Link Report for Mon. 6/14 -- Culture of Winning? Affiliates Swept Away for a Third Straight Day

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Monday's Daily Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Chris Waters at home vs. Memphis (Cardinals), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Josh Butler at Carolina (Reds), 10:45 AM pre-game; 11:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: TBD at Clearwater (Phillies), 6:00 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series...

 

Wisconsin: Idle

 

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

[Mass Haas]

Follow Monday'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

 

DSL Brewers

[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 34 28 .548 - 17-11 17-17 L1 
Omaha 33 28 .541 0.5 19-19 14-9 W3 
Nashville 33 29 .532 1.0 14-12 19-17 L3 
Iowa 32 30 .516 2.0 14-15 18-15 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 38 25 .603 - 17-17 21-8 W1 
West Tenn 36 26 .581 1.5 13-16 23-10 L1 
Chattanooga 29 33 .468 8.5 16-17 13-16 W3 
Huntsville 29 35 .453 9.5 11-19 18-16 L2 
Carolina 27 36 .429 11.0 13-16 14-20 W2 
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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

[Mass Haas]

MID Western (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Cedar Rapids	41	21	.661	-	23-4	18-17	7-3	W5
	Quad Cities	38	25	.603	3.5	22-9	16-16	7-3	W4
	Clinton	35	28	.556	6.5	20-13	15-15	5-5	L2
	Peoria	34	29	.540	7.5	21-10	13-19	5-5	L1
	Beloit	32	31	.508	9.5	17-15	15-16	6-4	L1
	Kane County	30	34	.469	12.0	18-14	12-20	7-3	W2
	Wisconsin	22	41	.349	19.5	13-22	9-19	3-7	L4
	Burlington	20	43	.317	21.5	9-22	11-21	1-9	L6

[Mass Haas]

DSL S.D. North (click column headers to sort)
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	DSL Athletics	8	5	.615	-	4-2	4-3	7-3	L1
	DSL Cardinals	7	5	.583	0.5	5-1	2-4	5-5	W1
	DSL Brewers	5	6	.455	2.0	3-2	2-4	4-6	L1
	DSL Mariners	4	8	.333	3.5	3-4	1-4	4-6	W1

[Mass Haas]

PDF document:

 

Huntsville Media Notes

[Mass Haas]

Kudos to the MiLB.com "reporter" providing the game log today on his descriptiveness -- in Josh Butler's rough four-run first inning, he allowed a "soft" line drive, a "sharp" line drive, and a plain old line drive. Unfortunately, there was a three-run fly ball home run in the mix as well.

 

Stars trail 4-2 in the 8th as Butler settled down and made it through five innings.

[brewmann04]

Not a great outing again by Butler 5 Ings and 4 ER not what we need at this point, a littlte luster has come off Butler.

[battlekow]

Final: Carolina 6, Huntsville 3

Huntsville box score

Josh Butler's final line: 5 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 4 K. Butler was hit hard in the first inning, allowing three of the first four batters of the game to score on a three-run homer and then several line-drive singles to score another run, but pitched much better thereafter, allowing only two more baserunners. Caleb Gindl knocked his sixth homer of the year, and Taylor Green was 2-4 with a double. Brett Lawrie was 1-5. Lorenzo Cain didn't start but pinch-hit in the 9th and grounded out.

 

Huntsville play-by-play

This sounds like an interesting play:

• Chuck
  Caufield doubles (3) on a sharp line drive to left fielder Sean Henry.
  Taylor Green scores. Chuck Caufield out at home, pitcher Ruben
  Medina to catcher Devin Mesoraco.

That was in the 8th, and Green's run brought the Stars to within one at 4-3, but then this happened:

 

Carolina Bottom 8th

• Sean Henry singles on a line drive
  to left fielder Chuck Caufield.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• With
  Mike Costanzo batting, Sean Henry steals (8) 2nd base.
• Mike
  Costanzo strikes out swinging.
• Pitcher
  Change: Nick Green replaces Lucas Luetge, batting 8th.
• Jake
  Kahaulelio strikes out swinging.
• Devin Mesoraco homers (4) on a
  fly ball to left field. Sean Henry scores.
• Denis Phipps
  flies out to right fielder Caleb Gindl.

