Link Report for Games of Thursday, May 13th

[pogokat]

High Desert Box Score:

 GAME DATE: 5/13/04 HD at INL HIGH DESERT 1 AT INLAND EMPIRE 6 YTD YTD HIGH DESERT AB R H BI AVG INLAND EMPIRE AB R H BI AVG K.Bibbs CF 4 0 3 1 .330 J.Gonzalez SS 3 2 0 0 .308 S.Candelaria 2B 4 0 1 0 .232 J.Guzman 3B 3 2 1 0 .288 J.Eure 3B 4 0 0 0 .215 G.Harris CF 4 0 1 0 .267 T.Hinton 1B 4 0 1 0 .328 T.Bohn RF 1 1 1 3 .324 F.Villanueva CAT 2 0 0 0 .173 P.Balet DH 3 0 0 1 .315 J.Vanden ber PH 1 0 0 0 .316 R.Rivera CAT 3 0 1 1 .312 J.Vanden ber 1B 1 0 0 0 .316 H.Cho 2B 3 0 0 0 .293 J.Frost LF 4 1 3 0 .288 M.Hagen 1B 3 0 0 0 .232 P.Rasmusen DH 3 0 0 0 .059 C.Arroyo LF 3 1 1 0 .301 M.Mendez RF 4 0 1 0 .211 R.Dorman PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 O.Chavez SS 3 0 0 0 .295 T.Watson PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Parra PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 C.Breslow PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 N.Slack PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Kusiewicz PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 34 1 9 1 TOTALS 26 6 5 5 HIGH DESERT 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- 1 9 1 INLAND EMPIRE 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 X- 6 5 0 E--F.Villanueva. DP--HIGH DESERT 1, INLAND EMPIRE 0. LOB--HIGH DESERT 7, INLAND EMPIRE 7. 3B--T.Bohn (3). SB--J.Guzman (3), M.Hagen (3). CS--K.Bibbs. HBP--P.Balet, H.Cho. SF--R.Rivera. SH--P.Rasmusen. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HIGH DESERT M.Parra 4.0 3 0 0 4 1 0 7.71 C.Breslow (L,1-1) 2.1 2 6 4 4 2 0 12.54 N.Slack 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.59 M.Kusiewicz 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 7.00 INLAND EMPIRE R.Dorman (W,3-2) 6.0 7 1 1 0 9 0 2.68 T.Watson (S,3) 3.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 4.32 HB--N.Slack 2. WP--C.Breslow, R.Dorman. SO--K.Bibbs, S.Candelaria, J.Eure, T.Hinton 3, F.Villanueva, J.Vanden ber, P.Rasmusen, M.Mendez, O.Chavez, J.Guzman, G.Harris 2, M.Hagen, C.Arroyo. BB--J.Gonzalez 2, J.Guzman 2, T.Bohn 3, M.Hagen. T--2:28. A--2404

High Desert Game Log:

 

www.sportsnetwork.com/mer...MEID=18039

[MassBrew]

Huntsville Site Game Summary:

 

The Stars turned the tables on Thursday night at Hank Aaron Stadium. After Mobile rallied for a 5-3 lead, Huntsville came back to win when trailing after eight innings for the first time this season. With their 6-5 victory over the Bay Bears (17-17), the Stars (18-16) remained 1 ½ games out of first in the Southern League West.

 

With Huntsville down 5-3 in the top of the eighth, Prince Fielder led off with a walk and scored on Brad Nelson?s double off the left field wall. Then in the ninth, the Stars became the first team to score off Bears closer Brad Baker. Rickie Weeks walked to start the frame and took second on a wild pitch. Tony Gwynn, Jr. singled sharply to right, scoring Weeks for a 5-5 tie, then stole second and took third on Fielder?s groundout. After Nelson struck out, Jason Belcher stepped to the plate.

 

Baker?s first two pitches to Belcher missed badly, and Mobile skipper Gary Jones called for an intentional walk. With catcher Steve Morales standing up, Baker?s next pitch sailed to the screen, and Gwynn raced home for a 6-5 Stars lead.

 

Huntsville closer Roberto Giron fanned two in a perfect ninth for his seventh save in eight chances. Reliever John Novinsky (4-0) notched his fourth win, striking out one in a 1-2-3 eighth. Baker (0-1) suffered the loss, permitting two runs on two hits and two walks with two strikeouts in the ninth.

