Link Report for Thurs. 8/2 -- LHP Cody's Elbow Ailing

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Thursday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP R.A. Dickey at Portland (Padres), 8:50 PM pre-game; 9:05 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: Idle

 

Brevard County: LHP David Welch at home vs. Vero Beach (Devil Rays), 5:50 pre-game, 6:00 gametime

 

Audio link (game will also archive at this link):

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/audio.jsp?cid=503&sid=t503

 

West Virginia: RHP Donovan Hand at Columbus (Devil Rays), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:00 gametime

 

Audio link (game will also archive at this link):

www.minorleaguebaseball.c.../audio.jsp

 

Helena: RHP Evan Anundsen at Great Falls (White Sox), 7:50 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime

 

Audio link (game will also archive at this link):

www.minorleaguebaseball.c.../audio.jsp

 

Arizona: TBD at home in Maryvale vs. the A's, 7:00 PM local time in Arizona, 9:00 Central; never any audio for Arizona Rookie League games

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Follow Thursday's action as it happens:

Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Window". Open the Nashville Gameday. For the others, choose "Log". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often.

 

Nashville:

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_nasaaa_poraaa_1

Brevard County:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t507&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_vbdafa_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_wvaafx_clmafx_1

 

Helena:

 

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_helrok_grfrok_1

 

Arizona:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_athrok_brrrok_1

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These links will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds and/or Huntsville Stars are scheduled to play. Normally they are updated an hour or two prior to gametime, with Nashville's usually earlier:

 

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf

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 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nashville 67 44 .604 - 37-17 30-27 L1 Iowa 60 52 .536 7.5 34-23 26-29 L3 Omaha 55 57 .491 12.5 34-18 21-39 W1 Memphis 47 65 .420 20.5 26-34 21-31 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huntsville 23 17 .575 - 13-7 10-10 W1 Chattanooga 22 18 .550 1.0 11-9 11-9 L1 Tennessee 21 19 .525 2.0 14-6 7-13 W2 Carolina 19 21 .475 4.0 11-9 8-12 L1 West Tenn 16 24 .400 7.0 9-16 7-8 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 20 16 .556 - 10-7 10-9 L2 Palm Beach 19 19 .500 2.0 11-12 8-7 W4 Jupiter 17 18 .486 2.5 9-6 8-12 L3 Daytona 16 23 .410 5.5 8-11 8-12 L3 St. Lucie 15 22 .405 5.5 6-12 9-10 W1 Vero Beach 10 25 .286 9.5 5-13 5-12 W2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hickory 25 15 .625 - 15-9 10-6 L1 Lake County 20 18 .526 4.0 9-10 11-8 W1 Lakewood 19 19 .500 5.0 10-8 9-11 L3 Greensboro 19 21 .475 6.0 12-7 7-14 W2 West Virginia 19 21 .475 6.0 10-9 9-12 W1 Lexington 18 22 .450 7.0 12-10 6-12 L4 Delmarva 17 21 .447 7.0 5-13 12-8 L2 Hagerstown 13 26 .333 11.5 8-11 5-15 W3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

 Pioneer League (R+) - PIO North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billings 2 1 .667 - 2-1 0-0 W1 Helena 2 1 .667 - 2-1 0-0 W1 Great Falls 1 2 .333 1.0 0-0 1-2 L1 Missoula 1 2 .333 1.0 0-0 1-2 L1 

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Arizona League Standings:

 

web.minorleaguebaseball.c...;period=h2

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Wednesday's Helena KCAP Audio Pre-Game Interview with RHP Craig Langille of Nova Scotia:

Be sure you're on the August 1st archive, go to the 10:00 minute mark:

 

web.minorleaguebaseball.c.../audio.jsp

[gregmag]

Anybody know what happened to Chris Cody?

 

Greg.

