Link Report Friday 5/5 -- 18 Innings Not Enough in Nashville

[Mass Haas]

Brevard County Site Game Summary:

 

Muniz lifts Hammerheads

 

J.C. Muniz homered twice to power visiting Jupiter to a 6-3 victory over Brevard County on Friday.

 

Muniz gave the Hammerheads a 2-0 lead when he followed Juan Figueroa's leadoff single in the second inning with a drive over the center field fence for his first homer of the season. He hit a solo shot in the fourth to make it 3-0.

 

Grant Psomas was 4-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI for Jupiter (11-17). Brian Cleveland and Brett Carroll had run-scoring singles and Psomas delivered an RBI double as the Hammerheads scored three runs in the ninth.

 

Brevard County (15-13) had tied the score, 3-3, on Brendan Katin's RBI double in the eighth. Katin moved up on a passed ball, but Scott Nestor retired Hernan Iribarren on a groundout to end the inning.

 

Nestor (1-0) pitched one inning, allowing one run on one hit with a walk and two strikeouts. Harvey Garcia struck out two in a perfect ninth for his fourth save. Jupiter starter Jacob Marceaux went seven innings, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out five.

 

Hasan Rasheed had a two-run triple in the fourth for Brevard County (15-12). First baseman Steven Sollman went 0-for-3, stopping his 10-game hitting streak.

 

Jeremy Lewis (0-2) gave up three runs on four hits in one inning for the loss. -- Jeannine Rippa/MLB.com

[djoctagone]

corey hart has the chance to be rick manning.

[djoctagone]

. . . but not to be. he popped up with the bases loaded.

 

mike rivera will lead off the bottom of the 14th and will have another chance to extend his hitting streak.

[Mass Haas]

Corey Hart has ended both the 11th and 13th innings with the bases loaded -- still tied at 4-4 heading to the 14th; Mike Rivera yet to extend his hit streak...

[DKM4Boston]

Hopefully Mike Meyers can go a few innings tomorrow. Evert is the only reliever not to throw yet tonight. The bench has been exhausted as well, so I think Stetter will have to finish this thing out.

 

 

Edit: Top of the 17th and Brett Evert is now in to pitch. The bench and the bullpen are now both exhausted. The Sounds were not planning on calling anybody up from Huntsville until Monday, so they might need to make an emergency call to get some help.

[DHonks]

they also have Rottino and Barnwell who can pitch

[Mass Haas]

Gotta admit, being able to have the Gameday active on the Nashville game while watching the Crew in Los Angeles is cool.

 

(Also have Chuck Valenches on Windows Media Player, and check in with his audio during commercial breaks in the Milwaukee game -- multi-tasking at 1:15 East Coast. TGIF!)

[clancyphile]

Nice to see Krynzel's notonly back, he's got two hits and a walk.

 

Brady... don't look over your shoulder.

[DHonks]

and Krynzel w/a steal

 

that's 7 steals, 1 CS. apparently the fire lit in him suddenly has him better at stealing

[DKM4Boston]

Phew. Mitch Stetter nearly got nailed by the bat. That would've been unfortunate.

 

Corey Hart is coming up to bat in the bottom of the inning. Hopefully he can redeem himself.

[DKM4Boston]

Wiki Gonzalez certainly has done his part to slow this game down. That was about his 300th visit to the mound since he came into the game. He's the "human rain delay" as Chuck put it earlier.

[Mass Haas]

Wonder how many fans have stuck around in Nashville on a fireworks night there. The neighbors will love that in the middle of the night. Bottom of the 16th, 12:35 AM in Nashville, there must be a curfew issue coming up, you'd think...

[Mass Haas]

Brad Nelson 1-for-8 with 5 K's, ugh...

 

That's it for me kids. Sleep tight heading to the 17th...

[And That]

Brad Nelson with a K to end a threat in the bottom of the 16th, which drops him to 1-8 on the evening. Ouch.

