Link Report for Fri. 6/13

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Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times are Central

 

Nashville: RHP Taylor Jungmann at home vs. Tacoma (Mariners), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 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 Drew Gagnon at home vs. Chattanooga (Dodgers), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:30 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).

 

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Brevard County: Idle (FSL All-Star Game is Saturday)

 

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Wisconsin: RHP Victor Diaz at Quad Cities (Astros), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM

 

Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio.

 

For the $49.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from seven Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games.

 

NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (9) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (30) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule so you can coordinate your DVR activity.

 

Quad Cities does have MiLB.TV coverage available for this series.

 

No local TV coverage until Friday June 27th.

 

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DSL Brewers: at the DSL Tigers, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

 

We're going to lock in the link to Brad Krause's fantastic Miller Park Prospects - Dominican Summer League primer right here, at least for the first couple of months of the DSL campaign, for your easy review. Brad will also be adding DSL Link Report duties to his Brevard coverage for us here. Thanks, Brad!

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Follow Friday's action as it happens with box score / game log links:

 

Nashville

 

Huntsville

 

Wisconsin

 

DSL Brewers

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

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To see tweets as to when the Link Report has been technically "completed" with available links, as well as to know when the new day's Report has been posted, please follow @Mass_Haas on Twitter.

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Look for these just prior to the respective game times --

 

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

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

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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

 

DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Nashville

 

Huntsville

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Dominican Summer League Brewers

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Weather.com:

 

Nashville, TN

 

Huntsville, AL

 

Davenport, IA

 

Santo Domingo, DR

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When was the last time a Brewer appeared as high as #2 on Baseball America's Prospect Hot Sheet?

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Sounds Winning Streak Ends in 8-1 Loss

Nashville's Molleken throws Three Scoreless; Bianchi Homers

Nashville Sounds

 

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The first-place Nashville Sounds (38-31) had their four-game win streak halted by the hot bats of the Tacoma Rainiers in an 8-1 loss before 7,353 fans at Greer Stadium Friday night.

 

Sounds starter Taylor Jungmann (2-3), the No. 6 prospect in the Brewers' system according to Baseball America, couldn't find a rhythm all night, and the Rainiers made him pay as he gave up six runs (five earned) on seven hits in five innings.

 

Jungmann was charged the loss, his third since joining the team on May 23.

 

The bottom of Tacoma's order provided an early boost when No. 8 hitter Humberto Quintero opened the scoring with an RBI single in the top of the second. During the next at-bat, the Rainiers added another run on a double steal, with Jabari Blash scoring.

 

Blash later broke the game open in the top of the fourth with a two-run homer to right field that increased Tacoma's lead to 4-0. The Rainiers tacked on one more run in the inning on a Xavier Avery double.

 

The Sounds responded in the bottom half of the fourth when Jeff Bianchi hit a solo home run, his second of the season. Bianchi has been on a hot streak since joining the Sounds hitting .308 in his last 13 games.

 

Tacoma scored their sixth run in the top of the fifth when Quintero came through with an RBI single set up by a Bianchi error.

 

Sounds reliever Dustin Molleken halted Tacoma's batters by throwing three perfect innings in relief while striking out five batters for his sixth-straight scoreless outing. He has now allowed a run in just one of his last 13 appearances.

 

Tacoma added insurance runs off of Sounds reliever Donovan Hand in the top of the ninth, with an RBI triple by Chris Taylor and a sac fly from Nick Franklin being the final blows.

 

The Sounds will look to bounce back against Tacoma on Saturday at 6:35 p.m. Nashville LHP Brad Mills (4-1, 1.57 ERA) will take to the hill looking to continue his successful season against rehabbing Mariners RHP Taijuan Walker (0-1, 6.30 ERA). Jeff Hem has the call on 102.5-FM "The GAME".

 

Nashville Boxscore

This was ugly, go get 'em tomorrow.

 

Nashville Recap

 

Nashville Gameday

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Diaz dazzles in Rattler win at Quad Cities

Wisconsin wins for tenth time in eleven games, but gets knocked out of playoff chase

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

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Victor Diaz makes a pitch during Friday's game at Quad Cities. Diaz allowed one hit and struck out six in the victory over the River Bandits. (Rich Guill)

 

DAVENPORT, IA - Victor Diaz was almost perfect in his six innings on Friday night for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at Modern Woodmen Park. The Venezuelan right-hander retired the first sixteen Quad Cities River Bandits he faced and picked up the victory in a combined 7-0 shutout win with Anthony Banda. The win was the tenth in the last eleven games for the Rattlers, but it could not prevent them from being eliminated from the first half playoff race.

