Link Report for Games of Saturday, June 25th

[MikeRizzo]

Hello from Huntsville just a correction that was Delwyn Young not Delmon. He is a friend of ours and played aginst Dana in High School. Anyway the guys looked great tonight had a great time and we met lots of really nice people. The Joe is a very nice ballpark from a fan standpoint .Looking forward to 3 more games there .

[Mass Haas]

Final: Helena 6, Great Falls (White Sox) 4

Winning the blowouts and the nailbiters, now 5-0

 

Helena Box Score:

Interestingly, both LHP Steve Hammond and RHP Robbie Wooley working on three days' rest, reliever Dane Renkert on two; two hits apiece for Fermaint, Willcutt, Katin, and Holmberg -- Kenny Holmberg is 8-for-16 to start his pro career (two extra-base hits)...

 YTD YTD GREAT FALLS AB R H BI AVG HELENA AB R H BI AVG E.Tartaglia CF 5 0 2 2 .167 D.Ford CF 3 1 0 0 .444 C.Getz SS 4 0 1 1 .313 C.Fermaint LF 4 1 2 1 .273 D.Roberts RF 4 0 0 0 .056 A.Salome CAT 4 0 0 0 .381 B.Allen 1B 4 0 1 0 .389 J.Alonso DH 3 0 1 0 .500 M.Rodriguez LF 4 0 1 0 .316 N.Yost PR 0 0 0 0 .200 R.Acosta 2B 4 0 0 0 .167 N.Yost DH 1 0 0 0 .200 E.Hollis CAT 3 2 2 0 .273 B.Willcutt 1B 3 1 2 0 .300 J.Schmidt DH 3 1 0 0 .000 B.Katin RF 4 2 2 1 .313 M.Tribble PH 0 0 0 0 .375 M.Gamel 3B 3 1 0 0 .111 M.Tribble DH 1 0 0 0 .375 A.Septimo 3B 1 0 0 0 .375 B.Johnson 3B 3 1 1 0 .333 R.Crew SS 3 0 0 0 .429 C.Richard PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 K.Holmberg 2B 4 0 2 1 .500 C.Perez PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Hammond PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Rote PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 D.Renkert PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Marshall PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Wooley PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 S.Beresford PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 35 4 8 3 TOTALS 33 6 9 3 GREAT FALLS 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1- 4 8 3 HELENA 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 X- 6 9 2 E--B.Johnson, C.Richard, J.Marshall, R.Crew, S.Hammond. DP--GREAT FALLS 0, HELENA 0. LOB--GREAT FALLS 7, HELENA 6. HR--C.Fermaint (1), B.Katin (2). SB--E.Tartaglia 2 (2). SF--C.Getz. SH--B.Johnson, R.Crew. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA GREAT FALLS C.Richard 3.0 3 1 0 2 5 0 0.00 C.Perez (L,1-1) 3.0 3 3 2 0 3 2 6.00 R.Rote 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.00 J.Marshall 1.0 3 2 2 0 2 0 9.00 HELENA S.Hammond 4.1 5 3 0 0 3 0 0.00 D.Renkert (W,1-0) 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 0 10.13 R.Wooley 2.1 2 1 1 1 5 0 3.60 S.Beresford (S,1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 WP--C.Perez, D.Renkert 2, R.Wooley. SO--E.Tartaglia, D.Roberts 2, B.Allen, M.Rodriguez 3, R.Acosta 2, B.Johnson, D.Ford 2, C.Fermaint, A.Salome 2, J.Alonso 2, N.Yost, B.Katin, M.Gamel 2, A.Septimo, R.Crew. BB--E.Hollis, D.Ford, B.Willcutt. T--2:52. A--847

Helena Game Log:

Some of these H-Crew pitchers are going to need to see West Virginia soon, like the 23-year-old Hammond, but the Brewers aren't big on setting off chain reaction-like promotions; Simon Beresford with the tough relief duty in the 9th -- tying run at the plate, one out..

 

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[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Mariners 9, Arizona Brewers 8, 11 innings

This close to a perfect organizational day....

