Link Report for Sun. 7/29 - Burgos debuts for AAA Nashville

[TheCrew07]

Final Game 2: Albuquerque 11, Nashville 0 (7 Innings)

 

Sands' Two Slams Sink Sounds In Nightcap

Outfielder Ties PCL Record In 11-0 Rout Of Nashville

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Albuquerque outfielder Jerry Sands tied a PCL record by crushing two grand slams to power the visiting Isotopes to an 11-0 victory over the Sounds in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday evening at Greer Stadium. The Isotopes swept the Sounds in the twinbill.

 

The defeat was the eighth shutout loss suffered by Nashville (48-61), which dropped its fourth straight contest.

 

Prior to the nightcap, the Sounds had allowed only one grand slam through the first 108 games. Sands crushed two bases-loaded blasts in the first four innings.

 

Former Sound Trent Oeltjen led off the game with a bunt single and McClung proceeded to walk the next two batters to load the bases, two of the Sounds season-high and personal career-high eight free passes issued by the big right-hander on the night. Sands followed with his first grand slam of the evening to give the visitors a 4-0 lead.

 

After McClung had already walked in one run in the top of the fourth, Sands struck again, sending a 1-0 offering over the top of the guitar-shaped scoreboard in left-center. His second slam made it a 9-0 contest and sent the Nashville starter to the showers.

 

McClung (2-13) suffered his PCL-leading 13th loss of the season after surrendering nine runs on six hits, including the two Sands slams, while walking eight and striking out three in his 3 1/3 frames.

 

Tim Dillard took over for the Sounds and gave up another Albuquerque longball later in the frame when Tyler Henson touched him for a two-out solo homer, his fifth of the year.

 

Albuquerque tacked on their final tally in the fifth when Oeltjen tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly to up the lead to 11-0.

 

Lost in the shuffle of the Albuquerque offensive explosion was a solid performance by Isotopes starter Blake Johnson (3-0), who allowed two hits over five scoreless innings to pick up the nightcap win.

 

Ramon Troncoso and Angel Guzman each worked a scoreless frame for the Isotopes to close out the three-hit shutout.

 

The teams continue the series with a 7:05 p.m. meeting on Monday night. Right-hander Claudio Vargas (4-1, 4.29) will toe the rubber for the Sounds to face Albuquerque right-hander Fernando Nieve (5-6, 5.68).

 

Game 2 Nashville Box Score

2 grand slams, little did And That know... So yeah, basically Rob Wooten's 2 scoreless innings were the only thing worth discussing from this game. He allowed 1 hit and no walks while striking out 3 which was the best outing out of his last 10. He's been getting beat around a little bit lately so he's in need of a hot streak to get Sept consideration for a call-up. The best news is that another non-prospect in Claudio Vargas should be next up in the rotation... yay.

 

No Sounds player had a multi-hit game but Caleb Gindl did manage to double.

 

MiLB will certainly have more coverage on this later.

 

Nashville Game 2 Play By Play

 

edit. was just finishing up and the game story popped, inserting it at the top.

[TheCrew07]

Sessile are you getting the AZL game? I just saw your post from earlier and wasn't sure what you and Troy had worked out?

[TooLiveBrew]

Final: Helena 3, Billings 5

Good form in taking this game so TC07 didn't have to, Brad. Very cool.

[TheCrew07]

Final: Helena 3, Billings 5

Good form in taking this game so TC07 didn't have to, Brad. Very cool.

 

Yep thank you much.

[TooLiveBrew]

Final: Helena 3, Billings 5

Good form in taking this game so TC07 didn't have to, Brad. Very cool.

 

Yep thank you much.

Shut up & get back to work!

[TheCrew07]

working hard is the thing to do.

Final: AZL Royals 5, AZL Brewers 4

 

AZL Brewers Box Score

As MH noted Francisco Rivero started here and only went one inning, he's had quite a weird career path. Anthony Banda was smacked around for 2 HRs and 5 runs in 4 innings while striking out 6. Joel Dicent pitched a clean final 3 innings.

 

Jose Sermo (2-5) had the only multi-hit game for the Brewers though Clint Coulter (1-3,HR) provided instant offense for the 2nd time on the season. Coulter was lifted for the Royals 6th.

