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Brevard County Bottom of the 4th Tyrone Taylor grounds out, shortstop Jorge Polanco to first baseman MIke Gonzales. Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Brandon Macias replaces Michael Reed. Brandon Macias flies out to left fielder Travis Harrison. Cameron Garfield flies out to right fielder Tyler Grimes. From the radio crew Twitter feed: B4: Michael Reed leaves the game after a check swing. With a 1-2 count, Brandon Macias comes to the plate. 2-0, Miracle.

Retroactive to the 10th, Wisconsin 1B David Denson goes on the DL -- no official word on the nature of his injury. C/1B Paul Eshleman activated from the DL to fill the spot.

Via Miller Park Prospects - Brad's 2nd Nashville Photo Gallery from Des Moines

Weather.com: Des Moines, IA Chattanooga, TN Viera, FL (Melbourne) Grand Chute, WI (Appleton)

Sortable individual stat pages: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin

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

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

DVR ALERT: As we've been indicating, Tuesday night is a MyNew32 TV Timber Rattlers night, with pregame at 6:00 PM. Get ahead on your DVR setting, as the same channel is broadcasting all three games of this Quad Cities series -- so Wednesday's as well.

Tuesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: LHP Brad Mills at Iowa (Cubs), 11:45 AM pre-game, 12:05 PM 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: LHP Brent Suter at Chattanooga (Dodgers), 6:00 PM pre-game, 6:15 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). Unfortunately, Chattanooga also does not provide MiLB.TV coverage. ********** Brevard County: RHP Damien Magnifico at home vs. Fort Myers (Twins), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 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: LHP Tyler Alexander at home vs. Quad Cities (Astros), 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.

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VIDEO: Additional Wisconsin game highlights via the MyNew32 TV broadcast. Includes the "lowlights", as it were, something that the Rattlers don't provide, but can be worthwhile to see as well. Wow, the wet outfield a big factor in this one, thankfully no one injured...

Kjeldgaard signed quickly with the Lancaster (PA) Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League (same team that RHP Cody Scarpetta now toils for). (Thanks to the Voice of the Stars, Steve Jarnicki, for the heads-up...)

Nashville -- AUDIO: Jeremy Hermida's Solo HR VIDEO, Full At-Bat: Sounds' Jimmy Nelson strikes out Javier Baez in Nashville's 2-1 loss to Iowa -- Made him look silly, NICE! VIDEO: Cubs' Lars Anderson ties it with a homer against Donovan Hand; so reminiscient of Mark Teixeira's HR against K-Rod this weekend, you'll see...

Link includes video interview with Chris McFarland and game photos -- No time to slow down: Rattlers' McFarland continues his hot hitting despite loss to Bandits by Tim Froberg, Post-Crescent Media GRAND CHUTE — Chris McFarland has been on a tear and sees no reason to throttle down. The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers’ second baseman was named Monday as the Midwest League’s player of the week and continued his hot hitting latter in the day during a 4-3 loss to visiting Quad Cities. The 21-year-old McFarland accounted for a good chunk of the Wisconsin offense, drilling a game-tying, two-run single in the fifth inning to extend his hitting streak to nine games, the longest by a Rattlers player this season. McFarland is hitting .298, second-highest on the team, and is second in home runs (six) and slugging percentage (.538). Not bad for a player who struggled to hit for both average (.238) and power (three HRs) last season in 72 games with the Rattlers. “I did a lot of training in the offseason,” said McFarland. “I worked on fixing my swing, just learning to trust it and letting my hands work. I’m trying to keep my swing short and trying to stay up the middle. I still have a lot of work to do, but it’s great to see improvement.” During his award-winning week, McFarland went 11-for-25 with two homers, three RBI and eight runs scored. He was the second Timber Rattler this season to win the MWL’s player of the week following catcher Clint Coulter, who claimed it in mid-April. “I didn’t even know about it until I saw it on Twitter,” said McFarland. “Guys were congratulating me and I was like, ‘Congratulations for what?’ It’s a pretty cool feeling.” In addition to showing more power at the plate this season, McFarland can run. He’s third on the team in stolen bases with 14. “Chris can hurt you in so many ways, offensively,” said Wisconsin manager Matt Erickson. “He uses all parts of the field and he’s staying inside the ball a little bit better this year. He’s shot some balls down the right-field line for some extra-base hits and he’s got enough juice in his bat to hurt you pull side. “Plus, he can be a weapon on the basepaths. His overall approach at the plate has been pretty good, His pitch selection has been better and he’s been winning counts, and getting better pitches to hit. When he swings at strikes, he does some damage.” Third baseman Taylor Brennan added an RBI single for Wisconsin, but the Timber Rattlers struggled to make contact against a trio of effective Quad Cities pitchers. River Bandits starter Michael Feliz and relievers Patrick Christensen and Jandel Gustave combined for 11 strikeouts. Feliz, rated by Baseball America as the ninth-best prospect in the Houston Astros’ organization, fanned five of the first six hitters he faced and finished with six strikeouts in 3 1⁄3 innings. Gustave, who got the win, stuck out four in pitching four scoreless innings and hit 96 mph on the radar gun. “Nice arms, big-time arms with loose arm action,” said Erickson. “It’s a tough night at the plate when you got two kids throwing the ball like that and they’re in the zone and mixing like that.” The River Bandits scored an unearned run in the top of the seventh to break a 3-3 tie and take the lead for good. An error by shortstop Angel Ortega led off the inning and Quad Cities eventually broke the deadlock on a sacrifice fly by first baseman Conrad Gregor. “We’ve got to take care of the ball there,” said Erickson. “It seems like whenever we make a mistake, it comes back to haunt us. And it really stings when you lose a one-run ballgame.”

