Link Report for Friday 7/1 - Kicking Off The Long Weekend, Oh Yeah!

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Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Hiram Burgos at home vs. New Orleans (Marlins), 7:30 PM pre-game, 8:05 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 Birmingham (White Sox), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 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: RHP Bubba Derby 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 Drake Owenby at Burlington (Angels), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime; expect RHP Devin Williams 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.

 

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Helena: RHP Karsen Lindell at Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:20 PM pre-game, 7:35 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

We welcome and look forward to hearing first-year Voice of the H-Crew Craig Durham ([b@CraigMDurham[/b] on Twitter).

 

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Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Dodgers' complex in Glendale, 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league

 

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DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Braves, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

 

We'll link to this Dominican Summer League Brewers' thread as part of the Daily Menu all season to assist you with your familiarity with these young men.

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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

 

Pioneer League North Division

 

Arizona League Central Division

 

Dominican Summer League San Pedro Division

 

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Sortable individual stat pages:

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale

 

DSL Brewers

 

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Weather.com:

 

Colorado Springs, CO

 

Birmingham, AL

 

Clearwater, FL

 

Burlington, IA

 

Missoula, MT

 

Glendale, AZ

 

San Pedro de Macoris, DR

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@BrewerProspect Vines from Thursday --

 

Timber Rattler Manager Matt Erickson ejection

 

Juan Ortiz first Timber Rattler AB/pitch

 

Wisconsin's Mitch Ghelfi

 

Marcos Diplan

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Middlebrooks, Suter Earn June Honors

Sky Sox third baseman, southpaw starter/reliever earn monthly honors for June

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

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Finally, it's been a while.

 

Who do you have?

 

A Brewer on Baseball America's Prospect Hot Sheet

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VIDEO via KPAX: Some of the action from Thursday's Helena game, including a nice defensive play by second baseman Wes Wilson

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Voice of the Shuckers' Chris Harris spreading good news this afternoon via Twitter on Shuckers --

 

Garrett Cooper

 

Cooper again

 

Tyrone Taylor

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Friday's farmhand birthday --

 

Brevard County infielder Blake Allemand, 24 and feeling his age

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VIDEO via WTMJ4: Timber Rattler Jake Gatewood (and a bit of Isan Diaz)

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Diamondbacks are the most active team on the independent league scouting front (think the David Peralta success story).

 

Here's a story on their most recent signing, who will be making his affiliated debut at age 24.

 

Kind of bummed the Brewers have seemed to abandon indy ball scouting. In particular for 2016, there just seemed to be a situation in Brevard where you're asking really young guys to do a bit more than they might have ordinarily been expected to do. Even today, with the benefit of several weeks of the indy schedules in the books, locate somebody who is raking and maybe find a gem, or at least help fill some gaps in the system, particularly at high-A.

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Whoa, just realized I forgot the box score links --

 

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale

 

DSL Brewers

 

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

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VIDEO via Brewers on Tap with Lane Grindle: RH Sky Sox closer Damien Magnifico

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Final: DSL Braves 3, DSL Brewers 1

 

D-Crew falls to 9-14...

 

DSL Brewers Box Score

 

Recurring problem --

 

Team RISP: 1-for-9.

Team LOB: 10.

 

No Brewer is raking, but there's some respectable averages and OBP's as the team drew seven walks, but hit only five singles, here (overall stats).

 

DSL Brewers Game Log

 

18-year-old RHP Deymar Alvarado walked four and hit two batters in his three inning start, but allowed only one run. RHP Johan Dominguez' strong rookie season continues, but he was saddled with the loss here.

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Final: Clearwater 6, Brevard County 3

 

Clearwater triumphs over Brevard County in series opener

By Donald Rieber, Jr., 27 Outs Baseball

 

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The linked game story is now located at 27 Outs Baseball with a slightly new look as well, but luckily they will continue to be written nightly by Donald. The articles provide the most thorough source of information and insight on each game so please keep checking them out.

 

Brevard County Box Score

 

Brevard County just 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position and had 9 left on base. To be fair Clearwater wasn't much better going 3-for-14 with runners in scoring position and stranding 9 themselves.

 

Clint Coulter (2-for-4) has recorded hits in 7 of last 8 games and has raised his season batting average from .213 to .233 over that same span. He has also only struck out once in his past 6 games.

 

A forgettable outing for Bubba Derby. With the two long balls he gave up tonight he is now tied for the Florida State League lead in home runs allowed this season with 12 total. Derby only recorded 2 strikeouts in the game, but his season total of 67 K's does rank 8th in the Florida State League.

 

Brevard County Game Log

 

After retiring the first two batters of the game Bubba Derby allowed four straight batters to reach base culminating in four runs and an ominous start for the Manatees.

 

Clearwater Bottom of the 1st

• Carlos Tocci grounds out, shortstop Blake Allemand to first baseman Dustin DeMuth.
  Malquin Canelo grounds out, second baseman George Iskenderian to first baseman Dustin DeMuth.
  Scott Kingery doubles (25) on a fly ball to center fielder Omar Garcia.
  Kyle Martin walks.
  Mitch Walding singles on a ground ball to right fielder Clint Coulter. Scott Kingery scores. Kyle Martin to 3rd.
  Jiandido Tromp homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. Kyle Martin scores. Mitch Walding scores.
  Drew Stankiewicz grounds out, second baseman George Iskenderian to first baseman Dustin DeMuth.

