Link Report for 5/6; Mike Adams is making 2004 his own

[RyDogg66]

what happened to Reality Check? He was all about Indy.

[EdgarDiazRocks]

Ahem . . .again . . .

 

 

FREE BRIAN MONTALBO

 

49th star pride baby.

 

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The Alaska Flag Song

 

Eight stars of gold on a field of blue,

Alaska's flag, may it mean to you,

The blue of the sea, the evening sky.

The mountain lakes and the flowers nearby.

The gold of the early sourdough's dreram,

The precious gold of the hills and streams,

The brilliant star in the northern sky,

The Bear, the Dipper, and shining high,

The Great North Star with a steady light,

O'er land and sea, a beacon, bright.

Alaska's Flag. to Alaskans dear,

The simple flag of a Last Frontier.

[SoCalBrewfan]

I'm kind of surprised Ted Stevens doesn't show up in those lyrics somewhere....

[pogokat]

Final: Lake Elsinore (Padres) 7, High Desert 5

 

High Desert Box Score:

 GAME DATE: 5/06/04 LKE at HD LAKE ELSINORE 7 AT HIGH DESERT 5 YTD YTD LAKE ELSINORE AB R H BI AVG HIGH DESERT AB R H BI AVG K.Jones CF 5 1 2 1 .311 K.Bibbs CF 4 1 1 0 .282 R.MERRILL SS 5 0 0 0 .296 C.Crabbe 2B 5 0 2 1 .248 P.McAnulty 1B 4 1 2 2 .321 D.Boyd LF 5 1 1 1 .299 S.Baker RF 5 1 3 0 .310 T.Hinton DH 5 1 2 0 .359 M.Richardson LF 3 1 0 0 .234 J.Eure 3B 4 0 0 0 .217 L.Cruz DH 4 0 0 0 .282 J.Vanden ber CAT 4 1 2 0 .373 K.Jacobo 3B 4 2 2 1 .214 S.Candelaria RF 4 0 1 0 .271 A.Pagan CAT 2 1 1 3 .237 J.Frost 1B 3 1 1 1 .265 J.Smyres 2B 4 0 0 0 .250 O.Chavez SS 4 0 2 2 .283 E.Bonine PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Hall PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 W.Villatoro PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 G.Woolard PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 K.Beavers PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Kusiewicz PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Wodnicki PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 36 7 10 7 TOTALS 38 5 12 5 LAKE ELSINORE 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0- 7 10 2 HIGH DESERT 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0- 5 12 0 E--R.MERRILL 2. DP--LAKE ELSINORE 1, HIGH DESERT 1. LOB--LAKE ELSINORE 6, HIGH DESERT 8. 2B--K.Jones (7), T.Hinton (9), J.Vanden ber (4), O.Chavez (3). HR--P.McAnulty (5), A.Pagan (2), D.Boyd (3). SB-- K.Jones (12), S.Baker 2 (5), K.Jacobo (4), K.Bibbs (10). CS--C.Crabbe. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA LAKE ELSINORE E.Bonine (W,1-0) 5.0 7 4 4 0 2 1 5.14 W.Villatoro 1.1 2 1 1 2 2 0 3.18 K.Beavers 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 M.Wodnicki (S,6) 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.40 HIGH DESERT B.Hall (L,2-3) 4.0 6 5 5 2 3 1 7.96 G.Woolard 3.0 4 2 2 1 0 1 3.34 M.Kusiewicz 2.0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.00 PB--J.Vanden ber. SO--K.Jones 2, P.McAnulty, L.Cruz, J.Smyres, J.Eure 2, J.Vanden ber, J.Frost 2. BB--P.McAnulty, M.Richardson, A.Pagan 2, K.Bibbs, J.Frost. T--2:56. A--1440

I've learned that if you stay up all nigt, you get to post the High Desert Box Score!!!

 

Hooray for JJ and an OPS over .800....lets all watch as that obp soars into respectability....i would say he should be expecting a call-up mid season...but bill hall is pulling a podsednik at SS right now...

[MassBrew]

Indianapolis Game Summary:

Inside-the-park -- run, Corey, run!

