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So as the Brewers' site own 40-man roster shows, LHP Miguel De Los Santos (career stats), the September 2012 waiver claim from Texas who is now out-of-options, is on the 40-man roster, but not really, because he had visa issues this past March. That allowed the Brewers to stash him on the restricted list. At the same time this spring, De Los Santos was also experiencing shoulder problems, and word came out he'd undergo surgery that would sideline him until at least July. As Rotoworld noted, the southpaw has a career 13.6 K/9 rate in the minors and a low-90s fastball and plus changeup, and should have a future as a late-inning reliever. So if the visa issues have been cleared up, you'd think the Brewers would have to place him on their 60-day DL as he rehabs in Maryvale (and thus a big-league minimum salary). And if his visa issues still haven't cleared up, my goodness, what's up with that. We'll send out the Adam / Tom / Todd batphone tweet and hope for a Gord Ash reply soon.

Catching up on video highlights -- Nashville's Hunter Morris hits his 17th homer of the year in the eighth inning of a 6-2 loss to Memphis on Friday *** Hainley Statia homers in the Sounds' 7-2 Saturday loss in Memphis The homer was Statia's second in as many games after not having one since July 30, 2011. *** Morris homers in the Sounds' 13-3 Sunday loss (#18, good for 3rd in the PCL, an absolute bomb) *** Kentrail Davis doubles in a run during Huntsville's 8-2 Saturday win over Tennessee, part of a three-hit game

Way to go! Huntsville RHP Andy Moye nets Southern League Pitcher of the Week honors coming on the heels of his near no-hitter. We'll link to Alex's press release later on.

By the way, MiLB is sending out promotional emails on how MiLB.TV is only $29.99 for the rest of the season. But if it's $9.99 per month, and there's just two months left in the minor league seasons, isn't that the way to go?

STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern 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 DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris Division *** NOTE: To view first half or overall standings for Huntsville, Brevard County, and Wisconsin, you'll notice options at the respective links for that. Otherwise it's second-half standings as the default view for those three leagues.

Weather.com: Albuquerque, NM Kodak, TN Viera, FL (Melbourne) Burlington, IA Scottsdale, AZ San Pedro de Macoris, DR

Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Brevard County has media notes; as of now, it's a unique link each day, but look for it just prior to game time each day within the "Stats and Scores" banner here.

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 Monday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Game One Huntsville Game Two Brevard County Wisconsin Maryvale DSL Brewers New MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Programming Note: Tennessee has MiLB.TV coverage, so if you're a subscriber, you can watch this Stars' series (live and/or archived).

Monday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Jimmy Nelson at Albuquerque (Dodgers), 5:45 PM pre-game, 6:05 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 $39.99 season-long package ($9.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP's David Goforth and Brooks Hall in a doubleheader at Tennessee (Cubs), 4:15 PM pre-game, 4:30 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings Free Live Audio Link Alex Cohen is the play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. It appears four Southern League teams air their home games on MiLB.TV, and we'll let you know when those dates pop up on the schedule ********** Brevard County: RHP Jacob Barnes at home vs. Tampa (Yankees), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the link based on listed schedule Manatees audio, hooray! Dave Walkovic is the first play-by-play voice of the 'Tees since 2007, he's joined by Andy Towne; 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, we'll let you know that. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Jorge Lopez at Burlington (Angels), 6:10 PM pre-game, 6:30 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 $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from four Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: 32 of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel has seventeen games scheduled and WACY-TV My NEW32 plans to show fifteen games. We'll let you know when, but won't be providing day-before DVR reminders, so regularly check for proper channel and time planning (scroll to the bottom of this link). ********** Helena: Idle ********** Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Diamondbacks complex near Scottsdale; 9:00 PM gametime; never audio for games in this league ********** DSL Brewers: at the DSL Blue Jays, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

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Brewers blow lead, then win in extras by Amber Kuehn, Helena Independent Record These Helena Brewers like to keep things interesting. Up 6-4 heading to the bottom of the ninth, the Brewers found themselves just three outs away from a win Sunday afternoon at Centene Stadium. But things began to spiral with a couple of walks and a Jairo Kelly single, and Great Falls tied the game on a groundball hit by Danny Hayes that allowed Adam Engel to score from second. No big deal. Helena went on a hit parade in the 10th, with doubles by Michael Ratterree and Taylor Brennan and a two-run single by Jalen Harris. That gave the visitors a three-run cushion, and this time they closed out the victory. Brewers reliever Ryan Fasano pitched a perfect 10th for the save, giving Helena a 9-6 extra-inning win to snap a two-game skid. “In the ninth inning we made a couple mental mistakes that allowed them to get back in the game,” said Brewers manager Tony Diggs, whose team remains in first place in the Pioneer League North Division heading into a day off. “We had a runner we should have caught between second and third ... their base running was just very good. “The good thing was, the boys kept going, and Fasano did a good job coming in and going right after hitters.” After back-to-back losses which saw the Brewers combine for eight total errors, this one was relatively clean. Diggs was encouraged by the fact that Helena finished with just one miscue in Sunday’s contest. “We’re always talking about taking care of the baseball,” Diggs said. “The last two nights previous to today, we did throw the ball away too much, which probably led directly to both losses.” Ratterree led the Brewers at the plate with a 2-for-5 performance. He laced a pair of doubles, scored two runs and finished with two RBIs. The right fielder, who leads the league in doubles with eight, stroked a two-run double in the fourth frame to put his team on the board, then came home as the tying run that knotted things at 3-all. Following a 4-4 tie, the Brewers took their first lead in the seventh when Angel Ortega and Charlie Markson came home on a fielding error by Voyagers third baseman Zach Voight. Helena reliever Andy Hillis was charged with the blown save before then earning the win, his second of the season. Great Falls pitcher Nick Blount took the loss after giving up three earned runs on three hits. Voight led the Voyagers’ offense, going 2 for 5 with a solo home run, a double and three RBIs. “This was a good way to finish up a road trip before a day off,” Diggs said, noting that the guys need their rest after 18 straight games. The Brewers return home to Kindrick Legion Field for a seven-game homestand against Idaho Falls and Ogden, beginning Tuesday at 7:05 PM (8:05 Central).

