Link Report for Monday 5/23 - Timber Rattlers TV matinee

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[Mass Haas]

Monday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: LHP Sam Freeman at Sacramento (Giants), 8:30 PM pre-game, 9:05 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: LHP Wei-Chung Wang at Tennessee (Cubs), 5:45 PM pre-game, 6:05 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 Jupiter (Marlins), 5:30 PM gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link (Jupiter 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: RHP Devin Williams at home vs. Kane County (Diamondbacks), 11:45 AM pre-game, 12:05 PM gametime; expect RHP Jordan Yamamoto to pitch in a tandem role

 

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

 

Monday May 23rd, 12:00 PM -- TWC SportsChannel

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

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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:

 

Sacramento, CA

 

Kodak, TN

 

Jupiter, FL

 

Grand Chute, WI

[Mass Haas]

Monday's farmhand birthdays --

 

Catcher Charles Galiano - 22

RHP Jon Perrin - 23

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VIDEO via WLOX: A bit from Biloxi's Game Two win on Sunday

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What an excellent read --

 

RHP Eric Marzec (30th round, 2010, Youngstown State) appeared in 197 games for Brewers farm clubs over five-plus seasons until he asked for his release last summer.

 

Over the years, we had linked to multiple stories, reports, videos, etc., that let us know Marzec had a diverse set of interests. In the feature article linked below, we learn much more about Eric and his journey with the Brewers.

 

Continued life success to one of the farmhands I really enjoyed interacting with in recent years...

 

For Central's Marzec, there is life after baseball

After spending six years bouncing around the minors, the former Crusader is ready for the next stage of his life

By Joe Scalzo, Canton (OH) Repository sports writer

 

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Looks like Marzec curtailed his Twitter activity last November...

[dacbrewers]

Listening to Timber Rattlers game...Harrison has the green light on 0-3 count kind of surprises me when he's batting .165

[WV Brew]

I'm sure they were just trying to get Monte going by getting him a (presumed) get-me-over fastball to hit. I don't think it would work. To my layman's eye, he is jumping at every fastball he sees. Even if he times it right it's 50-50 whether it goes foul down the left field line. He needs to relax and wait a bit more, try to hit the fastball back up the middle or to right center. In any case, he is really messed up again.

[FVBrewerFan]

Yamamoto is an interesting guy. His off-speed stuff is pretty filthy, not sure if he projects as a starter or BP arm, but he has a chance.

 

Also, another game with ZERO walks by the TRats.

[Mass Haas]

Crew's blueprint unfolding with Timber Rattlers

By Curt Hogg / MLB.com

[TheCrew07]

Rattlers drop homestand finale to Kane County

Cougars beat Wisconsin 7-1

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

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Blake Allemand went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored for the Timber Rattlers on Monday afternoon. (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers/Ann Mollica)

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

I find the start of Devin Williams' 2016 campaign frustrating (maybe disheartening is a better word), I was hoping he'd take a step forward and instead his control has been worse than last year in 2 of his 3 outings. Most everything is being left up, and it shows in the results. At least Jordan Yamamoto keeps getting better incrementally as he moves up.

 

The T-Rats were dominated by Cody Reed who was the Arizona 2nd round pick in 2014 out of an Alabama HS, he's been stellar at every step along the way. Rattler hitters Mitch Ghelfi (2-3), Blake Allemand (2-4,2B), and Sthervin Matos (2-4) had the multi hit games for Wisconsin. As noted earlier in the thread Monte Harrison has batted at the top of the line-up all season, manager Matt Erickson has been extremely patient and has gone of out of way to show confidence in Monte. In year's past he would have been batting out of the 9 spot by the 2nd week of April, Erickson has never been shy about shuffling the batting order in terms of who's hot or not.

 

Jake Gatewood committed his 15th error already, Allemand added his 7th, 6 of which have come in WI.

 

Wisconsin Recap

 

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Postgame Post – May 23, 2016

 

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[TheCrew07]

Final: Tennessee 3, Biloxi 2 (12 Innings)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Lame Cubs.

 

Wei-Chung Wang gave up a boatload of hits in his 5.1 innings again, but interestingly enough gave up 1 of his 2 runs on a balk, and limited the damage fairly well. The bullpen pitched fairly well allowing just 1 run in over 6 innings, though walk, single, walk, single with 2 outs in the 12th was less than inspiring.

