Link Report for Games of Sunday, August 13th

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Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Dana Eveland at Albuquerque (Marlins), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: LHP Manny Parra at Mississippi (Braves), 12:50 PM pre-game, 1:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450radio.com/

 

Brevard County: Idle

 

West Virginia: RHP Shawn Ferguson at Delmarva (Orioles), 12:25 PM pre-game, 12:35 gametime

 

Audio link:

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

 

Helena: First, the completion of Saturday's suspended game, then TBD at Great Falls (White Sox) in the regularly-scheduled nine-inning affair, 4:45 PM pre-game; 5:00 gametime

 

Audio (click on "Listen Live"):

www.helenabrewers.net/html2/index.php

 

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

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Follow Sunday'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_albaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_msbaax_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_delafx_1

 

Helena Completion of Suspended Game:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_grfrok_1

 

Helena Regularly Scheduled Game:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_grfrok_1

 

Arizona Rookie:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_giarok_1

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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

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Standings through Saturday's action:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nashville 64 57 .529 - 35-25 29-32 W1[/b] Iowa 63 58 .521 1.0 35-27 28-31 W1 Memphis 47 74 .388 17.0 27-35 20-39 L1 Omaha 45 76 .372 19.0 27-33 18-43 L6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee 30 19 .612 - 16-9 14-10 W5 [b]Huntsville 25 23 .521 4.5 12-12 13-11 L1[/b] Chattanooga 25 24 .510 5.0 16-13 9-11 L4 West Tenn 23 25 .479 6.5 14-6 9-19 W1 Carolina 21 28 .429 9.0 15-9 6-19 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daytona 28 20 .583 - 19-11 9-9 L1 St. Lucie 28 20 .583 - 14-9 14-11 W3 Palm Beach 27 23 .540 2.0 16-9 11-14 W2 [b]Brevard County 20 28 .417 8.0 9-9 11-19 W1[/b] Jupiter 19 29 .396 9.0 11-13 8-16 L3 Vero Beach 19 30 .388 9.5 11-15 8-15 L4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lakewood 32 16 .667 - 16-5 16-11 W3 Lake County 26 20 .565 5.0 13-10 13-10 L1 Hickory 26 22 .542 6.0 13-15 13-7 W1 Greensboro 24 23 .511 7.5 13-12 11-11 L1 [b]West Virginia 23 25 .479 9.0 12-9 11-16 L2[/b] Hagerstown 20 28 .417 12.0 11-17 9-11 W1 Lexington 19 29 .396 13.0 13-11 6-18 L2 Delmarva 17 30 .362 14.5 10-13 7-17 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pioneer League (R+) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 8 6 .571 - 5-2 3-4 L1 Missoula 8 6 .571 - 6-1 2-5 W1 [b]Helena 7 6 .538 0.5 6-2 1-4 W2[/b] Great Falls 4 9 .308 3.5 3-2 1-7 L3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona League (R) - Arizona League Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZL Giants 10 4 .714 - 4-3 6-1 L1 AZL Royals 10 4 .714 - 6-3 4-1 W1 AZL Angels 9 5 .643 1.0 2-0 7-5 L1 AZL Padres 7 5 .583 2.0 4-3 3-2 L4 AZL Athletics 7 7 .500 3.0 6-2 1-5 L1 AZL Mariners 7 7 .500 3.0 5-2 2-5 W3 AZL Cubs 5 9 .357 5.0 1-6 4-3 W1 [b]AZL Brewers 3 10 .231 6.5 3-4 0-6 W2[/b] AZL Rangers 3 10 .231 6.5 3-4 0-6 L3

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Brewerfan Draft Forum news out of Fond du Lac at the end of this linked thread:

 

p092.ezboard.com/fbrewers...=891.topic

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Final: Huntsville 7, Mississippi 6

 

Huntsville Site Game Wrap:

Link, then text:

 

Stars Pull Off Comeback Win to End Road Trip

 

Guilder Rodriguez walked with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to force in the game-winning run in Huntsville?s improbable 7-6 comeback win over Mississippi Sunday afternoon at Trustmark Park in Pearl. The Stars finished their 10-game road trip with seven wins to improve to 26-23 in the second half and pull to within three and a half games of the front-running Tennessee Smokies in the North Division after they were blanked by Chattanooga.

