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

That would be minor league LHP (not rehabbing, but optioned) LHP Ricky Romero of the Jays making his first official 2013 appearance vs. Brevard County tonight.

Saturday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Mike Fiers at home vs. Memphis (Cardinals), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 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. Mississippi (Braves), 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 Brooks Hall at home vs. Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 PM 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. NOTE: Dave indicates that he hopes to include a pre-game interview prior to each game; it's a 30-minute pre-game! We'll fill you in if Brevard masters archiving a la Nashville and/or Helena. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Damien Magnifico at home vs. West Michigan (Tigers), 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).

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Nashville Audio: Gindl's Game-Tying Single Strike 'Em Out Throw 'Em Out DP Nashville Video (Thursday): Nashville's Scooter Gennett hits a bases-empty double with two outs in the third of a 5-2 win over Memphis *** Brevard County Audio Highlights

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Music City — “Comments from Caleb (Gindl)” Tonight’s interview is with Sounds outfielder Caleb Gindl, who went 2-for-3 with three RBIs last night in the Sounds’ 5-2 win over Memphis. Gindl discusses his game last night, his start to the season, working with new hitting coach Bob Skube, his thoughts about trying to make mechanical adjustments to his swing during games and his days as a pitcher in high school when he could throw 95 miles per hour.

Our best to the Fiers family -- Via Jeff Hem: Tyler Thornburg will start tonight on regular rest for the Sounds, not Mike Fiers, who's away due to death in family & will start Sat.

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

Reminder -- Friday night's Timber Rattlers game will be televised on WACY-TV My NEW32 (Green Bay / Appleton), air time is 6:30 PM local time. "Showdown: Timber Rattlers Pre-Game" precedes the game broadcast starting at 6:00 PM.

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF! All times are Central Nashville: RHP Tyler Thornburg at home vs. Memphis (Cardinals), 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. Mississippi (Braves), 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 Drew Gagnon at home vs. Dunedin (Blue Jays), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 PM 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. NOTE: Dave indicates that he hopes to include a pre-game interview prior to each game; it's a 30-minute pre-game! We'll fill you in if Brevard masters archiving a la Nashville and/or Helena. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Tyler Wagner at home vs. West Michigan (Tigers), 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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From April 24th: Barnes' injury has subsequently landed the big (6'2", 230) 23-year-old RHP on the Manatee 7-day DL (stats for the 2011 14th round pick). Coming up from Wisconsin is LH starting pitcher Brent Suter, also 23 (stats). The 6'5", 195 lb. 2012 31st round pick out of Harvard has had an impressive start to his pro career. No word quite yet on how Wisconsin will backfill their open roster spot.

Not saying he's going to be Southern League MVP, but the Stars' Jason Rogers is going to receive consideration. Just sayin' -- the league's best players often get promoted at midseason, and Rogers will likely remain for all of 2013. Miggy Cabrera was promoted to the big leagues after 69 AA games in 2003, which led to Corey Hart's MVP trophy. Huntsville INF Nick Shaw is going to see major league ballfields -- it may be cup-of-coffee-ish, but he's going to get there.

Dunedin Top of the 7th Pitching Change: Andre Lamontagne replaces Jed Bradley. Derrick Chung singles on a ground ball to center fielder Chadwin Stang. Matt Newman grounds out, third baseman Brandon Macias to first baseman Nick Ramirez. Derrick Chung to 2nd. Offensive Substitution: Pinch-hitter Kevin Patterson replaces Jason Leblebijian. Kevin Patterson grounds out, shortstop Yadiel Rivera to first baseman Nick Ramirez. Jon Berti singles on a ground ball to left fielder Lance Roenicke. Derrick Chung out at home on the throw, left fielder Lance Roenicke to catcher Cameron Garfield. Huge throw in a 3-2 game, nice call of the play in the audio highlights Brad linked to earlier.

MiLB.com video from Tuesday - Hunter Morris' opposite field HR

Rattler Radio Blog with Video Highlights (and plenty of tidbits from Chris) *** Here's the BrewCrewBall first-hand notebook article to which Chris refers to. Good stuff as always from Kyle when he makes a press box visit.

