Link Report for Thurs. 6/3 -- Angel Salome lives! But only Wisconsin salvages a tough night for the organization

[battlekow]

Final: Mobile 7, Huntsville 4

Stars make six errors in loss to BayBears

Huntsville Stars

 

The Mobile BayBears (27-25) got two runs in the first inning and never

looked back as they knocked off the Huntsville Stars (25-29) by a final

score of 7-4 Thursday night.

 

Huntsville made six errors in the

contest, but only one of the seven Mobile runs was unearned.

 

 

Stars’ starting pitcher Chris Cody has had issues with the long ball all

season, and nothing much changed tonight as Evan Frey crushed a solo

shot with one away in the first. After Kory Casto walked, Huntsville

continued their recent issues on defense as a pick-off attempt went awry

as the ball bounced off the glove of Drew Anderson and Casto advanced

to second base. With two down, Bryan Byrne singled home Casto and

Mobile had a 2-0 edge.

 

After the rough start, Cody (2-6)

settled down and pitched really well, going five innings scattering six

hits while surrendering only the two runs, one of which was earned. He

walked two and struck-out four in the losing effort.

 

The

BayBears tacked on a run in the top of the sixth against Stars’ reliever

Mark Willinsky. Jake Wald singled home Taylor Harbin in the frame, but

Willinsky was able to get out of the inning without any more runs

scoring.

 

The Stars finally got to BayBears’ starter Joshua

Collmenter (3-0) in the bottom half of the frame thanks to a Brett

Lawrie solo homer.

 

Down 3-1, the Stars’ bullpen couldn’t keep

the game close as Mobile scored two in the seventh. The Stars responded

with a sacrifice fly from Taylor Green in the seventh, but the BayBears

tacked on two more off reliever Nick Green in the bottom half of the

frame.

 

Down 7-2, the Stars made a nice attempt at a rally in

the bottom of the ninth. Lorenzo Cain reached on an error and Caleb Gindl

doubled him home for his team-leading 30th RBI of the year. Zelous

Wheeler singled to put two on with nobody out. After Anderson hit

into a force-out, Green continued his hot hitting with a RBI

single to drive in Gindl and make the score 7-4. But Lee Haydel and

Sean McCraw both grounded out to end the game.

 

Huntsville will

look to take the finale of the five game set Friday night at 7pm. Josh

Butler (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will be on the mound for the Stars. You can

hear all the action on the Huntsville Stars Radio Network and

www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville box score

Nice to see Gindl (2-3, walk, two doubles) and Green (2-3) perhaps getting hot along with Lawrie (2-4). Cain was 0-3 but did walk. Infielder Andy Machado pitched the 9th, his second appearance on the mound this year.

 

Huntsville play-by-play

[battlekow]

Final: Albuquerque 3, Nashville 2 (10 innings)

Sounds fall to Albuquerque, 3-2 in 10 innings

Nashville Sounds

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds had their three-game winning streak snapped with a 3-2, 10-inning loss to the visiting Albuquerque Isotopes on Thursday evening at historic Greer Stadium.

Isotopes second baseman Chin-lung Hu drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk from Sounds reliever Mike Jones in the top of the tenth to plate Michael Restovich with the winning run.

The extra-inning contest was the sixth of the year for Nashville (3-3) and seventh for Albuquerque (6-1).

In the decisive Albuquerque tenth, Ivan De Jesus, Jr. led off with a single to center off Sounds reliever Mitch Stetter. One out later, Jones took over on the Nashville hill and was greeted by pinch-hitter Restovich's sharp single to center, which careened off the outstretched glove of shortstop Luis Cruz. De Jesus moved to third on the knock.

After a walk to Jamie Hoffmann loaded the bases with one out, Jones coaxed a fielder's choice grounder from Lucas May that forced De Jesus at the plate before Hu drew his go-ahead walk from the right-hander.

Nashville got the potential tying run to third with two outs in the bottom of the tenth against Isotopes closer Scott Dohmann before the right-hander struck out Norris Hopper looking to end the contest and nail down his fourth save of the year.

Juan Perez (2-1) picked up the win for the Isotopes after tossing two scoreless frames of relief. Stetter (1-1) took his first loss of the year for Nashville after being charged with the game-winning run.

The Sounds left a season-high 14 runners on base in the contest, finishing just 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position on the night.

Albuquerque took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning when Hu drew a two-out walk from Sounds starter Chris Waters and scored when Isotopes third baseman Justin Sellers followed with a double into the left field corner.

Xavier Paul, who was added to the Albuquerque roster earlier in the day, doubled the visitors' advantage in the fifth with a leadoff solo homer to right off Waters, the outfielder's fifth longball of the year.

The Sounds halved the lead with a two-out run in the bottom of the fifth. Waters drew an inning-opening walk from Albuquerque starter Scott Elbert, moved to second on a Hopper sacrifice, advanced to third on a groundout, and scored on team RBI leader Joe Koshansky's single to center.

Nashville knotted the score in the sixth against Isotopes reliever Jon Link. Johnny Raburn legged out a leadoff double to left before scoring on pinch-hitter Erick Almonte's RBI single through the left side of the infield.

Sounds right fielder Trent Oeltjen kept the score tied in the seventh when he fired a laser to the plate to gun down Sellers as he attempted to score from second on Paul's single (listen to the audio of that play via this link).

