Link Report for Friday 7/22

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF!

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: LHP Brent Suter at home vs. Round Rock (Rangers), 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 Pensacola (Reds), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 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 Charlotte (Rays), 5:35 PM gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link (Charlotte 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 Corbin Burnes at home vs. Fort Wayne (Padres), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime; expect RHP Zack Brown 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 Nash Walters at home vs. Idaho Falls (Royals), 7:50 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link

 

We welcome and look forward to hearing first-year Voice of the H-Crew Craig Durham (@CraigMDurham 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 the DSL Tigers, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day; one is a completion of the July 2nd game (scoreless after one inning)

 

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.

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

Maryvale Game One

 

Maryvale Game Two

 

DSL Brewers

 

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

 

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:

 

Reno, NV

 

Pensacola, FL

 

Port Charlotte, FL

 

Grand Chute, WI

 

Helena, MT

 

Glendale, AZ

 

San Pedro de Macoris, DR

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO via Thursday's Biloxi Pre-Game Show: New utility man Tom Belza

[Mass Haas]

Friday's farmhand birthday:

 

This year's 24th round Connecticut HS RHP Michael Gonzalez turns all of 18 years old. He's got two pro appearances under his belt with Maryvale.

[Mass Haas]

There are thirteen 17-year-olds on the current Dominican Summer League team.

[WV Brew]

DSL Tigers 7, DSL Brewers 6

 

The Brewers lost their 6th straight game by giving up 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th. Only one of those 13 17-year-olds, mentioned previously by MH, is a pitcher (Luis Cordero). The Brewers only had 6 hits in the game, all by different players. One of the 17-year-olds, Bryan Connell, drew 2 walks in this game.

 

Wilfred Salaman worked 3 innings for the Brewers giving up one unearned run to drop his ERA to 1.23. He struck out 3 in the 3 innings.

 

Box Score

 

Game Recap

[TeesReport]

The Manatees have been postponed in Charlotte. Doubleheader Saturday @ 5:05 p.m.

[Mass Haas]

The Manatees have been postponed in Charlotte. Doubleheader Saturday @ 5:05 p.m.

 

Don't worry, still seven games tonight - Maryvale is playing two after all; looks like MiLB has them as the home team in Game Two.

[Mass Haas]

In the DSL game, a new signee made his pro debut --

 

LHP Jose Alberro is an 18-year-old Puerto Rico native, listed at 6'1", 168.

 

He threw three wild pitches in his only inning (escaped allowing only one run).

 

DSL Tigers Bottom of the 8th

 

Pitching Change: Jose Alberro replaces Wilfred Salaman.

Gresuan Silverio singles on a line drive to center fielder Jesus Lujano.

Pedro Hurtado grounds out, third baseman Javier Castillo to first baseman Moises Perez. Gresuan Silverio to 2nd.

Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Jose Quero replaces Irwin Chirinos.

With Jose Quero batting, wild pitch by Jose Alberro, Gresuan Silverio to 3rd.

Jose Quero walks.

Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Luis Laurencio replaces Santiago Vital.

With Luis Laurencio batting, wild pitch by Jose Alberro, Gresuan Silverio scores. Jose Quero to 2nd.

Luis Laurencio called out on strikes.

Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Jorge Ynirio replaces Mike Torres.

With Jorge Ynirio batting, wild pitch by Jose Alberro, Jose Quero to 3rd.

Jorge Ynirio strikes out swinging.

[Mass Haas]

Friday night tweet --

 

2015 3rd rd RHP Nash Walters, 19, lifted from Helena game after 5 consecutive walks (6 overall), has walked 46 in 45 pro IP; it's a process.

[Mass Haas]

Interesting article about what two-man umpire crew leagues like the Pioneer have to do when an ump is unavailable.

[Mass Haas]

Final, Game One: Arizona Dodgers 12, Arizona Brewers 5

 

Let's play two!

 

Weather: 113 degrees, clear.

Wind: 5 mph, In from RF.

First pitch: 5:01 PM.

 

Maryvale Game One Box Score

 

It was a rough birthday relief outing including three wild pitches for RHP Michael Gonzalez (see above); the other three arms here struggled as well...

 

Three doubles and a HR among the six A-Crew hits, the long ball belonging to LF Zach Clark, his 2nd HR in his first four pro games...

 

Maryvale Game One Game Log

 

God help the two-man umpire crew given the heat.

[LouisEly]

Nice outing by Zack Brown today.

 

Looks like everybody had fun in Pensacola tonight (sorry, it never gets old).

