Link Report for Tuesday 5/25

[Mass Haas]

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

 

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Links for affiliate audio

 

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Standings and sortable stat pages

 

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MiLB.TV options: All games available, Biloxi and Carolina home feeds. (The MiLB.TV direct links are found within the scoreboard link atop this post.)

[Mass Haas]

Kicking things off with the latest Nashville pre-game audio interviews, released on Monday via Jeff Hem's blog:

 

May 18 – RHP Alec Bettinger

 

May 19 – INF Jace Peterson

 

May 20 – OF Dustin Peterson

 

May 21 – 1B Keston Hiura

 

May 22 – OF Weston Wilson

 

May 23 – Manager Rick Sweet

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The 10-8 Carolina Mudcats return home to face the 2-16 Kannapolis Cannon Ballers:

 

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Nashville goes for its 7th straight victory, led by Pablo Reyes in his first minor league game (of record) in 2021:

 

1 - Reyes - SS

2 - Fisher - DH

3 - D. Peterson - LF

4 - Green - 3B

5 - Perez - 1B

6 - Ray - CF

7 - Lopes - 2B

8 - Cozens - RF

9 - Maile - C

X - LeBlanc - P

[Mass Haas]

Pre-Game Media Notes:

 

Nashville

 

Biloxi

 

Carolina

[Mass Haas]

VIDEO Tweets via @BrewersPD:

 

Red-hot Brice Turang

 

Aaron Ashby magic

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The 8-10 Biloxi Shuckers have returned home to start a 6-game series against the 11-7 Pensacola Blue Wahoos, as Bowden Francis goes for his 4th consecutive victory:

 

1 - Lutz - RF

2 - Turang - SS

3 - Westbrook - 3B

4 - Erceg - DH

5 - Henry - C

6 - Longo - LF

7 - Spanberger - 1B

8 - Devanney - 2B

9 - Aguilar - CF

X - Francis - P

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The 8-10 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers go on the road to commence their series against the equally 8-10 Cedar Rapids Kernels:

 

1 - Howell - CF

2 - Cantrelle - 2B

3 - Hamilton - SS

4 - Dillard - 1B

5 - Lujano - RF

6 - Kahle - C

7 - Ward - DH

8 - Coca - 3B

9 - McClanahan - LF

X - Olson - P

[wibadgers23]

Fun boxscore for Carolina tonight. Wow.

[SomewhereInTime]

The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers and Fredericksburg Nationals are two of the worst teams imaginable. Both are 2-17 and the stats are pretty wild.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Nashville 8, Columbus (Indians) 2

 

Sounds Homer Three Times in Win Over Clippers

Zach Green, Hernán Pérez and Pablo Reyes Power Nashville to Seventh Straight Win

 

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Cool video from Neil, who has been killing it on the Sounds' creative team.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Pensacola (Marlins) 4, Biloxi 1

 

Shuckers Drop First Game To Blue Wahoos

Francis Strikes Out Season Best 10 in Start

By Garrett Greene

 

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VIDEO via WXXV: An extended highlight package despite the loss. You'll see a nice defensive play by former Brewer farmhand SS Devin Hairston, who already faced the Timber Rattlers with Beloit this season, and has since been promoted to AA. Nice sequence shown of Bowden Francis as well - it's "BO-den", though.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Cedar Rapids (Twins) 9, Wisconsin 2

 

Kernels Take Game One of Series from Wisconsin

By Chris Mehring

 

96 pitches for Reese Olson, 52 strikes

 

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Game story via the Cedar Rapids Gazette: Brief notes on local connections for Rattlers

 

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A mystery going back to September 2019 --

 

"@BrewersPD never did make a formal announcement on the September release of 22-year-old 2019 Midwest League All-Star representative RHP Logan Gillaspie, noted by Baseball America. Gillaspie, a 2018 independent league find, was effective throughout 2019 for the Timber Rattlers. His out-of-the-blue and by-itself release unfortunately can only lead to speculation, which is totally unfair to the player in a vacuum of news/reasoning why. So we'll just leave it at that."

 

The update is that Gillaspie recently signed with the Orioles - when he debuts, it'll be his first action since that 2019 season.

[Mass Haas]

Box: Carolina 23, Kannapolis (White Sox) 7

 

As the box score shows, a matchup of two excellent logos. Cannon Ballers fall to 2-17.

 

The eight-run 8th was vs. a position player, but still!

 

Yeah, you'll want to read Greg's fine summary for sure...

 

Mudcats Set Team Record For Runs in 23-7 Victory

Joe Gray Jr. hit a grand slam and Gabe Holt scored five runs in Carolina’s record setting, series opening victory

 

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VIDEO: Been a while since Carolina was home, Voice of the Mudcats Greg Young Jr. reminds us of that opening series

 

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AUDIO: Manager Joe Ayrault's Post-Game Interview

 

Ayrault shares why 1B Ernesto Martinez left early - no worries, pretty sure first mention of "ingrown toenail" in a Link Report, already repaired.

 

Greg shares the two prominent big league names that Gabe Holt tied in the Mudcat record books during the chat (and the full answer here in non-audio form).

 

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VIDEO TWEETS via @BrewersFarm:

 

Ernesto Martinez' swing on low pitches is pretty awesome

 

Joey Wiemer barrel

 

Here are those two swings with Greg's audio call.

 

VIDEO TWEETS via the Mudcats:

 

Joe Gray Jr.'s grand slam with a bit of cinematography as well

 

Weimer with a blast

 

Have yourself a bat flip, Daniel Castillo

 

Felix Valerio's turn

 

By the way, Valerio is part of our Brewers' trade trivia after Tuesday night's Billy McKinney deal to the Mets for 17-year-old LHP Pedro Quintana.

 

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Lost in the shuffle - affiliated debut for RHP Kent Hasler and an impressive four wild pitches in one inning of work for LHP Jackson Gillis.

[clancyphile]

Did Kannapolis run out of baby seals after seven innings?

[igor67]

Oddly enough after the lines some of the guys put up last night, I found myself wondering how slow must they have started this early in the season that there season numbers were still so low.