 

Trailing 6-0 after five innings, the Stars got back on the board with a Ryan Braun solo home run, his eighth with Huntsville and second on the trip, off of Joey Devine, who had replaced starter Dan Smith, who had shutout the Stars on two hits and three walks. Smith has blanked the Stars over 10 innings in two starts and has allowed only one earned run over 27 2/3 innings in his last six appearances.

 

Drew Anderson, Lou Palmisano and Ozzie Chavez singled to start the seventh inning against Sean White, who faced the Stars as a starter on Opening Day and who is now pitching in relief behind Smith, a converted reliever. The right-hander uncorked a wild pitch to score Anderson to make it 6-2 and advance the other runners. Carlos Lee flied out for the first out of the inning before Travis Ezi delivered a two-run, pinch-hit single to slice the lead to 6-4. Ezi would advance to second on a ground ball out, to third on a wild pitch and score on a Brad Nelson single to make it a one-run game.

 

Anderson opened the eighth inning with an infield single, moved to second on a walk to Palmisano and both runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Chavez. Pinch-hitter Ron Acuna was walked intentionally to load the bases before Ezi walked on a 3-2 pitch to push across the tying run and Rodriguez took four pitches outside of the strike zone to drive in Palmisano with the winning marker and knock in his third run of the year and first since July 25. Braun grounded into a double play to end the frame, one of four turned by the Braves.

 

Fomer big leaguer Luther Hackman gave up two singles and struck out the side in a scoreless seventh inning to pick up the win in his first outing with Huntsville, while Joe Valentine retired all six hitters he faced to earn his sixth save in nine tries.

 

Ray Serrano delivered two-run singles in the second and third innings and a Braun error with two outs in the fifth allowed Luis Hernandez to score to give the home team a 6-0 lead. Stars? starter Manny Parra allowed the six runs, only three earned, on seven hits and struck out six over five innings in his third turn with Huntsville.

 

The Stars return home to open a five-game series with Carolina Tuesday night at Joe Davis Stadium with right-hander Corey Thurman taking the hill against Mudcat?s right-hander James Russ. 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:

Braun now with 8 Homers in AA, and 15 on the season..

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._msba

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Final: Delmarva (O's) 8, West Virginia 5

 

West Virginia Game Review:

 

SHOREBIRDS TAKE THIRD IN A ROW FROM POWER

 

The Delmarva Shorebirds erased an early deficit on Sunday afternoon and defeated the West Virginia Power for the third straight time, by the final score of 8-5.

 

The Power took an early 2-0 lead on Angel Salome's two-run homer in the top of the first inning. The home run was his tenth of the year, and it gave him 84 RBI on the season, which leads the league. Delmarva answered quickly on a two-out, three-run double from Ryan Finan in the bottom of the first inning to take the lead. Delmarva scored three more times in the bottom of the third on a two-run single from Jonathan Tucker and Mark Fleisher crossed the plate on a passed ball.

 

Zach Dillon hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to give the Shorebirds a 7-2 lead. In the fifth inning Lorenzo Cain hit a solo home run, his sixth of the year to bring the Power within four. The Shorebirds answered in the bottom of the inning with an RBI single from Blake Davis. Michael Brantley scored on Zach Dillon?s throwing error in the seventh inning, and the Power scored their final run on Cain?s RBI single in the ninth. The base hit was Cain?s 141st hit of the year, which leads the league.

 

Kyle Schmidt (3-2) got the win, and Shawn Ferguson (1-2) got the loss. The Power are 62-56 on the year and 23-26 in the second half after the loss while the Shorebirds improved to 54-61 overall and 18-30 in the second half after the win.

 

The Power are off on Monday but will begin a four game series against the Hickory Crawdads at Appalachian Power Park on Tuesday night. Right hander Michael Crotta (0-0, 0.00) will make the start for Hickory and the Power will counter with left hander Julian Cordero (1-0, 7.04). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score and Game Log:

Lorenzo Cain with a great game in a great season. Shawn Ferguson a bit overmatched in Low A thus far...Angel with HR #10, but passed ball's #16 & 17

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._dela

 

Edit: Corrected score...

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Final: Helena 6, Great Falls (White Sox) 5, completion of Saturday's suspended game

 

Chapman delivers for Brewers

 

Stephen Chapman's RBI single in the top of the ninth inning lifted Helena over Great Falls, 6-5, on Sunday in the completion of a suspended game.

