Link Report for Sun. 8/29

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Sunday's Daily Menu:

Times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Josh Butler at home vs. New Orleans (Marlins), 6:20 PM pre-game; 6:35 gametime

Live Audio Link

 

Huntsville: RHP's Andre Lamontagne and Wily Peralta in a doubleheader at Mobile (Diamondbacks), 3:50 PM pre-game; 4:05 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings

Live Audio Link

 

Brevard County: RHP Cody Scarpetta at home vs. Clearwater (Phillies); 12:05 PM gametime

Sorry, no audio for this series...

 

Wisconsin: RHP Damon Krestalude at home vs. Kane County (Athletics), 12:45 PM pre-game; 1:05 gametime

Live Audio Link

Helena: RHP Matt Miller at Idaho Falls (Royals), 4:45 PM pre-game; 5:00 gametime

Live Audio Link

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at home vs. the Rangers' squad, 9:00 PM; never audio for games in this league -- last game of the regular season

 

DSL Brewers: Season complete

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A $6.95 subscription to MiLB.TV will allow you to see live and archived games from the four-game Helena series at Idaho Falls which began Friday, along with the coming Nashville series in Oklahoma City, which starts Monday.

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Follow Sunday'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 Game One (Gameday also available)

Huntsville Game Two (Gameday also available)

Brevard County

Wisconsin

Helena

Arizona Rookie (Maryvale)

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PCL American North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Iowa	76	58	.567	-	-	37-31	39-27	6-4	L1
	Memphis	76	59	.563	0.5	10	44-25	32-34	8-2	W5
	Omaha	74	61	.548	2.5	8	36-31	38-30	5-5	W1
	Nashville	71	63	.530	5.0	6	38-31	33-32	7-3	W1

SOU North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
*	Tennessee	40	22	.645	-	-	25-9	15-13	7-3	W3
	Huntsville	30	30	.500	9.0	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	L1
	Chattanooga	30	32	.484	10.0	E	16-18	14-14	6-4	W1
	West Tenn	28	34	.452	12.0	E	15-13	13-21	4-6	L3
	Carolina	26	34	.433	13.0	E	12-18	14-16	4-6	W1

FSL North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Tampa	39	21	.650	-	-	19-9	20-12	7-3	W1
	Daytona	36	25	.590	3.5	6	21-11	15-14	5-5	L2
	Brevard County	34	29	.540	6.5	3	18-16	16-13	4-6	L4
	Lakeland	31	30	.508	8.5	E	14-11	17-19	5-5	W3
	Clearwater	27	34	.443	12.5	E	15-14	12-20	5-5	W2
*	Dunedin	26	36	.419	14.0	E	14-19	12-17	4-6	L1

MID Western
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Quad Cities	37	23	.617	-	-	12-14	25-9	5-5	W1
	Clinton	34	26	.567	3.0	-	20-13	14-13	7-3	L1
	Kane County	33	27	.550	4.0	9	17-12	16-15	6-4	W2
*	Cedar Rapids	32	29	.525	5.5	8	17-14	15-15	3-7	L4
	Beloit	30	28	.517	6.0	6	16-13	14-15	5-5	W1
	Peoria	29	29	.500	7.0	6	16-14	13-15	5-5	W4
	Wisconsin	29	32	.475	8.5	5	15-14	14-18	5-5	L1
	Burlington	20	38	.345	16.0	E	14-17	6-21	4-6	L2

PIO North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
	Helena	16	9	.640	-	-	7-5	9-4	8-2	W6
*	Great Falls	15	12	.556	2.0	11	9-4	6-8	7-3	W1
	Billings	13	12	.520	3.0	11	8-5	5-7	6-4	W4
	Missoula	11	16	.407	6.0	7	6-8	5-8	3-7	L3

AZL Central
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
#	AZL Brewers	33	22	.600	-	-	12-12	12-10	4-6	L3
	AZL Reds	31	24	.564	2.0	E	12-8	14-9	8-2	W6
	AZL Dodgers	30	24	.556	2.5	E	12-10	13-8	6-4	W1
	AZL Indians	21	35	.375	12.5	E	8-14	10-13	2-8	L2

DSL S.D. North
	Club	W	L	PCT	GB	*ELIM #	Home	Away	L 10	Streak
#	DSL Mariners	43	28	.606	-	-	23-13	20-15	7-3	L1
	DSL Cardinals	39	32	.549	4.0	E	24-11	15-21	5-5	L2
	DSL Athletics	32	39	.451	11.0	E	17-19	15-20	6-4	W2
	DSL Brewers	28	43	.394	15.0	E	17-18	11-25	3-7	W1

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Our usual early Sunday note:

 

The links below should be updated with game notes just prior to the starts of the respective games --

PDF documents:

 

Nashville Media Notes

 

Huntsville Media Notes

 

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Rattler Radio Blog

[Tedaldtada]

Scarpetta was so-so. I like the 4:1 K:BB though.

