Link Report for Games of Wednesday, April 12th

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Wednesday Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Ben Hendrickson at Iowa (Cubs), 7:45 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Nashville Game Day Feature from MILB.com:

Please note that GameDay links will not become active until approximately 1-2 hours before game time

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

 

Huntsville: RHP Tim Dillard at home vs. Birmingham (White Sox), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime; Stars' home opener...

 

You know, with every Southern League series being a five-game affair this year, Carlos Villanueva may never get the benefit that Tim Dillard does of seeing the batters for each team at least once prior to facing them...

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450.com/

 

Brevard County: TBD and RHP Mark Rogers at home vs. Palm Beach (Cardinals), 5:00 PM; doublehader includes completion of Tuesday's suspended game

 

It will be interesting to see how Ramon Aviles handles the staff here; Rogers is more likely to start Game Two than take over in Game One (2nd inning), but nothing's etched in stone.

 

Audio link (opponent's):

www.palmbeachcardinals.com/

 

West Virginia: LHP Derek Miller at Greensboro (Marlins), 6:00 PM

 

Audio link:

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

[Mass Haas]

Follow Wednesday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". 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 Game One:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

Brevard County Game Two:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_gboafx_1

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf

 

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

 

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

[Mass Haas]

Standings as of 12:45 Central Wednesday:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 4 2 .667 - 4-2 0-0 L1 Omaha 4 2 .667 - 4-2 0-0 L1 [b]Nashville 2 4 .333 2.0 0-0 2-4 W1[/b] Memphis 0 6 .000 4.0 0-0 0-6 L6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Tenn 5 1 .833 - 0-0 5-1 W3 Chattanooga 4 2 .667 1.0 1-0 3-2 W1 Carolina 3 3 .500 2.0 0-0 3-3 L1 [b]Huntsville 3 3 .500 2.0 0-1 3-2 L1[/b] Tennessee 1 5 .167 4.0 0-1 1-4 L5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Brevard County 5 0 1.000 - 1-0 4-0 W5[/b] St. Lucie 5 1 .833 0.5 4-0 1-1 W2 Palm Beach 3 2 .600 2.0 1-1 2-1 L1 Jupiter 4 3 .571 2.0 3-2 1-1 W3 Vero Beach 1 6 .143 5.0 1-1 0-5 L3 Daytona 0 6 .000 5.5 0-4 0-2 L6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lexington 6 1 .857 - 6-1 0-0 W1 Greensboro 5 1 .833 0.5 5-1 0-0 W1 Delmarva 4 2 .667 1.5 1-1 3-1 W1 Lake County 4 2 .667 1.5 0-0 4-2 L1 Hagerstown 2 4 .333 3.5 2-0 0-4 W2 [b]West Virginia 2 4 .333 3.5 1-3 1-1 L1[/b] Hickory 2 5 .286 4.0 1-3 1-2 L1 Lakewood 0 6 .000 5.5 0-0 0-6 L6

[pogokat]

i won't be there today, but Derek Miller seemed excited about his start...

 

i hope he has a successful season and climbs rapidly

[heresrobin]

The link for the West Virginia game is still showing the final box score for yesterday's game.

[Mass Haas]

Fixed, thanks.

[Athens Badger]

Why is there no box score for BC game two? Postponed again?

[Mass Haas]

Final, Completion of Tuesday's Suspended Game: Palm Beach (Cardinals) 11, Brevard County 9

 

Brevard County Game One Box Score:

No linescore, no game log on suspended games; LHP Steve Hammond was back on the mound after starting last night -- he, Bo Hall and Dave Johnson were all hit hard; it was 8-8 when Johnson gave up a three-spot in the 7th; Charlie Fermaint 0-for-5; Alcides Escobar heating up...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

[Mass Haas]

Why is there no box score for BC game two? Postponed again?