 

The Brewers (8-6) held a 5-2 lead in the seventh before the rains came Saturday night. The White Sox (4-10) quickly forged a 5-5 tie when play resumed, rallying for two runs in the seventh and one in the eighth.

 

Chapman singled off Andrew Urena (3-6) with one out in the ninth, plating Cole Gillespie as Helena won its third in a row.

 

Mike McClendon (3-1) picked up the win, despite allowing two runs on three hits and a walk in 1 1/3 innings. Steve Palazzolo tossed a scoreless ninth for his fourth save.

 

Michael Grace hit a two-run homer in the seventh and Christian Marrero also had two RBIs for Great Falls, which dropped its fourth straight.

 

Urena allowed a run on four hits and struck out two in two innings. -- Josh Cooper/MLB.com

 

Helena Game One Box Score and Game Log Link:

Game log only covers pre-rain suspension...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_grfrok_1

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In progress, now delayed by rain: Albuquerque (Marlins) 3, Nashville 0, bottom of the 3rd in New Mexico

Dana Eveland has allowed four hits and three walks and the Isotopes are threatening for more when play resumes in the 3rd; one run scored on a Vinny Rottino passed ball...

 

In progress: Helena 7, Great Falls (White Sox) 4, after seven innings, regularly scheduled game

Cole Gillespie three hits, including two home runs, his 2nd and 3rd of the season...

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Final: Helena 7, Great Falls (White Sox) 4, regularly scheduled game

 

Gillespie pounds White Sox

 

Cole Gillespie went 3-for-5 with two homers and four RBIs to power visiting Helena past Great Falls, 7-4, on Sunday.

 

Gillespie had an RBI single in the first, a solo homer in the fifth and a two-run shot in the sixth. Jordan Swaydan added two hits for the Brewers (9-6), who won their fourth in a row.

 

Helena's Amaury Rivas (3-3) allowed four runs -- two earned -- on three hits with five strikeouts and three walks in 5 1/3 innings. Travis Wendte tossed 3 2/3 scoreless frames to notch his second save.

 

Archie Gilbert, Christian Marrero and Scott Madsen had two hits apiece for the White Sox (4-11).

 

Great Falls starter Logan Williamson (4-3) allowed five runs -- four earned -- on five hits over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out five and walked four. -- Josh Cooper/MLB.com

 

Helena Game Two Box Score and Game Log:

Chris Errecart and Zach Clem reach three times each...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_grfrok_1

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Sunday's Helena KCAP Pre-Game Audio Chat with catcher Jordan Swaydan (Select date for August 13th, skip to the 8:00 minute mark) --

 

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

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Final: Arizona Giants 9, Arizona Brewers 5

 

Arizona Brewer Box Score and Game Log:

Brent Brewer 4-for-4 (four singles); Mike Goetz walks three times to raise his .404 OBP coming into the game, also now 25-for-32 on the basepaths; eventful (three hits) but scoreless first inning for rehabbing Mark Rogers; Jeremy Jeffress and Shane Hill follow without much success -- Jeffress' game log reveals he did a few nice things; Nova Scotian Craig Langille's ERA is pretty, but overall secondary numbers aren't glittering...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_giarok_1

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Nashville Site:

 

Sounds, Isotopes Game Suspended Due To Rain

 

ALBUQUERQUE ? Sunday evening?s Pacific Coast League contest between the Nashville Sounds and Albuquerque Isotopes was suspended due to rain in the bottom of the third inning at Isotopes Park with the home team holding a 3-0 lead.

 

The game will be completed to its nine-inning conclusion on Monday evening beginning at 5:00 p.m. CT. Immediately following the completion, the Sounds and Isotopes will wrap up their four-game series with a seven-inning finale.

 

Nashville (64-57) will enter play on Monday holding a 1 1/2-game lead over Iowa in the PCL American Conference Northern Division.

 

Nashville fell behind 2-0 in the second when Albuquerque left fielder Chris Aguila led off the bottom of the frame with a single against Dana Eveland and scored the game?s first run one batter later on Tom Wilson?s RBI double to center. After a Matt Cepicky double put runner on second and third, Wilson scored on a Nick Trzesniak sacrifice fly.

 

The Isotopes added to the lead in the third when a Vinny Rottino passed ball allowed Mike Kinkade to score an unearned run from third with two outs to make it a 3-0 contest.