[Boy Jeenius]

Donovan Hand really effective in his second start, but WV gets shut out. Lots of balls in play with Hand, but he seems to have an idea out there how to pitch. Boy, has Yohannis Perez knocked the rust off. Gamel continues to rake it, with Ford and Cain still quite interesting. Errecart and Gillespie are a puzzle(if we can only read box scores), but still look quite interesting.

[pogokat]

Donovan throws about 90 with a jerky motion...they were hitting him pretty hard tonight, but were unable to make anything of it...i think he's a more advanced pitcher than sally ball, but he doesnt project weel without much stuff...his fastball certainly didnt have the wicked movement of periards...

[Mass Haas]

Final: Arizona Athletics 7, Arizona Brewers 6, 11 innings

 

Arizona Box Score:

Only one pitcher, Travis Nevakshonoff, struggled -- otherwise continued progress being made; Venezuelan RF Allixon Cequea with three singles; notice that Shane Hill, who struggled mightily in three early outings, hasn't pitched since July 3rd...

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_athrok_brrrok_1

 

Arizona Game Log:

Leadoff A's triple in the 11th was trouble...

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_log&gid=2007_08_02_athrok_brrrok_1

[Mass Haas]

Final: Great Falls (White Sox) 5, Helena 4, ten innings

 

MiLB.com:

 

Paiml lifts Sox in 10th

 

Greg Paiml's RBI double in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted Great Falls to a 5-4 win over Helena on Thursday.

 

Dale Mollenhauer led off the extra frame with a single and scored on Paiml's two-out double to center field. Paiml went 4-for-5 with two doubles out of the ninth spot and Mollenhauer scored twice for the White Sox (2-2).

 

Reliever Henry Mabee (1-0) yielded one hit and a walk with three strikeouts over 2 1/3 scoreless innings for the win. Great Falls starter Anthony Carter allowed two runs -- one earned -- on four hits with three strikeouts over five frames.

 

Matt LaPorta went 2-for-4 with a solo homer, his second, in the fourth and Eric Farris singled twice for the Brewers (2-2).

 

Helena reliever Corey Frerichs (3-1) gave up a run on two hits with two strikeouts over 1 2/3 innings. Starter Evan Anundsen allowed three runs on six hits, fanning two and walking three in 4 2/3 frames. -- Michael Blinn/MLB.com

 

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Brewers lose to Great Falls

By Great Falls Tribune Staff

 

GREAT FALLS - The Great Falls White Sox won their last meeting of the Pioneer League's first round against the Helena Brewers last Sunday, and they repeated the feat Thursday night at Centene Stadium.

 

The Sox' 5-4 victory wasn't quite as impressive as the 19-9 romp over the Brewers last Sunday, but it counts just the same. Dale Paiml belted a double to the gap in right-center to score Dale Mollenhauer with the winning run in the 10th inning.

 

The victory gave the White Sox a 2-2 record in the second half, same as the Brewers.

 

The Sox scored the game's first run on Andrew Mead's grounder in the first inning. Helena tied it in the fourth on Matt LaPorta's solo homer, his second long fly of the season.

 

The Brewers went on top 2-1 in the fifth, but Great Falls tallied twice in the bottom of the inning as Salvador Sanchez tripled and scored on Jim Gallagher's sacrifice fly. Lyndon Estill doubled home the go-ahead run. Helena scored twice in the eighth to knock ace reliever Wander Perez out of the game, but the Sox knotted it up on an RBI single by Paiml in the bottom of the eighth.

 

The Northern Division rivals battle again here tonight, then they'll meet again Saturday in Helena.

 

Helena Box Score:

Looks like Evan Anundsen's going to get his ground balls (9-to-3) every single time out; R.J. Seidel with an inning in a welcome return, first outing since July 5th...

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_helrok_grfrok_1

 

Helena Game Log:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_log&gid=2007_08_02_helrok_grfrok_1

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Final: Columbus (Devil Rays) 2, West Virginia 0

 

West Virginia Site Game Summary:

 

CATFISH BLANK POWER

 

Columbus, GA - The Columbus Catfish shutout the West Virginia Power for the second time in three days as they took the final game of the series with a 2-0 victory over the Power at Golden Park on Thursday night.