 

Arizona Brewer Box Score:

This was Game Three for the squad, but all numbers reflect this game only; 2004 draft pick, 3B Ronnie Prettyman, signed with the Mariners this year; eight combined errors not unusual for an Arizona Rookie game; one of the things to look for is K-to-BB ratio, both offensive and pitching -- Brewer pitchers fared well in that regard here, batters not so well; biggest day below for draft-and-follow signee Lorenzo Cain, at DH; three strikouts in an 0-for-5 day for 2004 11th round pick Lenny Leclercq, seeing action in LF here - 17-year-old newcomer Harold Mejia gets the starting nod at Leclercq's 2004 position, shortstop, in this one, anyway, and bats fifth -- perhaps a name to watch this summer, maybe an Alcides Escobar in the wings, although Alcides was at Helena at an even younger 17 years of age, by four months...

 YTD YTD BREWERS AB R H BI AVG MARINERS AB R H BI AVG S.McKnight 2B 5 2 0 0 .000 J.Guzman 2B 6 2 2 1 .333 A.Delarosa RF 5 2 1 1 .200 R.Prettyman 3B 5 0 1 0 .200 M.Brantley CF 4 1 1 1 .250 K.Gergel CAT 6 0 2 0 .133 L.Cain DH 5 1 3 2 .600 S.Bradford CF 5 1 1 1 .286 H.Mejia SS 5 0 2 2 .400 A.Hargrove 1B 5 1 2 1 .462 L.Leclercq LF 5 0 0 0 .000 M.Liverpool PR 0 1 0 0 .250 R.Angoma CAT 5 1 1 0 .200 D.Ruiz LF 6 1 2 0 .300 H.Jimenez 1B 4 1 0 0 .000 J.Hernandz DH 5 1 2 2 .400 O.Vicioso 3B 3 0 0 0 .000 T.Bonilla SS 5 1 1 0 .200 J.Jimenez 3B 2 0 0 1 .000 G.Halman RF 5 1 1 1 .111 A.Rivas PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Bannister PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 A.Periard PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 L.Bonilla PIT 0 0 0 0 .167 J.Fermin PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 T.Lamont PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Cespedes PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Sullivan PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 A.Ledezma PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Suriel PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 43 8 8 7 TOTALS 48 9 14 6 BREWERS 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0- 8 8 4 MARINERS 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 1 0 1- 9 14 4 E--S.McKnight 2, O.Vicioso, J.Jimenez, J.Guzman, A.Hargrove, L.Bonilla, J.Suriel. DP--BREWERS 0, MARINERS 1. LOB--BREWERS 5, MARINERS 12. 2B--L.Cain (1). 3B--H.Mejia (1), S.Bradford (2), T.Bonilla (1). HR--A.Delarosa (1), J.Hernandz (1). SB--M.Brantley (1), J.Guzman (1), M.Liverpool 2 (3). HBP--S.McKnight, L.Bonilla. SF--S.Bradford, A.Hargrove. SH--J.Jimenez. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA BREWERS A.Rivas 3.0 3 1 1 0 3 0 3.00 A.Periard 3.0 4 2 2 1 0 0 6.00 J.Fermin 1.1 2 1 1 0 1 0 6.75 C.Cespedes 0.2 3 3 1 0 1 1 13.50 A.Ledezma (L,0-1) 2.2 2 2 0 1 2 0 0.00 MARINERS B.Bannister 2.0 1 1 1 0 3 1 4.50 L.Bonilla 3.0 4 5 0 1 4 0 0.00 T.Lamont 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 4.50 J.Sullivan 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22.50 J.Suriel (W,1-0) 3.0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 HB--A.Ledezma, L.Bonilla. WP--J.Fermin. PB--R.Angoma. SO--S.McKnight, A.Delarosa, H.Mejia, L.Leclercq 3, R.Angoma, H.Jimenez, O.Vicioso 2, R.Prettyman, S.Bradford 2, A.Hargrove, D.Ruiz, J.Hernandz, T.Bonilla. BB--M.Brantley, R.Prettyman, J.Hernandz. T--3:20.

If you're unfamiliar with some of the names, these batting and pitching statistics may help; keep in mind each player has his own Brewerfan Player Index Page as well...

 AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB Angoma, Ruben, C ... .200 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 *Brantley, Michael, OF ... .250 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 Cain, Lorenzo, DH ... .600 5 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 Delarosa, Anderson, OF ... .200 5 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 Jimenez (Luna), Herman, 1B ... .000 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 #Jimenez, Jose, 3B ... .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Leclercq, Lenny, OF ... .000 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 *McKnight, Scott, 2B ... .000 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Mejia, Harold, SS ... .400 5 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 #Vicioso, Osvaldo, 3B ... .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

 W L ERA G SV IP H R ER BB SO SO/9 Cespedes, Carlos 0 0 13.50 1 0 0.2 3 3 1 0 1 13.5 Fermin, Jorge 0 0 6.75 1 0 1.1 2 1 1 0 1 6.8 Ledezma, Alirio 0 1 0.00 1 0 2.2 2 2 0 1 2 6.8 Periard, Alexandre 0 0 6.00 1 0 3.0 4 2 2 1 0 0.0 Rivas, Amaury 0 0 3.00 1 0 3.0 3 1 1 0 3 9.0

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Brewers still perfect as they down White Sox

By TOM COTTON - IR Sports Editor

 

The venue may have changed, but the result was the same for the Helena Brewers.

 

The 2005 edition of Helena's Pioneer League team won its home opener Saturday 6-4 over Great Falls. That moved the Brewers record to a perfect 5-0 in the early season.

 

The start of the contest was delayed due to a rain storm that hit Helena in mid-afternoon and first pitch was at 8:23 p.m., about 83 minutes past the scheduled start.

 

Despite having to cool their heels, the Brewer bats staked the club to an early 1-0 lead, as lead-off hitter Darren Ford drew a walk and came home when Great Falls pitcher Clayton Richard tossed the ball into centerfield, when trying to put out Charlie Fermaint at second base.

 

That was the only offensive highlight until the fifth inning when Great Falls scratched together three runs, all unearned.

 

Steve Hammond pitched admirably for four innings, but a single and two errors, filled the sacks with White Sox.

 

A single by Evan Tartaglia and a sacrifice fly by Chris Getz, gave Great Falls a 2-1 lead. The third run of the inning scored when Dane Renkert, who replaced Hammond with one out, unleashed a wild pitch.

 

Out of the first four runs both teams scored, none were earned, however, the next two certainly went into the earned column.

 

Fermaint launched a home run over the left-field wall off of Carlos Perez to tie the game.

 

One inning later, Perez was the victim of another long ball as Brendan Katin launched a shot to centerfield for his second home run of the season.

 

Helena tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth and two more in the eighth to salt away the win.

 

Renkert picked up the win for Helena moving his record to 1-0. Fermaint, Katin, Brad Wilcutt and Kenny Holmberg each had two hits for Helena.

 

Great Falls was paced by Tartaglia and Eric Hollis who each had two hits. Hollis also scored two runs in thecontest.

 

The win continued the Brewers run atop the Northern Division of the Pioneer League. They are one game ahead of Billings, which downed winless Missoula Saturday night.

 

The two teams will meet again tonight at 5:05 p.m. (6:05 Central) at Kindrick-Legion Field. Yunior Novoa is scheduled to start for Great Falls. Chris Jean will take the mound for Helena.

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Power wastes lead, but still wins

By Doug Smock

Charleston Gazette Staff Writer

 

All was well for the home side Saturday night at Appalachian Power Park.

 

The host West Virginia Power beat the Lake County Captains 6-4 before a paid attendance of 4,134. Grant Richardson supplied the winning hit, a two-out, two-run double in the seventh. John Denver?s ?Country Roads? never sounded better in the postgame.

 

But after the handshakes and backslapping subside, an itchy question remains: How can those guys help poor Greg Kloosterman improve that 3-10 record?

 

Kloosterman persevered through five innings Saturday, giving the Power a 4-2 lead on his way out. His bullpen would have preserved the win if not for two consecutive errors that helped the Power squander the lead.

 

This comes after Kloosterman lost two consecutive 1-0 games, including early last week on a no-hitter by Hagerstown?s Gabby Hernandez.

 

?I kind of looked up [at the scoreboard] in the ninth inning and I was like, ?Aw, man, he didn?t get the win!? That?s tough,? Richardson said. ?He?s battled his ass off all year long. The record doesn?t show it, but his ERA is dropping and dropping. He?s a hell of a pitcher.?