 

After Eveland issued a walk to Wilson to put runners on first and second with two down, the umpires called the teams off the field due to the downpour and the game was eventually suspended.

 

Right-hander Justin Lehr (3-6, 3.75), who was slated to start Monday's series finale for Nashville, will instead take over for Eveland in the completion of the suspended game.

 

Knuckleballer Jared Fernandez (6-4, 3.14) will make the start for the Sounds in Monday's seven-inning series finale.

 

Isotopes southpaw Chris George (2-5, 5.80), who was scheduled to start tonight?s game but was pushed back due to illness, is tentatively scheduled to start Monday's seven-inning finale.

 

Nashville Partial Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_albaaa_1

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David Weiser's

 

www.starsboxscore.com/

 

WITH A LITTLE BIT OF HELP

STARS TIE GAME AND WIN ON PAIR OF WALKS

A 6-0 lead, four double plays and two-hit shutout pitching from starter Dan Smith might sound like a lost cause for the Stars Sunday afternoon, but after Mississippi's bullpen came in, the Stars took a lost cause, found a ray of hope and piece-by-piece, chipped away with the largest comeback victory of the season....... To add to the celebration, the Tennessee Smokies were blanked by Homer Bailey, who struck out 11 over five innings, cutting their first place margin to 3½ games........ It's going to be a joyous ride back home.......

 

The Stars end their road trip winning seven out of 10 games, which as Brett Pollock said on-air, was necessary if the Stars were to have any chance at staying in a pennant race........ Tuesday, five games at the Joe with Carolina, our first look at the Mudcats, if you can believe it, then over to Pringles Park against a Diamond Jaxx team that ran the dickens off our pitching staff. Hopefully, they've learned to quicken their deliveries to the plate, which is how Chris Walker, Eric Patterson, Nic Jackson, et. al. were taking advantage of us. But the details are for another time.

 

With Chipper Jones back in Atlanta, no one was interested anymore in baseball at Trustmark Park, save for the true baseball fans. Attendance fell by nearly 180%, and once again, it was a sticky-hot 93° at gametime.

 

Manny Parra went five innings for the third time in as many starts since being brought up from Brevard County on the 31st of July....... He gave up three straight singles in the 2nd inning before getting his first two outs and trailed 3-0 at the end of two....... In the 3rd, he got the first two outs this time, but then hit Michael Rosamond with a pitch, gave up a single to Josh Burrus, a passed ball and a single later, found himself trailing 5-0........ Parra quietly retired the Braves in the 4th, but a grounder between the legs of Ryan Braun allowed another run in the 5th, and the Stars found themselves in a 6-0 hole while Dan Smith was holding the Stars scoreless on two hits -- a two-out double by Drew Anderson in the 2nd and a two-out single by Jeff Eure in the 4th.

 

The game started to turn after Braves manager Jeff Blauser went to the bullpen and Joey Devine in the top of the 6th....... It's a mystery to me why Smith, who now has a string of 10 consecutive scoreless innings against the Stars, was taken out so early, but I appreciate that he was...... Devine, the first player since Bob Horner to be called up to Atlanta the same year he was drafted, was called up from Class A - Myrtle Beach (Carolina) Friday........ He struck out Steve Moss and Callix Crabbe on sliders, but Braun wasn't impressed. He swung at a 1-0 pitch and sent it deep down the left field line for his 8th home run, landing on the roof of the picnic area.

 

