Link Report for Games of Saturday, May 22nd

[MassBrew]

Saturday's Daily Menu -- all evening action up against the parent club; three doses of home cooking, and the Mavericks continue to make their daily round-trip commutes vs. Southern Division foes...

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change; pre-game audio begins approx. 15 minutes prior to game time listed...

 

INDIANAPOLIS: RHP Travis Phelps at home vs. Durham (Devil Rays), 7:00 PM

 

Audio link:

www.newstalk1430.com/

 

Alternate audio link (Bulls' feed):

www.sportsjuice.com/provi...ame=dbulls

 

HUNTSVILLE: RHP Dennis Sarfate at home vs. Jacksonville (Dodgers), 7:05 PM; classic Brewer uniforms and the racing sausages!

 

Audio link:

www.espn1450.com/

 

HIGH DESERT: RHP Glenn Woolard at Lake Elsinore (Padres), 9:05 PM

 

Audio link:

www.hdmavs.com/listen_live.htm

 

BELOIT: RHP Carlos Villanueva and RHP Kenny Durost at home in a twi-night affair vs. Battle Creek (Yankees), 5:30 PM

 

Audio link (Yankees' feed):

www.battlecreekyankees.com/

[MassBrew]

Indianapolis Pre-Game Notes:

 

www.indyindians.com/pdf/gamenotes.pdf

[MassBrew]

Can you say pitching?

 

In progress: Indianapolis 7, Durham (Devil Rays) 0, after six innings

RHP Travis Phelps with a one-hitter through six...

 

In progress: Huntsville 4, Jacksonville (Dodgers) 0, after four innings

RHP Dennis Sarfate with a two-hitter through four...

 

In progress: Game One -- Beloit 3, Battle Creek (Yankees) 0, after six innings in this seven inning affair

Battle Creek with only four hits through six...

[MassBrew]

Final, Game One: Beloit 3, Battle Creek (Yankees) 0

Win streak now at seven...

 

The game started an hour late, but the Beloit Snappers wasted no time in scoring en route to a 3-0 victory over the Battle Creek Yankees in the first game of a Midwest League double-header Saturday night at Pohlman Field. The Snappers scored twice in the first and once in the second, and that was enough for their seventh straight victory.

 

The series opener Thursday night was delayed 1 hour 45 minutes, and Friday night?s game was rained out. Rain again delayed the start of Saturday night?s double-header.

 

The second game of the double-header is scheduled to start at 9:15 p.m. CDT. But ? it started to rain between games and the tarp is on the field. Stay tuned.

[MassBrew]

Update, in progress: Indianapolis 7, Durham (Devil Rays) 5, after seven innings

D'oh! I jinxed things. Bulls with a five-spot in the 7th...

[MassBrew]

Game Two: Battle Creek (Yankees) at Beloit, postponed, rain

The second game of Saturday's doubleheader was postponed and rescheduled as part of a Sunday afternoon twinbill.

[burniebrewer]

The second game of the double-header is scheduled to start at 9:15 p.m. CDT. But ? it started to rain between games and the tarp is on the field. Stay tuned.

 

The ol' Doppler is looking pretty colorful for this part of the state the rest of the night. We'll see if they even try to get this one in.

 

EDIT: Ooh, a tie on the post with MassBrew. I figured it would be postponed..I've got thunder and lightning brewing as we speak. The entire southern part of Wisc. is gonna be swimming after these last 2 days. Get this front outta here already.

[MassBrew]

Final: Indianapolis 7, Durham (Devil Rays) 5

Details soon...

[MassBrew]

Update, in progress: Huntsville 9, Jacksonville (Dodgers) 1, after seven innings

 

In progress: High Desert 1, Lake Elsinore (Padres) 0, bottom of the first

Mavs draw first blood on a Travis Hinton RBI base hit; looks like a chance at a 4-and-0 farm team record tonight -- we'll see...

[Anders34]

Brad Nelson is having a huge night. 3-5 with 1 HR and 2 doubles. Prince is 1-5 with a single. Stars are up 9-1. Sarfate with a very nice outing.