 

Box score link is fine; they just posted pre-game lineups. First game, the high-scoring affair, ran long. Hoping for a nice Mark Rogers performance tonight. Small crowd at Space Coast tonight. The Palm Beach audio link hasn't worked all week, to my knowledge...

[Mass Haas]

In progress: West Virginia 3, Greensboro (Marlins) 3, after nine innings

Shoddy defense cost the Power the tying run in the 9th; LHP Derek Miller (8 K's in 5 IP) and RHP Ronny Malave (3 IP, 1 ER) with strong outings...

[Mass Haas]

Frustrated with the Brewers tonight?

 

Nashville and Iowa are scoreless in the 7th in a game available via MiLB.com -- watch this one wrap up; Ben Hendrickson (two hits, three walks, two K's through six innings).

 

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

[Mass Haas]

West Virginia's Kenny Holmberg cranks his second HR of the game, a two-out, two-run shot, to put the Power up 5-3, with West Virginia hopefully about to close it out in the bottom of the 12th inning.

 

You have to love Andy Barch's "Jack-Jackety-Jack!" home run calls...

[Mass Haas]

Final: West Virginia 5, Greensboro (Marlins) 3, 12 innings

Had to sweat things out in the 12th...

 

West Virginia Box Score:

Darren Ford nine K's in 32 AB's with no walks -- speed only does so much out of that leadoff spot, also all seven of his hits are singles; OK, back to the positive -- five Power batters with multiple hits; Mat Gamel with some stellar defense tonight, listening to the call; Dane Renkert with a big-time bounce-back relief performance...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_gboafx_1

 

West Virginia Game Log:

Power opportunity in the 11th -- should have ended it then...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_gboafx_1

[Mass Haas]

Final: Nashville 2, Iowa (Cubs) 0

 

Nashville Pre-Game Audio from Tuesday with Manager Frank Kremblas:

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-11.wma

 

Nashville Pre-Game Audio from Tuesday with Ben Sheets:

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-12.wma

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for archived Ben Hendrickson photo, text follows --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=1899

 

Hendrickson, Sounds Blank I-Cubs, 2-0

 

DES MOINES ? Three Nashville pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout as the Sounds blanked the Iowa Cubs, 2-0, on Wednesday evening at Principal Park in the third game of a four-game series.

 

Ben Hendrickson threw six scoreless innings, Brett Evert followed with a pair of goose eggs, and Jason Kershner added a perfect ninth to notch his first save.

 

Nashville registered a season-high 12 hits in the game and every Sounds position player recorded at least one knock except Vinny Rottino (0-for-5), who is hitless in his last 12 at-bats.

 

With their first shutout win of the year, the Sounds (3-4) have recorded victories in consecutive games for the first time this season and pulled within a game of first place in the PCL American Conference Northern Division.

 

It was a pitcher?s duel early as both starters were on their ?A? games.

 

Hendrickson (1-0) allowed only two hits ? a pair of Mike Fontenot singles ? over six scoreless frames to earn his first victory of the year. He has tossed 11 scoreless innings and allowed only those two hits during his two starts this season.

 

Veteran Iowa southpaw Les Walrond also hurled five scoreless innings in the contest, giving up five hits while striking out four.

 

The Sounds broke a scoreless tie in the top of the seventh inning when Chris Barnwell opened the frame with a single against Cubs reliever Bobby Brownlie and later scored the game?s first run on an Enrique Cruz sacrifice fly to center off Ryan O?Malley.

 

Nashville doubled the lead to 2-0 in the eighth on back-to-back one-out doubles by Mike Rivera (2-for-4) and Brent Abernathy (3-for-4) off Iowa reliever Andy Shipman.

 

Manager Frank Kremblas had the Sounds active on the basepaths. Nashville runners swiped a season-high six bags, including two each by Barnwell and Dave Krynzel, but were also caught stealing twice and had another runner picked off. The six thefts were one shy of the Nashville single-game record.