 

The Catfish took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Nevin Ashley's base hit scored John Matulia. In the fifth inning Cesar Suarez plated the final run with a two-out RBI single to score Desmond Jennings.

 

West Virginia had plenty of chances of score. They put at least one runner on base in the first eight innings. Four times in the first six innings they left runners stranded in scoring position but Wade Townsend continued to pitch his way out of trouble.

 

The Power was held to just four hits, all singles. Charlie Fermaint and Andrew Lefave were the only two Power players to reach base more than once.

 

Taylor Green, Lefave and Andy Bouchie singled off Townsend and Brent Brewer added a base hit for the Power.

 

Townsend (6-9) pitched six scoreless innings of three-hit ball and struck out three to get the win, Neal Frontz (14) got the save and Donovan Hand (1-1) was tagged with the loss, despite a strong outing, allowing just two runs on nine hits over six innings. Jose Romero pitched two perfect innings out of the bullpen. The Power bullpen has tossed ten consecutive scoreless innings.

 

The Power fell to 67-42 overall and 19-22 in the second half, while the Catfish improved to 64-45 overall and 23-16 in the second half with the win. The shutout marked the second time this season that West Virginia has been held scoreless twice in the same series.

 

The Power will begin a four game series against the Rome Braves at State Mutual Stadium on Friday night. The Power will start left hander Luis Ramirez (1-1, 5.37) and the Braves will counter with right hander Dan Curtis (2-5, 6.04). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM (6:05 Central).

 

West Virginia Box Score:

Four times the Power got the leadoff man on as well - ugh; Wade Townsend's three wild pitches tried to aid the Power bats, but no dice...

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_wvaafx_clmafx_1

 

West Virginia Game Log:

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_log&gid=2007_08_02_wvaafx_clmafx_1

[Mass Haas]

Final: Brevard County 5, Vero Beach (Devil Rays) 2

MiLB.com:

 

Gamel guides Manatees

 

Mat Gamel homered and drove in two runs as Brevard County defeated visiting Vero Beach, 5-2, on Thursday.

 

Gamel broke out of a 1-for-15 slump by smacking a solo homer, his fifth, in the first inning. The 22-year-old third baseman added a run-scoring single in the fifth and tripled in the seventh.

 

Ryan Barba delivered an RBI groundout in the second and Lorenzo Cain and Michael Bell stroked RBI singles in the third for the Manatees (21-16). Yohannis Perez and Darren Ford had two hits apiece for the Manatees, who lead the East Division by three games with a 21-16 record.

 

Brevard County reliever Mike McClendon (4-2) allowed a run on three hits and a walk with three strikeouts in five innings. Patrick Ryan struck out one in a perfect ninth for his second save.

 

Devil Rays starter Doug Waechter (0-4) surrendered five runs on nine hits while striking out two in 4 1/3 frames.

 

Christopher Cunningham drilled an RBI single in the first and J.T. Hall added a run-scoring base hit in the fourth for Vero Beach (10-26). -- Ryan McConnell/MLB.com

 

Brevard County Box Score:

Wow, we haven't been able to look at these names in a wet while...

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_vbdafa_breafa_1&did=t503&sid=t503

 

Brevard County Game Log:

Rough first inning for Chris Cody, hopefully not injured...

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=t503&t=g_log&gid=2007_08_02_vbdafa_breafa_1

 

Vero Beach Top 1st

• - Jackson Brennan hit by pitch.
• - Hunter Vick hit by pitch. Jackson Brennan to 2nd.
• - Patrick Cottrell strikes out swinging.
• - Sergio Pedroza walks. Jackson Brennan to 3rd. Hunter Vick to 2nd.
• - Christopher Cunningham singles on a ground ball to first baseman Chris Errecart. Jackson Brennan scores. Hunter Vick to 3rd. Sergio Pedroza to 2nd.
• - Pitcher Change: Josh Wahpepah replaces Christopher Cody.
• - Matthew Devins grounds into double play, shortstop Yohannis Perez to second baseman Michael Bell to first baseman Chris Errecart. Christopher Cunningham out at 2nd.