[MassBrew]

Beloit Site Game Note and Player of the Game Info:

 

www.snappersbaseball.com/...me_id=1297

 

Beloit Box Score:

 GAME DATE: 5/22/04 BTC at BLT BATTLE CREEK 0 AT BELOIT 3 DH GAME #1 YTD YTD BATTLE CREEK AB R H BI AVG BELOIT AB R H BI AVG M.Cabrera CF 3 0 2 0 .365 G.Rodriguez 2B 4 1 1 0 .291 E.Cruz 2B 3 0 0 0 .000 T.Trofholz RF 3 1 2 1 .279 E.Duncan 3B 2 0 1 0 .304 D.Anderson LF 3 0 0 0 .252 E.Andrus LF 3 0 0 0 .257 L.Palmisano CAT 3 1 2 1 .336 W.Vasquez 1B 3 0 1 0 .292 V.Rottino DH 3 0 1 0 .333 H.Made SS 3 0 0 0 .258 A.Heether 3B 3 0 1 1 .252 E.Harris RF 3 0 1 0 .222 S.Moss CF 3 0 1 0 .156 P.Santos CAT 3 0 0 0 .244 M.Ramirez 1B 3 0 1 0 .234 B.Kartler DH 3 0 0 0 .190 G.Acosta SS 3 0 0 0 .180 T.Clippard PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Villanueva PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 26 0 5 0 TOTALS 28 3 9 3 BATTLE CREEK 0- 0 5 2 BELOIT 0- 3 9 0 E--H.Made 2. DP--BATTLE CREEK 0, BELOIT 0. LOB--BATTLE CREEK 6, BELOIT 7. 2B--M.Cabrera 2 (16), W.Vasquez (5), E.Harris (5). CS-- V.Rottino. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA BATTLE CREEK T.Clippard (L,3-4) 6.0 9 3 2 0 8 0 3.45 BELOIT C.Villanueva (W,3-4) 7.0 5 0 0 1 5 0 4.04 WP--T.Clippard. SO--E.Cruz, W.Vasquez, H.Made, E.Harris, P.Santos, G.Rodriguez, D.Anderson 2, L.Palmisano, S.Moss, M.Ramirez, G.Acosta 2. BB--E.Duncan.

Beloit Game Log:

 

www.sportsnetwork.com/mer...MEID=20742

[Ralph Wiggum]

Hopefully Brad Nelson can reclaim his top 3 prospect status. I don't know if he will ever be in the Brewer uniform (with Hart and Jenkins foreseeably in the future), but what team isn't looking for power-hitting corner outfield prospects?

[MassBrew]

Indianapolis Box Score:

Welcome to AAA, Brandon Gemoll...

 GAME DATE: 5/22/04 DUR at IND DURHAM 5 AT INDIANAPOLIS 7 YTD YTD DURHAM AB R H BI AVG INDIANAPOLIS AB R H BI AVG C.Gipson CF 4 0 0 0 .314 R.Knox CF 3 0 0 0 .243 B.Upton SS 4 0 1 0 .333 M.Erickson 2B 3 1 0 0 .214 J.Cantu 3B 4 1 1 0 .267 C.Magruder LF 4 0 1 0 .291 F.McGriff 1B 3 1 1 0 .200 J.Liefer 1B 2 2 1 2 .309 M.Diaz RF 4 1 2 0 .301 J.Nunnally RF 3 2 2 3 .276 P.LaForest CAT 4 1 1 1 .189 S.Scarbrough SS 3 1 0 0 .223 J.Sandberg LF 3 1 0 1 .200 B.Gemoll DH 4 0 2 1 .500 E.Guzman DH 4 0 1 1 .213 A.Delgado CAT 4 0 0 0 .100 L.Ordaz 2B 4 0 0 0 .275 L.Figueroa 3B 3 1 2 0 .280 D.Gonzalez PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 T.Phelps PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Magrane PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 D.Reichert PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Seay PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Giron PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 34 5 7 3 TOTALS 29 7 8 6 DURHAM 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0- 5 7 1 INDIANAPOLIS 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 X- 7 8 1 E--F.McGriff, D.Reichert. DP--DURHAM 2, INDIANAPOLIS 1. LOB--DURHAM 4, INDIANAPOLIS 4. 2B--E.Guzman (4). HR--J.Liefer (8), J.Nunnally (6). SB--M.Diaz (4). CS--R.Knox. HBP--J.Liefer. SF--J.Nunnally. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA DURHAM D.Gonzalez (L,1-1) 4.0 4 5 5 3 2 2 3.12 J.Magrane 2.1 3 2 0 1 2 0 5.40 B.Seay 1.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.45 INDIANAPOLIS T.Phelps (W,4-1) 6.1 5 4 3 0 3 0 5.40 D.Reichert 1.2 1 1 0 2 1 0 0.79 R.Giron (S,1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 HB--J.Magrane. SO--C.Gipson, B.Upton, F.McGriff, P.LaForest, J.Sandberg, M.Erickson 2, S.Scarbrough, B.Gemoll. BB--F.McGriff, J.Sandberg, R.Knox, M.Erickson, J.Liefer, S.Scarbrough. T--2:12. A--8983

