Link Report for Saturday 5/14 - Epic Night in the Springs

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Saturday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Jorge Lopez at home vs. Salt Lake City (Angels), 6:30 PM pre-game, 7:05 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 Chattanooga (Twins), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:15 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: TBD at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:30 PM gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link (Dunedin 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 home vs. Cedar Rapids (Twins), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:05 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. We'll let you know when a road TV feed is available.

 

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]

DVR ALERT (This afternoon!)

 

Timber Rattlers Game

 

Saturday May 14th, 1:00 PM -- MyNew32 TV

 

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PROGRAMMING NOTE: Chattanooga is one of two Southern League teams not to provide MiLB.TV coverage, sorry Biloxi fans...

[Mass Haas]

Follow Saturday'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

 

Chattanooga, TN

 

Dunedin, FL

 

Grand Chute, WI

[Mass Haas]

Houser shaking inconsistent start to season

Dekota Gregory, Pryor Daily Times (OK) Sports Correspondent

 

Right-handed pitcher Adrian Houser was a jack-of-all-trades Monday night for the Milwaukee Brewers Double-A affiliate Biloxi Shuckers.

 

Houser stepped in the batter’s box in the fifth inning and delivered a triple off the wall to score Javier Betancourt from first base. The RBI was Houser’s first since his senior season at Locust Grove High School in 2011. He scored moments later and was responsible for more runs than his opponent, Miami Marlins affiliate, the Jacksonville Suns, in the 9-1 victory at MGM Park in Biloxi.

 

“It’s definitely pretty fun to get to hit again,” Houser said.

 

Houser (2-3) did most of his damage on the mound to pick up his second win of the season. He put his season back in the right direction with a six-inning outing, which tied his season high. Houser allowed one run on three hits and struck out five batters.

 

It was Houser’s best outing since he tossed five hitless innings April 16 against, Arizona Diamondbacks affiliate, the Mobile BayBears. Houser was pulled after five innings when his pitch count reached 86.

 

Houser’s season has been inconsistent thus far, which is why his ERA sits at 7.20 through six starts. He’s given up seven runs in two starts, but both times bounced back with his best performances of the season. Houser started the season by allowing seven runs in a six-inning performance April 9, but notched five hitless innings seven days later.

 

In his start before Monday’s outing, Houser gave up seven runs in four innings to, Cincinnati Reds affiliate, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. He allowed seven hits and struck out nine batters in the game.

 

Houser ended last season with a 2.92 ERA for Biloxi before he was called up to pitch for the Brewers in September.

 

“I feel like (the season) has gone better than it looks because my numbers aren’t that good right now, but I’m accomplishing some things that I’ve been working on and have been throwing the ball well,” Houser said. “It could be a little bit of (inconsistency). My last two games, though, I feel like that they have been pretty consistent. I just had a little bad luck in one of them. With the stuff I’m working on, things should be turning around for me soon.”

[Mass Haas]

Happy 24th Birthday to Brevard County LH reliever Brad Kuntz

 

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[Mass Haas]

From Friday night: Always cool when you get the opponent's broadcast team to gush and throw out "wow's" --

 

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO via Friday's Sky Sox pregame show: Manager Rick Sweet

 

As always, a lot covered over nine minutes, hope folks are taking in all the audio we link to while perusing the full reports each day...

[TheCrew07]

Cedar Rapids Beats Wisconsin 14-6

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

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David Denson went 1-for-3 with a walk, a homer, two RBI, and two runs scored for the Rattlers on Saturday afternoonl (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers/Ann Mollica)

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Bah! A second consecutive game I turned off early.

 

The good: David Lucroy pitched 3.1 scoreless innings, David Denson went yard as noted above, and Alan Sharkey had a big (at the time) double. As I really like Alan I hope he finds some springboard to sustained success.

 

The bad: 4 of the 5 pitchers gave up runs and no Rattler managed more than 1 hit, in a game with this kind of pitching it had better be a slug fest or there's no hope.

 

 

Wisconsin Recap

 

At least the 4th inning provided some temporary relief.

 

Wisconsin Bottom of the 4th

• Blake Allemand pops out to shortstop Sean Miller.
  Isan Diaz walks.
  Mitch Ghelfi singles on a line drive to left fielder LaMonte Wade. Isan Diaz to 2nd.
  Jake Gatewood singles on a line drive to center fielder Christian Cavaness. Isan Diaz to 3rd. Mitch Ghelfi to 2nd.
  David Denson walks. Isan Diaz scores. Mitch Ghelfi to 3rd. Jake Gatewood to 2nd.
  Monte Harrison singles on a line drive to center fielder Christian Cavaness. Mitch Ghelfi scores. Jake Gatewood scores. David Denson to 2nd.
  Alan Sharkey doubles (1) on a line drive to center fielder Christian Cavaness. David Denson scores. Monte Harrison scores.
  Carlos Belonis called out on strikes.
  Trent Clark grounds out, pitcher Dereck Rodriguez to first baseman J. Fernandez.