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Thursday's Helena KCAP Audio Pre-Game Interview with RHP Wes Etheridge of UC-Irvine:

Be sure you're on the August 2nd archive, go to the 11:00 minute mark:

 

web.minorleaguebaseball.c.../audio.jsp

 

The 12th rounder has struggled, surprisingly, and will be pretty much shut down the rest of the way with a lot of innings on his arm at this point -- he's fatigued, "throwing a brick instead of a baseball".

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Nashville Pre-Game Audio Chat with Outfielder Gabe Gross:

 

http://www.nashvillesounds.com/audio/2007/Interview%208-2.mp3

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Final: Nashville 1, Portland (Padres) 0

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Gabe Gross photo, text follows --

 

http://www.nashvillesounds.com/news/news.asp?newsId=2487

 

Late Gross Homer Leads Sounds Past Beavers

 

PORTLAND, Ore. - Gabe Gross belted his first home run as a Sound in the top of the ninth inning to propel Nashville to a 1-0 victory over the Portland Beavers on Thursday evening at PGE Park.

 

Gross' one-out blast off Scott Cassidy secured the league-leading ninth shutout victory of the year for Nashville, which maintained its season-best 7 ½ game division lead over Iowa, which won earlier in the evening.

 

AUDIO: Gabe Gross Home Run --

http://www.nashvillesounds.com/audio/2007/Highlight%208-2.mp3

 

Three Sounds pitchers combined on the five-hitter in a game that was a pitcher's duel for most of the evening.

 

R.A. Dickey worked seven scoreless innings for Nashville, tossing 122 pitches in the outing. He allowed five hits while walking five batters and striking out seven. The Nashville native continued his recent dominance, lowering his ERA to 1.80 (12 ER / 60.0 IP) over his last nine starts.

 

Mitch Stetter (1-0) worked a perfect eighth and earned the victory as the beneficiary of Gross' late heroics. Luther Hackman notched his team-leading 15th save by retiring the Beavers in order in the bottom of the ninth.

 

Left-hander Matt Teague was impressive for Portland while making his Triple-A debut in a spot start. After allowing a leadoff double to Callix Crabbe and walking Gabe Gross to start the game, Teague retired the next 14 Nashville batters in order through the fifth inning before exiting the contest.

 

Jason Rakers (2.0 IP) and Jared Wells (1.0 IP) followed Teague in keeping Nashville off the scoreboard until the Sounds finally broke through against Cassidy (2-3), who took the loss one night after notching a victory in Portland's last at-bat win in Wednesday's series opener.

 

Drew Anderson doubled in the ninth inning to extend his hitting streak to seven games for the Sounds. Callix Crabbe (2-for-4) recorded the lone multiple-hit effort for Nashville.

 

The teams continue their series with another 9:05 p.m. CT meeting on Friday evening. Left-hander Zach Jackson (9-7, 4.69) will take the hill for Nashville looking to snap a five-start winless stretch. Portland will counter with southpaw Roger Deago (1-2, 7.29).

 

Nashville Box Score:

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_08_02_nasaaa_poraaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_log&gid=2007_08_02_nasaaa_poraaa_1

[Mass Haas]

Brevard County starter Chris Cody has been battling a sore elbow, so tonight's effort only dampened things further.

 

Nice job by the Manatees' radio team with a Manager John Tamargo interview detailing the situation with that and all the rainouts --

 

Be sure you're on the August 2nd archive, go to the 14:30 minute mark:

 

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/audio.jsp?cid=503&sid=t503

[brewerphandog]

When is Weeks expected to play for Nashville?

[Mass Haas]

I would expect Friday night (tonight).