Sean White, who was supposed to follow Smith in the game, came in relief of Devine....... Another mistake by Blauser in hindsight, but what did he have to lose with a 6-1 lead, right? But very fortuitous for the Stars, so no complaints here........ This was White's first look at the Stars since starting against Ben Sheets on opening day, when he gave up two runs on four hits and four walks in 3 2/3 innings, leaving with a 2-2 ballgame....... The Stars opened up on White quickly. Anderson legged out an infield single up the middle, Lou Palmisano lined one to right, and Ozzie Chavez followed with a liner to left to load the bases with nobody out........ With Carlos Lee, pinch-hitting for Chris Mabeus, at the plate, White uncorked a wild pitch on a 1-1 slider to the plate, scoring Anderson...... It's now 6-2, nobody out, and runners in scoring position, but Lee flied out to Onil Joseph for the first out....... In for Steve Moss comes Travis Ezi, who hit .286 in July, but 3-for-18 on the road trip....... Ezi made it a 6-4 game by cracking a line drive single to center, scoring Palmisano and Chavez........ Guilder Rodriguez, batting for the first time since replacing Callix Crabbe, a .306 hitter in his last 20 games, grounded out to short for the 2nd out, but it sent Ezi into scoring position....... Braun then walked, but a wild pitch on ball four put runners on the corners....... Then Brad Nelson, who ends up hitting .346 on this road trip, raising his average 17 points to .234, made it 6-5 with a single to shallow left. It was his 25th RBI of the year and 154th of his career with the Stars, enabling him to pass Webster Garrison (1991, 92, 96, 98) for 4th place on the club's all-time RBI list......... After a double-steal moving Braun and Nelson into scoring position, the Stars nearly took the lead after Jeff Eure, on a 3-2 pitch, hit a sharp grounder off the glove of Rosamond, but Mike Rozema picked up the ball and quickly fed to White, just nipping Eure at first.

 

Luther Hackman, in his debut with the Huntsville Stars, sandwiched a pair of back-to-back singles by Luis Hernandez and Brandon Jones in between a strikeout on Rozema and back-to-back strikeouts of Rosamond and Burrus......... Hackman, when he was a Carolina Mudcat in 1999, beat the Stars, 5-4, May 8, which was Kelly Wunsch's debut with Huntsville.

 

At this point, I wasn't around to put in a tape in the recorder to tell you much more than you can get if you read MILB's log of the game, but the 8th was the dramatic point of the game for the Stars, as Drew Anderson opened the inning with another infield single...... Palmisano then walked and both runners moved into scoring position with no one out on a sac bunt by Chavez...... Pinch-hitter Ron Acuna, who hit .324 on this trip, was walked to load the bases....... Ezi then walked in the tying run on a 3-2 pitch and Guilder Rodriguez drew four balls to break the 6-6 tie, his 3rd RBI since the start of the season.

 

Corey Thurman will get a chance to pick up his 5th win on Tuesday against Carolina right-hander James Russ..... Russ is 2-2 with a 3.33 ERA since July. He has a 7.99 ERA with runners on base over 56 1/3 innings this season.

 

The Stars hit a mere .250 on this road trip, but in the last eight games, the rotation logged an ERA of 1.93....... The Stars had four .300 hitters on this road trip: Ron Acuna (.324), Callix Crabbe (.368), Jeff Eure (.304), and surprisingly, Brad Nelson (.346).

 

The Stars have won 14 of their last 19 games, hitting .264 in the process, but the starting rotation has put up a fine 3.09 ERA and it's been going down....... Nelson's hit in the 7th inning moved him into 9th place on the Stars all-time hit list, ahead of Joel Wolfe (1993-95). Nelson is 5th on the list in games played (291) and is 4th in at-bats (1,049). He is one of only six Stars in their history with over 1,000 career at-bats. An impressive, but rather dubious distinction......... Ryan Braun is hitting .297 on this road trip, but he has kept his average above .300 since July 29th. He's hit .328 during the Stars' 19-game hot streak, but Callix Crabbe is the one swinging the hot bat, going 25-for-71 with a .352 average........ Aside from Carlos Lee's .316, the Stars' two other catchers, Lou Palmisano and J.C. Boscan, have not pulled their weight, going a combined 11-for-67 (.164).

 

Chris Michalak (1995-96) is back in the majors for the first time since 2002. The Reds purchased his contract from Class AAA-Louisville (Int'l.). They like the 35-year old's outstanding pickoff move. He was 9-5, 3.00 for the Bats in 22 starts.

 

Ryan Knox may be done in pro ball. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays released him August 2nd after hitting .149 in 25 games...... Knox played with the Stars from 2001-2004, hitting .236 with six HRs and 52 RBIs in 255 games, tying him for 17th on the Stars' all-time list.

 

The Stars will open the 2007 season at home against the Braves on April 5........ The Southern League has released their 2007 schedule, keeping the present five-game series format "to cut down our travel and eliminate back-to-back series" according to league president Don Mincher........The 2007 SL All-Star game will be played at Trustmark Park....... The Stars will finish the season, like this season, at Hoover Met against the Barons........ Look for the calendar-type schedule on my web site soon.