Link Report for Thurs. 8/12 -- Helena's Hopkins Goes 6-for-6, 12 Total Bases

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Thursday's Daily Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

Nashville: Idle

Huntsville: RHP Michael Bowman at home vs. West Tenn (Mariners), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime
Live Audio Link

Brevard County: RHP R.J. Seidel at Lakeland (Tigers), 6:00 gametime
Sorry, no audio for this series...

Wisconsin: LHP Del Howell at Quad Cities (Cardinals), 6:40 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime
Live Audio Link

Helena: RHP Austin Ross celebrates his 22nd birthday at Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime
Live Audio Link

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

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

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Follow Thursday'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.

 

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
	Iowa	67	51	.568	-	-	35-29	32-22	6-4	L3
	Omaha	65	54	.546	2.5	24	32-27	33-27	9-1	W5
	Memphis	64	55	.538	3.5	23	34-23	30-32	4-6	L1
	Nashville	62	56	.525	5.0	22	31-26	31-30	5-5	W1

SOU North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
*	Tennessee	30	16	.652	-	-	19-7	11-9	8-2	W8
	Huntsville	24	22	.522	6.0	19	14-9	10-13	4-6	L5
	West Tenn	22	24	.478	8.0	17	11-9	11-15	7-3	W1
	Carolina	21	25	.457	9.0	16	10-13	11-12	3-7	L3
	Chattanooga	20	25	.444	9.5	16	10-12	10-13	4-6	W3

FSL North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Tampa	28	15	.651	-	-	13-7	15-8	7-3	L1
	Daytona	29	16	.644	-	-	16-7	13-9	4-6	W1
	Brevard County	27	18	.600	2.0	24	13-8	14-10	5-5	L1
	Lakeland	20	23	.465	8.0	19	12-9	8-14	6-4	W1
	Clearwater	19	26	.422	10.0	16	12-9	7-17	5-5	L1
*	Dunedin	19	26	.422	10.0	16	11-13	8-13	4-6	W1

MID Western
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Quad Cities	27	16	.628	-	-	10-11	17-5	5-5	W3
	Kane County	27	17	.614	0.5	-	16-6	11-11	7-3	W4
*	Cedar Rapids	25	19	.568	2.5	25	12-10	13-9	5-5	L1
	Clinton	24	20	.545	3.5	24	13-10	11-10	8-2	W1
	Beloit	22	21	.512	5.0	21	13-9	9-12	7-3	W1
	Peoria	20	23	.465	7.0	21	11-11	9-12	3-7	L3
	Wisconsin	20	25	.444	8.0	19	12-10	8-15	4-6	L1
	Burlington	15	27	.357	11.5	15	11-9	4-18	1-9	L8

PIO North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
*	Great Falls	7	4	.636	-	-	5-2	2-2	6-4	W1
	Helena	5	5	.500	1.5	27	2-1	3-4	5-5	W1
	Missoula	5	6	.455	2.0	26	2-3	3-3	5-5	L1
	Billings	4	6	.400	2.5	26	3-3	1-3	4-6	L3

AZL Central
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	AZL Brewers	26	15	.634	-	-	9-8	8-7	5-5	W1
	AZL Dodgers	22	19	.537	4.0	12	9-7	8-6	7-3	W4
	AZL Reds	22	20	.524	4.5	11	8-6	9-7	8-2	W3
	AZL Indians	19	23	.452	7.5	8	7-8	9-7	3-7	L5

DSL S.D. North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	DSL Mariners	36	25	.590	-	-	20-10	16-15	5-5	L3
	DSL Cardinals	34	27	.557	2.0	10	22-7	12-20	5-5	W2
	DSL Athletics	26	34	.433	9.5	3	16-17	10-17	4-6	L1
	DSL Brewers	26	36	.419	10.5	1	15-15	11-21	5-5	W1

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Huntsville Media Notes

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Rattler Radio Blog:

August 12, 2010: Game Notes

 

August 12, 2010: Tonight's Starting Pitcher

 

August 12, 2010: Lineup

Dykstra leading off, Richardson 8th, Morris LF, Dennis 1B, Kh. Davis DH

[battlekow]

Huntsville's game canceled because of "equipment damage" from a thunderstorm; doubleheader tomorrow starting at 5 Central.