 

Wisconsin (35-32) sent eight men to the plate in the top of the second inning and scored four times for the lead. Clint Coulter was hit by a pitch to start the inning. Taylor Brennan followed with a single. Jose Pena knocked in both runners with a double into the left field corner. Pena would take third on a wild pitch. The River Bandits brought the infield in, but Francisco Castillo lined a single over the infield for an RBI single to drive in Pena. Later in the inning, Angel Ortega made it 4-0 with a sacrifice fly that drove in Castillo.

 

Diaz was didn't allow a runner until there was one out in the bottom of the sixth inning. He hit Jake Rodriguez with a 1-1 pitch to end the streak of sixteen straight batters retired to start the game. James Ramsay singled off the glove of Castillo at second base with two outs for the first hit by a River Bandit. But, right fielder Michael Ratterree threw Rodriguez out at third base for the final out of the inning and the Quad Cities catcher tried to go from first to third on the single. Diaz struck out six in the game.

 

Left-handed reliever Anthony Banda took over in the bottom of the seventh inning and retired the Bandits (34-33) in order.

 

Wisconsin tacked on a pair of runs in the eighth. Johnny Davis reached on a bunt single with Ortega at second and a wild throw to first let Ortega score. Ratterree dropped a single down the line in right to get Davis home from third later in the inning.

 

In the top of the ninth, Rafael Neda knocked in the final Wisconsin run with a sacrifice fly for a 7-0 advantage.

 

Banda allowed a single, a double, and a walk in the bottom of the ninth, but he got the final outs to end the game and preserve the shutout.

 

Friday night was the third shutout of the season for the Timber Rattlers and their first since April 16 when they shutout Lansing 1-0 in the second game of a doubleheader.

 

Unfortunately for Wisconsin the Burlington Bees rallied several times to defeat the Cedar Rapids Kernels 6-5 at Cedar Rapids on Friday. The win by the Bees eliminated the Timber Rattlers from playoff contention. Burlington trailed 2-0, 3-2, and 5-4 in the game, but took a 6-5 lead on a two-run double by Mike Fish in the top of the sixth inning. The Bees held on to clinch the first half Western Division Wild Card spot with two games remaining before the All-Star break.

 

Wisconsin has gone 10-2 in June, but Burlington has gone 9-3 to hold off the hard-charging Timber Rattlers.

 

The teams meet in game two of the series on Saturday night. Tyler Alexander (4-3, 3.74) is the scheduled starter for the Timber Rattlers. Chris Lee (2-4, 4.47) is set to start for the River Bandits. Game time is 6:00pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or IHeartRadio starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 5:40pm. Saturday's game is also available on MiLB.TV.

 

WP: Victor Diaz (2-2)

LP: Andrew Thurman (3-4)

SAVE: Anthony Banda (2)

 

TIME: 2:34

ATTN: 5,962

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

This is the second gem Victor Diaz has twirled this year and of course both were on the road... he's got a lit bit of Ariel Pena in him as when he's on he's really good and when he's not the results are uneven. I'm not sure exactly where to peg him without being able to see him with his best stuff. It was awesome of Anthony Banda to keep it going as well, just 5 total baserunners against 8 strike outs between the two pitchers.

 

Johnny Davis (3-5), Michael Ratterree (2-4), Jose Pena (2-4,2B), and Francisco Castillo (2-3,2B,BB) had the multi hit games. With the guys at the bottom of the line-up hitting hot streaks lately the entire team AVE has climbed all the way back to .251, but that's still only good for 11th overall.

 

Wisconsin Recap

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Final: DSL Brewers 4, DSL Tigers 2

 

DSL Brewers Box Score

 

The Brewers used a three run eighth inning to knock off the Tigers 4-2. 17-year-old Venezuelan Nelson Hernandez turned in an excellent start, going seven innings and giving up just one run on three hits to earn his first professional win. Axel Cordero worked a scoreless eighth and Doni Arias picked up his fourth save despite allowing a run in the ninth.

 

Joantgel Segovia returned to the lineup for the first time since June 2nd and picked up a pair of hits in four at bats. Raphachel Colatosti also went 2-for-4 including a double. Juan De Los Santos doubled and walked in four plate appearances, Yerald Martinez tripled and walked, and Nicolas Pierre singled and drew a base on balls.

 

DSL Brewers Play-By-Play

 

DSL Brewers Top of the 8th

Sauris Mejia remains in the game as the center fielder.

Defensive switch from center field to right field for Ariel Serrano.

Yerald Martinez walks.

Johel Atencio singles on a line drive to right fielder Ariel Serrano. Yerald Martinez to 2nd.

