Link Report for Tue. 6/22 -- Helena Walks Off (Again)

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Tuesday's Daily Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Chase Wright at Memphis (Cardinals), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Michael Bowman at Jacksonville (Marlins), 5:50 PM pre-game; 6:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Wily Peralta at home vs. Clearwater (Phillies), 6:05 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this game...

 

Wisconsin: Idle -- Complete All-Star game coverage for tonight's game is located here; recap at that link later as well

Helena: RHP Hiram Burgos at home vs. Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at home vs. the Indians' papooses; games begin at 7:00 local time in the desert; never audio for games in this league

 

DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Athletics, 9:30 AM

[Mass Haas]

Follow Tuesday'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

 

Helena

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale)

 

DSL Brewers

[Mass Haas]

PCL American North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Omaha	38	31	.551	-	-	19-19	19-12	7-3	W1
	Nashville	38	32	.543	0.5	75	19-15	19-17	5-5	W1
	Iowa	38	33	.535	1.0	74	20-18	18-15	7-3	L2
	Memphis	37	33	.529	1.5	74	18-14	19-19	4-6	L2

SOU North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Carolina	0	0	-	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0
	Chattanooga	0	0	-	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0
	Huntsville	0	0	-	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0
*	Tennessee	0	0	-	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0
	West Tenn	0	0	-	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0

FSL North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Dunedin	39	28	.582	-	E	16-16	23-12	5-5	L2
	Tampa	35	30	.538	3.0	E	18-16	17-14	5-5	L2
	Clearwater	36	32	.529	3.5	E	20-15	16-17	6-4	W3
	Lakeland	35	32	.522	4.0	E	18-16	17-16	3-7	L2
	Daytona	33	34	.493	6.0	E	15-21	18-13	7-3	W2
	Brevard County	26	41	.388	13.0	E	14-20	12-21	4-6	L1

MID Western
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
*	Cedar Rapids	43	25	.632	-	-	25-8	18-17	6-4	W2
	Quad Cities	40	29	.580	3.5	-	23-11	17-18	6-4	L1
	Peoria	38	31	.551	5.5	E	23-11	15-20	6-4	W1
	Beloit	37	32	.536	6.5	E	19-16	18-16	8-2	W2
	Clinton	37	32	.536	6.5	E	21-15	16-17	4-6	L2
	Kane County	32	37	.464	11.5	E	18-16	14-21	5-5	L2
	Wisconsin	26	42	.382	17.0	E	13-22	13-20	5-5	W2
	Burlington	22	47	.319	21.5	E	10-24	12-23	2-8	L2

PIO North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Billings	1	0	1.000	-	-	1-0	0-0	1-0	W1
	Helena	1	0	1.000	-	-	1-0	0-0	1-0	W1
	Great Falls	0	1	.000	1.0	37	0-0	0-1	0-1	L1
	Missoula	0	1	.000	1.0	37	0-0	0-1	0-1	L1

AZL Central
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	AZL Brewers	1	0	1.000	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0	W1
	AZL Reds	1	0	1.000	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0	W1
	AZL Dodgers	0	1	.000	1.0	55	0-0	0-0	0-0	L1
	AZL Indians	0	1	.000	1.0	55	0-0	0-0	0-0	L1

DSL S.D. North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	DSL Cardinals	13	7	.650	-	-	10-1	3-6	7-3	W1
	DSL Mariners	10	9	.526	2.5	51	7-4	3-5	8-2	W2
	DSL Athletics	9	11	.450	4.0	49	5-4	4-7	2-8	L2
	DSL Brewers	7	12	.368	5.5	48	5-3	2-9	3-7	L1

[Mass Haas]

Huntsville Media NotesStars begin the 2nd half schedule...

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Media Notes

Chris Smith, as anticipated, expected to accept his outright assignment...

[trwi7]

Merklinger got the start instead of Peralta and allows 5 unearned runs in the 1st thanks to a Braun error.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville diehards, family and friends can catch all of the series in Memphis via a subscription to MiLB.TV.

[homer]

Lawrie 2 for 2 with a double and triple so far. I think he's now top five in the Southern League in slugging. Not too shabby for a 20 year old.