 

I'm guessing the fireworks are a no-go tonight.

 

Edit: And on to the bottom of the 17th we go. Still 4-4.

[DKM4Boston]

Hey! The fireworks are still on...good for them! "15 cards still in the parking lot". Either they have a few very dedicated baseball fans or a few very dedicated firework fans.

 

And to the 18th inning they go.

 

Mike Rivera has caught every inning of this game.

 

Edit: Rivera has also been hit by 2 pitches and was just nailed in the foot with a foul ball but is still in there. I'm going to guess that he gets tomorrow off.

[And That]

With a runner on second, Rottino strikes out and Krynzel flies out to send us to the 18th.

 

Edit: Nothing in the 18th for New Orleans. Clark-Abernathy-Hart in the bottom half of the frame.

[DKM4Boston]

Game will be suspended if the Sounds don't score in this inning.

 

Edit: Unbelievable! 6 K's for Nelson. This time with runners on 2nd and 1st. To be continued tomorrow. Maybe Rivera will get another chance to extend his hitting streak. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[And That]

Mike Rivera now with shot #9 to extend his hitting streak. Hart is on first with two outs.

 

Edit: Hart stole second, so they walked Rivera. Bunch of jerks.

[And That]

Brad Nelson just struck out for the 6th time tonight... that's one step beyond the platinum sombrero, and I don't know what that is. 1 for 9 on the night. Ouch.

 

Game will be suspended until tomorrow. Good night.

[Mass Haas]

Nashville Site:

 

Sounds Game Suspended At End Of 18th Inning

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Friday evening's game between the Nashville Sounds and New Orleans Zephyrs was suspended due to curfew rules with the score tied 4-4 at the conclusion of the 18th inning.

 

The game will be concluded on Saturday evening at Greer Stadium, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday's regularly-scheduled game between the clubs will be a seven-inning affair that begins approximately 20 minutes after the completion of the suspended game.

 

Fans holding tickets to the May 5 game can redeem their ticket stubs for a ticket of equal or lesser value (pending availability) to any remaining home game during the 2006 regular season.

 

The 18-inning game is already the longest in New Orleans Zephyrs history, which dates back to 1993. The longest game in Nashville Sounds history occurred on September 7, 1990, a 20-inning playoff game at Greer Stadium against the Omaha Royals. The Sounds lost that game by an 8-7 count.

 

Right-hander Mike Meyers (1-0, 3.86) will start Saturday's nightcap for Nashville and face recently-added New Orleans right-hander David Gil, who will make his first Triple-A start of the season.

 

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tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....328/SPORTS

 

Sounds game suspended after 18 innings

Will resume today at 6 p.m.

By MAURICE PATTON

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

After winning back-to-back one-run games, the Nashville Sounds played one a little too closely Friday night.

 

Allowing runs in the eighth and ninth innings to force a 4-4 tie, the Sounds went nine more innings with visiting New Orleans before the contest was suspended due to minor league guidelines.

 

The game will be picked up at the top of the 19th inning today beginning at 6 p.m., with the regularly scheduled game to follow. The second game will be shortened to seven innings.

 

Only a handful of the announced season-high crowd of 9,124 remained when the final out was recorded ? on Brad Nelson?s franchise-record sixth strikeout of the night ? at 1:25 a.m., for a game time of 6 hours, 23 minutes.

 

The Sounds played a 20-inning contest in the 1990 American Association playoffs, losing to Omaha 8-7. That game is the longest, inning-wise, in franchise history. Time-wise, the longest known game prior to last night was a 5-hour, 7-minute contest in the 1998 home opener against Colorado Springs, an 8-7 loss in 15 innings.

 

The Greer Stadium matchup was the last to go final in the Pacific Coast League ? despite being the first to start. Two games that started two hours later also wrapped up ahead of Nashville and New Orleans.