 

Kloosterman?s earned-run average over his last four starts, 23 innings, is a spiffy 2.35, dropping his full-season ERA to a respectable 4.20. Saturday night, he spotted the Captains a 2-0 lead after two innings, but allowed no more. His last act was to work out of a fifth-inning jam in which he had runners on second and third with one out.

 

Manager Ramon Aviles and pitching coach John Curtis stuck with him despite a pitch count that reached 91. They wanted to get him that win.

 

?We were thinking about that in the fifth,? Curtis said. ?We had somebody warming up and Ramon said, ?Boy, we?ve got to do everything we can to get him through this inning.? ?

 

The Power took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the second on some bad Lake County fielding and an Alcides Escobar single.

 

Hasan Rasheed led off with a single off Lake County starter Cody Bunkleman?s bare hand, then stole second and scored when Tony Festa?s routine grounder to first was booted by Fernando Pacheco.

 

After a balk, Clay Blevins was hit by a pitch and Escobar singled to right field to tie it at 2.

 

Then Bunkleman caught Escobar off base, starting a rundown that ultimately retired Escobar. But Blevins ? a catcher who does not exactly run like Escobar ? streaked home uncontested, crossing the plate in time to give the Power the lead.

 

Escobar tripled to start the fifth, scoring on Hernan Iribarren?s grounder to give West Virginia, and the just-departed Kloosterman, a 4-2 lead.

 

It was too good to be true. To start the seventh, Iribarren fumbled a grounder and then Escobar dropped the feed from Iribarren on a routine double-play ball. Those errors turned into game-tying runs after a Wyatt Toregas single and a Mike Butia double-play grounder.

 

With Blevins and Escobar on base in the seventh, Richardson poked a long shot to the fence in deep right-center field. Juan Valdes caught up with it, but his collision with the wall dislodged the ball. Blevins and Escobar scored.

 

?He?s a great outfielder,? Richardson said of Valdes, ?and I?m fortunate that he didn?t quite hold onto it. It would have been a great play.?

 

That left Derek DeCarlo, the victim of the two unearned runs, to pick up the win, with Dave Johnson pitching the ninth for his first save. And it leaves Kloosterman still looking for his first win since May 24.

 

?The quality of his pitching is showing through, despite the record,? Curtis said. ?He?s battled, he?s running up his innings total now. It?s a compliment when you keep running a guy out there when you?re 3-10.?

 

POWER POINTS: The brief homestand wraps up today, with Josh Wahpepah (4-3, 4.00 ERA) starting for the Power against lefty Chuck Lofgren (1-0, 1.82) ... The Power entered the game hitting .258 in June, its best month of the season. The season average is up to .247 ... Escobar is 9-for-25 over his last six games ... Freddy Parejo stole his 14th base, third on the team. Rasheed stole his fifth and sixth ...The Captains, who were hitting .288 in June, squandered two doubles by Marshall Szabo.

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Stars rev up offense

Racing theme jerseys fuel Huntsville win

By MARK McCARTER

Times Sports Staff markcolumn@aol.com

 

It was NASCAR Night. So ... the Huntsville Stars stood on the throttle. There was no restrictor plate on their offense. After being in the pits just a few weeks ago, they're zooming at 200 miles per hour. They're running on all cylinders now.

 

OK, OK. Enough already. Throw the caution flag and stop all that bit of rambling.

 

On Saturday night, the Stars drafted past the Jacksonville Suns 6-2 for their fourth consecutive win. It came in front of an announced crowd of 7,131, the third largest of the season. (The Stars are averaging 3,216 per game.)

 

They were bedecked in special jerseys with a NASCAR theme - red around the shoulders, checkered flag around the midsection. Subtle, they were not. The jerseys were auctioned to fans whose devotion to either the Stars or racing clearly overrode any sartorial taste.

 

Alas, the biggest heroes for the Stars weren't wearing especially pertinent NASCAR numbers. (Why, in the interest of driving up auction dollars, didn't they temporarily wear 2, 3, 8, 20, 48 and some popular driver numbers?)

 

There was No. 23, Enrique "The Other'' Cruz, the Stars' shortstop, who hammered his ninth homer of the season.

 

There was No. 19, David Bradley, the starting pitcher, who allowed only four hits and whiffed four in four innings.

 

There was No. 41, Mitch Stetter, who had a crucial hit in a dramatic at-bat and pitched three innings of quality relief.