1-5 organizational day (yay Helena!), so now 84 games under entering Monday.

Final: AZL Diamondbacks 4, @AZL Brewers 2 AZL Brewers Box Score Not the worst offensive club in the Arizona League, but you can see here that the Brewers are in the lower ranks in most categories. 11 K's, only one walk drawn by the A-Crew lineup here. Wonderful job by the mounds crew in this one, posting a combined 10-0 K-to-BB ratio and a 15-to-2 GB-to-FB rate. Good work, Drew Ghelfi, Gian Rizzo, and Tyler Spurlin - two errors by his mates in the 5th hurt Ghelfi. AZL Brewers Game Log

NY Daily News: Scarpetta's granny glad he hit ‘hot shot’ A-Rod

Raw numbers - Organizational leaders entering Sunday noted by Brad

Brewers clip Voyagers in 10 Loss drops Great Falls one game back of Helena entering Southern swing by Lee Vernoy, Great Falls Tribune Sports Writer Six days ago, the Great Falls Voyagers began a six-game series with the Helena Brewers in an early battle for the Pioneer League Northern Division lead with the Brewers up by one game. Six days later, nothing has changed. Helena downed the Voyagers 9-6 in ten innings Sunday afternoon at Centene Stadium to snap the Voyagers’ two-game winning streak and earn a split of the six-game home-and-home series. More important, not that this was, in the words of Voyagers manager Pete Rose, Jr., “a make or break series,” the Voyagers remain just a game behind the Brewers in the early battle for the Northern Division race going into the first of two swings through the Southern Division this season. The Brewers got the win with three in the tenth. Michael Ratterree doubled to left with one out off reliever Nick Blount, and Jose Pena walked. Then Taylor Brennan ripped a double over the head of left fielder Michael Carballo, scoring Ratterree. After Dustin Houle struck out, Jalen Harris smashed a bad-hop single barely past the outstretched glove of Justin Jirschele to score Pena and Brennan. This came after the Voyagers scored two in the bottom of the ninth to send it into extras. Pinch hitter Dillon Haupt and Carballo walked, and Andy Hillis came in from the pen to work to Jairo Kelly, who stroked a 360-foot drive to right field that hit the base of the wall. However, Haupt tagged second and the runners had to hold up, turning what should have been an RBI double into a 368-foot single that loaded the bases. Danny Hayes then hit what many thought to be a game-ending double play ball to second, but Hayes beat the throw from shortstop Angel Ortega. Rose, in the third base coaching box, sent Engel home with the tying run after Carballo had scored. “It was either going to be game over with the double play, or a tie game,” Rose said. “I knew Hayes was going to hustle up the line, and he beat the throw and got two RBI. “But we just can’t afford to wait for runs to come to us.” The Voyagers didn’t wait early, scoring two in the first when Zach Voight spanked a two-run double that scored Adam Engel and Hayes. Engel helped make it 3-0 in the second when his two-out double plated Dane Opel, who walked to lead off the frame. Helena tied things in the third. Ratterree stroked a two-run double, moved to third on the throw, and scored with Brennan grounded to first. Helena took the lead in the fourth when two walks, a sacrifice bunt and Charlie Markson’s grounder to second pushed Ortega across, but the Voyagers came back to re-tie when Voight unloaded on a Tristan Archer fastball for his second homer of the season. The Brewers took a 6-4 lead in the seventh with two unearned runs that came when Voight misplayed Ratterree’s grounder to third. Blount lost his second decision of the season, with the win going to Hillis following his blown save. Ryan Fasano came on after Hillis walked the first two batters of the tenth and retired the side for his first save. Rose is not concerned about the Southern swings, the first of which takes his charges to Orem for four beginning Tuesday after today’s off-day, then to Grand Junction for three befor ecoming home. “Everyone has to do it,” Rose said. “We just need to go out there like we do here and play hard. We’re not worried about it whatsoever.” GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY TIM GOESSMAN Charlie Markson, left, of the Helena Brewers, rises after colliding with Trey Wimmer, right, of the Great Falls Voyagers Sunday in Centene Stadium. http://cmsimg.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=G1&Date=20130707&Category=SPORTS&ArtNo=307070023&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Pioneer-Helena-Brewers-clip-Voyagers-10 Christian Stringer of the Great Falls Voyagers throws as Angel Ortega of the Helena Brewers slides into second base Sunday. http://cmsimg.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=G1&Date=20130707&Category=SPORTS&ArtNo=307070023&Ref=V1&MaxW=600&Border=0