 

Huntsville banged out 11 hits and five Stars produced multi-hit games. Gwynn finished 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his first of the year, three runs batted in and two runs scored. Weeks went 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, and Nelson doubled, singled and drove in one. Belcher was 2-for-3 with a double and one run scored, and Joel Alvarado singled twice and drove in one.

 

Huntsville returns home Friday night for the opener of a four-game series against Greenville at Joe Davis Stadium. Stars righty Chris Saenz (3-1, 3.55) meets Braves lefty Macay McBride (0-5, 6.62). The wacky mascot Birdzerk entertains throughout the game, with a fireworks extravaganza to follow. Game time is 7:05 p.m.

[MassBrew]

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

 

STARS WIN ON INTENTIONAL PASS

Any Stars fans thinking last place Greenville, the team with the worst W-L record in the league, is going to be easy when they come to town for the weekend, needs to seriously rethink this over........ The G'Braves just finished a surprise sweep of the Jacksonville Suns, a team we lost three of four to, and a team that had the best record in the league........... Friday, the Stars will put Chris Saenz on the mound against Macay McBride, 0-5 this season with a 6.62 ERA. Hold your bets for now. The rotation for the four-game series will be Saenz-Ryan Costello-Tim Bausher-Dennis Sarfate. It was thought Matt Ford would be ready for this series. I'll try and get a progress report on him tomorrow.

 

An incredible way to win tonight....... Brad Baker, Mobile's closer, disintegrated in the 9th inning, finally throwing a ball away on an intentional pass to Jason Belcher that scored the winning run for the Stars in the top of the 9th, the first time in 10 games this season that the Stars had won, trailing going into the 9th.

 

Despite giving up a run in the 1st inning, starter Jeff Housman was trying to extend a hot stretch of pitching, using his off-speed and breaking ball to fan two in each of the first two innings........ Housman is coming off two very sweet starts in which he's thrown 13 innings, struck out 18 and given up just one earned run.

 

The Stars broke onto the scoreboard in the 4th inning....... Jason Belcher singled up the middle. After Chris Barnwell, going 9-for-19 on a five-game hitting streak, walked on four pitches, Joel Alvarado lined a 1-2 pitch into left field to score Belcher, Barnwell sacrificing himself to enable the run by positioning himself for a rundown and the final out after Belcher crossed....... Alvarado came into the game 2-for-16 this month. Kade Johnson, 2-for-28 in May, was given a rest........ Curiously, Barnwell last year, got off to a very similar start, having a bad April, then not getting in gear until he went on a 10-for-21 streak from May 3-9. Barney's 9-for-19 streak started May 9, lifting his average to .214.

 

The Stars went ahead in the 5th on Tony Gwynn, Jr.'s first home run for the Stars......... Rickie Weeks lashed a 2-2 pitch to right field off the glove of Ben Johnson, fully outstretched, for a double. Gwynn, then hit a 1-1 pitch that caught the jet stream to the opposite field to put the Stars on top, 3-1.

 

Reggie Rivard, nine scoreless innings over his last three relief appearances, had a painful day, allowing Mobile to take the lead, 5-3....... The Stars, resilient as ever under Frank Kremblas, came within one in the 8th when Brad Nelson doubled in a hustling Prince Fielder, who was issued a walk by incoming pitcher Jack Cassel........ Fielder finished the trip 9-for-36 with six RBIs.

 

9th inning. Brad Baker came in for Mobile, unscored upon this season......... Baker walked his first hitter Rickie Weeks, who then was wild pitched to second........ Gwynn made it his 4th two-hit day on this road trip by ripping a ball past a diving Joe Gerber to right field, scoring the speedy Weeks, tying the game......... Gwynn then proceeded to steal second, then advanced to third on a ground ball by Fielder........ Nelson then struck out and with the score tied and the go-ahead run waiting on third, the intentional walk was called for Jason Belcher........ Belcher has been one of the hottest hitters for the Stars lately, coming in 6-for-12 in his last four games, even though he hasn't been playing regularly on this road trip....... At 2-and-0, it was decided to go with the intentional walk at the call of Mobile manager Gary Jones........ Would you believe Baker throws it away and Gwynn waltzes home for what turned out to be the winning run.

