Link Report for Sunday, August 6th -- Salome Injured?

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Carlos Villanueva at Sacramento (A's), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: RHP Yovani Gallardo at Mobile (Padres), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450radio.com/

 

Brevard County: LHP Derek Miller at home vs. Fort Myers (Twins), 3:00 PM

 

Audio link (opponent's):

www.sportsjuice.com/broad...4cwYBjA%3d

 

West Virginia: LHP Steve Garrison at home vs. Rome (Braves), 3:55 PM pre-game, 4:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

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

 

Helena: RHP Jose Beltre at Missoula (Diamondbacks), 5:45 PM pre-game; 6:00 gametime

 

Audio (click on "Listen Live"):

www.helenabrewers.net/html2/index.php

 

Arizona: Idle

[Mass Haas]

Follow Sunday's action:

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_srcaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_mobaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wvaafx_1

 

Helena:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_misrok_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]

Final: Fort Myers (Twins) 6, Brevard County 4

 

Brevard County Box Score and Game Log Link:

Hernan Iribarren on base three times, raising his .382 OBP coming in; Ryan Crew also reaches three times; two walks in the first hurt Derek Miller; defense failed Joe Thatcher in the seventh with his two inherited runners (including his own error); two-run rally in the 9th not enough for this decidedly mediocre squad...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

[Mass Haas]

It's 6:30 Central -- the Power is tied at 4-4 after seven (West Virginia has already stranded 12 in this game they're otherwise dominating), and the three other games are just underway, with Ryan Braun hitting a solo shot in the first for Huntsville.

 

So finish up the West Virginia game with Bull and the Power broadcast, then flip to the Sounds, Stars, or H-Crew, and forget about the dud the big boys laid (again) today...

 

So technically (almost), the Link Report on-time streak is intact -- now in its fifth year http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[jvrocksaz]

The one consistent, high quality, baseball item, that this brewer fan can count on... The daily link report!!! Thanks Mass!!!

Yo is 0-2 today, dropping his BA to .364!!! (although he did knock in a run!!!)

[strawbossisevil]

Braun is a man among boys right now. How soon before he gets promoted to Nashville. Oh, and that Yo guy is pretty good too.

[brewmann04]

seems like we have another two moving closer to the Brewers in Braun an Yo.

[bthurley19]

Just another 6 innings of shut out baseball for Yo. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tired.gif

[strawbossisevil]

Another solid day for Gillespie, he is way overdue for a promotion.

[pogokat]

Final: Mobile (Padres) 4, Huntsville 3, in 11 innings

 

Huntsville Site Game Summary:

Link, text follows --

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/n...newsId=953

 

Stars Suffer Stinging Defeat in 11

 

Pinch-hitter Matt Lauderdale walked with the bases loaded to force in the winning run in the bottom of the eleventh inning to push Mobile to a 4-3 comeback win over Huntsville Sunday night in the third game of a five-game set at Hank Aaron Stadium. The BayBears have won the last two games to improve to 22-21 in the second half, while the Stars dropped to 20-22 in the second half and 2-10 in extra innings games. Huntsville remains four and a half games behind North Division leading Tennessee, which fell 2-1 at home to Birmingham.

 

Chris Mabeus opened the bottom of the 11th on the hill for Huntsville and walked Luis Cruz to open the frame. Cruz stole second base and moved to third base on a throwing error by catcher JC Boscan and stayed there when Colt Morton walked and Drew Macias flied out to shallow left field. Julius Matos was intentionally walked to load the bases and Lauderdale then walked on five pitches to bring in the winning run and beat the Stars for a second time in extra innings. He hit a walk-off, pinch-hit home run off of Brett Evert in the tenth inning on June 22 to give the BayBears an 8-7 win.

 

Matt Yeatman worked a scoreless seventh inning in relief but was lifted in favor of Joe Valentine after walking Dustin Delucchi and Juan Ciriaco to open the eighth. Valentine got Vincent Sinisi to bounce into a force out at second base and then uncorked a wild pitch to move Sinisi to second base before striking out Stephen Smitherman for the second out. Cruz then launched a 2-2 pitch high in the air, tight to the line that cleared the wall in left field for his tenth home run of the year to tie the game at three. Macias led off the home ninth with a double, moved to third on a Matos sacrifice bunt but could not score, as Valentine struck out pinch-hitter Jeremy Cleveland and got Delucchi to fly out.

