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Final: Jackson 7, @Huntsville 4, (rain-shortened in bottom of the 6th) Stars Lose Rain Shortened Game Steve Jarnicki, Huntsville Stars Huntsville, AL - The Jackson Generals defeated the Huntsville Stars 7-4 Tuesday night in a rain shortened game at Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville. The game was officially called with the Stars batting in the bottom of the sixth inning with one out. After waiting for nearly an hour to resume play, the rain continued to fall as the umpires decided to call the game. The Generals won the rubber match against the Stars taking three out of five. Huntsville has now lost back-to-back series for only the second time this season. Jackson took a 1-0 lead on a two-out solo home run by D.J Peterson in the top of the first inning against Andy Moye. The Stars tied the game in the bottom of the first against Jackson starter Cam Hobson. Nick Ramirez delivered a two-out RBI single tying the game at 1-1. Jackson retook the lead in the top of the second. Mike Dowd doubled down the right field line and Ketel Marte singled to left field making it 3-1 Generals. Shea Vucinich brought the Stars within a run in the bottom of the second when he grounded out to second baseman Jack Marder scoring D'Vontrey Richardson. Jackson took a 4-2 lead in the top of the fourth inning. With two outs, Marder homered to left for his fifth homerun of the season. Vucinich tied the game for the Stars in the bottom of the fourth with a two-run homer of his own to left field. It was Vucinich's second homer of the season. Jackson broke the 4-4 tie in the fifth with two runs. Patrick Kivlehan tripled down the right field line against Moye scoring Marte making it 5-4. Dan Paolini came up next with an RBI single extending the lead to 6-4. Moye, who took the loss and fell to 4-2 on the season, exited the game after the fifth inning. He pitched five innings allowing six runs on nine hits. Jackson added a run in the top of the sixth against Stars reliever Kevin Shackelford. Marte added his second rbi of the night on a single scoring Leon Landry. With Jackson leading 7-4 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Ramirez was at the plate for the Stars when heavy rains came down and the umpires pulled the teams off the field. Hobson earned the win for the Generals improving to 5-7 on the season. Hobson went five innings giving up six hits on four runs. David Colvin picked up his third save of the season after he retired the only batter he faced in the sixth. The Stars (9-11, 55-35) will have Wednesday off before traveling to Chattanooga, Tennessee to begin a five game series with the Chattanooga Lookouts (8-12, 34-56) the Double-A Affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday night. The Stars will have RHP Drew Gagnon (5-4, 3.26) will start for Huntsville. Chattanooga will feature RHP Nick Struck (1-5, 7.38) on the mound. The game can be heard starting at 6:15 pm CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and wtkiradio.com. Huntsville Box Score With a double and triple, would have been nice for D'Vo to get two more AB's... Huntsville Game Log

Brevard County -- AUDIO: RHP Austin Ross joins Justin Rocke on the Manatees Pregame Show Last night's theatrics open the discussion... AUDIO, Game Highlights: Lakeland defeats Brevard County, 9-2, as Victor Roache homers twice

Clint Coulter's .889 OPS is still pretty, but my goodness, what a funk he's in...

Outfielder Elian Herrera became the team's first baserunner of the night by reaching on a two-base fielding error by Memphis third baseman Jermaine Curtis. Hector Gomez followed Herrera by lifting a home run over the left-field wall to tie it up, 2-2, and extend his season-best hit streak to eight games. The dinger is Gomez's 10th of the season, one shy of matching the team lead. AUDIO: Gomez's Game-Tying HR The Sounds took the 3-2 lead on newcomer Matt Clark's RBI double to left field, which scored Jason Rogers, who singled, but left Sean Halton to be tagged out at home plate. AUDIO: Matt Clark's RBI Double *** MiLB.com story features a brief video glimpse of newcomer Matt Clark, but the focus is on the work of the Redbirds' John gast.