 

After tying the game at 4-all, New Orleans ? which had lost 11 of its last 12 games ? had the leadoff hitter reach base in six of its nine extra at-bats.

 

Nashville loaded the bases in both the 11th and 13th innings, but failed to score on either occasion.

 

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Hart gets his own 10-game hit streak

By MAURICE PATTON

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

Corey Hart became the fourth Nashville Sounds player this season to put together a hitting streak of at least 10 games with his first-inning single Friday night against New Orleans.

 

Hart joins Chris Barnwell (10 games, April 12-22), Tony Gwynn (12 games, April 14-25) and Mike Rivera, who has a Pacific Coast League-best 16-gamer but was still hitless after 18 innings.

 

Barnwell also extended his current streak to eight games with a fourth-inning double.

 

Hart, who singled and drove in a run in the third, went into Friday?s game hitting .429 (18-for-42) with four home runs, 12 RBI and 11 runs over his nine-game streak.

 

Speakin? of streakin?: Vinny Rottino, who entered the game as part of a double-switch, walked in his seventh-inning plate appearance and had a sacrifice bunt in the ninth. His hitting streak remains at five games pending the completion of the suspended game.

 

Home sweet home: With his successful ninth-inning pinch-hitting appearance, Gwynn is the only Sounds player to hit safely in all 13 Greer Stadium games (18-for-49, .367). He has a current hitting streak of six games.

 

Double threat: Dennis Sarfate had the first multi-hit game for a Sounds pitcher this season, hitting a two-out double off the left-field wall in the second inning and adding an RBI bunt single on a successful squeeze play in the fourth.

 

Sarfate, who played shortstop at Arizona State in addition to pitching, had one of the pitching staff?s three hits in 26 at-bats coming into Friday.

 

The last Nashville pitcher to have two or more hits in a game was Justin Lehr, who went 2-for-2 on June 23 at Albuquerque.

 

On the mound, Sarfate struck out six in six innings of work ? both season highs ? but wound up taking a no-decision.

 

Leading the way: The Sarfate and Barnwell doubles padded the Sounds? Pacific Coast League lead in that category, giving them 65 for the season.

 

Stealing wins: Nashville also added to its league lead in stolen bases, as Dave Krynzel, Brent Abernathy and Brad Nelson each swiped a bag Friday. Entering play, the Sounds? 52 steals were 16 more than the No. 2 team, Salt Lake.

 

Nashville Box Score (thus far):

Those 116 RBI in 2002 seem so far away for Brad Nelson...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log (thus far):

It's like reading an unfinished novel...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

[Mass Haas]

The Nashville game was taylor-made for staff-saving knuckle-baller Jared Fernandez, who ironically missed the affair by one day.

[Mass Haas]

David Weiser's

 

www.starsboxscore.com/

 

6 OF 9

The Stars will lose their first road series of the year. That is an inevitable fact after losing in 10 innings to the Diamond Jaxx, 4-3, their 3rd straight loss, and 6th loss in their last 9 games....... West Tennessee has been one of the Stars toughest opponents the last three years, with a record now of 28-16 against the Stars....... The Cubs, to their credit, have put together one of the best minor league organizations in baseball during that time, going back to 2001, when it was ranked 2nd by Baseball America , # 1 a year later, and 3rd in 2003. After five straight years as one of the top 10 minor league organizations in baseball, they slipped to # 15 this year ---- thinning, but still talented, and with June ahead of them.......

 

Last year, the Diamond Jaxx went to the Southern League Championship game with the Most Outstanding Pitcher of the Year, Ricky Nolasco (currently in the majors), and outfielder Matt Murton, now a regular with the Cubs, Brandon Sing, Felix Pie, and a number of other prospects, some of whom returned to the Jaxx this year......... They include Luis Montanez, who singled home the game-winning run in the 10th, and scored the first run on Micah Hoffpauir's triple in the 1st inning.