 

Literally everybody had fun in Colorado Springs, as everyone in the staring lineup has a hit and Reed is the only one without at least two hits. What's the scouting report on Pina? He had a pretty good year in Toledo last year too.

[TheCrew07]

Phillips, Wang help Shuckers snap losing streak

Brett Phillips went 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBI's on Friday

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Brett Phillips snapped an 0-for-28 with a 3-for-5 night on Friday night in Pensacola, including his 12th home run. (Michael Krebs)

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Wei-Chung Wang with his best start since July 1, wow. Stephen Kohlscheen continues his excellent season, he now has 46 SOs in 33.2 innings.

 

Biloxi managed double digit hits! Brett Phillips busted out of his slump in a big way, hopefully this gets his him streaking the other way as MH pointed the horrible slump he was in. I don't play the excuse game with prospects (giving him a pass on average because his power stroke came back) so I'll just say that I find his 2016 campaign extremely disappointing. He would have to be Mitch Ghelfi hot most of August to salvage this year's batting line.

 

Biloxi Recap

[TheCrew07]

Rattlers Hang on to Sweep TinCaps

Erceg & Stokes lead the way to 8-7 Wisconsin win

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

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Lucas Erceg went 3-for-4 with a double, a triple, a run scored, and three RBI for the Timber Rattlers on Friday night. (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers/Ann Mollica)

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Back to .500!

 

Every Ratter pitcher in this game gave up at least one run. Corbin Burnes wasn't as dominant as his first time time out but that was balanced by Zach Brown pitching much better than he did his first 2 times out.

 

Troy Stokes (3-5,3B,2 2B) and Lucas Erceg (3-4,3B,2B) were monsters at the plate, though Erceg had a fairly costly throwing error in the 9th. Jake Gatewood (2-4,2B) also had a multi hit game, and has 4 multi hit games in his last 5, as the Rattlers once again broke double digit hits. I talked about how David Denson has struggled since teams started playing the exaggerated shifts against him, but I haven't mentioned that his OF defense is spotty at best, he just doesn't read the ball well off the bat yet. I honestly don't understand that move, it's worked out because of injury, but he's just not athletic or as experienced as the other OFs in the system or even on this team and with even reasonable OF health he would have been relegated to DH duty all season. MH and I have taken Brandon Diaz to task for his incredibly poor season at the plate but he's still playing fantastic defense. He didn't play tonight, but it occurred to me that I didn't mention his great plays from the previous games in this series, hopefully people are watching the highlights on a daily basis, there's just been so much to talk about each day.

 

Wisconsin Recap

[brewmann04]

Any chance the brewers call up Sutter to replace or take a spot start instead of Anderson or garza

[DHonks]

TheCrew, I was about to mention Kohlscheen. Not sure of his stuff, but he's having a career year with extreme strikeout numbers. A new pitch maybe??

[Mass Haas]

Final: Helena 8, Idaho Falls 7, ten innings

 

Brewers mount comeback, walk-off in extras

Ryan Collingwood, Helena Independent Record

 

Three quality captioned photos at the link

 

A semblance of a routine inning would have given the Idaho Falls Chukars their 20th Pioneer League triumph.

 

Instead, the South Division co-leaders coughed up three ninth-inning errors, and the Helena Brewers took advantage of each.

 

Wes Wilson's bases-loaded single forced extra innings and, in the 10th, Nathan Rodriguez's walk-off single cemented a thrilling, 8-7 comeback win at Kindrick Legion Field.

 

Idaho Falls, which has committed nine errors in the series' first two games, saw sizable Brewers first baseman Ronnie Gideon reach third after a down-the-line double that was mishandled by the Chukars right-fielder.

 

In the subsequent at-bat, Rodriguez poked a single to left field before being mobbed by teammates, celebrating their second win in as many nights.

 

The Brewers (13-20), in the cellar of the North Division, improved their home record to 9-5.

 

It was the timely offense of Wilson, though, which spearheaded the Brewers' rally.

 

Trailing 6-2 in the eighth, Wilson sent a towering shot that carried over the left-field wall -- a three-run shot -- for the first homer of his professional career. He went 2 for 5 with four RBIs.

 

Yeraldy Martinez also homered in the seventh, his seventh of the season for Helena.

 

The Chukars (19-14), who swept the Brewers in Idaho Falls last week, earned the bulk of their runs in a disastrous second inning for Helena.

