Link Report for Fri. 6/18

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Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Tim Dillard at home vs. Oklahoma City (Rangers), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Amaury Rivas at home vs. Montgomery (Rays), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: TBD at Lakeland (Tigers), 6:00 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series...

 

Wisconsin: RHP Kyle Heckathorn at Kane County (Athletics), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

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

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Follow Friday'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

 

DSL Brewers

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As of this post time, MiLB.com had not updated any of their standings pages to include Wednesday's or Thursday's action, so we take a break from standings coverage for another day.

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PDF document:

 

Nashville Media Notes

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Check this link as the evening approaches -- media notes should be available then --

 

Rattler Radio

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Huntsville Media Notes

[TheCrew07]

Wisconsin vs Kane County is listed as canceled which would mean the game will not be made up.

[uwisfan]

good night for Rivas 8K in 5 innings, 2BBs

[TheCrew07]

Final: Brevard County 5, Lakeland (Tigers) 1

 

Brevard County Boxscore

Cody Scarpetta made progress today allowing a single earned run. He pitched 5 innings giving up 5 hits, and he walked and struck out 4 batters a piece. The walks are still way too high, but the rest is alright. Corey Frerichs was excellent in relief, allowing no hits, 2 walks, and 3 strike outs over the final 4 innings to pick up his first save. Serigio Miranda and Matt Cline have been as steady this season as hitters get. Neither offers any power, but Cline has as many walks as he does strike outs (23), Miranda doesn't walk much (13), but he doesn't strikeout much either(20). both players had 2 hits today to lead the offensive attack. Angel Salome and Eric Komatsu each doubled, and Brock Kjeldgaard homered again today... probably because he knows I'm doing the link report tonight and can never spell his name right! A clean defensive game, Cline was picked off of 1B though.

 

Brevard County Recap

Cline getting picked off cost BC a run in the 1st.

 

Brevard County Top 1st

• Josh Prince strikes out swinging.
• Matt Cline walks.
• With Erik Komatsu batting, Jon Kibler picks off Matt Cline at 1st on throw to Rawley Bishop.
• Erik Komatsu doubles (15) on a fly ball to center fielder Daniel Fields.
• Angel Salome doubles (2) on a fly ball to right fielder Kody Kaiser. Erik Komatsu scores.
• Sergio Miranda flies out to center fielder Daniel Fields.

The only run BC gave up in the game...

 

Lakeland Bottom 1st

• Gustavo Nunez flies out to center fielder Erik Komatsu.
• Brandon Douglas singles on a ground ball to center fielder Erik Komatsu.
• Kody Kaiser grounds out, second baseman Matt Cline to first baseman Sean Halton. Brandon Douglas to 2nd.
• Billy Nowlin singles on a ground ball to shortstop Josh Prince. Brandon Douglas scores.
• Daniel Fields singles on a fly ball to left fielder Brock Kjeldgaard. Billy Nowlin to 2nd.
• Rawley Bishop walks. Billy Nowlin to 3rd. Daniel Fields to 2nd.
• John Murrian strikes out swinging.

[TheCrew07]

Final: Huntsville 9, Montgomery (Rays) 6

 

Stars Win Second Straight

Connor Schreve

 

The Huntsville Stars (31-37) received a stellar pitching performance

from its ace and hung on despite a late Montgomery rally for a three

run win on Friday night 9-6. Friday night’s win evened the season

series between the two teams at 4-4.

 

Jeremy Hall (4-3 2.97)

turned in to his own worst enemy in the second inning, allowing

Huntsville to get on the score board first. A leadoff walk to Zelous

Wheeler was the beginning of his unraveling. One out later, a balk

allowed the Stars shortstop to advance in to scoring position. Chuckie

Caufield sent a line drive in to the outfield to pick up an RBI. After

advancing to second base on the throw, Caufield moved to third on a

passed ball charged to Biscuits catcher Craig Albernaz. Hall followed

with a miscue of his own, a wild pitch that scored Caufield. Dayton

Buller who witnessed both the passed ball and wild pitch from the

batters box followed with a walk to first but Hall did force a fly out

to end the inning.