[YoungGeezy]

Lawrie 2 for 2 with a double and triple so far. I think he's now top five in the Southern League in slugging. Not too shabby for a 20 year old.

The even better stat in the line is the 2 BB's!

 

[Kevbo74]

Lorenzo with 3 more hits, triple, 4 ribbies.. and Doug Melvin, being interviewed during the brewer game, nonchalantly brings him up and says he's close to deserving a promotion to AAA with about 500 ab's already in AA.

 

Just Do It!

 

*Melvin gave a shoutout to Heckathorn too. Nice to hear.

[Never Outhustled]

Melvin also stated that Lawrie was playing well defensively, though Doug does have very low expectations for defense.

[BoKnowsBall]

Brooks Hall debut tonight in Arizona but not getting help from the defense.

[TheCrew07]

Woo Mass Hass and Brewerfan.net just got a shout out from Steve Wendt on the Helena broadcast.

[TheCrew07]

Fianl: Clearwater (Pilly) 10, Brevard County 1

 

Brevard County Boxscore

Well not much to like here. Dan Merklinger just couldn't stop the bleeding in the first and then got smacked around in the 2nd. He went 1.1 IP, allowing 8 runs, 3 earned, while walking and striking out 1. Daniel Meadows, a relief favorite of mine, unfortunately continues his recent trend giving up 2 runs over 3.2 innings while striking out 3. Meadows has now been scored upon in his last 4 outings in a row. Trey Watten worked around 2 walks during 3 scoreless and Ruben Flores pitched a scoreless final frame. At least the offense doubled last night's hit performance with 4 hits, Shawn Zarraga had 2 hits including a double.

 

Brevard County Recap

All you need to know below.

 

Clearwater Top 1st

• Anthony Gose reaches on fielding error by second baseman Steve Braun.
• Harold Garcia flies out to right fielder Scott Krieger.
• Derrick Mitchell walks. Anthony Gose to 2nd.
• Darin
  Ruf singles on a ground ball to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Anthony Gose
  scores. Derrick Mitchell to 3rd. Darin Ruf to 2nd on the throw.
• Steve Susdorf strikes out swinging, catcher Shawn Zarraga to first baseman Sean Halton.
• Tim Kennelly singles on a ground ball to pitcher Dan Merklinger. Derrick Mitchell scores. Darin Ruf to 3rd.
• D'Arby Myers singles on a line drive to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Darin Ruf scores. Tim Kennelly to 2nd.
• Keoni De Renne doubles (1) on a line drive to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Tim Kennelly scores. D'Arby Myers scores.
• Troy Hanzawa flies out to center fielder Erik Komatsu.

Clearwater Top 2nd

• Anthony Gose singles on a ground ball to left fielder Juan Sanchez.
• Harold Garcia singles on a ground ball to center fielder Erik Komatsu. Anthony Gose to 3rd.
• Derrick Mitchell doubles (12) on a line drive to left fielder Juan Sanchez. Anthony Gose scores. Harold Garcia to 3rd.
• Darin
  Ruf grounds out, shortstop Josh Prince to first baseman Sean Halton.
  Harold Garcia scores. Derrick Mitchell to 3rd.
• Steve Susdorf singles on a ground ball to center fielder Erik Komatsu. Derrick Mitchell scores.
• Pitcher Change: Daniel Meadows replaces Dan Merklinger.
• With Tim Kennelly batting, wild pitch by Daniel Meadows, Steve Susdorf to 2nd.
• Tim Kennelly strikes out swinging, catcher Shawn Zarraga to first baseman Sean Halton.
• D'Arby Myers called out on strikes.

[TheCrew07]

Final: Huntsville 7, Jacksonville (Florida) 6

 

Stars Start Second Half Splendidly

By Aaron Morse

 

Lorenzo Cain drove in four runs, Caleb Gindl drove in three, and the

Huntsville Stars (1-0) survived five errors to start the second half of

the season on the right foot as they beat the Jacksonville Suns (0-1)

by a score of 7-6 Tuesday night.

 

Huntsville got on the board

right away as Brett Lawrie continued his hot hitting with a double to

right with nobody out in the first. After a Lorenzo Cain single put

runners at the corners, Caleb Gindl hit the ball deep enough to the

outfield that Lawrie was able to score.

