Jim Goulart

From Thursday night -- VIDEO: Nashville's Stephen Parker goes deep in the second inning of the Sounds' 11-7 win over Fresno

Weather.com: Nashville Huntsville 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.

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

Programming note: Tonight's Wisconsin (second) game is televised locally on on WACY-TV My NEW32 out of Green Bay / Appleton. Ordinarily, the game broadcast would be preceded at 6:00 PM by "Showdown: Timber Rattlers Pre-Game". Don't know if they'll pick up action in progress from Game One instead (apparently not). As for airing Game One, unlikely they'd want to give up their "Big Bang Theory" block between 5:00 and 6:00. *** Imagine most eyes will be in Cincinnati regardless, but hopefully useful DVR info for you diehards there...

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF! All times are Central Nashville: RHP Johnny Hellweg at home vs. Fresno (Giants), 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 at home vs. Jackson (Mariners), 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 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's Damien Magnifico and Leonard Lorenzo in a doubleheader at home vs. Clinton (Dodgers), 4:45 PM pre-game, 5:05 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings 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).

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Baseball comedy moment diversion -- "Hey, Whitey" (available online until midnight)

Nashville game story has now been updated with five audio clips (2nd one is a De La Rosa sac fly, not Halton single).

Groundouts-flyouts: Jungmann 9-4 *** Jungmann, Homers Lead Stars to Victory By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars In a much-anticipated pitching matchup, Taylor Jungmann outdueled top Mariners prospect Tiajuan Walker (L, 3-3) and the Stars offense hit three roundtrippers en route to a 6-2 victory on Thursday night at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars got the scoring started on Walker early in the first inning. To begin the rally, Walker gave up a one-out single to shortstop Ozzie Chavez and then walked right fielder Kentrail Davis. One batter later, first baseman Jason Rogers drove both of them in with a two-run double that gave the Stars a 2-0 lead. After the Generals offense got a run back off of Jungmann in the top of the fourth with an RBI single from first baseman Leury Bonilla, Huntsville tacked on two runs in the bottom half of the frame as centerfielder Rene Tosoni launched a two-run homer off of Walker well over the right-field wall to make the score 4-1. For Tosoni, the homer was his first of the season and also gave him six runs batted in during his last five games. Fortunately for the Stars, that offense was plenty for Jungmann. The Brewers second ranked prospect (per MiLB.com) cruised during his first start since being activated on the disabled list. The 23-year-old righty gave up just one run and four hits in six innings while striking out two batters to improve to 2-4 on the year. In addition to Jungmann, Stars lefty Alan Williams earned the rare three-inning save, giving up two hits and one run while striking out six batters in the final three frames. Williams struck out the side in the ninth to notch his first save of the year. Offensively speaking, the Stars tacked on their final two insurance runs in the eighth inning, with Generals reliever Moises Hernandez in the ballgame. The older brother of Mariners ace Felix Hernandez served up solo homers to both Rogers and right fielder Brock Kjeldgaard in the span of three batters to put the Stars up 6-2. Rogers, Kjledgaard and Chavez paced the Stars at the plate with two hits apiece. For Huntsville, the three homers for in the ballgame was tied for the most in a single game for them this season. The win for the Stars was also their second straight, marking the first time they have won consecutive games at Joe Davis Stadium this season. The Stars will try to continue their winning ways against the Generals as the two teams will play game four of their five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium on Friday. Huntsville will send RHP Andy Moye (1-3, 4.76 ERA) to the bump to square off against Jackson RHP Brett Shankin (1-1, 3.43 ERA). First pitch is at 6:43 PM.

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Nashville — “(Jesus) Sanchez Says” Tonight’s pregame guest is Sounds reliever Jesus Sanchez, who discusses the team’s tough start (9-22) to the year, his great start (3-0, 1.02 ERA, 11 appearances) to the year, his adjustments from last year, such as working on his changeup and his being added by the Brewers to the club’s 40-man roster.

Cool blog post from Chris

Rattlers game has been postponed. It will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Friday with game 1 starting at 5:05PM. The awful weather luck, particularly for home games, continues. Wreaking havoc with their TV schedule, too.

Weather.com: Nashville Huntsville 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

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

Programming note: Tonight's Wisconsin game is televised locally on TWC Sports 32. It's preceded by Timber Rattlers Field Pass at 6:00 PM. Bonus DVR reminder -- Friday's game is on WACY-TV My NEW32 out of Green Bay / Appleton. *** Game note: Huntsville and Taylor Jungmann go up against Mariners' prized RHP Taijuan Walker tonight.

Thursday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Frankie De La Cruz at home vs. Fresno (Giants), 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 Taylor Jungmann at home vs. Jackson (Mariners), 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: RHP David Goforth at home vs. Tampa (Yankees), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Brevard County feed from the MiLB main audio page 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 Damien Magnifico at home vs. Clinton (Dodgers), 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. 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).

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And now, per the J-S' Todd Rosiak: "Asst Brewers GM Gord Ash says Taylor Jungmann on the DL in Huntsville with a nerve issue affecting fingers on his right hand. Team is being proactive prescribing rest and treatment in the hopes of nipping Jungmann's issue in the bud." Activated after a minimum stay. Starting Thursday night (tonight) for the Stars.

That game highlight video was very impressive, great movement.

Pena, Stars Shutout Generals By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars In game two of a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium, the Huntsville Stars shutout the Jackson Generals by a score of 1-0 on Wednesday night. On Tuesday, the Stars got a dominating outing from starting pitcher Ariel Pena. The 23-year-old righty struck out 10 batters and gave up just four hits in six shutout innings to improve to 2-2 on the season. His 10 strikeouts for Pena was the most for a Stars pitcher in any single game this season. The former Angels farmhand has now gone 11.1 innings over his last three starts without giving up an earned run. Pena was put in line for the victory in the third inning as the Stars scored their only run against Generals starting pitcher Chance Ruffin (L, 1-1). To begin the frame, catcher Shawn Zarraga started things off with a single. After advancing to second on a balk from Ruffin and then to third on a sacrifice bunt from second basemen Nick Shaw, Zarraga scored on a wild pitch to give Huntsville the sole run of the game. After Pena excited the game with two runners on base and nobody out, Stars reliever Greg Holle got Pena out the jam, striking out three batters in two scoreless frames. Huntsville closer Casey Medlen then shut down the door in the ninth by striking out the side and stranding two runners on base for his fifth save of the season. Overall, the Stars pitching staff struck out 16 Generals hitters, there most in a game during the 2013 season. The win snapped a five-game losing streak at Joe Davis Stadium. The shutout for the Stars was also their first of the season as well. The Stars and Generals will play game three of their five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium on Wednesday. Huntsville will send RHP Taylor Jungmann (1-4, 7.89 ERA) to the bump to square off against Jackson RHP Taijuan Walker (3-2, 1.54 ERA). First pitch is at 6:43 PM.