Link Report for Thursday, April 22nd

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Thursday's Daily Menu: Brewer day game means three audio streams get our full baseball attention this evening...

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Chase Wright at home vs. Oklahoma City (Rangers), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Michael Bowman at West Tenn (Mariners), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Trey Watten at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 6:00 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this game, however, the Dunedin feed will be available Friday night for this series...

 

Wisconsin: RHP Eric Arnett at home vs. Cedar Rapids (Angels), 6:20 PM pre-game; 6:35 gametime

Live Audio Link

[Mass Haas]

Follow Thursday'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.

 

Nashville (Gameday also available)

 

Huntsville (Gameday also available)

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

[Mass Haas]

Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings
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Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK 
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Nashville 9 5 .643 - 2-4 7-1 W1 
Memphis 7 7 .500 2.0 3-3 4-4 W3 
Iowa 6 8 .429 3.0 3-5 3-3 L2 
Omaha 6 8 .429 3.0 2-6 4-2 W1 
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Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings
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Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK 
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Tennessee 10 2 .833 - 4-1 6-1 W4 
Huntsville 9 4 .692 1.5 3-2 6-2 W5 
Carolina 6 6 .500 4.0 2-5 4-1 L2 
Chattanooga 5 8 .385 5.5 4-4 1-4 W1 
West Tenn 4 9 .308 6.5 1-7 3-2 L5 
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Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings
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Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK 
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Lakeland 8 5 .615 - 5-1 3-4 W3 
Clearwater 8 6 .571 0.5 6-1 2-5 L2 
Dunedin 8 6 .571 0.5 4-2 4-4 W3 
Tampa 8 6 .571 0.5 5-3 3-3 W2 
Daytona 5 9 .357 3.5 1-5 4-4 L3 
Brevard County 4 9 .308 4.0 3-5 1-4 L4

[Mass Haas]

MID Western (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Quad Cities	11	3	.786	-	5-1	6-2	8-2	W2
	Peoria	9	5	.643	2.0	5-0	4-5	7-3	W6
	Beloit	7	7	.500	4.0	4-4	3-3	6-4	L2
	Cedar Rapids	7	7	.500	4.0	4-2	3-5	5-5	L1
	Clinton	7	7	.500	4.0	5-3	2-4	5-5	W2
	Kane County	6	8	.429	5.0	5-4	1-4	4-6	L3
	Wisconsin	6	8	.429	5.0	4-4	2-4	3-7	W1
	Burlington	3	11	.214	8.0	3-3	0-8	2-8	L6

[Mass Haas]

Check for updated links shortly before game time for media notes --

PDF documents:

Nashville Media Notes

Huntsville Media Notes

***http://rattler-radio.blogspot.com/Rattler Radio:

Game notes

Tonight's starting pitcher

Starting lineup

[Mass Haas]

Stu catches up from Kids' Day in Nashville

[Mass Haas]

Audio highlights from the call of Huntsville's 7-0 victory on Wednesday -- we'll sometimes post "next-day" updates here so folks get a chance to listen, some don't go check for updates on previous day's Link Report news once the initial reports are finalized:

 

04/21/10 - HSV @ WTN: - WTN Wild Pitch (1-0) - Green RBI Double (2-0) - Machado RBI (3-0) - Machado RBI Single (4-0) - Cain Extends Hit Streak

[Tedaldtada]

I don't want to say it's a big night for Arnett.......but it is.

 

Inspired by Ryan from the Office.

[BrewCrewForever]

Arnett really struggling so far. Hopefully he can get things straight.

[TheCrew07]

He just not controlling his FB well enough to be effective, the hitters are getting to tee off on way too many hitter's pitches. He let the #9 batter go deep on him... the pitch was belt high right down the middle... maybe he was just looking for a "get me over" strike but none the less he has work to do.

[And That]

Taylor Green plays, Taylor Green gets a double.

 

Lee Haydel has been pretty impressive early on, too.

