Link Report for Mon. 6/23

[Mass Haas]

Final: Huntsville 6, @Pensacola 2

 

Stars Win Rubber Match Over Pensacola

Steve Jarnicki, Huntsville Stars

 

Pensacola, FL - The Huntsville Stars won the rubber match of their five game series with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos Monday night with a 6-2 win at Bayfront Stadium.

 

The Stars took a 2-0 lead in the third inning. With two outs and two on base, Jason Rogers blooped a two-run single into right field.

 

The Stars made it 3-0 in the fourth. Nick Shaw hit a sharp RBI single to right field scoring Shea Vucinich.

 

The Stars extended their lead in the seventh inning with a pair of runs. Rogers brought home Kentrail Davis on a sacrifice fly, and Lucas May made it 5-0 on his RBI single to right field scoring Hainley Statia.

 

Davis contributed the final run for the Stars in the eighth on his RBI single which scored D'Vontrey Richardson.

 

Andy Moye improved to 3-0 as he pitched five scoreless innings for the Stars. He allowed three hits. He walked four and struck out four.

 

Pensacola scored their lone runs in the eighth against RHP Tim Dillard. Ross Perez grounded out to second base scoring Brodie Greene. Travis Mattair also brought in a run on an infield single.

 

The Stars (3-2, 49-26) took three out of five from the Blue Wahoos (2-3, 33-42) in the first series in the second half of the season.

 

The Stars travel back to Huntsville to begin a series Tuesday night with the Montgomery Biscuits, the Double-A Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays. RHP Jacob Barnes (1-3, 6.03) will climb the hill for the Stars. Montgomery will have RHP Dylan Floro(7-5, 3.14) on the mound. Tuesday's game can be heard starting at 6:15 pm CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and wtkiradio.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score

 

This was the AA debut for prized Cincinnati RHP prospect Ben Lively, the 22-year-old Pensacola native. Here's the Pensacola News-Journal's game report.

 

But the Stars were happy to ruin the debut. RF Kentrail Davis reached base in all five plate appearances to lift his OBP to .354. SS Nick Shaw (OBP .378) reached base thrice, and 3B Jason Rogers added a sacrifice fly to his mentioned-above base knock to drive in three runs on the night. Yes, at .344, Huntsville leads the league in team OBP, that's been their game all season.

 

Huntsville Game Log

 

RHP Greg Holle enjoyed his return to Huntsville, his Stars' season debut was a perfect inning.

[Mass Haas]

VIDEO: Huntsville's Kentrail Davis plates a run in the Stars' 6-2 win over the Pensacola Blue Wahoos

 

Sorry, Nick --

 

VIDEO (full at-bat): Pensacola's Ben Lively fans Nick Ramirez in the Blue Wahoos' 6-2 loss to the Huntsville Stars

[Mass Haas]

From Sunday --

 

VIDEO: Nashville's Caleb Gindl hits a solo homer in the second inning of a 4-1 loss to Salt Lake

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The Missoulian has additional details on the Helena road game.

[TheCrew07]

Sounds Defeat Bees, 8-6

Nashville Sounds

 

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(Mike Strasinger / Nashville Sounds)

 

SALT LAKE CITY - The Nashville Sounds defeated the Salt Lake Bees, 8-6, on Monday evening at Smith's Ballpark.

 

Right-hander Taylor Jungmann (3-4) turned in his best outing in his past four starts, picking up the victory with a quality start for Nashville. He held the Bees to two runs on four hits over six frames of work.

 

Catcher Matt Pagnozzi homered and drove in three runs while Pete Orr went 3-for-4 and Caleb Gindl also plated three to lead the Sounds' offensive effort.

 

The Sounds got out to a quick start against Joel Pineiro, grabbing a 3-0 lead with a two-out rally in the top of the first inning. After the first two batters were retired, Nashville filled the bags with a pair of walks sandwiched around a Hunter Morris single before Gindl cleared the bases with a three-run double to right.

 

After Salt Lake got a run back in the second on an Ian Stewart RBI single, Nashville upped its lead to 6-1 in the fourth. Orr contributed an RBI knock before Pagnozzi slugged a two-run homer to left off Pineiro, the backstop's sixth big fly of the year.

 

Pineiro (1-2) was saddled with the loss after giving up six runs on seven hits in his five frames of action.

 

The Bees got another run back in the home half of the fifth when a leadoff walk came back to haunt Jungmann. John Hester drew the free pass and later raced home on a Tommy Field sacrifice fly to make it a 6-2 contest.

 

Nashville got the run right back in the top of the sixth against Salt Lake reliever Anthony Lerew when Gindl led off with a single and later scored on Pagnozzi's two-out single to left. The Sounds missed a chance at a larger output, leaving the bases loaded in the frame.

 

Salt Lake center fielder Matt Long pulled the Bees back within 7-4 in the seventh when he roped a two-run homer just over the wall in the right field corner off Sounds reliever Dustin Molleken.

 

Logan Schafer tacked a run onto the Nashville lead in the top of the eighth when his two-out RBI double to right plated Orr, who had opened the frame with a single off Yoslan Herrera.

 

The Bees didn't go down without a fight in the final inning against Nashville reliever Jeremy Jeffress.

 

Pinch-hitter Jack Shuck led off with a single and raced around to score on Taylor Lindsay's double to the right-center gap. After a strikeout, the Sounds' right-hander issued a walk to Field to bring the potential tying run to the plate in the person of Luis Jimenez, who slapped an RBI single to left to cut the Sounds' lead to 8-6. Jeffress recovered to fan Brennan Bosch and Stewart in succession to close out the victory.

 

The Sounds will look to secure just their second winning road series of the year when the teams wrap up the four-game set with a 1:05 p.m. CT finale on Tuesday afternoon. Right-hander Johnnie Lowe (0-2, 4.79) will make the start for the Sounds and face Salt Lake right-hander Jared Grube (4-2, 4.92).

 

Nashville Boxscore

Taylor Jungmann's full line; 6 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO, and 2 HBP while throwing 46 of 86 (53.49%) pitches for strikes. Without elite stuff and/or control he's going to have to settle in at each level like he's done in the past.

 

Hunter Morris (2-5,2B) and Caleb Gindl (2-4,2B) were the prospects with multi-hit games.

 

Nashville Recap

 

Nashville Gameday

[Mass Haas]

Just a reminder that Nashville plays a 1:05 PM Central game today -- Tuesday's Link Report will be out just prior to pre-game audio.

[yoshii8]

Very excited about Monte Harrison's start in Arizona. Hit his first home run yesterday.

[FVBrewerFan]

DeMuth too, encouraging to see that these recent picks aren't over-matched.

[Jenkins5]

Harrison was a very good baseball player when he only focused on it 4 months a year (as he was too busy starring on the football and basketball court....literally he was incredible at both) Now this is his whole life....i think he is just going to develop in to a top prospect! Not just a Brewer one either. His eye at the plate and overall ability (base running, defense, hit tool) are all there for him to make the rise.