Link Report for Thursday 9/1

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Thursday's Daily Menu:

 

All times are Central

 

Colorado Springs: RHP Drew Gagnon at home vs. New Orleans (Marlins), 7:00 PM pre-game, 7:35 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 Luis Ortiz at Mississippi (Braves), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 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 Daytona (Reds), 6:05 PM gametime

 

Free Live Audio Link (Daytona 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 Jordan Yamamoto at home vs. Cedar Rapids (Twins), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 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.

 

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Helena: RHP Wuilder Rodriguez at Missoula (Diamondbacks), 7:45 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): Season completed

 

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DSL Brewers: Season complete, recap here

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

 

Colorado Springs

 

Biloxi

 

Brevard County

 

Wisconsin

 

Helena

 

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

 

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

 

Pearl, MS

 

Daytona Beach, FL

 

Grand Chute, WI

 

Missoula, MT

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Pensacola, the Southern League's first-half winner, lost Wednesday, which hurts the Shuckers, as Pensacola needs to win the second half.

 

As Biloxi heads to Mississippi for the final five-game series, the Shuckers trail the M-Braves by 1/2 game in the overall standings. So for Biloxi to finish ahead of Mississippi, they need to win the series, that's easy math. But here's why the Shuckers better plan on winning four or even five of these games --

 

Pensacola (Reds) visits Birmingham (White Sox) for their final series. Birmingham is a miserable 49-86 this summer, including 25-40 in the second half. Pensacola trails Mississippi by 1.5 games (two in the loss column) in the second half.

 

If Biloxi wins its series 3 games to 2, then Pensacola needs to win its series 4 games to 1.

 

If Biloxi wins its series 4 games to 1, then Pensacola needs to win its series 3 games to 2.

 

If Biloxi wins its series 5 games to 0, then Pensacola needs to win two games in their series.

 

There's actually a similar dynamic going on in the Southern League's North Division, between Montgomery (Rays), Chattanooga (Twins), and first half champs Jackson (Mariners). Wild stuff...

 

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From Chris Mehring's notes:

 

THE CHASE: There are five games remaining in season for the Rattlers. Peoria and Clinton qualified for a playoff spot in the first half. Cedar Rapids has clinched the top playoff spot in the second half. Beloit, Kane County, and Quad Cities have been eliminated from playoff contention.

 

TEAM W-L DIV WC

Cedar Rapids 40-25

WISCONSIN 34-31 6.0

Burlington 33-32 7.0 1.0

 

The Rattlers own the tie-breaker over both Burlington by virtue of winning the season series over both teams. The remaining schedule for each team:

 

WIS: 2 vs. CR; 3 @BEL

BUR: 2 @CLN; 3 vs. QC

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Scoreboard watching --

 

Go Pensacola!

 

Go Clinton!

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Nice article by Tim Froberg at the Post-Crescent with quotes from Isan Diaz

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Final: Daytona 10, Brevard County 0

 

Daytona's two-out scoring seals victory

By Donald Rieber, Jr., 27 Outs Baseball

 

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Brevard County Box Score

 

Their isn't a 10-run rule in professional baseball, but the game was delayed and called (due to rain) in the bottom of the 7th after Daytona had already put 4 runs on the board in the inning (10 for the game) and were still pounding away. Not to belabor the point, but this snippet from the game story make it sink in how bad things have been lately: "It was the 20th loss in 21 games for the Manatees and they fell to 6-40 in the FSL North Division in the second half."

 

Despite only 6 hits, the Manatees had a pair of multi-hit efforts. Corey Ray was 2-for-3 and Trey York was 2-for-3 with a double. Wendell Rijo also contributed a double and moved his average since joining Brevard County north of the Mendoza line. Cody Ponce threw strikes on 59 of 80 pitches over 5.0 innings, but gave up 9 hits and 6 runs including a home run. On the bright side he did strike out 8 while allowing just 1 walk.

 

Brevard County Game Log

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Shuckers drop series opener to Braves, 5-1

Brett Phillips extended his hitting streak to five games with a triple

Biloxi Shuckers

 

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Tristan Archer struck out five over three innings of relief on Thursday.

