Link Report for Sun. 5/16 -- Rattlers victorious; Manatees fall after long rain delay

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Sunday's Daily Menu: A rare Sunday with no big league game conflict -- a blessing given the Miller Park misery of late!

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Kameron Loe at home vs. Portland (Padres), 1:50 PM pre-game; 2:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Mark Rogers at home vs. Tennessee (Cubs), 12:45 PM pre-game; 1:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Wily Peralta at home vs. Palm Beach (Cardinals), 4:50 PM pre-game; 5:05 PM gametime

Live Audio Link (Stephen C. Smith with the scheduled broadcast via SpaceCoastBaseball.com)

Wisconsin: RHP Kyle Heckathorn at home vs. Beloit (Twins), 12:50 PM pre-game; 1:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

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Follow Sunday'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

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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 22 13 .629 - 8-7 14-6 W1 
Iowa 18 17 .514 4.0 7-10 11-7 W6 
Omaha 17 17 .500 4.5 6-12 11-5 W2 
Memphis 17 18 .486 5.0 10-7 7-11 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 22 14 .611 - 9-11 13-3 W1 
West Tenn 19 16 .543 2.5 7-12 12-4 W4 
Huntsville 18 18 .500 4.0 6-10 12-8 L1 
Carolina 16 20 .444 6.0 7-9 9-11 W4 
Chattanooga 15 21 .417 7.0 10-10 5-11 L3 
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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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Clearwater 23 13 .639 - 14-6 9-7 L2 
Dunedin 21 15 .583 2.0 7-9 14-6 W5 
Lakeland 18 17 .514 4.5 10-9 8-8 L1 
Tampa 18 18 .500 5.0 9-11 9-7 W1 
Brevard County 14 21 .400 8.5 7-12 7-9 W1 
Daytona 14 22 .389 9.0 4-11 10-11 L1 

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MID Western (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Beloit	22	14	.611	-	10-8	12-6	5-5	W3
	Quad Cities	21	15	.583	1.0	12-6	9-9	6-4	L2
	Peoria	21	16	.568	1.5	14-5	7-11	3-7	L1
	Cedar Rapids	20	16	.556	2.0	11-4	9-12	7-3	L2
	Kane County	19	17	.528	3.0	12-6	7-11	7-3	W2
	Clinton	18	19	.486	4.5	9-9	9-10	7-3	W2
	Burlington	13	23	.361	9.0	7-11	6-12	3-7	W1
	Wisconsin	11	25	.306	11.0	7-14	4-11	2-8	L3

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Fans, check for updated links shortly before game time for media notes --

PDF documents:

Nashville Media Notes

Huntsville Media Notes

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Rattler Radio

Game notes

Today's pitchers

Starting lineup

Cutter Dykstra getting his first action at 3B today and hitting second.

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Stars postponed because of rain. Doubleheader tomorrow starting at 5.

[trwi7]

Rattlers finally win!

 

Three run 8th off of Ben Tootle. Good outing by Heckathorn.

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Sounds postponed as well. They'll also have a doubleheader tomorrow.

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Final: Wisconsin 3, Beloit 1

 

Late Rattlers rally is the difference

Chris Mehring/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

GRAND CHUTE,

WI – The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers scored three times in the bottom of

the eighth inning to defeat the Beloit Snappers 3-1 Sunday afternoon at

Time

Warner Cable Field. Scooter Gennett drove in the go-ahead run during

the

winning rally to salvage a fine pitching performance by Rattlers starter

Kyle

Heckathorn.

 

Both starting

pitchers were on their game on Sunday. Michael Tonkin, Beloit’s

starting pitcher, gave up three hits and struck out six over seven

shutout

innings. Heckathorn allowed an unearned run in six innings and struck

out

three. Neither starter – in fact, neither pitching staff – walked

a batter.

 

 

 

 

 

The only

blemish against Heckathorn happened in the top of the fourth inning.

Brian Dozier started the inning with a single. Steven Liddle followed

with a single to center and Dozier was heading for third base. Rattlers

centerfielder D’Vontrey Richardson tried to get Dozier, but his throw

was

wild and wound up in the stands to allow the run to score. The error

also

sent Liddle to third base. One out later, Richardson got redemption.

 

Josmil Pinto

sent a fly ball to centerfield. Liddle tagged and tried to score.

Richardson threw a strike to the plate to get Liddle for the third out.

 

 

 

 

 

Richardson would

also play a pivotal part in the winning rally by using his legs.

 

Michael

Marseco tripled with one out against reliever Ben Tootle. Erik Miller

would be hit by a pitch to put runners at the corners. Richardson sent a

grounder to first. Miller was forced at second, but Richardson beat the

return throw to first to keep Beloit (22-15) from turning an inning

ending

double play. Marseco scored on the play to tie the score 1-1.

 

 

 

 

 

Cutter

Dykstra followed with a single to send Richardson to second and set the

stage

for Gennett’s bat and Richardson’s speed.