 

Khris Davis (HR) and Dennis (2B) with XBH's for Appleton.

 

Edit: D'Vo appears to have stolen home today! Rattlers up 6-1.

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Final: Clearwater 3, @Brevard County 1

Brevard County box score

The Threshers took a 3-0 lead in the 3rd inning and the 'Tees' bats could never get on track. Cody Scarpetta started and did not pitch particularly effectively or efficiently: 4 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 3/4 GO/AO. Brandon Ritchie pitched well in relief, fanning four and walking none in four scoreless frames. BC had only four hits, two by Juan Sanchez. Erik Komatsu was hitless but drew a walk; I can't remember the last time he didn't reach base safely in a game.

 

Brevard County play-by-play

The lone run:

 

Brevard County Bottom of the 5th

• Brock Kjeldgaard doubles (29) on a fly ball to center fielder Derrick Mitchell.
• With Shawn Zarraga batting, wild pitch by Heitor Correa, Brock Kjeldgaard to 3rd.
• Shawn Zarraga walks.
• Scott
  Krieger grounds into double play, shortstop Gabriel Suarez to second
  baseman Fidel Hernandez to first baseman Darin Ruf. Brock Kjeldgaard
  scores. Shawn Zarraga out at 2nd.
• Juan Sanchez singles on a line drive to left fielder Steve Susdorf.
• Matt Cline singles on a line drive to left fielder Steve Susdorf. Juan Sanchez to 2nd.
• Peter Fatse strikes out swinging.

[Tedaldtada]

Jdoz! Katin with a huge game.

 

Lamontagne looking nasty so far. Lawrie is slumping a bit. Peralta falters a bit (a lot).

 

What a game for WI. Davis, Davis, Dykstra, and Dennis with big games. Kentrail in particular is doing wonders with the T-Rats.

 

Matt Miller was decent. With that offense, that's all you need.

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Final: @Wisconsin 11, Kane County 10 (11 innings)

Rattlers survive 14 walks to beat Cougars in eleven

Chris Mehring/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

GRAND CHUTE, WI – The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers almost let one get away on Sunday afternoon at Time Warner Cable Field, but Rigoberto Almonte and Khris Davis would not let it happen. The Rattlers withstood 14 walks issued by the pitching staff and a blown save to beat the Kane County Cougars 11-10 in eleven innings. Davis homered early to give the Rattlers a lead and drove in the winning run with a single in the bottom of the eleventh inning. Almonte escaped a bases loaded situation in the top of the ninth and went on to toss 2-1/3 scoreless innings for the victory.

 

Kane County (65-65 overall, 33-28 second half) grabbed a lead in the top of the first. Rayshun Dixon’s two-out RBI single drove in a run for a 1-0 advantage.

 

Davis put Wisconsin (56-74, 30-32) in front in the bottom of the second inning. Hunter Morris started the inning with a single. Davis launched a home run over the wall in left field. The homer was the twentieth of the season for Davis. He is one shy of tying the franchise record for home runs in the season.

 

Wisconsin added to the lead with four runs in the bottom of the third inning. Morris singled in a pair of runs and Chris Dennis followed with an RBI single that sent D’Vontrey Richardson to third base. Later in the inning Dennis broke for second base and stopped as the throw went through to second. Richardson broke for the plate and scored on a steal of home for a 6-1 lead.

 

Kane County responded in the top of the fifth inning against Wisconsin starter Damon Krestalude. Mitch LeVier homered to right-center to lead off the inning. Tyreace House singled. Then, Conner Crumbliss homered to left-center and the Cougars were within 6-4.

 

The Rattlers padded their lead with three runs in the sixth inning. Cutter Dykstra singled in Dennis and moved Michael Marseco to second base. One out later, Kentrail Davis doubled to left to score Marseco. The throw went into third base and deflected off Dykstra. Dykstra scored on the error and Wisconsin was up 9-4.

 

Eric Arnett replaced Krestalude in the sixth inning and did not allow a run in the first two innings that he worked. Then, the eighth inning happened. The Cougars loaded the bases with a pair of walks and a single. Arnett walked LeVier to force in a run. That ended Arnett’s day and closer Jon Pokorny came on to try for the save. Pokorny got House to pop out for the second out, but would walk the next two batters to force in two more runs and get Kane County to within 9-7. Pokorny got the final out of the eighth and the bats got an insurance run in the bottom of the ninth.