[CheeseheadInIllinois]

My math might be wrong, but I think Watten has gone 12 innings without recording a fly ball out. I don't know if they have records for things like that, but I'd imagine it has to be pretty rare.

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Final: @Lakeland 7, Brevard County 2

Brevard County box score

The Manatees tallied 11 hits, three walks, and one HBP but only managed to push across two runs. R.J. Seidel was hit hard, allowing four runs on eight hits and two walks in 2.1 innings while failing to strike out a batter. As CheeseheadInIllinois mentioned, Trey Watten continues to do an excellent job of keeping the ball on the ground, recording four of his five outs today via grounders and the other by strikeout (he did allow a fly-ball double). Sean Halton was 3-4 with a double to lead BC, while Pete Fatse and Angel Salome each had two hits and Erik Komatsu singled and walked twice.

Brevard County play-by-play

The first six innings are awful to read. Three times in the first six innings the Manatees had first & second with no outs, in two other innings they put men on first & second with one and two outs, respectively, and finally, in the 6th they had a leadoff double--and in none of those frames did they score. They flew into two inning-ending double plays where a runner was doubled off second, and even in their two-run 7th they wasted an opportunity with yet another inning-ending twin-killing:

 

Brevard County Top 7th

• Juan Sanchez doubles (10) on a fly ball to left fielder Brent Wyatt.
• Peter Fatse singles on a fly ball to left fielder Brent Wyatt. Juan Sanchez to 3rd.
• Matt Cline pops out to second baseman Patrick McKenna.
• Erik Komatsu singles on a fly ball to right fielder Samir Rijo. Juan Sanchez scores. Peter Fatse to 3rd.
• Angel Salome singles on a fly ball to right fielder Samir Rijo. Peter Fatse scores. Erik Komatsu to 3rd.
• Sergio
  Miranda grounds into double play, pitcher Wilfredo Ramirez to shortstop
  Gustavo Nunez to first baseman Jordan Lennerton. Angel Salome out at
  2nd.

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Final: Wisconsin 7, @Quad Cities 6

Rattlers hold off Bandits

Chris Mehring/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

DAVENPORT, IA – The Wisconsin Timber Rattler got a solid start out of Del Howell, three hits and three RBI from Michael Marseco, three hits from Cameron Garfield, and another homer from Khris Davis to build an early lead at Quad Cities on Thursday night. Then, Wisconsin held off a late charge from the River Bandits for a 7-6 win at Modern Woodmen Park.

 

Wisconsin (47-67 overall, 21-25 second half) scored two runs in the top of the third inning to break a scoreless tie. Kentrail Davis singled in Cutter Dykstra. Then, Khris Davis knocked in a run with a fielder’s choice.

 

The Rattlers padded their lead to 5-0 by scoring three times in the top of the fourth. Hunter Morris started the inning with a double and moved to third on an infield grounder. Garfield knocked in Morris with a single. Then, D’Vontrey Richardson walked and both runners moved up on what was ruled a wild pitch at the time. Marseco singled to send both Garfield and Richardson home and the Rattlers were up 5-0.

 

Howell stumbled a bit in the bottom of the fourth. There were two outs and a runner at first when Frederick Parejo reached on an error. Then, Robert Stock and Rainel Rosario had consecutive RBI singles and the Rattlers lead was down to 5-2. Howell left after a scoreless fifth inning. He allowed two unearned runs on five hits with four walks and five strikeouts.

 

The teams traded runs in the sixth inning. Marseco delivered a two-out RBI single to drive in Garfield in the top of the sixth. Then, Stock doubled in a run in the bottom of the sixth off Maverick Lasker.

 

Khris Davis made the score 7-3 in the top of the seventh inning and inched closer to Timber Rattlers history. The Wisconsin designated hitter blasted a solo homer with two outs. The long ball was his nineteenth of the season. He is two shy of the franchise record of 21 shared by Juan Silvestre and Matt Hagen.

 

But, the River Bandits (67-46, 27-17) fought back and made the game interesting in the eighth. There were two on and one out with Rainel Rosario, the number nine batter in the Quad Cities lineup, at the plate. Lasker was ahead 1-2 in the count, but Rosario lifted a fly ball to that cleared the wall in right for a three-run homer to make the score 7-6. But that was all the Bandits could muster.