 

Ryan Braun smacked a line drive on a 1-2 Sean Thompson pitch that cleared the wall in left field for his seventh home run to stake the visitors to a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The first inning has featured a home run in each of the first three games of the series.

 

Drew Anderson reached on a fielding error by shortstop Ciriaco with one out in the second inning, moved to third on an Ozzie Chavez single and scored on a base hit by Boscan, who knocked in his 12th run. Chavez advanced to third on the single and scored when Stars' starter Yovani Gallardo grounded out to second base to knock in his second run. Thompson lasted six innings, giving up three runs, one earned, on four hits. He matched a season-high with nine strikeouts and walked two in his third start of the season against Huntsville and his sixth since the start of the second half of the 2005 campaign.

 

Gallardo issued a pair of walks in the third inning but worked out of trouble by striking out Ciriaco and Sinisi to end the frame and did not allow another runner past first base. He permitted a single to Cruz in the fourth and a single by Thompson in the fifth and has allowed only four extra-base hits in 49 1/3 innings. Gallardo fanned five and left with a 3-0 lead but was not involved in the decision for a third time in four starts in which he has thrown shutout baseball.

 

The series continues Monday night with right-hander Jose Capellan making a 25-pitch rehab start for the Stars, who will then have regular scheduled starter Tim Dillard take the hill in relief. Mobile will send right-hander Jose Oyervidez to the mound. Coverage of the game begins at 5:50 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 Link:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._mobaax_1

 

Edit: Corrected Final Score

[pogokat]

Final: Nashville 9, Sacramento (A's) 5

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link , text follows --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=2096

 

Sounds Defeat River Cats For 4th Straight Win

 

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Nashville Sounds sent 11 batters to the plate during a five-run seventh inning en route to posting a 9-5 victory over the host Sacramento River Cats on Sunday evening at Raley Field in the opener of a four-game series.

 

With the triumph, Nashville (63-53) notched its fourth straight victory and fifth win in the club's last six contests to pull 10 games over .500 for the first time since July 27. The Sounds' lead in the PCL American Conference Northern Division remains at 3 ½ games over Iowa.

 

The Nashville offense cranked out a double-digit hit total for the third straight evening. Brent Abernathy led all Sounds batters with a 3-for-5 evening that included two RBIs and two runs scored. Andrew Beattie, who was released by the River Cats at the end of July, drove in a team-best three runs on the night.

 

Four ex-Sacramento players were in the Nashville starting lineup (Beattie, Jermaine Clark, Graham Koonce, and Mark Johnson) and the quartet stung their former club by combining for six hits in 14 at-bats on the evening.

 

The Sounds jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning against River Cats starter Brad Ziegler.

 

The River Cats cut the Nashville lead to 2-1 by scoring a run on catcher John Baker's two-out bases-loaded walk off Sounds starter Carlos Villanueva that capped off a nine-pitch at-bat.

 

Sacramento tied it in the bottom of the fourth with another two-out run, making it a 2-2 game when Mike Rouse scored from first on Keith Ginter's RBI double down the left field line.

 

The Sounds jumped back in front by two in the next half-inning with a two-out rally of their own. After the first two batters were retired, Koonce and Abernathy both singled then scored on Beattie's two-run single down the first-base line to give the visitors a 4-2 advantage.

 

River Cats first baseman Dan Johnson (3-for-4, 3 RBI) cut the Nashville lead to one in the bottom of the fifth when he deposited Villanueva's first pitch of the inning onto the berm beyond the right field fence for his seventh home run of the season.

 

Villanueva exited after loading the bases with one out in the sixth, turning things over to Mike Meyers. The right-hander struck out Hiram Bocachica for the second out before Johnson delivered his second big knock of the evening, a go-ahead two-run single to left that brought in Rouse and Doug Clark for a 5-4 River Cats lead.