 

Brewers starting pitcher Nash Walters, a third-round draft pick, walked five consecutive hitters, two of which walked in runs. Idaho Falls tallied four runs in the frame and managed just one hit, a two-run Ricky Aracena double.

 

Gideon (3 for 4) and Rodriguez (3 for 5) paced the Brewers, who tallied 12 hits in the win.

 

Idaho Falls, which leads the Pioneer League in errors, was led by Aracena (2 for 5, two RBIs) and Yelson Melo (2 for 5, RBI).

 

Reliever Shawn Clowers earned the win for Helena, giving up one run and four hits in three innings, and striking out three.

 

The two teams in meet in Game 3 of the series at 7:05 PM (8:05 Central) Saturday at Kindrick Legion Field.

 

Helena Box Score

 

Quality work by the three hurlers who followed Nash Walters, review the box for details, please; quality clutch work because Idaho Falls was 4-for-21 with RISP...

 

Helena Game Log

 

In addition to the position players who received well-earned mentions in Ryan's game story above, LF Demi Orimoloye reached three times and Gilbert Lara, DH'ing here, reached twice. Both still have work to do to improve their overall lines. They hit 3-4 in the lineup again in this one.

[Mass Haas]

By the way, Ryan of the Independent Record is moving on to his native Idaho in August. His work on the H-Crew, including early-season video reports, will be missed. Good luck, sir.

[Mass Haas]

More on Biloxi's road game --

 

Shuckers' Phillips ends funk with big night

Brewers No. 2 prospect collects three hits, homers, drives in two runs

By Mack Burke / MiLB.com

 

Brett Phillips' recent tough stretch started against Reds No. 30 prospect Jackson Stephens and, ironically, ended against him on Friday night.

 

The Brewers' second-ranked prospect broke out of a 0-for-27 funk with three hits, including a solo homer, and two RBIs as Double-A Biloxi held on for a 3-2 win over Pensacola at Blue Wahoos Stadium. It was Phillips' fourth three-hit game of the season.

 

Phillips promptly ended his rough stretch with a single to left field off Stephens (6-9) with two outs in the first inning. He stepped to the dish again with two outs in the third and took the 22-year-old right-hander deep to left-center field for his first homer since June 27.

 

Phillips bounced out in the fifth inning, then sent a soft liner to left in the seventh for a two-out single that plated his second run of the night. He struck out in the ninth.

 

The Florida native's 0-for-27 stretch dated back to a July 11 contest against Stephens and Pensacola in which he was 0-for-4 with two punchouts. The slump dropped his average just over 20 points, but Friday's game boosted it to back to .230.

 

Shuckers starter Wei-Chung Wang (5-5) was perfect through four innings and departed with one out in the seventh after allowing a run on two hits and a walk while striking out nine. Stephen Kohlscheen got the final four outs for his 11th save.

 

Tom Belza went 2-for-3 with a solo shot in the fourth inning for Biloxi.

 

Stephens (6-9) gave up two runs on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts in six innings.

[Mass Haas]

VIDEO via WLOX: Biloxi highlights

[Mass Haas]

Quotes within this game story in Pensacola (full article here) --

 

Biloxi starting lefty Wei-Chung Wang started the game by striking out the first five Blue Wahoos hitters he faced. He ended up striking out a career-high nine in 6.1 innings. He gave up just two hits and one walk and allowed one run on a solo blast by Pensacola catcher Joe Hudson.

 

Wang has now won three of four games against Pensacola this season. The native of Taiwan improved to 5-5 in 17 starts for the Shuckers and lowered his ERA to 3.61.

 

“He’s very deceptive,” Kelly said. “He changes speeds. His fastball ranges from 87-to-94 (mph). I don’t think he gets the credit for being very good. He has better stuff than people think.”

 

Meanwhile, Jackson Stephens, who dropped to 6-9 this year, also threw a solid start. He gave up two solo homers among seven hits allowed, walked two and struck out four in six innings pitched.

 

“Two solo home runs usually don’t beat you,” Kelly said.

 

One of those homers was by center fielder Brett Phillips, who snapped an 0-27 skid Friday, by going 3-5 with a run scored, stolen base and two RBIs. He also hit a two-out single in the seventh to drive in left fielder Johnny Davis for Biloxi’s third run of the game. The other homer was hit by second baseman Tom Belza.

 

“He’s a good hitter,” Kelly said about Phillips. “You’re not going to hold him down forever. He made some adjustments. He widened his stance with two strikes. Now, we have to make some adjustments to him.”

[Mass Haas]

AUDIO: Game highlights from Chris Harris' Biloxi call