 

But Jacksonville took

advantage of some shaky control from Stars’ starter Michael Bowman in

the bottom half of the frame. With one away, Osvaldo Martinez drew a

walk. Bowman proceeded to hit the next batter with a pitch. However he

managed to get Lee Mitchell to fly to left for the second out of the

inning. Bowman’s control let him down again though; this time on a

throw to first. Mark Saccomanno hit a grounder back to the mound that

Bowman threw wide to first, allowing a run to score to tie the game.

 

The

Stars gave Bowman some more offense in the top of the second. With one

away the red hot Dayton Buller extended his hitting streak to eight

games with a double to left. After Bowman bunted him to third, Brett

Lawrie drew a walk. That’s when Cain delivered the big blow, a triple

to deep center field Gindl singled him home and the Stars grabbed the

4-1 advantage.

 

Poor defense allowed the Suns to get one back in

the bottom of the second. With one out Tim Torres singled to left.

Suns’ starter Elih Villanueva attempted to bunt the runner over and

managed to reach when Dayton Buller couldn’t handle the ball. A wild

pitch combined with a throwing error by Buller allowed Torres to cross

the plate to make the score 4-2.

 

Neither team would score again until the bottom of the fourth when Vinny Rottino took Bowman deep to cut the Stars’ lead to 4-3.

 

Cain

and the Stars had the answer in the top of the fifth. With one away,

Lee Haydel singled and Buller drew a walk. Bowman bunted the runners

over at which point Villanueva (6-4) was removed from the game. The

righty went 4.2 innings, surrendering six runs on nine hits while

walking four and striking out one.

 

New pitcher Kyle Gunderson

immediately walked Brett Lawrie to load the bases. Cain came through

with a two-run single and the Stars extended their lead to 6-3.

 

Gindl continued his big day with a solo shot in the sixth off Gunderson as the Stars had a seemingly comfortable 7-3 edge.

 

Bowman

(7-5) tossed five innings, giving up three runs, only one of which was

earned, on three hits. He walked two and struck-out five in the winning

effort.

 

Reliever Eddie Morlan gave up a one-out double to

Rottino in the sixth. Rottino stole third and scored on a wild pitch to

cut the lead to 7-4.

 

They made things really interesting in the

seventh. Morlan surrendered a single and walk to start the inning. That

prompted manager Mike Guerrero to call on Donovan Hand to get out of

the inning. He got off to a good start when Lee Mitchell hit into a

double play. Unfortunately, yet another Stars error allowed Saccomanno

to reach second base and a run to score. Matt Dominguez drove him home

and the Stars only had a 7-6 edge.

 

Jim Henderson tossed a

scoreless ninth to earn his second save of the year as the Stars

survived the Suns’ repeated attempts at a rally. Despite five errors,

Huntsville hung on to win their fifth in a row.

 

The Stars

attempt to take game two of the series Wednesday afternoon. First pitch

is at 12:05pm and can be heard only on www.huntsvillestars.com.

Huntsville Boxscore

*written prior to Aaron's blog post being available* Well my boy Michael Bowman pitched better tonight, going 5 innings, giving up 3 runs, 1 earned, while walking 2 and striking out 5. Eddie Morlan had a tough inning allowing 2 runs on 2 hits, 2 walks, and 2 strike outs. Donovan Hand also gave up an unearned run in his 2 innings of work, on only 1 hit. Jim Henderson closed out the game for his 2nd save. Brett Lawrie continues to push his OPS up as Homer noted above going 2 for 3 with 2 BBs, a 2B, and a 3B. Lorenzo Cain does not belong in AA ball, Melvin might think he's "close" to a promotion, I think I'm close smacking someone upside the head. Lo was 3-5 with a triple and 4 RBI in this contest. Caleb Gindl added 2 hits including a HR, Lee Haydel notched 2 hits of his own, and Dayton Buller doubled and tripled! Not bad at all for a catcher... Buller has an .833 OPS so far in Huntsville. Ex Brewer farmhand Vinny Rottino homered and doubled against his old club. Thankfully the offense picked up the pitching and defense because the Stars committed 5 errors in the game; Bowman 1 (throwing), Buller 2 (fielding, throwing), Green 2 (both fielding). Must be those horrible MiLB fields giving our boys a beat down...

