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Final: @Jackson 7, Huntsville 0 Eight Game Win Streak Ends Jackson, TN - The Jackson Generals spoiled the Huntsville Stars chance of clinching a Southern League first half championship by blanking the Stars 7-0 Sunday night at The Ballpark at Jackson. The Generals (23-33) ended the Stars (39-18) eight game winning streak and became just the second team to shutout the Stars this year. Jackson scored in the fourth inning against Stars starter Drew Gagnon (4-2). Dario Pizzano ripped a ball past a diving Stars first baseman Nick Ramirez scoring Ketel Marte. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Jamal Austin singled and stole second base. Marte scored him on an RBI single giving the Generals a 2-0 lead. Gagnon exited the game and in came reliever Arcenio Leon. After Dan Paolini singled, Patrick Kivlehan reached on a fielder's choice scoring Marte which made it 3-0. Gagnon went five innings allowing three runs on five hits. He also walked three and struck out three. In the seventh, Leon Landry produced an RBI single off Leon making it 4-0. Paolini later in the inning lined a two-run single down the left field line. Jackson scored their final run in the eighth inning against Tommy Toledo. Jack Marder doubled over D'Vontrey Richardson's head in centerfield scoring Manny Pina. The Stars and Generals are tied 1-1 in their five game series. Game three is Monday night. LHP Brent Suter (6-3, 2.55) will start for the Stars. Jackson's starter is RHP Forrest Snow (0-0, 0.00). Monday's game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:50 PM CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and wtkiradio.com. Huntsville Box Score Despite the loss, the Stars magic number fell to one game as Tennessee (Cubs) lost a 7th consecutive game. The other four teams in the Stars' division are all under .500 (a combined 34 games under). Shawn Zarraga walked twice as his OBP lifted to .463. In 148 plate appearances, he has 25 walks vs. only 10 K's. Huntsville Game Log

Pure goodness from Voice of the Stars Steve Jarnicki -- The Stars won their season high eighth straight game Saturday. Their eight straight wins surpassed their previous high mark of seven straight wins from April 4th-April 12th. The Stars also won their 23rd game in the month of May setting a franchise record for the most wins in a month. Prior to last night, the Stars 2006 team had won a record 22 games in August. The Stars finished the month of May, a Southern League best 23-7. They finished with the third highest team batting average at .259 and had the 2nd lowest team ERA 2.94. The Stars finished the first two months of April and May with the best record in the Southern League. The Stars improved to a season high 22 games above .500 and have a season high 12.5 game lead on the 2nd place team in the Southern League North standings…With 39 wins, the Stars now have the most wins in all of minor league baseball. The Stars 39-17 record is the 2nd best overall record in all of minor league baseball. The High-A Dunedin Blue Jays (Toronto Blue Jays) own the best record at 38-15. The Stars, however have the best record out of 30 Double-A teams… Stars starter Tyler Cravy tossed six innings of one run ball. It was the 8th straight start by a Stars pitcher where they gave up 1 ER or less. Over their last 8 starts in 44 IP, the starters have a 1.23 ERA (6 ER)… Mitch Haniger had a career high four hits Saturday. In his last three games, Haniger is 7 for his last 10. He has at least one hit in 10 out of his past 12 games. In his last 12 games, he’s batting .383 (18-47).

AUDIO via Jeff Hem's blog -- "Today’s interview is with right-hander Jimmy Nelson, who set a new career-high last night with 11 strikeouts over 7 2/3 dominant innings against the I-Cubs in the Sounds’ 2-1 win. It was Nelson’s first outing with the Sounds since coming back from the Brewers, for whom he pitched last Sunday in Miami en route to his first big league victory. Nelson discusses that outing, his outing last night, the development of his change-up to go with his heavy fastball and power slider and his quest for his first career hit (0-for-54), which nearly came last night on a liner to second base."

