Link Report for Games of Friday, May 26th

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Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF Holiday Weekend Edition!

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Dennis Sarfate at Iowa (Cubs), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: RHP Matt Yeatman at home vs. Jacksonville (Dodgers), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450.com/

 

Brevard County: LHP Steve Hammond at Fort Myers (Twins), 6:05 PM

 

Audio link (opponent's):

miraclebaseball.com/

 

West Virginia: LHP Dave Welch at Kannapolis (White Sox), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime; look for the Brewers to be cautious with Welch tonight, maybe a couple of innings...

 

Audio link:

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

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Follow Friday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Activate the Nashville Gameday. For the other links, 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. It's sweet!

 

Nashville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_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 Thursday's action:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Nashville 27 20 .574 - 16-8 11-12 W2[/b] Iowa 19 26 .422 7.0 9-12 10-14 L2 Omaha 18 28 .391 8.5 11-11 7-17 L5 Memphis 15 30 .333 11.0 11-13 4-17 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chattanooga 32 16 .667 - 19-6 13-10 W7 West Tenn 28 20 .583 4.0 12-11 16-9 W1 Carolina 23 25 .479 9.0 15-10 8-15 L1 Tennessee 21 27 .438 11.0 12-11 9-16 L4 [b]Huntsville 20 27 .426 11.5 9-13 11-14 L7[/b] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Lucie 25 21 .543 - 11-13 14-8 L6 [b]Brevard County 24 22 .522 1.0 10-10 14-12 L2[/b] Daytona 24 23 .511 1.5 15-10 9-13 L2 Palm Beach 23 23 .500 2.0 10-12 13-11 W1 Jupiter 20 27 .426 5.5 10-15 10-12 W2 Vero Beach 17 29 .370 8.0 11-14 6-15 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delmarva 28 17 .622 - 16-9 12-8 W7 Lexington 28 18 .609 0.5 17-8 11-10 W2 Greensboro 26 20 .565 2.5 18-7 8-13 W2 [b]West Virginia 24 21 .533 4.0 13-10 11-11 W1[/b] Lakewood 24 22 .522 4.5 14-9 10-13 W2 Lake County 22 25 .468 7.0 12-12 10-13 L2 Hickory 18 26 .409 9.5 8-11 10-15 W1 Hagerstown 18 28 .391 10.5 9-10 9-18 L3

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It's $19.95 for the season to see available AAA games on MiLB.TV -- the Sounds are only on occasionally, although this weekend's series in Iowa is available. The games are archived, also:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c.../video.jsp

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In Fort Myers, Freddy Parejo pinch-hits for OF Charlie Fermaint leading off the 5th -- hopefully everything's OK with Charlie.

 

Nashville Site:

 

Tonight's PCL game at Principal Park in Des Moines, Iowa between the Nashville Sounds and Iowa Cubs will start one hour later than scheduled, at 8:05 p.m. CT, due to travel delays for the Cubs as they fly in from the West Coast.

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Mr. 3TO (AKA Josh murray) with a K, a homer, and a walk so far...go figure

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Final: Kannapolis (White Sox) 6, West Virginia 0

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

Intimidators blank Power

 

The Kannapolis Intimidators shut down the Power offense on Friday and shut them out for the second time in the last three games with a 6-0 victory at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium.

 

The game was scoreless through four and a half innings until Salvador Sanchez drove in Brent Metheny on a sacrifice fly and Jose Rodriguez knocked in the second run in the fifth on an RBI single. Metheny scored his second of three runs in the seventh inning on Mike Bell?s throwing error to put the Intimidators up 3-0.

 

Kannapolis scored three times in the eighth to pull away. Anderson Gomez brought in the first run on a single and Brandon Allen drove in the final two with a two-out double.

 

Kannapolis used three pitchers in the six hit shutout. Clayton Richard (1-1) pitched five and a third innings and earned the win while Dave Welch (1-3) obtained the loss despite allowing only two runs on two hits through four and a third. The Power are 24-22 after the loss and the Intimidators improved to 11-36 with the win.

 

The Power will begin a four game series against the Lakewood BlueClaws at Appalachian Power Park on Friday night. Lakewood will start left hander Matt Maloney (4-4, 2.01) and the Power will counter with right hander Matt Kretzschmar (0-1, 8.53). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score:

No extra-base hits for the Power; SS Michael Bell with three errors, leading to four unearned runs -- he also was picked off twice...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_1

 

West Virginia Game Log:

Ned Yost tossed out at home in the 3rd for the second out of the inning -- ugh...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_kanafx_1

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Final: Fort Myers (Twins) 8, Brevard County 2

Was closer than it looks...