 

The Nashville defense backed up its pitchers by recording four double plays, including three inning-ending deuces. One included strong-armed rightfielder Nelson Cruz gunning down Cubs baserunner Geovany Soto at third base to end the third inning for his first assist of the year.

 

AUDIO: Nelson Cruz Throws Out Runner --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-12.wma

 

Brownlie (0-2) allowed one run in his lone inning of work and took the loss.

 

The teams wrap up the four-game set with a 12:05 p.m. matinee on Thursday afternoon. Left-hander Zach Jackson (0-1, 3.18) takes the hill for the Sounds looking for his first win as a member of the Brewers organization. Iowa will counter with southpaw Raul Valdes (1-0, 0.00).

 

Nashville Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_iowaaa_1

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West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

Holmberg homers twice in Power victory

 

Kenny Holmberg homered in the first and last innings of Wednesday night?s twelve-inning game against the Greensboro Grasshoppers. His second home run, a two-run blast in the top of the twelfth inning was the difference maker in the Power?s 5-3 victory.

 

Holmberg hit his first home run of the season in the first inning; the solo shot gave the Power a 1-0 lead. In the top of the second inning the Power scored again on Nate Yoho?s two-out RBI single to go up 2-0. Kris Harvey hit a solo home run for Greensboro in the bottom of the second inning to cut the lead in half. Ryan Crew?s RBI double in the top of the sixth inning provided the Power with a 3-1 lead. Kris Harvey struck again in the bottom of the eighth inning with an RBI single, and Greensboro tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth on a run-scoring single from Agustin Septimo. In the top of the twelfth inning, Holmberg came through for the Power, hitting a two-run opposite field home run to give the Power the lead for good.

 

Dane Renkert (1-1) earned the victory, and Rafael Galbizo (0-1) obtained the loss. The Power are 3-4 after the victory and the Grasshoppers fall to 5-2 with the loss.

 

The Power will finish the series against the Grasshoppers at First Horizon Park in Greensboro, North Carolina on Thursday night. Right hander Will Inman (0-0, 6.00) will start for the Power and Greensboro will counter with right hander Ryan Tucker (0-0, 3.00). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:00 PM (6:00 PM Central).

[Mass Haas]

This game really mirrored tonight's Brewer game -- check out the summary...

 

Final: Birmingham (White Sox) 8, Huntsville 4

It's painful to see Carlos Villanueva and Tim Dillard struggle in back-to-back games...

 

Huntsville Site Game Summary:

Link, then text follows --

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/n...newsId=781

 

Barons Bats Stay Hot in Win Over Stars

 

Mark Quinn hit the tie-breaking home run and Fraser Dizard tossed three scoreless innings in relief to earn the save in Birmingham?s 8-4 win over the Stars Wednesday night at Joe Davis Stadium. The Barons have taken the first two games of the five-game set to improve to 3-4 on the season, while the Stars dropped a second straight game for a second time this year and fell to 3-4. Birmingham has totaled 16 runs on 27 hits in the first two games of the set after being held to seven runs in the first five games of the season.

 

Chris Getz, Robert Valido and Quinn opened the game with successive singles to load the bases for Tom Collaro, who singled to right field to knock in two runs. Gustavo Molina hit his first long ball of the year with two outs in the third to push the visitors lead to 3-0.

 

An Ozzie Chavez single, a Kennard Bibbs double and a walk to Callix Crabbe loaded the bases with one out for the home team in the third inning before Drew Anderson fanned for the second out of the frame. Huntsville designated hitter Greg Sain then launched a 3-2 offering from Barons? starter Lance Broadway over the wall in left field for a grand slam to tie the game. It was his first hit of the season and his 34th home run in the Southern League. The Stars did not hit a grand slam during the 2005 season.

 

Stars? starter Tim Dillard hit Valido with one out in the fourth and Quinn followed with a two-run blast to left field, his first of the year. Dillard was saddled with the loss after allowing six runs on 11 hits and a pair of walks in 3 2/3 innings. The right-hander had allowed only one run on two hits in his first outing of the year Friday nigh in Mississippi.

