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Link Report for Fri. 6/1: Will Yo Put On Another Show? YES!!


I believe Caufield was a 4th year senior and a nice college player. He's a year or 2 older than the kids he faced in Helena and WV. He was a nice college player, that was not considered a top level prospect. In fact, he signed late, unusual for a senior, which made him look like a roster filler, like Nate Yoho was a couple of years ago. I'm not sure whether to get excited about him or not. Right now, I'm leaning toward not, but I'd sure love to be proven wrong.
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I know it's been said before, but it bears repeating: That West Virginia team is an offensive juggernaut. I think they are first or second in team AVG, SLG, OBP, OBP and SB. Crazy.
"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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Final: Nashville 6, Las Vegas (Dodgers) 2

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Yovani Gallardo photo, text follows --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=2358

 

Gallardo Mows Down 51s, Sounds Win 6-2

 

NASHVILLE ? Yovani Gallardo turned in another of his season-long series of gems for Nashville on Friday evening at Greer Stadium, striking out 11 batters over seven scoreless innings to lead the Sounds to a 6-2 victory over the Las Vegas 51s in front of 8,409 fans in the finale of a four-game series.

 

The win was Nashville?s third in a row overall and the 17th victory in the club?s last 22 home games. It gave the Sounds a 3-1 series victory against Las Vegas.

 

Gallardo (8-1) earned his Pacific Coast League-leading eighth victory and increased his minor-league-leading strikeout total to 95 on the year with his solid outing. He allowed three hits over his seven scoreless frames and permitted only one runner to reach second, dropping his ERA to a league-leading 2.14 through 11 starts.

 

The 21-year-old top prospect of the Milwaukee Brewers fanned 11 batters, one shy of his career high. It marked the hurler?s fourth double-digit K total of the year.

 

In addition to his dominance on the mound, Gallardo went 2-for-2 at the plate, including a double, to raise his average to .273 on the season (6-for-22).

 

Nashville struck first, grabbing a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning when Mike Rivera singled with two outs then scored when Brad Nelson followed with an RBI double to the wall in right-center. Both knocks came against Las Vegas starter Miguel Pinango.

 

Laynce Nix upped the Sounds? lead to 3-0 in the third with a mammoth two-out, two-run homer to right off Pinango, the outfielder?s fourth roundtripper of the year and first at home. Chris Barnwell also scored on the blast after preceding Nix with a single.

 

AUDIO: Laynce Nix Two-Run Homer --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...%206-1.mp3

 

The lead increased to 4-0 when Vinny Rottino opened the frame with a ground-rule double to center, which extended his hitting streak to seven games, and later scored on a double-play grounder.

 

Rottino (2-for-3) continued his solid evening in the seventh when he plated Nelson with an RBI triple that rolled to the wall in right-center. Callix Crabbe drove in Rottino two batters later with a run-scoring double to left-center, giving the Sounds a 6-0 lead.

 

Las Vegas broke up the Nashville shutout bid in the top of the ninth inning for the second straight night, plating a pair of runs against R.A. Dickey when Mitch Jones pulled into a tie for the PCL lead with his 16th home run of the season. The two-run blast to center made it a 6-2 contest.

 

Pinango (2-1) took his first loss of the season after allowing four runs on eight hits over his six frames of action.

 

Andy Abad extended Nashville?s longest hitting streak of the season to 12 games with a sixth-inning single.

 

The Sounds continue their homestand on Saturday evening at Greer Stadium when they welcome the Tucson Sidewinders (AAA-Diamondbacks) to town for the 6 p.m. CT opener of a four-game series.

 

Nashville left-hander Zach Jackson (5-3, 5.06) will start Saturday?s series opener and face Tucson right-hander Dustin Nippert (0-1, 2.03). A fireworks show, sponsored by Your Select Buick-Pontiac-GMC dealers, will follow the game.

 

Nashville Box Score:

Not a big fan of Vinny Rottino batting eighth...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

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Final: Huntsville 4, Montgomery (Devil Rays) 2

Details from the Stars' site shortly...

