Link Report Tue. 5/22: Doug and Gord Watch Yo and Ryan

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Tuesday's Daily Menu: Again, your choice of appetizers for West Coast Brewer baseball!

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: RHP Yovani Gallardo at home vs. Memphis (Cardinals), 5:45 PM pre-game; 6:00 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: LHP Lindsay Gulin at home vs. West Tenn (Mariners), 11:55 AM pre-game; 12:05 PM gametime

 

Audio link:

www.huntsvillestars.com/

 

Brevard County: TBD at Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:00 PM gametime

 

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

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

 

West Virginia: LHP Mike Ramlow at home vs. Augusta (Giants), 5:55 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime

 

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

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

[Mass Haas]

Follow Tuesday'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:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

 

Huntsville:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Brevard County:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_dunafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_wvaafx_1

[Mass Haas]

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

 

Huntsville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/i...eNotes.pdf

[Mass Haas]

Standings through Monday's action:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 24 20 .545 - 14-6 10-14 L1 Nashville 23 21 .523 1.0 13-7 10-14 L1 Memphis 22 23 .489 2.5 15-9 7-14 W3 Omaha 20 24 .455 4.0 16-9 4-15 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tennessee 23 20 .535 - 8-10 15-10 W3 Huntsville 22 20 .524 0.5 12-12 10-8 L1 Chattanooga 20 25 .444 4.0 12-13 8-12 L1 West Tenn 19 25 .432 4.5 10-10 9-15 W1 Carolina 17 28 .378 7.0 9-11 8-17 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brevard County 27 17 .614 - 15-6 12-11 L1 Palm Beach 25 19 .568 2.0 13-12 12-7 W1 Vero Beach 22 22 .500 5.0 16-7 6-15 W2 Daytona 21 22 .488 5.5 13-8 8-14 L2 Jupiter 18 26 .409 9.0 6-13 12-13 L3 St. Lucie 17 27 .386 10.0 9-14 8-13 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Virginia 28 13 .683 - 13-8 15-5 L1 Greensboro 26 18 .591 3.5 14-5 12-13 W1 Lakewood 21 20 .512 7.0 8-11 13-9 W2 Lake County 20 23 .465 9.0 12-13 8-10 L2 Hagerstown 19 25 .432 10.5 10-12 9-13 L1 Lexington 19 25 .432 10.5 9-13 10-12 W1 Delmarva 18 24 .429 10.5 9-11 9-13 W1 Hickory 16 25 .390 12.0 6-10 10-15 L2

[Mass Haas]

Huntsville Site:

 

Due to technical difficulties, today's game between the Stars and West Tenn Diamond Jaxx will not be broadcast locally on the radio or on the internet.

 

The Stars open a five-game series Wednesday night in Mobile with left-hander Sam Narron taking the hill and the game will be available locally on SportsRadio 730 AM WUMP and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

[homer]

Sollman continues to rake with 2 hits in 2 ABs so far today. Anyone recall a guy that played both 2B and 1B in the majors?

[JoeHova]

Quote:

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Anyone recall a guy that played both 2B and 1B in the majors?

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Jeff Kent and Hank Aaron spring immediately to mind. Hank didn't play that much at either spot but he did play both. Howie Kendrick did it last year.

[And That]

Anyone recall a guy that played both 2B and 1B in the majors?

 

Mark Loretta.

[JoeHova]

oh sorry homer, I didn't realize you were referring to a specific guy, I thought you meant generally.

 

 

edit: pretty funny that Mark Loretta struck out former top prospect in baseball Ruben Rivera in a major league game in 2001.

[bork]

Is Heether finally coming around? He's actually above the Uecker line now.

[Mass Haas]

Final: Huntsville 11, West Tenn (Mariners) 3

 

Huntsville Site Game Summary:

Link, text follows --

 

www.huntsvillestars.com/n...ewsId=1172

 

Stars Finish Strong against DJaxx

 

Mel Stocker and Adam Heether each had two hits and drove in three runs to help pitcher Lindsay Gulin overcome a rough start in Huntsville?s 11-3 win over West Tenn Tuesday afternoon in the series finale at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars took four out of five to improve to 23-20 and move into a first place tie with Tennessee in the North Division, while the Diamond Jaxx dropped to 19-26 and five games off the pace. The Stars doubled their win total at home against the Diamond Jaxx in comparison to last season when they won only two of the 15 games against their division rivals on home soil.