 

Dykstra singled and stole second with one out. Kentrail Davis tripled to right and Dykstra scored to put the Rattlers up 10-7 with their closer on the mound. Unfortunately, the strike zone was elusive in the top of the ninth.

 

Pokorny walked the leadoff batter, but got a force play for the first out. Then, he walked the next batter and that was the end of the day for Pokorny. Matt Costello took his turn.

 

Costello got the second out on a fly ball to right. But, LeVier extended the game with a two-run double off the wall in left to cut the Rattlers lead to a single run.

 

The tying run scored after Costello issued two straight walks to load the bases. Jose Crisotomo stepped into the batter’s box and drew the fifth walk of the inning to force in the tying run.

 

Almonte came on to get the final out of the inning. He would keep the Cougars off the scoreboard with a 1-2-3 tenth and by working around a walk and a hit batsman in the top of the eleventh.

 

Kentrail Davis started the winning rally for the Rattlers in the bottom of the eleventh. He singled with one out. Morris drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch. Khris Davis finished the marathon with a sharp single to left and Kentrail Davis raced home with the winning run.

 

The win moves Wisconsin back to within 3-1/2 games of the Cougars in the race for the second half Western Division Wild Card. Other games in the Western Division with playoff implications that were played on Sunday included Peoria splitting a doubleheader with Clinton and Beloit beating Burlington. Kane County leads Beloit by one game and Peoria by 2-1/2 games. There are eight games left in the regular season.

 

The Timber Rattlers and the Cougars are back in action on Monday afternoon at 12:05pm. Hiram Burgos (5-5, 3.86) is the scheduled starting pitcher for Wisconsin. Dan Straily (8-7, 4.60) is the scheduled starter for Kane County.

 

Monday is a Kids Rock the Ballpark Day at Time Warner Cable Field. Kids 12 and under eat free. All games and attractions in the Kids Zone – except the Prize Wheel – are free. Funset Boulevard will hand out free tokens. Plus, there is a special Monday afternoon Kids Run the Bases after the game.

 

Additionally, the first 1,000 fans into the stadium will receive a cooler bag from Jockey and Bullfrog Sunblock is giving away samples.

 

If you can’t make it out to Time Warner Cable Field, you can tune into the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 11:45am.

Wisconsin box score

It sure seemed like a frustratingly typical Rattlers come-from-ahead loss, but it's great to see them pull it out. Kh. Davis homered, Ke. Davis, Dyskstra, Morris, and Dennis all had three hits, and Kentrail and Morris were on four times total. Richardson was 0-4 but waked and stole two bases, including home. Scooter Gennett was 1-6. Arnett's final line: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 5 BB, 2 K; combined that with four walks from Pokorny and you have a big headache.

 

Wisconsin play-by-play

Richardson's steal of home came in the Rattlers' four-run 3rd:

 

Wisconsin Bottom of the 3rd

• Cutter Dykstra singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jose Crisotomo.
• Ryan
  Gennett singles on a ground ball to third baseman Leonardo Gil. Ryan
  Gennett to 2nd. Cutter Dykstra advances to 3rd, on throwing error by
  third baseman Leonardo Gil.
• Kentrail Davis walks.
• Hunter
  Morris singles on a line drive to right fielder Jose Crisotomo.
  Cutter Dykstra scores. Ryan Gennett scores. Kentrail Davis to 2nd.
  
• Khristopher Davis strikes out swinging.
• D'
  Vontrey Richardson grounds into a force out, catcher Max Stassi to
  shortstop Michael Gilmartin. Kentrail Davis to 3rd. Hunter Morris
  out at 2nd. D' Vontrey Richardson to 1st.
• Chris Dennis singles on a ground ball to left fielder Rashun Dixon. Kentrail Davis scores. D' Vontrey Richardson to 3rd.
• With Cameron Garfield batting, D' Vontrey Richardson steals (14) home. Chris Dennis steals (9) 2nd base.
• Cameron Garfield grounds out, shortstop Michael Gilmartin to first baseman Anthony Aliotti.

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Final (game one): @Mobile 5, Huntsville 3 (7 innings)

Huntsville box score

Wily Peralta had a horrible start, rebounded to post three zeroes, but then couldn't get an out in the 5th inning. His final line: 4 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 5 BB, 2 K, 2 HR, 6/3 GO/AO, 85 pitches, 44 strikes. This is the third straight start that Peralta has allowed at least five runs. On the bright side, he did pick off a runner, I think his third pick-off since being promoted to the Stars. Caleb Gindl had a nice game, 3-3 with a double. Chris Nowak was also on twice. Brett Lawrie was 0-4.