Pitching Change: Malvin Martinez replaces Gregory Soto.

Kevin Martinez hits a sacrifice bunt. Yerald Martinez to 3rd. Johel Atencio to 2nd. Kevin Martinez to 1st.

Raphachel Colatosti grounds into a force out, shortstop Alwin Delgado to catcher Mario Sanjur. Yerald Martinez out at home. Johel Atencio to 3rd. Kevin Martinez to 2nd. Raphachel Colatosti to 1st.

Joantgel Segovia grounds into a force out, shortstop Alwin Delgado to second baseman Gregoris Hidalgo. Johel Atencio scores. Kevin Martinez to 3rd. Raphachel Colatosti out at 2nd. Joantgel Segovia to 1st.

Juan De Los Santos doubles (3) on a line drive to right fielder Ariel Serrano. Kevin Martinez scores. Joantgel Segovia scores.

Julio Mendez grounds out, third baseman Randel Alcantara to first baseman Yerison Pena.

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Final: @Huntsville 8, Chattanooga 7

 

Richardson's Home Run Sinks Lookouts

Steve Jarnicki, Huntsville Stars

 

Huntsville, AL - D'Vontrey Richardson broke a 6-6 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning with his two-run home run leading the Huntsville Stars (45-24) past the Chattanooga Lookouts (26-43) 8-7 Friday night at Joe Davis Stadium.

 

Chattanooga took an early 2-0 lead against Stars RHP Drew Gagnon in the first inning. Darnell Sweeney hit a leadoff home run on the very first pitch from Gagnon. Scott Schebler also provided an RBI single in the inning.

 

The Stars took a lead in the bottom of the first. Kentrail Davis led off by reaching base on a throwing error by the shortstop Sweeney. Davis ultimately came around and scored on another error by Sweeney. Mitch Haniger grounded a ball back up the middle and the shortstop booted it into centerfield giving the Stars their first run.

 

Jason Rogers tied the game in the first on a sacrifice fly. Shawn Zarraga gave the Stars a 3-2 lead after his RBI single.

 

The Stars took a 5-2 lead in the third inning. Haniger recorded an RBI on a groundout to second base. Nick Ramirez also scored in the inning on a passed ball by Chattanooga catcher Chris O'Brien.

 

In the bottom of the fourth with two outs and Nick Shaw at second base, Davis reached on an infield single which scored Shaw. The shortstop Sweeney made a diving stop then threw to third base trying to get Shaw. Daniel Mayora, the Lookouts third baseman, dropped the ball allowing Shaw to score.

 

With the Stars leading 6-2, Chattanooga started to chip away at the deficit in the fifth. O'Koyea Dickson doubled down the left field line making it 6-3.

 

Gagnon, who pitched five innings allowing three runs on six hits, left the game with a 6-3 lead but ended up taking a no decision.

 

Schebler hit a long home run to right field off Tanner Poppe. It was Schebler's twelfth homer of the year.

 

Brian Cavazos-Galvez also added an RBI groundout bringing it to a 6-5 Stars lead.

 

Sweeney tied the game in the seventh for the Lookouts on his second homer of the game. He launched his sixth home run of the season against Jose De La Torre. Sweeney's home run tied the game at 6-6.

 

In the bottom of the eighth Chattanooga brought in RHP Juan Gonzalez (1-5). Zarraga led off with a single off Gonzalez's leg. Richardson then stepped to the plate and took Gonzalez deep over the right center field wall. It was Richardson's third home run of the season.

 

David Goforth (3-3), who entered the game for the Stars in the eighth to record the final out, pitched the ninth.

 

Mayora gave the Lookouts a ninth inning run on his infield RBI single. Goforth though buckled down to get Casio Grider to ground out to second base to end the game. The Lookouts left the tying and go ahead runners on base in the ninth.

 

Ramirez and Zarraga each led the Stars with two hits apiece.

 

The Stars lead Chattanooga 4-0 in their five game series. Game five will be played Saturday night at Joe Davis Stadium. LHP Jed Bradley (0-2, 5.00) will start for the Stars. Chattanooga will send RHP Raydel Sanchez (0-4, 7.76) to the mound. Saturday's game can be heard starting at 6:15 pm CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and wtkiradio.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score

 

The 957 folks in attendance on this Friday night were treated to a heck of a game. Nine different half-innings saw a run or more scored. These guys find a way, not sitting on their first-half title laurels. It's going to be tough to live up to these expectations for the Biloxi fans next summer.

 

RHP Drew Gagnon threw 70 pitches in five innings, but only 39 for strikes.

 

Six Stars reached base multiple times, please digest the box score link best you can...

