Link Report for Sun. 4/20 - Brooks Hall Shows Why He Was Added to 40-Man

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Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Nashville: RHP Johnny Hellweg at Omaha (Royals), 1:45 PM pre-game, 2:05 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off

 

MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link.

 

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Huntsville: RHP Brooks Hall at home vs. Mobile (Diamondbacks), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:00 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Steve Jarnicki is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars - welcome aboard! Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveJarnicki. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast.

 

MiLB.TV - It appears seven of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games (not the Stars). Mississippi does host MiLB.TV broadcasts - be among those hoping Steve's audio link synchs up nicely with your MiLB.TV investment.

 

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Brevard County: Idle

 

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Wisconsin: Idle

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Nashville

 

Huntsville

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Look for this just prior to game time --

 

Nashville Media Notes - it's a unique link each day, but look for it under the "Roster" banner on the Sounds' site.

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STANDINGS:

 

AAA - Pacific Coast League American Southern Division

 

AA - Southern League North Division

 

High-A - Florida State League North Division

 

A - Midwest League Western Division

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Weather.com:

 

Omaha, NE

 

Huntsville, AL

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Final: @Huntsville 3, Mobile 1

 

Hall Dominates In Stars Win

 

Huntsville, AL - Brooks Hall (1-1) gave the Huntsville Stars exactly what they were looking for Sunday afternoon after their bullpen was taxed the day before. Hall threw eight dominant innings leading the Stars to a 3-1 win over the Mobile BayBears at "The Joe".

 

Nick Ramirez gave the Stars a 1-0 lead in the first when he grounded out to first base scoring Josh Prince. Michael Ratterree in the second showed off his home run pop, as he hit his first home run in Double-A with a solo shot over the left field fence.

 

With the Stars leading 2-0, Hall allowed just one run which came in the fourth inning. Jake Lamb produced a sacrifice fly making it 2-1.

 

Hall, who earned his first win of the season, scattered five hits while striking out two. He only needed 78 pitches to work swiftly through his afternoon.

 

The Stars added an insurance run in the eighth when Jason Rogers singled home Prince.

 

David Goforth nailed down a 1-2-3 ninth inning and collected his sixth save of the year.

 

Chase Anderson (2-2) was the tough luck loser for Mobile. He turned in a quality start by pitching seven innings, giving up two earned runs on four hits.

 

The first place Stars are now 11-6 on the season while Mobile is 9-8.

 

The Stars and BayBears play game three of their five-game series Monday night. The Stars will have RHP Taylor Jungmann (1-1, 3.18) on the mound while Mobile will start RHP Mike Lee (1-2, 5.82). The game can be heard starting at 6:15 PM with Steve Jarnicki on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and http://www.wtkiradio.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score

 

78 pitches in eight stellar innings -- Have an Easter Sunday, Brooks Hall! Josh Prince now 10-for-11 in SB attempts, and has walked ten times (49 AB's). Congrats, Michael Ratterree, on the first AA blast.

 

Huntsville Game Log

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Sounds Wild In 7-6 Extra-Innings Loss

Nashville's Jeremy Hermida Forces Extras With Three-Run Homer

Nashville Sounds

 

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(MIKE STRASINGER)

 

PAPILLION, Neb. - The Nashville Sounds walked 10 batters, beaned two, and chucked three run-scoring wild pitches in Sunday afternoon's 7-6 extra-innings loss to the Omaha Storm Chasers at Werner Park.

 

Trailing by three with two on and two out in the ninth inning, the Sounds got a lift from outfielder Jeremy Hermida, who drove the team's third home run of the game deep over the right-field wall, leveling the score at six runs apiece.

 

But in extras, it was more of the same from Nashville pitchers, who struggled to locate pitches all day. Reliever Michael Blazek (0-2) allowed two singles to begin the bottom of the 10th inning, which put runners on the corners for Omaha. Blazek followed with a wild pitch that hopped to the backstop and gave the Storm Chasers the walk-off victory.

 

The Sounds' pitching staff entered the game with 45 walks on the season, the third-fewest in the Pacific Coast League. Their 10 walks are the most allowed this season, previously offering six to Omaha on April 11.

 

Nashville took the initial lead in the third inning via the bat of outfielder Kevin Mattison, who belted a home run over the right-center field wall. The solo shot gave the Sounds a one-run advantage and Mattison his second home run in three days.

