Link Report for Games of Sunday, April 15th

[Mass Haas]

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[Mass Haas]

Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

 

Nashville: LHP Zach Jackson at New Orleans (Mets), 1:40 PM pre-game; 2:00 gametime

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Huntsville: LHP's Manny Parra and Sam Narron in a double-dip at Tennessee (Cubs), 1:45 PM pre-game; 2:00 gametime; each game seven innings

 

Audio link:

www.huntsvillestars.com/

 

Brevard County: TBD at home vs. St. Lucie (Mets), 12:00 PM

 

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

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

 

There may be an issue getting a web audio hookup from St. Lucie -- just an FYI...

 

West Virginia: RHP Roque Mercedes at Delmarva (Orioles), 12:35 PM gametime

 

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

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

[Mass Haas]

Gotta love the Florida State League, especially divisional proximity:

 

Friday: St. Lucie at Brevard County

Saturday: Brevard County at St. Lucie

Sunday: St. Lucie at Brevard County

[Mass Haas]

Follow Sunday'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_nozaaa_1

 

Huntsville Game One:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_tenaax_1

 

Huntsville Game Two:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_tenaax_2

 

Brevard County:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_breafa_1

 

West Virginia:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...x_delafx_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 Saturday's action:

 Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iowa 5 4 .556 - 2-0 3-4 W2 Memphis 5 4 .556 - 5-3 0-1 L1 Nashville 5 4 .556 - 3-4 2-0 W4 Omaha 3 7 .300 2.5 1-1 2-6 W1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chattanooga 5 4 .556 - 3-1 2-3 W1 Huntsville 4 4 .500 0.5 2-3 2-1 L1 West Tenn 4 6 .400 1.5 0-0 4-6 L1 Tennessee 3 5 .375 1.5 1-2 2-3 W1 Carolina 2 8 .200 3.5 0-0 2-8 L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florida State League (A+) - FSL East Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jupiter 6 3 .667 - 1-1 5-2 W1 St. Lucie 6 3 .667 - 2-1 4-2 L1 Brevard County 4 5 .444 2.0 2-4 2-1 W1 Daytona 4 5 .444 2.0 2-2 2-3 L1 Palm Beach 4 5 .444 2.0 3-4 1-1 W1 Vero Beach 3 6 .333 3.0 2-3 1-3 L1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South Atlantic League (A) - SAL Northern Division Standings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team W L PCT GB HOME ROAD STREAK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greensboro 7 2 .778 - 5-1 2-1 W5 West Virginia 6 3 .667 1.0 4-3 2-0 W4 Lexington 6 4 .600 1.5 5-3 1-1 L1 Hickory 5 4 .556 2.0 2-3 3-1 L2 Lakewood 4 4 .500 2.5 1-2 3-2 W1 Lake County 3 6 .333 4.0 1-1 2-5 W1 Delmarva 3 7 .300 4.5 0-2 3-5 L2 Hagerstown 3 7 .300 4.5 1-3 2-4 L2

[Mass Haas]

Just an FYI -- The Sounds have indicated that today's game will likely not be available via internet because of network issues in New Orleans.

[DHonks]

rain delays for BC and WV? there's no info available , but the games should be moving along

[Mass Haas]

The Stars' schedule is now 138 games, not 140:

 

Huntsville Site --

 

The scheduled Sunday doubleheader between the Stars and Smokies has been postponed due to continuing rain and the threat of more throughout the day. The games will not be made up since the Stars do not return to Sevierville, TN until the second half of the season.

 

The Stars return home Monday to begin a five-game series with the Jacksonville Suns. Coverage of the game can be heard beginning at 6:50 pm central timelocally on SportsRadio 730 AM WUMP and through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

[Mass Haas]

Florida as well --

 

MiLB.com:

 

Sunday's game between the St. Lucie Mets and Brevard County Manatees has been postponed due to rain. No makeup date was scheduled for the game.

[Mass Haas]

This was the easiest to predict today...

 

West Virginia Site:

 

Sunday's game between the West Virginia Power and Delmarva Shorebirds at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium has been postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Monday afternoon. The first game will begin at 4:35 PM (3:35 Central). The scheduled starters for game one are right hander Roque Mercedes (0-1, 67.50) for West Virginia and right hander Josh Tamba (0-0, 18.00) for Delmarva.

[DHonks]

man is Braun hot.

[Team Canada]

For the record, Braun's last 4 hits have been HR.

 

 

... Ho hum, 2-3 2BB, HR. Another day at the office..

[DHonks]

wow, Braun rules. Most impressive stat to me? 5 BB: 2 K's

[pogokat]

with today's game, he's got to be slugging close to a thousand, not to mention the the bb/k rate...

 

he's dominating AAA like rickie weeks did now....i think the brewers might not be able to wait until june...its becoming clear that braun could be one of the best hitters on the team this season...

[brettac1]

When he does come up, is he just going to hit 8th for a while? That's a heck of a luxury, to be able to kind of hide a guy like him down there.

[Never Outhustled]

he's dominating AAA like rickie weeks did now....i think the brewers might not be able to wait until june...its becoming clear that braun could be one of the best hitters on the team this season...

 

Well, at least the Brewers were able to do the most important thing here, making sure they can get 6 and 5/6 seasons from Braun before free agency instead of just 6 like they would have gotten if he opened the season with the team. Braun having 4 years of arbitration isn't the worst thing ever. The increased revenue of making the playoffs would easily offset what they'd have to pay Braun as a super 2 Arby case.