 

Indianapolis (16-9) pounded out 20 hits Thursday night, including four home runs to route the Charlotte Knights, 19-3. The run total sets a Victory Field record, but falls short to the all-time team total of 22, set on July 17, 1932 against Minnesota.

 

Jon Nunnally?s two-run homer in the third off Charlotte starter Dan Wright (0-1) ignited the Indians offense, which had produced two runs in the first two games of the series with the Knights.

 

"Early in the game, they were coming at me with fastballs," said Nunnally. "I put a charge into it. I knew that I had to get behind the runner on base."

 

Meantime, Indians starting pitcher Mike Adams (2-0) making his first start of the season, shut down the Knights. Adams, the IL Pitcher-of-the-Week (April 25 to May 1), threw five innings, allowing five hits, walking one and striking out five. In his last 11.2 innings pitched, Adams has not allowed a run, giving up four hits, walking two and striking out 18.

 

"Adams is pitching awesome," said Nunnally. "All of our pitchers did what they had to do tonight. Our pitchers have been keeping us in games lately, but tonight our offense came alive. I love to play this game and play hard every night. It?s all about learning and making adjustments."

 

The Tribe added four runs in the third inning highlighted by Corey Hart?s (leadoff) inside the park home run. For the evening, Indianapolis belted four home runs. J.J. Hardy sent a three-run shot out of the ballpark in the fifth and Matt Erickson hit a solo homer in the eighth.

 

Indianapolis will send righthander Ben Hendrickson (3-1, 2.81) against southpaw Josh Stewart (0-2, 4.00) in the final game of the four-game set with Charlotte.

[MassBrew]

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

 

IT WAS BOUND TO COME TO THIS

As a Dodger affiliate, the Jacksonville Suns, I've observed, have gotten off to hot starts each of the past four years........ It's easy to tell why the Suns are in first place in the East. Their .265 average is 3rd best in the league and the ERA tops the league at 2.93. They play aggressively, but tonight, it got a little carried away.

 

What started out as a pitchers duel between lefty Ryan Ketchner and righty Tim Bausher ended up as another kind of duel....... Both benches cleared twice in the 8th inning, with players and coaches exchanging words......... What precipitated this was a combination of what happened in the course of this game and the frustration on the Stars part, I think, of being hit by pitches eight times in a six-game series against the Diamond Jaxx recently........

 

Rickie Weeks, who is not afraid to crowd the plate and wears battle armor on the left elbow, was hit underneath the collar in the 8th inning for the 8th time this season...... All eight of Weeks HBPs have come within the span of 11 games..... . In the bottom of the inning, Brian Adams retaliated by throwing a pitch that glanced off the helmet of Tony Socarras, whose double was the spark that lit the Suns' five-run 7th. Socarras took a few steps toward the mound and Kade Johnson stepped up to restrain him......... That emptied the benches and the bullpens. Cooler heads prevailed, though, and Willie Ruan stepped in with Socarras on first and one out.

 

Ruan hit a chopper to Weeks. Weeks fed Enrique Cruz and as Cruz threw to first after making the force, Socarras wiped him out with an agressive, you might say hostile slide......... Umpire Garrett Watson ruled that Socarras deliberately slid too far from the bag and called Ruan out at first......... As Socarras walked back to the Suns' dugout, some members of the Stars infield followed him, and both benches and bullpens cleared again........ Although no fists flew, several players and coaches had to be restrained and Socarras was ejected from the game to cool him off........ It looks like the stage is set for a very lively series.

 

Tim Bausher's effort tonight was brilliant until he gave up back to back home runs in the 6th to Jesse Hoorelbeke and Willy Aybar...... Up to that point, Kade Johnson had broken up a scoreless pitchers duel with a double scoring Weeks, the 14,000th run in Stars history.