 

Huntsville play-by-play

Peralta's nightmare beginning:

Mobile Bottom of the 1st

• Evan Frey flies out to left fielder Lee Haydel.
• Collin Cowgill walks.
• Bryan Byrne walks. Collin Cowgill to 2nd.
• Konrad Schmidt homers (10) on a fly ball to right field. Collin Cowgill scores. Bryan Byrne scores.
• Ryan Wheeler homers (1) on a fly ball to right field.
• Taylor Harbin grounds out, third baseman Taylor Green to first baseman Chris Nowak.
• Jacob Elmore singles on a ground ball to shortstop Zelous Wheeler, deflected by third baseman Taylor Green.
• Ollie LintonJr. grounds out to first baseman Chris Nowak.

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Final (game two): Huntsville 2, @Mobile 1 (7 innings)

Huntsville box score

Very impressive games from Andre Lamontagne and Jeremy Jeffress, the only two pitches the Stars needed in the abbreviated game. Lamontagne struck out nine and allowed only one run in 5.2 innings of work, giving up three hits, two walks, and a hit batter; 48 of his 72 pitches were strikes. Jeffress finished up with 1.1 perfect frames, and though he didn't strike anyone out, he got four ground-ball outs; 11 strikes in 16 pitches for him. Caleb Gindl, after going 3-3 in the first game, was 2-3 with a double in this one, and Brett Lawrie also had two hits.

 

Huntsville play-by-play

Gindl came through big-time in what had been a frustrating 3rd inning up to that point:

 

Huntsville Top of the 3rd

• Chuck Caufield singles on a line drive to right fielder Evan Frey.
• Anderson De La Rosa singles on a ground ball to shortstop Jacob Elmore. Chuck Caufield to 2nd.
• Andre
  Lamontagne ground bunts into a force out, pitcher Tom Layne to third
  baseman Ryan Wheeler. Chuck Caufield out at 3rd. Anderson De La
  Rosa to 2nd. Andre Lamontagne to 1st.
• Brett
  Lawrie singles on a line drive to right fielder Evan Frey. Anderson De
  La Rosa out at home on the throw, right fielder Evan Frey to catcher
  Sean Coughlin. Andre Lamontagne to 2nd.
• With Caleb Gindl batting, wild pitch by Tom Layne, Andre Lamontagne to 3rd. Brett Lawrie to 2nd.
• Caleb
  Gindl hits a ground-rule double (30) on a fly ball to right-center
  field. Andre Lamontagne scores. Brett Lawrie scores.
• Anderson Machado grounds out, third baseman Ryan Wheeler to first baseman Bryan Byrne.

[battlekow]

Final: Helena 9, @Idaho Falls 2

Helena box score

Seven straight wins for the H-Crew. Helena put up a palindromic line score with two runs in the 1st, 2nd, 8th, and 9th, and a single tally in the 5th. Like Evan Frederickson yesterday, Matt Miller was wild but effective, allowing two runs in five innings on four walks and four hits while fanning five. Rob Currie and Brian Garman were great in relief, combining to strike out seven in four innings. Greg Hopkins, Brandon Sizemore, and Johnny Dishon all homered, and Hopkins, Franklin Romero, and Shea Vucinich, the Brewers' first three hitters, all had two hits and a walk. Add cleanup hitter Mike Walker's single and three walks and you have a lot of baserunners getting on at the top of the order. Rafael Neda also had two hits, and Sizemore added a walk and HBP to his homer. Still no Cody Hawn.

Helena play-by-play

Looks like Miller was helped out by a busted double steal here:

 

Idaho Falls Bottom of the 3rd

• Dale Cornstubble walks.
• Correy Figueroa strikes out swinging.
• Reggie Taylor singles on a ground ball to center fielder Franklin Romero. Dale Cornstubble to 3rd.
• Juan Polonia singles on a line drive to center fielder Franklin Romero. Dale Cornstubble scores. Reggie Taylor to 3rd.
• Justin
  Trapp singles on a fly ball to left fielder Brandon Sizemore. Reggie
  Taylor scores. Juan Polonia advances to 3rd, on fielding error by left
  fielder Brandon Sizemore.
• With Yowill Espinal
  batting, Juan Polonia caught stealing home, catcher Rafael Neda to
  second baseman Shea Vucinich to catcher Rafael Neda, Justin Trapp to
  2nd.
• Yowill Espinal singles on a line drive to right fielder John Dishon. Justin Trapp to 3rd.
• Murray Watts lines out to center fielder Franklin Romero.