 

Huntsville Recap

Not a good sequence in the Jacksonville 2nd.

Jacksonville Bottom 2nd

• Vinny Rottino grounds out, shortstop Zelous Wheeler to first baseman Steffan Wilson.
• Tim Torres singles on a fly ball to left fielder Lee Haydel.
• Elih
  Villanueva hits a sacrifice bunt. Fielding error by catcher Dayton
  Buller. Tim Torres to 2nd. Elih Villanueva to 1st.
• With Greg
  Burns batting, wild pitch by Michael Bowman, Tim Torres scores. Elih
  Villanueva to 2nd. Throwing error by catcher Dayton Buller.
• Greg Burns grounds out, second baseman Brett Lawrie to first baseman Steffan Wilson. Elih Villanueva to 3rd.
• Osvaldo Martinez lines out to shortstop Zelous Wheeler.

Huntsville missed an opportunity in the 4th.

Huntsville Top 4th

• Brett Lawrie triples (10) on a fly ball to left fielder Lee Mitchell.
• Lorenzo Cain flies out to right fielder Brandon Tripp.
• Caleb Gindl grounds out, second baseman Tim Torres to first baseman Mark Saccomanno.
• Zelous Wheeler walks.
• Taylor Green flies out to center fielder Greg Burns.

An out on the bases ended the 5th

Huntsville Top 5th

• Steffan Wilson strikes out swinging.
• Lee Haydel singles on a ground ball to left fielder Lee Mitchell.
• With Dayton Buller batting, wild pitch by Elih Villanueva, Lee Haydel to 2nd.
• Dayton Buller walks.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• Michael
  Bowman out on a sacrifice bunt, catcher Vinny Rottino to second baseman
  Tim Torres. Lee Haydel to 3rd. Dayton Buller to 2nd.
• Pitcher Change: Kyle Gunderson replaces Elih Villanueva, batting 9th.
• Coaching visit to mound.
• Brett Lawrie walks.
• Lorenzo
  Cain singles on a line drive to left fielder Lee Mitchell. Lee Haydel
  scores. Dayton Buller scores. Brett Lawrie out at 3rd on the throw,
  left fielder Lee Mitchell to third baseman Matt Dominguez.

Jacksonville got the tying run into scoring position in the 9th

Jacksonville Bottom 9th

• Pitcher Change: Jim Henderson replaces Donovan Hand, batting 7th, replacing left fielder Lee Haydel.
• Defensive Substitution: Chuck Caufield replaces pitcher Donovan Hand, batting 9th, playing left field.
• Osvaldo Martinez grounds out, second baseman Brett Lawrie to first baseman Steffan Wilson.
• Brandon Tripp walks.
• With Lee Mitchell batting, passed ball by Dayton Buller, Brandon Tripp to 2nd.
• Lee Mitchell strikes out swinging.
• Mark Saccomanno strikes out swinging.

[TheCrew07]

Manatees thumped by Threshers, 10-1

By Frank Longobardo / Brevard County Manatees

 

VIERA - Eight runs in the first two

innings for the Threshers off of Manatees starter Dan Merklinger led to

a long night for Brevard County in a 10-1 loss to Clearwater on Tuesday

night at Space Coast Stadium.

 

Clearwater's first hitter of the game reached on an error by Steve

Braun and the wheels came off early for the Manatees as the Threshers

plated five in the first off of four hits and a walk. The big blow was

a two-out two-run double by Keoni De Renne to make it 5-0.

 

Merklinger didn't fare much better in the second inning as he

allowed three runs on four hits, while recording just one out in the

inning. He went just 1 1/3 innings and allowed eight runs, only three

earned, on eight hits.

 

Daniel Meadows relieved Merklinger and went 3 2/3 innings and his

only blemish was a two-out two-run homer allowed to Anthony Gose in the

fifth inning. Trey Watten and Ruben Flores also combined for four

innings of scoreless relief.

 

The Manatees managed just four hits on the night and two were off

the bat of Shawn Zarraga including a double. Erik Komatsu drove in Josh

Prince with a two-out single in the third to plate the only run for

Brevard County.

 

Brevard County and Clearwater will close out the series and the

first half of the season on Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. at Space Coast

Stadium.