Indianapolis Game Log:

 

www.sportsnetwork.com/mer...MEID=14129

[MassBrew]

Final: Huntsville 10, Jacksonville (Dodgers) 1

Details soon...

[batman]

Carlos Villanueva with an outstanding outing tonight. Did anyone get to check him out in person? Seven shutout innings, five hits, a walk, and five strikeouts. Beautiful.

 

I don't know why, but he's become a personal favorite of mine even though I've never seen him pitch. Just one of those things, I guess.

 

~Bill

[burniebrewer]

I wasn't aware that McGriff was playing AAA in Durham. I thought he'd retired.

[DHonks]

I don't know why, but he's become a personal favorite of mine even though I've never seen him pitch. Just one of those things, I guess.

 

I fully understand Bill. I'm starting to look forward each time I see his name on the Daily Menu.

I'm also excited that sometime in the next 7 or so weeks we should see Diggins returning, as he's been a favorite of mine for a while.

[gregmag]

I'm really not saying this to rain on tonight's very cool parade o' wins, but when's the last time you saw a team win a game by a few runs with NEGATIVE secondary offensive contributions? No extra base hits, no walks, no steals, and a caught stealing to push things into the minus column. It's just odd.

 

I'm glad to see Carlos getting some success and the love that comes with it. His secondary numbers have portended success, but the results have been uneven. Man, that Franklin trade is looking unaccountably good.

 

Greg.

[colbyjack]

How many games as Palmisano gone without getting on base? It seems as though every time I look at the Snappers box score he has a hit or a walk, or both. He hasn't had too many big games, which may say a lot about his approach, and reflects what he told me in my conversation with him. He keeps hitting, he keeps getting on base, and he keeps driving runs in, even if they are one at a time. I bring this up especially given Greg's comments, since the Snappers aren't exactly built for the big inning.

 

Remember last year when Fielder started hot, cooled, and then heated up once June rolled around? I'm hoping we seem the same development this year, since Prince hasn't exactly been hitting the ball particularly well over the last week+.

 

Nice to see Nelson continue to hit well. Same goes for Gwynn, who might be finding his groove, although his current BB:K ratio isn't all that great (he's walking fine, but he's striking out WAY too much).

 

And while kaneyj questioned Rickie Weeks earlier this season, I'm starting to agree with his thoughts that he needs to step up his game. I realize it's his first full season, but I also know how talented he is. I'm far from worried, as similar to Palmisano, given the way he works the count it's hard for him to have those big games to immediately bump up his average. But it has dropped from the .280-.290 range from a couple of weeks ago to the .260 range now.

 

Sarfate with a big game, but the walks continue to concern me. Nice to see Villanueva with a strong effort, and as others have noted, that Franklin trade certainly looks like a good to great deal, even if neither Villanueva nor Woolard ever steps on the mound at the big league level.

 

Will it ever stop raining in the Midwest?

[huntsvillefan]

Talking of Weeks does anyone know if he is injured? He was taken out of last night's game and didn't appear tonight.

Johnny & Ozzie were a positive delight to watch in the field after being used to the Rickie & 'Rique show.