Matt Costello relieved Lasker and got the final two outs in the eighth. Jon Pokorny nailed down the win – and his thirteenth save – with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

 

The Timber Rattlers conclude their seven game road trip when they face the River Bandits on Friday night. Damon Krestalude (2-8, 6.62) gets the ball for the Rattlers. Eric Fornataro (7-11, 5.11) is set to go for the River Bandits. Game time is 7:00pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:40pm.

 

Wisconsin box score

Of course the Rattlers had to make it interesting, but at least they won. Mr. Mehring must have particularly enjoyed the win, coming as it did against the poky Rivers Bandits. Garfield & Marseco--offensive dynamos! Two of Garfield's three hits were doubles, and Marseco stole three bases. Dykstra and Ke. Davis each singled and were hit by a pitch; Dykstra added two steals. Scooter Gennett was 0-4 with a walk. Even with the walks, nice to see Howell match the IP and K numbers.

 

Wisconsin play-by-play

[And That]

Greg Hopkins goes 6-6 tonight for Helena. That's the first time I ever recall seeing that from a Brewers minor leaguer. Heckuva game.

[uwisfan]

not just 6-for-6.. but 3 doubles and a HR..

[brewers4eric]

Our local cable affiliate broadcast the T-Rats game last night. I was particularly interested in seeing Scooter Gennett play, but he probably had one of his worst nights at the plate. He hits out of a pronounced crouch and there is quite a bit of movement in his stance as he readies himself to hit. He looked particularly bad in the last inning as he reached for a few pitches trying to lift a fly ball that would have given the team an insurance run. D'Vontrey Richardson showed a mile of range in center field. I've questioned the Brewers selection of Dykstra, but last night he looked like the type of hitter that you want at the top of your lineup. At any rate, I was glad to see a few names that I've followed from the daily link report on the field.

[Mass Haas]

Greg Hopkins goes 6-6 tonight for Helena. That's the first time I ever recall seeing that from a Brewers minor leaguer. Heckuva game.

Helena play-by-play man Steve Wendt reminds us --

 

Greg Hopkins just tied a league record with six hits. two singles, a homer and three doubles. Last done for Helena 7/12/06 by Cole Gillespie.

 

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Final: Helena 17, @Missoula (Diamondbacks) 6

 

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Helena Brewers rout Missoula Osprey

By MICHAEL HEINBACH of the Missoulian

 

Helena Brewers second baseman Greg Hopkins had a career night and things just seemed to get worse and worse as Thursday evening went along for the Missoula Osprey.

 

Hopkins tied a Pioneer League record by going 6 for 6 and the Brew Crew cranked out 20 hits as the Osprey dropped their second straight ballgame, falling 17-6 to the Brewers at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

 

Hopkins, just the fourth player to collect six hits in a game in the history of the PBL and the first Brewer to do so since Cole Gillespie in 2006, had a home run, three doubles, two singles and four RBIs.

 

"That's my first six-hit game in my career," said Hopkins, a 24th-round pick in this year's draft out of St. John's. "I've had a couple five-hit games before - one in college and one earlier this year - but never six hits until tonight. I've been kind of struggling a little bit, so maybe this can kick start me for the second half."

 

Helena, 6-5 in the season's second half and 25-24 overall, scored four runs in the first off Osprey starting pitcher J.R. Bradley. The Brewers then added two runs apiece in the second and third, four in the fourth and three more in the fifth. Helena sent no fewer than seven men to the plate in each of the first five frames.

 

"We just have to take tonight and forget about all of it," said Osprey center fielder Adam Eaton after his club dropped to 5-7, 19-31. "We need to literally put it in the rearview mirror and wash our hands of it. We get to start anew in a new venue tomorrow night and we'll go from there."

 

Bradley lasted just two innings in taking the loss and falling to 0-5 in his first season of professional ball. He was tagged for six runs on six hits.

 

Derek Eitel followed Bradley and did little to cool off the Helena bats. In his two frames of work, Eitel was touched for nine runs - four earned - on 10 hits with a walk and two strikeouts.

 

Missoula's final reliever of the evening, Randy Hamrick, tossed the final two innings without allowing a run, surrendering just one hit and fanning a pair.