 

The rest of the box was busy, I'll list it below:

BASERUNNING

SB: Ortega (3, 2nd base off Lovvorn/Johnson, C), Dowell (6, 2nd base off Lovvorn/Johnson, C), Garcia, Jo (1, 2nd base off Newberry/Johnson, C).

PO: Smith-Brennan 2 (1st base by Newberry, 1st base by Castillo).

 

FIELDING

E: Coulter (6, fielding), Pena, Jo (3, fielding).

Outfield assists: Garcia, Jo (Patino at 2nd base).

DP: (Garcia, Jo-Sermo).

 

AZL Brewers Play By Play

 

Brewers went up 3-0 in the 3rd, hyphenated names are the devil. Thankfully I haven't had to LR on a name like Escalera-Maldonado, I'd have to cut and past that too.

AZL Brewers Top of the 3rd

• Malcolm Dowell called out on strikes.
  Jose Sermo singles on a ground ball to center fielder Alfredo Escalera-Maldonado.
  Dustin Houle grounds into a force out, third baseman Mauricio Ramos to second baseman Alfredo Patino. Jose Sermo out at 2nd. Dustin Houle to 1st.
  Jose Pena singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jerrell Allen. Dustin Houle scores. Jose Pena to 3rd. Fielding error by left fielder Jerrell Allen.
  Clint Coulter homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Jose Pena scores.
  Alan Sharkey grounds out, second baseman Alfredo Patino to first baseman Bobby Fisher-Brown.

 

But the Royals got 2 right back.

AZL Royals Bottom of the 3rd

• Alfredo Escalera-Maldonado strikes out swinging.
  Ramon Torres homers (2) on a fly ball to center field.
  Alexis Rivera singles on a line drive to left fielder Jose Garcia.
  With Mauricio Ramos batting, wild pitch by Anthony Banda, Alexis Rivera to 2nd.
  Mauricio Ramos strikes out swinging.
  Bobby Fisher-Brown singles on a line drive to center fielder Malcolm Dowell. Alexis Rivera scores.
  Chad Johnson grounds out, third baseman Taylor Smith-Brennan to first baseman Alan Sharkey.

 

After scoring 1 in the 4th the Brewers went quiet and the Royals came back for the win with 3 in the 5th.

AZL Royals Bottom of the 5th

• Alfredo Escalera-Maldonado flies out to left fielder Jose Garcia.
  Ramon Torres homers (3) on a fly ball to right field.
  Lance Harper singles on a line drive to left fielder Jose Garcia.
  Mauricio Ramos triples (3) on a line drive to right fielder Jose Pena. Lance Harper scores.
  Bobby Fisher-Brown out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Jose Garcia. Mauricio Ramos scores.
  Chad Johnson strikes out swinging.

[TheCrew07]

Further coverage of McClung's horrible day.

Two slams better than one for Sands

[HiAndTight]

Really hoping for a turnaround for Bradley one of these days......

 

 

 

Really looking forward tto seeing what happens to them NEXT season. Obviously it would have looked so much better to see them with 2.00 ERA's and 11.5/K's - per 9 and a 6/2 K/bb ratio, but in their first season of pro-ball, having not played after college last year, I'm not overly worried about the hit totals and the pour performances from Jungman and Bradley.

 

1st of all, what we're getting from Fiers and Burgos is like...reparations for past injustices. I don't mean that to sound racist, but hell, we did suffer with Neugy, Gold, Jones and a dozen more.

 

Rogers looks awesome, Peralta's looking great, Henderson looks nice, maybe another Axford(not quite, but I never realized how hard he threw the ball...I always through he was a 90-92 type guy, we've got two guys who throw in the upper 90's from the Angels, Nelson might be the best of the all, and then obviously the three already up, two of whom I've mentioned in Fiers, Thornburg, and Henderson.

 

I can only imagine Peralta will get a shot as well. Next year, who knows, Maybe Bucci and Hall will Scarpetta will be the next big breakout stars. That is if Scarpetta signs as a minor league free agent, and that's something I really don't have a read on. I would think there would be teams that would want a Ben Sheets type clone(sans the command) and hope they can help him develop that command. Let us not forget, the gap between Peralta and Cody was pretty damn close 2 years ago.

