Link Report for Friday 8/9 - TGIF!

[Mass Haas]

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Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores

 

Dominican Summer League Scoreboard (includes DSL Brewers/Indians game)

 

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Links for affiliate audio

 

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Standings and sortable stat pages

 

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MiLB.TV options: Only two feeds - Carolina home, San Antonio and Biloxi road. Wisconsin and Rocky Mountain unavailable.

[Mass Haas]

RHP Edinson Mejia made his Dominican Summer League pro debut with two June starts, but has not pitched since. We wish him a happy 18th birthday today.

 

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Recently activated and just three games into his pro career, picture-less DSL RHP Ramon Carrasco turns 17 today.

[Mass Haas]

Pre-Game Media Notes:

 

San Antonio

 

Wisconsin

[Mass Haas]

Gosewisch: Why I'm proud to be a journeyman

 

Good stuff...

[markedman5]

 

Ethan Small's third inning for the @TimberRattlers tonight:

L6

K (swinging)

5-3

 

9 up. 9 down. w/ 3K

39 pitches/23 strikes

[TigerUppercut]

 

Ethan Small's third inning for the @TimberRattlers tonight:

L6

K (swinging)

5-3

 

9 up. 9 down. w/ 3K

39 pitches/23 strikes

 

Thanks, Mark. If anyone has an update on his velocity it would be much appreciated.

[TigerUppercut]

Does anyone know why Feliciano isn't getting more press? Seems like a 20 year catcher showing good hit and power numbers in a non-friendly hitting environment would be grabbing more headlines. Heck, he has to have a shot at the Carolina record for HR's going into the home stretch.

[And That]

Thanks, Mark. If anyone has an update on his velocity it would be much appreciated.

Small's velocity has been similar to what it was in college.

[miggs721]

Is Joe Gray Jr injured????

[Brew crew 92]

Freitas 3 more hits, ave up to .381 > but let’s continue to watch Perez flail away with the big club. I hope he’s able to take advantage of his probable limited playing time in September to show how asinine keeping him down all year was. If the crew loses out by a game or two I blame Stearns.

 

No excuse to keep him away from the big club when he helps solve their biggest offensive weakness > hitting vs LHP. .525 obviously isn’t good enough, I suppose it needed to get over 60%.

[Mass Haas]

Is Joe Gray Jr injured????

 

Yes, but it is not clear what his injury status is. You'll rarely see the standard 7-day IL utilized for players at the rookie league level.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Freitas 3 more hits, ave up to .381 > but let’s continue to watch Perez flail away with the big club. I hope he’s able to take advantage of his probable limited playing time in September to show how asinine keeping him down all year was. If the crew loses out by a game or two I blame Stearns.

 

No excuse to keep him away from the big club when he helps solve their biggest offensive weakness > hitting vs LHP. .525 obviously isn’t good enough, I suppose it needed to get over 60%.

 

You want Freitas up? I never would have guessed? First I'm hearing of it!

[Mass Haas]

Box: Rocky Mountain 2, Billings 1

 

Alternative box includes inning-by-inning linescore

 

Vibes hold off Billings

Mike Clark, Billings Gazette

 

BILLINGS — Nick Kahle hit a two-run home run and Rocky Mountain’s pitching made it stand up — not without some ninth-inning drama, however — as the Vibes defeated the Billings Mustangs 2-1 Friday night in front of 3,013 fans at Dehler Park.

 

Vibes starter Brock Begue threw four shutout innings, and he combined with three other pitchers to limit the Mustangs (7-4, 22-27) to seven hits.

 

The final pitcher, Taylor Floyd, escaped a ninth-inning jam when the Mustangs loaded the bases with one out on an error, a hit by pitch and a single by Jonathan Willems. But Floyd threw to home on Victor Martinez's comebacker for the second out and induced a game-ending fly ball from Quincy McAfee to earn his first save.

 

Kahle’s home run, his sixth of the season, came in the fourth inning, and the Mustangs pulled within a run in the sixth when TJ Hopkins scored on a Rocky Mountain error.

 

Arman Sabouri (2-3) allowed an unearned run in three innings of work for the win.

 

The Vibes (5-6, 22-27) won despite getting just four hits. Mustangs starter Carlos Carreno (3-5) allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings and was tagged with the loss.

 

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VIDEO highlights from this road game: Defense gets the Vibes into, and then out of, trouble

 

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PHOTO GALLERY: Some shots of the Vibes amid the Billings focus in this collection - are you a fan of Rocky Mountain's tan and brown jerseys?

 

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First baseman Ernesto Martinez now all the way back, makes the start. This was Nick Kahle's first game in a week, and good to see he was behind the plate for all of it. RHP Steve Pastora had not pitched for five weeks.

 

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AUDIO Tweet: Kahle's home run

[Brew crew 92]

Freitas 3 more hits, ave up to .381 > but let’s continue to watch Perez flail away with the big club. I hope he’s able to take advantage of his probable limited playing time in September to show how asinine keeping him down all year was. If the crew loses out by a game or two I blame Stearns.