 

Brevard County Game Summary from the Fort Myers Site:

 

Good teams take advantage of mistakes by the opposition and the Fort Myers Miracle are shaping into a good team as they defeated the Brevard County Manatees 8-2 on Friday night at Hammond Stadium.

 

With the Miracle trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning Korey Feiner led off with a single to right. Deacon Burns then walked to put runners at first and second. Alexi Casilla attempted to sacrifice them over, but Feiner was thrown out at third. Garrett Guzman then ripped a ball that went right through the legs of third baseman Ryan Braun which allowed Burns to score and tie the game at two. That was the opening the Miracle needed to capitalize on and after Kyle Geiger walked to load the bases, Kevin West hit a sac fly and Matt Tolbert singled home Guzman to make it 4-2.

 

The Miracle, who improved to a season best 28-20, added four insurance runs in the eighth. They loaded the bases when Trevor Plouffe led off with a double off the left field wall, Feiner walked and with one out Casilla singled. Guzman added a sac fly and Geiger followed with an RBI single. Kevin West then ripped a two-run double to right for the finishing touches.

 

Miracle starter Kevin Slowey, who had walked just three hitters in 54.1 innings and hadn?t walked anyone in 33.1 innings entering play, struggled with his control for the first time this season. Slowey, however, didn?t allow the Manatees much. In the second he gave up a leadoff double to Brendan Katin who advanced to third on a ground out and scored when Hasan Rasheed?s grounder was misplayed by Casilla.

 

The Miracle tied it in the fifth when Burns reached on an infield single, stole second and scored on Guzman?s double.

 

Slowey made one mistake in the seventh giving up just his second homer of the season, a solo shot to Josh Murray, his second of the season, to give the Manatees a 2-1 lead. Slowey went 6.1 innings allowing two runs on three hits while walking three and striking out five.

 

Brevard County Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1

 

Brevard County Game Log:

Scotty McKnight ended innings stranding five men in his first two at-bats...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_ftmafa_1

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Final: Jacksonville (Dodgers) 6, Huntsville 4

Crazy eight -- as in straight losses...

 

Huntsville Box Score:

Two hits and no runs for the Stars over the final five innings, disappointing nearly 5,000 in attendance; Adam Heether with his long-anticipated first home run of 2006...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Huntsville Game Log:

Stars led 4-0 after three innings, then Matt Yeatman allowed the first six batters to reach in the 4th and gave it all back; Brett Evert fortunate two Suns were thrown out on the bases in the 6th; down 5-4 in the 8th, it was all set up for Lou Palmisano -- one out, 2nd and 3rd -- but it was not to be; must not be a fun clubhouse right now...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

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Huntsville Site Game Summary:

Link, text follows --

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/n...newsId=851

 

Stars' Frustration Continues

 

Adam Thomas worked three scoreless innings in relief and knocked in the game-winning run in Jacksonville?s 6-4 decision over Huntsville Friday night in the fourth game of a five-game set at Joe Davis Stadium. The Suns won their fifth in a row to improve to 30-19 and moved into first place in the Southern League South Division after Montgomery fell to Mobile, while the Stars suffered a season-high eighth straight defeat and fell to 20-28 on the season. Huntsville has lost its last seven games at home and has been held to 14 runs in those defeats.

 

Brett Evert, sent to Huntsville from triple-A Nashville earlier in the day, took over on the hill for starter Matt Yeatman to open the sixth inning and hit Justin Ruggiano, the first batter he faced. Tony Abreu singled and Evert struck out Brad Cresse for the first out of the frame. The runners pulled off a double steal on the second pitch to Thomas before the free-agent signee looped a 1-2 pitch into shallow right field. Second baseman Callix Crabbe gave chase and tried to make an over the shoulder catch and had the ball hit off his glove and land for a single, allowing Ruggiano to score to make it 5-4 Suns. The Stars got Abreu hung up in a run down and tagged him out for the second out of the inning. Wilkin Ruan, the next hitter, singled to center field and Thomas was thrown out at the plate by Travis Ezi to end the inning.

 

Ron Acuna singled to open the home eighth inning, moved to second on a wild pitch and stayed there when Greg Sain walked to chase Thomas from the game. Casey Hoorelbeke took over on the mound and Adam Heether laid down his second pitch for a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners. Lou Palmisano then chopped a ground ball back to Hoorelebeke, who got Acuna tagged out for the second out of the inning in a rundown. Sain moved to third base and Palmisano to second on the play and they were stranded when Ozzie Chavez flied out to end the inning. Jacksonville added an unearned run in the ninth inning when Sain could not handle a two-out ground ball hit by Chin-Lung Hu that allowed Anthony Raglani to score from third base.