The Brewers have confirmed for us the following -- The offseason signing of Ken Paredes (01/11/1997, 17 years old), a 6'3", 185 lb. RHP from the Dominican Republic, was voided by MLB (failed investigation, no further details, i.e name/age, etc.). *** Also, the Brewers have signed former Marlins farmhand RHP Junior Rincon, a 22-year-old Dominican native. Rincon (career stats) debuted in the Dominican Summer League in 2011, missed all of 2012 with an injury (we're working on determining the nature), and then split time stateside in the Gulf Coast Florida Rookie and New York-Penn Leagues in 2013 before his release by Miami this past January. Rincon is in Maryvale now and barring a late-spring release, will make his Brewer debut with Maryvale or Helena. Bill Mitchell, baseball photographer extraordinaire, with a Rincon photo here.

As one might have surmised, it's a "tight hamstring" for Barnes (via Steve Jarnicki's notes from Huntsville).

Baseball America -- PITCHER OF THE DAY: Jimmy Nelson, rhp — Triple-A Nashville (Brewers). Nelson, who a week ago got his first major league win by holding the Marlins scoreless over 5 2/3 innings, returned to Nashville with a flourish by striking out a career high 11 batters Saturday over 7 2/3 innings in a 2-1 win over Iowa. In 10 starts, Nelson's allowed more than two earned runs once and has a WHIP under 1.

VIDEO: Watch on local Nashville news report

Rattler Radio Blog - Postgame Entry Includes pre-game audio interviews from earlier this week with Michael Ratterree (5/28) and Taylor Brennan (5/30), Saturday's postgame comments from Manager Matt Erickson, Clint Coulter, and Steven Halcomb, photos, and video game highlights. Halcomb had quite the postgame: Photos by Ann Mollica http://mlblogsrattlerradio.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/may_31_2014_203.jpg?w=555&h=370 http://mlblogsrattlerradio.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/may_31_2014_211.jpg?w=555&h=370

Brevard County -- AUDIO: RHP Tyler Wagner joins Andrew Luftglass on the Manatees Pregame Show to talk about some of Wagner's AUDIO, Game Highlights: The Stone Crabs win on a walk-off single in the ninth inning against Brevard County

First baseman Hunter Morris put the Sounds on the board in the second inning when he slugged his team-leading eighth home run of the year, a leadoff solo shot to right off Iowa starter Chris Rusin that bounded onto Chestnut Street. AUDIO: Hunter Morris Go-Ahead HR Nashville pulled right back in front, 2-1, in the home half of the seventh. Hector Gomez led off with a single and moved to third on an errant pickoff throw by Rusin. Sean Halton followed with a popup down the right field line that was nearly caught by a diving Logan Watkins but ended up as a go-ahead RBI double for the Sounds' right fielder. AUDIO: Sean Halton RBI Double Donovan Hand worked around a pair of baserunners in the eighth and retired the side in order in the ninth to secure the victory and nail down his league-leading 11th save of the year. AUDIO: Final Out Of The Game