 

There was, at least, a Junior, a son of an immortal. Tony Gwynn Jr. (wearing No. 11) belted a sixth-inning triple, driving in two, to break the game open.

 

Stetter is a 24-year-old out of Huntingburg, Ind., the part of the country where open-wheel racing is a little more prevalent.

 

"Growing up,'' he said, "my grandfather was a big Dale Earnhardt fan. So every Sunday, my family and other families would go over to my grandpa's house and watch the race. We'd pick a number, pick the cars to see who'd win. We'd always give him Dale Earnhardt.''

 

Stetter took the green flag on this season - OK, OK, enough already - as a short relief specialist, a guy the Stars would use in prickly situations to face tough lefties. But that role has expanded. He's been a closer, a long reliever, a multi-purpose guy. Saturday brought his second consecutive three-inning stint.

 

It also brought his first win of the season, in his 28th appearance. His ERA is 2.22, and he has six saves.

 

The Suns scored in the first on a sharp single by Delwyn Young and a long fly by Andy LaRoche that right fielder Nelson Cruz dropped in full gallop on the warning track.

 

But Gwynn opened the bottom of the first with a single, Kennard Bibbs walked and both moved up on a wild pitch by Suns starter William Juarez (4-1) - the perfect set-up for Vinny Rottino's sacrifice fly to left. Enrique Cruz's leadoff homer in the second made it 2-1.

 

In the Huntsville sixth, reliever Richard Bartlett loaded the bases on a hit and two walks. Stetter, in only his fourth at-bat of the season, battled him, finally chopping a 3-2 pitch off the first baseman's glove, driving in two runs.

 

As Stetter was going to the plate, pitching coach Rich Sauveur offered advice: "Be patient.''

 

"I ended up 3-2 and I said I'm not going down looking,'' Stetter said. "So anything close, I'm going to hack. I know Don (Money, Stars manager) doesn't like you standing up there with a bat on your shoulder. I kept fouling it off, getting a piece of it. I got lucky and put it in play and made something happen.''

 

Gwynn followed with his two-run triple - and plenty of cushion for when a tiring Stetter - "that run from first to home I got a little winded,'' he said - walked in a run in the seventh. Then Khalid Ballouli became the final thread as the Stars' staff wove together an effective, if not pretty, evening.

 

Ballouli, for the record, wears No. 31. Which means he's having a better time of it than NASCAR's No. 31, Jeff Burton, winless since 2001.

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Trinity's Ready is Stars' five millionth fan

Mark McCarter

Huntsville Times

 

Lori Ready of Trinity entered the gates at 7:17 p.m. Saturday and became the five millionth fan at Joe W. Davis Stadium for a Stars game.

 

She wins two season tickets for five years, a customized jersey, an autographed baseball and two tickets to the Atlanta-Milwaukee game July 9.

 

The Stars, in their 21st season, had drawn 4,994,980 before Saturay's game.

 

By contrast, Jacksonville, the Stars' opponent Saturday, recently celebrated its one millionth fan into the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, which opened in 2003.

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Stetter was better

Tonight's pitching duel wasn't between the two starting pitchers in this game -- William Juarez, who directed this game at a molasses pace, and David Bradley, the duel was between two relievers -- Richard Bartlett, who threw three no-hit innings against the Diamond Jaxx his last time out on Wednesday, and Mitch Stetter, and the weapons weren't strikeouts....... Stetter was at the plate for only the fourth time this year, and he had the bat....... Bartlett had the ball.

 

With starter David Bradley finished after four innings, Stetter was trying to win with a 2-1 lead, and he was up in the 6th inning with the bases loaded and one out....... Should Stetter lay the bunt down? That's what Frank Kremblas might have done...... Draw a walk? The Stars' pitching staff had drawn only two all year.......... Stetter had a bat in his hand and he intended to use it......... He worked Bartlett to a full count, then fouled off four pitches while Bartlett was working him inside........ On Bartlett's 11th pitch to the left-hander, he got a little too close to the middle of the plate and Stetter hit it sharply enought that 1st baseman James Loney had to come out of his position to knock the ball down. Loney couldn't control it, however, and the ball leaked into the outfield grass, allowing Nelson Cruz, who led off with a single, and Nelson Castro, who reached on a fielder's choice, to score....... Stetter's hit gave the Stars breathing room, but the clutch hit gave Tony Gwynn, Jr. a chance to come up to the plate and with runners on the corners, he smashed a ball to the right-center field wall for a triple to score both runners, making it a 6-1 ballgame and giving the Stars a 4-1 start to the second half of the season.

