Link Report for Wednesday 6/1

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Hiram Burgos and LHP Brent Suter in a doubleheader at home vs. Omaha (Royals), 5:00 PM pre-game, 5:30 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings

 

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 home vs. Mississippi (Braves), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:10 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 Jon Perrin at Lakeland (Tigers), 5:00 PM gametime

 

Sorry folks, no audio available for this series...

 

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 David Burkhalter at Peoria (Cardinals), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 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]

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

 

Colorado Springs Game One

 

Colorado Springs Game Two

 

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

 

Biloxi, MS

 

Lakeland, FL

 

Peoria, IL

[Mass Haas]

Tuesday's game --

 

[Mass Haas]

Congratulations to Sky Sox RHP Jacob Barnes, called up to the Brewers (Blazek DL); he'll meet up with the Crew in Philly on Thursday, what a thrill.

[Mass Haas]

Boy, a lot riding on the future studness of Jorge Lopez, because even with Jacob Barnes' emergence as a bullpen option, that 2011 Brewers' draft class is not looking very strong.

 

Just waiting on my guy Dustin Houle, though...

[FVBrewerFan]

Some fringe-y prospect starting pitchers tonight. Who will step up?

[Mass Haas]

Colorado Springs: RHP's Hiram Burgos and Tyler Cravy in a doubleheader at home vs. Omaha (Royals), 5:00 PM pre-game, 5:30 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings

 

Well, it won't be Tyler Cravy in Game Two, the Brewers just announced he's been placed on the 7-day DL (undisclosed injury).

 

LHP Brent Suter pitches in his stead.

[Mass Haas]

Congratulations to Sky Sox RHP Jacob Barnes, called up to the Brewers (Blazek DL); he'll meet up with the Crew in Philly on Thursday, what a thrill.

 

FGCU alum Jacob Barnes fourth to make majors, second in a week

Seth Soffian, Fort Myers News-Press.com

 

Good background here...

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO via WTMJ's Sports Central Wed. 6/1: Brewers VP of Amateur Scouting Ray Montgomery

[homer]

Isan Diaz has some crazy home/road splits.

 

Home:

.170/.248/.217

 

Road:

.265/.337/.434

[CheezWizHed]

Boy, a lot riding on the future studness of Jorge Lopez, because even with Jacob Barnes' emergence as a bullpen option, that 2011 Brewers' draft class is not looking very strong.

 

Just waiting on my guy Dustin Houle, though...

 

I still think Jungmann will be a decent starter. And Gagnon has a chance as a reliever. But not a great haul overall.

[Eye Black]

Final: Lakeland 5, Brevard County 2

 

Lakeland evens series with win over Manatees

By Donald Rieber, Jr., Manatees Examiner

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Donald's story offers the best game recap available, so check out his linked article.

 

Two hits and a double for both Johnny Davis (2-for-4) and Jose Cuas (2-for-3). Oh and by the way the other hit for Cuas was a home run blast.

 

Clint Coulter was 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts which wasn't even the team lead since Taylor Brennan struck out 4 times.

 

Pitching 6.0 innings Jon Perrin gave up 11 hits, 3 earned runs, and 1 walk while striking out 6.

 

Brevard County Game Log

[Mass Haas]

Attendance: 160.

 

Gotta love Lakeland hanging in there all these years in the FSL.

[TheCrew07]

Wisconsin gets 12 hits, but falls 7-2 at Peoria

Allemand stays hot for Rattlers, but team can't hold early lead

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

David Burkhalter wasn't as good today but David Lucroy didn't do him any favors either, this game got away in the 6th which I'm sure Chris will discuss in the game story.

 

Blake Allemand's (2-5,2B) massive hot streak continues while Jake Gatewood (2-4), Monte Harrison (2-4), and Sthervin Matos (2-4) had multi hit games. 12 hits and 2 runs.... (sigh).

 

Wisconsin Recap

[Mass Haas]

Waiting for the Sky Sox summaries, but for now, here's one of Orlando Arcia's five singles (5-for-7, one walk) from the Sky Sox twinbill sweep tonight --

 

[TheCrew07]

Braves even series with 6-2 win over Shuckers in 14 innings

Adrian Houser's quality start lowers starters ERA to 0.77 over last six games

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Adrian Houser tossed six innings of one run baseball on Wednesday night at MGM Park (Michael Krebs)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Adrian Houser had a really nice start, reminiscent of how he pitched post trade last year.

 

Garrett Cooper played 3 positions and went 4-6 on the evening, that's about all you can ask of a player.

 

Biloxi Recap

[dacrew101]

Anyone worried about Brett Phillips alarming amount of strike outs?