 

The Stars' call went out to Matt Yeatman, who finished April with a 0.73 ERA, tying Roger Smithberg (Stars '92) for the 9th-best April in Stars history. Had last Wednesday's game not have been rained out, who knows how Yeatman would have finished, for he was scheduled to start the final game of the month......... In any case, he got two quick outs in the 1st before Montanez grounded a 1-2 pitch through the middle for a single. Hoffpauir, on a 2-2 count, followed with a smash in the air that rolled all the way to the wall. Steve Moss had trouble picking up the ball, and Montanez scored the first run off Yeatman since April 8th....... Scott Moore followed with a double off the base of the fence in almost the same spot Hoffpauir hit his, to make it 2-0.

 

The Stars, however, came back and scored three times to go ahead for the time being........ With one out, Adam Heether (with a new stance) and Lou Palmisano hit back-to-back singles........ Jeff Eure, 1-for-10 in his last seven games, and starting at 1st base for the first time since April 18th at Montgomery, lined a 2-2 pitch from starter Juan Mateo deep to left field off the wall, easily scoring Heether and sending Palmisano to third. Eure might have made third, but was playing conservatively on the basepaths........ Callix Crabbe, who knocked in 13 runs in April, 2nd only to Greg Sain, delivered huge in the clutch, ripping a line drive down the right field line into the corner, scoring Eure and Palmisano, giving the Stars a 3-2 lead.

 

That would hold up until the bottom of the 5th inning........ Alec Zumwalt pitched impressively in relief of Yeatman, but opened his four-inning effort with a two-out game-tying home run to Hoffpauir on a 1-1 pitch to the right field corner that followed a deep foul to the same general area......... After that, the Stars were able to get just one hit the rest of the game -- a single by Drew Anderson in the 10th, but Anderson took himself out on a stolen base attempt. The Stars have stolen 19 bases this year, but have been succesful in only 63% of all attempts....... They weren't without opportunities. Mateo walked the first two batters in the 6th, but Carlos Jan, in relief of Mateo, closed the door........

 

In the 10th, Chris Walker opened with an opposite-field double off Joe Winkelsas (1-0, 1.54), by now in his 2nd inning. The Stars brought their corner men, Heether and Eure in, anticipating a bunt. Eric Patterson gave it to them, placing it to the left side, but Heether's one-hop throw to Crabbe could not be handled and Heether was charged with his 2nd error of the year........ Montanez, the Cubs 30th Top Prospect on Baseball America's Top 30 among Cub minor leaguers, grounded a 1-1 pitch past a diving Chavez into left field for the game-winning hit....... Montanez, who had three hits, is 6-for-14 vs. Stars pitching in the series, but it was only his first RBI.

 

The final game of the series will pit Khalid Ballouli (2-1, 3.90) against lefty Randy Wells........ Wells (1-1, 1.84) will be making his 4th start of the season. He's held batting opponents to a .212 average....... Ballouli is coming off his finest game as a Huntsville Star, going eight innings, giving up just four hits and striking out nine last Monday in a game the Stars lost in 12.

 

Ozzie Chavez (.275) extended his hitting streak to seven games (8-for-27)........ The Stars as a team are hitting just .227, tied for last in the league with Tennessee. In the last nine games, of which they've lost six, they're hitting .204....... The Stars had just three games in April in which they assembled 10 or more hits, the fewest since 1995........ They finished 14-10 in April, their best record in three years, but their April average at the plate of .232 is the worst since 2001, when they hit .221........ But there's better news.

 

The Stars have drawn more walks than anybody except Mobile and trail only by four........... Through games of May 5th, the Stars are leading the league in fielding (.984) and have made only 16 errors through 28 games. They finished April with just 12 errors, a club record smashing the old record of 18 that had held up since 1992......... No Huntsville Stars team has ever led the league in fielding pct. at season's end. The 1986 team finished 2nd........