 

In the next inning, Huntsville again

capitalized on the struggles of Hall. With Brett Lawrie on second and

two outs, Wheeler launched his sixth home run of the year, a monster

shot to left center field that Montgomery left fielder Leslie Anderson

didn’t even bother chasing. Steffan Wilson and Taylor Green both took

the worst of Hall’s problems; they were plunked with errant pitches in

back to back at bats to set the table for Caufield who tagged his

second home run in as many games to make it a seven run lead after

three innings.

 

Montgomery (38-28) center fielder Rashad Eldridge

led off the fourth with a single and did score but Amaury Rivas held

the Biscuits to just that one run in his five complete innings. Rivas

bounced back from a loss to Carolina in his last outing and struck out

eight over five innings Friday while allowing only four hits and

walking two. It is Rivas’ sixth with of the year, which ties Michael

Bowman for the team lead, and his first in nearly a month. Huntsville’s

ace pitched eight innings at home May 18 to lead the Stars to a one run

decision over the Tennessee Smokies.

 

Rivas’ Counterpart Jeremy

Hall entered the game with a miniscule 2.31 ERA but couldn’t find the

strike zone often enough. He walked four batters and hit two in his 2

2/3 innings. A passed ball, a balk and a dropped foul ball all

contributed to Hall’s troubles. Huntsville plated seven runs against

Hall, six of them earned, while only connecting for three hits. Hall

walked four and struck out one.

 

A hit batter and an error helped

add to a four run seventh inning for the Biscuits. Huntsville, leading

by seven runs at the end of the third inning, saw that lead shrink to

three heading in to the final inning having given up five runs in the

seventh and eighth combined.

 

Stars outfielder Chuck Caufield

matched the Stars high RBI mark for the season with six. He went 4-4

and scored two runs. Taylor Green set the season record on May 31st in

a game against Mobile at Joe Davis Stadium. Caufield is 6-13 over his

last three games and has 8 runs batted in over that period.

 

Game

four of the current series between the Visiting Biscuits and Stars

starts Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (CDT) at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville,

AL. Jake McGee (2-40 3.65) will toe the rubber for Montgomery. The

Stars will send Josh Butler (0-3 5.68) to the mound.

 

Huntsville Boxscore

Amaury Rivas did pitch well, though he struggled with his command a bit only going 5 complete on 95 pitches, of which only 59 were strikes. His final line was 5IP, 4H, 1ER, 2BB, and 8SO. The bullpen didn't fare as well, Jim Henderson, Casey Baron, and Donovan Hand all give up runs, though 3 of the runs were unearned. Casey is have a tough year so far. Chuck Caufield's awesome night was detailed above as were most of the other offensive exploits, but Lorenzo Cain had the only other multi hit game for the Stars, he was 3-5 on the evening. Defensively Brett Lawrie added his 13th error and Hand committed his first.

 

Huntsville Recap

The 5 run 3rd broke the game open.

 

Huntsville Bottom 3rd

• Brett Lawrie walks.
• With Lorenzo Cain batting, Brett Lawrie steals (13) 2nd base.
• Lorenzo Cain grounds out, third baseman Matthew Sweeney to first baseman Chris Nowak.
• Caleb Gindl flies out to center fielder Rashad Eldridge.
• Zelous Wheeler homers (6) on a fly ball to left center field. Brett Lawrie scores.
• Steffan Wilson hit by pitch.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• With Taylor Green batting, wild pitch by Jeremy Hall, Steffan Wilson to 2nd.
• Taylor Green hit by pitch.
• Chuck Caufield homers (3) on a fly ball to center field. Steffan Wilson scores. Taylor Green scores.
• Dayton Buller walks.
• Pitcher Change: Rayner Oliveros replaces Jeremy Hall.
• Lee Haydel walks. Dayton Buller to 2nd.
• Brett Lawrie strikes out swinging.