 

Hoorelbeke retired the side in order in the ninth inning to earn his second save of the series and his third of the season. He has allowed one earned run in 29 innings and has not given up an earned run since April 13 at home against Montgomery. Thomas allowed two hits, fanned three and walked a pair to improve to 2-1 in his fourth outing with the Suns.

 

Sain belted a two-out, two-run home run in the third inning and Heether followed with his first long ball of the year, marking the second time the Stars had hit back-to-back home runs this season, to give the home side a 4-0 lead. It was Sain?s first round tripper since April 27 and he knocked in his first runs since May 3. Jacksonville tied the game with four runs in the fourth on a two-run home run by Matt Kemp, a run-scoring double by Craig Brazell and a sacrifice fly by starting pitcher Alvis Ojeda.

 

The series wraps up Saturday afternoon when Stars? southpaw Jeff Housman takes the mound against Suns? right-hander Spike Lundberg. Coverage of the game begins at 1:50 p.m. central time and can be heard locally on ESPN Radio 1450 AM and via the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

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Nashville Pre-Game Audio Coaches Chat with Manager Frank Kremblas:

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...205-26.wma

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Final: Iowa (Cubs) 3, Nashville 1

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Dennis Sarfate photo, text follows --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=1971

 

Sounds Drop Road Trip Opener To Iowa, 3-1

 

DES MOINES ? The Nashville Sounds came up short in the opener of a four-game series on Friday evening at Principal Park, falling 3-1 to the host Iowa Cubs.

 

The Sounds jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning when Jermaine Clark drew a walk, stole his PCL-leading 15th base of the year, and scored on a Milko Jaramillo single. Jaramillo made his first start of the year for Nashville (at second base).

 

AUDIO: Milko Jaramillo's RBI Single --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...205-26.wma

 

Iowa took the lead with a two-run third against Sounds starter Dennis Sarfate. With one out, Michael Restovich knotted the score at 1-1 with an RBI double to center that brought home Buck Coats then Micah Hoffpauir followed with a go-ahead run-scoring single.

 

The Cubs tacked on an insurance run in the fifth on a Casey McGehee sacrifice fly.

 

Nelson Cruz continued his hot hitting with a 2-for-4 evening for the Sounds.

 

Iowa starter Ryan O?Malley (3-2) picked up the victory after holding the Sounds to one run on seven hits over 6 2/3 innings, while Sarfate (2-2) took the loss after surrendering all three Cubs runs on six hits in his six frames. David Aardsma worked a scoreless ninth for the I-Cubs to earn his fifth save of the year.

 

The teams meet again at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday. Nashville sends knuckleballer Jared Fernandez (1-1, 2.03) to the hill to face Iowa southpaw Les Walrond (4-1, 2.25).

 

Nashville Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

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Link while active, text follows:

 

www.al.com/sports/huntsvi...amp;coll=1

 

Stars' frustration finds way to grow

Early 4-0 lead can't ward off eighth straight loss

By BRAD SHEPARD

For The Huntsville Times

 

As the old cliche goes, "When it rains, it pours." In the Huntsville Stars' case, the misery just keeps gushing over the floodgates.

 

How unlucky are things for the still-falling Stars, who dropped a 6-4 decision to Jacksonville on Friday night? The Suns' game-winning run came on a 120-foot pop-up single by a relief pitcher in the sixth inning.

 

Huntsville (20-28) also wasted a 4-0 lead built by a pair of struggling hitters - Greg Sain and Adam Heether.

 

What could have been a jubilant jump-start for a slumping team instead became a temporary tease on the way to Huntsville's eighth-straight loss in front of 4,920 fans at Joe Davis Stadium.

 

Immediately after Sain and Heether smashed back-to-back home runs in the third inning, Matt Yeatman gave the runs right back.

 

A rare offensive outburst from a pair who was hitting .188 in 277 at-bats was wasted.

 

"With the funk we're in, that's when everything seems to go bad," Sain said. "It's just frustrating. Everybody wants to get going."

 

Two innings later, the Stars fell behind on even more frustrating terms.

 

That's when Jacksonville reliever Adam Thomas knocked in Justin Ruggiano with the go-ahead run.

 

With runners on second and third and one out in a tie game, Stars manager Don Money elected to bring in his infielders. What would have been a harmless popup by Thomas instead fell between Callix Crabbe and Ron Acuna.