The teams wrap up the series with a 7:05 p.m. finale on Friday night at Greer. Left-hander Chuck Lofgren (6-3, 4.68) will toe the rubber for the Sounds to face Albuquerque right-hander Tim Corcoran (3-5, 4.56).

Nashville box score

David Riske worked a scoreless 8th with a walk. Mat Gamel was 1-4 with a double and a walk in his first game back at Nashville. Raburn and Cruz also doubled and walked.

 

Nashville play-by-play

[Mass Haas]

Hammerheads' Site:

 

Jupiter Fires On All Cylinders In 8-0 Win

Back when the team was mired in what would become a 15 game losing streak, the Jupiter coaching staff told players that when they all performed up to their abilities, they were the best team in the league. With big hits from throughout the order and a second consecutive shutout, the Hammerheads made good on that praise in an 8-0 win over Brevard County.

 

For the second game in a row, the top four hitters in the Hammerheads lineup combined for seven hits, while the pitching staff limited the Manatees to just three. On this night, the top of the order knocked two hits apiece, including Jake Smolinski's two-run double to break the game open in the 1st inning and Kevin Mattison's first home run of the year, a two-run shot in the 2nd.

 

But the biggest hit of the night was Seth Fortenberry's first of the year. The left fielder made a terrific catch in Wednesday night's game, but couldn't connect at the plate. Thursday, he smoked a bases-clearing triple to deep center, driving in the final three runs of the night.

 

It was an especially big hit for a team that has had trouble recently with leaving men on base. An error allowed Jeremy Synan to reach in the first at-bat of the inning, followed by a walk to Smolinski and newly-named FSL All-Star Ben Lasater's single to load the bases with no outs. But a pop fly and a strikeout had the Hammerheads looking at the possibility of failing to take advantage of the opportunity, especially with Fortenberry stepping to the plate in just his second game since signing with the team.

 

Of course, by that time, Jupiter had a 5-0 lead with starter Brad Hand having the game, well, in hand. In his best effort of the season, the lefty allowed just two singles in six innings. And while the team combined for their second consecutive shutout, Hand had a personal back-to-back of his own; as he did in his previous start, he struck out seven batters while allowing just one walk.

 

Relievers Andy Loomis, Isaac Morales and Corey Madden made sure Hand's start held up, with Loomis and Madden each tossing perfect innings.

 

The Hammerheads have now won four of their last five and will look to take the series from Brevard County tomorrow night at Roger Dean Stadium, with first pitch scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

[Mass Haas]

Hey, let's have the manager throw the player under the bus...Link while active, text follows:

 

TinCaps have lineup miscue in home loss

LaMond Pope | The Journal Gazette

 

FORT WAYNE – Wisconsin played Thursday’s game under protest. The TinCaps ended up being the team that wanted the redo.

 

The Timber Rattlers scored four runs with two outs in the second inning on the way to a 6-4 victory in front of 4,842 fans at Parkview Field.

 

The TinCaps (28-27) dropped two of three to Wisconsin (20-34), which entered the game tied for the worst record in the Midwest League.

 

The game featured a 16-minute delay after Wisconsin manager Jeff Isom realized, three innings too late, that the TinCaps batted out of order the first time through the lineup.

 

Griffin Benedict did not bat the first time through Fort Wayne’s lineup, although he was listed as sixth in the team’s batting order.

 

Rymer Liriano – the No. 7 hitter – accidentally batted ahead of the No. 6 hitter Benedict in the second inning. Liriano grounded out to end the inning.

 

“I post the lineup card every day out there (in the dugout). If you are smart enough, you need to go out there and look every day,” TinCaps manager Jose Flores said. “The lineup I put (in the clubhouse) sometimes changes come time for the actual lineup card that gets exchanged.

 

“In that case, (Liriano) had taken what he saw in the original lineup posted before the game and just went out there when literally it was posted in the dugout that the switch had been made. He just went out there and hit.”

 

When the next inning started, the TinCaps’ No. 8 hitter, Dean Anna, was the first batter up.

 

Wisconsin noticed the change when Liriano came up the second time in the fifth inning, leading to the protest.

 

“There was just a mix-up,” Benedict said. “We had two different lineups up, and right before we went up there was a little confusion as to who was hitting.

 

“Unfortunately, I got skipped, but they tried to protest the game later on, but we were already back in order so it didn’t matter.”

 

Wisconsin led 4-0 at that point thanks to its second inning rally. The Timber Rattlers followed a two-out walk with four consecutive hits.

 

The TinCaps kept chipping away, scoring two in the fifth and another run in the sixth. But Wisconsin answered with a solo home run by Scooter Gennett in the seventh.

 

The TinCaps scored a run in the eighth when Anna came home on a wild pitch, but Wisconsin came back with one run in the ninth.

[Mass Haas]

Chad has your calls from Thursday's 7-4 Huntsville loss. Fine job as usual.

 

Not from a play-by-play perspective, because it's not a valid comparison in that regard, but just from a voice perspective, I hear NBC's reporter Jim Gray -- nothing wrong with that, or maybe it's just me...

 

06/03/10 - HSV v MOB - Frey homer (0-1) - Byrne single (0-2) - Wald single (0-3) - Lawrie homer (1-3) - Wild pitch (1-4) - Hankerd single (1-5) - Green sac fly (2-5) - Casto homer (2-7) - Gindl double (3-7) - Green single (4-7)

[Mass Haas]

Chris digs deeper (much deeper) into the batting-out-of-order situation.

[brewmann04]

I wish they let Jones Start instead of comming out of the Bullpen.