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Wang is stellar again as Shuckers rally for 3-1 victory in 13 innings 1

Jacob Nottingham drove in the winning runs with a single in the 13th

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Wei-Chung tossed a season-high eight innings on Friday night in Birmingham, allowing just one run (Jason Clark)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Wei-Chung Wang was banged around on 6/9 for 10 hits and 8 runs but has been good to very good since that start. The pitching staff was just awesome in this one allowing just 3 hits in 12 innings.

 

Jacob Nottingham's (3-6) climb towards respectability continues as he pushed his AVE over .260, his defense needs some work but he's been good at the plate the last 2 months, OPSing over .770 in both May and June. Garrett Cooper pushed his AVE up over .320 earlier this week and Biloxi won without a meaningful offensive contribution from him which has been rare this season.

 

Biloxi Recap

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Gatewood & Ghelfi Lead the Way for Wisconsin

Rattlers win 4-2 at Burlington

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Chris is going to cover the hitting as Jake Gatewood and Mitch Ghelfi combined to record 6 of the T-Rats 7 hits so I'll look at the pitching.

 

Devin Williams has occasionally blown up this season but he's in the middle of another good run, or at least it would appear so. In Drake Owenby's last 10 games he's pitched 41 innings and allowed 15 earned runs for a very respectable 3.29 ERA, but his season ERA stands at just 2.58... which tells you how good he was to start the season. He's not going to blow you away with his peripheral numbers or his stuff, though his strike out rate is very good, he's just been rock solid so far this season.

 

Wisconsin Recap

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Final: Colorado Springs 13, New Orleans 7

 

Sky Sox Breeze Past Zephyrs For 13-7 Win

Burgos earns fifth win of the year as Sky Sox win fourth straight

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

Breeze Past Zephyrs -- I like clever headlines, plus it's a fine write-up...

 

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The Sky Sox scored 11 runs between the fifth and six innings to defeat New Orleans on Friday. (Paat Kelly photo)

 

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Colorado Springs Box Score

 

The Sky Sox final three seasons with the Rockies were really rough, and last year's initial Brewer season wasn't much fun, so good for these fans, 40-38, just three games out of first and trending upwards on a holiday weekend must be fun.

 

Josmil Pinto, on base all five times up, played first base just to get his bat in the lineup. Rene Garcia caught while Manny Pina sat in what is now a three-catcher rotation. Pinto's OPS is .925, and how many teams wish they had placed a waiver claim on him this spring, inflated PCL numbers or not. Heck, he and Pina (.953 OPS), have been nothing short of spectacular, and to be honest, could end up being the big league tandem in 2017.

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

 

After a June OPS of 1.042, Will Middlebrooks opens July with a 4-for-4 effort that included a rare base on balls. Trade him, too, David.

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VIDEO via KRDO: Sky Sox veterans talk rain delays in baseball

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VIDEO via WLOX: Biloxi game highlights

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Final: Missoula 14, Helena 11

 

Largest crowd in Missoula history watches Osprey outlast Brewers, 14-11

Bill Speltz, the Missoulian

 

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Gilbert Lara with the leap (Tom Bauer photo, the Missoulian)

 

The full article for this road game was writtern via a Missoula perspective, but we do suggest you read (because I'm not recapping 25 runs on my own ).

 

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Helena Box Score

 

RHP Karsen Lindelllearns what life as a starting pitcher in Big Sky country can be like; not counting reaching by errors, there were 41 baserunners in the game (30 hits, 11 walks, and three HBP's, all Helena batters).

 

In the midst of a mass of crooked numbers, RF Demi Orimoloye's night (and early season thus far) stands out for the wrong reasons.

 

Helena Game Log

 

Going to the beach today? Just print out a copy of this log, and you'll have all the reading material you need...

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Final: Arizona Dodgers 2, Arizona Brewers 1

 

Downright chilly!

 

Weather: 86 degrees, overcast.

Wind: 8 mph, R to L.

 

Maryvale Box Score

 

A-Crew scored their lone run off big league vet LHP Randy Choate in the first inning.

 

Professional debut for 32nd round University of Alabama-Huntsville RHP Wilson Adams, one unearned run in a one-inning start; excellent showings by three others on the night, combining for just one walk.

 

You'll see Kenosha's Gavin Lux, the Dodgers' 1st round SS, in the box score.

 

Maryvale Game Log

 

They really had Choate on the ropes, but --

 

AZL Brewers Top of the 1st

 

Jose Gomez singles on a ground ball to left fielder Shakir Albert.

Nick Roscetti singles on a ground ball to left fielder Shakir Albert. Jose Gomez to 2nd.

Trey York singles on a ground ball to right fielder Cody Thomas. Jose Gomez to 3rd. Nick Roscetti to 2nd.

Jay Feliciano grounds into a double play, shortstop Gavin Lux to second baseman Brandon Montgomery to first baseman Hendrik Clementina. Jose Gomez scores. Nick Roscetti to 3rd. Trey York out at 2nd.

Payton Henry hit by pitch.

Nick Cain grounds into a force out, shortstop Gavin Lux to second baseman Brandon Montgomery. Payton Henry out at 2nd.

 

Feliciano's been solid, but this at-bat hurt, chances were extremely rare --

 

AZL Brewers Top of the 8th

 

Jose Gomez singles on a line drive to right fielder Cody Thomas.

Nick Roscetti out on a sacrifice bunt, pitcher Misja Harcksen to first baseman Hendrik Clementina. Jose Gomez to 2nd.

With Trey York batting, wild pitch by Misja Harcksen, Jose Gomez to 3rd.

Trey York walks.

Jay Feliciano strikes out swinging. Trey York steals (1) 2nd base.

Payton Henry grounds out, second baseman Brandon Montgomery to first baseman Hendrik Clementina.

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