 

No excuse to keep him away from the big club when he helps solve their biggest offensive weakness > hitting vs LHP. .525 obviously isn’t good enough, I suppose it needed to get over 60%.

 

You want Freitas up? I never would have guessed? First I'm hearing of it!

 

Last rant.

He’s not coming up til September now, with Perez back rostered, unless injury of course.

[Mass Haas]

Carolina Pre-Game Media Notes

 

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Box: Carolina 6, Salem 4

 

Feliciano and Lutz Power Mudcats in Series Opening 6-4 Victory

Feliciano hit his league best 19th homer and Lutz hit a go-ahead 3-run homer versus Salem

 

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VIDEO Tweet:

 

Tristen Lutz HR

 

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"I've been wanting and waiting for the right moment to drop a "great googa mooga" on a home run call. Mario Feliciano's last homer was for sure the time to do just that. Another missed opportunity on my part." - Voice of the Mudcats Greg Young Jr.

 

Sorry, no video on that one.

 

Does anyone know why Feliciano isn't getting more press? Seems like a 20 year catcher showing good hit and power numbers in a non-friendly hitting environment would be grabbing more headlines.

 

We've tried to do our part .

 

Very glad both he and Payton Henry survived the trade deadline.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Biloxi 5, Tennessee 2

 

Series Secured As Shuckers Win Third Straight In Tennessee

Long Ball Lifts Biloxi to 70 Wins

By Andrew Chapman / Biloxi Shuckers

 

Pitches-strikes: Rasmussen 51-31

 

Brewers consistent in their treatment of Drew.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Wisconsin 7, Burlington 2

 

Rattlers Cruise to 7-2 Win in Burlington

Small tosses three perfect innings as the starter; Dillard cracks four hits and drives in three

By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

 

Yeah, early results on the top five draft picks this year are pretty sweet.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Albuquerque 11, San Antonio 10

 

It was 11-5 after six innings, as the late rally came up just short.

 

Darn pinball PCL sites -- Zack Brown 75 pitches through three innings, LHP Angel Perdomo had only allowed three runs in an outing once all season (six runs here).

 

HR: SA: Hager (11) , Erceg (15) , Saladino (15) . ABQ: Hilliard (30) , Soto (7) , Nunez (16) .

[Mass Haas]

Box: DSL Rangers #1 Squad 15, DSL Brewers/Indians 3

 

Wait, there's good news, despite the latest losing streak up to five games for the 13-42 club.

 

17-year-old Venezuelan rookie RHP Edwin Jimenez walked only one - that's been an issue - in five strong innings, 2.80 ERA in ten appearances (eight starts).

 

RHP Felipito Santos is 0-9, 13.03, but he belongs to Cleveland.

 

Talk about a career game - rookie 17-year-old Venezuelan OF Isaac Curbata was 4-for-4. Prior to Friday, he had been 8-for-68.

 

19-year-old switch-hitting 2nd-year Dominican infielder (third baseman here) Francisco Gonzalez is emerging - on base three times here, line up to .290/.378/.379.

[Mass Haas]

Box: DSL Brewers 5, DSL Rangers #2 Squad 0

 

Two starts ago, RHP Juan Gomez tossed seven scoreless. Six innings of two-hit ball on Friday, as he continues to put his lost (missed) 2018 season well behind him. At 22 years old, he needed to.

 

Normally a catcher, Farlyn Manon made his first start of 2019 at first base, he homered and added a sacrifice fly.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Albuquerque 11, San Antonio 10

 

It was 11-5 after six innings, as the late rally came up just short.

 

Darn pinball PCL sites -- Zack Brown 75 pitches through three innings, LHP Angel Perdomo had only allowed three runs in an outing once all season (six runs here).

 

HR: SA: Hager (11) , Erceg (15) , Saladino (15) . ABQ: Hilliard (30) , Soto (7) , Nunez (16) .

 

The Missions noted Saturday AM that Lucas Erceg extended his multi-hit game streak to a career-high five games while David Freitas recorded multiple hits for the fifth straight game as well.

[Mass Haas]

DVR ALERT:

 

As Mr. Mehring reminds us:

 

If you can't make it out to the ballpark, there are several ways to follow the action. Saturday's Timber Rattlers game will be televised on CW-14 in Northeastern Wisconsin and on My-24 in Southeastern Wisconsin starting at 6:30 PM. The radio broadcast is on AM1280, WNAM and the TuneIn Radio app starting with the Papa John's Pizza Pregame Show at 6:15pm. MiLB.tv subscribers can watch the game over the internet.

[JohnBriggs12]

Thanks, Mark. If anyone has an update on his velocity it would be much appreciated.

Small's velocity has been similar to what it was in college.

 

I get the Brewers are easing him to pro ball after a rest following a college season where he logged 101 innings, but he should be challenged a bit more than rookie/low A ball considering his main attribute was that he was close to being a finished product while still in college.