 

Nashville took its third lead of the contest by sending 11 men to the plate during a five-run outburst in the top of the seventh. With one out, the Sounds loaded the bases against reliever Mark Watson by sandwiching a pair of walks around a Laynce Nix single. The Sounds then greeted new pitcher Jay Witasick with three consecutive base hits, capped off by a two-run Dave Krynzel double into the right field corner that gave the visitors an 8-5 lead. Following a Mark Johnson walk, Jermaine Clark laced an RBI single to right off Witasick that wrapped up the frame's scoring.

 

Meyers (4-5) picked up a back-door victory after blowing the save for Nashville. He allowed two of his three inherited runners to score but ultimately tossed 0.2 innings of scoreless ball, striking out a pair of batters.

 

Watson (1-2) took the loss after being charged with three runs in just one-third of an inning of work. He allowed one hit and walked two batters.

 

Neither starting pitcher factored into the decision. Ziegler left the contest in line for his first River Cats win but ultimately took a no-decision after allowing four runs (three earned) on nine hits while striking out four batters over six innings. Villanueva, who issued a season-high five walks, drew a no-decision after giving up five runs on nine hits over his 5 1/3 frames.

 

The teams continue their series with a 9:05 p.m. CT meeting on Monday night. Left-hander Dana Eveland (3-3, 2.08) will man the bump for the Sounds and face Sacramento southpaw Adam Pettyjohn (2-1, 4.39).

 

Nashville Box Score and Game Log Link:

Laynce Nix still hitting over .450...unreal...hope he's seen the light, or something...Not a pretty start by Carlos V. at all.

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._srcaaa_1

 

Edit -- accidental emoticon

[pogokat]

Final: Rome (Braves) 6, West Virginia 4, in 10 innings

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

ROME TOPS POWER IN TEN INNINGS

 

The Rome Braves came from behind twice on Sunday evening against the West Virginia Power and took the first game of the series on a two run single from Jamie Romack with two outs in the top of the tenth inning, winning by the final of 6-4.

 

The Power scored first on Mike Bell's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first inning. Derrick Arnold ripped a two-run double in the top of the second to give Rome their first lead of the game. West Virginia tied the game at 2-2 on Michael Brantley's RBI single in the fourth inning, and they took their second lead of the game after scoring two runs in the fifth. Kenny Holmberg doubled in Tony Festa, and Holmberg crossed the plate on the same play after throwing errors from Jaime Trejo and Jeff Lyman.

 

Down by a pair of runs, Rome clean-up hitter Jamie Romack hit a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth inning to make it a 4-4 game. Romack came through again in the tenth inning. West Virginia intentionally walked Eric Campbell to load the bases for Romack and Romack ripped a two-run single, which was the difference in the game.

 

Five Power players had multi-hit games, including Festa who reached base in all five of his plate appearances.

 

Kevin Gunderson (2-0) got the win, and Patrick Ryan (5-2) obtained the loss. The Power are 59-52 overall and 20-22 in the second half after the loss while the Braves improved to 61-51 overall and 19-23 in the second half after the win.

 

The Power will continue the four-game series against the Braves Monday night. Left hander Adam Stanley (1-5, 4.50) will make the start for Rome and the Power will counter with right hander Will Inman (8-1, 1.65). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score and Game Log Link:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._wvaafx_1

[pogokat]

Final: Missoula (Arizona) 11, Helena 5

 

Link to Box Score and Game Log:

Cole Gillespie indeed overdue for a promotion. Zach Clem with 3 hits and a walk, which qualifies this as the best game of his career.

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c..._misrok_1

[Mass Haas]

Sunday's Helena KCAP Pre-Game Audio Chat with Catcher Garry Savas (Select date for August 6th, skip to the 16:00 minute mark) --

Littell is always a fascinating listen...

 

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

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

 

www.missoulian.com/articl...orts01.txt

 

O's use homers to subdue Brewers

By NICK LOCKRIDGE of the Missoulian

 

A trio of home runs helped propel the Missoula Osprey to an 11-5 victory over Helena in a lazy Pioneer League baseball game Sunday at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

 

Andrew Fie, Daniel Perales and Ricardo Cruz homered for the Osprey, who jumped out to a big, early lead for the second straight game and held on to win.