[battlekow]

Final: Dunedin 6, Brevard County 1

 

Brevard County box score

Themes: Cody Scarpetta and Evan Frederickson continued to stuggle with their control, and the Manatees offense continued to struggle with pretty much everything. Scarpetta allowed five runs (four earned) in 3.2 innings on five hits, three walks, and a hit batter, striking out three. Frederickson went 2.1 innings, allowing a run on two hits and five walks, strikings out three. Five walks while getting seven outs is not a particularly inspiring ratio. Josh Prince had a double and a steal, Sergio Miranda was 2-4, and Erik Komatsu had a single and walk. Erik Miller threw out another guy at home; I think that's three now already.

 

Brevard County play-by-play

The Manatees were threatening to carry over yesterday's offensive explosion in the first inning but suddenly remembered who they were and reverted to form.

 

Brevard County Top 1st

• Josh Prince doubles (2) on a
  line drive to left fielder Daniel Perales.
• Sergio Miranda
  singles on a line drive to right fielder Welinton Ramirez. Josh
  Prince to 3rd.
• Erik Komatsu walks. Sergio Miranda to 2nd.
• Brock
  Kjeldgaard strikes out swinging.
• Erik Miller grounds into a
  force out, pitcher Henderson Alvarez to catcher Travis d'Arnaud. Josh
  Prince out at home. Sergio Miranda to 3rd. Erik Komatsu to 2nd.
  Erik Miller to 1st.
• Anderson De La Rosa strikes out
  swinging.

[twobrewers]

Looks like the Brewers used up all the baseball karma today. What an ugly night so far for the affiliates...

 

I'm about ready to lump Arnett with Cody Adams and Evan Frederickson. I just shake my head and sigh when I look at their lines...

 

*sigh*

[battlekow]

Final: West Tenn 8, Huntsville 1

 

Huntsville box score

And so endeth Lorenzo Cain's hitting streak. In fact, this is as little action as I remember from the top of the Stars' order; Caleb Gindl was hitless as well, and Brett Lawrie and Taylor Green had one each. Lee Haydel went 2-4 with a double. Lawrie committed his fifth error already, on an errant throw. Michael Bowman allowed three runs in 3.2 innings on five hits, striking out three and walking none. Mike Jones allowed five runs in relief.

Huntsville play-by-play

Bowman was removed in the 4th after only 78 pitches. He'd allowed a two-run homer earlier in the frame, but seemed to be working out of it; he struck out the last batter he faced, and there was only a runner on first at the time.

[YoungGeezy]

Looks like the Brewers used up all the baseball karma today. What an ugly night so far for the affiliates...

 

I'm about ready to lump Arnett with Cody Adams and Evan Frederickson. I just shake my head and sigh when I look at their lines...

 

*sigh*

Yeah I hope he gets it figured out soon.... At least the Brewers make up for everyone else

 

[battlekow]

Final: Oklahoma City 7, Nashville 4

 

RedHawks Drop Sounds, 7-4

NashvilleSounds.com

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds lost to the Oklahoma City

RedHawks, 7-4, on Thursday evening at historic Greer Stadium in the

third game of a four game series.

 

Wearing throwback jerseys as part of Taco Bell Throwback Thursday, the

Sounds (9-6) have now dropped five of their last seven contests.

 

RedHawks starter Michael Ballard earned the win (2-0) after throwing six

innings and surrendering four runs (three earned) on six hits with four

strikeouts.

 

The Sounds had another fast start as Nashville took a quick 2-0 lead in

the bottom of the second inning. After Erick Almonte walked and Joe

Koshansky singled to right field, Adam Heether ripped a single to center

for the club's first run. Luis Cruz followed with an RBI-triple to deep

center to score Heether for the next run.

 

 

Nashville second baseman Eric Farris singled to left field to reach base

in the next frame, stole second base, advanced to third on a throwing

error from catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and then scored on a Norris

Hopper sacrifice fly for a 3-0 Nashville advantage.

 

 

Oklahoma City quickly reduced the Nashville lead to 3-2 in the next

inning, as Chad Tracy and Matt Brown both belted solo home runs off

Sounds lefty Chase Wright.