 

On the pitching side, the staff strikeout-walk ratio of 3.34-1 is the best in the league as the Stars lead the SL in strikeouts and fewest walks. They're 7th in ERA, but their 3.38 figure, if it held up at season's end, would be the 2nd best in club history....... Steve Moss raised his average from .190 to .281 on his 14-game hitting streak, which ended Thursday. It's still the 2nd longest this season in the league. Matt Kemp of the Jacksonville Suns had a 16-game hitting streak end on Tuesday.

 

Manny Parra made his season debut Wednesday, and you would think that pitching the same game with Mike Jones would make Brewer fans giddy at the thought of seeing two of the most promising pitching talents on the comeback trail, decimate the opposition, and quickly climb the ladder to the majors once again....... Instead, Parra, working his way back from rotator cuff surgery, gave up three runs in 2 1/3 innings and Jones, who has undergone two shoulder surgeries in the past two years, gave up five runs in 1 1/3 innings of relief for Brevard County in an 11-3 loss to Jupiter........ The two combined to walk eight hitters.

 

Guilder Rodriguez, who missed the bus to the ballpark, took care of the coaching duties at 1st base during the game.

[Mass Haas]

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Power stays hot, shuts out Lexington 9-0

By Jim Workman

For Saturday Charleston Gazette-Mail

 

Here is another way to describe the West Virginia Power bats of late: muy caliente!

 

The home team celebrated Cinco de Mayo by displaying very hot bats for the second night in a row and defeated Lexington 9-0 in a South Atlantic League contest at Appalachian Power Park on Friday before a crowd of 4,301.

 

The Power raises its record to 14-13 while the Legends fall to 15-13.

 

?Our pitching, fielding and offense all came around,? said Power manager Mike Guerrero. ?We had clutch hitting and aggressive baserunning ? we put it all together and had a good night. We were fundamentally sound in all areas.?

 

It was the second impressive victory and offensive output in a row for the Power. On Thursday, the Power hit a league-record seven home runs in a 17-2 win. That game was stopped due to rain in the bottom of the fifth.

 

Guerrero didn?t appear surprised at all by his team?s sudden display of power hitting.

 

?I know we?ve got pop,? he said. ?The guys are hitting the ball well. We?re starting to get comfortable at the plate and hitting their pitch. But I don?t think we?ve seen the best out of our team. We have a pretty good team. The best is yet to come.?

 

The scoring began in the second when Nate Yoho smacked a grounder that bounced through the legs of Legends pitcher Levi Romero and into center field, scoring Ryan Crew to give the Power a 1-0 advantage.

 

Mike Bell slammed a home run over the right-field wall in the fourth to extend the Power lead to 2-0.

 

The Power plated four more runs in the fifth. Mat Gamel blooped a ball just over the third baseman?s glove and into left field for a double, scoring Lorenzo Cain to make it 3-0. Gamel extended his hitting streak to 10 consecutive games.

 

Bell stole home to lift the Power lead to 5-0, taking advantage of a throw down to second on another runner?s steal attempt. The lead was extended to 6-0 when Ned Yost singled in Crew.

 

Angel Salome clobbered a three-run homer in the sixth to stretch the Power advantage to 9-0.

 

Starting pitcher Will Inman (3-0) pitched five innings and allowed just two hits and struck out five in garnering the win for the Power. Lexington starter Levi Romero (4-1) was tagged with his first loss of the season. He allowed four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.

 

Crew went 3-for-5 for the Power while Salome, Gamel and Yoho added two hits apiece.

 

The teams play the fifth game of their sixth game series Saturday night. The finale is set for Sunday afternoon.

[djoctagone]

Quote:

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The Nashville game was taylor-made

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yes it was . . . but only to a certain extent.

 

brad nelson (2001)

dennis sarfate (2001)

mike adams (2001)

dave krynzel (2000)

 

did i miss anyone?

[UeckerAddict]

24 innings? That's insane. My one gripe about Miller Park is no more double headers. Sounds/Zephyrs fans got lucky.