Nelson fans career-high 11 in Sounds' return Brewers top prospect pitches into the eighth for sixth Triple-A victory By Tyler Maun / MiLB.com Jimmy Nelson was coming off a scoreless performance in his first Major League outing of the year that he deemed one of his worst starts of the season. A return to form in Nashville meant a rough night at the plate for yet another Pacific Coast League foe. The Brewers' top prospect returned to Triple-A and recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts over 7 2/3 innings, limiting Iowa to a run on three hits, as Nashville pulled out a 2-1 win. Nelson (6-1) carved through the Cubs with ease for most of his 10th Minor League start of the season. He fanned nine batters swinging and had Iowa hitters off-balance with his off-speed arsenal. "The slider's pretty consistent for me from game to game," Nelson said. "It's usually pretty good, but today my changeup was probably the best it's been all year as far as being able to locate it and throw it in any count. I had some good movement on it today, so that was a big pitch for me. It kept the guys off the fastball a little bit. The fastball command was there today, two-seam and four-seam. When you can command the fastball early in the game, that opens up some other things." Six days ago, Nelson stepped onto a big league mound for the first time this season and silenced Miami for 5 2/3 innings in a 7-1 victory. The 24-year-old right-hander struck out six while walking three but wasn't thrilled with the outing. "That start I had in Miami, I felt like that was the worst my command had been all year," he said, "and I was really fighting my mechanics. I was pulling off a lot of pitches. Luckily, we had that five-run lead in the first couple of innings and we made some good defensive plays. That helped me battle through some command issues. Today, I was just trying to get back on track with my delivery and consistency, and I felt like I did a pretty good job with that." With an extra day of rest between starts, Nelson went back to work on honing his delivery, looking to extend a seven-start unbeaten streak that dates to April 10. "I've been working with our pitching coach, Fred Dabney. Our pitching coordinator, Rick Tomlin, was here the last couple of days," Nelson said. "For me, it's been the same thing all year mechanically, just tracking my head to the plate. This start today and my start in Omaha, when I had a really good start at their place (on April 21) have really been the two games where I felt I was the most consistent as far as tracking my head to the plate and not pulling off my pitches." While Nelson was blanking the Cubs, Brewers No. 10 prospect Hunter Morris handed him a slim lead with a leadoff homer in the second. After Iowa battled back to tie the game on Jonathan Mota's sacrifice fly cashing in a Brett Jackson triple in the seventh, Sean Halton doubled home Hector Gomez with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the inning. Nelson struck out the first two batters in the eighth before walking Ryan Kalish to end his night. The University of Alabama product threw 68 of 99 pitches for strikes and issued two free passes. Iowa starter Chris Rusin (3-7) took the loss, yielding two runs on four hits while striking out five and walking one over seven innings. VIDEO: Nashville starter Jimmy Nelson fans pinch-hitter Javier Baez for his career-high 11th strikeout in the Sounds' 2-1 win over Iowa

This was posted back on March 14th -- Earlier this spring, each player had been added to the online MiLB.com DSL roster page. All are there now except for Ken Paredes. We'll drop a note to Brewers Player Development, it's possible the Paredes signing had to be voided, we'll see...

By the way, here's the thread where we indicated which 2013 DSL Brewers were in Maryvale camp this spring. You'll notice none of those players are on the formal MiLB.com Maryvale roster yet, either.

Always amazes me that folks pick up on items like this, makes me feel better about being so specific on even the seemingly most minor of moves. About an hour before you posted that, I moved the two outfielders, along with IF Daniel Leonardo, to the Maryvale portion of our Player Index, after noticing the same. You are correct that the players were not listed as those who were in Maryvale this spring and would begin the 2014 season stateside. They are listed on neither roster right now, yet none show in released status (a release for any of the three would be surprising). So they will most likely be listed on the Maryvale roster by MiLB.com once the Maryvale season begins, if not sooner in the coming days. Keep on keeping me on my toes!

Catching up on archiving links here to Tim Froberg's excellent Timber Rattlers profiles. These two had been linked in prior Sunday Link Reports: RHP Preston Gainey OF Omar Garcia *** Brand new one here for you this AM: 2B Chris McFarland

AAA All-Star Voting -- We can vote pitchers as well (wink-wink Nelson, Fiers, Mills).

Weather.com: Nashville, TN Jackson, TN Port Charlotte, FL Grand Chute, WI (Appleton)

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

STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Southern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western 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

To see tweets as to when the Link Report has been technically "completed" with available links, as well as to know when the new day's Report has been posted, please follow @Mass_Haas on Twitter.

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

Sunday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Mike Fiers at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 1:45 PM pre-game, 2:05 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 Drew Gagnon at Jackson (Mariners), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 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). Yes, there is MiLB.TV coverage available from Jackson. ********** Brevard County: RHP Jorge Lopez at Charlotte (Rays), 3:30 PM pre-game, 4:00 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. All home games and many road games are scheduled to be broadcast. When road games are only available via the opponents' audio feed (or not at all), we'll let you know that. No Florida State League games are available via MiLB.TV. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Victor Diaz at home vs. Quad Cities (Astros), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:05 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. DVR Alert: The next Wisconsin game scheduled for local TV is Wednesday evening, June 4th (MyNew32 TV). ********** DSL Brewers: Idle We're 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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