 

Brent Dean was 3 for 5 with a double and two RBIs for the Brewers, while Robbie Garvey, Franklin Romero, Jr. and Mike Walker had two hits apiece.

 

Helena starting pitcher Austin Ross moved to 1-1 in a decent five-inning effort. He allowed three runs on six hits, walked one and struck out six. Three Brewers hurlers combined to strikeout 11 Missoula Batters.

 

Eaton went 2 for 3, Osprey second baseman Eric Groff tripled and reserve catcher Fidel Pena added a two-run single in Missoula's three-run eighth inning.

 

But it was Helena that looked like a team that had turned the corner, using a breakout evening with the bats.

 

"We started the beginning of the season really hot and went cold for a bit there," Hopkins said. "Hopefully this will get the ball rolling for us to have a strong second half. It's like they say, it's not how you start, it's how you finish."

 

Notes from the nest: The Brewers weren't retired in order until Osprey reliever Victor Acosta sent them down 1-2-3 in the sixth. ... Hamrick retired all three Brewers he faced in the eighth. ... The Osprey are just 2-8 against Helena this season. ... Helena begins a season-high nine-game homestand Friday night. After two games against Missoula, the team has an off day on Sunday, then hosts Casper for four games and Idaho Falls for three.

 

Helena Box Score

Greg Hopkins had hit only .220 in 91 July AB's after a quick start in June, so this effort brings his OPS back to .812; Hopkins drove in four, five others in the lineup drove in a pair; RHP Seth Lintz followed RHP Austin Ross, and wasn't impressive -- six hits and two walks in 2.1 innings, and his line was assisted by RHP Alex Jones, who stranded two of his baserunners; RF Robbie Garvey, LF Brandon Sizemore and C Brent Dean each reached four times; others contributed, so click and enjoy...

 

Helena Game Log

4-2-2-4-3-0-2: That's the number of runs scored in the H-Crew's first seven trips to the plate...

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The impressive Maryvale men won big again, the DSL kids fall.

 

Details on that and other notes by mid-morning, thanks; your intrepid Link Reporter hitting his annual year-end "wall" after a long, although quick, season. Have to work through it, as they say http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif .

 

 

[Tedaldtada]

Greg Holle is really impressing me. Hopefully that spike in velocity Greg claimed in a recent interview is for real. How could it not be? The dude is like 6'8".

 

Max Walla and Yadiel Rivera had productive nights at the plate last night. Walla is having more, not a ton, but more success this year. I gotta dig up his post-draft interview. He had me so excited. I'm a patient guy, so I'm willing to give Max about a half decade to figure things out. Rivera is definitly a project, that is for sure. Very projectable though.

 

Interesting reports on Gennett and Garfield recently by bf.net posters. With Gennett, it's very hard to ignore the success. Regarding Cam,

I'm hoping he was provoked by the fans or something. Dennis has had a very nice last few weeks it seems. Dykstra has not faded one bit this year. He has to be a solid top-20 in the next P50. We just need to ignore last year. More glowing reports from Richardson on defense is fantastic. The hitting will improve, but there is a ton of value in a CF with epic range and a howitzer arm. Morris seems like a high ceiling AND high floor draft pick. How he slipped to round 4 is kind of amazing to me. Khris Davis is Huntsville 2011 worthy.

 

Komatsu is king in BC. He is my prediction for Brewers' MiLB POY. I can't decide who's season was/is better. Logan Schafer's 2009 or Erik Komatsu's 2010. Kudos. Not impressed with RJ Seidel at all. How did he get hurt a few years ago? I have heard varying, and disturbing variations.

 

Thanks again MH!

[battlekow]

Final: DSL Athletics 7, @DSL Brewers 4

DSL Brewers box score

Starter Jose Cepeda was rocked for five runs in four innings, walking four and striking out just one. Perhaps there was a bit of a hangover effect: last time out, he went seven strong innings, and earlier this year, he was torched for six runs in three innings the start after tossing eight shutout frames. Raul Mondesi knocked his second homer of the year and also walked, Carlos Pena doubled and walked, and that old stalwart Ruben Sanchez again had two hits. Jose R. Garcia also had two hits. Jose Pena was 0-3 with a walk.