It was great to see Kade have a good night and his two doubles were very close to being two homers.

The biggest irony of the evening was the 'unearned run' a wild pitch and an error by Sarfate!

[MassBrew]

Huntsville Site Game Summary:

 

In one of their most comprehensive performances of the season, the Stars pounded out 13 hits and starter Dennis Sarfate dominated over seven outstanding innings in Huntsville?s 10-1 rout of Jacksonville (23-20) on Saturday night at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars (23-20) won their third straight to seize second place in the Southern League West, 1 ½ games behind leader West Tenn.

 

Sarfate (2-4) snapped a personal four-game losing streak and allowed just two singles and four walks over seven innings, his longest outing of the season. Sarfate fanned five and surrendered only one unearned run in his second win and first since April 27. Only three runners advanced past first against Sarfate, who retired nine of the last 10 hitters he faced.

 

Brad Nelson led the Stars? 13-hit salvo, slamming his ninth homerun ? a two-run shot that tied him for the club lead with Prince Fielder ? doubling twice, driving in three runs and scoring three. Kade Johnson, mired in a 4-for-45 slump entering the game, went 3-for-4 with two doubles, a single, two runs batted in and one run scored. Stars pitchers combined for three hits: Sarfate singled twice and drove in one and Fernando Rijo singled and scored a run.

 

Glenn Bott (1-3) suffered the loss, permitting six runs, three earned, on seven hits with no walks and no strikeouts in five innings. Rijo authored two scoreless innings of relief for Huntsville, allowing two hits and one walk and fanning two.

 

The Stars send lefty Jeff Housman (0-2, 3.35) against Suns lefty Randy Leek (1-2, 5.27) in game two of the series Sunday afternoon. Game time is 2:05 p.m. for Dog Days of Summer at Joe Davis Stadium. Stars fans receive half-price tickets if they bring their dog to the park and Jake the Diamond Dog entertains throughout the game.

[MassBrew]

David Weiser's www.starsboxscore.com Huntsville update:

 

A NIGHT FOR NELLY'S FANS

I don't know who this team was. They wore these powder blue jerseys with the old 1982-style Brewers logo on their left breast and the '82 Brewer caps like the one I was wearing and I swear they played like the 1982 Brewers, the Harvey Wallbangers who took the World Series with against the Cardinals to the brink....... Someone named Brad Nelson had two doubles and a homer, but I don't know. I think it was probably Gorman Thomas........ And who was that on the mound anyhow? Sure wasn't Dennis Sarfate...... Pitched more like a right-handed Mike Caldwell. I know it wasn't Pete Vuckovich cause this guy had no moustache........ Whoever this team was, they didn't play like the team usually occupying this stadium. That team is last in the league in hitting and whoever it was on the mound, pitched like I've never seen Sarfate pitch....... Whatever...... The win is going to go to the Huntsville Stars and they'll be back tomorrow.

 

Back to reality...... The unis the Stars wore tonight were auctioned off and as usual, I didn't spend big money (the bids started at $50) and I didn't win a bid ...... Prince Fielder is still the most popular player, despite his deep slump. His uniform top was auctioned off for $220....... Tony Gwynn, Jr.'s went for $120. ........ Adding to the novelty of the night was Bernie Brewer and the Famous Sausages. No imitation either. They were the same ones who entertain at Miller Park........ The Stars flew these guys in from Milwaukee and the crowd seemed to love it. Not as much as fireworks, of course....... The highlight was the sausage race from third base to first base where Bernie Brewer and an office intern held up the finish tape....... The bratwurst won....... They also participated in the usual between-innings diversions --- the base race, the tug-of-war, et.al......... All of it complemented tonight's throwback theme, but what was most enjoyable was the Stars victory --- an effortless, one-sided manhandling of the first place Jacksonville Suns, now losers of 10 of their last 13 games.

