Link Report for Wed. 8/23 -- More Inman just being Inman

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Dana Eveland at Memphis (Cardinals), 6:50 PM pre-game; 7:10 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: RHP Tim Dillard at West Tenn (Cubs), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450radio.com/

 

Brevard County: TBD at home vs. Vero Beach (Dodgers), 6:00 PM

 

Audio link (opponent's); audio will be archived as well:

www.minorleaguebaseball.c.../audio.jsp

 

West Virginia: RHP Will Inman at Greensboro (Marlins), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:00 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.sportsjuice.com/provi...e=wvpower.

 

Helena: Idle

 

Arizona: TBD at the Padres complex to face the San Diego kids, 9:00 PM Central time, never any web audio for the Arizona League

[Mass Haas]

Follow Wednesday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Open the Nashville Gameday. For the others, choose "Log". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often.

 

Nashville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_mrbaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wtdaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_gboafx_1

 

Arizona Rookie:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_pdrrok_1

[Mass Haas]

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds and/or Huntsville Stars are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated an hour or two prior to gametime:

 

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf

 

Following Nashville's lead, Huntsville now makes its media notes available as well, nice:

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/i...eNotes.pdf

[Mass Haas]

Standings through Tuesday's action:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nashville 71 60 .542 - 41-27 30-33 W2[/b] Iowa 67 64 .511 4.0 39-27 28-37 W4 Memphis 52 79 .397 19.0 31-37 21-42 W1 Omaha 49 82 .374 22.0 31-37 18-45 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Huntsville 32 25 .561 - 17-12 15-13 W1[/b] Tennessee 32 26 .552 0.5 18-12 14-14 L5 Chattanooga 30 28 .517 2.5 17-13 13-15 W1 West Tenn 29 29 .500 3.5 19-9 10-20 L1 Carolina 25 33 .431 7.5 19-9 6-24 W3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 33 24 .579 - 17-12 16-12 W2 Daytona 32 25 .561 1.0 21-11 11-14 W2 Palm Beach 31 26 .544 2.0 18-11 13-15 L1 [b]Brevard County 25 33 .431 8.5 13-13 12-20 W2[/b] Vero Beach 21 35 .375 11.5 13-16 8-19 L2 Jupiter 20 38 .345 13.5 11-18 9-20 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lakewood 40 18 .690 - 24-7 16-11 W3 Lake County 31 25 .554 8.0 16-13 15-12 W1 Greensboro 29 27 .518 10.0 14-15 15-12 W2 [b]West Virginia 29 28 .509 10.5 18-11 11-17 L1[/b] Hickory 29 29 .500 11.0 14-18 15-11 L2 Lexington 24 34 .414 16.0 15-13 9-21 L1 Hagerstown 22 35 .386 17.5 11-18 11-17 W1 Delmarva 21 35 .375 18.0 11-13 10-22 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pioneer League (R+) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 18 6 .750 - 12-2 6-4 W10 Missoula 15 9 .625 3.0 8-2 7-7 W1 [b]Helena 13 11 .542 5.0 6-4 7-7 L2[/b] Great Falls 7 17 .292 11.0 6-8 1-9 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona League (R) - Arizona League Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZL Royals 16 6 .727 - 8-4 8-2 W5 AZL Angels 15 6 .714 0.5 5-1 10-5 W2 AZL Giants 14 7 .667 1.5 7-4 7-3 W1 AZL Padres 12 8 .600 3.0 7-4 5-4 L1 AZL Athletics 10 11 .476 5.5 8-3 2-8 W2 AZL Mariners 10 11 .476 5.5 8-3 2-8 L1 AZL Cubs 9 12 .429 6.5 4-6 5-6 L1 AZL Rangers 6 16 .273 10.0 5-7 1-9 L4 [b]AZL Brewers 3 18 .143 12.5 3-8 0-10 L8[/b]

[Mass Haas]

Today's Daily Dish at Baseball America (not to be confused with Brewerfan's Daily Menu):

 

www.baseballamerica.com/t...62257.html

 

Getting Serious

 

The Brewers Lorenzo Cain won MVP of the Rookie-level Arizona league in 2005 and entered 2006 as an intriguing outfield prospect with a lot of upside.

 

He's done nothing to dissuade those projections this year, as he has put together another impressive campaign in 2006 for low Class A West Virginia and has placed himself among the best prospects in the South Atlantic League and the Brewers organization.

 

With another hit last night, Cain, who leads the Sally League with 152 hits, has already broken the Bobby Perna's club record for hits (150) set in 1992.

 

"It's great to see him accomplish that," Power hitting coach Mike Lum said. "He's worked hard. He's gaining confidence and more experience and you just never know where he's going to go. I think he's going to be a good one."