 

Missoula scored five runs in the first inning of Saturday's 6-3 victory over Billings. The O's have won five of seven since opening the second half of the season with a loss to Billings. Missoula (5-3) is still tied with the Mustangs for first place in the North.

 

?Everybody is feeling a little more comfortable in the second half,? said Perales, who socked his fourth homer of the season. ?We know what we have as a team and we've come together real well. We're just trying to make stuff happen real early and give support to our pitchers and hopefully just carry it all the way through the game.?

 

The Osprey bullpen allowed a pair of late runs, but didn't fold completely like they did in Friday's extra-inning loss.

 

?We're trying to get on some kind of roll here and hopefully carry it deep into the second half and see what happens in the playoffs,? Perales said.

 

Missoula won the first of six straight games with the Brewers. The two teams square off again Monday at 7:05 PM (8:05 Central) before heading to Helena for a four-game set starting Tuesday.

 

Perales blasted a grand slam to put the Birds ahead 6-0 in the third inning. Perales, who went 1-for-3 with three runs scored, was behind in the count when he took Great Falls starter Jose Beltre deep.

 

?I was sitting on something offspeed and away because two pitches prior he threw me a slider in the dirt and with my bad pitch selection I swung at it,? Perales said. ?I was a little disappointed in myself because I was down in the count and the bases were loaded and then he came up and in with the fastball and it wasn't anything too over powering, I adjusted well and turned on it and luckily got that one over.?

 

The ball barely cleared the 24-foot high fence in right field.

 

?That was probably the shortest one I've hit so far,? Perales said, ?but I'll take it, you know. Give us some runs, give us a good lead especially when our pitchers see that, that we're putting runs up on the board it relaxes them up on the mound and helps them pitch their game.?

 

John Hester followed with his third triple of the season and later scored on Fie's RBI single to make it 7-0. Hester, the Osprey catcher, is tied for the team lead in triples with leadoff hitter Tyler Jones.

 

Jones, who was 3-for-4 with four stolen bases, led off the third with a bunt single. Beltre sandwiched two walks around a pop out to load the bases for Perales.

 

Cruz hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season off reliever Stuart Sutherland to lead off the sixth. The O's scored once more on Gerardo Parra's RBI single to go ahead 9-3 in the inning.

 

Fie belted his fourth homer of the season to give Missoula a 2-0 lead in the second. He hit his off Beltre (1-3).

 

It's the second time this season the Osprey have hit three home runs in a game. They had four - two each by Perales and Hester - in a win over Orem on July 18.

 

Perales' grand slam was just the second four-run shot of the season. Missoula hit three grand slams last year and the team record is seven in a season.

 

With all the offense, the pitching was able to do its job.

 

Brett Reynolds earned his second win of the season. He allowed just one run in 2 1/3 innings of relief. Reynolds (2-3) struck out three.

 

Matt Brewer held the Brewers scoreless over the final two innings. He entered in the eighth when Missoula's Jason Neighborgall got into trouble. Neighborgall walked the first three batters of the inning, but Brewer coaxed a double play, which scored a run, and then got out of the inning with a fly out.

 

Missoula starter Jordan Norberto just missed getting the win. He went 4 2/3 innings but began to tire in the fifth, when Helena scored three times to get back to 7-3.

 

?He kept getting ahead in the count and then falling behind and walking guys,? Perales said. ?He was throwing too many pitches, so his arm was getting a little tired.?

 

Chris Errecart had an RBI double and Zach Clem drove in a run with a single in the third. Clem went 3-for-4 in the game.

 

Notes: Missoula's combined record is 23-23. One more win and the O's will be above .500 for the first time this season since June 26 when they were 4-3.

[Mass Haas]

More next-day reports from last night's action later this morning -- how's that for mixing time analysis comments?

[wibadgers23]

Walk totals are a bit high for Yo, but its great to see him still pitching so well. And that Braun guy is looking pretty good too.