 

Sarfate pitched his best game for the Stars this season....... A quick worker, he was able to pitch into the 7th for the first time this year --- a first for any Huntsville starter........ Sarfate surrendered only one run, unearned at that, when left fielder Sergio Garcia, who was hit by an 0-1 pitch, went to third on his own throwing error trying to hold the runner on........ He then scored on a wild pitch with Jacksonville newcomer Tom McGee.at-bat......... Sarfate finished strong, retiring 10 of the last 11 batters to face him, getting two strikeouts in the 7th, putting away WIlkin Ruan on a 94-mph fastball.

 

Rickie Weeks was a late scratch after fouling a ball off his foot in Friday night's game, so for the first time, Johnny Raburn was in at his primary position in a familiar spot in the order to him when he was playing at High Desert........He hit the ball hard, but he wasn't the table-setter he was put there to be, but the burden was evenly distributed tonight.......

 

Brad Nelson got things going in the 2nd with a double over first base down the right field line. With one out, Chris Barnwell hit a liner to left that appeared to be easy for Sergio Garcia, but Garcia ran right past it for a three-base error and Nelson scored. Kade Johnson then singled off the heel of Brennan King's glove, a play that just as easily could have been scored an error. But that scored Barnwell to make it 2-0........ Ozzie Chavez lined the first pitch to him to right, but Reggie Abercrombie made one of several eye-popping plays on the night, when he rushed in to make a shoe-top catch.

 

In the 4th, Jason Belcher led off with a single on a 1-2 pitch to right and went to second on Barnwell's well-placed bunt back to the pitcher.........It's hard to conceive that Kade Johnson has been on a 3-for-38 slump, because he really looked good tonight, effortless delivering two blasts to the outfield wall....... The first of them came in the 4th inning on an 0-1 breaking ball from Jacksonville starter Glenn Bott, scoring Belcher. Kade then scored on Dennis Sarfate's second hit --- another single to left......... Huntsville pitchers had a really good night at the plate........ Sarfate and Fernando Rijo combined to go 3-for-4 and drive in a run to raise the batting average of the pitching staff to .174.

 

Brad Nelson was perplexed, but pleasantly, over his own cheering contingent tonight in a post-game wrap with Brian Neese......... They all sat on the first base side of the lower section, which is in itself unusual because the majority of Stars rooters sit on the opposite side. They would shout "Brad! Brad! Brad!" every so often when he came to the plate and maybe it energized him. I don't know. He didn't need it necessarily. He's hitting .366 in his last 10 games and has 14 extra-base hits this month, but the louder they'd get, the better the results........ In the 5th inning, he belted a long two-run home run to left to give the Stars a 6-1 lead........ On his next trip, in the 7th inning, he doubled deep to center near the wall to score Tony Gwynn, Jr........ I talked to some of them after the game, waiting by the clubhouse door for him to come out, the kind of crowd I usually see when some major leaguer is rehabbing here....... These guys, I don't know where exactly they came from --- they said "all over", but they sounded like Midwesterners who were on a minor league hejira. I knew they couldn't possibly be from around here. One -- they were enthusiastic throughout the whole game. Two -- the regulars here don't bother with signs, or cheering a great deal when nothing is seeming to go on. Three -- they were smart and knew their baseball. .......The Stars led off with three consecutive hits that inning off reliever Franquelis Osoria that inning, Nelson's being the third....... Nelly would score on Chris Barnwell's double, his 20th RBI....... Despite a .211 average, Barnwell is still one of the most productive players on the team, third in RBIs.

 

Prince Fielder is working with Sandy Guerrero on his pitch selection....... It seems Fielder picked his pitches a lot better in April, and as usually happens in slumps, the hitter stops going deep in the count, looking for anything to hit, even if it's usually the wrong pitch. Fielder took one count full tonight. The others were 2-1 or 1-1...... Fielder was sent to the dirt by Glenn Bott's 1-1 pitch in the 3rd inning. Instinctively, he clutched the bat close to his chest as he tried to duck out of the way from an inside pitch near his head....... To his surprise and everyone's, home plate ump Rob Hansen called a strike on Fielder for moving his bat. He wound up grounding out to second.