Seven Sounds make debut on 'Show time' Sounds find their way to major leagues by Marc Torrence, The Tennessean When Nashville Sounds second baseman Scooter Gennett got called into manager Mike Guerrero’s office after a game in Round Rock in June, he thought he was in trouble. Guerrero told him that he wouldn’t be playing in the Sounds’ next game. It turns out, he would be on a plane to Milwaukee to make his major-league debut. Gennett is one of seven Sounds to have played in a major-league game for the first time this season, fulfilling the dream to go to “The Show.” “There’s no words to describe it because it’s something you’ve worked your whole life for to finally to get the opportunity to be there,” said Sounds outfielder Josh Prince, a 2009 third-round pick by the Brewers who was called up just two days into the Sounds’ season. “There’s still no words to this day to describe the feeling I had because it’s a feeling I’ve never had before.” Players said the first at-bat is when it hit them. “That first time you walk up and you’re walking up and you see ‘major league debut, first at-bat’ on the scoreboard, and you hear 30,000 fans screaming for you,” Prince said. “I had to take a step out of the box and just kind of take a deep breath because the adrenaline was running so much.” Gennett had a special moment in Cincinnati. Playing in his hometown, with family and friends in the stands, he hit his first major-league home run. “It’s weird how all of that works out,” Gennett said. “Overall, it was just a really good day.” And they quickly learned that rookies have to pay their dues. Gennett said he had to get water and food for the older players. Caleb Gindl wasn’t so lucky. After his first major-league hit, the ball was tossed into the dugout for him to save. But Brewers pitcher Kyle Lohse switched it with a new ball, and threw the new one into the stands, making Gindl think his milestone ball was gone. “They got me a little bit with that,” Gindl said. But playing for a major-league team comes with some major-league perks as well. On a trip to Los Angeles, Prince met country music star Rodney Atkins backstage after a show. Atkins paid Prince a return visit last Tuesday in Nashville before a game, and Prince threw batting practice to the singer’s son and bandmates. As for advice to players making their MLB debut? “I would just say relax,” Gennett said. “You’ve got to trust your abilities anywhere you are to be able to play the best you can. Just relax and trust yourself and trust what got you there and don’t change anything. Don’t feel like now that I’ve made it I can stop working as hard. You’ve got to work just as hard to stay.” FORMER SOUNDS’ MAJOR-LEAGUE DEBUTS Sounds players who played their first major-league game this season: • Khris Davis - April 1* • Josh Prince - April 6* • Donovan Hand - May 26 • Scooter Gennett - June 3* • Caleb Gindl - June 15* • Johnny Hellweg - June 26 • Sean Halton - June 27 * - Returned to Sounds roster. Sean Halton gets his first major-league hit, a single, during the Milwaukee Brewers' June 27 game against the Chicago Cubs. Halton is one of seven Sounds who made his major-league debut this season. AP Photo http://cmsimg.tennessean.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DN&Date=20130708&Category=SPORTS04&ArtNo=307080022&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Seven-Sounds-make-debut-Show-time-

NY Daily News: Chad Pierce nearly beaned A-Rod Sunday, who showed off thigh bruise from Cody Scarpetta's Saturday curve ball.

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Memphis — Baserunning Coordinator Reggie Williams Tonight’s interview is with Brewers outfield and baserunning coordinator Reggie Williams, a Memphis native who has been watching the Sounds the past few nights in The Bluff City. Williams discusses all things outfield and base paths regarding the Sounds, including Josh Prince and Khris Davis.

FYI - Helena slugging 1B Garrett Cooper is day-to-day with a twinged hamstring.

Just went final, details later -- 9-6 Helena wins!

Re: Helena, it's 4:40 Central time and the H-Crew is heading to extra innings tied at 6-6 (listen here if the timing works for you).

Invest time with these three Helena pre-game interviews when you can: Each highly recommended... Milwaukee Brewers fielding/catching coordinator talks about the young catchers on the Helena team (By the way, we learn Clint Coulter is day-to-day with a dinged knee, so any prior concussion speculation was incorrect.) *** Helena Brewers trainer David Adling talks about life as an athletic trainer in the minors *** Helena Brewers infielder Jalen Harris talks about his past in athletics and his how being born deaf has changed his life and his career Fascinating how the little things on the field are impacted, like calling off your teammates on a pop-up; been waiting for this interview since Jalen turned pro -- thanks Steve (and Jalen!)