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Final: Nashville 10, Oklahoma City (Texas) 4

 

Sounds Take Down RedHawks In Series Opener

Nashville Sounds

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds defeated the Oklahoma City

RedHawks, 10-4, on Friday evening in front of 7,319 fans at historic

Greer Stadium in the opener of a four-game series.

Nashville batters legged out seven doubles, one shy of the

franchise single-game record, among their 13 hits on the evening and

had multiple-hit efforts from six players in the win, the third in the

row for the Sounds (36-31).

 

Third baseman Mat Gamel went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs

scored to extend the Sounds' longest active hit streak to seven games

(11-for-26, .423). Erick Almonte drove in a team-high three runs in the

game and Joe Koshansky contributed a pair of doubles and two RBIs.

 

Oklahoma City left fielder Mitch Moreland gave the visitors a

1-0 lead in the top of the second inning with a one-out solo homer to

dead center off Sounds starter Tim Dillard. The blast was the

outfielder's fifth of the year.

 

The Sounds evened the contest in the home half of the frame

when Brendan Katin and Koshansky led off the frame with back-to-back

doubles off RedHawks starter Tanner Scheppers.

 

Nashville continued to use the two-bagger as an offensive

weapon an inning later as it took a 3-1 lead in the third. Trent

Oeltjen drew a one-out walk from Scheppers and scored when Gamel

drilled an RBI double into the right field corner to push the Sounds

into the lead. Two batters later, Koshansky registered his second

run-scoring double of the night to plate Gamel.

 

Dillard took a no-decision in his first start of the year for the

Sounds. He held the RedHawks to one run on two hits while striking out

five batters in five innings. He left the contest holding a 3-1 lead.

 

Todd Coffey worked a clean inning in his first rehab appearance

for Nashville, retiring the side in the order in the sixth. The Brewers

right-hander recorded one strikeout and a pair of groundouts in his

13-pitch outing.

 

Mitch Stetter took over on the Nashville hill in the seventh

and suffered a blown save when Oklahoma City designated hitter Chad

Tracy slugged a three-run homer to left-center off the southpaw to push

the visitors in front, 4-3. Former Sound Nelson Cruz (walk) and Chris

Davis (single) also scored on Tracy's team-leading 11th roundtripper of

the year.

 

The Sounds rallied in the bottom of the seventh to take back a

6-4 lead against the Oklahoma City bullpen. Trent Oeltjen doubled to

open the frame, his fifth consecutive game with an extra-base knock,

and scored the tying run on a Gamel single.

 

Later in the inning, Nashville team RBI leader Luis Cruz

greeted new RedHawks reliever Warner Madrigal with a two-run single up

the middle to put the home team up by two and up his RBI total to 34 on

the year.

 

Nashville wrapped up the night's scoring in the eighth with a

four-run inning against Madrigal that was highlighted by Almonte's

two-out, three-run double to center.

 

Oklahoma City loaded the bases in the top of the ninth with one

out, but Luis Cruz made an athletic double play for the Sounds on a

line drive to short to double Moreland off second and bring an end to

the contest.

 

Stetter (2-1) backed into the victory as the beneficiary of the

late Sounds rally after allowing three runs in his lone inning of work.

 

Phillips (1-1) suffered his first loss for Oklahoma City after

being charged with three runs on three hits in just one-third of an

inning of action.

 

The teams continue the series with a 6:35 p.m. meeting on

Saturday night at Greer. Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Doug Davis is

scheduled to join the Sounds to make a rehab start in the contest. He

has been on the Brewers' disabled list since May 16 due to pericarditis

(inflammation of lining around heart). Oklahoma City will counter with

right-hander Brandon McCarthy (2-0, 2.35).