 

Huntsville Game Log

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17-year-old Venezuelan Nelson Hernandez turned in an excellent start, going seven innings and giving up just one run on three hits to earn his first professional win.

 

Drink the Nelson Hernandez Kool-Aid after just two starts.

 

Will have to do a future analysis to provide examples for you, but when the Brewers dip into Venezuela, those kids just seem to be more advanced off the top. Hernandez only turned 17 in March. Despite that, the Brewers knew to place him in a starting role immediately. Two starts, 12 innings, only one walk with a .167 BAA thus far.

 

Also glad another 17-year-old Venezuelan (won't be 18 until November), CF Joantgel Segovia, is back, was worried an injury might knock out his season. He's sqeezed two outfield assists from right field (and three errors - two in RF, one in CF) into three games, along with five singles and two walks (.538 OBP).

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Be sure to check out all the recent posts here in the Minor League Forum threads, as the Manatees and Stars threads include All-Star Game preview updates.

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VIDEO: Brief Nashville report via local TV sports broadcast

 

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The Sounds responded in the bottom half of the fourth when Jeff Bianchi hit a solo home run, his second of the season. Bianchi has been on a hot streak since joining the Sounds hitting .308 in his last 13 games.

 

AUDIO: Bianchi Homers

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Sounds reliever Dustin Molleken halted Tacoma's batters by throwing three perfect innings in relief while striking out five batters for his sixth-straight scoreless outing. He has now allowed a run in just one of his last 13 appearances.

 

The big 29-year-old Canadian and his 98 MPH heater is going to make his MLB debut in 2014, perhaps sooner rather than later...

 

Hint to Jeff Hem for an interview soon, please...

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Diaz flirts with perfecto; Rattlers win again

Brewers prospect yields one hit, fans six, walks none over six innings

By Mark Emery / MiLB.com

 

It's not every day that a pitcher takes a perfect game into the sixth inning. Victor Diaz's performance Friday night was anything but run of the mill.

 

In Class A Wisconsin's 7-0 win at Quad Cities, the Brewers prospect retired the first 16 batters, ultimately allowing one hit over six innings as the Timber Rattlers won their third game in a row and 10th in the last 11.

 

"My focus was to be aggressive in the zone, making the hitters get themselves out and getting them to swing at my pitches as early as possible," Diaz said through a translator, Wisconsin pitching coach Elvin Nina. "Not trying to get them out in one pitch. I was just trying to get them to be overaggressive."

 

After recording 1-2-3 innings in each of the first five frames, the Venezuela native lost the perfecto with one out in the sixth by plunking Jake Rodriguez. Then, after getting Thomas Lindauer to pop out in foul territory, he watched the no-hitter slip away on James Ramsay's line drive single to right.

 

The inning ended moments later as right fielder Michael Ratterree cut down Rodriguez at third base.

 

"It was an aggressive pitch, down in the zone, and he was able to get a good swing on it and it got through," Diaz said of the knock that ended his no-hit bid. "The hitter did a pretty good job of hitting right there."

 

The 20-year-old right-hander faced one batter over the minimum, inducing four groundouts and five flyouts.

 

Diaz's stellar effort improved his record to 2-2 and lowered his ERA to 3.69. Over 53 2/3 innings across 13 games (seven starts) this season, he has 41 strikeouts against 24 walks.

 

The only player to notch a hit against him Friday came away impressed.

 

"He was mixing his pitches well, getting everything over, and we didn't adjust," Ramsay told the Quad-City Times. "He never gave us a chance to get anything going."

 

It was the third time this season that Diaz did not issue a walk. In his prior start, he issued a career-high six free passes -- with just one strikeout -- en route to surrendering five runs over 3 2/3 innings at Clinton.

 

"I just tried to stay in the zone, stay aggressive in the zone and not work on the edges," said Diaz, who signed with Milwaukee as a non-drafted free agent on March 5, 2012.

 

Thanks to Diaz and left-hander Anthony Banda, who allowed two hits over the final three innings to earn his second save, the Timber Rattlers collected their third shutout of the season and first since April 16, when they blanked Lansing in the second game of a doubleheader.

 

"I'm very pleased with my outing," Diaz said. "I'm just going to continue working and try to build off this outing, continue to work hard and remain aggressive."

 

Wisconsin plated four runs in the second before adding two in the eighth and one in the ninth. Johnny Davis picked up three hits, while Ratterree, Jose Pena and Francisco Castillo had two apiece. Pena's two-run double in the second opened the scoring.

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This is awesome -- three called strikes in 32 seconds!

 

VIDEO: Wisconsiin's Victor Diaz strikes out Chase McDonald for his sixth strikeout of the night