Link Report for Saturday, August 13th - A Cycle in Arizona

[Mass Haas]

Final: Memphis (Cardinals) 11, Nashville 2

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

 

MEMPHIS ? Brandon Berger and John Gall made sure the Nashville Sounds? season-best five-game winning streak came to a close on Saturday evening. The Memphis duo combined for four home runs and nine RBIs in the Redbirds? 11-2 victory at Auto Zone Park in the second game of a four-game series.

 

With the win, Memphis cut the Sounds? lead to 8 ½ games in the PCL American Conference Northern Division.

 

Jeff Housman (5-11) took the loss after surrendering a Nashville season-high 11 runs on eight hits, including a Sounds season-high four homers, in his five frames. The left-hander has allowed two or more longballs five times this season and lost all five starts.

 

Three big hitting streaks came to a close for Nashville. Leadoff hitter Dave Krynzel went 0-for-5, including four strikeouts, to bring the Sounds? longest active streak to a close at 11 games. Warren Morris saw his nine-game streak end on a pinch-hit strikeout. Prince Fielder finally cooled down with the lumber, finishing 0-for-3 with a walk to bring a close to his eight-gamer.

 

Nashville third baseman Tony Zuniga left the game early after suffering a bruised right shin when he was hit by a Chris Narveson pitch in the top of the second inning. He remained in the game for one batter but was removed after moving to second on Julio Mosquera?s single, which extended the backstop?s hitting streak to a season-best six games. Zuniga was replaced by Steve Scarborough.

 

The Redbirds recorded only two hits through the first four innings of play but made them both count in assuming an early advantage.

 

Berger spotted the home team a 2-0 lead with a one-out, two-run homer to left off Housman in the bottom of the second inning, his 18th roundtripper of the year.

 

Gall doubled the lead to 4-0 in the third with a two-out, two-run homer to left off Housman, the infielder?s 11th blast of the campaign.

 

Scarborough (2-for-3) put the Sounds on the board in the fourth, swatting a leadoff solo homer to left off Narveson. The blast was the shortstop?s tenth of the year and gave Nashville six different players with a double-digit longball total, two shy of the club mark established last season.

 

Infielder Corey Hart got into the longball act later in the frame, belting his first tater of the season to left-center with two outs to cut the Memphis lead to 4-2.

 

AUDIO: Corey D. Hart's 1st Nashville HR

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...208-13.mp3

 

Narveson fell one out short of qualifying for the victory in his Redbirds debut, walking three straight batters in the top of the fifth inning to draw the hook from skipper Danny Sheaffer. Reliever Jeremy Cummings came on to induce a popout from Scarborough to escape the jam.

 

Memphis put the game out of reach with a seven-run fifth against Housman, highlighted by the second home runs of the evening by both Gall and Berger. Bo Hart opened the scoring when he plated Cummings, who had singled, with an RBI triple to the wall in right-center, the infielder?s first three-bagger of the season. Reggie Taylor followed with an RBI single to center before Gall added a two-run shot to left, his 12th of the year, to increase the lead to 8-2. Chad Allen singled and John Nelson walked prior to Berger?s three-run blast to left-center, his 19th of the year, that made it 11-2.

 

Nashville?s best chance at getting back into the game came in the eighth when three straight singles by Scarborough, Mosquera, and Chris Barnwell loaded the bases with one out. However, Redbirds reliever Carmen Cali induced an inning-ending double play from Hart to escape the jam unscathed.

 

Cummings (4-0) remained undefeated on the year, picking up the victory with 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Narveson.

 

The Sounds' bullpen continued its strong string of performances as Jeff Bennett (2.0 IP) and Kane Davis combined for three scoreless frames in relief of Housman.

 

The teams continue the series with a 2:05 p.m. matinee on Sunday afternoon. Right-hander Wes Obermueller (3-0, 2.38) takes the mound for Nashville to face Memphis right-hander Anthony Reyes (7-4, 3.44).

 

Nashville Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_mrbaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_mrbaaa_1

[Mass Haas]

Nothing in yet on Arizona...

[ja002h]

So Dennis was just pushed back a day? Or is that schedule just assuming as much, and he's really moving to AAA?

[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Brewers 9, Arizona Giants 7

 

Link while active, text follows:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...;fext=.jsp

 

Brewers' Festa hits for the cycle

By Daren Smith / MLB.com

 

Arizona League Brewers first baseman Tony Festa hit for the cycle on Saturday night in a 9-7 come-from-behind victory over the Giants at Papago Park.

 

Festa got the hardest hits out of the way early, tripling to right-center field in the second inning and homering in the fourth. He singled in the sixth, then completed the feat with a bases-loaded double in the eighth.

 

The 24-year-old went 4-for-5 with four RBIs to raise his batting average to .441 in nine games with the Brewers. He started the season with the West Virginia Power of the Class A South Atlantic League and hit .129 with five RBIs in 18 games.

 

Festa was selected by Milwaukee in the 29th round of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft out of Cal-Riverside. Last season, he batted .305 with seven homers and 53 RBIs in 67 games for Helena of the Pioneer League.

 

Tony Festa struggled in the South Atlantic League but hit for the cycle for the Arizona League Brewers on Saturday night. (Photo Courtesy of UC-Riverside)

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/images/2005/08/14/ihn5bSJb.jpg

 

All that being said, still no box score for the game as of "post-time".

 

Not sure if Festa is still considered on injury rehab, but the news would be bigger, if he were say, in Huntsville.