[Mass Haas]

This sounds like an interesting play:

• Chuck Caufield doubles (3) on a sharp line drive to left fielder Sean Henry. Taylor Green scores. Chuck Caufield out at home, pitcher Ruben Medina to catcher Devin Mesoraco.

I was listening to the game, and maybe the guys will get the audio up later. I guess by official scoring, it went Green scores from first, Caufield moved to third on the throw. Then, when the Mudcats fumbled the throw a bit, Chuckie saw an opportunity to score and was thrown out despite a head-first slide into home plate -- it wasn't a traditional play at the plate with someone blocking it at that point. Caufield jumped up and immediately disputed the call to no avail, probably out of exhausted frustration. Chad praised Caufield's effort on the play, and given that there were two outs and it was so close, hard to say otherwise. Because the play ended in an out, no error on an advanced base.

 

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Catcher Dayton Buller entered the game on a double-switch fairly late, so we didn't have the Butler-to-Buller battery in this one.

[Mass Haas]

PDF document:

 

Nashville Media Notes

 

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From Sunday's game, the only run scored by the Sounds in the final three games of the Omaha series:

 

Ray Olmedo led off the Sounds' eighth with a single to left field. When Trent Oeltjen followed with a sacrifice bunt attempt, Lerew's throw to first base sailed past the bag to allow Olmedo to come all the way around to plate the first Nashville run of the afternoon and make it a 2-1 contest.

 

Play is available in the audio section at this link.

 

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The Sounds have seven-inning doubleheaders against Memphis on both Tuesday and Thursday this week (six-game series). Fun, fun, fun...

[battlekow]

Final: DSL Mariners 5, DSL Brewers 3

 

DSL Brewers box score

Big Hitaniel Arias had a perfect day, 3-3 with a walk. Jose R. Garcia and Andres Martinez were both 0-4, while Jose Pena was 0-3 with a walk. Eliezer Montano had a rough start: 5 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K, 1 HR.

 

DSL Brewers play-by-play

[Mass Haas]

Brevard's Logan Schafer grounded into a double play in the top of the 5th and then was removed from the game.

 

Coming off the groin tear, that's worth a bit of worry.

[battlekow]

Final: Clearwater 3, Brevard County 2

Brevard County box score

Evan Anundsen made his first appearance of the year and went three innings, allowing two runs on four hits and no walks, striking out one. His sinker was still working, as he got six ground outs against two air outs. R.J. Seidel relieved and tossed the next three innings, allowing naught but a hit while whiffing three. Next it was Mike Ramlow's turn; despite four of the five outs he recorded coming via strikeout, he surrendered a run on two hits and two walks. That would turn out to be a key run, because Sean Halton clubbed his fifth homer of the year, a two-run shot, in the 9th, but that was all the Manatees could manage. Trey Watten, perhaps because he'd only thrown two innings ince June 3rd, recorded the final out for BC. Halton added a single to go with his blast, and Erik Komatsu also had two singles. Josh Prince was 1-2 with a walk, a sac bunt, and his 18th steal of the year. Sergio Miranda double and walked, Logan Schafer was 1-3 before being removed, as MH detailed above, and Angel Salome--DHing--was 0-4.

 

Brevard County play-by-play

Matt Cline took a risk to try to get into scoring position in the 9th, but it didn't exactly work:

 

Brevard County Top 9th

• Sergio Miranda walks.
• Sean
  Halton homers (5) on a fly ball to center field. Sergio Miranda
  scores.
• Shawn Zarraga called out on strikes.
• Brock
  Kjeldgaard flies out to left fielder Derrick Mitchell.
• Matt
  Cline singles on a line drive to left fielder Derrick Mitchell. Matt
  Cline out at 2nd, left fielder Derrick Mitchell to second baseman Korby
  Mintken.

[pogokat]

wasn't shawn zarraga supposed to be a power hitter?

[battlekow]

Final: Memphis 7, Nashville 5

 

Sounds drop homestand opener to Redbirds

Nashville Sounds

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds suffered their fourth consecutive loss on Monday evening at historic Greer Stadium, falling 7-5 to the division-leading Memphis Redbirds in the opener of a six-game series.

 

Nashville (33-30), which is mired in its longest skid of the season, has lost nine of its last 11 games.