Nashville Boxscore

I was certainly wrong about the outcome of this pitching match up in yesterday's link report. Tim Dillard pitched a very effective 5 innings allowing only 2H, 1R, 1BB, and 5SO. As noted above Tod Coffey pitched well with a 1, 2, 3 inning included a K. Mitch Stetter's ERA climbed to 4.82 on the season. Brian Bruney and Jeff Bennett also saw action in today's game. I need to get a soap box here, I have a very difficult understanding how people think Mat Gamel's prospect status has diminished. So he stunk at pinch hitting, so he stunk as a DH, that should have never been his role in the first place. I don't know where he'll play defensively, but the young man can hit, that much I know. The Sounds' hitters did a fantastic job getting to Scheppers and knocking him out of the game early. The top 6 hitters in the order all had doubles, and everyone but Olmedo, Stern, and Maldonado had 2 hits. Just a dominating offensive performance all the way around.

Nashville Recap

Interesting way to end the game.

 

Okla. City Top 9th

• Nelson Cruz singles on a line drive to right fielder Brendan Katin.
• Chris Davis strikes out swinging.
• Mitch Moreland walks. Nelson Cruz to 2nd.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• Chad Tracy singles on a line drive to left fielder Adam Stern. Nelson Cruz to 3rd. Mitch Moreland to 2nd.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• Pitcher Change: Jeff Bennett replaces Brian Bruney.
• Hernan Iribarren lines into unassisted double play, shortstop Luis Cruz. Mitch Moreland doubled off 2nd.

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Final: DSL Athletics 3, DSL Brewers 1

 

DSL Brewers Box Score

23-year-old RHP Rigoberto Almonte allowed one inherited runner to score upon coming in during the 3rd inning, but otherwise was big through the final 5.2 innings (no runs, three hits, no walks); you may remember that Almonte was a surprise choice to begin 2009 with Brevard County, so his performances here against kids four and five years younger mean little statistically; if he was particularly uncomfortable dealing with American culture, spending time in the DSL isn't going to address that, perhaps he has a situation at home in the D.R. that needs attention, and the Brewers are helping him accommodate that -- regardless, it's a mystery as to why he's on the island; in his second appearance and first in 16 days, RHP Joel Dicent did his best to limit the damage of three early Brewer errors and his own wildness (three walks, four wild pitches -- ouch); the Crew defense improved behind Almonte, but the offense was ineffective despite having men on base (four hits, including an Hitaniel Arias double, three walks, two HBP's)...

 

DSL Brewers Game Log

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Lakeland's Bats Stay Cold in Loss

By DAVID YATES, Lakeland Ledger Correspondent

 

LAKELAND | Lakeland's untimely hitting slump continued Friday as the Flying Tigers dropped a 5-1 Florida State League decision to Brevard County at Joker Marchant Stadium.

 

Although Lakeland started play Thursday tied with the Bradenton Marauders with the league's highest team batting average (.265), the Flying Tigers are hitting only .190 over their last seven games, and have lost six of those games to drop out of the North Division first-half pennant race.

 

Brevard County right-hander Cody Scarpetta took the Marchant mound Friday with a 2-7 record and 5.03 ERA but allowed Lakeland only five hits and one run in five innings to pick up his first win since April 28th. Reliever Corey Frerichs earned his first save with four hitless innings out of the Manatee bullpen

 

Scarpetta walked four, and Frerichs walked two more, but the Flying Tigers were not able to move any of those walks around the bases, leaving 10 men on. Brandon Douglas, Billy Nowlin, and Daniel Fields all singled in the first inning to provide Lakeland's lone run.

 

Erik Komatsu and Angel Salome hit consecutive first-inning doubles to provide the Manatees with their first run, and Canadian first baseman Brock Kjeldgaard put the visitors up for good with a long two-run homer to the top of the left-field berm in the second inning.

 

Although Lakeland's bats have fallen silent, the team's gloves continue to sparkle as both Daniel Fields (center) and Ben Guez (left) made running catches in the outfield. The infield also turned three double plays.

 

Lakeland (35-31) and Brevard County (25-40) will meet again 6:00 PM today (5:00 Central) in the finale of the four-game series.