 

 

Esteban German doubled home Brandon Boggs to knot the game at 3-3 in the

next inning, before Tracy was walked to load the bases. Wright then

fanned Justin Smoak to get out of the jam and end the inning.

 

 

In the next frame, right fielder Johnny Raburn untied the contest with

his first jack of the season, a solo home run to left field for a 4-3

Sounds lead.

 

 

Saltalamacchia quickly tied the contest again in the top of the next

frame with his first home run of the year to left field.

 

 

Oklahoma City took a final 7-4 lead in the top of the seventh inning, as

right-handed reliever Tim Dillard (0-1) surrounded three straight

singles followed by a triple to RedHawk batters, his first runs

surrendered of the season to earn the loss.

 

 

Wright earned a no-decision, allowing four runs on seven hits with three

strikeouts and three walks in 5 1/3 innings.

 

 

In his third game of his major league rehab assignment, Saltalamacchia

went 1-for-4 with a home run.

 

 

The Sounds and RedHawks wrap up their four-game series with Friday

night's 7:05 pm CT homestand finale at historic Greer Stadium. Sounds

right-hander Kameron Loe (1-1, 5.51) takes the mound against Oklahoma

City southpaw Derek Holland (2-0, 0.46).

 

Nashville box scoreJonathan Lucroy was 0-4. Heether finished 2-4. Mitch Stetter struck out three in two innings to finish the game, allowing just a single. This might be the last game Rangers stud prospect Justin Smoak plays in the minors, as he was called up to the big leagues afterwards.http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t556&gid=2010_04_22_orhaaa_nasaaa_1&cid=556&t=g_box

Nashville play-by-play

 

[battlekow]

Final: Wisconsin 11, Cedar Rapids 6

 

Rattlers chill Kernels

Chris Mehring/TimberRattlers.com

 

 

 

GRAND CHUTE,

WI – The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers scored a season high 11 runs and got

some stellar relief pitching from Andre Lamontagne to defeat the Cedar

Rapids

Kernels 11-6 on a cool Thursday night at Time Warner Cable Field. Khris

Davis homered and a trio of players – Scooter Gennett, Chris Dennis, and

Sean Halton – drove in two runs for the Rattlers, who won their second

straight game.

 

 

 

 

 

Wisconsin

(7-8) jumped out quickly with three runs in the bottom of the first

inning.

The Rattlers loaded the bases with no outs against Cedar Rapids starting

pitcher

Tyler Kehrer on a single and a pair of walks. The first run scored on a

mishandled grounder of the bat of Dennis. Kehrer got two outs on a line

drive to short that would up doubling off the runner at second. But, a

hit batsman reloaded the bases and Halton cashed in two runs with a

single to

right.

 

Cedar Rapids

(7-8) went in front with four third inning runs off Rattlers starter

Eric

Arnett. There were two on with two outs and Luis Jimenez doubled in

both

runners. Jose Jimenez was next and he launched a homer to right-center

for a 4-3 Kernels lead.

 

 

 

Pete Fatse

drove in the tying run in the bottom of the third with a sacrifice fly,

but Arnett

got into trouble in the top of the fourth.

 

 

 

The first

round pick of the Brewers in the 2009 draft retired the first two

batters of

the fourth inning. But, he walked Kevin Ramos on a 3-2 pitch. Then,

Adam Younger drove the first pitch of his at bat over the wall in left

for a

two-run homer and a 6-4 Kernels lead.

 

 

 

But, the

Rattlers offense came right back in the bottom of the fourth. D’Vontrey

Richardson drew a leadoff walk. Gennett drove him home with a

double. A sacrifice bunt moved Gennett to third. A double by Dennis

chased home Gennett with the tying run. Two wild pitches by Kehrer let

Dennis

score to put the Rattlers up 7-6.

 

 

 

Lamontagne

relieved Arnett to start the fifth inning. He gave up a single to the

first batter he faced. He would retire the next 12 batters he faced.