[TheCrew07]

Rattler Radio Postgame with the usual worthwhile interviews.

 

[markedman5]

.@skysox pitcher, Jorge Lopez has been sharp through 3 innings. He has retired 7 Bees in a row. Heading to the bottom half the score is 0-0

[TheCrew07]

Shuckers win streak snapped in 5-2 loss to Lookouts

Jacob Nottingham and Nick Shaw extend hitting streaks on Saturday

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Garrett Cooper was 2-for-4 with a double and RBI on Saturday night (Jason Clark)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Biloxi outhit Chattanooga 12-9 but just couldn't string together enough hits after the first 2 innings. Unfortunately in hind sight the game was over after the first when Adrian Houser gave up single, double, and a HR to the first 3 batters. It actually could have been worse because he walked the 4th hitter and the 5th lined into a double play, it wasn't a good start. All told Houser went 6.1 innings and gave up 5 runs, his ERA still sits at 7+ and the sample size isn't so small anymore.

 

Garrett Cooper (2-4,2B), Jacob Nottingham (2-4), and Nick Shaw (2-4) had the multi-hit games. Nottingham has creeped his AVE up to .221, he's hitting .283 over his last 10 game. Shucker batters did strike out 14 times to opposing pitcher D.J. Baxendale who isn't a top 30 prospect in the Twins organization but is showing some promise.

 

Biloxi Recap

[Eye Black]

Final: Brevard County 7, Dunedin 2

 

Woodruff fans 10 in win over Dunedin

Donald Rieber, Jr., Manatees Examiner

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Following the 10 strikeout outing RHP Brandon Woodruff leads the Florida State League in K's with 49 over 44.1 innings pitched. Woodruff has a 1.83 ERA on the season and a sub-1.00 WHIP (0.97 to be exact). In addition to the quality game story, Donald also added on Twitter (via @TeesReport) that Woodruff's fastball was touching 96-mph on the stadium gun throughout the game. Woodruff also did not issue a walk and nearly 75% of his pitches were strikes (60 strikes on 81 pitches).

 

Noted birthday boy LHP Brad Kuntz also struckout four over 1.2 innings of work.

 

Brevard County Game Log

 

As mentioned in the game notes 2B George Iskenderian left the game with an injury that the Dunedin radio broadcast team speculated as possibly being a hamstring issue. Of course as noted in the game story, Iskenderian's replacement SS Jose Cuas provided an offensive spark for the Manatees.

 

The rough outing for rehabbing Blue Jays major league reliever Aaron Loup left his ERA at a whopping 108.00 (yes, just a single recorded out sample size)...

 

Brevard County Top of the 7th

Pitching Change: Aaron Loup replaces Justin Shafer.

Jose Cuas singles on a soft line drive to left fielder L. B. Dantzler.

Dustin Houle grounds out softly, shortstop Richard Urena to first baseman Ryan McBroom. Jose Cuas to 2nd.

Fidel Pena singles on a line drive to left fielder L. B. Dantzler. Jose Cuas scores.

Taylor Brennan walks. Fidel Pena to 2nd.

Omar Garcia walks. Fidel Pena to 3rd. Taylor Brennan to 2nd.

Pitching Change: Matt Dermody replaces Aaron Loup.

Brandon Diaz doubles (2) on a line drive to left fielder L. Dantzler. Fidel Pena scores. Taylor Brennan scores. Omar Garcia to 3rd.

Johnny Davis grounds out, second baseman Dickie Joe Thon to first baseman Ryan McBroom. Omar Garcia scores. Brandon Diaz to 3rd.

Angel Ortega grounds out, third baseman Jason Leblebijian to first baseman Ryan McBroom.

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO via Saturday's Biloxi Pre-Game Show: Javier Betancourt talks walk-off

 

Not sure what Betancourt's background is regarding his timeline for learning the English language, but the just-turned 21-year-old is not only confident, but a very entertaining conversationalist, fantastic!

[Mass Haas]

Second Timber Rattler video looks, unfortunately lopsided losses, via the MyNew32 broadcasts --

 

Friday's game

 

Saturday's game

[Mass Haas]

VIDEO via WLOX: Brief game action from the Biloxi road game

[Mass Haas]

Final: Colorado Springs 2, Salt Lake City 1, 18 innings

 

See, it is a pitchers' park!

 

Sky Sox Win Longest Game In Team History

Longest game in Sky Sox history ends on Andy Wilkins walk-off hit in the 18th inning

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Did you read? Good, now watch --

 

 

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Keep in mind Quintin Berry is an outfielder by trade, folks...

 

Col. Springs Bottom of the 18th

 

Pitching Change: Quintin Berry replaces Neal Cotts, batting 9th.

Keon Broxton walks.

With Nate Orf batting, Keon Broxton steals (13) 2nd base.