 

Gennett lined

a 2-0 pitch to right. Angel Morales fielded the ball one hop and came

up

throwing to the plate. In the second game of the doubleheader on Friday

night, Morales had made a similar play in the bottom of the ninth and

threw out

Dykstra at the plate to keep the game tied 1-1. It was a different

story

on Sunday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

The throw arrived

at home just a beat before Richardson. But, the Rattlers centerfielder

made a picture-perfect headfirst slide to the back of the plate to beat

the tag

and score the go-ahead run for Wisconsin (12-25).

 

A wild pitch

by Tootle let Dykstra score an insurance run.

 

 

 

 

 

Maverick

Lasker, who had pitched two scoreless innings of relief in the seventh

and

eighth, turned the game over to Andre Lamontagne for the ninth. The

right-handed closer got the first out, but gave up a single and

committed a

throwing error on a grounder to the mound that put runners at the

corners with

one out.

 

Lamontagne

regrouped and got Tobias Streich to ground into a game-ending 5-4-3

double

play.

 

 

 

 

 

Wisconsin is

off on Monday before returning to action on Tuesday against the Peoria

Chiefs,

the Midwest League affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. The Rattlers have

Nick

Bucci (1-1, 2.03) as the scheduled starting pitcher. Peoria manager and

former UW-Oshkosh Titan Casey Kopitzke plans to send Rob Whitenack (2-2,

5.91)

to the hill. Game time is 6:35pm.

 

Tuesday is a 105.7WAPL

Bang for Your Buck Night with soda, hotdogs, and Miller Beer is

available for

$1. It is also College Night, which means that college students

with a valid college ID may purchase a reserved seat or general

admission

ticket for $1. Additionally, it is a KRAFT Singles Tuesday Night

Tickets. Fans who bring in a KRAFT Singles package wrapper and

purchase one reserved seat will receive a second reserved seat free.

 

 

 

If you can’t

make it out to Time Warner Cable Field, you can tune in to AM1280, WNAM

for the

broadcast starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:15pm

Wisconsin box score

Well, that's a relief. The Rattlers didn't have a hit until Marseco's 6th-inning single; in fact, Tonkin had faced the minimum up to that point, the only baserunner having been Richardson, who reached on an error to lead off the 4th and was promptly picked off. This game was actually pretty much D'Vontrey Richardson's season in a nutshell: no hits, two strikeouts, a baserunning mistake, a defensive miscue, but also some stirring moments hinting at his potential: the speed, the throw, the slide. Marseco was the only Rattler with multiple hits; Khris Davis and Cameron Garfield joined Dykstra and Gennett with one hit, while Chris Dennis went 0-3. Heckathorn continues to demonstrate unusually good control, today throwing 53 of his 73 pitches for strikes.

 

Wisconsin play-by-play

The winning rally:

 

Wisconsin Bottom 8th

• Peter Fatse flies out to center
  fielder Aaron Hicks.
• Michael Marseco triples (2) on a ground
  ball to right fielder Angel Morales.
• Erik Miller hit by pitch.
  
• D' Vontrey Richardson grounds into a force out, first baseman
  Steven Liddle to shortstop Brian Dozier. Michael Marseco scores.
  Erik Miller out at 2nd. D' Vontrey Richardson to 1st.
• Cutter
  Dykstra singles on a ground ball to shortstop Brian Dozier. D'
  Vontrey Richardson to 2nd.
• Ryan Gennett singles on a fly ball
  to right fielder Angel Morales. D' Vontrey Richardson scores.
  Cutter Dykstra to 3rd. Ryan Gennett to 2nd on the throw.
• With
  Khristopher Davis batting, wild pitch by Ben Tootle, Cutter Dykstra
  scores. Ryan Gennett to 3rd.
• Khristopher Davis strikes out
  swinging.

[TheCrew07]

Ha, the T-Rats won a game both days I couldn't listen to the audio in the last week. Perhaps I'm a jinx and will just time record the pre game shows for a while.

 

Fatse's BA is all the way down to .238, Dennis has dropped all the way to .264, too bad for 2 guys I like to follow.

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Final: Palm Beach 9, Brevard County 2

Brevard County drops opener to Palm Beach

Frank Longobardo/Brevard County Manatees

The Brevard County Manatees waited through a

two-hour rain delay and lost the series opener against the Palm Beach

Cardinals 9-2 on Sunday evening at Space Coast Stadium.

 

Manatees starter David Riske, who is on a rehabilitation assignment

from Milwaukee, went two innings and allowed five runs, four earned on

seven hits in just two innings.

 

Palm Beach plated two more runs in the top of the fifth off of Wily

Peralta to take a 7-0 lead. Brevard County scored its first run of the

game in the bottom of the inning on a RBI single by Matt Cline.

 

With five innings in the books, the tarp came on the field as both

teams sat through a two-hour weather delay.

 

After the delay, Palm Beach picked up another run off of Brandon

Ritchie to make it 8-1. Manatees first baseman Sean Halton would drive

in Kentrail Davis on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth for

Brevard County's second run of the game.