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

 

www.dailymail.com/news/Sp...006080722/

 

Odds go against Power

Chuck McGill

For the Charleston Daily Mail

 

Baseball is a numbers game. Percentages, averages and ratios help managers and players identify trends, which they hope will enhance decision-making.

 

Sometimes, however, it's less about probability and more about luck.

 

The West Virginia Power dropped a 6-4, extra-inning contest to the Rome Braves Sunday night at Applachian Power Park. The game-winning base hit by Rome's Jamie Romak came after an intentional walk to load the bases with two outs in the top of the 10th inning.

 

Statistics indicate the intentional walk was the correct decision, but the Canadian native's sweet swing defied a trend that Power Manager Mike Guerrero thought was in his favor.

 

"It was a broken bat single," said a dejected Guerrero after the game. "It's a gamble everyone takes in that situation."

 

With the score tied at 4-4 in the top of the 10th, the Braves opened the inning with a double by Derrick Arnold and a bunt single from speedster Ovandy Suero.

 

A groundout by Quentin Davis advanced Suero to second, leaving first base open with only one out.

 

A strikeout of Jamie Trejo set up the game-winning scenario, as Guerrero had to pick his poison. Pitch to Rome's Eric Campbell, the team-leader in home runs and RBI, or bypass Campbell to face Romak, a slugger with a high strikeout-rate, but two hits and a home run already in the contest.

 

He chose to walk Campbell. With the bases loaded, Romak muscled a bloop single over shortstop Ryan Barba's head. Romak shattered his bat, and two runs crossed the plate.

 

Guerrero said it was an easy decision to face Romak, who had struck out 74 times in 258 at bats.

 

Romak finished 3-for-4, with two runs and four RBI to go along with his 13th home run of the year.

 

The Power had plenty of other opportunities to take control of the game.

 

As a team, West Virginia finished with 13 hits to Rome's eight.

 

And the visitors committed an atrocious five errors in the field.

 

"We had opportunities, but we just didn't do too well in those situations," Guerrero said. "It ended up costing us a lot."

 

The Power jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by Mike Bell, but left the bases loaded after Nate Yoho flied out to left field to end the inning.

 

After Rome took the lead on a two-run double in the second, West Virginia left one runner stranded in the bottom half of the inning and two more in the third and fourth innings.

 

Tony Festa opened the bottom of the fifth with a single, then scored on Kenny Holmberg's double in the gap. Holmberg raced to third on a throw to the plate, then scored when Rome starting pitcher Jeff Lyman hurled the ball into left field to give the Power a 4-2 advantage.

 

Rome tied the game in the top of the sixth on Romak's homer, setting up his extra-inning heroics.

 

For the game, the Power left 13 runners on base, but received multi-hit efforts from five players. Nestor Corredor, playing in place of the injured Angel Salome, was 2-for-4 with a double, and was involved in two plays at the plate. The lumbering catcher scored once, but was thrown out on his second attempt to score.

 

Injured Angel Salome? No, we don't know more at this time. -- Mass Haas

 

His effort caught the eye of his manager.

 

"It's a good thing to have a guy like that," Guerrero said. "It's an example for all the players, the way he plays with his intensity and high energy."

 

Reliever Patrick Ryan (2-2) took the loss for West Virginia, while Kevin Gunderson (2-0) picked up the win. Steve Garrison started for the Power, allowing three earned runs in six innings while striking out seven.

 

The Power (59-52 overall, 20-22 in the second half) is in the midst of an eight-game homestand. Right-hander Will Inman takes the mound tonight for the Power in the second game of the four-game series against Rome.

 

Inman is 8-1 on the season with a 1.65 earned run average.

[dadofandrew]

And that Braun guy is looking pretty good too.

 

No, he's got a hitch in his swing. Won't amount to anything.

 

Heh. I think we'll be blaming that "hitch" for him having "only" a .350 OBP by 2008...at the latest.

[wvpowerblkwel]

For what it's worth, I talked to Angel over the weekend and he was having some tightness in his back. Someone else said he had been having "spasms". Weather around here has been 95+ with loads of humidity....may just be wearing down from all the time behind the plate.