[battlekow]

Final: @Nashville 10, New Orleans 1

Katin goes off, Sounds win home finale

Nashville Sounds

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds gave their fans an outstanding sendoff on Sunday evening at Greer Stadium, closing out their 2010 regular season home slate with a 10-1 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs in the finale of a five-game series.

 

A crowd of 8,342 was on hand for the contest, bringing the Sounds' seasonal attendance total to 319,235, nearly 14,000 higher than last year.

 

Prior to the game, right fielder Brendan Katin was honored as the 2010 Sounds Fan Favorite, an award resulting from fan voting. He promptly thanked the fans in attendance by tying a team record with seven RBIs on the night. The Sounds' cleanup hitter slugged a pair of homers, including a grand slam, to highlight a 3-for-5 night at the plate to pace the Nashville offensive attack.

 

Right-hander Josh Butler (5-1) was dominant on the hill for Nashville, allowing one run on two hits over eight outstanding innings of work to earn his fifth victory in seven starts for the Sounds. He retired 13 consecutive New Orleans batters from the first through fifth frames and allowed only a pair of singles on the night.

 

The heart of the Nashville batting order did the bulk of the damage as the two through five hitters - Ray Olmedo, Mat Gamel, Katin, and Joe Koshansky - combined to go 10-for-20 with nine RBIs and nine runs scored on the night.

 

Nashville (72-63) took four of five from the Zephyrs in the series and has won 10 of its last 14 contests overall. The Sounds trail first-place Iowa by five games with nine games left on their schedule.

 

New Orleans jumped out to a first-inning lead against Sounds starter Butler with a two-out rally. After the first two batters of the frame were retired, Brian Barden and Mike Lamb drew back-to-back walks before Z's second baseman Danny Richar lined an RBI single to center to bring home Barden with the evening's first run.

 

Katin quickly erased that early Z's lead by belting a grand slam in the home half of the first to give the Sounds a 4-1 lead.

 

Adam Stern opened the frame with a walk then Olmedo and Gamel singled off New Orleans right-hander Nic Ungs to fill the bags for Katin, who smashed his 20th home run of the year off the neck portion of the guitar-shaped scoreboard in left-center. Katin's bases-loaded blast was Nashville's fourth grand slam of the year.

 

Nashville tacked on two more runs against Ungs in the third to up its lead to 6-1. Katin led off with a single and came around to score when Koshansky followed with an RBI double down the right field line. Koshansky, who extended his longest hitting streak of the year to nine games with a 3-for-5 effort in the contest, scored the frame's second run later in the frame on Norris Hopper's bloop single to right.

 

The Sounds stretched the lead to 9-1 in the fourth when Katin swatted a three-run homer to left to chase Ungs from the contest.

 

Ungs (1-2), who pitched for Nashville in 2008, took the loss for New Orleans after surrendering nine runs on 12 hits over three-plus innings of work.

 

Koshansky got into the longball act in the sixth, belting his team-leading 24th roundtripper of the year with one out off New Orleans reliever Matt Peterson to make it a 10-1 contest.

 

Barden recorded one of the two Zephyrs hits on the night to extend his longest hitting streak of the year to 14 games.

 

The Sounds embark upon their final road trip of the season, a nine-game jaunt to Oklahoma City and New Orleans, on Monday. Right-hander Tim Dillard (4-6, 4.34) will take the hill for Nashville for Monday's 7:05 p.m. series opener at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark. The RedHawks will counter with right-hander Brandon McCarthy (3-1, 3.80).

 

Nashville box score

Well, I keep putting Katin #50 on my Power 50 ballot, and he's fairly quietly been much improved this year. Butler walked three, hit a batter, and struck out three; only 52 of his 98 pitches were strikes, so he still needs to find the zone a lot more often, but obviously tonight's results are better than they have been. Gamel's two hits were singles.

Nashville play-by-play

[jdoz]

re: katin - you can't say I haven't been saying it for a while. This kid deserves a shot. I really don't know what else he can do to prove that.

[TooLiveBrew]

Not sure what you're trying to prove. Yes, his power is probably for real, and yes his defense is solid. Does "deserves a shot" = supplanting Braun or Hart? Because that seems basically to be what you're suggesting. Maybe in a less-talented organization, you have a beef, but the Brewers are fortunate enough to not need to have fringy-corner-OF guys take precedent.

I like Katin; I think he brings a lot of value, but I certainly don't think he "deserves a shot" when he has to beat out Braun & Hart to get his full-time shot at the MLB level. As of today, I think Katin's best-case scenario is as a 5th OF in 2011.