 

As I said, there were some real defensive gems in this game........ Tony Gwynn, Jr. in the 6th went back to the track on a deep fly ball hit by James Loney....... Looking as if it would go over his head, Gwynn stuck his glove out in front of him running at full speed toward the wall, his back to the plate, and made the catch...... Ozzie Chavez. By my observations, he is leaps and bounds better at short than Enrique Cruz! Chavez made a couple of plays tonight that reminded me of the range J.J. Hardy had last year....... In the 5th, with Sergio Garcia on first, Chavez ranged back to the outfield grass and leaping, made an over-the-shoulder grab of Wilkin Ruan's blooper in shallow left....... Then in the 9th, Chavez climbed the ladder to snare a liner off the bat of leadoff hitter Nelson Castro, snow-coning the hot liner in the webbing of his glove.

 

The Stars broadcast has this promotion they call the "Kroger Inning-to-Win"....... Robert Portnoy picks the inning and if a Stars batter gets a hit that inning, he or she wins a Kroger Gift Card ranging from $25 to $100 depending on the hit....... For the first time, the Stars gave away three in one inning, which happened to be that three-run inning they had in the 7th........ In the early days of this contest, the winners were all local, but thanks to the power of the Internet, two of the winners tonight were from New York and Iowa. "It's amazing. You think no one is listening," says Robert Portnoy, "then you're proven all wrong by something like this"...... Same thing I guess goes for the attention I get on this site. Sometimes I think no one bothers, then I get e-mail from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or somewhere handing me compliments........ As I said, the power of the internet.

 

(Note from MassBrew: certainly the Iowa winer was a Brad Nelson fan...)

 

Reggie Abercrombie hit a foul ball in the 8th inning I swear is the longest I've ever seen since 1995 when Brian Lesher sent a drive about 15 feet from the foul line over the grandstand in left and disappeared........ Abercrombie's had far more height, arcing above the light standard in left, and distance, clearing the left field grandstand where nobody ever sits and probably into the parking lot beyond........ It was one hell of a moonshot.

 

Sunday, fans can bring their dogs into the stadium to watch Jake the Wonder Dog....... I wonder how many dogs are going to go nuts wanting to get on the field and try to make out with Jake........ The dog owners can get in for half-price for this 2:05 start....... Jeff Housman (0-2, 3.35) will face left-hander Randy Lee (1-2, 5.27)........ Corey Hart did not play in Saturday's game for the Brewers against Pittsburgh, but Brandon Gemoll had two hits in his debut for the Indianapolis Indians.

[MassBrew]

Talking of Weeks does anyone know if he is injured? He was taken out of last night's game and didn't appear tonight.

 

And as David Weiser pointed out:

 

Rickie Weeks was a late scratch after fouling a ball off his foot in Friday night's game

 

Gee, not Krynzel-like, we hope...

[MassBrew]

Huntsville Times Game Story:

 

Stars break out against Jacksonville

Johnson, Sarfate halt slumps in 10-1 rout

By PAUL GATTIS

Times Sports Staff pgattis@htimes.com

 

Just consider this baseball's version of some kind of miracle drug.

 

And consider Dennis Sarfate and Kade Johnson healed.

 

The two Huntsville Stars came into Saturday's game in woeful slumps and left it with all those miseries fading from memory.

 

Sarfate allowed only two hits in seven innings while Johnson had three hits - including two doubles off the wall that narrowly missed being home runs - as the Stars smashed Jacksonville 10-1 before 3,789 fans at Joe Davis Stadium.

 

Asked if he cured himself, Johnson said, "I think I did."

 

Johnson, the Stars catcher, was languishing in a 4-for-45 slump before getting an infield single that knocked in a run in the second inning. Then he doubled in a run in the fourth and scored and doubled again in the sixth.

 

"I've been working my butt off in the (batting) cage," said Johnson, who was 3-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs. "It's been a mental block with me. They said my swing is fine.

 

"It was definitely good to get back on track."

 

The same could be said for Sarfate, who lugged a 5.82 ERA into the game and had just one win in seven starts. But he improved to 2-4 after allowing two hits and one unearned run while striking out five.

 

"I knew he was going to have that kind of game," Johnson said. "He had electric stuff in the bullpen."

 

Johnson said Sarfate spotted his mid-90s mph fastball well, which made his breaking pitches even more effective.