 

Biloxi Boxscore

Luis Ortiz got smacked around and only lasted 2 innings which took him 57 pitches to accomplish. 4 pitchers from the bullpen combined to allow 1 run and strike out 7 over the final 6 innings.

 

This was a pretty lame effort all the way around, with the Shuckers collecting 2 hits and 5 total base runners in the game, definitely not the kind showing anyone would want in a playoff chase.

 

Come back and get em tomorrow boys.

 

Biloxi Log

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If only Yamamoto had better control, he might have a good outing some day.

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Sky Sox End Home Slate With 4-0 Win

Sky Sox finish sweep of New Orleans in final home game.

By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox

 

Colorado Springs Boxscore

 

Drew Gagnon (5.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1BB, 1K) gave up only one hit as the Sky Sox shut out the Zephyrs on Thursday evening in the final game of the year in Colorado Springs. The win allowed the club to climb back to .500 on the year (67-67). All told, Sky Sox pitchers, which included Sam Freeman, Michael Kirkman and Tim Dillard as well as Gagnon, allowed just two hits and three walks while striking out six.

 

The Sky Sox offense was limited to just five hits, but three of those were back-to-back-to-back in the 2nd, plating two runs. An two-run HR from Garrett Cooper (2-4) in the 8th accounted for the other scoring.

 

Former Brewer Chris Narveson took the lose for New Orleans.

 

Cooper’s HR was his fifth on 112 ABs in Colorado. With his AA numbers, it gives him nine on the year, which is a career high for the 25-year old 1B/OF.

 

Colorado Springs Game Log

 

Col. Springs Bottom of the 2nd

Garrett Cooper singles on a ground ball to second baseman Elliot Soto.

Josmil Pinto doubles (21) on a line drive to left fielder David Lough. Garrett Cooper scores.

Andy Wilkins doubles (20) on a fly ball to left fielder David Lough. Josmil Pinto scores.

Michael Reed grounds out, shortstop J. T. Riddle to first baseman Cole Gillespie.

Yadiel Rivera strikes out swinging.

Drew Gagnon called out on strikes.

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Nuggets galore in both the game story and postgame.

 

Wisconsin Wins 4-1 to Lower Magic Number to Two

Yamamoto strikes out 11 in six innings to take over league lead

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

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Jordan Yamamoto struck out eleven over six scoreless innings and picked up the win for the Rattlers on Thursday over the Cedar Rapids Kernels. (Wisconsin Timber Rattlers/Ann Mollica)

 

Wisconsin Boxscore

Today's Jordan Yamamoto performance was certainly battleship worthy, he came out on the better end of a very entertaining pitchers dual collecting 11 strike outs against just 3 hits and no walks. Complete. Domination. If not for Scott Grist's throwing error the Rattler pitchers wouldn't have allowed any runs while striking out 15, that's putting the hammer down. I found it interesting that Miguel Sanchez was brought on to record the last out, they must really like him to be put in that spot in this situation.

 

The T-Rats were actually no hit through 5 which would have been worrisome if not for the pitching performance but got the most out the hits, errors, and hit by pitches to score as many runs as the team had hits.

 

Wisconsin Log

 

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Postgame Post – September 1, 2016

 

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Thanks to Pensacola's come-from-behind win, this is updated:

 

Pensacola, the Southern League's first-half winner, lost Wednesday, which hurts the Shuckers, as Pensacola needs to win the second half.

 

Pensacola (Reds) visits Birmingham (White Sox) for their final series. Birmingham is a miserable 49-86 this summer, including 25-40 in the second half. Pensacola trails Mississippi by 1.5 games (two in the loss column) in the second half.

 

If Biloxi wins 3 of the next four, then Pensacola needs to win 3 of its next four.

 

If Biloxi wins the next four games, then Pensacola needs to win 2 of its next four.

 

Getting tougher, folks...

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Yamamoto spins gem for Timber Rattlers

Milwaukee right-hander fans career-high 11 in six scoreless innings

By Michael Avallone / MiLB.com

 

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Final: Missoula 11, Helena 4

 

Helena Box Score

 

Ronnie Gideon with one of two team extra base hits, a double - he also walked; Joantgel Segovia with the other double; Gilbert Lara caught stealing in only his third attempt all season...

 

Helena Game Log

 

Tough mound night...