Link Report for Wed. 7/7 -- Stars Impressive Again in Matinee

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Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Chris Waters and RHP Marty McLeary in a doubleheader at Oklahoma City (Rangers), 4:50 PM pre-game; 5:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP Michael Fiers at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 10:00 AM pre-game; 10:15 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: TBD at home vs. Dunedin (Blue Jays), 6:05 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series...

Wisconsin: LHP Del Howell at Beloit (Twins), 6:40 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

Helena: RHP Hiram Burgos at home vs. Great Falls (White Sox), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Cubs' complex in Mesa; 9:00 PM; never audio for games in this league

 

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

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Nashville diehards can view the entire series in Oklahoma City (if they ever play) via a subscription to MiLB.TV.

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Follow Wednesday'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 Game One (Gameday also available)

Nashville Game Two (Gameday also available)

 

Huntsville (Gameday also available)

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale)

 

DSL Brewers

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PCL American North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Memphis	47	38	.553	-	-	24-16	23-22	7-3	W1
	Nashville	45	38	.542	1.0	60	23-18	22-20	6-4	W1
	Omaha	44	39	.530	2.0	59	20-20	24-19	4-6	W1
	Iowa	44	40	.524	2.5	58	23-23	21-17	4-6	L2

SOU North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Chattanooga	9	6	.600	-	-	6-3	3-3	5-5	L2
	Carolina	8	7	.533	1.0	55	4-2	4-5	7-3	W2
*	Tennessee	8	7	.533	1.0	55	5-4	3-3	4-6	L2
	Huntsville	7	8	.467	2.0	54	3-3	4-5	5-5	W2
	West Tenn	5	10	.333	4.0	52	3-3	2-7	3-7	L5

FSL North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Tampa	8	2	.800	-	-	4-1	4-1	8-2	W1
	Daytona	8	4	.667	1.0	59	5-0	3-4	7-3	W3
*	Dunedin	6	6	.500	3.0	57	3-3	3-3	5-5	W2
	Clearwater	6	7	.462	3.5	56	5-1	1-6	5-5	L3
	Brevard County	5	7	.417	4.0	56	4-4	1-3	4-6	L1
	Lakeland	2	9	.182	6.5	54	1-4	1-5	1-9	L2

MID Western
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Clinton	7	4	.636	-	-	4-2	3-2	7-3	W2
	Quad Cities	7	4	.636	-	-	3-2	4-2	7-3	W1
*	Cedar Rapids	7	5	.583	0.5	59	4-2	3-3	6-4	W2
	Burlington	6	5	.545	1.0	59	5-1	1-4	6-4	L1
	Kane County	6	6	.500	1.5	58	4-2	2-4	5-5	W2
	Beloit	5	7	.417	2.5	57	3-3	2-4	4-6	L2
	Wisconsin	5	7	.417	2.5	57	4-2	1-5	3-7	L2
	Peoria	3	8	.273	4.0	56	1-4	2-4	2-8	L4

PIO North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Helena	11	5	.688	-	-	6-1	5-4	6-4	W1
	Great Falls	9	7	.563	2.0	21	4-5	5-2	5-5	L1
	Billings	6	10	.375	5.0	18	2-4	4-6	5-5	W1
	Missoula	6	10	.375	5.0	18	5-5	1-5	4-6	L1

AZL Central
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	AZL Brewers	10	3	.769	-	-	0-0	0-0	0-0	W1
	AZL Dodgers	7	6	.538	3.0	41	0-0	0-0	0-0	W1
	AZL Reds	6	7	.462	4.0	40	0-0	0-0	0-0	L1
	AZL Indians	3	10	.231	7.0	37	0-0	0-0	0-0	L4

DSL S.D. North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	DSL Cardinals	19	14	.576	-	-	15-2	4-12	6-4	W1
	DSL Mariners	18	15	.545	1.0	39	12-5	6-10	6-4	W4
	DSL Brewers	15	18	.455	4.0	36	11-5	4-13	6-4	L1
	DSL Athletics	14	19	.424	5.0	35	8-8	6-11	2-8	L7

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PDF Document:

Huntsville Media Notes

[Mass Haas]

MLB.com:

 

Class A Wisconsin right-hander Maverick Lasker and Double-A Huntsville second baseman Brett Lawrie were selected as Milwaukee's Minor League Pitcher and Player of the Month for June.