County strikes too late on Manatees John Torres, Florida Today No words were needed. The answer was in his eyes. It was April 15 and Dr. Tom Winters — owner of the Brevard County Manatees — was enjoying watching his team run all over the Lakeland Tigers during a historic game at Dodgertown's Holman Stadium. I asked him if he intended on keeping the team in Brevard County. There was a subtle shrug of the shoulders, a sad smile. He didn't have to say a word. Monday, the deal to move the Manatees from their longtime home at Space Coast Stadium to their new cozier confines — a new $30 million stadium at Rollins College in Winter Park — moved one giant step closer to reality. The Orange County Commission will likely vote on the matter during the next few months. Under terms of the proposal, the city will pony up $6 million while the Manatees and the college will come up with the rest and share the facility. The new stadium would seat about 3,000 and be better suited for the typical Manatees crowd of about 1,500 fans per contest. Space Coast Stadium holds 8,100 fans. Brevard County? When it comes to trying to retain baseball, it's in its usual position of being on the outside looking in. County Manager Stockton Whitten said he hoped to meet with team officials in the coming weeks. That'll be as useful as trying to jam the toothpaste back into the tube. True that the Manatees' deal involving Space Coast Stadium is with the Washington Nationals and not the county, but Whitten — and everyone else — knows the Nationals have been looking to leave Brevard as well once they find a better-suited landing spot. And there is no way the Manatees can afford the upkeep of the stadium without the Nationals, said to be about $750,000 a year. With the Nationals leaving and efforts to lure another team to either replace the Nationals or join them in Viera proving fruitless thus far, there should have been a more proactive effort to make sure the Manatees were secured. But again, it's no surprise. County officials waited until the Nationals were actively being courted by other counties and courting areas themselves before deciding to commission an economic impact study to tell them that thousands of people coming in from out-of-town to rent hotel rooms, eat meals, buy groceries and attend baseball games was good for the economy. All along we thought it was going to be the Nationals who bailed first, leaving the Manatees scrambling for a new home. Who would have thunk it?

AUDIO via Jeff Hem's blog -- "Tonight’s interview is this week’s installment of “Mondays with the Manager” with Sounds skipper Rick Sweet. He discusses the team’s great offense yet struggling bullpen on the road trip, what he’s seen (as a former catcher) from Sounds catchers so far, whether or not the Sounds could get some relief help from Double-A Huntsville soon and how badly the team needs Wednesday’s off day." *** Sweet basically begs for RHP Arcenio Leon to be called up from Huntsville to his squad to solve the Sounds' closer woes. Also admits if the Brewers need a catcher from the minors, they would likely pass up his AAA group and reach down to AA. After listening to bland always-sunny Mike Guerrero weekly for two years, Rick Sweet is awesome, to be honest.

Brevard County -- AUDIO, Game Highlights: Fort Myers wins the opening game of the series, 8-2