 

The Stars needed only 5,020 tonight to break the five million mark in total attendance since entering the league in 1985. Ticket manager was expecting 7,000+ and he got it tonight........ Lori Ready of Trinity was the lucky five millionth fan through the gate. The underwhelmed housewife stood on top of the Stars dugout during the 7th inning stretch to be presented with a laundry list of prizes that included two season tickets to the Stars for the next five years, two tickets to see the Brewers play Atlanta at Turner Field (although most people would rather see the Braves play than the Brewers), an autographed ball which will be signed after she throws it out as the first pitch in an upcoming ballgame (can't wait to see what an athlete she is), and a custom-made Stars uniform that says "5 millionth fan"......... That brought the season attendance to 115,674 --- 4,360 up on the pace, two years ago and 8,541 up over last year. Both years, the Stars finished below 200,000 in total attendance for the first time since 1988.

 

The Stars scored in the 1st after Andy LaRoche, facing the Stars for the first time, doubled with two out to the right-center field wall to score Delwyn Young. Gwynn, .234 as a leadoff hitter despite his .293 average, hit a hard grounder for a single up the middle. He toured the bases on a walk to Kennard Bibbs, a wild pitch, and finally scored on a Vinny Rottino liner to left field....... Bibbs, whose walk was key to the inning, had walked only three times this month and 14 times in the first half....... Enrique Cruz put the Stars ahead in the 2nd inning with his 9th home run of the year, hit on a 2-1 pitch over the wall in left-center field in front of the scoreboard. The Stars are 6-2 when Enrique homers (he had two in one game vs. Carolina, May 23).

 

Enrique extended his hitting streak to tengames, six of which are multi-hit games. He's 16-for-40 in the streak with nine runs scored and five RBIs and is hitting .429 since the second half began. Other Stars hitting over .400 since the start of the second half: Gwynn (.409), Brandon Gemoll (.412), and Rottino (.409). John Vanden Berg is 2-for-5........ Enrique has had a good month defensively, too, committing just three errors after making seven in April and nine in May........

 

Gwynn has seven RBIs in 22 at-bats in the five games that have made up the 2nd half of the season, despite the fact that he has led off. That's more runs batted in than he's had the rest of June, covering 50 at-bats ...... Rottino's sacrifice fly in the 1st was his 5th, which leads the club....... Stetter had not allowed a run in 12 innings until he walked in Nick Alvarez in the 7th inning...... Bradley had another good outing in his second start of the year. He has now given up just one earned run in nine innings pitched as a starter, and lowered his ERA to 2.08. Bradley threw 71 pitches, 52 for strikes (73.2%) in his four innings of work. Bradley had been unscored upon in five of his 22 appearances coming into the game........

 

After striking out in his first three at-bats, Gemoll singled to left in the 7th and now has hit safely in 16 of his last 20 games...... With a 2-1 count on Gemoll in the 4th inning, Jacksonville catcher Russell Martin was thrown out of the game by home plate ump Garrett Watson, who will be working the Southern League All-Star game in two weeks. On two consecuitive pitches, both of which were balls, Martin held the ball up for Watson to see. On the 3rd, Martin must've smarted off, because that's when he got the heave-ho....... Martin, a league .316 hitter, has been hitting just a weak .222 (4-for-18) vs. Stars pitching. He accounted for half of Bradley's strikeout total of four tonight.

 

Stars pitchers are now 20-for-153 (.131) at the plate this year, so far the 2nd worst average since the Brewers became affiliated with Huntsville in 1999. (The 2003 pitching staff hit .127)...... But they have hit three HRs, more than were hit in any of the other years combined (one in 1999 and one last year), and have driven in 14 runs, twice as many as last year, when the pitching staff hit .158...... By the end of the year, this year's staff could surpass the 2001 record of 18 runs batted in.

 

Sunday, the Stars will go with southpaw Ryan Costello (0-3, 5.32) against the Suns' right-hander Eric Hull (4-4, 3.68), then Monday, it's Dana Eveland's turn again as he goes for his 9th victory.

 

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