STARS SET SEASON-HIGH IN RUNS, HITS WITH VICTORY OVER M-BRAVES Alex Cohen, Huntsville Stars Following a stretch where they scored five runs in their last three games, the Stars offense broke out for a season-high 13 runs and 16 hits in a 13-8 victory over the Mississippi Braves on Thursday night at Joe Davis Stadium. While Huntsville starting pitcher Jimmy Nelson gave up an unearned run in the first inning, the Stars offense began to break out in the third inning against M-Braves starter Michael Lee. After catcher Robinzon Diaz and second baseman Nick Shaw reached via Mississippi errors, RBI singles from second baseman T.J Mittelstaedt and first baseman Jason Rogers and a two-run double from Kentrail Davis made the score 3-1. The offensive barrage continued into the fifth inning when Davis and right fielder Brock Kjeldgaard hit back-to-back homers off of Lee to put the Stars up 7-1. One inning later, the Stars tacked on five runs against M-Braves reliever Ryan Woolley. The Stars batted around in the inning, and the scoring was highlighted by an RBI double by Shaw, two-run double from Rogers, RBI double by Kjeldgaard and a bases-loaded walk drawn by center fielder Rene Tosoni. When all was said and done, the Stars were up by a score of 12-2. Huntsville scored their only other run when Kjeldgaard launched his second homer off the game against position player Barrett Kleinknecht, who came into pitch for the first time this season. The 13 runs was plenty for the Stars pitching staff, especially Nelson, who improved to 3-0 on the year after giving up two runs (one earned) over six innings while striking out six batters. In his second rehab appearance with the Stars, RHP Mark Rogers struggled by giving up three runs and four hits in one inning of work. Rogers also walked two batters. After Rogers exited the game following the seventh inning, righty Eric Marzec gave up four runs in 1.1 innings to put the M-Braves final run total at eight. Reliever Casey Medlen recording the final two outs for the Stars. On offense, the Stars were paced by Shaw who had a season-high four hits. In the middle of the lineup, Rogers, Davis and Kjeldgaard each had three hits and combined for ten runs batted in. The 13 runs and 17 hits for the Stars were both a season high. The win for the Stars snapped their three-game losing streak. The Stars and M-Braves will play game two of their five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium on Friday. Huntsville will send RHP Ariel Pena (1-2, 5.51 ERA) to the bump to square off against Tennessee RHP J.R Graham (1-1, 2.50 ERA). First pitch is at the regular time of 6:43 PM.

Final: Nashville 5, Memphis (Cardinals) 2 Sounds Take Down Rival Redbirds In Series Opener, 5-2 Gennett Goes 3-for-3 To Raise Batting Average To .417 On Season Nashville Sounds NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds defeated the cross-state rival Memphis Redbirds, 5-2, on Thursday evening at Greer Stadium in the opener of a four-game series. Nashville (6-12) improved to 4-0 in series openers at Greer and snapped a three-game skid with its first come-from-behind victory. Second baseman Scooter Gennett went 3-for-3 for the Sounds to extend his hitting streak to seven games, matching his longest effort of the year. He has produced knocks in 14 of his 15 games and reached base safely in all 15. Gennett is batting .417 on the year. Outfielder Caleb Gindl also continued his hot hitting for Nashville, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs to run his current hit streak to five games (6-for-13, .462). Sounds starter Johnny Hellweg did not allow a hit in the first four frames before Memphis broke through in the fifth for a pair of knocks and the game's first run. Adron Chambers reached on a one-out single, stole second, and scored on Oscar Taveras' two-out RBI single to center. Hellweg allowed one run on two hits in five innings of work. He struck out a season-high six and also walked three batters and hit a pair during his 90-pitch effort. Nashville took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning with a pair of runs that scored following an error by Memphis shortstop Greg Garcia. Gennett singled with one out and Hunter Morris followed with a grounder to first, where Brock Peterson touched the bag and his throw to second beat Gennett to the base but Garcia failed to apply the tag. Sean Halton followed by greeting Redbirds reliever Maikel Cleto with a first-pitch, game-tying single to left (audio). Cleto hit Stephen Parker then Cole Garner and Gindl drew back-to-back walks, with the latter forcing home Halton with the go-ahead run (audio). Lyons ended up with a no-decision for Memphis after striking out nine batters and allowing one unearned run on three hits in his 5 1/3 frames. The Sounds extended the lead to 3-1 with another run off Cleto (0-1), who took the loss, in the seventh. Dayton Buller struck out to open the frame but reached first on a wild pitch. After being sacrificed to second by Gennett, the Nashville backstop scored on Morris' two-out RBI double to center (audio). Memphis pulled back within a run in the top of the eighth when Peterson hit a leadoff double and later scored on a sacrifice fly to make it a 3-2 contest. Gindl plated a pair of insurance runs for the Sounds in the home half of the eighth with a two-run, opposite-field triple to left-center off Sam Freeman (audio). Halton (walk) and Parker (hit by pitch) scored on the knock to increase the lead to 5-2. Chris Jakubauskas (1-0) earned the win following 1 2/3 frames of scoreless relief for the Sounds. Rob Wooten worked a scoreless ninth to nail down his fourth save of the year (audio, final out). Jeff Bianchi finished 0-for-5 in his fifth rehab game for the Sounds. He is hitting .227 (5-for-22) with the club. The teams continue the series with another 7:05 p.m. meeting on Friday. Right-hander Mike Fiers (0-0, 0.00) will make the start for the Sounds and face Memphis southpaw Nick Additon (1-1, 5.79). Nashville Box Score Oh, Scooter, making Muppet Babies everywhere proud. Thankfully, it doesn't appear Caleb Gindl is going to wait until July, as he did in 2012, to turn around another rough start. Among those in an outstanding Sounds bullpen, Jesus Sanchez (stats) has been as near-perfect as baseball allows. Nashville Game Log

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Audio interview via Jeff Hem's blog -- “(Jeff) Bianchi is Back” Tonight’s interview is with Jeff Bianchi, who is on Day 12 of a 20-day (at maximum) rehab assignment from Milwaukee. The infielder discusses his recovery from left hip bursitis and how it affected his spring training, his major league debut last season, what it’s like to return to the minors once a player has been in the major leagues, and why boos never sounded so good last season.