Link Report for Tue. 7/6 -- Josh Butler Excellent As Stars Win Early Game

[battlekow]

Final: AZL Brewers 1, @AZL Athletics 0 (11 innings)

AZL Brewers box score

What a game! Wish I could have listened to it. Both pitching staffs were dominant--30 strikeouts and only three walks between them. Dane Amedee and Jose Oviedo each turned in four innings of shutout, one-hit ball, the former striking out six and walking one and the latter five and none. Skyler Crawford fanned four and walked none in two perfect innings to pick up the win, and Jose Sanchez worked around a walk in the 11th for the save. Tyler Robers, really bucking for a promotion with a .483 batting average, was 2-4 with a HBP. Robbie Garvey was 2-5 with a double and drove in Joey Paciorek for the game's only run. Nick Shaw also had two hits. Max Walla was 1-5 with three strikeouts, and Yadiel Rivera had an even tougher night, 0-6 with two punch-outs.

 

AZL Brewers play-by-play

The difference in the 11th was that the Brewers got a two-out RBI hit and the A's didn't:

 

AZL Brewers Top 11th

• Maxwell Walla strikes out
  swinging.
• Joseph Paciorek singles on a ground ball to third
  baseman Jensi Peralta.
• Nick Shaw singles on a line drive to
  right fielder Kelvin Rojas. Joseph Paciorek to 2nd.
• Derrick
  Shaw flies out to center fielder Elvis Garcia.
• Robert Garvey
  singles on a ground ball to second baseman Neudy Clime. Joseph
  Paciorek scores. Nick Shaw to 2nd.
• Yadiel Rivera grounds
  into a force out, shortstop Hiram Martinez to second baseman Neudy
  Clime. Robert Garvey out at 2nd.

AZL Athletics

Bottom 11th

• Pitcher Change: Jose Sanchez replaces Skyler
  Crawford.
• Jonatan Santana grounds out, shortstop Yadiel Rivera
  to first baseman Joseph Paciorek.
• Kelvin Rojas grounds out,
  third baseman Thomas Mittelstaedt to first baseman Joseph Paciorek.
• Elvis
  Garcia walks.
• With Diomendes Lopez batting,
  Elvis Garcia steals (3) 2nd base, . Elvis Garcia advances to 3rd, on
  throwing error by catcher Tyler Roberts.
• Diomendes Lopez
  strikes out swinging.

[Mass Haas]

Hey Manager Bob Miscik, how about flashing the red light in Matt Cline's direction at Brevard. Cline is negating his .401 OBP with a hideous 8-for-19 SB rate in 2010.

 

I guess it's not 2008 in West Virginia any more, Matt, when you were 15-for-17.

[Tedaldtada]

There are some downright nasty sb%'s in the rookie leagues too. I think Bivens is 2/7.

[Mass Haas]

Not sure you realized you copied and pasted this, TC07, but the Missoulian has more details --

 

Helena Top 1st

• 
  [li]Reggie Keen grounds out, second baseman Antonio Sepulveda to first baseman Bobby Stone.
  
• Shea Vucinich doubles (5) on a line drive to left fielder Roberto Rodriguez.
  
• Cody Hawn homers (3) on a fly ball to right field. Shea Vucinich scores.
  
• Gregory Hopkins walks.
  
• With John Dishon batting, Gregory Hopkins steals (1) 2nd base.
  
• Offensive Substitution: Pinch runner Connor Lind replaces Gregory Hopkins.
  
• Helena Brewers third baseman Gregory Hopkins left the game due to an injured head.

[/li]

Helena starting second baseman Greg Hopkins left the game after sliding into Sepulveda while stealing second base in the top of the first. Hopkins appeared to take a forearm from Sepulveda to his head and looked unsteady as he was helped off the field and replaced by Connor Lind.

 

And thus goes a decent Beat the Streak set for me...get well, Greg.

[Never Outhustled]

Its the minors, they're there to learn, and that includes basestealing. We had tons of complaints about Brett Lawrie's basestealing in the past too, and now he's become an efficient basestealer.

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

 

Brewers take down Osprey, 7-4; Hawn drives in three

By MICHAEL HEINBACH of the Missoulian

 

The Pioneer League North Division-leading Helena Brewers closed out their four-game series with the Missoula Osprey with a 7-4 victory Tuesday over the O's at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

 

The Brewers scored three times off Missoula starter Patrick Schuster in the top of the first, highlighted by a two-run homer off the bat of designated hitter Cody Hawn. Helena scored twice more in the sixth and a final run in the ninth to earn the series split with the Osprey and move to 11-5.

 

Schuster, who began the evening second in the PBL among starting pitchers with a 1.69 ERA and on a streak of 5 1-3 scoreless innings pitched, took the loss. The 13th-round selection in the 2009 draft fell to 2-1 after throwing five innings of six-hit ball. Schuster allowed four runs and five walks while fanning four.

 

Osprey first baseman Bobby Stone, who was 2 for 4 with a pair of singles, believes splitting a four-game homestand with the division leaders is something for the Osprey to build on.

 

"Overall, Helena is in first place and we got the split with them," Stone said. "That's not exactly what we wanted, but we're not going to complain. We battled pretty well with a very good team this series after getting swept by them to open the season."

 

Brewers starting pitcher Tyler Cravy, who threw a solid 5 2-3 innings in Helena against the Osprey in the season opener June 21, got the win to move to 2-1. He went 5 1-3, allowing a pair of runs on two hits. Like Schuster, he walked five and fanned four.

 

Hawn finished 1 for 4 with three RBIs to pace the Brewers, who pounded out 10 hits against three Osprey hurlers. Shortstop Shea Vucinich was 2 for 4 with a double for Helena.

 

Missoula, which slipped to 6-10, four games back of the Brewers, was led by shortstop Raul Navarro. He was 2 for 4 with an RBI. Catcher Richie Rowland, third baseman Eric Groff and second baseman Antonio Sepulveda each had an RBI for the O's.

 

Missoula manager Hector De La Cruz was ejected in the top of the seventh after arguing that Helena first baseman Brandon Sizemore's double down the third-base line was foul.

 

"I was at first all the way across the field," Stone said. "It looked foul to me, but I'm not going to fault the ump because it really happened so fast."

 

Putting his neck on the line for his team, down 6-2 late in the game, is an example of why the Osprey love playing for De La Cruz.

 

"Anything Hector does has a point to it," Rowland said. "Just to play for a coach that will stick up for his players and fight for every last breath the way he did tonight, you just got to love it. I love playing for the guy."

 

De La Cruz received a standing ovation from the 2,771 in attendance after he was sent packing by home-plate umpire Nate White.

[Tedaldtada]

Yea X, I wasn't really complaining. Just throwing a little nugget out there.

[brewmann04]

You think the brewers might look to bump a Pitcher from Huntsville to Nashville soon.

[Mass Haas]

Some Huntsville highlights in this Knoxville news report...