Link Report for Thurs. 6/23 - Opening Day Arizona Box Score

[brewmann04]

Thanks

 

to And That for picking up my New Nickname For Sargent Lou

[Wytlaf]

Anyone have Hart's BA since April handy? He's all the way back to .290...

 

Seth

[hsvstarsfan]

One for the books

A record night in Mobile, but we'll get to that later...... For now, I learned after having lunch with Bryan Neece that Glenn Woolard will not take his turn in the rotation, Saturday, for the game against Jacksonville. David Bradley will start that game for the Stars. Did not learn why Woolard will not start that game, but he has not won since May 23 and since May 1, Woolie is 2-3 with an ERA of 5.91 with 45 Ks in 48 2/3 innings, 56 hits and 22 walks........ In his last two months of last season, Woolie was 5-2 with a 2.51 ERA, 55 Ks in 64 2/3 IP, 45 hits and 22 walks....... Neither of us at lunch had an answer for this........ Bradley, the Stars best middle reliever this season, made one other start this season, that back on May 29 vs. Tennessee in which he left with a 3-1 lead after five innings (gave up three hits), a game the Stars lost, 4-3 in Matt Ford's final appearance. Ford gave up three runs in that game and was released afterwards......... Right-hander Bradley, currently, is 2-1 with a 2.29 ERA. He's a killer vs. RH hitters, holding them to a .151 average and teams to a 0.83 ERA........ Picked up from the Frontier League on October 14, 2004, he was 21-9 as a starter for two seasons with Washington in 35 appearances, all of them starts.

In what otherwise was a relatively quiet game, the Stars set new records in a 12-run 5th inning to wipe out the Bay Bears in the first laugher of the season for the Stars, 14-3.

It was a late laugher, but on April 17, they beat Carolina, 11-2. The majority of their runs came in the final three innings, leaving the Mudcats one chance to try and erase a nine-run deficit in the 9th inning. Heretofore, it's been the widest margin of victory this season for the Stars........ It was a record inning for the Stars, who tied a record that was set on April 17, 1988, in a game they lost, 18-17 in the 9th inning, in one of the greatest games ever in Stars history

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Dennis Sarfate was trailing 1-0 going into the inning. Joe Gerber had led off with a single to right, followed by a double to the wall in left-center by Corey Smith, scoring Gerber but Sarfate struck out Steve Baker and Luke Carlin to enable the Stars to move the infield back and retire Mike Thompson on a fly ball without any more damage........ The Stars batted around nearly twice in the 5th, sending 17 batters to the plate. It would be ridiculous for me to go through the inning batter-by-batter. You can find it by going to the minorleaguebaseball web site:

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_mobaax_1

The Bay Bears didn't retire a hitter until the 7th batter, Nelson Cruz, hit into a double play with the bases loaded, scoring Tony Gwynn, Jr. with the 5th run of the inning. That would have ended it, but Bay Bears' Casey Baker dropped a feed from shortstop Ronnie Merrill that should have started a double play. Dennis Sarfate was the hitter with nobody out and the bases loaded and an 0-1 count -- the first time Thompson had loaded the bases all year. Everybody was safe and Sarfate picked up the RBI........ When Sarfate came to bat again later that inning with Callix Crabbe and John Vanden Berg on the bases, he drove in three more with a home run deep to left field, making it 11-1, and giving him a record four RBIs for the inning and the game, establishing new records for a Stars pitcher. Previously, no pitcher had ever driven in more than two runs in a game. The last one was Alec Zumwalt in that previously mentioned 11-2 win vs. Carolina....... Sarfate also became the first Stars pitcher to hit 2 HRs in a season....... Coming up for the 2nd time after hitting into a DP, Nelson Cruz struck out to end the inning........ Mike Thompson, who in two previous appearances, lost both times against Sarfate, is now 0-3 with a 3.57 ERA.

Bill Burgamy, who watched Angel Tovar's gopher ball to Sarfate go over the wall, hit a 2-run HR in the bottom of the inning off Sarfate, scoring Tovar, and affording Mobile all the ironic revenge Mobile would get......... After Callix Crabbe doubled in two more runs in the 6th, giving him a season-high four, the game was quiet. There were four hits and six walks issued between both clubs, and no runs. Mobile left 10 on base, six in scoring position........ The 12-run inning was the biggest 5th inning in Stars history, breaking the record of 11 scored by the Stars in a 16-0 whitewash of the Knoxville Smokies on July 18, 1996. The Stars also scored 12 runs in an inning in a 17-7 win over Carolina on April 16, 1993 and on August 12, 1997 vs. Orlando in the 1st inning of a 15-6 victory....... Friday, Manny Parra and Travis Chick square off for the third time this season. Chick, the Padres' top pitching prospect and #4 prospect in the organization, lost to Parra, 10-7 on April 20, then beat the Stars, 8-3, on May 11, but his ERA in those two games is 10.61.

Tony Zuniga, Thursday night, homered and drove in four runs as he and Warren Morris combined for eight to beat Albuquerque at Isotopes Park, 11-5.

The umpires have been chosen for the Southern League All-Star game at Hank Aaron Stadium in two weeks. They are Garret Watson, the crew chief, Brian Kennedy, and Rob Watson......... Huntsville Stars outfielder Nelson Cruz will represent the Stars and Milwaukee Brewers at the 2005 All Star Futures Game, which will be held on Sunday, July 10th at Detroit?s Comerica Park as part of Major League Baseball?s All Star Week........ The 7th annual All Star Futures Game will be a 7-inning game between some of the best Major League prospects from the United States and from various countries throughout the world. Cruz, a native of the Dominican Republic, will play for the World Team......... Cruz, 24, leads the Stars with a .317 batting average, 13 home runs and 47 runs batted in. His 13 home runs ranks second in the Southern League

[Mass Haas]

Here's your long-lost Arizona Brewer Opening Day Box Score:

Gosh the kids in this league are young, there are only two players older than 20 on the entire squad...

 

Final: Arizona Athletics 3, Arizona Brewers 2

RHP Roque Mercedes was your Opening day starter, struggled with control; catcher Bernie Dennis gunned down two of four baserunners; Herman Jimenez played third base, there's another infielder by the name of Jose Jimenez on the squad...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_brrrok_1

 

Arizona Game Log:

Four errors overall; unearned run lost the game; Brewers had their chance in the 9th...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...k_brrrok_1