45 PM pre-game; 8:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Arizona Summer League: at the Dodgers' complex in Glendale; 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 Pirates; (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]

That would be one of the more interesting "starting rotations" within the menu for some time now -- go get 'em, Mike Jones, who was basically told he was released this spring unless he wanted to accept a spot with Brevard County and give it one last go-round there.

[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_08_19_srcaaa_nasaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_08_19_wtdaax_hunaax_1&did=t559&sid=t559

 

Brevard County:

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&gid=2009_08_19_breafa_dunafa_1&cid=503&t=g_box

 

Helena:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2009_08_19_helrok_ogdrok_1&did=t433&sid=t433

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale):

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_08_19_brrrok_dodrok_1

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2009_08_19_dobrok_dpirok_1

[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.

[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 65 59 .524 - 36-28 29-31 L3 Memphis 64 59 .520 0.5 38-26 26-33 L4 Iowa 63 60 .512 1.5 36-22 27-38 L1 Omaha 51 71 .418 13.0 24-34 27-37 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Tenn 28 24 .538 - 14-11 14-13 W1 Tennessee 27 25 .519 1.0 13-14 14-11 W4 Chattanooga 26 26 .500 2.0 16-10 10-16 L6 Huntsville 19 32 .373 8.5 8-13 11-19 L1 Carolina 19 33 .365 9.0 9-16 10-17 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tampa 36 14 .720 - 13-9 23-5 W1 Brevard County 29 17 .630 5.0 18-10 11-7 W4 Clearwater 26 24 .520 10.0 15-13 11-11 W2 Dunedin 25 25 .500 11.0 14-10 11-15 L3 Lakeland 21 27 .438 14.0 8-10 13-17 L4 Daytona 22 29 .431 14.5 11-16 11-13 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missoula 7 8 .467 - 4-6 3-2 L3 Great Falls 6 9 .400 1.0 0-5 6-4 L4 Billings 4 8 .333 1.5 4-3 0-5 L1 Helena 3 10 .231 3.0 2-4 1-6 L5 

[Mass Haas]

Amazingly, the Helena squad, stinking up the joint as of late, is only two games out in the loss column for a playoff spot tiebreaker.

[Mass Haas]

Thankfully not Brewer-related, but reminiscient of the Joe Martinez play in San Francisco, and the recent Hiroki Kuroda incident in L.A.

[Mass Haas]

Link Report Bonus (just for fun):

This Curt Schilling interview with WEEI in Boston is interesting in its totality on a number of subjects, but around the 18:00 minute mark (you can control the start point on the dial), Schilling discusses the young ladies in minor league towns, particularly at the lower levels, and how they "could work for Baseball Prospectus" based on their knowledge of who the top prospects are and such -- now you kids have fun, but be careful out there....

[twobrewers]

Too bad we don't have any day games...

 

I'd love to listen in on Jones, Butler or Rodgers this afternoon. Very exciting starting line-up indeed.

[brewmann04]

Looking foward to tonights menu best of luck guys.

[BrewCrewForever]

Jones, Rogers and Butler all pitching on the same day sweet! I will be following some minor league games tonight while watching the big club.

[jvrocksaz]

Looks like Bowman is starting tonight for B.C.

[jvrocksaz]

B.C. canceled due to rain.... What else is new?

[trwi7]

Jones struggling so far. 2.2 innings, 5 hits, 3 earned runs, 3 walks, 0 strikeouts.

 

Lucroy keeps his hitting streak going with another double. 1-1 with a walk.

 

Green 2-2.

 

Butler 3 scoreless innings with 0 walks and a strikeout.

[Mass Haas]

Dunedin Site:

 

The scheduled series and season finale between the Dunedin Blue Jays and the Brevard County Manatees was rained out on Wednesday night.

A storm brought copious amounts of lightning and rain to the area just before the original 7 p.m. game time that pushed the start back to 7:15 p.m., but shortly before the delayed start, heavier rains began to fall and washed

out the contest.

Due to it being the last meeting of the year between the two teams, the game will only be made up if there are playoff implications pending the game's outcome.

 

With 11 games now wiped off the calendar, the Manatees have lost 8% of their schedule -- that's a fairly significant amount of development time. It's two starts each for Mark Rogers and Amaury Rivas, 11 more games for Logan Schafer, etc.

[Mass Haas]

Final: DSL Pirates 2, DSL Brewers / Orioles 1, ten innings

Walkoff loss on a two-out single...

 

DSL Brewers / Orioles Box Score

The 17-year-old lefty, 6'7" 170 pound Eliezer Montano (yes, it's mandatory we give his age and vitals every time he pitches) with an OK five-inning start (one run, unearned, despite nine baserunners allowed); DH Jhonatan Javier reached twice, but Brewer batters overall were 2-for-15 with a walk and six K's...

 

DSL Brewers / Orioles Game Log

Workhorse (and effective) closer RHP Edwin Linares hasn't appeared since August 8th, RHP Rolando Pascual since August 11th, LHP Jose Ramos since August 1st, RHP Francisco Rivera all the way back to June 8th, OF Ronny Puello June 24th...

[Mass Haas]

Hey, a Chris Capuano sighting in Maryvale!

 

Seven batters faced: Single -- Double -- Strikeout -- Groundout -- Double -- Walk -- Strikeout

 

Two runs, but hey, welcome back, Chris, thanks for the hard work...

[colbyjack]

Wow, that's an unexpected surprise.

 

And that's the second time in two nights that I looked at the Arizona box score and got a little exciting seeing Davis, K. in the box score. Nothing against Khris of course...

 

I just saw a commercial for the T-Rats game tomorrow night on TW Sports (channel 32 for SE WI customers). It seems as though the Brewers are getting a few of their pitchers some rest, with Scarpetta going more than a week without work before pitching in last night's game. Bush and Suppan having a couple of rehab starts has seemed to contribute to this. The best I can tell is that Seidel and Nieves will go. I'd really like to see Seidel work, as it seems as though Nieves has pitched in every TW Sports game.

 

While I know Mass will keep us in tune, I bring this up for interested folks like me that may need to set their DVR before heading to work in the morning.

[TheCrew07]

With all the promotions out of Helena this season, that offense has gone from potent to anemic in less than 3 weeks.

[Mass Haas]

I should have directed folks to Brett's call in Huntsville earlier -- it's 9:55 Central if you still can, it's shaping up to be an exciting 9th inning as the Stars try to come back on Jack Z.'s West Tenn squad.

 

UPDATE: Now 6-6 as Stars have scored twice, Jonathan Lucroy up with one out and the winning run in scoring position, Taylor Green, already with three hits tonight, is on deck...

[Mass Haas]

Capuano's appearance on his 31st birthday, no less! A 1-2-3 inning in the 2nd for Chris, his night now over...

 

Hard to trust the early Maryvale box score -- they list new draft signee Del Howell as replacing Capuano but not facing a batter -- wondering if we'll see a corrected box in the AM with the 2nd inning as Howell's...

[Mass Haas]

Stars walkoff on Chuckie Caufield's sacrifice fly!

[wibadgers23]

Did Del Howell pitch for Arizona tonight? His name shows up in the box score, but it doesn't look like he even threw a pitch.