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Caplinger is checking out Jenkins. He hurt his thumb on the slide home. It's the same thumb he hurt a year or 2 ago. No news yet.

Crap, Jenkins hurts his hand on the slide and has to leave the game.

Crap, Jenkins hurts his hand on the slide and has to leave the game.

Yikes, 8 stranded runners by Helms. Hopefully, the bullpen can hold on 2 days in a row.

Yikes, 8 stranded runners by Helms. Hopefully, the bullpen can hold on 2 days in a row.

When's the last time the Brewer's had 5 difference pitchers with a complete game in one season?

Anyone else fear that Clayton will tear it up over the last month of the season, causing managament to seriously consider picking up his option? He's been on fire over the last week.

"When's the last time the Brewer's have won 7 in a row." July - Aug 1997

It was obvious that something wasn't right with Parra at Miller Park. Hopefully, they didn't do any further damage by starting him then.

"A 23rd slot was filled today with the return of Daryl Clark from High Desert. " Isn't Huntsville still down a player? Hundley replaced Jones, Clark replaced Knox, but they haven't replaced Gripp yet, have they? I count 11 pitchers and 11 position players.

5 game hitting streak now. Excecpt for the past couple weeks, it seems like he's always had a hitting streak going.

Wow, 4 lefties in the Indy rotation now and 2 in the bullpen. Quite a change from April when they had none.

When's the last time the Brewer's had 3 first place teams in the minors? Back in the 80's? Of course, there are also 3 last place teams. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif

Then how about Raburn or Belcher to Huntsville and Ramirez back to High Desert. He could split time at 1st and LF with Nelson.

Brain, do you have Nolasco's splits as a starter? I seem to remember his ERA being around 7 before he became a starter and now he's below 5.50. He seems to be their most consistent starter right now.

My first thought when I saw catching and WOAH in the same sentence was that Joe Lawrence was back with the Brewers.

Why would Knox have to go back to AA. Doesn't Indy have 12 positional players and 11 pitchers now that Jennings is back?

I sure hope Palmisano can break the string of 3rd round disapointments.

It may have more to do with Helena having 5 catchers, and Palmisano seeing most of the time at catcher. But I don't know for sure.

