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Follow Wednesday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin

Wednesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Seth McClung at home vs. Colorado Springs (Rockies), 10:50 AM pre-game, 11:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the new 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). We imagine the audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Kyle Heckathorn at Jackson (Mariners), 10:50 AM pre-game, 11:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page I-Phone friendly audio link Alex Cohen is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. It's fantastic that Huntsville is returning to what will be a traditional broadcast format this year. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. MiLB.TV subsciption note: A total of 24 Stars' games (in Jacksonville and Tennessee) will be broadcast. ********** Brevard County: RHP Hiram Burgos at home vs. St. Lucie (Mets), 9:35 AM gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the St. Lucie feed from the MiLB main audio page Once again this season, Brevard does not have its own audio coverage. It appears two teams in the Manatees North Division (within which the majority of games are played) have audio, and all six teams in the South Division have audio (at least for their home games), so there will be opportunities to listen to approx. 70% or Brevard's games this season, just all from the opponent's perspective. There are no Florida State League games on MiLB.TV this year. *** Wisconsin: RHP Chad Thompson at home vs. Quad Cities (Cardinals), 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 only two (Great Lakes) Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV; Chris' call provides the audio. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, all Timber Rattlers home games, and 24 Stars' road games (one Helena series this summer, too).

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Brad Krause adds insight well beyond the box score lines within his own very nice blog; a player such as LHP Mike Strong gets a nice gift in photos from his first game above the rookie ball level within Brad's gallery.

STARS OUT SHINE GENERALS JACKSON, Tenn.- A two-run double off the bat of Josh Prince gave the Huntsville Stars (19-14) their second victory in as many games against the Jackson Generals (20-13) in a 2-1 victory Tuesday night at Pringles Park. Bats were quiet on both sides until the top of the fifth. Left fielder Lee Haydel drew a walk to lead off the inning. Third baseman Matt Cline singled to advance Haydel before Prince hit a double through the hole at short to score both Cline and Haydel. The only other time the Stars had a runner in scoring position was thanks to a wild pitch and throwing error by Generals’ starting pitcher James Paxton in the second and third innings. Jackson didn’t have a runner advance past first until the bottom of the sixth. Third baseman Francisco Martinez doubled to right-center followed immediately by a two-bagger off the bat of second baseman Eric Campbell. Martinez scored to chase Stars starter Evan Anundsen from the game. Anundsen had a solid outing for his second win of the season, giving up just one run on four hits over 5.1 innings. He allowed just one walk and struck out five batters. The Generals managed to just get one more hit on the Stars pitching staff before reliever Rob Wooten notched his eighth save of the season, pitching 0.2 innings. Jackson starter Paxton went six innings, giving up two runs on four hits. He struck out seven and walked three en route to his third loss of the season. The Stars look to take their four series in five attempts tomorrow with RHP Kyle Heckathorn (1-1, 3.86 ERA) on the mound against Generals RHP Tijuan Walker (3-1, 1.30 ERA). First pitch is scheduled for 11:05 a.m.

Video interview with Wisconsin INF Brandon Macias, cortesy of the Post-Crescent

Still just mid-game, but Evan Anundsen outpitching James Paxton is pretty sweet. *** Just came here to post about Jeff Bianchi, Briggs. Cautiously very excited he's "found" something, still wondering how he managed a Texas-League OPS of only .654 last year (it was his first year back after losing 2010 to Tommy John).

Welcome aboard ahagen1987! McFarland, like all the players who will open with Helena and/or Maryvale in mid-June, does play games for a ten-week period against other rookie players from Arizona-based spring training teams. The difference is this these games don't count in terms of schedule, standings, or stats, and coaching staffs can bend conventional game rules a bit, especially for rehabbing players from higher levels of the minors or even big leaguers. The young Brewers will often tweet about these games (usually about the already high heat) or as in LHP Will West's case today, the length of these games. The games will become more formal, with box scores, after the official start.

A nicely detailed report from today's Rattlers game from Kyle at BrewCrewBall. His audio from the game will be posted at the end of that link soon, it may even be there when you visit it, depending on your timing.

You may remember this video report from the J-S Peanuts and Cracker jack blog staff in spring training on LHP Connor Whalen. Whalen (stats), who has seen limited activity with Brevard, goes on their 7-day DL (undisclosed injury). Fellow southpaw Brian Garman (stats) comes off the DL after the minimum 7-day stint.

Nashville Media Notes

SS Tommy Manzella was the Astros' 3rd round pick in 2005 out of Tulane. SS (now OF) Josh Prince was the Brewers' 3rd round pick in 2009 out of Tulane.

A thread was started on the Major League Forum (although it's certainly a minor league deal and perspective on this) based on the signing of SS Tommy Manzella. Major League Numbers Minor League Numbers

We can leave this thread here in the major league forum based on Manzella's prior MLB experience, although we realize for now it's a minor league deal and perspective.

We can leave this thread here in the major league forum based on Manzella's prior MLB experience, although we realize for now it's a minor league deal and perspective.

Rotation notes from Chris.

Nice job on Seth McClung via Andy Tarnoff at OnMilwaukee.com

Wisconsin Media Notes

Joe Block's Monday Brewers pre-game audio with Taylor Green

Note from Chris Mehring: Drew Gagnon was the scheduled starting pitcher for the Rattlers today, but is being skipped as a precaution. *** We won't read too much into that, an extra day or two or even a skipped turn can't hurt the talented young man.

OK, so who played the parlay on Juan Sanchez, Matt Cline, Brandon Macias, and Ben McMahan all hitting their first home runs of the season Monday? Who won that pool? *** Hey, did you all see this? Top minor league team blog site in all the MLB blog umbrella, and ahead of most MLB blogs as well. How lucky are we? Of course, we direct some of that traffic .

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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 Tuesday's evening action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin

Tuesday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP Mike Fiers at home vs. Colorado Springs (Rockies), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the new 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). We imagine the audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Evan Anundsen at Jackson (Mariners), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page I-Phone friendly audio link Alex Cohen is the new play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. It's fantastic that Huntsville is returning to what will be a traditional broadcast format this year. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. MiLB.TV subsciption note: A total of 24 Stars' games (in Jacksonville and Tennessee) will be broadcast. ********** Brevard County: LHP Jed Bradley at home vs. St. Lucie (Mets), 5:35 PM gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the St. Lucie feed from the MiLB main audio page Once again this season, Brevard does not have its own audio coverage. It appears two teams in the Manatees North Division (within which the majority of games are played) have audio, and all six teams in the South Division have audio (at least for their home games), so there will be opportunities to listen to approx. 70% or Brevard's games this season, just all from the opponent's perspective. There are no Florida State League games on MiLB.TV this year. *** Wisconsin: RHP Kevin Shackelford at home vs. Cedar Rapids (Angels), 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 only two (Great Lakes) Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV; Chris' call provides the audio. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, all Timber Rattlers home games, and 24 Stars' road games (one Helena series this summer, too).