 

Congrats!

[Mass Haas]

Stars up, 4-2 in the 6th -- unfortunately, the Stars audio was chugging along all day and then became unavailable just prior to Steffan Wilson's clutch two-out three-run home run a short time ago.

 

Hopefully the audio's back up again soon, as Chattanooga does not appear to be offering audio for this early day game.

[starsradionetwork]

Should be good now.

[Tedaldtada]

Komatsu has struck out 34 times this year in ~330 PA. The best part is that he has walked 40 times.

 

Oh and he is just raking against RHP's while having a usable line against LHP's.

[trwi7]

Very nice debut for Fiers. 6 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K.

[Mass Haas]

Nice win for a suddenly very impressive Stars squad, 8-2. Details a bit later, but a nice sight was Taylor Green taking a side-arming lefty deep cutting across the wind for a home run. Multiple sweet performances today, another hot weather day game, a day after traveling from Knoxville to Chattanooga for the start of a new series.

[battlekow]

The voodoo hex we placed on Liam Hendriks is finally kicking in.

[molitor fan]

Fiers now with a 29 walks to 158 k's ratio in his 140 professional innings.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Huntsville 8, Chattanooga (Dodgers) 2

 

Stars overpower Lookouts

By Aaron Morse, Huntsville Stars

 

Steffan Wilson delivered a two-out three-run home run in the sixth as the Huntsville Stars (8-8, 41-45) took the lead for good in an 8-2 victory over the Chattanooga Lookouts (9-7, 42-23) Wednesday morning.

 

The victory made a winner out of Michael Fiers (1-0) in his Double A debut. The right-hander went six innings, scattering six hits as he gave up two runs. Fiers walked two and struck-out five in the victory.

 

The Stars put a run across against Chattanooga starter Bobby Blevins in the third. With one away, Brett Lawrie drew a walk. Caleb Gindl singled to right and the aggressive Lawrie advanced to third on the play. That set up Drew Anderson nicely and he came through with a sacrifice fly to center.

 

The Lookouts took the lead back in the bottom of the frame. With two out and a man on first, Jerry Sands singled to left. After Corey Smith was hit by a pitch, loading the bases, Andrew Lambo singled to right, driving in two runs and giving Chattanooga the 2-1 edge.

 

Their lead lasted until the fateful sixth inning. Gindl got things going with a single to right. One out later Zelous Wheeler was hit by a pitch. That would be it for Blevins (1-1), who went 5.1 innings, giving up three runs on four hits. He walked one and struck-out seven.

 

New pitcher David Pfeiffer got Taylor Green to pop out, but Wilson stepped to the plate and on a 1-1 pitch crushed a ball up in the zone way out of the yard in deep left field to give the Stars a 4-2 lead. It was Wilson’s sixth homer of the 2010 campaign.

 

They’d do more damage in the eighth and ninth.

 

With one on and one away in the eighth, Green took Pfeiffer deep to dead center field for his fourth bomb of the year. Then in the ninth, they got two runs off reliever Justin Miller thanks to a RBI double by Anderson and an RBI single off the bat of Green.

 

Meanwhile the Stars’ bullpen was as strong as ever. Robert Hinton worked two scoreless innings and Donovan Hand finished things off with a solid ninth inning to preserve the win.

 

The Lookouts left 11 runners on base as the Stars were able to get the outs when they needed to. Green, Wheeler, and Gindl tallied multi-hit games while Lawrie and Wheeler each scored two runs. Green and Wilson had three RBI apiece, and Anderson knocked in two.

 

The victory moves the Stars to within one game of first place in the Southern League standings. They’ll look to win their fourth straight Thursday evening as they send Michael Bowman (7-7, 5.82) to the mound to face Brent Leach (3-1, 5.75). You can catch all the action on the Stars Radio Network beginning at 6:00 PM central time with the Window World Pre-Game Report.

