Link Report for Sat. 6/12 -- In terms of wins and losses, an organizational wipeout

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Saturday's Daily Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Mike McClendon at Omaha (Royals), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Mark Rogers at Carolina (Reds), 5:00 PM pre-game; 5:15 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: Florida State League All-Star Game (Full coverage, including audio link, here)

Wisconsin: RHP's Eric Arnett and Kyle Heckathorn in a doubleheader at home vs. Dayton (Reds), 4:50 PM pre-game; 5:05 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings

Live Audio Link

 

DSL Brewers: at the DSL Mariners, 9:30 AM

[Mass Haas]

Follow Saturday'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)

Wisconsin Game One

Wisconsin Game Two

 

DSL Brewers

[Mass Haas]

MID Western (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Cedar Rapids	40	21	.656	-	22-4	18-17	7-3	W4
	Quad Cities	36	25	.590	4.0	20-9	16-16	5-5	W2
	Clinton	35	26	.574	5.0	20-11	15-15	5-5	W3
	Peoria	33	28	.541	7.0	20-9	13-19	5-5	W1
	Beloit	31	30	.508	9.0	16-14	15-16	5-5	W3
	Kane County	28	34	.452	12.5	16-14	12-20	6-4	L1
	Wisconsin	22	38	.367	17.5	13-19	9-19	4-6	L1
	Burlington	20	41	.328	20.0	9-20	11-21	3-7	L4

[Mass Haas]

DSL S.D. North (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	DSL Athletics	8	4	.667	-	4-2	4-2	7-3	W1
	DSL Cardinals	6	5	.545	1.5	4-1	2-4	5-5	L2
	DSL Brewers	5	5	.500	2.0	3-2	2-3	5-5	W2
	DSL Mariners	3	8	.273	4.5	2-4	1-4	3-7	L1

[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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Memphis 33 27 .550 - 16-10 17-17 L1 
Nashville 33 27 .550 - 14-12 19-15 L1 
Omaha 31 28 .525 1.5 17-19 14-9 W1 
Iowa 31 29 .517 2.0 14-15 17-14 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 37 24 .607 - 16-16 21-8 W1 
West Tenn 35 25 .583 1.5 13-16 22-9 L1 
Huntsville 29 33 .468 8.5 11-19 18-14 W2 
Chattanooga 27 33 .450 9.5 16-17 11-16 W1 
Carolina 25 36 .410 12.0 11-16 14-20 L7 
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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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Dunedin 37 24 .607 - 16-16 21-8 W2 
Lakeland 33 27 .550 3.5 17-13 16-14 L2 
Tampa 32 27 .542 4.0 16-15 16-12 W2 
Clearwater 30 31 .492 7.0 15-14 15-17 L9 
Daytona 29 32 .475 8.0 11-19 18-13 L1 
Brevard County 23 36 .390 13.0 14-19 9-17 W1

[Tedaldtada]

Just paroozing BR. Richardson is starting to figure things out at the plate. He will only get better as he moves up. His OBP is .090 points higher then his BA now. That seems to be improving as the years wears on. Dykstra is holding steady while Gennet and Davis continue to put up league MVP-ish numbers.

 

Can we expect Morris to join low-A? What about Thornburg and the Michigan guy?

 

I thought Komatsu had more pop? I'll just attribute it to Space Coast I guess. On the other hand, he seems to be a better base stealer then I thought.

 

Lawrie is a beast right now. He is sporting a very nice Braun-ish slash line now at a much younger age. Cain is just waiting for Schafer to get going. Then he'll get his bump. He does only have 12 Exb, but those have been more frequent lately. Haydel is making small steps forward. Wheeler is having a very, very nice year. Hasn't he been an all-star at every stop? Green and Gindl have lines that could use a week long hot streak.

 

Hopefully Farris is back soon. Gamel looks good, not great. Can't really complain though. Katin still with an OPS over 1.000, it will be interesting if he can keep it up.

 

Oh, and Hitanial Arias is raking in the DSL!

[Never Outhustled]

Wheeler is a guy thats grabbing my attention too. Can he really play SS, or at least could he if he lost more weight? If he can, theres a big need on the big club for a SS who understands the importance of getting on, Wheeler is an OBA machine.

 

What an awesomely exciting pitching lineup tonight. Even McClendon has elbowed his way into being someone worth checking in on.

[sfl2hnq17]

wheeler his been an all-star in fsl and sal. his strikeout numbers have been going down as he has ascended the system.