 

Now, does having Braun as a Brewer in May significantly increase the teams chances of a playoff spot? We'll have a better answer in 2 weeks.

[brewerphandog]

no, its become increasingly obvious that we need as Ned said, to get Graffy his at bats. I mean if he 1000 minor league at bats he might hit what Braun would hit in 400. Its gotta be the defense, which one had a throwing error today? Oh yah, Graffy.

[statman0007]

so I've asked this question about a thousand times, but i can never remember...when is the magic date when we'll retain braun for an extra year if we bring him up after then?

[Mass Haas]

Final: Nashville 10, New Orleans (Mets) 3

 

Nashville Site Game Summary:

Link for Ryan Braun photo, text follows --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/n...ewsId=2264

 

Braun Homers Again, Sounds' Win Streak At Five

 

METAIRIE, La. ? Ryan Braun and Vinny Rottino each homered for the second straight game and Zach Jackson worked six strong innings to lead the Nashville Sounds to their fifth straight victory, a 10-3 triumph over New Orleans on Sunday afternoon at Zephyr Field.

 

Nashville (6-4), which posted a double-digit run total for the second straight day, has recovered from a 1-4 start to the year with its current five-game winning streak.

 

Braun (2-for-3), who leads the Pacific Coast League with five home runs on the season, got things started for Nashville in the top of the first inning by swatting a one-out, two-run shot to right-center against Z?s starter Adam Bostick. The prospect has belted four roundtrippers in the last 24 hours after tying a Sounds single-game record with three on Saturday evening.

 

AUDIO: Another Ryan Braun Homer --

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...204-15.mp3

 

Neither team scored again until the sixth, when the Nashville offense exploded for five more runs to put the game out of reach. Joe Dillon started the rally by drawing a bases-loaded walk that greeted New Orleans reliever Ivan Maldonado. Mike Rivera added an RBI groundout and Rottino delivered a two-run single before Ozzie Chavez ended a season-opening 17 at-bat hitless drought with a two-out RBI double to up the Sounds? lead to 7-0.

 

New Orleans got a run back in the bottom of the frame on a two-out Carlos Gomez double that extended the outfielder?s hitting streak to 11 games for the Z?s.

 

The teams each plated a pair of runs in the seventh before Rottino (2-for-4, 3 RBIs) closed out the evening?s scoring in the top of the eighth by belting his second home run in as many days, a leadoff solo shot to center against Lino Urdaneta. It was Rottino?s third home run of the year and brought the score to its final 10-3.

 

Chris Barnwell scored three runs for Nashville in the winning effort.

 

Jackson (2-1) picked up his second consecutive win for Nashville after allowing one run on two hits over six innings of work. He walked two batters and struck out one.

 

Bostick (1-1) took the loss after being touched for five runs in his 5 1/3 frames.

 

Luther Hackman and Jose Capellan each tossed a scoreless frame of relief for the Sounds, running their season-opening scoreless inning totals to 4.0 and 6.1, respectively.

 

The teams wrap up the four-game series with a 7 p.m. finale on Monday evening at Zephyr Field. Nashville sends right-hander R.A Dickey (0-1, 5.40) to the hill to face New Orleans right-hander Phillip Humber (1-1, 5.63).

 

Nashville Box Score:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nozaaa_1

[Mass Haas]

The Manatees have announced that today's rained out game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday, April 28th.

[CportBadger]

When Braun comes up, I think he will hit 7, and they will slide Hart down to 8. Either way, it will be nice to have a bat like Ryan's hiding in the bottom of the order and it will make the pitcher's spot the only hole in the lineup.

[Mass Haas]

Florida Today:

 

Doing well. Though their stay in Brevard County was a short one, Yovani Gallardo and Ryan Braun left lasting impressions on Manatees fans last season.

 

On Saturday, they did the same thing in Triple-A.

 

Braun homered three times off of longtime major-leaguer Chan Ho Park and Gallardo had 12 strikeouts in six scoreless innings as the Nashville Sounds blasted the New Orleans Zephyrs 14-1.

 

Both players started 2006 in Brevard County before being called up to Double-A Huntsville in late June. Braun was a terror at the plate and Gallardo dominated on the mound, including a June 9 performance against the Jupiter Hammerheads in which he came within two outs of recording a no-hitter.

 

"When Braun and Gallardo were here last year, they put on exhibitions," Rogers said. "They're both going to have long careers and I think both are going to be household names."

 

On Sunday, Pinner still was boasting about Braun's power display.

 

"He is a horse; he is a stud," Pinner said. "It's like, who's going to be the star this year? As they say, we're growing them good on the farm."

 

Future doubleheader. Sunday's scheduled game against St. Lucie was rained out and will be made up on Saturday, April 28 as part of a doubleheader. The first game will start at 5:00 Pm (4:00 Central)., and the second game will start approximately 30 minutes after the completion of the first game.

 

Space Coast Stadium gates open at 5 a.m. -- that's right, 5 in the morning. Fans will be invited in to attempt to break the world record for first pitches thrown for a game.

 

Last season, fans threw 5,906 first pitches on Sept. 2, breaking the previous record by "a couple hundred pitches," Rogers said. But the game was rained out, voiding the accomplishment.