 

The Suns broke this game open in the 7th inning, starting with a 2-run single on a drawn-in infield by returning Jacksonville Sun, Jason Repko......... Brian Adams had used all of two pitches to get Tim Bausher out of the 6th, but he found himself in a lot of trouble the next inning by walking Sergio Garcia and giving up a double to Tony Socarras. Adams was able to breathe a little after retiring Wilkin Ruan, but he had a choice to make on Repko......... He could have been intentionally passed with one out and runners on 2nd and 3rd. Should have in my book. He's tied for 4th among Southern League batting leaders. But Adams, instead, pitches to Repko, who rockets an 0-1 pitch up the middle to score both runners, making it 4-1, extending his hitting streak to a current league best of 12 games........ If the Stars were at double-play depth, instead of playing in, Rickie Weeks might have gotten to that ball, but of course, Adams would have been pitching to Hoorelbeke, a .189 hitter who leads Suns hitters in strikeouts........

 

Repko was picked off with Hoorelbeke at bat, which lit up Jacksonville manager Dino Ebel, who thought Prince Fielder's sweep tag missed......... A little warm-up before the volcano exploded in the 8th....... Brennan King made it 6-1 with a 3-2 drive to the alley in left-center past Brandon Gemoll, a two-run triple, the 6th of his six-year career........ That broke it....... Derek Michaelis singled in King to end the Suns' scoring.

 

The Stars will face three more lefties in this series --- Glenn Bott (1-2, 2.86) pitches tomorrow against Dennis Sarfate (1-1, 6.60). Bott will be followed by Luis Gonzalez and Randy Leek.

 

The general consensus among the players is that Jacksonville is their favorite place to play. It's Florida. What can you say?........ Particularly for Chris Barnwell, who grew up in Jacksonville and went to Flagler College in nearby St. Augustine. In fact, Barnwell, Brandon Gemoll, and Brad Nelson were invited by a friend of Barnwell's father to take a little fishing excursion 25 miles out of St. Augustine, where Nelson caught his first fish. Gemoll took home the prize --- a 25-30 lb. King Mackerel.

[MassBrew]

Beloit Game Summary, Timber Rattlers' Site:

 

The Wisconsin Timber Rattler defense was charged with five errors in a 5-2 loss to the Beloit Snappers Thursday night. Of Beloit's five runs, only two were earned. Beloit right fielder Vinny Rottino broke a 1-1 tie with a solo homer in the fourth. Brian Montalbo was the winning pitcher for the Snappers. He gave up just two hits and one run in seven innings.

 

The teams traded runs in the first inning for the second night in a row. Guilder Rodriguez reached on an error, went to second on a single by Terry Trofholz, third on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on an RBI ground out by Lou Palmisano to put the Snappers in front 1-0.

 

Rattler lead-off batter Josh Ellison tripled to start the Rattler first and scored on an RBI ground out by Adam Jones.

 

Rottino broke the tie with a two out, solo home run to left-center in top of the fourth.

 

The Snappers (13-14) added an insurance run in the seventh. Trofholz had an infield single to chase Manuel Ramirez home for a 3-1 lead.

 

Two more runs scored in the top of the eighth. Adam Heether doubled in the first run and scored later in the inning on Wisconsin's fourth error of the night.

 

The Rattlers (11-16) got a run in the eighth on an RBI single by Jones. Wisconsin loaded the bases with two out, but Simon Beresford struck out Evel Bastida-Martinez to end the attmpted rally. Beresford pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the game.

 

Rattler starting pitcher Eric O'Flaherty gave up three runs --two earned -- to take the loss.

 

Post-Crescent photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Guilder Rodriguez of Beloit ducks to avoid the throw by Rattlers second baseman George Sandel on Thursday night.

 

http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/timberrattlers/images/050704rattlersweb.jpg

[MassBrew]

 WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB [b]INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS (MILWAUKEE) 16 9 .640[/b] LOUISVILLE BATS (CINCINNATI) 12 15 .444 5.0 COLUMBUS CLIPPERS (NEW YORK YANKEES) 11 14 .440 5.0 TOLEDO MUD HENS (DETROIT) 12 16 .429 5.5

 WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB BIRMINGHAM BARONS (CHICAGO WHITE SOX) 14 12 .538 MOBILE BAY BEARS (SAN DIEGO) 14 13 .519 .5 [b]HUNTSVILLE STARS (MILWAUKEE) 14 13 .519 .5[/b] WEST TENN DIAMOND JAXX (CHICAGO CUBS) 11 14 .440 2.5 MONTGOMERY BISCUITS (TAMPA BAY) 11 15 .423 3.0

