Jim Goulart

Hat tip to J.P. Breen of Disciples of Uecker -- Concerns For Ariel Pena - scouting report via Bullpen Banter

MiLB.com: Nashville video highlight from Monday's 3-2 loss in Omaha -- a masked Sean Halton goes deep

Huntsville video - Jason Rogers highlights The 25-year-old big man just hits and hits (career stats), doesn't he?

Chris Mehring's Rattler Radio Blog -- A few things after the doubleheader Interesting note on Orlando Arcia's heads-up defense among other tidbits...

NEW FEATURE! Weather.com: Des Moines, Iowa Huntsville Lakeland Cedar Rapids

Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Brevard County has media notes Once we're aware of the new online location for Huntsville's Media Notes this season, we'll let you know. (Coming soon, we're told!)

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

Wednesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Johnny Hellweg at Iowa (Cubs), 11:50 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 $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. Tennessee (Cubs), 10:28 AM pre-game, 10:43 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 Lakeland (Tigers), 5:00 PM pre-game, 5:30 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 Preston Gainey at Cedar Rapids (Twins), 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. 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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Fortunately not in the Manatees' division - Twins' Fort Myers FSL club moves to 12-0

Be sure you catch the scouting comments of Perfect Game's Managing Editor (and Emeritus Brewerfan Amateur Scouting Guru) Patrick Ebert, just posted to the tail end of Monday's Link Report. Perfect Game is based in Cedar Rapids, where the Rattlers are residing this week.

Stars Drop Nailbiter to Smokies By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars With the opportunity to provide late inning heroics for the second night in a row, the Huntsville Stars stranded the potential game-tying run on second in the ninth inning and fell to the Tennessee Smokies by a score of 4-3 on Tuesday night at Joe Davis Stadium. With the wind blowing out during the majority of the evening, the longball was the primary source of offense early on in the game, especially for the Smokies. In the second inning, the Smokies began a stretch of three straight innings with solo home runs as Tennessee first baseman Justin Bour lead off the frame with an opposite-field moonshot over the left field wall off of Stars starter Ariel Pena (L, 0-1). Pena then went on to give up a homer to center fielder Matt Szczur in the third and then a blast from right fielder Rubi Silva (second HR in as many games) in the fourth inning to give the Smokies a 3-0 lead. To get into the swing of things, Stars right fielder Kentrail Davis joined the homer brigade in the bottom of the fourth with a leadoff blast off of Smokies starter Alberto Cabrera (W, 2-1) to cut the Tennessee lead to 3-1. The Stars continued their offensive momentum into the fifth inning, where an RBI double from first baseman Jason Rogers scored second baseman Nick Shaw to cut the Stars deficit to one. Unfortunately, Huntsville would get no closer than that. After a leadoff double in the seventh inning from Silva, an RBI double from Tennessee third baseman Christian Villanueva off of Stars reliever Santo Manzanillo would bring the Smokies lead back to two. In the ninth inning, the Stars provided one last surge off of Tennessee closer Frank Batista to try to continue their recent trend of comeback wins. To start the inning, catcher Adam Weisenburger (walk) and pinch-hitter Robinson Diaz (single) both reached base off of Batista. After Shaw grounded into a fielders choice to put runners at first and third, an RBI groundout by shortstop Hector Gomez plated Weisenburger to put the Stars back down by one. However, with Shaw in scoring position at second base, Batista got Davis to ground out to first to notch his second save of the season and end the ballgame. For the Stars, Tuesday's game was their third straight contest that was decided by one run and the fourth out of their last five. On offense, the Stars were led by Rogers and center fielder Brock Kjeldgaard who had two hits apiece. The two-hit night for Rogers was his second in a row, and his sixth of the season in just 12 games. The Stars and Smokies will have a very quick turnaround as they play game three of a five-game series at Joe Davis Stadium on Wednesday morning for the only "Education Day" of the season. Huntsville will send RHP Taylor Jungmann (1-1, 9.82 ERA) to the hill to square off against Tennessee LHP Eric Jokish (1-0, 1.50 ERA). First pitch is at a special time of 10:43 AM.

My "playing GM" tweet earlier tonight - get Sanchez that initial taste for three days, and welcome him back as needed all season.

Nashville Pre-Game Audio: New Brewers Minor League Pitching Coordinator Rick Tomlin

NEW FEATURE! Weather.com: Des Moines, Iowa Huntsville Melbourne (Brevard County) Cedar Rapids

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. Once we're aware of the new online location for Huntsville's Media Notes this season, we'll let you know. (Coming soon, we're told!)

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 Tuesday'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

Even though one of the Rattlers' games tonight in Cedar Rapids is the makeup of a lost home game, it appears that Wisconsin will bat first and be the road team for each game.

Tuesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Frankie De La Cruz at Iowa (Cubs), 6:20 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 Ariel Pena at home vs. Tennessee (Cubs), 6:18 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. Lakeland (Tigers), 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: LHP Brent Suter and RHP Jorge Lopez in a doubleheader at Cedar Rapids (Twins), 4:40 PM pre-game, 5:00 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. 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 Photo Gallery via Omaha.com Omaha.com Game Story