Brewers Minor League Link Report (7/12): Wins Hard to Find Heading to the All-Star Break

[Jim Goulart]

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Transactions: 

• Milwaukee Brewers recalled RHP Tobias Myers from Nashville Sounds (LHP Aaron Ashby to Paternity List)
• Milwaukee Brewers sent CF Blake Perkins on a rehab assignment to Nashville Sounds.

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Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Durham (Rays) 5, Nashville 4
Box Score and Game Log

Via the Sounds, game details, and we encourage readers to review affiliate write-ups as part of their Link Report routine:

Sounds Fall in Walk Off Fashion Friday in Durham - Patrick Tosses Quality Start in Return to Nashville

Homer-fest in Durham, and that was a particularly strong game summary you just read, linked above.

As was noted, this was only Tyler Black's 2nd multi-hit effort in 20 games with the Sounds. 

This was a bomb, and in the moment, huge:

Speaking of bombs, my goodness, this was the blast that tied things for the Bulls in the 8th off of Will Childers. This was Childers' 2nd Nashville appearance since his promotion, but his first in a full week's time.

No idea how this reach out of a swing managed to pull the Elvis Peguero pitch for the walkoff loss -

Rehabbing CF Blake Perkins K'd four times in an 0-for-5 night. His 26-man MLB roster spot is not a guarantee once he's healthy. 

It's been a long time since Manager Rick Sweet had such a full complement of players for a full bench, Perkins' rehab presence adds to the raw numbers - this game saw Daz Cameron, Bobby Dalbec, Ernesto Marinez, Jr., Jimmy Herron and Jorge Alfaro relegated to a night off.

Workmanlike outing for Chad Patrick, we'd expect nothing less. Over time, we'll let our Statcast analysis folks here on the site determine the extent he's "working on things" to enhance his future big-league opportunities.

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Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Birmingham (White Sox) 6, Biloxi 2
Box Score and Game Log

Catch up with the latest Biloxi pre-game audio interview archives

Shuckers Fall to Barons on Friday Night - Bullpen allows one unearned run across 5.0 innings in 6-2 loss

Cooper Pratt has now missed a full week of action (last played on Friday July 4th), and with the All-Star Break looming, it would be almost shocking at this point to see him back this weekend, allowing for further recovery time. Recovery from what? It's possible the Voice of the Shuckers Javik Blake has slipped in a mention, but it's hard for us to be hinging on every audio call. We know they're Link Report fans, so we'll put the Bat Signal light out here to the Adam McCalvy / Curt Hogg duo to please do a reach-out to front office folks, thanks.

Go figure, the absences of Pratt, Brock Wilken and Luke Adams are impacting the offensive performance of the first-half champs.

Luis Lara walked three times and was hit by a pitch. He never scored, which the box score zeroes beneath him will indicate. Lara's OBP is .361, I've always treated the .360 mark as a take-notice figure, especially in this case for a switch-hitter that won't turn 21 years old until November.

One might think this was Tyson Hardin's roughest outing of 2025, but that would be this Timber Rattlers start on June 5th. None of his other 14 starts this season approach any level of difficulty. He's just fine, but how can workload concerns not be an issue fairly soon?

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Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes (download link)
Final: South Bend (Cubs) 6, Wisconsin 2
Box Score and Game Log

Cubs Stop Rattlers - Rojas homers twice to lead South Bend past Wisconsin

It's getting more difficult to mine positives from this 2025 Rattlers club. Mother Nature's constant interventions don't help, which Manager Victor Estevez touches on in the podcast linked above. As Voice of the T-Rats Chris Mehring and Estevez rightly noted within the pod, kudos to RH reliever Stiven Cruz for his mid-inning efforts.

Infielder Juan Baez and his .245 SLG (not a misprint) batted cleanup Thursday night. He batted in the five-hole Friday. That gives you a sense of the current state of the position player roster.