 

Both hesitated to pick up the ball, and an alert Ruggiano scored from third without a throw. Brett Evert, just sent down from Triple-A Nashville, took the loss.

 

"I still think he (Crabbe) should've caught it, in my opinion," Money said.

 

"That's the plays you've got to make. But we still had a chance to knock in runs."

 

To cap a frustrating Friday, Huntsville botched prime scoring opportunities in the seventh and eighth innings, going 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position.

 

Pinch-hitter Jeff Eure got to second with one out in the seventh, but instead of knocking in the tying run, Travis Ezi struck out looking and Drew Anderson popped out in foul ground to the third baseman.

 

Acuna and Sain stood on second and third with one out in the eighth, but Lou Palmisano grounded into a fielder's choice to the pitcher, and Ozzie Chavez flew out to end the threat.

 

Jacksonville (30-19) added an insurance run in the top of the ninth on an error by Sain. Though there wasn't a drop of rain in sight, it seemed dreary in Huntsville's locker room afterward.

 

"This losing streak is no fun," said Sain, who sat across the locker room from Yeatman but wore the same frown looking at the floor. "Guys are playing hard, but things aren't going our way. If we keep doing it, they'll start going our way."

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STARS SET MILWAUKEE-ERA RECORD

And the beat goes...... (well, where's the pulse?)....... How frustrating can this get? It's almost as if God is playing a cruel joke on the Stars and their fans. Just when it looks as if the Stars are finally going to end this long losing streak with a 4-0 lead, Jacksonville comes back to tie, and then go-ahead in the 6th, and add salt in the wound in the 9th....... But getting back to Earth, God really has nothing to do with this and who the hell knows if he, she or it even cares......... The Stars, in setting a new Milwaukee-era record by losing their 8th straight game, their longest losing streak since 1996, have unraveled........ During the streak, I've watched the ERAs go up, the bullpen ERAs go up, the errors, yes even the errors go up (the Stars have committed an error in 10 of their last 12 games), I've seen more bad breaks on our side, and fewer on their side, and run opportunities go wasted (13 left on base Thursday, 8 in scoring position w/2 out)..

The numbers: The Stars have lost 14 of 17 games since May 8. In that space, they've hit .218. They've committed 17 errors, almost as many as they made in their first 30 games. They've scored 2.4 runs per game, while being outscored, 87-41........ 15% of the runs they've allowed have been unearned. Last night's came in the 9th inning, an insurance run that could have been a spirit-breaker in this game, but it's been a factor in couple of other games: a 3-1 loss to the Smokies, May 15th when Ozzie Chavez's throwing error subsequently resulted in all three runs being scored, and on May 18th, when a missed catch by Jeff Eure on a toss from Carlos Villanueva resulted in a 2-run 7th and a 5-4 loss to the Lookouts....... The bullpen ERA, around 2.50 before May 8th, is 3.33 since........ Starting pitchers have gone 2-10, but the bullpen has lost the last three games and in the last four, the bullpen ERA has been 5.40....... Andy Pratt has given up 8 earned runs in 6 innings over his last 4 appearances........ Gerrit Simpson's ERA in 10 May appearances has been a modest 3.65 with a pair of losses...... Matt Smith's ERA is 7.00 since being picked up from the Cardinals as a free agent.

Huntsville's clean-up hitters are hitting .156 in this 8-game losing streak. Only Drew Anderson (11-for-30) is really hitting the ball, but Steve Moss has been at a .292 clip....... Ozzie Chavez has been hitting .222, Callix Crabbe, .160; Adam Heether, .167; Lou Palmisano, .238.

At least summer is back, for those of you who would rather not freeze when seeing a game in the stands, and I'm one of them........ 91° at gametime with a few small dark clouds wandering over I guess from northern Tennessee where they had some really bad weather, but overall, not threatening....... A very slow-paced game tonight.. Both starters threw a lot of pitches in a short time. Through four innings, Jacksonville starter Alvis Ojeda threw 77 pitches. Matt Yeatman threw 74, and most of the scoring came in those first four frames. Yeatman, pitching for the first time in 9 games scattered just two hits through the first 4 innings. The Stars had given him a comfortable 4-0 lead.

In the 1st, Drew Anderson, the Stars' best hitter during this 17-game slump (.355) dropped an excellent but to the left side, almost beating out Jacksonville starter Ojeda's throw, moving Travis Ezi, who led off with a walk, to 2nd....... After fouling off a 2-2 pitch, Ron Acuna lined a hit over short, driving in the speedy Ezi for a 1-0 lead.