 

Trailing 8-4 in the seventh inning, the Stars loaded the bases with nobody out against Jeff Little, who was replaced by Dizard. The Birmingham southpaw retired Crabbe on a shallow pop out to right field and induced Anderson to bounce into an inning-ending double play, the third the Stars hit into in the game. Dizard allowed one hit and fanned one to register his first save of the year.

 

The Stars will send right-hander Corey Thurman to the mound in the third game of the series on Thursday night and he will opposed Birmingham left-hander Tyler Lumsden. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 p.m. central time and can be heard on ESPN Radio 1450 AM locally and via the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Huntsville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

[Paulus88]

I was at the Sounds- Cubs game tonite and while i'm not a scout or anything. Ben Hendrickson was VERY impressive. His fastball seemed to be much better than i remeber (He also had the highest reading on the stadium gun which was hard to believe) he was using it to get ahead and then using the curve very effectively down in the zone.

 

I didn't notice anything extraordinary on offense except the Sounds were always on base with very few runs.

 

Best play of the night by far was Nelson Cruz' throw from deep right to third base. Partly because as he was catching the ball i said that if the runner went he would be out.... and he was by a mile. By far the best throw i have ever seen (Sorry Jenks), even my Cub fan friends were impressed. And more importantly i got a freee beer for calling it.

 

On another note a perfec night for baseball in a pretty good environment in Des Moines.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Brevard County 4, Palm Beach (Cardinals) 3, regularly scheduled game, scheduled for seven innings

 

Brevard County Game Two Box Score:

Cardinals strand 10 in the shortened game; Mark Rogers surrenders four hits and issues five free passes, mixes in two wild pitches, yet only allows two runs in his three innings -- still, ugh; LHP Jeremy Lewis strikes out the side in the 9th...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

Brevard County Game Two Game Log:

Yay Brendan Katin...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

[brettac1]

Rogers. Seriously. I know he's "raw" and all, but maybe don't mess around with the "raw" guys anymore.

[DHonks]

seems a bit encouraging for Rogers. Progres right now. Hopefully he can get the walks down to 2 in his next outing

[Mass Haas]

Link for Steve Sollman photo while active, text follows:

No mention of the nightcap victory...

 

www.floridatoday.com/apps...002/SPORTS

 

Manatees lose slugfest

Palm Beach hands Brevard first loss

BY SCOTT BROWN

FLORIDA TODAY

 

If Wednesday is any indication, leads over the Brevard County Manatees aren't exactly safe these days.

 

The Palm Beach Cardinals appeared to be in command of the first game of a doubleheader after scoring three runs in the second inning at Space Coast Stadium and another in the third.

 

But a 4-1 lead quickly evaporated as Brevard County scored six runs in the bottom of the inning. That turn of events portended a wild game that ultimately ended with the Manatees absorbing their first loss of the season.

 

Palm Beach right-fielder Terry Evans hit a pair of two-run homers in helping the Cardinals rally past the Manatees, 11-9, in front of an announced crowd of 497.

 

The Manatees (5-1) had opened Florida State League play with five straight victories before dropping the game that had been continued from Tuesday after it was deemed unplayable because of a wet field.

 

The Cardinals (4-2) saddled the Manatees with their first loss of the season by simply outscoring them.

 

Palm Beach rapped out 18 hits and got seven RBI alone from Evans, whose two-run blasts in the fifth and sixth innings allowed the Cardinals to erase a three-run deficit.

 

Palm Beach scored three runs in the seventh and then held on for the win.

 

A strong wind blew out of the stadium and both offenses took advantage of it.

 

The Manatees had 12 hits, including three by shortstop Alcides Escobar and two by three others.

 

Catcher Nestor Corredor, one of the few Manatees who had gotten off to a slow start offensively, led Brevard County with three RBI, including one on a double.

