Link Report for Friday 4/22

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Jorge Lopez at home vs. Nashville (Athletics), 7:00 PM pre-game, 7:35 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson)

 

MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs 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. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link.

 

NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup.

 

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Biloxi: RHP Adrian Houser at Mississippi (Braves), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Thaddeus Krzus (@Shucks1stIntern) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them.

 

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Brevard County: RHP Brandon Woodruff at Clearwater (Phillies), 5:15 PM gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link (Clearwater feed)

 

Unfortunately, the Manatees have dropped their broadcast coverage for 2016.

 

No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. Ten of the 12 Florida State League teams provide audio (some only for home games), we'll do our best to let you know when an opponent's audio is going to be available.

 

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Wisconsin: LHP Jake Drossner at Peoria (Cardinals), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

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.

 

MiLB.TV - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them.

 

NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on local TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (10) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (29) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule (scroll to bottom of link) so you can coordinate your DVR activity.

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Colorado Springs Media Notes - Linked on the Sky Sox official blog

 

Biloxi Media Notes - Linked on the Shuck Dynasty blog

 

Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

 

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STANDINGS:

 

AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division

 

AA - Southern League South Division

 

High-A - Florida State League North Division

 

A - Midwest League Western Division

 

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

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Weather.com:

 

Colorado Springs, CO

 

Pearl, MS

 

Clearwater, FL

 

Peoria, IL

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO: Thursday's pre-game interview with Sky Sox Manager Rick Sweet

 

I've always contended we learn quite a bit during player and staff interviews, even with the occasional polite or inconsequential question. Dan Karcher does a nice job of covering multiple topics in his interviews, particularly with Sweet...

[WV Brew]

Manatees are at it again. No base runners through 3 innings. This level of futility is incredible.

[ctmyers]

The Brewers, as an organization, have scored 3 three runs today...

[TheCrew07]

Chiefs Hold Rattlers to Two Hits

Peoria shuts out Wisconsin for second night in a row

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Chris pointed out during the broadcast that the Rattlers have double digit strike outs 4 times this year and all against the Chiefs, which of course is lame, as the Chiefs are the Cards' single A affiliate.

 

Blake Allemand (2-4) had the only Rattler hits, though David Denson did walk twice.

 

On the prospect front both Monte Harrison and Jake Gatewood are sub .200 at this time while Isan Diaz has slipped all the way down to .236.

 

Wisconsin Recap

[TheCrew07]

M-Braves shutout Shuckers to snap four-game win streak

Braves score all five runs in the first inning on Thursday night

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Nathan Orf was 2-for-3 on Thursday and has reached base safely in 13 of 15 games (Benton Reed Photography)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

The wild version of Adrian Houser has started the season in Biloxi which is unfortunate. His best outing from a control standpoint was the first, but he gave up a boat load of hits and 7 ER. Today Houser was followed by Martin Viramontes with 3 scoreless, but he didn't strike out anyone and walked 3 himself. Stephen Peterson pitched a perfect inning to end the game with 2 strike outs.

 

Nate Orf (2-3) was the majority of the Biloxi offense tonight, though Kyle Wren did walk twice.

 

Biloxi Recap

[AKCheesehead]

Am I the only one who gets momentarily thrown off looking at the box score when the Sky Sox play the Sounds?

[igor67]

No, I have to do a double take every time and it doesn't help that a large portion of the AAA roster is new.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Clearwater 2, Brevard County 1

 

Threshers beat Brevard County on bases loaded walk

Donald Rieber Jr., Brevard County Manatees Examiner

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Nice writeup by Mr. Rieber of a characteristically weak performance...

 

Ned Yost IV is in his fifth season as a coach with Brevard County. He previously spent three seasons as a full-time coach with the Rookie Helena Brewers (2009-11). He served as an assistant coach with Helena in 2008.

 

Yost played in the organization as an infielder for three seasons (2005-07) after he was signed as a non-drafted free agent out of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 2005.

 

Ned resides in Pine Mountain, Georgia. He is the son of former Brewers manager and current Royals skipper, Ned Yost.

 

Yost is joined by Edwin Maysonet this year.

 

Just saying, it can't all be Florida State League stadium and weather conditions...

 

Brevard County Game Log

 

Pitches-strikes: Woodruff 87-52

 

Four innings plus one batter -- why is this becoming such a pattern, while opposing pitchers consistently post six and seven inning starts against the 'Tees? No wonder Jorge Ortega's work is so refreshing in terms of efficiency...

 

Sigh ---

 

Brevard County Top of the 9th

 

Angel Ortega strikes out swinging, catcher Gabriel Lino to first baseman Kyle Martin.

Clint Coulter singles on a ground ball to shortstop Malquin Canelo. Clint Coulter advances to 2nd, on a throwing error by shortstop Malquin Canelo.

George Iskenderian singles on a ground ball to center fielder Carlos Tocci. Clint Coulter out at home on the throw, center fielder Carlos Tocci to catcher Gabriel Lino.

Dustin Houle grounds out, pitcher Jesen Therrien to first baseman Kyle Martin.

 

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Houle's slow start seems particularly disappointing, at least his .333 OBP stands out as impressive when compared among this struggling bunch.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Colorado Springs 8, Nashville 7

 

Link includes video of the walkoff...

 

Sky Sox Walk Off To Top Sounds 8-7

Seesaw battle goes Sky Sox way as Pina provides walk-off single to end epic battle

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Manny Pina's walk-off single capped an epic Sky Sox ninth inning comeback. (Paat Kelly photo)

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

Entertaining for the local fans, that's for sure...

 

This was RHP Tim Dillard's first appearance since he was activated from the Helena taxi squad on 4/16; on that day, RHP Jacob Barnes was placed on the Temporary Inactive List, a set of transactions not noted earlier.

 

RHP Jorge Lopez has walked ten in 11.1 innings -- across all levels, most Brewer "top" prospects are off to less than ideal starts, to put it mildly.

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

[CheezWizHed]

Am I the only one who gets momentarily thrown off looking at the box score when the Sky Sox play the Sounds?

 

The other day, I clicked on the boxscore and wanted to look into some player's MiLB page. So I clicked on the Sounds team page link and was in the roster page before I realized my error...