With Nate Orf batting, Keon Broxton steals (14) 3rd base.

Nate Orf walks.

With Orlando Arcia batting, Nate Orf advances to 2nd on defensive indifference.

Orlando Arcia grounds out, third baseman Rey Navarro to first baseman Kyle Kubitza.

Andy Wilkins singles on a fly ball to left fielder Rafael Ortega. Keon Broxton scores. Nate Orf to 3rd.

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

Lucas Luetge, Neal Cotts -- hello former Brewer southpaws!

 

Ten walks, two HBP's, and 42 strikeouts in this game!

 

Wild box score for the ages, not pretty for most Sky Sox, save for Nate Orf and Andy Wilkins...

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

 

Huge K's for Damien here --

 

Salt Lake Top of the 10th

 

Pitching Change: Damien Magnifico replaces Austin Ross.

Quintin Berry grounds out to first baseman Garin Cecchini.

Rafael Ortega singles on a line drive to pitcher Damien Magnifico.

With Todd Cunningham batting, throwing error by Damien Magnifico on the pickoff attempt, Rafael Ortega to 3rd.

Todd Cunningham walks.

With Nick Buss batting, Todd Cunningham steals (6) 2nd base.

Nick Buss strikes out swinging, catcher Manny Pina to first baseman Garin Cecchini.

Kaleb Cowart strikes out swinging.

 

Ouch, Yadi...

 

Col. Springs Bottom of the 17th

 

Pitching Change: Neal Cotts replaces David Carpenter.

Garin Cecchini walks.

Manny Pina out on a sacrifice bunt, pitcher Neal Cotts to first baseman Kyle Kubitza. Garin Cecchini to 2nd.

With Yadiel Rivera batting, wild pitch by Neal Cotts, Garin Cecchini to 3rd.

Yadiel Rivera strikes out swinging.

Eric Young Jr. strikes out swinging.

 

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Weather: 58 degrees, partly cloudy.

Wind: 11 mph, In from LF.

First pitch: 6:07 PM.

T: 5:29.

Att: 3,681.

[Mass Haas]

Southern League OPS Leaders:

 

2. Nicky Delmonico, 1.020

4. Mitch Haniger, .934

6. Garrett Cooper, .900

10. Brett Phillips, .834

[Mass Haas]

Southern League OPS Leaders:

 

2. Nicky Delmonico, 1.020

4. Mitch Haniger, .934

6. Garrett Cooper, .900

10. Brett Phillips, .834

 

Tom Haudricourt's February 13, 2015 report --

 

The Brewers have released third base prospect Nick Delmonico, ending his short but troubled time with the organization.

 

Delmonico, 22, is still under a 50-game suspension for testing positive for an amphetamine late last July. Baseball America reported he has been signed by the Chicago White Sox.

 

Delmonico was acquired from Baltimore in exchange for reliever Francisco Rodriguez in late July 2013 and immediately was listed among the Brewers' top prospects. The organization had a void at that position and it was hoped he would rise through the system and fulfill his potential.

 

But Delmonico missed minor-league camp last spring for what the Brewers termed "personal reasons." He later reported to Class A Brevard County but played in only 37 games before being suspended. Delmonico was batting .262 with four homers, 15 RBI and a .300 OBP but hadn't played since July 7 when his suspension was announced on July 28.

 

Brewers farm director Reid Nichols said Delmonico was released because the organization had lost contact with him.

 

"We couldn't contact him," said Nichols. "He wouldn't return calls. We couldn't find him.

 

"With all the maintenance, we didn't feel like he was a major-league prospect. So, the work wasn't worth it. It was too much to deal with. There was a lot going on there."

 

As for Delmonico signing with the White Sox, Nichols said, "I hope it works out for him. Maybe this woke him up."

 

Originally selected in the sixth round of the 2012 draft by the Orioles, Delmonico has a .245 batting average with 28 home runs, 108 RBI and a .340 OBP in 214 games over three years in the minors spanning both levels of Class A ball.

[Mass Haas]

The Brewers could have placed Delmonico on the restricted list and retained his rights. Instead they gave up. Maybe there's even more to the story.

 

They gave up.

[CheezWizHed]

Sometimes people need a wake up call. If my employer couldn't get a hold me, I'd be fired too.

 

Maybe makes the majors some day. If that happens, the Brewers were probably part of it.

[FVBrewerFan]

Exactly, and Brewers imply there's even more to the story.

[Crash2303]

who knows and who knows...but, it sure would be nice to have him at the top of our 3B prospects right now and coming up with that wave of guys around 2018.

[Mass Haas]

Home run # 6 for the LH-hitting Delmonico on Wednesday - I, too, believe there's much that we don't know, however, with the option for the restricted list option for non-reporting, there will always be room for second-guessing. Guess we'll truly be able to pout should he reach the majors, although Delmonico has value even now in trade should the White Sox pursue that option, which is more than the Brewers have at this time.