 

But for Sarfate, according to pitching coach Fred Dabney, it wasn't a sudden awakening.

 

"It wasn't just tonight," Dabney said. "It's what he did to prepare before this start since his previous start."

 

In that game against Greenville, Sarfate allowed five runs in five innings.

 

"He had a good mind-set (since that start)," Dabney said. "Then he warmed up well in the bullpen and he took it into the ball game."

 

Of course, Sarfate and Johnson had help. Brad Nelson blasted his ninth home run, doubled twice and was 3-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs scored. And Sarfate even had two hits himself and knocked in a run.

 

Fernando Rijo pitched the final two innings and allowed just two hits. He also had two strikeouts.

 

It all made for an easy night for Stars manager Frank Kremblas as the offense pounded out 13 hits and the Suns offense answered with only four hits.

 

The Stars scored two runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings before adding three more in the seventh and another in the eighth.

 

"They both did a good job," Kremblas said of Johnson and Sarfate. "But thing is, you have to be consistent. And I don't mean throw a two-hitter or get three hits. But you have to be able to (play well) more often."

[MassBrew]

Huntsville Box Score:

 GAME DATE: 5/22/04 JAX at HVL JACKSONVILLE 1 AT HUNTSVILLE 10 YTD YTD JACKSONVILLE AB R H BI AVG HUNTSVILLE AB R H BI AVG R.Abercrombi RF 4 0 0 0 .130 J.Raburn 2B 4 0 0 0 .253 R.Abercrombi CF 0 0 0 0 .130 A.Gwynn CF 4 1 1 0 .253 N.Castro SS 4 0 1 0 .275 P.Fielder 1B 5 2 1 0 .258 J.Loney 1B 4 0 0 0 .214 B.Nelson LF 5 3 3 3 .286 W.Aybar 2B 3 0 1 0 .289 J.Belcher RF 3 1 1 1 .298 B.King 3B 3 0 1 0 .286 C.Barnwell 3B 3 1 1 1 .211 S.Garcia LF 1 1 1 0 .296 K.Johnson CAT 4 1 3 2 .247 W.Ruan CF 3 0 0 0 .194 O.Chavez SS 4 0 0 0 .222 Y.Brazoban PIT 0 0 0 0 .333 D.Sarfate PIT 3 0 2 1 .182 N.Alvarez PH 1 0 0 0 .275 F.Rijo PIT 1 1 1 0 .500 T.McGee CAT 3 0 0 0 .267 G.Bott PIT 1 0 0 0 .083 J.Rojas PIT 0 0 0 0 .500 F.Osoria PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 D.Michaelis RF 1 0 0 0 .271 TOTALS 28 1 4 0 TOTALS 36 10 13 8 JACKSONVILLE 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0- 1 4 2 HUNTSVILLE 0 2 0 2 2 0 3 1 X-10 13 1 E--B.King, S.Garcia, D.Sarfate. DP--JACKSONVILLE 1, HUNTSVILLE 2. LOB--JACKSONVILLE 6, HUNTSVILLE 6. 2B--B.King (11), B.Nelson 2 (13), C.Barnwell (7), K.Johnson 2 (6). HR--B.Nelson (9). SB--N.Castro (7). CS--B.King. HBP--S.Garcia. SF--J.Belcher. SH--C.Barnwell. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA JACKSONVILLE G.Bott (L,1-3) 5.0 7 6 3 0 0 1 2.76 J.Rojas 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.63 F.Osoria 1.0 4 3 3 0 0 0 4.91 Y.Brazoban 1.0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1.67 HUNTSVILLE D.Sarfate (W,2-4) 7.0 2 1 0 4 5 0 4.83 F.Rijo 2.0 2 0 0 1 2 0 4.00 HB--D.Sarfate. WP--D.Sarfate. SO--R.Abercrombi, J.Loney, W.Aybar, B.King, W.Ruan 2, T.McGee, B.Nelson, D.Sarfate. BB--W.Aybar, B.King, S.Garcia 2, G.Bott, J.Raburn, A.Gwynn. T--2:28. A--3789

Huntsville Game Log:

 

www.sportsnetwork.com/mer...MEID=11979