 

 

 

That allowed

the Timber Rattlers offense to pad the lead. Michael Marseco drove in a

run in the fifth and another run scored in the inning on an error.

 

 

 

Gennett drove

in a run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth. In the same inning, Davis,

who had extended his hitting streak to nine games earlier in the game,

line a solo

homer over the left field wall and the Rattlers led 11-6.

 

 

 

Jon Pokorny

took over in the top of the ninth a retired the side in order to close

out the

Kernels.

 

 

 

The Timber

Rattlers begin a three game series with the Beloit Snappers at Time

Warner

Cable Field on Friday night. It’s a North Shore Bank Family Night.

Children 12 and under eat free in conjunction with momslikeme.com. After

the game, ThedaCare Orthopedics presents Kids Run the Bases for children

14 and

under. The Community Blood Center will be at the stadium to inform fans

about how to Step Up to the Plate & Donate.

 

 

 

Maverick

Lasker (0-1, 3.60) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber

Rattlers. Liam Hendricks (0-0, 0.00) is set to start for the Snappers.

Wisconsin box score

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." I don't think Arnett is a Cubs spy, but there's no denying that his first three starts have been awful, as he's now sporting a 11.57 ERA. Tonight's may have been his worst, as he only tallied one strikeout and walked his first two batters of the year. Oh well, let's accentuate the positives: Gennett walked twice to go along with his double and sac fly, continuing to show a precocious grasp of the strike zone. Richardson singled, but I'm more excited about the walk, his third this year. In addition to his homer, Davis also walked and singled and, oddly, had a sac bunt; I wonder how many guys homer and sac bunt in the same game? He's having a nice year so far and would fit in nicely with all the K's at Brevard County (Kentrail Davis, BrocK Kjeldgaard, EriK Komatsu, EriK Miller). Maybe Chris Dennis should adopt Davis's variant spelling as well, but I think he'll make it to BC on the merits of his bat, regardless of how he spells his name: he drew his 11th walk of the year today against only 8 strikeouts, which is eye-popping in light of his 25% K-rate last year. Cameron Garfield was 0-5.

Wisconsin play-by-play

[Mass Haas]

29-year-old reliever Steve Bray, just demoted by the Mariners from AAA Tacoma to AA West Tenn, closes out his former club with three scoreless.

[battlekow]

After reading this, see if you can figure out what Mr. Ackley's first name is.

 

Jaxx End Losing Streak Thursday

DiamondJaxx.com

 

JACKSON, TN. (April 22, 2010) - The Diamond Jaxx (5-9) snap their five

game losing skid on Thursday night with an 8-1 thumping of the

Huntsville Stars (9-5) at Pringles Park. The Jaxx also ended their five

game homerless streak by sailing two baseballs over the wall in the win.

 

 

Dustin Ackley collected his second straight multi-hit game going 2-for-3

with a double and three runs scored. Guillermo Quiroz was 3-for-4 with a

triple and two RBI. Mike Wilson finished the night 2-for-3 with a homer

and three RBI.

 

 

Michael Pineda (1-0), the #7 prospect for the Mariners gets the win on

Thursday night, dealing his second straight six inning outing. Pineda

struck out six and walked none in the outing. Michael Bowman (2-1)

suffers the loss for Huntsville lasting just 3.2 innings. Steve Bray (S,

1) picked up the save, dealing three shutout innings and allowing just

one hit.

 

 

The Diamond Jaxx had a five game homer drought entering the game on

Thursday night, but Carlos Peguero ended that in the bottom of the

first. Peguero launched a tape measure homer to right giving the Jaxx a

1-0 lead. The homer was Peguero's fourth of the season

 

 

The Jaxx one-run lead did not last long though as Lee Haydel singled

home Taylor Green with two outs to even the score at one in the second.

Green tallied his 10th double of the year to get in scoring position for

Haydel. The score was even a 1-1 after the top of the second inning.