[Mass Haas]

Final: @Arizona Brewers 9, Arizona Rangers 3

Arizona Box Score

Wow, player of the game has to be 38th round high school pick Michael Schaub -- the youngster came on to begin the 4th inning of a 2-2 game and proceeded to finish matters on his own, tossing six innings of one-hit ball, allowing only one run while walking none (two HBP's), and striking out six; Schaub, out of Anaheim, worked twice as many innings as he had in any prior appearance this season -- at only 18 years, three months old, it should be fun to watch Schaub continue his pro career, almost assuredly with Helena, next season; rehabbing RHP Alex Periard made it through two innings in the start, but did allow six baserunners and two runs, including a home run, although he fanned an un-Periard-like four men in the brief outing...

 

A five-run Brewer 5th broke open the close game; 2B Nick Shaw reached base three more times to lift his OBP to .471 -- Shaw finishes the season with a .950 OPS, third in the league, and one of only three players north of .900; 1B Demetrius McKelvie (.174) and SS Yadiel Rivera (.209) can at least say they ended their regular seasons with triples in the game; 20-year-old CF Kenny Allison (.296, OPS .735) had two hits, including a double; 19-year-old catcher Tyler Roberts concluded a fine regular season (.867 OPS) with a sacrifice fly...

 

Arizona Game Log

The five-run Brewer 5th --

 

AZL Brewers Bottom of the 5th

• Derrick Shaw walks.
  
• Yadiel Rivera triples (1) on a fly ball to center fielder Ruben SierraJr. Derrick Shaw scores.
  
• John Bivens singles on a line drive to center fielder Ruben SierraJr. Yadiel Rivera scores.
  
• Nick Shaw singles on a fly ball to right fielder Jordan Akins. John Bivens to 3rd. Nick Shaw to 2nd on the throw.
  
• Kenneth Allison pops out to second baseman Junior Payano.
  
• Kyle Dhanani doubles (2) on a fly ball to center fielder Ruben SierraJr. John Bivens scores. Nick Shaw scores.
  
• With Tyler Roberts batting, Kyle Dhanani steals (3) 3rd base.
  
• Tyler Roberts out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Jordan Akins. Kyle Dhanani scores.
  
• Jhonatan Javier called out on strikes.

[Mass Haas]

The Brewers, Rangers and Giants won AZL Division races, and the Reds, from the Brewers' division, are the wild card team.

 

Monday night, the Brewers host the same Rangers team they hosted Sunday in a one-game playoff, with the victor facing the Reds-Giants winner for the AZL Championship.

 

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Also, as you plan your Monday at home or office, remember you have Chris' call of the Timber Rattlers beginning at 11:45 AM.

[Mass Haas]

Brewers in seventh heaven after latest win over Idaho Falls

By The Independent Record

 

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Helena Brewers are playing their best baseball at the most important time of the season.

 

John Dishon, Greg Hopkins and Brandon Sizemore each homered as Helena beat the Idaho Falls Chukars 9-2 on Sunday to extend its winning streak to a season-best seven games.

 

For all the good the Brewers have done this past week — going 6-0 on the current road trip which ends today — they still cannot shake Great Falls. The Voyageurs have won seven of their last eight games and trail Helena by only two games in the Pioneer League’s North Division, with five more meetings between the teams left in the season.

 

Helena produced 12 hits on Sunday, marking the fourth straight game in which the Brewers (17-9 second half, 36-28 overall) have managed at least 10 hits in a game.

 

Brent Dean’s two-run double in the first inning staked Matt Miller to a lead he would not lose. The Brewers’ ace won his league-best seventh decision against just one loss, allowing two runs and four hits in five innings. Rob Currie and Brian Garman were both solid in relief.

 

Helena's Franklin Romero and Shea Vucinich each drove home runs in the second inning off Chukar starter and loser Brian Peacock (0-5), giving Miller a 4-0 lead.

 

Romero, Vucinich, Hopkins and Rafael Neda each had two hits for Helena.

 

Idaho Falls (7-21, 23-43) got two back in the bottom of the third on RBI singles by Juan Polonia and Justin Trapp.

 

But Helena extended the lead to 5-2 on Hopkins’ solo home run in the fifth. Sizemore and Dishon connected on back-to-back homers in the ninth.

 

Brewers’ slugger Cody Hawn missed his third straight game with a hamstring injury. Hawn is second in the Pioneer League with 12 home runs. No date has been established for his possible return to the lineup.

