Jim Goulart

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 DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

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

Monday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Johnnie Lowe at Round Rock (Rangers), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 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 Ariel Pena at home vs. Birmingham (White Sox), 6:28 PM pre-game, 6:43 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page 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: LHP Brent Suter at Fort Myers (Twins), 5:35 PM pre-game, 6:05 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 Preston Gainey at home vs. Peoria (Cardinals), 11:45 AM pre-game, 12:05 PM 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. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. So 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). ********** DSL Brewers: at the DSL Tigers, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

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Any word on Clint Coulter, absent from the last five Rattlers games?

Huntsville's bats had the uppercut thing going Sunday: Groundouts-flyouts: McCully 0-10, Vance 0-1, Sanchez 1-1, Webb, D 2-2

Youngster Anthony Banda reminds us that Maryvale is already acting like Maryvale

Stars Drop Series Opener With Barons By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars Playing their first game in three days, the Huntsville Stars opened up a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium with a 5-1 loss against the Birmingham Barons on Sunday evening. On offense, the Stars were held to just one run and six hits by four Barons pitchers, led by starter Nick McCully. The former reliever improved to 5-1 on the year after giving up a run on four hits through five innings pitched. The only blemish for McCully and the Birmingham pitching staff was a solo homer by Stars outfielder Brock Kjeldgaard in the second inning to give Huntsville an initial 1-0 lead. For Kjeldgaard, the blast put him in a tie with fellow Stars player Jason Rogers for the most homers in the Southern League with ten. As McCully exited the game before the sixth inning, Barons relievers Kevin Vance, Salvador Sanchez and Daniel Webb shut down the Stars offense through the final four innings to ensure the victory. After Huntsville took the early lead, the Barons scored the final five unanswered runs to finish the ballgame. Birmingham began their scoring in the third inning as a sacrifice fly from outfielder Trayce Thompson tied things up at one. The next inning, a solo homer from designated hitter Dan Black off of Stars starter Jimmy Nelson put the Barons up for good. From an insurance standpoint, Birmingham got a three-run homer from first baseman Andy Wilkins in the seventh inning off of Stars lefty Brian Garman to make the score 5-1. En route to the hard-pressed loss, Nelson pitched 6.2 innings while giving up four runs (one earned) and striking out seven batters. The Brewers 8th ranked prospect fell to 5-4 on the year while dropped his ERA in the process to 2.74. Aside from Nelson, Stars righties Arcenio Leon and Eric Marzec each pitched a scoreless inning in relief. Despite the relief appearance, Leon is still set to start game four of this series. On offense, the Stars were paced by outfielder Rene Tosoni and catcher Adam Weisenburger with two hits apiece. Besides from Kjeldgaard's homer, second baseman Nick Shaw added the only other hit for the Stars on the night. On Friday, the Stars and Barons will play game four of a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium. Huntsville will to even the series at one game apiece by sending RHP Ariel Pena (5-3, 2.63 ERA) to the bump as Birmingham will counter with RHP Stephen McCray (5-3, 3.31 ERA). First pitch is at 6:43 CT.

Manatees 'stung' by Daytona, bees and rain Swarm of bees hit stadium in Viera by John Torres, FLORIDA TODAY An approaching storm eventually closed out the game Sunday in the seventh inning. / Photo by Malcolm Denemark/FLORIDA TODAY http://cmsimg.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=A9&Date=20130603&Category=SPORTS&ArtNo=306030013&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Manatees-stung-by-Daytona-bees-rain VIERA — Just when you think you’ve seen every type of baseball delay, Brevard County Manatees officials were all abuzz Sunday afternoon, making sure the 5 p.m. game against Daytona went off without any delays — or stings. About 4,000 honey bees decided to take a rest on the top step of the visiting dugout, prompting General manager Kyle Smith to find a beekeeper willing to come out on Sunday afternoon. Groundskeepers spotted the bees four hours before game time. “We called these guys who came up from Palm City to handle it for us on a Sunday and we really appreciate that,” Smith said. “If we could have had a game called for bees, that would have been a first. I like publicity but that wouldn’t have been good.” Daytona Cubs players approached the dugout cautiously so as not to rile the remaining bees. “There was like a three-foot section of bees on the ground moving around and it was pretty cool,” said Daytona pitcher P.J. Francescon. “They don’t bother me. There’s a lot of guys here who might be little girls about it.” Asked to respond to rumors that Manatee players might have slathered honey in the opposing dugout to try and throw the Cubs off his game, Smith laughed heartily. “I can neither confirm nor deny those remarks,” he smiled. The Manatees ended up losing 5-0 in the seventh when a rainstorm hit.

Brevard County audio lowlights (and some late highlights) from the 14-5 Saturday loss

VIDEO: Huntsville game plus Manager Darnell Coles comments

Cool writeup on the Rattlers bullpen cart (hat tip to the team for the heads up)

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Round Rock — “Hear it from (Clay) Hensley” Tonight’s pregame interview is with the newest Nashville Sound, reliever Clay Hensley, who discusses his time so far with the Sounds, his time in Spring Training with the Reds and 15 appearances this year at Triple-A Louisville before being let go and signing with Milwaukee, the new arm angle he’s using this year and the sinker-slider approach he’s used since 2010, and his full-season in the major leagues last year with the World Series-champion Giants, including why he hasn’t gotten his ring yet.

Via the Manatees: RHP Drew Gagnon placed on the disabled list, retroactive to 5/30. RHP Cody Scarpetta activated from the disabled list at Huntsville and transferred to Brevard County. *** Via Adam McCalvy's follow-up: Gord Ash says RHP Gagnon's DL assignment is nothing to worry about. Hit in the right wrist by a liner. Scheduled to pitch later this week.

Weather.com: Round Rock, TX Huntsville, AL Viera (Melbourne) Grand Chute (Appleton)

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.

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 DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

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

Sunday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: LHP Zach Kroenke at Round Rock (Rangers), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 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 Andy Moye or RHP Arcenio Leon at home vs. Birmingham (White Sox), 3:48 PM pre-game, 4:03 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page 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: TBD at home vs. Daytona (Cubs), 3:35 PM pre-game, 4:05 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 home vs. Peoria (Cardinals), 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. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. So 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). ********** DSL Brewers: Idle

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Engel Beltre helped the Express with his glove in the second inning, leaping above the wall in center field to rob Hunter Morris of his 11th home run of the year with a spectacular catch. Watch it, wow *** More video -- Caleb Gindl's three-run 8th inning HR

Umpires: HP: Juan Diaz. 1B: Eduardo Mena. 3B: Rick Wilson. So the DSL gets three umpires but High-A Brevard gets only two? How's your Spanish, Rick Wilson? Good for you... *** 18-year-old (19 in August) Carlos Belonis takes his 6'3", 185 lb. frame to CF, not 3B? Interesting...

Here's an informative DSL Twitter conversation via the Brewers Player Development feed. RHP Osmel Perez missed 2012, flashed promise as a 16-17 year old the prior two years. As the link indicates, he left baseball.

Yes, Sermo to the DL.