 

 

The Jaxx re-took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning and ran

Huntsville starter Michael Bowman from the game. After a leadoff double

by Dustin Ackley, Mike Wilson hit his fourth homer of the year on the

12th pitch of his at-bat giving the Jaxx a 3-1 lead.

 

 

West Tenn added to their lead in the bottom of the sixth inning. Dustin

Ackley picked up his second hit of the night and came around to score on

a throwing error by Stars second baseman Brett Lawrie. The Stars

committed three errors in the game. Guillermo Quiroz drove in two runs

with his first triple of the 2010 season. The Jaxx opened up a 6-1 lead.

 

 

In the bottom of the seventh inning Mike Wilson singled in Kuo Hui Lo

and Johan Limonta singled in Dustin Ackley to extend the lead to 8-1.

 

The Jaxx and Stars will finish their five game series on Friday night at

Pringles Park, with the first pitch at 7:05. RHP Steven Hensley (0-1,

1.93) will make the start for the Jaxx while LHP Chris Cody (2-0, 2.61)

gets the ball for Huntsville.

[battlekow]

Jays take care of Manatees handily, 6-1

Tim Livingston/DunedinBlueJays.com

 

Henderson Alvarez was solid once more against Brevard County, allowing

only one run in five innings and letting his offense do the talking as

Dunedin cruised to a 6-1 win over the Manatees.

 

The right-hander (2-0) gave up only five hits and struck out three, with

the run coming across in the fifth inning being unearned. He has now

allowed only two runs in 19 innings of work in his three starts, with

his 0.47 ERA pacing the Florida State League.

 

 

The second inning was all Alvarez needed on his way to victory. After a

double from Shawn Bowman, who went 4-for-4 in his first game with the

Blue Jays organization after being claimed on waivers Monday, Daniel

Perales smashed a two-run home run to right for the first score of the

game, making it 2-0.

 

 

Dunedin added a third run on a Tyler Pastornicky RBI double and pushed

two more runs across in the fourth on RBI walks from Pastornicky and

Raul Barron. The sixth run came in the fifth when Perales came through

with another RBI, this time on a double to deep left field.

 

 

Perales three RBIs paced the production for Dunedin, with Pastornicky

driving two runs in from the leadoff spot. Barron drew three walks,

pushing his on-base percentage to .467, which is amongst the league

leaders in the FSL.

 

 

Sergio Miranda went 2-for-3 to lead Brevard County (4-10), driving in

the Manatees' only run.

 

 

Cody Scarpatta (1-2) took the loss for Brevard County, not getting

through the fourth inning and giving up five runs on five hits.

 

 

With the win, Dunedin has moved into a first place tie with Clearwater

atop the FSL North Division at 9-6.

 

 

Dunedin has now won five of six games and are in position for their

second sweep of the young season on Friday night when they take on the

Manatees at 7 p.m. Dan DeLucia will get the start for Dunedin.

 

[battlekow]

Rattler Radio:

 

What Chris's gut is telling him about tonight's game and how close Eric Arnett was to having a good outing.

[Mass Haas]

David Weiser of starsboxscore.com

 

Jim Henderson continued his streak of shutout innings to 10 1/3 on Wednesday, allowing no hits in three innings of relief. The last pitcher to go more than 10 innings in the first month of a season without allowing a run was Patrick Ryan (13 innings) in 2008. Henderson has allowed only two hits so far, and struck out nine........ Gotta wonder how long it will be before he gets the call to Nashville.......... Robert Hinton lowered his ERA to 3.18 and is now closing in on 2nd place on the all-time list in pitching appearances. He's three behind Mike Maurer, who pitched for the Stars from 1995-97 (A's organization).

 

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	G	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO		W-L	Sv.
2007	39	53	50	36	35	4	27	44		2-3	2
2008	30	53 2/3	49	35	32	8	30	57		3-2	3
2009	43	55 2/3	50	29	26	4	30	58		0-6	11
2010	6	5 2/3	6	4	2	1	4	8		0-1	1
	118	168	155	104	95	17	91	167		5-14	17

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