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From Chris Mehring --

POWER OUTAGE KNOCKS OUT RATTLERS & COUGARS

 

GENEVA, IL - Friday's game between the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Kane County Cougars at Elfstrom Stadium has been cancelled. There was a severe storm that rolled through the area at 3:30 PM. Power was knocked out around 3:45 PM and was not restored before the game was called.

 

The game will not be made up since neither team is in the first half playoff hunt in the Western Division of the Midwest League. Wisconsin and Kane County will play a single game on Saturday night at 6:00 PM. Kyle Heckathorn (4-4, 2.58) is scheduled to start for the Rattlers. The Cougars have Dan Straily (5-3, 4.76) as their scheduled starting pitcher.

 

Fans may tune in for the broadcast on AM 1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame show at 5:40 PM.

 

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A bit odd that there wouldn't be a doubleheader today, unless the teams agreed to play a single. Playoff race or not, you usually see cancellations only when the teams don't meet again in the first half.

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No power, no game for Cougars

By JAY SCHWAB, Kane County Chronicle

 

GENEVA – The Cougars had a nice crowd on Friday night, and suspense was thick in the air.

 

Unfortunately, that suspense had nothing to do with watching a great ballgame, but rather whether the game itself would be played. Fans milled about outside Elfstrom Stadium waiting to learn whether power could be restored following a heavy afternoon storm, but after waiting a half hour past the scheduled 7;00 PM first pitch, the answer was no.

 

The rest of the weekend series against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers is scheduled to proceed as normal, with games at 6:00 PM today and 1:00 PM Sunday. Friday’s game will not be made up, according to Cougars general manager Jeff Sedivy. The game has no bearing on the playoff race with only two days remaining in the first half of the Midwest League season.

 

Strangely enough, Sedivy said Father’s Day weekend has brought some kind of power headache four years in a row but “we’ve always been able to pull a rabbit out of the hat.” Not this year. Heavy winds triggered the outage, Sedivy said.

 

“[Commonwealth Edison], they rate storms by color, and most severe is black,” Sedivy said. “This was rated black. It brought 80 mph winds in some cases.”

 

Sedivy said this year’s trouble might prompt follow-up discussions with ComEd.

 

“There’s got to be something we can do to help prevent this,” Sedivy said.

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Erick Almonte's bases-clearing three-run double for Nashville is captured in the "Related Content" audio link here

[twobrewers]

I need to get a soap box here, I have a very difficult understanding how people think Mat Gamel's prospect status has diminished.

Last year, in the minors, he struck out every 3 at bats. So far in Nashville he is striking out every 5 at bats. (small sample)

 

That is a huge difference. That said, I'm really glad he is in Nashville getting a chance to play every day. As dreadful as Milwaukee has been, I just don't see any place Mat could help this year. His star is definitely starting to shine a little brighter again...

[jwill535]

I would also say the reports of him not really willing to put the extra work in to improve his fielding last year soured some people. This was one of the reasons given that he didnt play at much as people would have liked last year.

[TheCrew07]

I would also say the reports of him not really willing to put the extra work in to improve his fielding last year soured some people. This was one of the reasons given that he didnt play at much as people would have liked last year.

Where was that reported? Everything I read from Nashville and Milwaukee said that he putting in extra work daily on his fielding. I think I maybe remember something about extra batting practice, but I remember him working very hard on his fielding.

[dadofandrew]

He was always said to put in extra work, but lots of his errors were on routine plays, which make him look young or lazy. He's far from a wily vet, but he's not all that young anymore. He can't even blame cultural issues like a Latino player might have.

 

Right now, Gamel is probably either the 1B or RF in '11, as it is very unlikely Hart and Fielder return in their walk years or are both extended. Until something changes, there are a lot of guys who wish they had that easy of a journey to the bigs.

[Never Outhustled]

I just don't see any place Mat could help this year. His star is definitely starting to shine a little brighter again...

 

How about at his position, 3B? McGehee is really overrated, and is crashing back to Earth fast.