 

The Manatees, who host Vero Beach today at 7:00 PM (6:00 Central), didn't get the good pitching that had also been a key to their fast start.

 

All three of Brevard County's pitchers gave up at least three runs with Dave Johnson (2-1) taking the loss after giving up his first runs of the season.

[Mass Haas]

Brevard County Game Two Game Summary:

 

Manatees edge Cardinals

 

Brendan Katin belted a three-run homer as Brevard County rallied for a 4-3 victory over visiting Palm Beach on Wednesday.

 

After suffering their first loss of the season to the Cardinals earlier in the day, the Manatees responded with their sixth win in seven games.

 

Brevard County climbed out of a three-run hole in the third inning after Travis Ezi tripled with one out and scored on a single by Alcides Escobar. Ryan Braun followed with a base hit, and Katin hit his second homer of the season off Palm Beach starter Tyler Adamczyk (0-2) for a 4-3 edge.

 

Manatees starter Mark Rogers lasted just three innings, but reliever Ben Stanczyk (1-0) yielded only one run and four hits over three innings to pick up the win. Jeremy Lewis allowed a leadoff single in the ninth before striking out the side for his second save.

 

Matt Shepherd drove in a pair of runs with singles in the second and fifth for the Cardinals (4-3), who had nine hits but stranded 10 runners.

 

Brevard County opens a three-game series at home against Vero Beach at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday. Palm Beach continues a six-game road trip in Daytona at 7:05 p.m. on Thursday. -- Carl Dispoto/MLB.com

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

 

news-record.com/apps/pbcs...EWSREC0205

 

Grasshoppers stumble in extra innings

By Jeff Carlton

Greensboro News and Record Staff Writer

 

GREENSBORO -- They got the solid, hold-them-close pitching from their bullpen, and they got the clutch late-inning hits Wednesday night.

 

It was just as the Grasshoppers had done throughout the first week of their South Atlantic League season. The only thing missing was a victory.

 

Kenny Holmberg's second home run of the night, a two-run, opposite-field shot to right field, lifted the West Virginia Power to a 5-3 triumph in 12 innings at First Horizon Park.

 

Greensboro (5-2) had scratched out single runs in the eighth and ninth to send a game to extra innings for the first time this season.

 

"I think in this last week we've shown we have the ability to come back, and that's a good sign," Hoppers manager Brandon Hyde said. "I think we have a lot of character on this team. I'm proud of the way they came back late in the game again."

 

Their final comeback effort fell just short.

 

When Gabriel Sanchez hit a broken-bat dribbler that West Virginia's shortstop couldn't handle cleanly, it put two Greensboro runners on with two outs for Kris Harvey, who had earlier homered. This time, after two outside strikes were called against him, the Clemson alum took a somewhat defensive swing against Dane Renkert and flied out to short left field.

 

There was no dramatic, walk-off home run. Harvey believes he just missed hitting one out in the eighth inning, though, when he lined a single to left field to score Jeff Van Houten, which cut the Power's lead to 3-2.

 

"Van Houten got on, then Gaby, then the guy left a curveball up that I probably should've hit out for a three-run homer," Harvey said, "but I got on top of it a little bit."

 

Harvey beat out a force play at second to load the bases, but Jonathan Fulton struck out to end the threat.

 

All three West Virginia pitchers -- starter Derek Miller and relievers Ronny Malave and Renkert -- kept a lid on the Grasshoppers' offense for most of the night, allowing only one extra-base hit and one earned run, while striking out 15.

 

Greensboro's bullpen matched them. After a decent five innings from starter Aaron Thompson, relievers Jarrett Santos, Jason Iehl and Blake Jones held the Power in check until Holmberg's homer off Rafael Galbizo in the 12th.

 

Jared Gaston got to second base on a pair of Power errors to open the bottom half of the ninth inning. Justin Webb moved him to third, and Agustin Septimo brought home the tying run with a base hit into right field.

 

"You can never count us out," Harvey said.