 

Huntsville Box Score:

Four shutout innings for the bullpen; Steve Sollmann does what he always does -- on base three more times, OBP now .451; Steve Moss, Lou Palmisano, and Brendan Katin each reach twice...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Huntsville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

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Huntsville Site Game Summary:

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www.huntsvillestars.com/n...ewsId=1192

 

Stars Send Battered Biscuits Home With Another Loss

 

Three pitchers in relief combined to throw four scoreless innings to preserve Huntsville?s 4-2 win Friday night over Montgomery in the last of a five-game set at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars took four out of five from the defending league champions to improve to 29-24 and maintain their share of first place in the North Division, while the Biscuits slumped to 28-27 after dropping seven of ten on the just completed road trip. The Stars bullpen tossed 11 scoreless innings over the last three games and a total of 12 in the four wins to give the home team wins in 10 of its last 12 on home soil.

 

Guilder Rodriguez singled with one out in the home first and scored when Steve Sollmann doubled to left and advanced to third on the throw home. Adam Heether singled home Sollmann with two outs to make it 2-0 and extend his hitting streak to 15 games, the longest for a Stars? batter since the start of the 2005 season.

 

The Biscuits loaded the bases with two outs in the second and scored their first run on a single by Josh Asanovich, who knocked in his fourth run of the series. Stars? starter Lindsay Gulin worked out of further trouble by retiring Jason Pridie on a fly ball out and then worked out of a bases loaded, one-out jam in the third by striking out Chris Nowak and getting Gabriel Martinez to fly out. Shaun Cumberland?s leadoff home run in the fourth knotted the game at two.

 

Steve Moss doubled home Yohannis Perez with two outs in the home fourth to push the Stars into the lead for good and a Lou Palmisano ground ball double play brought in Sollmann with the game?s final run. Huntsville totaled 46 runs on 61 hits in its highest scoring series of the season and won a second straight home set by a four games to one margin.

 

Gulin earned his third win after yielding two runs on six hits and a pair of walks over five frames. He struck out four and lasted at least five innings for a fourth time in five turns with the Stars. Mark DiFelice went 2 1/3 scoreless innings and has thrown eight shutout innings in his last three outings. Lefty Jeff Housman was brought on to face lefty-swinging Martinez with a runner on in the eighth and got him to bounce into an inning-ending double play before retiring Cumberland to open the ninth and giving way to Marino Salas. The right-hander retired the two batters he faced to end the game and earn his 11th save in as many tries.

 

The Stars embark on a ten-game road trip that opens with a five-game series Saturday night at Chattanooga. Huntsville will send southpaw Sam Narron to the hill against Lookouts? right-hander Richie Gardner. Coverage of the game begins at 6:00 p.m. central time and can be heard locally on Sports Radio 730 WUMP and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

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tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....328/SPORTS

 

Strikeouts leader gets 11 more in win

Sounds' Gallardo atop minors again

By MIKE ORGAN

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

The Las Vegas 51s didn't have a prayer on Faith Night.

 

Not with Sounds pitching ace Yovani Gallardo on the mound.

 

The powerful right-hander struck out 11 batters over six innings and led Nashville to a 6-2 win.

 

A Greer Stadium Faith Night crowd of 8,409 watched Gallardo retake the minor league lead for strikeouts on the season with a total of 95.

 

Faith Night is a weekly tradition started by Nashville, when families and church groups are treated to a pre-game Christian concert and hear testimonies of Sounds players.

 

Grant Balfour relieved Gallardo in the seventh and recorded two strikeouts, and R.A. Dickey added one in the ninth to give the Sounds 14 total, two shy of the season high.

 

After being held scoreless through eight innings, Las Vegas avoided the shutout in the ninth when Mitch Jones hit a two-run homer.

 

Gallardo, 21, is the top prospect for the Milwaukee Brewers, according to Baseball America. He also leads the Pacific Coast League with eight wins and a 2.14 ERA.

 

"Tonight I had all my pitches working pretty well," Gallardo said. "My fastball felt pretty good in the bullpen, and the curve ball was working as well, too. That was a big part of helping me get ahead in the count. I tried not to give up a base hit ? that was a goal I had."