[DHonks]

good recaps, although Gamel's been great, not good. His BB:K is good, his OBP is good, etc.

[battlekow]

Rattler Radio:

 

Game notes

 

Tonight's starting pitchers

 

Starting lineup (game one)

[twobrewers]

Gamel's been great, not good. His BB:K is good, his OBP is good, etc

Ok, I laughed when you said Gamel's been great - and then pointed out all the things he is good at.

[Mass Haas]

PDF documents:

 

Nashville Media Notes

Saturday night's all right for fightin', check out the Sounds' Saturday record; doubleheader vs. Memphis on Tuesday will require a spot bullpen starter...

 

Huntsville Media Notes

Check out the blurb on Mark Rogers' fluky home / road splits. Portends well for tonight...

[battlekow]

Huntsville's in a rain delay. Start time TBA.

[TheCrew07]

Arnett just gave up another HR, first pitch of the game, and the dude's first HR of the season. That's been a very familiar theme, not the first pitch thing, but the first HR of the year. Normally it's been to hitters at the bottom of the order who are hitting very poorly on the season.

[battlekow]

Arnett just gave up another HR, first pitch of the game, and the dude's first HR of the season. That's been a very familiar theme, not the first pitch thing, but the first HR of the year. Normally it's been to hitters at the bottom of the order who are hitting very poorly on the season.

In this case, however, Satterwhite was hitting .358/.394/.507, so it's really not so bad.

[battlekow]

New start time for the Stars is 6:15.

[TheCrew07]

Arnett just gave up his 3rd HR of the game and has been pulled. I've reached the point where I don't understand what's being gained by running him out there to have his confidence destroyed when he's clearly not right. I don't want to hear talking about pitching with conviction.... if in fact that is all he needs, he's certainly not finding it in WI. This is a bit of a knee jerk reaction I'm sure, but I'm officially off the Arnett bandwagon.

 

edit.. Arnett's 11 HRs are the most of any right handed starting pitcher in the entire system, Dave Bush is next with 10, and Bowman follows with 7. Of the LH starting pitchers Wolf has given up 15, Cody 13, Lofgren 11, Waters and Wright both have 10.

[sfl2hnq17]

TC07; you have rogers throwing a gem right now if you want a fellow first rounder to take your mind off it momentarily.

[battlekow]

Final: Dayton 10, Wisconsin 0

Dragons shut out Rattlers in game one

Chris Mehring/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

GRAND CHUTE, WI – Jacob Johnson and two Dayton Dragons relievers held the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers a pair of singles as the Dayton offense banged three home runs on the way to a 10-0 in game one of a doubleheader at Time Warner Cable Field.

 

Cameron Satterwhite started the game with a home run to left. The Dayton leadoff batter hit his first professional homer to give the Dragons a 1-0 lead.

 

In the top of the third inning, an error on a potential inning ending double play loaded the bases for Dayton (25-36). Chris Richburg made Wisconsin pay with a two-run double to make the score 3-0.

 

Frank Pfister made it 4-0 with a solo homer in the top of the fourth.

 

Three more errors and another home run let the Dragos score three more runs in the top of the sixth inning. Tommy Nurre reached on an error to start the inning. A walk to Pfister put runners on first and second with no outs. Alex Oliveras sent a grounder to first and the Rattlers got the force at second, but the return throw to first was wild. That allowed Nurre to score. An ill-advised throw to the plate to try to get Nurre was wild and into the Wisconsin dugout to let Oliveras take third base.

 

One out later Didi Gregorious lifted a fly ball to right that cleared the wall for a two-run homer and a 7-0 Dayton lead.

 

The Dragons added three more runs in the top of the seventh inning. The last three runs scored with two outs on back-to-back RBI hits by Pfister and Oliveras and a wild pitch.

 

Wisconsin (22-39) managed two hits in the game. A two out single by Michael Marseco in the bottom of the second and a two out single by Austin Stockfisch in the bottom of the fourth.

 

Wisconsin box score

If you're wondering who allowed all those runs, seven of them were charged to Eric Arnett, and you'll certainly excuse Mr. Mehring for not finding that particularly newsworthy as it's become frustratingly common. Arnett's final line: 5.2 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K. As you can tell by the four unearned runs, Arnett's defense didn't help him out, but allowing three home runs is unacceptable for a pitcher of Arnett's pedigree against this level of competition.