 

Huntsville Box Score

Michael Fiers doing exactly what someone who made their pro debut right around their 24th birthday (last year) should do, make up for lost time; Robert Hinton and Donovan Hand workhorses out of the Stars' pen; Aaron covered it nicely in his offensive summary above...

 

Huntsville Game Log

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PDF Document:

 

Nashville Media Notes

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Rattler Radio:

 

July 7, 2010: Starting Lineup Kentrail Davis idle (again)

 

July 7, 2010: Tonight's Starting Pitcher

 

July 7, 2010: Game Notes Be sure to read the Scooter! section, what a season

[battlekow]

Darren Byrd starting for the Manatees.

[battlekow]

Final (game one): @Oklahoma City 11, Nashville 6

Sounds Fall To RedHawks In Twinbill Opener

Nashville Sounds

 

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The Nashville Sounds lost to the Oklahoma City RedHawks, 11-6, in the high-scoring opener of a doubleheader on Wednesday evening at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.

 

After rallying from an early four-run deficit to take a third-inning lead, the Sounds surrendered six late runs to the RedHawks in suffering the loss.

 

Nashville took a short-lived 1-0 lead in the opener against Oklahoma City starter Tanner Scheppers. Lorenzo Cain (3-for-4) tripled in the top of the first frame and scored when Mat Gamel followed with an RBI single to right. The Sounds missed an opportunity to do more damage, leaving the bases loaded as Scheppers retired shortstop Luis Cruz on a flyout to escape the jam.

 

Oklahoma City responded immediately in the home half of the initial frame, scorching Sounds starter Chris Waters for five two-out runs to grab a 5-1 advantage.

 

A pair of walks came back to haunt the Nashville lefty as Gregorio Petit and Chris Davis each drew a free pass before trotting home on Chad Tracy's three-run homer to left, the infielder's team-leading 17th roundtripper of the year. After a fielding error by Gamel at third base extended the inning, former Sound Hernan Iribarren plated the other two runs in the frame with a two-run single off Waters.

 

Cain continued his solid night in the second when he drove home Ray Olmedo with an RBI single to make it a 5-2 contest. Olmedo had opened the inning by drawing a walk from Scheppers.

 

Nashville stormed back into the lead at 6-5 in the third with a four-run frame against Scheppers. After Brendan Katin led off with a single, Erick Almonte (3-for-3) ripped a one-out RBI double to right to pull Nashville within 5-3. After a Cruz single, Almonte came around to reduce the deficit to one when RedHawks left fielder Matthew Brown mishandled Olmedo's fly ball. Cruz tied the game when he hustled home on a Scheppers wild pitch before catcher Anderson De La Rosa lifted a go-ahead sacrifice fly to center to bring home Olmedo.

 

The RedHawks pulled back in front in the fifth against Waters. After Davis led off with a double to center, Cruz booted Ryan Garko's grounder to short, allowing Davis to come plateward with the game-tying run on Nashville's third error of the evening. Jarrod Saltalamacchia (3-for-4) followed with a go-ahead RBI double to the wall in left.

 

Later in the frame, with runners on the corners, reliever Tim Dillard struck out Kevin Richardson but Oklahoma City executed a double steal on the play, with Saltalamacchia swiping home to increase the lead to 8-6.

 

Oklahoma City put the game out of reach in the sixth with three more runs against the Sounds' bullpen, stretching the lead to 11-6. Saltalamacchia's two-run single off David Johnson highlighted the frame.

 

Reliever Warner Madrigal (1-0) worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings behind Scheppers to pick up his first win of the year for Oklahoma City.

 

Waters (5-5) took the loss for the Sounds after giving up eight runs (four earned) on eight hits in his 4 1/3 innings of action. It marked just the third time in 16 starts that the left-hander surrendered more than three runs.