 

The 20-year-old Cain signed in 2005 as a draft-and-follow out of Tallahassee (Fla.) Community College after the Brewers made him a 17th-round pick in 2004. He only started playing baseball seriously four years ago and the Brewers planned to bring him along slowly because though he possesses five tools that are at least average, his approach at the plate was raw.

 

He has quieted his swing down this season and the results have been startling. The rightfielder is now hitting .313/.387/.432 to lead the league in batting. A plus runner, Cain has 30 stolen bases and has been caught 11 times.

[colbyjack]

Mike Jones was supposed to be the starter for Brevard County this evening, but the game was postponed due to rain.

[Mass Haas]

Brewerfan and I'm sure Brewer Nation extends its condolences to Frank Kremblas:

 

Kremblas leaves Sounds after father passes away

By Nate Rau, Nashville City Paper Sports Correspondent

 

Nashville Sounds manager Frank Kremblas will not join the team on its five-game road trip to Memphis after learning late Tuesday his father, Frank Kremblas Sr., passed away.

 

Kremblas will likely rejoin the team at some point during its trip to Albuquerque, which begins Monday.

 

Kremblas Sr., who was a star quarterback at Ohio State from 1956-58, was 69 years old. Details on how he passed were not immediately available.

 

The Sounds lose their manager while in the middle of a pennant race for the Pacific Coast League American Northern Division title. Nashville currently has a four-game lead over Iowa. Last year Kremblas led the Sounds to the PCL championship, the first Triple-A title in Nashville history.

[Mass Haas]

Final: West Virginia 8, Greensboro (Marlins) 0

 

West Virginia Box Score and Game Log:

Will Inman just ridiculous, six scoreless innings, one walk, six K's; nearly 7,000 on hand in Greensboro to see it; Inman and Yovani Gallardo alone just about guarantee the Brewers a Top Ten, perhaps a Top Five, ranking, in next year's Baseball America organizational rankings; Patrick Ryan (an Unsung Hero Award candidate this year) and Kevin Roberts finish up for the shutout; former Brewer farmhand Agustin Septimo (minor league Rule 5) has slowed his early season pace for the Grasshoppers, but remains a solid player; Mat Gamel goes deep -- again; you know what? Shame on the Power management if they don't re-up with the Crew; the boys certainly didn't embarass themselves this year, and the individual performances West Virginia has seen this year, and to a lesser extent last, have been outstanding...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_gboafx_1

[plowjockey]

My kid was at the game. Said Inman's fastball clocked at 92, slider at 85 and changeup at 78. Pogokat will probably have a full report.

[Mass Haas]

Actually, our friend pogo missed tonight's contest, but will be there the next two nights, I believe...

 

By the way, the Manatee game was not just rained out, but cancelled, as that's it for games vs. Vero Beach.

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

POWER PLEAD THE FIFTH

 

The West Virginia Power had outscored their opponents 9-1 in the fifth inning of their last three games, and on Monday night at First Horizon Park in Greensboro, North Carolina, they used another big fifth inning to get them started as they scored three runs in the fifth, and plated at least one run in every frame thereafter to beat the Grasshoppers 8-0.

 

After four scoreless innings the Power snapped the scoreless tie on Darren Ford?s two-run double in the top of the fifth. Lorenzo Cain knocked in the final run of the inning on a groundout. In the sixth Kenny Holmberg doubled and scored on a wild pitch and Mat Gamel chipped in with a two-out RBI single in the seventh. The Power scored two times in the eighth inning on Nestor Corredor?s RBI single and Ryan Barba knocked in a run on a groundout. The Power plated their final run in the ninth inning on Gamel?s solo home run, his 15th of the year which is a team high.

 

Will Inman was fantastic as usual for the Power. Inman pitched out of trouble early on to keep the Power in the game. In the first two innings the Grasshoppers left a runner stranded at third base, and in the first three innings they left a runner stranded in scoring position. Inman finished his outing retiring 11 straight batters. The Grasshoppers were held hitless through the last six and two thirds.

 

Inman (10-1) pitched six scoreless innings of four-hit ball with six strikeouts while David Humen (2-3) suffered the loss. The Power are 69-58 on the year and 30-28 in the second half after the win while the Grasshoppers fell to 65-62 overall and 29-28 in the second half after the loss.

 

The Power will continue the three game series against the Grasshoppers Thursday night. Left hander Sean West (8-4, 3.20) will make the start for Greensboro and the Power will counter with right hander Shawn Ferguson (2-2, 6.35). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:00 PM (6:00 PM Central).