 

The Storm Chasers tied it up in the home half of the third inning with Christian Colon's bases-loaded sacrifice fly.

 

Nashville's Hunter Morris, two-for-four, broke the tie in the fourth inning by blasting a two-run home run over the right-field wall. The homer, Morris' second of the season, scored outfielder Caleb Gindl, two-for-four, who singled through the hole at shortstop to reach base.

 

The three bombs from Mattison, Morris and Hermida gives Nashville its first multi-homer game of the season. The shots also helped extend each batter's heat streaks: five games for Morris, three for Mattison and two for Hermida.

 

Omaha again battled back to tie the game, scoring a run on Jesus Flores' RBI single in the fourth and Matt Fields' sacrifice-fly in the fifth.

 

Tied 3-3 in the seventh inning, Omaha took their first lead of the game courtesy of reliever Dustin Molleken's bases-loaded wild pitch. The 29-year-old Canadian offered a walk, his third in a row, to load the bases again for the Storm Chasers and end his afternoon.

 

Reliever Kyle Heckathorn stepped in to close out the seventh inning, but not before the Chasers picked up their third sacrifice-fly to make it a 5-3 ballgame. Heckathorn loaded the bases in the following inning and, like Molleken and Blazek, tossed a wild pitch to the backstop to score a run for Omaha.

 

Sounds starting pitcher Johnny Hellweg left the game with two outs and the bases loaded in the fourth inning. The 6-foot-9 hurler allowed two runs on four hits, five walks, a fielding error and one hit batsmen. Reliever Brent Leach took over in the fourth, allowing one run on two hits over 1 1/3 innings of work.

 

Mattison, one-for-two, left the game in the fifth inning after crashing into the outfield wall trying to snag a fly ball.

 

The Sounds play game three against the Storm Chasers (AAA-Royals) at 6:35 p.m. on Monday night. The Sounds will send RHP Jimmy Nelson (1-1, 2.50) to the hill opposite the Chasers LHP John Lamb (0-3, 5.63). Jeff Hem has the call on 102.5-FM "The GAME".

 

Nashville Boxscore

You don't need further analysis from me after reading the game story... what a putrid pitching day... Every pitcher who pitched today has an ERA >= 4.95 after today's action, not good.

 

Hunter Morris' other hit on the day was a double which should push his season OPS up near .800. Really the only thing that's continually weighed him down has been his selectivity at the plate, 50 more points of OBP and his lines look much different at every level. Even in 2012 with a .303 BA and a .920 OPS his OBP was only .357.

 

Nashville Recap

Not too many 1-2-3 innings in here, have at it if you are brave enough.

 

Nashville Gameday

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It's pretty clear at this point that Hellweg should be tracked into a bullpen role. Let him focus on commanding his FB & one other pitch.

[fondybrewfan]

Morris is starting to pick it up a bit. Plus he would fit right in with the rest of the Brewers since he can't take a walk either. I know RR and DM seem to love Overbay; but I would love to see Morris get a chance in Milwaukee with a couple starts a week

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Nashville VIDEO, Saturday:

 

Mike Fiers racks up his 12th strikeout to close the eighth inning in a 5-1 win at Omaha

 

Here's Jeff Hem's AUDIO call of the 12th K, and then additional audio of Pete Orr's two-run double and the final out of the game via Donovan Hand.

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Nashville VIDEO, Sunday:

 

Johnny Hellweg fans Omaha's Jason Donald to end the second in a 7-6 Storm Chasers win over the Sounds

 

(Of course, we know it was a pretty miserable outing for Hellweg otherwise...)

 

Watch Omaha's Johnny Giavotella score the game-winning run on Michael Blazek's wild pitch to beat Nashville 7-6 in 10 innings

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Nashville --

 

Team RISP: 1-for-1.

Team LOB: 0.

 

Yet scored six runs...

[HiAndTight]

Morris is starting to pick it up a bit. Plus he would fit right in with the rest of the Brewers since he can't take a walk either. I know RR and DM seem to love Overbay; but I would love to see Morris get a chance in Milwaukee with a couple starts a week

 

 

Because he made the team? What indication is there that they "love Overbay," and that they would consider not bringing up Morris or anyone else because of their affinity for a guy that they only picked up after sifting through ALL the other garbage for to find a 1st basemen?