 

Wisconsin play-by-play

Here's a fun and representative sequence:

 

Dayton Top 6th

• Tommy Nurre reaches on fielding error
  by third baseman Kyle Dhanani.
• Frank Pfister walks. Tommy
  Nurre to 2nd.
• Alex Oliveras grounds into a force out, first
  baseman Chris Dennis to shortstop Michael Marseco. Tommy Nurre
  scores. Frank Pfister out at 2nd. Alex Oliveras advances to 3rd, on
  throwing error by shortstop Michael Marseco. Throwing error by pitcher
  Eric Arnett.
• Cameron Satterwhite grounds out, third baseman
  Kyle Dhanani to first baseman Chris Dennis.
• Didi Gregorius
  homers (3) on a fly ball to right field. Alex Oliveras scores.
• Pitcher
  Change: Efrain Nieves replaces Eric Arnett.
• Henry Rodriguez
  flies out to left fielder Khristopher Davis.

[battlekow]

Final: FSL South All-Stars 5, FSL North All-Stars 4 (10 innings)

FSL All-Star Game box score

The North squad was the good guys. No Brewers prospects made much noise. Sergio Miranda started at DH and went 0-2. Matt Cline pinch-hit and replaced Miranda as DH and went 0-2 with a walk. Erik Komatsu played the whole game in LF and was 1-4. Mike Fiers was tagged with a blown save (in the 5th inning!); he went one inning, allowing a solo homer and another hit and striking out one.

 

FSL All-Star Game play-by-play

[Mass Haas]

Still a bit of time to go, but this is looking like a near-historically crummy evening for the organization.

[TheCrew07]

No doubt.

[battlekow]

Final: Carolina 6, Huntsville 5 (11 innings)

Stars fall victim to the walk-off homer

Aaron Morse/Huntsville Stars

 

Devin Mesoraco took Jim Henderson deep in the bottom of the 11th as the Huntsville Stars (29-34) lost to the Carolina Mudcats (26-36) by a score of 6-5 Saturday night.

 

The Stars got off to a quick start thanks to back-to-back-to-back singles from Brett Lawrie, Lorenzo Cain, and Caleb Gindl in the top of the first. Mudcats’ starter Scott Carroll proceeded to plunk Zelous Wheeler and Lawrie scored to give Huntsville the 1-0 lead. Taylor Green hit into a double-play, scoring another run, but slowing down what had the potential to be a big inning; instead the Stars settled for the 2-0 edge.

 

The top of the order went back to work in the third. Lawrie started the inning with a double to left. Cain legged out an infield single to put runners the corners with nobody out. Gindl smacked a sacrifice fly and the Stars were up 3-0. A strike-out and a ground-out ended the inning with no further runs scoring.

 

Stars’ starter Mark Rogers was in complete control for the first four innings, but ran into trouble in the fifth. He struck-out the lead-off hitter. Unfortunately the ball got away from catcher Dayton Buller and the Mudcats had a man on with no outs. Dave Sappelt drilled a RBI triple to make the score 3-1. Rogers responded by getting his second K of the inning. He got the next batter to hit a routine grounder to Steffan Wilson at first; Wilson fired home in an attempt to get Sappelt at the plate. Sappelt bowled over Buller causing the ball to get jarred loose and the Mudcats pulled within one. Rogers struck-out Carroll for his third K of the inning, but only the second out. Kris Negron followed with a double that landed just out of the reach of a diving Lee Haydel to tie the game.

 

Huntsville responded right away as Green singled with one away in the sixth. Wilson doubled to put runners at second and third. At that point, Haydel grounded to shortstop. The throw to first was low and got away, allowing not only Green but Wilson to score as well.

 

With Huntsville up 5-3, the bullpen could not hold onto the lead. Robert Hinton allowed an inherited runner to score when he balked home Sappelt in the sixth.

 

Rogers’ final line on the evening was 5.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, and 7 K’s. He would take a no-decision as the Mudcats rallied to tie the score in the ninth.

 

With Eddie Morlan on in relief, Mesoraco lined a single to left. An infield single put runners at first and second with nobody down. Denis Phipps tried to bunt the runners over. His attempt was unsuccessful as Morlan threw Mesoraco out at third. It didn’t matter though as Jose Castro drilled a RBI single to tie the game at five. Morlan got out of the inning without any further damage, but the damage was done as Huntsville headed to their third extra innings game of the year.