 

One of the developments coming out of SportsNetwork's takeover as official statistician of Minor League Baseball, and many of them to my surprise have been good, is their constantly updated scoreboard page. Unfortunately, some people, saboteurs I say, claiming to be representatives of minor league clubs, have called them giving them incorrect line scores....... Don't know if anyone has encountered that, but that perhaps is the reason for the disclaimer you get now when you try to access their inning-by-inning log. TSN has since rectified this.

 

The Brewers, who have lost Dave Krynzel for perhaps 10 weeks, will lose J.J. Hardy for the rest of the season. He dislocated his non-throwing shoulder in a rather odd way, by fouling off a pitch in a game against Ottawa....... The injury is similar to one that befell Richie Sexson of the Arizona Diamondbacks this year........ Hardy has damage to the front and back of his labrum and will require surgery. His season is over........ For now, Steve Scarborough will be the regular shortstop for the luckless Indianapolis Indians........ Somebody tell me. Are the Brewers jinxed?

[MassBrew]

Look for newspaper accounts of the Beloit and High Desert losses (combined score 28-1) later today.

[MassBrew]

 WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB [b]INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS (MILWAUKEE) 18 13 .581[/b] COLUMBUS CLIPPERS (NEW YORK YANKEES) 15 16 .484 3.0 TOLEDO MUD HENS (DETROIT) 16 18 .471 3.5 LOUISVILLE BATS (CINCINNATI) 15 18 .455 4.0

 WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB WEST TENN DIAMOND JAXX (CHICAGO CUBS) 19 14 .576 BIRMINGHAM BARONS (CHICAGO WHITE SOX) 18 15 .545 1.0 [b]HUNTSVILLE STARS (MILWAUKEE) 18 16 .529 1.5[/b] MOBILE BAY BEARS (SAN DIEGO) 17 17 .500 2.5 MONTGOMERY BISCUITS (TAMPA BAY) 12 22 .353 7.5

 SOUTH DIVISION W L PCT GB INLAND EMPIRE 66ERS (SEATTLE) 23 12 .657 LANCASTER JETHAWKS (ARIZONA) 20 13 .606 2.0 LAKE ELSINORE STORM (SAN DIEGO) 18 15 .545 4.0 RANCHO CUCAMONGA QUAKES (ANAHEIM) 16 17 .485 6.0 [b]HIGH DESERT MAVERICKS (MILWAUKEE) 13 22 .371 10.0[/b]

 WESTERN DIVISION W L PCT GB KANE COUNTY COUGARS (OAKLAND) 20 14 .588 CLINTON LUMBER KINGS (TEXAS) 20 14 .588 CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS (ANAHEIM) 20 14 .588 PEORIA CHIEFS (ST.LOUIS) 18 16 .529 2.0 QUAD CITY RIVER BANDITS (MINNESOTA) 17 17 .500 3.0 [b]BELOIT SNAPPERS (MILWAUKEE) 16 18 .471 4.0[/b] WISCONSIN TIMBER RATTLERS (SEATTLE) 14 20 .412 6.0 BURLINGTON BEES (KANSAS CITY) 13 21 .382 7.0

[colbyjack]

Some nice lines for the Stars. Amidst the more heralded prospects, Jason Belcher has quietly gotten his average up to .317.

[igor67]

It certainly seems like Gwynn is making adjustments to AA. I don't know what his final stat line will look like, but atleast he isn't flaming out already. Anybody else excited by the notion of having three guys who can steal bases (Weeks, Pods, and Hart) starting with probably 2 more good ones on the bench? Not exactly Whitey ball, but entertaining nonetheless.

[clancyphile]

igor67

 

I view it differently:

A team that can beat you with speed (Podsednik, Weeks, Hart - Krynzel and/or Gwynn on the bench) or with power (Overbay, Fielder, Hart, Nelson).

[MassBrew]

To make this fun, who said the following quote, Maverick Manager Mel Queen or Snapper Manager Don Money? (Actually, they probably both said it, but only one got it printed!)

 

``Our pitching and our hitting sucked and nothing went right''

 

Daily Press High Desert Game Story:

 

www.vvdailypress.com/cgi-...164,76071,

 

Beloit Daily News Doubleheader Story:

 

www.beloitdailynews.com/504/snap14.htm

[igor67]

I'll vote for a trick question without looking. They both said it!