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'Tees edged by Charlotte in 10 innings By Frank Longobardo / Brevard County Manatees VIERA, Fla. - After taking two of three from the Tampa Yankees on the road this past weekend, the Brevard County Manatees came home to Space Coast Stadium to open up a four-game series with the Charlotte Stone Crabs. Zeroes dominated the scoreboard for nine innings and the Stone Crabs finally broke the tie with three runs in the tenth as the Manatees fell 3-1 on Wednesday night. Cody Scarpetta started for the Manatees and continued his dominance of opposing hitters as he went five scoreless innings and extended his streak of consecutive scoreless innings to 21. He struck out six and allowed just two hits on the night. Daniel Meadows relieved Scarpetta and threw two scoreless innings and then Jeremy Jeffress threw two scoreless innings of his own, while striking out four. But Charlotte starter Nick Barnese was just as good as Scarpetta as he threw six scoreless innings and allowed four hits, while striking out seven. The Manatees had a runner in scoring position in the third, fifth, seventh and ninth innings and could not push a run across. Brevard County had a chance to win it in the ninth with runners on the corners and one out, but Josh Prince struck out swinging on a 2-2 pitch low and away in the dirt. Then Matt Cline struck out looking on a close 3-2 pitch. Cline was then ejected from the game by home plate umpire Luke Hamilton for arguing the call. Ruben Flores took the mound for the top of the tenth and the Stone Crabs had runners on first and second with two outs, when Christopher Murrill singled to center to score Jake Jefferies to plate the first run of the game. Murrill took second on Erik Komatsu's throw home to put runners at second and third and with Tim Beckham hitting, Flores threw a wild pitch that allowed Anthony Scelfo to score and then Murrill scored as catcher Sean McCraw tried to throw out Murrill at third. Two batters later, Flores would get out of the inning, but the damage had been done as Charlotte took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the tenth. The Manatees wouldn't go down without a fight though as Sean Halton got things going with a one-out single. After a Sergio Miranda strikeout, Brock Kjeldgaard singled up the middle to put runners on the corners. Scott Krieger would then do the same to drive in Halton and finally put Brevard County on the scoreboard. Peter Fatse, representing the winning run, would fly out to shallow center field to end the game. Brevard County's pitching staff struck out 11 Charlotte hitters in the loss, but the Manatees struggled at the plate, leaving 13 runners on base. McCraw was a perfect 3-for-3 on the night with a walk. Krieger and Shawn Zarraga also had two hits each, with Krieger driving in the lone Brevard County run. The Manatees and the Stone Crabs will continue their four-game series on Thursday night beginning at 7:05 PM (6:05 Central) at Space Coast Stadium.

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Getting to Know #14 Steffan Wilson Huntsville Times Name: Steffan Wilson Nickname: Willy Hometown: State College, PA Years in Professional Baseball: 4 Favorite TV Show: Family Guy Favorite Ice Cream: Peanut Butter Cup Favorite Pizza Toppings: Pineapple Favorite Animal: Monkey Favorite Superhero: Wolverine Favorite City to Travel To: New York, NY Favorite MLB Team Growing Up: Cleveland Indians Favorite Professional Athlete Growing Up: Manny Ramirez Best Dresser on the Team: Lee Haydel Funniest Teammate: Zelous Wheeler I Drive A: Toyota Camry I'm Afraid of: Sharks If I Wasn't Playing Baseball, I Would Be: who knows? What Advice Would You Offer Kids Who Want to Play Professional Baseball?: Work harder than the rest Come out and see Steffan and the rest of the Huntsville Stars play all season long at The Joe! Call (256) 882- 2562 for tickets!