Owlz drive Helena batty with big inning Neil K. Warner, Provo (UT) Daily Herald The Helena Brewers got their first look at the Orem Owlz this season, and it didn’t take the Brewers long to figure out what the rest of the Pioneer League already knows -– keeping the Owlz off base is not a one-man job. It takes an entire bullpen, and even then you better have command off your stuff or it will be a long night. Exhibit A: Orem used a five-run third inning to take control of the game and improve on the best record in the Pioneer League with a 12-5 win on Tuesday night. “It seems like we’ve been having a big inning for the last few games, driving in some runs and taking extra bases, so it was nice to see us do that again. At Grand Junction we put a few of those together and it carried over today,” said Orem manager Dave Stapleton. “As a manager, I hope we never cool off, but with baseball we know that things can come. Ryan Barba and Buck Coats (hitting coaches) have done a tremendous job working with these guys in the cages and working on their approach.” The Owlz came into the game with the top team batting average (.305) in the league and their average of 7.6 runs per game was also best in the league. The suspense didn’t last long. Helena took a brief 2-0 led in the second after Mitch Meyer went deep to right field for a two-run homer, but the Owlz answered quickly. They tied the game with two runs in the bottom half of the inning after Wade Wass and Caleb Adams each drove in a run. Orem then erupted for five runs in the third inning to take charge of the game. Ryan Seiz gets the credit for starting the rally. He singled with one out to get the Owlz going. Zach Houchins followed with a single and Quinten Davis singled home a run. Nathanael Delgado added a sacrifice fly. The inning continued with a pair of singles from Adams and Wendell Soto that put the Owlz up 7-2. The Brewers got two of those runs back in the fourth. Gregory Munoz drew a bases loaded walk and scored another run off a wild pitch. After Orem starter Keynan Middleton walked Brandon Diaz to reload the bases, the Owlz called on reliever Zach Varela to put out the fire. He responded by retiring Tucker Neuhaus on a ground ball to get out of the inning and minimize the damage. Orem wasn’t satisfied just yet. The Owlz tacked on two more runs in bottom of the fourth, compliments of an RBI double from Seiz which was followed by a triple from Delgado. Houchins had three of Orem’s 14 hits. Delgado, Davis and Wendell Soto all had two hits for the Owlz. Elvis Rubio had a big night for the Brewers. He had four of Helena’s eight Hits. The win improved Orem’s record to 15-7 on the year while Helena fell to 9-13. The two teams will continue their four-game series tonight at 7:05 (8:05 Central) in Orem.

Thanks, typo on my part. Yes, should have said Stars.

From big league Milwaukee to Maryvale, Tuesday's eight starting pitchers posted this combined line: 29.2 IP, 51 H, 40 R, 39 ER, only 8 BB, 24 K, 4 HR, 12.02 ERA Now that's pitching to contact! Kudos to Taylor Jungmann, respectable before the AAA rain delays...

26-year-old Nashville SS Hector Gomez has 31 extra-base hits (18 doubles, three triples, 10 HR's) in 281 AB's. 24-year-old Milwaukee SS Jean Segura has 15 extra-base hits (seven doubles, four triples, four HR's) in 327 AB's. Alec Dopp via Twitter: Jean Segura has now gone 58 consecutive plate appearances without an extra-base hit. *** Please don't read too much into that, not suggesting anything radical, more to point out Gomez' nice season from a power standpoint (and Gomez' only 15 walks).

AUDIO via Jeff Hem's blog -- "Tonight’s interview is with new Sounds first baseman Matt Clark, who has played in three games with the Sounds after signing with the Brewers as a minor league free agent. The former LSU Tiger played in the Padres system for several years, including two very successful years at Tucson in ’11 and ’12, where he worked with current Sounds hitting coach Bob Skube. Clark then played in Japan in 2013 and, after finding out late in the winter he wouldn’t be going back to Japan, signed with the Mets in January and went to Double-A. The Brewers signed him last week when they confirmed Sounds first baseman Hunter Morris had suffered a fracture in his right wrist and would be missing several weeks."

Link Report Bonus: Catching up with 28-year-old Eric Farris, having a very solid season with the Twins' AAA club, but in an unexpected way.