Final: Cedar Rapids (Angels) 8, Beloit 5 Eure with a solo shot Esparagoza thows out a runner to end a 2nd inning threat (SO, thowout DP). 2 run shot in the 3rd for Cedar Rapids. Some shaky Beloit defense. Bibbs traps the ball on a diving try and runner goes to second as he argues the play. Fielder throws one away on a potential DP. Houseman giving up quite a few hits, but not too much damage. 5 stranded runners. Bibbs with an RBI double in the 5th, reaches base for the 3rd time. 6th: Gwynn bunt single, Fielder single, Eure IF single. Bases loaded, no outs and they can't score. Houseman's line: 5 innings, 7 hits, 3 ER, 2 BB 6th: Trytten comes in and struggles, 3 runs. More defensive miscues. Pedro looks to 3rd on a bunt single, so he doesn't make the play at first. Eure misplays a ball, not charged as an error. Play at the plate, Pedro can't hold on to the ball (error). 7th: Gwynn singles in a run Terni with an error. Trytten with a WP. 2 more runs Announcer said it looks like Trytten throws a knuckle ball? Announcer is really bugging me as he repeats everything 20 times. Trytten 5 runs in 1 2/3 innings. Small ball in the 8th for 2 runs. Bibbs with an RBI for his 3rd hit and 4th time on base. 9 runners stranded so far. 9th: Gwynn walk, Fielder double, no outs. Stranded again. Bottom half of the order needs some serious help. Anyone from Helena on the way? Bibbs 3 for 4 with an RBI and a walk Gwynn 2 for 4 with an RBI and a walk Fielder with a couple hits River Bandits' Site Game Summary: Erick Aybar belted his fifth home run and drove in three runs and Ransel Melgarejo had three hits to power the Cedar Rapids Kernels past the Beloit Snappers, 8-5, Thursday afternoon before a paid crowd of 3,645 at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The win was the Kernels' third in the four-game series against Beloit and evened both teams' records at 11-11 in the Midwest League's Western Division. Kernels starter Micah Posey (4-3) won his third straight decision, scattering eight hits over seven innings. James Carroll pitched out of jams in the eighth and ninth innings, both times when Beloit had the tying run at the plate, for his first save. Aybar's two-run home run in the Kernels' third broke a 1-1 tie and put the Kernels ahead to stay, 3-1. The Kernels tallied three times in a bizarre sixth inning to take a 6-2 lead. The Kernels loaded the bases on a hit batsman, walk and bunt single by Quan Cosby. One out later, Melgarejo hit a slow chopper to third that Beloit third baseman Jeff Eure flubbed. It was ruled an RBI infield single. Aybar hit into a fielder's choice that scored one run and put runners on the corners. A passed ball allowed Aybar to advance to second. Beloit catcher Pedro Esparragoza threw the ball to second and Cosby broke for the plate. Esparragoza took a return throw to the plate and Cosby, a Texas schoolboy star football player, bowled him over, knocking the ball loose for a run. The Kernels stretched their lead to 8-3 in the seventh. Matt Abram had an RBI double and Alex Dvorsky added his second RBI single of the game. Beloit scored twice in the eighth inning to cut the Kernels' lead to 8-5 and had the tying run at the plate. Carroll struck out Callix Crabbe to end the inning. The Snappers again had the tying run at the plate in the ninth after Tony Gwynn Jr. walked and Prince Fielder flared an opposite-field double to left. Eure, whose home run leading off the Beloit second had staked the Snappers to a 1-0 lead, popped to short, Mario Mendez took a called third strike and Adam Heether lined to short to end the game. Beloit Box Score: GAME DATE: 7/10/03 BELOIT 5 AT CEDAR RAPIDS 8 YTD YTD BELOIT AB R H BI AVG CEDAR RAPIDS AB R H BI AVG K.Bibbs LF 4 0 3 2 .289 R.Melgarejo RF 4 1 2 0 .222 C.Crabbe 2B 4 1 0 0 .248 E.Aybar SS 5 1 2 3 .305 T.Gwynn CF 4 0 2 1 .397 A.Callaspo 2B 5 1 0 0 .327 P.Fielder 1B 5 0 2 0 .300 J.Abruzzo DH 4 0 1 0 .264 J.Eure 3B 5 2 3 1 .252 M.Abram 1B 4 2 2 1 .265 M.Mendez RF 5 0 1 0 .254 C.Maher LF 2 1 0 0 .253 A.Heether DH 5 2 1 1 .214 A.Dvorsky CAT 3 1 2 2 .251 P.Esparragz CAT 4 0 0 0 .249 Q.Cosby CF 4 1 2 0 .225 C.Terni SS 4 0 0 0 .225 B.Weed 3B 4 0 0 0 .282 J.Housman PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 M.Posey PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Trytten PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 A.Goas PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 B.Hall PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Carroll PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 TOTALS 40 5 12 5 TOTALS 35 8 11 6 BELOIT 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0- 5 12 4 CEDAR RAPIDS 0 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 X- 8 11 1 E--P.Fielder, J.Eure, P.Esparragz, C.Terni, B.Weed. DP--BELOIT 0, CEDAR RAPIDS 0. LOB--BELOIT 11, CEDAR RAPIDS 7. 2B--K.Bibbs (4), P.Fielder (15), R.Melgarejo (7), J.Abruzzo (21), M.Abram (5). 3B-- R.Melgarejo (1). HR--J.Eure (11), E.Aybar (5). SB--C.Crabbe (20), A.Heether (2), E.Aybar (21). CS--Q.Cosby. HBP--C.Maher. YTD IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA BELOIT J.Housman (L,2-7) 5.0 7 3 3 2 2 1 1.85 R.Trytten 1.2 3 5 0 1 0 0 7.28 B.Hall 1.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.33 CEDAR RAPIDS M.Posey (W,4-3) 7.0 8 3 3 2 4 1 3.19 A.Goas 0.2 2 2 1 0 0 0 7.71 J.Carroll (S,1) 1.1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1.80 HB--R.Trytten. WP--J.Housman, R.Trytten. PB--P.Esparragz 2. SO-- K.Bibbs, C.Crabbe, M.Mendez 2, A.Heether, C.Terni, C.Maher, B.Weed. BB--K.Bibbs, C.Crabbe, T.Gwynn, R.Melgarejo, C.Maher, A.Dvorsky. T--2:41. A--3645

JS had a short note about the lack of progress.

Did Nelson just get his first OF start? Wonder how he looked out there and if we're going to see more over the next month. Might as well give it a try since with only 2 OF on the roster.

For your info, belcher is not dhing everyday. please get your facts straight. he is playing right field. Recently, he is playing the OF again, but check the June box scores. There was a stretch in June where he was almost exclusively used as a DH. Edited: to adjust font to prevent extra wide thread.

I thought it was interesting that Fielder got hot about the time Gwynn joined Beloit. Coincidence or not?

Too bad he's DHing most of the time in High Desert. He's not going to learn a position like that.