Catcher Blayberg Diaz has had to step up in Marco Dinges' absence, and he doubled, singled and walked here, and threw out one of the three Cubs attempted base stealers. Mehring tells us in the video package above that Diaz has a lot of family in town, good for him.

You have to listen to Chris' opening comment regarding Wisconsin's pitchers as the video package begins. The immediate corresponding lowlight encapsulates things perfectly.

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Carolina Pre-Game Media Notes
Final: Fredericksburg (Nationals) 5, Carolina 3
Box Score and Game Log

Fredericksburg Turns Back Mudcats

Four Mudcats errors led to four unearned runs. Do the math vs. the final score. Sigh.

By far, the most encouraging aspect of the organization's affiliate play of late has been the fantastic performances of the 2024 high school arms now excelling in both Carolina and Maryvale.

The brilliant, continued pairing of 19-year-old RHP Jayden Dubanewicz and 18-year-old RHP Ethan Dorchies combined to walk one batter and strike out ten. This is the second time in three games the combo has told the rest of the bullpen to take the night off. Dubanewicz was extended to 86 pitches here.

Luis Pena doubled and singled. There's a close-up shot of him among the four videos at the Carolina "X" feed.

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Final: ACL Brewers 13, ACL Padres 12
Box Score and Game Log

Walk-off ground-rule double from slugging RF Handelfry Encarnacion, now with 22 XBH's among his 45 knocks in 2025.

It's one thing when you have a score like this and there's an accompanying game summary at the full-season level. For the complex leagues, we just settle down in a recliner, fire up our phone or laptop, and immerse ourselves in the line score, player lines, and play-by-play. Go ahead, I'll wait the 30 minutes or so you need.

Rehabbing second baseman Josh Adamczewski reached base four times before being pinch-hit for by Jadyn Fielder in the 9th inning. Adamczewski played defense through the top of the inning, so no need to think this was anything but saying "enough" for the night for Josh, working through his return from troubles with his back.

Demetrio Nadal, playing left field, was a home run shy of a cycle.

Six of the 17 A-Crew hits were for extra bases. Big night for the 18-year-old 2nd year pro and 2024 signing seen below - two doubles, single, walk, two stolen bases:

Three of the five Brewer pitchers threw well. LHP Enderson Mercado is better than this outing shows, but RHP Joshua Quezada, 21, hit three batters as part of his seven-runs-allowed single inning. 

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Final: DSL Brewers Gold 7, DSL Astros Blue 6
Box Score and Game Log

Brilliant managing? Check out the game log for the last-gasp Astros rally in the bottom of the 9th. Seems to me this defensive replacement with two outs was timely.

Combined figures - seven errors. Thirteen stolen base attempts, ten successful. Seven wild pitches. A four-hour game.

As wild as an occasional MLB game can be, the DSL landscape is just a different world.

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Final: DSL Brewers Blue 6, DSL Red Sox Blue 0, seven innings as scheduled
Box Score and Game Log

Nobody blue in the Crew's dugout!

Check out this post from our forum Gameday thread for insights to this game's starter, Diustin Mayorquin.

Mayorquin's fellow hurler for this one, RHP Steven Duran, is still just 16 years old. His first 11 eleven innings have gone very well.

17-year-old catcher Johanderson Tarazona has played in only 12 of the team's first 28 games. Two errors, two passed balls, thrown out six of 25 batters, all reasonable for the island league. But let's get this young man and his 1.025 OPS some DH at-bats as well!

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[Joseph Zarr]

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As wild as an occasional MLB game can be, the DSL landscape is just a different world.

(Me late night. Just looked through the DSL Game Logs in an 0-4 full-season affiliate evening)

[jay87shot]

Dubaniweitz and Dorchies are of to a great start in A ball. Looking like studs if they can continue to develop. 

Are we likely to see a bunch of injured players coming back after the all star break? Adams, Pratt (as mentioned), Letson, Mccage (not sure if hurt or going slow), among others I am blanking on.