[HiAndTight]

[sarcasm]We are in a pennant race, you can't bring the youngens up. Blasphemy[/sarcasm]

 

 

I see these comments bashing the Brewers FO, and I kinda wonder....who are all the young guys we DIDN'T bring up that could have helped us in a race?

 

I mean, I know I'm used to the Logan, and TCO7 comments about how Melvin isn't going to trade Greinke because...well....they just love complaining because their version of MLB 2012 worked out GREAT for him, so he just can't fathom why it's not working out for the Brewers. I mean, this FO has obviously been terrible, building up a team from nothing to a team that's been competitive for the last 6-8 years and was 2 games from the WS last year and could have been one single lineup move away from the world if not for Kotsay.

 

 

So I ask, in the lineup last year, who should we have brought up?

 

We have Prince, Weeks, Yuni(No SS to replace him with) changed McGehee with Hairston

OF of Braun/CF platoon that was worth 6+WAR/Hart in RF

C-Lucroy

 

Pitchers-The obvious starting 5 starting pitchers, nobody was ready to replace them.

BP-We brought up a guy called Axford...KIINDA an important part-We tried a couple other relievers.

 

Who exactly should we have brought up for the post-season roster that we didn't? Please do tell? Or down the stretch that would have gotten us over the hump?

 

 

You know, just because things get repeated time and time again, don't make them true.

[HiAndTight]

Kintzler or Sanchez which one will get the call up to the majors.

 

 

I hope Sanchez now, and then Kintzler and Stetter in Sept. The two of them are guys we know, but you know relievers, and then all the sudden they figure something out, and they're 2-3 year stars as middle relievers(before becoming overpaid and posting 5.00 ERA's while walking like it's a church group walking Branson.

 

 

But it seems like with relievers that so often they spend so much time before they truly develop.

 

They suffer arm injuries, spend years as starters because they've got big time arms and you always want to give a starter a chance until he proves he can. So you're left with a guy who's 27-28 who can throw 94-95 as starters and who try like hell to develop that 3rd pitch, but just can't do it. So they move to the pen where they develop into relievers and it takes a little while with some guys.

 

Maybe not 28 or whatever, but they've been given every chance to use that plus fastball as a starter.

 

Sanchez seems like the next in line behind Henderson. I'd like to see him up next.

[Mass Haas]

AZL Royals Bottom of the 5th

Alfredo Escalera-Maldonado flies out to left fielder Jose Garcia.

Ramon Torres homers (3) on a fly ball to right field.

Lance Harper singles on a line drive to left fielder Jose Garcia.

Mauricio Ramos triples (3) on a line drive to right fielder Jose Pena. Lance Harper scores.

Bobby Fisher-Brown out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Jose Garcia. Mauricio Ramos scores.

Chad Johnson strikes out swinging.

 

AZL Royals Bottom of the 6th

Pitching Change: Joel Dicent replaces Anthony Banda.

Defensive Substitution: Joe Andrade replaces catcher Clint Coulter, batting 4th, playing catcher.

 

On an 88 degree overcast close game, a bit of an odd spot to remove Coulter. I'd say there was a play at the plate on the sac fly, but then Coulter stayed in for the next strikeout.

 

So probably nothing here, just to keep an eye on...

[battlekow]

Sessile are you getting the AZL game? I just saw your post from earlier and wasn't sure what you and Troy had worked out?

Sorry, just saw this. Basically, I'll write up any AZL game the next morning if no one has gotten to it by then, but I'm not up late enough to do them the night of. Thanks for taking care of it.

[Mass Haas]

Khris Davis love from Baseball America (David Goforth, too)

[TooLiveBrew]

Khris Davis love from Baseball America (David Goforth, too)

Here's the note on Davis:

 

• Brewers left fielder Khris Davis has been on an absolute tear since returning to Double-A Huntsville on July 9, batting .456/.537/.842 (26-for-57) in 17 games with six homers and four doubles. The 24-year-old offers big league bat speed from the right side and at least fringe-average power, so he might carve out a role even if it's as a part-time left fielder or first baseman.

[Mass Haas]

Billings Gazette:

 

Mustangs RF Jeff Gelalich was robbed of extra-bases twice Sunday by spectacular on-the-run catches by Helena LF Ruben Ozuna. Kelly said he thought Ozuna “had absolutely no chance of catching those balls.”