 

Nashville box score

Guess Cain isn't going to let his brush with a call-up get to him. Gamel also made another error, this one throwing. Eight now on the season in total. Nice to see the Sounds knock around a really good pitching prospect in Scheppers at least.

 

Nashville play-by-play

[BoKnowsBall]

Brooks hall tonight for the Baby Brewers

[And That]

Marty McCleary fans, prepare to be disappointed. Chuck Lofgren gets the start in game two for Nashville.

[battlekow]

Final: @Brevard County 7, Dunedin 4

Brevard County box score

Darren Byrd made his first start, allowing two runs in four innings. Josh Prince, Erik Komatsu, and Sergio Miranda all had two hits, while Sean Halton and Mike Roberts both doubled and walked. Prince and Komatsu both stole two bases, 27 now for Prince and 19 for Komo. Andre Lamontagne pitched a perfect 9th with two strikeouts for the save.

 

Brevard County play-by-play

Halton came up big twice:

 

Brevard County Bottom 3rd

• Josh Prince singles on a
  line drive to left fielder Brad McElroy.
• With Matt Cline
  batting, Josh Prince steals (26) 2nd base.
• Matt Cline bunt
  pops out to pitcher Ryan Page.
• Erik Komatsu singles on a
  ground ball to shortstop Tyler Pastornicky.
• With Sean Halton
  batting, Josh Prince steals (27) 3rd base. Erik Komatsu steals (18) 2nd
  base.
• Sean Halton doubles (3) on a line drive to right
  fielder Welinton Ramirez. Josh Prince scores. Erik Komatsu scores.
  
• Sergio Miranda reaches on a fielder's choice out, pitcher
  Ryan Page to third baseman Mark Sobolewski to shortstop Tyler
  Pastornicky to third baseman Mark Sobolewski to pitcher Ryan Page.
  Sean Halton out at 3rd. Sergio Miranda to 2nd on the throw.
• Brock
  Kjeldgaard grounds out, third baseman Mark Sobolewski to first baseman
  Jon Talley.

Brevard County Bottom 5th

• Erik
  Komatsu singles on a fly ball to left fielder Brad McElroy.
• With
  Sean Halton batting, Erik Komatsu steals (19) 2nd base.
• With
  Sean Halton batting, throwing error by Ryan Page on the pickoff attempt,
  Erik Komatsu to 3rd.
• Sean Halton out on a sacrifice fly to
  center fielder John Tolisano. Erik Komatsu scores.
• Pitcher
  Change: Chad Beck replaces Ryan Page.
• Sergio Miranda singles
  on a line drive to left fielder Brad McElroy.
• With Brock
  Kjeldgaard batting, Sergio Miranda steals (7) 2nd base.
• Brock
  Kjeldgaard strikes out swinging.
• Scott Krieger strikes out
  swinging.

...but Miranda saved his bacon here:

 

Brevard County Bottom 6th

• Michael Roberts walks.
• Steve
  Braun walks. Michael Roberts to 2nd.
• Josh Prince singles
  on a bunt ground ball to pitcher Chad Beck. Michael Roberts to 3rd.
  Steve Braun to 2nd.
• Matt Cline singles on a ground ball to
  left fielder Brad McElroy. Michael Roberts scores. Steve Braun to
  3rd. Josh Prince to 2nd.
• Erik Komatsu strikes out swinging.
  
• Sean Halton strikes out swinging.
• Sergio Miranda
  singles on a ground ball to right fielder Welinton Ramirez. Steve
  Braun scores. Josh Prince scores. Matt Cline to 3rd.
• Brock
  Kjeldgaard strikes out swinging.

[homer]

Gennett had an opportunity to extend his consecutive games with a double streak but decided to leg out a triple instead. So I guess the streak is now 8 games with an extra base hit. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[twobrewers]

Gennett in danger of losing his streak of doubles at 7 games.

 

Of course, he has a triple - so we will have to forgive him.

 

Edit: Guess Homer beat me to the punch!

[Mass Haas]

I'll save battlekow a few keystrokes on his DSL assignment tonight by mentioning that, once again, the Brewers game was among the few postponed on the island earlier this morning.