 

DSL Brewers play-by-play

Carlos Pena must really have catcher's speed. Despite being only 17, he was pinch-run for in the 9th after drawing a lead-off walk.

[Mass Haas]

Through the magic of Brewerfan, here is the Link Report from Cole Gillespie's historic night in 2006. He actually walked as well in his 6-for-6 outing.

 

The direct link to that box score is here. Newset Brewer Mike McClendon pitched in the game. Boy, are there some obscure names in that box score....

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Final: Arizona Brewers 12, @Arizona Indians 3

Arizona Box Score

The A-Crew coaching staff seems to be settling into a pitching usage rotation where three hurlers will share a game, and the youngsters have been pretty effective as of late -- RHP's R.J. Johnson, Greg Holle, and Jose Sanchez walked one apiece in allowing the three runs (only two earned), the high schooler Johnson's quick improvements are already encouraging; another high schooler, Kevin Berard, DH'ing here, gets kudos not only for his 1-for-3, but for two sacrifice flies; as long as we're highlighting the high-school kids, SS Yadiel Rivera drove in four in his 3-for-5 effort, including a double; Max Walla reached three times, scored three times...

 

Arizona Game Log

Brewers scored the game's final 11 runs, scoring in each of the final five innings; old pro Jody Gerut showed the boys how to get the job done with two RBI groundouts, he also had an RBI double...

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GM Buck Rogers on the Huntsville rainout:

 

It wasn't the amount of rain that came thru just before game time, but the damage it caused that forced us to cancel tonight's (Thursday's) game. Water cascaded into the dugouts flooding them in minutes. The rain seeped into every crack and crevice of the building; we actually had water pouring out of the electrical outlets in the concession stands and home clubhouse. Needless to say it shut the stadium down.

[And That]

Serves me right for trying to remember things. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Bandits' rally comes up shy

Steve Batterson, Quad City Times

 

Arms, ankles and an occasional thigh were about the only things tattooed Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park.

 

As a little more than 50 Quad-Cities fans added River Bandits tattoos to their collection of body art during the club's third annual Tattoo Night, Wisconsin clean-up hitter Khris Davis left a mark of his own.

 

Davis' seventh-inning home run proved to be the difference in the Timber Rattlers' 7-6 Midwest League win over Quad-Cities. His 19th homer of the season extended Wisconsin's lead to four runs, just enough to cover when the River Bandits' Rainel Rosario belted a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth.

 

"That was a big hit by Davis. I thought we had a chance at 6-3, but we fought," Quad-Cities manager Johnny Rodriguez. "We made it interesting. We always do."

 

Davis' hit came after Wisconsin built an early lead with an assortment of early-game hits that could have easily been groundball outs.

 

The first came in top of the third when Kentrail Davis drove a potential double-play ball off the side of the mound and into center, scoring Cutter Dykstra with the first of two runs in the inning.

 

Wisconsin extended its lead to 5-0 an inning later.

 

The first run scored when Cameron Garfield hit a ball that deflected off of the glove of starting pitcher Joe Kelly. It quickly bounded beyond the reach of second baseman Devin Goodwin, who stumbled as he attempted to adjust to the direction of the ball.

 

"It was one of those nights when the ball didn't bounce our way," said Quad-Cities catcher Robert Stock, who along with Rosario drove in all six River Bandits' runs.

 

"That's why you play 140 games. The breaks aren't always going to come your way. We've had our share of luck over the season. In this game, it went their direction and there isn't anything you can do about that."

 

LOGJAM: The Timber Rattlers' Khris Davis joined the logjam of players at the top of the Midwest League home run charts with a solo homer in the top of the seventh inning. The homer was the 19th of the year for the seventh-round pick of the Brewers in 2009, who now shares the Midwest League lead in homers with the River Bandits' Matt Adams and Clinton's Nick Franklin.

 

River Bandits second baseman Devin Goodwin gets the force out on Wisconsin's Kentrail Davis and completes the double play Thursday. (John Schultz / Quad-City Times)

 

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Appleton Post-Crescent Blog:

 

Rattlers vs. the other guys

[brewmann04]

a few quick questions are the Brewers viewing Holle as a reliever?

I see Angel has his avg up to 284 but see him only Playing DH is the OF experiment over and is he offically done as a Catcher?

 

Thanks