 

Cline had his second straight multi-hit game as he went 2-for-5 with a

RBI. Josh Prince and Halton also had two hits each.

 

Brevard County and Palm Beach will continue their four-game series on

Monday night at 7:05 pm at Space Coast Stadium.

Brevard County box score

Peralta allowed two runs, both earned, in three innings on four hits. He struck out four, walked none, and hit a batter. Evan Frederickson tossed two scoreless, hitless innings and struck out two, but walked three. Erik Komatsu and Kentrail Davis were each 0-3 with a walk; Davis is now 0 for his last 19, though he's walked five times and been hit by a pitch three times in that span. Shawn Zarraga was 1-3 and was hit by a pitch.

Brevard County play-by-play

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Brevard County starting pitcher David Riske, on a rehab assignment from Milwaukee, gave up five runs, four earned, on seven hits in two innings of work against Palm Beach on Sunday evening. The Manatees lost 9-2 to the Cardinals. (Dennis Greenblatt/Hawk-Eye Sports Photography)

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Timber Rattlers rally in eighth inning for victory

By Brett Christopherson, Post-Crescent staff writer

 

Finally a clutch hit.

 

Michael Marseco ignited the rally with a triple, while Scooter Gennett’s two-out single to right scored the go-ahead run to highlight a three-run eighth inning as the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers rallied for a 3-1 Midwest League victory over Beloit on Sunday at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

 

The win soothed the sting from Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Snappers – a game that saw the Rattlers strand a season-high 13 runners and collect just one hit in 13 at-bats with runners in scoring position.

 

“There wasn’t much offense going into that inning,” Rattlers manager Jeff Isom said. “Marseco’s triple was definitely a spark for us. He got it by the first baseman, who was playing on the line for no doubles and he got it by him. And we got clutch hitting from (Scooter) Gennett. Great timing. He’s been swinging the bat extremely well.

 

“We moved (Gennett) down to the three-hole, hoping he can get some more opportunities for RBIs, and he came through right there.”

 

Marseco’s hit was an opposite field shot that rolled down the first base line with the Snappers leading 1-0. He later scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by D’Vontrey Richardson as Beloit tried to turn a double play on a grounder that Richardson was able to beat out.

 

Cutter Dykstra followed with another single to set up Gennett’s game-winner – a single to right that pushed Richardson in from second.

 

Dykstra would eventually score on a wild pitch to cap the inning as the Rattlers snapped a three-game losing skid.

 

“I was just trying to put the ball in play, trying to make something happen,” said Gennett, who’s hitting a team-best .349. “Fortunately enough for us, it ended up working out.”

 

Not much had worked up until that point. Beloit starter Mike Tonkin faced the minimum through the first five innings and didn’t surrender a hit until Marseco lined a one-out single through the middle in the sixth.

 

The right-hander exited after seven scoreless innings, finishing with three Ks and scattering only three hits.

 

“We know we’re going to hit,” Gennett said. “Really, it’s just timely hitting – getting the big hit when we need it. When Marseco got the no-no taken out, a little bit of pressure was lifted off of us. It was just then getting that run in and getting the big hit.”

 

Rattlers starter Kyle Heckathorn also impressed, allowing five hits and an unearned run through six strong innings in no-decision.

 

Six of the first nine outs he recorded were groundouts as the right-hander showed excellent command in lowering his ERA to 3.91.

 

“The key with him, we’re just trying to get him to throw the ball downhill,” Rattlers pitching coach Chris Hook said. “The first three innings, he really buried the ball down and they couldn’t do much when you’re throwing 94 miles an hour with sink. … Overall, an outstanding job.

 

“The slider came along a little bit today. He only had three Ks, but it showed some life and explosion, and we really hadn’t seen that yet.”

 

The idle Rattlers resume their homestand on Tuesday, when they open a three-game set against Peoria.

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All Rattlers, all the time:

 

More from Brett's blog post, including below, click link for Stat Pack notes on iron man D'Vontrey Richardson and such --

 

Rattlers starter Kyle Heckathorn also impressed, allowing five hits and an unearned run through six strong innings in no-decision.

Six of the first nine outs he recorded were groundouts as the right-hander showed excellent command in lowering his ERA to 3.91.

“The key with him, we’re just trying to get him to throw the ball downhill,” Rattlers pitching coach Chris Hook said. “The first three innings, he really buried the ball down and they couldn’t do much when you’re throwing 94 miles an hour with sink. … Overall, an outstanding job.

“The slider came along a little bit today. He only had three Ks, but it showed some life and explosion, and we really hadn’t seen that yet.”

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Post-Crescent photo gallery with several nice shots

Kyle Heckathorn is one big dude...

 

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Brad rocks us again with his first-hand report and photos as the boys display the Brewer powder blues...

 

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Link Report Bonus:

 

Twins GM Smith cherishes his Appleton years

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The webcast archive for the May 16 Manatees - Cardinals game is now on SpaceCoastBaseball.com. Complete with two-hour rain delay.