 

Entering the game, Huntsville was 2-0 in extra frames, but after leaving two stranded in the top of the 11th, the Stars saw it come back to haunt them when Mesoraco crushed a Henderson offering over the left field wall.

 

Lawrie had a big day for the Stars as he went 3-5 with two runs scored. Cain and Gindl both tallied two hits apiece.

 

Jeremy Horst (2-2) picked up the win in relief while Henderson (2-1) suffered the loss.

 

The Stars are back in action Sunday afternoon as they take on the Mudcats at 1:00pm central time, with the pre-game show beginning on the Stars Radio Network at 12:45.

 

Huntsville box score

Really tough luck from Rogers in that three-run inning; I'm comfortable calling this a great outing from him regardless of the run total. He threw exactly 85 pitches, 63 for strikes, a good ratio for anyone and a phenomenal one coming from Rogers. One of Lawrie's hits was a double. It really seems like he's turning on the afterburners and is primed for a huge second half. Lefty Lucas Lester Luetge worked a perfect 8th in his first AA appearance.

 

Huntsville play-by-play

The Stars had a chance to take the lead in the top of the 11th:

 

Huntsville Top 11th

• Taylor
  Green grounds out, third baseman Jose Castro to first baseman Mike
  Costanzo.
• Dropped foul pop error by first baseman
  Mike Costanzo.
• Chuck Caufield flies out to left fielder Sean
  Henry.
• Lee Haydel reaches on fielding error by second baseman
  Jake Kahaulelio.
• Dayton Buller singles on a line drive to
  right fielder Denis Phipps. Lee Haydel to 3rd.
• Anderson
  Machado grounds out, third baseman Jose Castro to second baseman Jake
  Kahaulelio. Dayton Buller out at 2nd.

[battlekow]

Final: Omaha 1, Nashville 0

Sounds Lose To Royals, Fall Out Of First

Nashville Sounds

 

OMAHA, Neb. - The Nashville Sounds were shut out for the second straight night by the Omaha Royals, failing 1-0 on Saturday evening at Rosenblatt Stadium.

 

Gaby Hernandez (5-4) became the second Omaha starter in two nights to toss seven scoreless innings against the Sounds, duplicating Luis Mendoza's Friday effort. Hernandez allowed five hits and struck out three batters in his 99-pitch outing to secure his second win in two starts against Nashville this season.

 

Federico Castaneda followed with 1 2/3 hitless frames before Blaine Hardy was summoned to retire Mat Gamel on a game-ending flyout to secure the victory and earn his second save of the year.

 

Omaha pitchers retired 13 of the final 14 Nashville batters to close out the victory. Brendan Katin, who drew a one-out walk in the final frame from Castaneda, was the lone Sounds baserunner over that stretch.

 

Nashville (33-28) suffered its seventh loss in the last nine contests and was knocked out of first place for the first time all season when the cross-state rival Memphis Redbirds defeated Albuquerque to pull a game ahead in the American Conference Northern Division standings.

 

The back-to-back, nine-inning shutout defeats were the first suffered by the Sounds since they were blanked by New Orleans on July 12 and 13, 2008, at Greer Stadium.

 

It was a pitchers' duel early on as Hernandez and Sounds right-hander Mike McClendon kept the game knotted in a scoreless deadlock for the first 5 ½ innings before Omaha broke through in the bottom of the sixth.

 

Alex Gordon led off the Royals' sixth with a single to right off McClendon and later scored the game's only run on Scott Thorman's RBI single to right.

 

McClendon (2-2) took a tough-luck loss for Nashville despite throwing a quality start. The right-hander allowed one run on nine hits over six innings, his longest outing of the season.

 

The Sounds had runners in scoring position in the third, fourth, and fifth frames but were unable to push a run across.

 

Gamel went 2-for-4 on the evening to account for two of Nashville's five hits in the game.

 

The teams wrap up the series with a 1:35 p.m. CT matinee on Sunday afternoon. Left-hander Sam Narron (0-1, 4.50) makes his second start for the Sounds in the contest. Omaha will counter with right-hander Anthony Lerew (4-3, 3.14).

 

Nashville

box score

Ouch. Nice effort from McClendon regardless. One of Gamel's hits was a double. The other two hits were Katin's single and Adam Stern's double; Stern also walked.

 

Nashville play-by-play

The Sounds put a runner at second with two outs in each of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th innings but couldn't plate any of them.