 

For those who can't make it out to the game tomorrow night, Stephen

C. Smith of SpaceCoastBaseball.com will be doing a live webcast from

Space Coast Stadium with all the action of Wednesday night's game.

Click here to listen live on Wednesday night.

[gobrew23]

Lawrie is a beast right now. I hope he keeps this up and really starts to make some noise.

 

I wonder if he stays hot over the next month if the Brewers would consider a bump to AAA.

[TheCrew07]

Wild bottom of the 9th in Helena, tune on in if you get a chance.

[pogokat]

if he keeps hitting like this, i hope they move him to milwaukee

[homer]

Hawn with two dingers out in Helena.

[TheCrew07]

Final: Helena 9, Missoula (Arizona) 8

Helena Boxscore

Ha-Ha no way, the H-Crew scores 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th, the last on a wild pitch to win again. I call this sweet justice for the hell that is the Missoula peanut inning promotion... those of you who have listened to a game in Missoula know exactly what I'm talking about. Unfortunately Hiram Burgos continues his tough season, now down in Helena. He pitched 4 innings, giving up 9 hits, 6 earned runs, while striking out 6. Chad Robinson's first 2 innings were very good, but he struggled in his 3rd, and Alex Jones allowed both of his inherited runners to score. Speaking of Jones, Steve describes him as a right handed Mitch Stetter, he has the same side arm slinging delivery just from the other side. Rob Currie pitched a scoreless 9th to pickup the win. Offensively Cody Hawn was huge hitting 2 bombs in the game. Carlos George came up clutch again, he had 2 doubles including the big 2 bagger in the 9th. Mass Hass probably has a big smile going as Greg Hopkins was 2-4 with a walk and 2 doubles. The H-Crew was very good in the field, they didn't commit an error and George even made a real nice play at SS.

 

Helena Recap

The 9th inning rally, 6 runs on only 1 hit in the half inning.

Helena Bottom 9th

• Richie Rowland remains in the game as the designated hitter.
• Pitcher Change: Justin Albert replaces Victor Acosta.
• Shea Vucinich walks.
• John Dishon reaches on fielding error by third baseman Eric Groff. Shea Vucinich to 2nd.
• Brent Dean hit by pitch. Shea Vucinich to 3rd. John Dishon to 2nd.
• With Carlos George batting, wild pitch by Justin Albert, Shea Vucinich scores. John Dishon to 3rd. Brent Dean to 2nd.
• Carlos George doubles (2) on a ground ball to right fielder Roberto Rodriguez. John Dishon scores. Brent Dean scores.
• Pitcher Change: Victor Lara replaces Justin Albert.
• With John Bivens batting, wild pitch by Victor Lara, Carlos George to 3rd.
• John Bivens walks.
• With Franklin Romero batting, wild pitch by Victor Lara, Carlos George scores. John Bivens to 2nd.
• Franklin Romero out on a sacrifice bunt, pitcher Victor Lara to first baseman Bobby Stone. John Bivens to 3rd.
• Cody Hawn hit by pitch.
• Offensive Substitution: Pinch runner Reggie Keen replaces Cody Hawn.
• With Michael Walker batting, Reggie Keen steals (1) 2nd base.
• Michael Walker walks.
• Gregory Hopkins walks. John Bivens scores. Reggie Keen to 3rd. Michael Walker to 2nd.
• With
  Shea Vucinich batting, wild pitch by Victor Lara, Reggie Keen scores.
  Michael Walker to 3rd. Gregory Hopkins to 2nd.

[wibadgers23]

Brett Lawrie is awesome and Cain should have been promoted over a month ago Dougie.

[TheCrew07]

Brett Lawrie is awesome and Cain should have been promoted over a month ago Dougie.

Conspiracy Theory Alert.... Cain is being held back because they don't want him to come up and outhit Gomez!

 

No I don't do sarcastic blue, but even if I did and even though I'm kidding I'm not sure that should be in blue. What logical reason is there for keeping him in AA now that we're into the second half? He plays excellent defense, hit's for high average, takes some walks, can hit for a bit of a power... I guess what I'm getting is that he's clearly not being challenged enough anymore in AA, it's time for the next step.

[homer]

Nice to see Gindl with a dinger too. I think he'll go on a tear shortly.