 

Double-digit effort

 

Friday's performance was Gallardo's fourth double-digit strikeout effort this season. And it was the seventh time in 11 starts that he has held the opponent to one run or fewer.

 

With the season not even at the midway point, Gallardo needs just 22 more strikeouts to tie Dennis Sarfate, who led the Sounds last season with 117.

 

The 11 strikeouts was one shy of Gallardo's career-best 12, which came April 14 against New Orleans.

 

"Gallardo got ahead in the count, and that's big for all pitchers,'' Sounds Manger Frank Kremblas said. "You get ahead, you put the hitter a little more on the defensive. You can throw any one of your pitches."

 

Gallardo helped the Sounds improve their already impressive record at home. They have won 17 of their last 22 home games after opening the season 1-4 at Greer Stadium.

 

Gallardo's performance on the mound overshadowed his effort at the plate. He was the first Sounds player with multiple hits Friday with a double in the third inning and a single in the fifth.

 

It was Nashville's third consecutive victory.

 

What they said: "We got one run in the second inning and then we had a decent inning going in the third, but Yovani got thrown out at third and (Callix) Crabbe got picked off. Fortunately, (Chris) Barnwell got a single, and (Laynce) Nix got a hanging change-up and picked us back up there." ? Sounds Manager Frank Kremblas.

 

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tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....328/SPORTS

 

Sounds add left-hander to replace Brewers' call-up

By MIKE ORGAN

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

Left-handed pitcher Adam Pettyjohn was promoted Friday from Double-A Huntsville to fill the Sounds' roster spot vacated by starter Jose Capellan.

 

Capellan, who started in Tuesday's game against Albuquerque, was recalled by the Milwaukee Brewers after Thursday's game. To make room for Capellan, former Sound Rickie Weeks was put on the 15-day disabled list.

 

The Sounds also added catcher J.R. Hopf from Advanced-A Brevard County, where he batted .213 in 19 games. That move was made to fill the roster spot vacated last week when Ryan Braun was promoted to the Brewers.

 

Pettyjohn is slated to make his first appearance Sunday for Nashville against Tucson. The 29-year-old southpaw opened the year by posting a 4-2 record and 4.45 ERA in 11 Southern League games for Huntsville.

 

Pitcher pounding: Sounds pitcher Yovani Gallardo got another big hit in the 6-2 win over Las Vegas. The right-handed starter clubbed a warning-track double in the third inning over the out-stretched glove of Delwyn Young.

 

It marked Gallardo's fourth extra-base hit this season. He has six hits, including three doubles and a home run. Gallardo added a single in the fifth.

 

Longest streak: Sounds first baseman Andy Abad extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a single in the sixth inning. That is the longest streak for any Sounds player this season.

 

Abad stole second and was injured. After being tended to by medical personnel, Abad was able to stay in the game.

 

Also, right fielder Vinny Rottino extended his current hit streak to seven games.

 

Worthy cause: A total of $8,500 was raised for Blood: Water Mission, an initiative started by the Christian band Jars of Clay to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Jars of Clay played before the game.

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I swear, Rick Braun of the Journal-Sentinel (this is the guy who searched through all the Brewer minor league rosters a month ago and couldn't understand why he couldn't find Mark Rogers' stats), should just not even attempt to field questions related to the minor leagues:

 

Q: Statler of Hurley, WI - Rick, why are the Nashville Sounds in the Pacific Coast League?

 

A: Rick Braun - The Sounds are in the PCL because basically that's the only Class AAA minor league going nowadays. There used to be the International League, the American Association and the PCL. Now it's all the PCL with old IL and AA teams in it and spread among divisions.

 

No Rick, there is an International League, and yes, the Sounds would love to be a part of it. Along with New Orleans, Memphis, Iowa, they really don't belong in the PCL, which tries to weigh the schedule so there aren't an overabundance of west coast trips.

 

Not as bad as the Mark Rogers ignorance, but sheesh...

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West Virginia (audio, not the game), at least early on, pre-empted because the radio station is covering high school tournament baseball at Appalachian Power Park.

 

Our local team, the Jefferson Cougars, are going for their 9th state title in the final on Saturday.

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