 

Outfielder Brendan Katin, playing in just his second home game of the year, spotted the Sounds a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning when he belted his team-leading seventh homer of the year, a solo shot to left off Redbirds starter Ryan Kulik. Katin suffered a knee injury in Nashville's home opener on April 16 and missed seven weeks before returning to action during the club's recent road trip.

 

Trent Oeltjen doubled the Nashville advantage to 2-0 in the fourth when he led off the frame with a solo homer to center off Kulik, the outfielder's fourth longball of the year.

 

Starter Chris Waters allowed two hits over five scoreless innings for the Sounds, exiting after throwing 73 pitches. He took a no-decision, however, as Memphis quickly rallied against the Nashville bullpen.

 

Memphis sent 11 batters to the plate in the top of the sixth, plating seven runs against a pair of Nashville relievers to grab a 7-2 lead.

 

The first three batters to face Sounds right-hander Tim Dillard recorded singles. The third of those hits, off the bat of Joe Mather, plated Tyler Greene to halve the Sounds' lead to 2-1. After a walk and a strikeout for the first out of the inning, Dillard issued a bases-loaded walk to Rapoport, forcing home Allen Craig with the tying run.

 

Right-hander David Johnson was summoned from the Nashville bullpen and inherited a bases-loaded jam from Dillard. He struck out pinch-hitter Bryan Anderson before issuing a four-pitch walk to pinch-hitter Kevin Howard to plate Mather and give Memphis a 3-2 lead. Jon Jay followed with a bases-clearing, three-run double into the right field corner to increase the Redbirds' cushion to 6-2. Greene added an RBI single to wrap up the inning's scoring.

 

Nashville pulled back within a pair of runs at 7-5 in the bottom of the sixth with three runs against Redbirds reliever Andrew Brown. Norris Hopper (4-for-4) ripped a two-run double into the right field corner then later scored on a Ray Olmedo groundout.

 

The Sounds could get no closer over the final three frames against the Memphis bullpen. They put two runners on for Katin in the eighth, but he was retired by Rich Hill on an inning-ending groundout to squelch the threat.

 

Kulik (1-1) picked up his first win of the year for the Redbirds, allowing two runs on the two homers while striking out six batters in his five frames of work.

 

Dillard (1-3) absorbed the loss for Nashville after being tagged for five runs in just one-third of an inning.

 

The teams continue the series with a 6:05 p.m. doubleheader on Tuesday evening. Left-hander Chuck Lofgren (6-4, 4.58) will toe the rubber for the Sounds in the first seven-inning contest to face Memphis right-hander Brandon Dickson (7-3, 3.16). Newly-signed right-hander Marty McLeary (0-5, 12.21 in 9G with Las Vegas) will start the nightcap for Nashville against Redbirds right-hander Oneli Perez (2-2, 4.74).

 

Nashville box score

Hmm, apparently we've signed someone named Marty McLeary. Mat Gamel was 1-3 with a walk. Brandon Kintzler tossed a perfect inning with a strikeout.

 

Nashville play-by-play

[BrewCrew Fan]

Shawn is a great hitter, the problem is have you seen how many bases they steal off of him when he catch's. Not good. He started switch hitting this off season so most of his AB's are now coming from the left side of the plate (at least they were in the spring training) which I would assume is not his power side given that he is a natural righty. Shawn was probably going to be at Helena this year to work on his defense and be an every day catcher but they needed a backup catcher in Brevard so they moved him up and he was raking at the plate when he got the opportunity to DH so they left him there. Now he has been forced into playing catcher on a more regular basis and his average is dropping and the stolen bases are climbing. They had toyed with moving him to first base last year but obviously they feel that they don't need him as a first baseman because they've even moved Brock off of first base into the outfield. Sometimes you really gotta wonder what the heck Reid is doing with these guys out there.

 

On a side note. I sure hope that Logan is OK. Great kid and a great player. If he's OK they should just move him up to Huntsville and Cain up to Nashville. They have both earned it.

[brewmann04]

wow i guess they are going to Make Jones a reliever full time now that they signed thisd stud to pitch game two today.

[DHonks]

gene, it appears that way. Still, while Jones' peripherals aren't doing great, at least he's been effective this year.

[Never Outhustled]

Did Zarraga get his butt back in shape this year. Last year he was grossly over-weight. Pretty sad for an athlete his age.

[brewmann04]

Yes doug guess i have to be happy that he been both effective and healthy.