 

Kyle Wren (3-6,HR) led the way offensively while Tyrone Taylor (2-4,BB), Nick Shaw (2-5), and Brandon Macias (2-4,BB) all had multi hit games.

 

Biloxi Recap

 

Tennessee Bottom of the 12th

• Biloxi Shuckers right fielder Garrett Cooper ejected by 1B umpire Matt Winter.
  Defensive Substitution: Rene Garcia replaces right fielder Garrett Cooper, batting 3rd, playing right field.
  Chesny Young flies out to right fielder Rene Garcia.
  Jacob Hannemann walks.
  Jeimer Candelario singles on a ground ball to right fielder Rene Garcia. Jacob Hannemann to 3rd.
  Brett Lee intentionally walks Victor Caratini. Jeimer Candelario to 2nd.
  Billy McKinney singles on a fly ball to center fielder Tyrone Taylor. Jacob Hannemann scores. Jeimer Candelario to 3rd. Victor Caratini to 2nd.

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Final: Jupiter 1, Brevard County 0

 

Hanhold goes seven strong innings in loss at Jupiter

By Donald Rieber, Jr., Manatees Examiner

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Well a full baseball game played in one hour and 46 minutes is impressive, unfortunately this Brevard County offense continues to be overmatched. The Manatees have now gone scoreless in 49 of their last 51 offensive innings.

 

On a positive note it was a solid day for Eric Hanhold completing 7.0 innings pitched and allowing just 3 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, while striking out 4. Hanhold has a 2.39 ERA on the season which ranks 16th in the FSL among qualified pitchers.

 

Brevard County Game Log

 

As noted in the game story Johnny Davis extended his on base streak to 29 games with a bunt single in the 9th inning. As pointed out in yesterday's Link Report, the majority of his recent hits have come off infield hits and bunt singles.

 

Will Smith's upcoming rehab debut offers something on the horizon to look forward to in Brevard County.

[Mass Haas]

The 23-year-old LH-hitting third baseman is now posting a 2016 line at AA Birmingham of .338/.397/.676 (OPS 1.073). His release after whatever nonsense there was in his life is still something Melvin - Ash - Flanagan could answer to (somebody track down Reid Nichols again). Would the Stearns regime have been just a bit more patient with an extended "restricted list" placement? Listen to the setup of the call here, and sorry, I'm not intentionally trying to derail the Link Report focus for the 2nd time in a month, simply saw the video while searching for Brewers' clips --

 

[Mass Haas]

Final: Sacramento 4, Colorado Springs 2

 

Sky Sox Start Road Trip With 4-2 Loss

Orlando Arcia's home run ties game, but Sacramento holds on to win

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

LHP Sam Freeman walked three in his short outing, that salvage project is off to a rough start; 23 strikeouts in the game, 13 by Sky Sox batters; this roster isn't exactly exciting, is it? Except for --

 

Sacramento Bee:

 

Giants reliever Sergio Romo gave up a solo homer but struck out the side Monday night at Raley Field in his one inning pitched for the River Cats as he begins his rehab assignment for his strained right elbow.

 

In a 4-2 River Cats victory, Romo struck out former River Cat Shane Peterson on nine pitches to start the sixth before giving up a first-pitch, 425-foot blast to Colorado Springs Sky Sox shortstop Orlando Arcia to tie the score 2-2. He set down the next two batters on strikes, finishing off Manny Pina on three pitches.

 

“I was in the strike zone, I didn’t miss by a whole lot and when I did miss, my breaking balls really seemed to be pretty sharp,” Romo said. “So in all reality I think today was huge. I felt fine and I was able to throw all my pitches well.”

 

The right-hander threw 17 pitches – 13 for strikes.

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

[JohnBriggs12]

Arcia homered off Sergio Romo? A 425 footer no less? Now that's impressive!

[CheezWizHed]

Listening to Timber Rattlers game...Harrison has the green light on 0-3 count kind of surprises me when he's batting .165

 

I'm surprised the ump lets him bat on an 0-3 count... But if they do, I'd give him the green light, too!