[Mass Haas]

Currently delayed by a power failure --

 

Huntsville 1, West Tenn (Cubs) 0, after 5 1/2 innings in Jackson

It'll be interesting to see how long this delay is going to be, to see if Tim Dillard returns to the mound. Box score readers might notice quite a few zeroes in his pitching line right now http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[pogokat]

not there tonight...sadly...stupid night class kept me busy until about an hour ago

[molitor fan]

An amazing night so far in terms of pitching performances....just crazy

 

Kudos go out to Dillard, Inman, Eveland, and even Jesse Harper with scoreless outings. Also a special mention to Callix Crabbe for his 3x3 with a walk tonight...he really turned his season around.

[Mass Haas]

The Stars have played six, the lights are back on, and so is Tim Dillard -- a game in which you definitely want to flip to Brett Pollock's call; heck, the Brewers game is over - nice job crew tonight, add Ben Sheets name to the pitching list in the prior post by molitor fan, even if it wasn't quite "scoreless"...

 

Tennessee won tonight, the Stars need to win to stay in first place.

[bullox]

Am I alone in wanting to see Inman get just a start or two at A+?

 

I know they wanted to keep him at one level all year, but come on; he is not being challenged at all.

[And That]

Jesse Harper with another scoreless inning for the AZL Crew. He sure would be a nice guy to have around AAA next year. I think he might be a free agent, so I hope the Brewers get him under contract for 2007.

 

Will Inman has pitched 97 innings this year and allowed:

64 hits

23 walks

0 home runs

14 (!) earned runs.

 

He's struck out 115 guys and actually has started more games (18) than allowed runs to score (15). Wow.

[pogokat]

Final: Nashville 5, Memphis (Cards) 0

 

Nashville Site Game Review

link (featuring a pic of Dana Eveland), then text:

www.nashvillesounds.com/news/news.asp?newsId=2124

 

First-Place Sounds Shut Out Redbirds, 5-0

 

MEMPHIS, Tenn. ? Dana Eveland worked seven scoreless innings and the Nashville offense produced four seventh-inning runs to lead the Sounds to a 5-0 victory over the division-rival Memphis Redbirds on Wednesday evening at AutoZone Park in the opener of a four-game series.

 

With the victory, Nashville (72-60) maintained its four-game cushion over Iowa in the American Conference Northern Division. The Sounds have won eight of their last 10 contests overall and eight in a row against the cross-state rival Redbirds.

 

The shutout was the Sounds? 12th of the year, tying Round Rock for the PCL lead.

 

Eveland (5-4) was dominant in earning his second straight victory by working seven innings of scoreless, three-hit ball, his fifth quality start in his last seven outings. The left-hander did not allow a Memphis runner to advance past first during the first six innings of action and permitted only one Redbird to reach scoring position all evening. Eveland retired eight consecutive batters at one point from the fourth through the sixth frames.

 

Chris Demaria relieved Eveland in the eighth and worked the final two innings to complete the shutout.

 

Nashville catcher Vinny Rottino continued his red-hot hitting with a 3-for-4 evening that included a double. He is batting an outstanding .383 (51-for-133) over his last 38 games, hitting safely in 30 of them.

 

Redbirds left fielder Mike Rose thwarted an early Nashville scoring attempt when he threw out Kennard Bibbs at the plate to end the top of the second inning as the outfielder attempted to score from second on a two-out Tony Gwynn single.

 

Nashville finally broke a scoreless tie in the top of the seventh inning, plating four runs while batting around against a pair of Memphis pitchers.

 

Andrew Beattie opened the frame with a walk and moved to third when Vinny Rottino followed with a bloop single to right coupled with a throwing error by Redbirds second baseman Bo Hart, which put runners at second and third with no outs. After Matt Perisho relieved starter Dennis Tankersley, Jermaine Clark greeted the southpaw with a two-run double down the right field line that gave the Sounds a 2-0 lead. Clark?s two-bagger extended the infielder?s hitting streak to five games; he is batting .381 (16-for-42) in August.

 

Nashville?s seventh-inning rally continued against Perisho as Kennard Bibbs walked and Eveland loaded the bases with a bunt single. Gwynn (2-for-4) followed with an RBI single to right to extend the lead to 3-0; the outfielder logged his team-leading 38th multiple-hit game of the year. Chris Barnwell produced the inning?s fourth run when his sacrifice fly to right brought in Bibbs from third.

 

Brent Abernathy capped off the Sounds? scoring with a ninth-inning solo homer to left-center off Alan Benes, his fifth roundtripper of the year.

 

Tankersley (4-14) suffered his Pacific Coast League-leading 14th loss of the season after allowing two runs on five hits over his six-plus innings of work for the Redbirds.