Miscellaneous notes from Mr. Jarnicki in Huntsville from Monday's postgame: With the 6-2 win, that was the most lopsided win the Stars have had since beating Pensacola 6-2 on June 23rd. Their last five wins all had been by three runs or less…With the rubber match tonight, the Stars have only lost back to back series once this year (May 31st-June 9th at Jackson vs Mobile)… LHP Brent Suter gave the Huntsville starting staff their first win in their last nine starts. In that stretch, starters are 1-5 with a 6.46 ERA (33 ER, 46 IP). Stars pitchers have given up five home runs in the last three games. They have now allowed 75 home runs on the season which is the most home runs allowed in the Southern League, nine more than the next team Jacksonville. In the month of July, the Huntsville pitching staff has the highest ERA in the Southern League at 4.57. The Stars and Tennessee are the only two teams to have a team ERA above 4.00 in the month…The last eight starters the Stars have faced have posted a 3.15 ERA (16 ER in their 45.66 IP). Brandon Macias, who got promoted from High-A Brevard County on Sunday, made his Double-A debut and produced an RBI single in his second at bat. That extended his hit streak to nine straight games which has carried over from Brevard County to Huntsville…Greg Hopkins hit a home run in the 6th inning. That was the first Stars home run since D’Vontrey Richardson’s two run homer in the 3rd inning on June 28th against Montgomery. In the last nine games the Stars offense is batting .262 (87-332). Out of the 87 hits, only 24 have gone for extra bases Richardson went 1-4 with a two-run double. He has hit safely in ten of his last fifteen games. In that run, he is hitting .308 (16-52 with 1 HR and 5 RBI)…Kentrail Davis did not play last night which ended a string of him batting leadoff in twenty ninth consecutive games. In his games as the leadoff man, he is (34-110, .309) with an on base percentage of .434. Since the Stars clinched the 1st half championship they’ve gone 16-15.

Trivia via Steve in Huntsville: Three former Stars have been named to the 2014 MLB All-Star Game. Can you name them? See how quickly you can (in your head only please, because we're not posting the answer until morning).

Manatees Blog - Hip Hip Jorge: Lopez continues to dominate the FSL

AUDIO via Nashville Sports Talk Radio Tuesday -- Jimmy Nelson joins Sports Night

Those were Monday's audio links. Each play is now available for video viewing (Memphis feed).

By the way, in this Monday audio, Sweet briefly discusses catcher Shawn Zarraga and the need to develop his defensive skills (blocking balls, etc.).

Weather.com: Memphis, TN Huntsville, AL Lakeland, FL Cedar Rapids, IA Orem, UT Maryvale, AZ Santo Domingo, DR

Sortable individual stat pages: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin Helena Maryvale Dominican Summer League Brewers

STANDINGS: (For split-season leagues, 2nd half standings are shown as the default, although overall standings are also available at the link.) AAA - Pacific Coast League American Southern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division Rookie Advanced - Pioneer League North Division Rookie - Arizona Summer League Central Division DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

Look for these just prior to the respective game times -- Nashville Media Notes - it's a unique link each day, but look for it under the "Roster" banner on the Sounds' site. Brevard County Media Notes - again, it's a unique link each day, but look for it under the "Multimedia" banner on the Manatees' site. Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog

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Follow Tuesday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin Helena Maryvale DSL Brewers MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

As per our highlight above, if you only want to make a one-month commitment to MiLB.TV for Helena (plus the other Brewer affiliates), here's the link for the $12.99 purchase.

Tuesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Taylor Jungmann at Memphis (Cardinals), 6:42 PM pre-game, 7:02 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Andy Moye at home vs. Jackson (Mariners), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime Free Live Audio Link Steve Jarnicki is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars - welcome aboard! Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveJarnicki. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. MiLB.TV - It appears seven of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games (not the Stars). ********** Brevard County: RHP Jorge Lopez at Lakeland (Tigers), 5:00 PM pre-game, 5:30 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the proper link based on listed schedule Dave Walkovic returns as the play-by-play voice of the 'Tees; follow the Brevard broadcast booth staff on Twitter @BCManateesRadio, as all games are scheduled to be broadcast in 2014. No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Tristan Archer at Cedar Rapids (Twins), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. For the $49.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from seven Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: Thirty-nine (!) of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (9) and WACY-TV My NEW32 (30) will split duties. We'll let you know when and who, and remember to refer to the Rattlers' full TV schedule so you can coordinate your DVR activity. The next televised Timber Rattlers game is Friday, July 11th on MyNew32 TV (7:00 PM airtime). ********** Helena: RHP Javier Salas at Orem (Angels), 7:45 PM pre-game, 8:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link There's a new Voice of the Helena Brewers in 2014, as Dustin Daniel (@dustin__daniel on Twitter) takes over for legendary Steve Wendt. We look forward to Dustin building his own legacy moving forward. MiLB.TV -- This entire seven-game road trip (Orem and Grand Junction) will be available for viewing by MiLB.TV subscribers, including archived broadcasts. ********** Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at home vs. the not-so-Giants, 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league Miller Park Prospects - Arizona League Primer ********** DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Pirates, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day We're also going to lock in the link to Brad Krause's fantastic Miller Park Prospects - Dominican Summer League primer right here, at least for the first couple of months of the DSL campaign, for your easy review. Brad will also be adding DSL Link Report duties to his Brevard coverage for us here. Thanks, Brad!

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