[Mass Haas]

Final, Game One: Colorado Springs 6, Omaha 5

Final, Game Two: Colorado Springs 5, Omaha 0

 

Sky Sox Sweep Twin Bill Over Omaha

Sky Sox walk-off in game one then throw shutout in game two to sweep doubleheader

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Michael Reed was at the center of the celebration after his walk-off RBI gave the Sky Sox the win in game one. (Paat Kelly photo)

 

Do click the summary for the full details of a very good night...

 

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Colorado Springs Game One Box Score

 

RHP Hiram Burgos needed 100 pitches to get through five; the catching duo of Pina and Pinto has been ridiculous all season...

 

Colorado Springs Game One Game Log

 

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Colorado Springs Game Two Box Score

 

Sky Sox batters had 19 hits (three of them doubles) and six walks in the 13 innings of doubleheader at-bats...

 

Colorado Springs Game Two Game Log

[FVBrewerFan]

Anyone worried about Brett Phillips alarming amount of strike outs?

 

Yes, along with his alarming lack of walks.

[Mass Haas]

M-Braves win 14-inning marathon over Shuckers at MGM Park

Patrick Magee, Biloxi Sun-Herald

 

BILOXI – Mississippi Braves third baseman Carlos Franco ripped a two-run ground rule double to right field in the top of the 14th to break a 2-2 tie and lift the Braves to a 6-2 victory over the Biloxi Shuckers Wednesday night at MGM Park.

 

The Shuckers (30-22) went up 2-0 in the second inning but failed to score a run in the final 12 innings of the game before a crowd of 2,156.

 

The M-Braves (23-29) weren't much better at the plate, stranding a total of 15 runners. But they managed to get to relief pitcher Tristan Archer with four runs in the top of the 14th.

 

Archer (4-4) took the loss, allowing four runs on six hits in one inning out of the bullpen.

 

Willians Astudillo followed Franco's double in the 14th with his own two-run double to set the final margin of victory at four runs.

 

Garrett Cooper paced the Shuckers at the plate, going 4-for-6 with an RBI.

 

The Shuckers stranded a total of 12 runners on Wednesday and failed to take advantage of opportunities late.

 

“It's just baseball,” Cooper said. “You're going to have your ups and downs. Sometimes the hits aren't going to come with runners in scoring position, but you take today. The pitching was great. You just move on to tomorrow.”

 

Both teams ran out of position players entering the 14th inning.

 

Cooper played three different positions Wednesday – left field, right field and first base.

 

“I've never done that,” Cooper said of playing three different positions in one game. “It's baseball. You do anything you can to help the team.”

 

Starting catcher Jacob Nottingham also played multiple positions, moving to first base in extra innings as Rene Garcia moved behind the plate.

 

First baseman Jacob Schrader was 4-of-6 to lead the M-Braves' effort in the batter's box.

 

Shuckers starting pitcher Adrian Houser put in a quality start, but didn't factor into the decision. He allowed one run on seven hits in six innings, striking out six and walking three.

 

Ole Miss product Chris Ellis overcame a bumpy start for the M-Braves to put in a nice outing of his own. He allowed two runs on six hits while striking out six and walking three.

 

The Shuckers had the first four men reach in the bottom of the second – a single by Nick Ramirez, a double by to left by Nottingham, an RBI infield single to shortstop by Cooper and a walk by Nick Shaw. Javier Betancourt then lifted a sacrifice fly to left to bring home Nottingham from third to give the Shuckers a 2-0 lead after two innings.

 

Johan Camargo hit a solo home run in the fifth and Mel Rojas Jr. hit an RBI double in the seventh to tie the game at 2-2 and push the contest into extra innings.

 

Tyler Spurlin, Stephen Kohlscheen and Daniel Tillman combined to throw five scoreless innings in relief Biloxi, but that streak ended with Archer's struggles in the 14th.

 

Right-hander Stephen Janas (3-2) earned the win for Mississippi by throwing two scoreless innings.

 

Right-hander Javier Salas (3-1, 3.79) is set to be the starting pitcher for Biloxi at 7:10 PM on Thursday at MGM Park. Mississippi will counter with left-hander Sean Newcomb, who is 2-2 with a 3.71 ERA.

[CheezWizHed]

Shuckers starting pitcher Adrian Houser put in a quality start, but didn't factor into the decision. He allowed one run on seven hits in six innings, striking out six and walking three.

 

Yet another case where "quality start" really does a poor job describing Houser's outing. Nice to hear that he is dealing again after a rough start.

[FVBrewerFan]

I don't know, I would consider that a quality start. The stat isn't "great" start. Maybe it's how I look at QS. I look at is as anything above the minimum I would hope for from a start. Giving up only one run in 6 is quality. Would I prefer a couple less hits/walks? Sure.

[CheezWizHed]

QS is 3 runs or less in 6 innings. This was better than a QS. 4.5 ERA vs 1.50

 

It's kind of like saying Rickie Henderson was above average at steals. It's true, but very inadequate in description.