 

The teams continue the series with another 7:10 p.m. meeting on Thursday evening. Right-hander Justin Lehr (4-6, 3.97) will man the bump for Nashville opposite Memphis southpaw Chris Narveson (7-4, 2.90).

 

Nashville Box Score and Game Log

Dana Eveland, still just 22 is enjoying a fantastic first year in AAA...it's too bad his 27 innings in Milwaukee killed everyones enthusiasm. Dana could still turn into a Middle of the rotation starter

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._mrbaaa_1

[pogokat]

Final: Huntsville 4, West Tenn (Cubs) 0

 

Huntsville Site Game Review:

link, then text

www.huntsvillestars.com/news/news.asp?newsId=980

 

Stars Stay in First With Shutout Victory

 

Tim Dillard took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and tossed seven scoreless frames to pitch Huntsville past West Tenn 4-0 Wednesday night in a game filled with controversy and a rare stoppage in play at Pringles Park in Jackson. The Stars won their second straight in the series to improve to 33-25 in the second half and maintain their half-game lead over Tennessee in the North Division after the Smokies came from behind to down Carolina 6-4 to end a five-game losing streak.

 

Brad Nelson opened the sixth inning with a walk, stole second base and stayed there, as Jeff Eure and Brendan Katin were unable to advance him. Lou Palmisano walked to keep the inning going and Guilder Rodriguez followed with a double to center field to plate Nelson to make it 1-0 Huntsville and move Palmisano to third base. Rodriguez knocked in the first run of the game for a second time in the series and just his sixth of the season.

 

Dillard took the hill in the bottom of the sixth and missed with his first pitch to pinch-hitter Albenis Machado when all four light standards lost power and went dark, delaying the game for 27 minutes. When play resumed, Dillard fanned Machado for the first out of the inning and then lost his bid for a no-hitter when Chris Walker followed with a single. Scott Moore singled with two outs but Dillard averted further trouble by retiring Jake Fox on a ground out to end the inning.

 

Hugo Castellanos lasted six innings in a fill-in start for the Diamond Jaxx, allowing a run on three hits and six walks. He stranded a runner at second base in four of the first five innings before the Stars finally broke through and was replaced by Carlos Vasquez, who earned the save in West Tenn?s 1-0 win on Sunday. Callix Crabbe laid down a bunt single with one out in the seventh and then scored the second run of the night when he stole second base, moved to third on a wild pitch and came plateward when catcher Jake Fox threw wildly past a diving third baseman Scott Moore and shortstop Carlos Rojas into left field all on the same play. Crabbe reached base in all five at-bats with three singles, a double and a walk and stole three bases.

 

Brendan Katin led off the eighth inning with a fly ball down the left field line that had home run distance but was originally ruled foul by the third base umpire. Huntsville skipper Don Money came out to argue and convinced the umpire to check with the home plate umpire, who then reversed the call and awarded Katin his second long ball in as many days. West Tenn manager Pat Listach came out to argue and was tossed from the game. Crabbe delivered a two-out single in the frame that plated Rodriguez with the final run of the night.

 

Travis Phelps tossed a scoreless eighth inning and has now gone 14 straight scoreless frames and Gerrit Simpson worked around two singles in the ninth to preserve the Stars ninth shutout of the season. Dillard allowed three hits and struck out seven to become the Stars first 10-game winner, and sixth in the league, and claimed his fourth straight positive decision.

 

The series wraps up on Thursday night with southpaw Manny Parra taking the hill for Huntsville against West Tenn left-hander JR Mathes. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 p.m. central time and can be heard locally on ESPN Radio 1450 AM and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score and Game Log

Tim Dillard with 7 stellar innings. Ryan Braun with no hits, but two walks but him at exactly 1bb/10ab's ...what a season for Ryan Braun...Callix Crabbe with a huge night

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._wtdaax_1

[pogokat]

toby, quit posting here and finish the power50!

[pogokat]

In Progress: AZL Padres 6, AZL Brewers 3, through 6 innings

 

Jeffress shows no control what so ever allowing 5 walks and 4 hits in 2 innings...

[And That]

toby, quit posting here and finish the power50!

 

I'm going to wait another 40 minutes now just to spite you.

[molitor fan]

As I type, 31 innings of scoreless ball throw by Brewer pitchers not named Jeffress tonight......

[DHonks]

nice outing by Hill. seems to me that his stats are skewed heavily by one or two outings.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Padres 6, Arizona Brewers 5

 

Arizona Brewer Box Score and Game Log:

Looking for bright spots, and maybe RHP Craig Langille is one; the 20-year-old 7th round pick out of Nova Scotia is having a good summer, but has now struck out only 34 rookie league batters in 81 pro innings, and he's not been given starting nods this year...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_pdrrok_1