Adam Heether sometimes looks like Brooks Robinson at third. Even when he makes an error, and he's made only six, four of them have been on a throw....... He made a couple of really fine plays in the 3rd innings, taking a short hop near the base line, fairly deep, then making a strong throw to get Brad Cresse to lead off the inning, then to get the final out, hustling in and cutting in front of Ozzie Chavez, who was waiting on a slow chop, then firing to first in mid-motion for the out.

In the bottom of the 3rd, Anderson tapped a one-out, 3-1 pitch up the 1st base line, beating catcher Cresse's throw for a hit. He steals 2nd on a close play when Ron Acuna strikes out and goes to 3rd on a wild pitch on a 1-0 pitch to Greg Sain. But all that station-to-station movement didn't matter after Sain on 2-and-2, crushed a no-doubt home run, his first since April 27th, between the Budweiser sign on the scoreboard and a pole to the right, giving the Stars a 3-0 lead........ It was only the Stars' 3rd home run this whole month, spelling the desparate need for power....... As if speaking too soon, Heether followed up and drove a 2-2 pitch over the left field wall, leaving Justin Ruggiano looking at the sky, watching the ball clear all three billboard levels for the 4-0 Stars lead.

Unfortunately, not much would happen to give the Stars anything to cheer about after that........ Lou Palmisano followed Heether's blast with a walk to first, then Ojeda and Adam Thomas, a pick-up from the independent Winnipeg (North.) Goldeneyes during the off-season, retired 8 straight hitters before Palmisano was erased on a double play in the 6th....... Meanwhile, the Stars lead had evaporated and was gone.

Nearly 5,000 noisy fans ranging from Little Leaguers on up, waiting on fireworks watched Matt Kemp, the Dodgers #8 prospect, send a room-service 1-1 fast ball bouncing off the top of the first wall in center field, about 5-10 feet to the right of the 405' marker, and going over for a 2-run home run......... After a walk on four pitches to Andy LaRoche, the Dodgers' top batting prospect, Craig Brazell drives a pitch off the left field wall for his 2nd double of the night, scoring LaRoche all the way from first to make it 4-3........ Justin Ruggiano then walks on six pitches. Tony Abreu loads the bases with a broken-bat looper to center field that falls in front of Ezi for a hit. Yeatman then went 3-and-2 to Ojeda before he lines a ball deep to right, scoring Brazell, tying the game.

Yeatman gave way to Brett Evert in the 6th........ Yeatman's April ERA of 0.73 has soared to 3.67....... Evert had been sent down from Nashville earlier in the day, presumably ending a ripple of transactions that saw over a half-dozen pitchers come and go from Huntsville.......The first batter he faced, he hit....... Evert's 2nd pitch to the next hitter, Abreu, was lined to left for a single. After getting Cresse out looking on a questionable called strike three, Palmisano nearly retired Adam Thomas, making a valiant diving effort on a foul pop bunted to the third base side beside home plate....... Unfortunate because,both runners took off and successfully executed a double steal....... Thomas then looped a 1-2 pitch into shallow right field. Callix Crabbe gave chase and tried to make an over-the-shoulder catch, but the ball hit off his glove for a single. Ruggiano scored, giving the Suns a 5-4 lead........ Greg Sain's error in the 9th hurt. Chin Hu's hit a grounder to him away from the bag for a certain 3rd out, but Sain dropped the ball. His recovery toss to reliever Russ Rohlicek was too late, and Anthony Raglani, who had reached on a failed sacrifice and gone station-to-station, scored for the final 6-4 score........ Rohlicek was making his 11th appearance of the month and doing a fine job, logging a 1.84 ERA in 14 2/3 innings.

The Stars will play a 2 pm game in the scorching sun today........ Posters will be given out to the first 2,000 who attend...... Jeff Housman (1-1, 2.77) will face former Phillie farmhand Spike Lundberg (4-1, 2.61), 9th among SL ERA leaders. Housman was limited to 65 pitches his last time out. We'll see what happens today.

Former Stars pitcher Mike Adams was traded to the New York Mets, Friday night for former SL pitcher Jeremi Gonzalez....... Gonzalez pitched for the Orlando Cubs, mostly as a starter in 1996 and briefly in 1999 for the Diamond Jaxx....... Adams was a very effective pitcher for the Stars in 2002-03. Although his record was 3-8, he had an ERA of 3.23 in 58 combined appeareances. On June 23, 2003, Adams pitched 5 1/3 no-hit innings in relief of Matt Parker, who gave up all 5 runs in a 5-3 loss to Carolina........Adams was 1-1 with a 3.51 ERA in 15 appearances for the Sounds this season. he was assigned to Class AAA-Norfolk (Int'l.).