Nelson posts six sets of zeros for Sounds Top Brewers prospect allows two hits, ties season high with 9 K's By Tyler Maun / MiLB.com When the time is right, Milwaukee will be waiting for Jimmy Nelson. For now, he's making the most of his continuing development on the doorstep of the big leagues. The Brewers' top prospect allowed only two hits while fanning nine over six shutout innings, but Triple-A Nashville suffered a 2-1 walk-off loss at Iowa on Monday. Nelson matched a season high with his nine strikeouts and limited any ill effects of three walks and a hit batsman. After plunking Josh Vitters with one out and walking Christian Villanueva behind him in the second inning, Nelson began to find his stride. "I went out there and kind of struggled a little bit early, the right-hander said. "I had to battle those first few innings, but once I settled in, me and [catcher Lucas May] were on pretty much the same page all day. He did a good job there." Nashville gave Nelson the lead in the top of the second on Jeremy Hermida's one-out, solo homer to center. Though the leadoff man reached against Nelson in three of his final four innings, the Cubs never capitalized against him. Nelson froze Matt Szczur and fanned Chicago's top prospect Javier Baez with a runner on in the fifth and capped his day with a strikeout of No. 11 Cubs prospect Christian Villanueva to end the sixth. "My fastball command to start the game set the tone for everything," Nelson said. "I used my four-seamer and my sinker, mixed those in. When I need to, bust out the slider and mix in a changeup to keep them off the fastball. You can't be a starter with just two pitches. The changeup's come a long way for me, and it's helped keep guys off my fastball." Nelson has worked at least six innings in each of his starts this year and hasn't allowed more than three earned runs in any of them. Monday was his second scoreless outing of the year. "The key to this game, really, is consistency," he said. "We have such a long season. You can't really be a player that's really high or really low. You have to stay even-keeled, not only with your attitude but with your progression or mechanics or whatever it may be." With four big league appearances under his belt last season, the University of Alabama product gives the National League Central-leading Brewers a potential ace-in-waiting for an already impressive team. A possible recall to Miller Park, though, isn't weighing heavily on Nelson's mind. "Of course you want to be in the big leagues," he said. "Everyone here does, at this level, and everybody here on our team has the talent to be there. We have a very great team. I mean we all understand the process. We all understand that we have things to work on here at Triple-A. You can't look so far ahead that something right in front of you doesn't get worked on and fixed. We're all focused on the now, and I think we're all doing a great job of that." Through Nelson's six frames, Iowa starter Tsuyoshi Wada kept the game tight. Wada was charged with one run on six hits while striking out eight and walking three over seven innings. Iowa rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth when Lars Anderson homered off Nashville reliever Donovan Hand. An inning later, Baez played hero, bouncing a walk-off single up the middle to plate Szczur with the game-winning run. Hand (0-2) was charged with two runs on five hits while striking out two and not issuing a walk over 1 1/3 frames. Cubs righty Eduardo Figueroa (1-0) picked up the win with a perfect 10th. Top Brewers prospect Jimmy Nelson has struck out 53 batters against just 16 walks this season. (Mike Strasinger/Nashville Sounds) http://www.milb.com/assets/images/8/8/8/75281888/cuts/14169628332_276c94391a_o_ruxmvsel_mb1gmevf.jpg

Rattler Radio Blog - Postgame Entry The trifecta feast of audio, photos, video, thanks Chris and staff!

VIDEO: Huntsville Sports Report with Voice of the Stars Steve Jarnicki

Final: Huntsville 7, @Chattanooga 1 Jungmann Leads Stars Past Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN - The Huntsville Stars received another quality start Monday night from Taylor Jungmann as he pitched seven strong innings leading the Stars to a 7-1 victory over the Chattanooga Lookouts (14-23) at AT&T Field. It was the Stars' fifth straight win which improved them to a Southern League best 26-12. The only run Jungmann allowed was in the bottom of the first. Jeremy Hazelbaker singled home Darnell Sweeney which was the only run the Lookouts scored. Jungmann gave up seven hits and struck out four. The righty turned in his fifth quality start in eight starts this year. Jungmann improved to 3-4 on the season. The Stars tied the game in the top of the second inning. Adam Weisenburger doubled home Mitch Haniger. Then the Stars took the lead for good after Josh Prince's RBI single in the same inning. The Stars increased their lead to 3-1 in the 5th on Weisenburger's second RBI hit of the night. He singled home D'Vontrey Richardson and finished the game 3-4 with 2 RBI. In the sixth, the Stars put the finishing touches on the Lookouts. They took advantage of three walks and Jason Rogers cleared the bases with a grand slam over the right field wall. It was the third homer of the season for Rogers and the Stars second grand slam this year. The Stars lead the Lookouts 3-0 in the series and have already won their seventh series in the first eight series of the season. Game four will be played Tuesday night. LHP Brent Suter (5-1, 1.71) will start for the Stars. Chattanooga will go with RHP Andres Santiago (0-4, 4.80) on the mound. The game can be heard starting at 6:00 PM CT with Steve Jarnicki on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM, and wtkiradio.com. Huntsville Box Score LHP Chris Reed is no Dodgers' slouch, and he surrendered four earned runs for the first time this year here - go Stars! RHP Taylor Jungmann outduels him here, biding his time at AA until the Stars lock in a first-half title and postseason berth. The Stars put 18 baserunners on, as Josh Prince reached base four times, as did catcher Adam Weisenburger, who is on his way to a 40-man roster spot this fall, OPS up to .897. The 25-year-old has some Jonathan Lucroy about him - remember Lucroy only saw 23 games at AAA. Considering you always adjust catchers' age upwards on prospect lists, it's been absolutely criminal that Weisenburger is nearly completely absent from most. Love me some Adam W.! Huntsville Game Log Chattanoogan photos of Taylor Jungmann and Jason Rogers (grand slam) by Tim Evearitt http://www.chattanoogan.com/photos/2014/5/article.276359.large.jpg http://www.chattanoogan.com/photos/2014/5/article.276359.2.large.jpg

Via Miller Park Prospects, Brad's visit to Des Moines, he chimes in with a rare Nashville Sounds photo gallery (Jeremy Jeffress included...)

As the Brewers Player Development Staff pointed out on Twitter, this is the 2nd straight week the organization has not one, not two, but three Players of the Week - see at the link. Congrats, Huntsville RHP Tyler Cravy, Brevard County LHP Jed Bradley, and Wisconsin 2B Chris McFarland!