 

The Brewers can make the playoffs one of two ways: Win the second half standings in the North Division or have Great Falls win the second half and Helena finishes with a better full-season record than Billings and Missoula.

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Kane County reliever a real sidewinder / submariner....

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Chris Dennis, Khris Davis power Wisconsin to victory over Kane County

By Tim Froberg, Post-Crescent staff writer

 

GRAND CHUTE — Davis and Dennis sounds like a radio morning-show team.

 

Instead, Khris Davis and Chris Dennis are a pair of productive middle-of-the-lineup hitters for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers with stats that speak for themselves.

 

Both played major roles in Wisconsin's wild 11-10 extra-inning win over Kane County Sunday afternoon.

 

Davis, a right-handed-hitting left fielder with excellent power, got Wisconsin started with his 20th home run of the season in the second inning. He eventually finished a four-hour marathon by drilling a walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th to keep the Timber Rattlers' playoff hopes alive.

 

Dennis, a left-handed first baseman / designated hitter, collected three of Wisconsin's 16 hits and knocked in his 81st run to remain among the RBI leaders in the Midwest League and the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

 

With eight games remaining, Davis is just one short of tying the Timber Rattlers' single-season home run record of 21, shared by Matt Hagen (2003) and Juan Silvestre (1999). Davis, 22, is second on the Timber Rattlers in RBI with 68.

 

"It (the home run mark) would mean a lot to me because my name would stick around a little bit," said Davis. "Hopefully, the fans would remember my name. It would be nice to get it."

 

Davis got all of Chris Mederos' cut fastball on his first trip to the plate, blasting a two-run homer to left.

 

"It was a cutter that was up and I happened to stay inside of it," said Davis. "Thank God the wind was blowing out because I needed a little help in that wind tunnel and I got some."

 

Davis' game-winning single in the bottom of the 11th proved to be an even bigger hit. Due primarily to a bullpen which couldn't throw strikes, Wisconsin had blown leads of 6-1 and 10-7, leaving the Rattlers and a Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium crowd of 4,407 frustrated.

 

But Davis delivered in the clutch to provide a happy ending for Rattlers fans. With runners on first and second and one out, Davis lined a 2-1 delivery from left-hander Max Peterson into left to score Kentrail Davis with the winning run. It was Khris Davis' second walk-off hit of the season.

 

"I didn't want to change my approach," said Khris Davis. "I just wanted to get a good pitch to hit. It was a change-up that was up. There's nothing better than to win with a walk-off hit, especially when you're tired and it's been a long day."

 

The 6-foot, 195-pound Davis, a seventh-round selection by Milwaukee in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft, is third in the Midwest League in home runs. But he's not a free-swinging, go-for-it-all type of hitter.

 

'Khris is a very disciplined hitter," said Wisconsin manager Jeff Isom. "He's going to get some walks and some homers because he gets himself into some pretty good counts to hit in. If you ask him, he'll tell you he's not a home run hitter and I don't think he is, either."

 

While Khris Davis hits fifth in the Timber Rattlers' lineup, Dennis bats seventh, giving Wisconsin two quality hitters in the middle of the order. Dennis, 21, is second on the Rattlers in homers (15) and is third in the Midwest League in both RBI and extra-base hits (55). He is second in the entire Brewers' minor league system in runs batted in.

 

"Chris is hitting behind some good hitters like Kentrail Davis, Khris Davis and Hunter Morris, and takes advantages of opportunities when those guys get on base," said Isom. "He's a clutch hitter. He's a power-stroke guy. If you leave a pitch over the plate, he'll drive it into the gap."

 

Dennis, 21, was Milwaukee's 13th-round selection in the 2007 draft.

 

"Chris is another guy who is very disciplined at the plate," said Isom. "He knows what he's capable of hitting, waits for his pitch and doesn't miss it. "

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You can listen to Brendan Katin's grand slam via this link.

 

Sounds' Katin drives in seven runs

Records 10th career multi-homer game in rout of Zephyrs

By Daren Smith / MLB.com

 

Brendan Katin is wrapping up the season exactly the way he started it.

 

The three-time Minor League All-Star homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs Sunday as the Nashville Stars rolled past the New Orleans Zephyrs, 10-1, in their final home game of the year.

 

It was Katin's 10th career multi-homer game and his first since Opening Day, when he went deep twice and had three RBIs at Iowa.

 

"I started off hot, got injured, missed six weeks with a knee injury," he said. "It's nice to get hot towards the end of the season."

 

The 27-year-old right fielder is winding down his best month of the season. Sunday's 3-for-5 performance gave him a .318 batting average with seven homers and 18 RBIs in 25 games in August.