 

The visitors got to Gulin for two runs in the first on a run-scoring single by Erick Monzon and a Matt Tuiasosopo sacrifice fly. The Stars bounced right back to tie the game in the home half of the frame when Stocker doubled and scored on a base hit by Steve Sollmann, who then scored on a Ruben Mateo groundout after reaching third base on an errant pickoff attempt by West Tenn starter Doug Fister.

 

Brent Johnson led off the third with a home run, his third, to give the Diamond Jaxx their last lead at 3-2. Gulin gave up only three singles the rest of the way and wound up going seven innings to pick up the win in his longest start with the Stars. He allowed six hits, walked one and fanned eight to match Manny Parra and Sam Narron for the most by a Huntsville hurler in a game this year. Robert Hinton and Luis Pena tossed a scoreless frame in relief to cement the Stars sixth win in their last seven home games.

 

Brendan Katin?s two-out double in the fourth sparked a four-run rally that featured run-scoring hits by Heether and Hernan Iribarren and a two-run triple by Stocker. Fister was taken out after four innings and suffered the loss to drop to 3-3 after allowing six runs on eight hits, while walking two and striking out one. Juan Sandoval, who gave up Katin?s game-winning home run on Sunday, took over and allowed five runs on five hits and a hit batter in the fifth. Drew Anderson and Katin singled in runs, Heether doubled home a pair and Stocker plated a run with a ground out. The Stars scored 34 runs on 53 hits in the four wins in the series and had at least 13 hits in three of the four wins.

 

The Stars open a five-game series Wednesday night in Mobile with southpaw Sam Narron taking the mound against BayBears? right-hander Chris Kinsey. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 p.m. central time on SportsRadio 730 WUMP and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

 

Huntsville Box Score:

Steve Sollmann's OBP is .467 -- the Youkilis comparisons aren't far off, although Youkilis debuted with Boston age 25 in 2004, and Sollmann is 25 and in AA, but there's definitely something to look at there; Brendan Katin single, double, HBP...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Huntsville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_hunaax_1

 

Mel Stocker Photo from the Stars' Home Page:

Looks a lot like Tony Gwynn, Jr...

 

http://www.huntsvillestars.com/images/news/07%20Mel%20Stocker.jpg

[DHonks]

interesting to see Braun leading off.

 

I guess theoretically if he can have a decent OBP, the Brewers could have him leadoff while adjusting to big league pitching, allowing Weeks to slide down a bit (or perhaps hit second). It would allow Weeks to--at least theoretically--swing for the fences more, and Braun to just focus on working the count and making contact.

 

Also, check out the numbers on Memphis' starting RF. Sure would make for a great story. And wouldn't it be crazy if he were forced to pitch because of a 20 inning game, and thrived. The odd thing is that Ankiel never had great command, yet people acted like it vanished.

[madjeff66]

interesting to see Braun leading off.

 

I guess theoretically if he can have a decent OBP, the Brewers could have him leadoff while adjusting to big league pitching, allowing Weeks to slide down a bit (or perhaps hit second). It would allow Weeks to--at least theoretically--swing for the fences more, and Braun to just focus on working the count and making contact.>>>

Or it could be trying to give him as many PA's as possible the next few days as they want to test the wrist out and he's very close to a call up (maybe just a matter of days)

[DHonks]

Or it could be trying to give him as many PA's as possible the next few days as they want to test the wrist out and he's very close to a call up (maybe just a matter of days)

 

your idea is much more likely. It'll be fun to have his power speed combination in the lineup with Weeks, Hall, and Hart (when he plays)

[saget]

Braun just hit a HR. And Yo is pretty much godly.

 

What else is new

[bthurley19]

Braun just went deep for the Sounds.

[DHonks]

Braun showing that apparently that wrist is alright. A homer and a walk in the leadoff spot tonight so far

[saget]

Yo's night done

 

6+IP 7H 2BB 10K

 

He's decent I guess

[homer]

The link above says Yo gave up 7 hits.

[saget]

I could've sworn it said 1 hit and 11K's, but I've seen things before.

[wOOgiE22]

Braun just hit a Ground Rule Double, with an RBI. I think his bat is back!

[NastyTwig]

It's getting to the point where we're going to have to blindfold Yo and Braun just to keep AAA interesting for them.

[bork]

3 walks for Ford. Hopefully, we'll see more of that.

[dadofandrew]

Jeff Kent played quite a bit of 1B before switching back to 2B.