 SOUTH DIVISION W L PCT GB INLAND EMPIRE 66ERS (SEATTLE) 19 9 .679 LANCASTER JETHAWKS (ARIZONA) 17 10 .630 1.5 LAKE ELSINORE STORM (SAN DIEGO) 14 13 .519 4.5 RANCHO CUCAMONGA QUAKES (ANAHEIM) 12 15 .444 6.5 [b]HIGH DESERT MAVERICKS (MILWAUKEE) 12 16 .429 7.0[/b]

 WESTERN DIVISION W L PCT GB PEORIA CHIEFS (ST.LOUIS) 16 11 .593 KANE COUNTY COUGARS (OAKLAND) 16 11 .593 CLINTON LUMBER KINGS (TEXAS) 16 11 .593 CEDAR RAPIDS KERNELS (ANAHEIM) 16 11 .593 QUAD CITY RIVER BANDITS (MINNESOTA) 13 14 .481 3.0 [b]BELOIT SNAPPERS (MILWAUKEE) 13 14 .481 3.0[/b] WISCONSIN TIMBER RATTLERS (SEATTLE) 11 16 .407 5.0 BURLINGTON BEES (KANSAS CITY) 10 17 .370 6.0

[clancyphile]

Anyone know why JJ came out?

 

I hope he's not hurt...

[Member]

Anyone know why JJ came out?

 

Probably the same reason about 20 guys played; because it was a 19-3 game.

[yoshii8]

Is Mike Adams going to be coming up as a starter or reliever? Those are some pretty impressive numbers yesterday.

[clancyphile]

bullox

 

Maybe a little "chin music" from a Stars pitcher might be in order the next time an opposing pitcher plunks Rickie...

 

Pour encourager les autres.

[gregmag]

You can't retaliate for hitting Weeks. Getting hit is part of his game. He did it last year, and he's doing it this year. I love it, as long as he's smart enough to keep key bones out of harm's way, but you can't very well beg to be plunked and then retaliate when it happens.

 

Speaking of things I love, this plan (for plan it appears to be) of turning relievers into starters if they can hack it is starting to look good. Buddy, wherever you are -- mea culpa on Bausher. He's no longer just a reliever who pitches before the other relievers; he's going five. Adams as a starter at AAA is very exciting. Apparently these guys have the pitches to make the transition. If so, amen.

 

Greg.

[clancyphile]

gregmag

 

Even if they are low-level starters, it helps in two ways:

1. Trade fodder.

2. They can fill long relief spots in the pen. Having a few guys who could go three can make life easier for the starters.

[igor67]

So strolling through the stats. Hart is having a pretty good go of it. Hardy to though he hasn't walked much, but he's more of a put it in play hitter. Which is when I noticed that so far this year his strikeout rate has plummeted! Yes the man that has consistently Ked about once every 9 ABs has gotten even better, and it's not like he's losing power. In a better pitchers league in a pitcher's park at a higher level he's Slugging about 30 points higher than last year! Now it's possible that he's been seeing more strikes, and as a consequence not going as deep into counts and depressing both the walk and K rates, but I can't help but think that while not quite on the Vlad talent-o-meter this kind of bat control really makes those who questioned his bat look silly.

[MassBrew]

Daily Press High Desert Game Story:

 

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NOTES: After three days of silence, the Mavs were finally back on the air. High Desert's flagship station KRAK (910 am) had been down the last three nights because their transformer was down but the Mavericks were back on the air for the final game of the seven-game homestand. ... Designated hitter/center fielder Chris Morris is day-to-day with a jammed finger.

 

Kudos to Mavs announcer Roxy Bernstein and High Desert management for going ahead with the webcast of each game this week, despite no local radio. Beyond friends and family and a few Brewerfan faithful, I can't imagine the audience online-only was overwhelming. Having listened in to a good portion of gametime this week, the broadcasts were as professional as you'd expect otherwise.

 

Manager Mel Queen:

 

"It was a fastball," Queen said. "It's not that bad of a pitch when they pop it up, only when they hit out.

 

Thanks as always, Mel. Keep them comin'! We love Mel!