 

And while he admits he's not likely to get called up by the Brewers when rosters expand Tuesday, Katin still has some goals left.

 

"I'd like to get up to .280," he said. "Honestly, I was just shooting for 20 homers; I've got 21 now. Hopefully, I'll just keep swinging like this and things will take care of themselves."

 

Katin began the most productive day of his six-year career with a grand slam in the first inning off Zephyrs starter Nic Ungs.

 

"It was a 1-2 count, a fastball. I was just trying to hit a sacrifice fly," he said. "I drove it out to left-center field."

 

After singling and scoring in the third, the University of Miami product came up with two men on in the fourth and chased Ungs by sending a blast over the left-field fence.

 

"I believe it was a fastball again, first-pitch ambush," Katin said. "I was just looking for something up and he left it up. Drove it out to left field."

 

The seven RBIs eclipsed his previous career high of six, set on April 17, 2007 for Double-A Huntsville.

 

Joe Koshansky added three hits, including his team-best 24th homer, for Nashville, which trails first-place Iowa by five games with nine to play in the Pacific Coast League American North Division.

 

Josh Butler (5-1) matched the longest outing of his career for the Sounds, allowing a run on two hits over eight innings. He walked three and struck out three.

 

Nice photo currently on the Sounds home page of players signing autographs the day of the final home game.

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al.com:

 

Both teams were happy to get back out there and play today," Mobile manager Rico Brogna said.

"Hats off to their starter (Andre Lamontagne). He was fabulous. He had good velocity and fluent command, and we weren't able to string anything or get anything going on him. He was that good."

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Stars split twinbill with Mobile

By Aaron Morse, Huntsville Stars

Caleb Gindl enjoyed a 5-for-6 double header and the Huntsville Stars (31-31, 64-68) won game two by a final score of 2-1 after dropping game one 5-3 in Sunday’s twinbill with the Mobile BayBears (35-26, 71-58).

 

Game one did not go the Stars’ way from the beginning. With one out in the first, Huntsville starter Wily Peralta (1-3) issued back-to-back walks. Konrad Schmidt made him pay as he unleashed a three-run home run to give Mobile a 3-0 lead (audio). Ryan Wheeler followed with a homer of his own to extend the advantage to 4-0 (audio).

 

The Stars clawed back against Mobile starter Joshua Collmenter in the fourth. With two gone, Zelous Wheeler singled to left. Collmenter got a bit wild at that point as he walked the next two hitters. That set up Gindl who crushed a two-RBI double to cut the BayBears’ lead in half (audio).

 

Mobile chased Peralta from the game in the fifth. Collin Cowgill led-off with an infield single. Peralta walked two batters in a row to load the bases with nobody out. In came Robert Hinton, who got Ryan Wheeler to fly out to shallow center. Then Taylor Harbin hit a tailor-made double play ball to Zelous Wheeler at short. But Wheeler bobbled the ball and his only play was to first. Cowgill scored on the play to make it 5-2 in favor of the BayBears (audio).

 

Huntsville appeared to be in business in the sixth against new pitcher Josh Ellis. With one away, Chris Nowak and Gindl smacked back-to-back singles. Then with two down, pinch hitter Andy Machado came up big with an RBI single (audio), putting runners at the corners and bringing Lee Haydel to the plate with the score 5-3. The BayBears brought in Daniel Strange to pitch and he immediately picked-off Machado at first to end the threat.

 

The Stars went down harmlessly in the seventh to dip to under .500 in the second half.

 

They weren’t under .500 for long as game two was a nail biter, but it was Gindl who once again provided the clutch offense.

 

With runners on second and third and two outs in the third inning, Gindl doubled to deep center field (audio). The two runs that scored on the play were enough for starter Andre Lamontagne (4-3) and reliever Jeremy Jeffress to hold the lead.

 

Lamontagne bounced back from his previous start with a strong outing, going 5.2 innings, giving up three hits, one run (earned), while walking two and striking out an impressive nine batters. The sixth inning chased him from the game as with two outs Chris Rahl singled and was driven in by a Bryan Byrne double. Enter Jeffress, who got Sean Coughlin to ground out to third to end the frame with the Stars still up 2-1.

 

He’d nail down his third save of the year with a 1-2-3 ninth inning to get the Stars to within three games of the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, who lost Sunday (final out).

 

The Stars open a four game series at Montgomery Tuesday night. First pitch is at 7:05 PM and all the action can be heard on the Stars Radio Network and www.huntsvillestars.com.

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Mobile manager Rico Brogna said: "fluent command"

Rico Brogna gets a +1 for word usage.