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PCL American North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Iowa 49 41 .544 - - 27-24 22-17 6-4 W3 Omaha 48 41 .539 0.5 55 23-22 25-19 6-4 L1 Memphis 49 42 .538 0.5 54 26-19 23-23 5-5 W1 Nashville 48 42 .533 1.0 54 23-18 25-24 4-6 L1 SOU North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Carolina 11 8 .579 - - 4-2 7-6 7-3 W3 Chattanooga 10 9 .526 1.0 51 7-6 3-3 4-6 L2 Huntsville 10 9 .526 1.0 51 3-3 7-6 6-4 W2 * Tennessee 9 10 .474 2.0 50 5-4 4-6 4-6 W1 West Tenn 6 13 .316 5.0 47 4-6 2-7 2-8 L3 FSL North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Tampa 10 6 .625 - - 5-3 5-3 5-5 L1 Daytona 11 7 .611 - - 7-1 4-6 6-4 L1 Brevard County 10 8 .556 1.0 52 7-4 3-4 6-4 W1 Clearwater 9 10 .474 2.5 50 7-2 2-8 4-6 W1 * Dunedin 8 10 .444 3.0 50 5-4 3-6 5-5 W1 Lakeland 5 12 .294 5.5 48 3-5 2-7 4-6 L1 MID Western Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Quad Cities 11 5 .688 - - 5-2 6-3 7-3 W3 * Cedar Rapids 10 7 .588 1.5 - 6-2 4-5 7-3 W3 Kane County 10 8 .556 2.0 53 6-3 4-5 7-3 W1 Clinton 9 8 .529 2.5 53 5-4 4-4 4-6 L1 Wisconsin 9 9 .500 3.0 52 7-2 2-7 5-5 W3 Burlington 8 9 .471 3.5 52 7-2 1-7 5-5 L4 Beloit 7 10 .412 4.5 50 5-4 2-6 4-6 L2 Peoria 4 12 .250 7.0 49 2-6 2-6 2-8 L4 PIO North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Great Falls 13 9 .591 - - 6-6 7-3 6-4 W1 Helena 12 10 .545 1.0 16 7-3 5-7 3-7 L3 Billings 11 11 .500 2.0 15 7-5 4-6 7-3 W5 Missoula 8 14 .364 5.0 12 5-5 3-9 4-6 L1 AZL Central Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak AZL Brewers 14 5 .737 - - 2-3 2-1 4-4 W1 AZL Dodgers 9 10 .474 5.0 33 2-2 1-2 3-4 L4 AZL Indians 8 11 .421 6.0 32 1-2 4-1 5-3 L1 AZL Reds 7 12 .368 7.0 31 0-3 2-2 2-5 L3 DSL S.D. North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak DSL Cardinals 23 15 .605 - - 18-2 5-13 7-3 W1 DSL Mariners 22 17 .564 1.5 33 14-6 8-11 8-2 W3 DSL Brewers 17 21 .447 6.0 29 11-7 6-14 5-5 L3 DSL Athletics 15 24 .385 8.5 26 8-11 7-13 1-9 L1

Follow Wednesday's action as it happens: Here's what you do, right click on each of the links below and choose "Open in New Tab or New Window". Choose "Recap". While you're listening to your minor league game of choice (or watching/listening to the big league Crew when they are playing), simply refresh your game log browsers every so often. Huntsville (Gameday also available) Brevard County Wisconsin Helena DSL Brewers

LHP Del Howell gets his opportunity to be seen by a wider audience tonight, the latest Timber Rattlers' game to be broadcast on Time Warner Sports Cable 32 for the locals among you -- notice that you can set your DVR for this evening or any number of slots through the weekend -- Minor League Baseball: Lansing Lugnuts @ Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Wednesday, July 14: 7-10pm LIVE Thursday, July 15: 12:30-3:30pm Friday, July 16: 9am-12pm Saturday, July 17: 12-3pm Sunday, July 18: 7-10pm

Wednesday's Daily Menu: Times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: Idle; All-Star Game today -- all the details, including broadcast info, found on our forums here, where any updates will also be placed Huntsville: RHP Josh Butler at home vs. Mississippi (Braves), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:00 gametime Live Audio Link Brevard County: TBD (likely RHP Cody Scarpetta) at home vs. Charlotte (Rays), 6:05 PM gametime Live Audio Link (Stephen C. Smith's SpaceCoastBaseball.com) Wisconsin: LHP Del Howell at home vs. Lansing (Blue Jays), 6:45 PM pre-game; 7:05 gametime Live Audio Link Helena: LHP Evan Frederickson at home vs. Ogden (Dodgers), 7:50 PM pre-game; 8:05 gametime Live Audio Link Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): Idle DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Mariners, 9:30 AM

FYI regarding next year's Southern League All-Star Game: One change coming next year is when the game will be played. “We’re going to have it at the actual halfway point of our season, so we can have a true all-star game,” West Tenn assistant general manager Jason Compton said. “We waited until the MLB All-Star Week this year, and there’s 18 guys not playing that were selected for our game. “So next year, we’ll be able to have more of the best players of the first half of our season come to Pringles Park and play in front of our fans in Jackson.” Huntsville drew a crowd of 7,782 for the event, the largest in the Southern League All-Star game history since at least 1999.

Here's your info as two Sounds take part in the 2010 AAA All-Star Game in Allentown, Pennsylvania, matching the best of the Pacific Coast League and the International League -- Date / Time: Wednesday, July 14th, Game Time is 6:00 PM Central Coverage: On TV -- MLB Network Online video -- MiLB.TV Online Audio Sounds' Participants: Representing the PCL, RHP Mike McClendon and SS Luis Cruz Box Score / Game Log / Gameday: LINK Post-game "Link Report"-style coverage will be within this thread. MiLB.com preview

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Outfielder Franklin Romero. Jr. returns to Helena from his brief Brevard promotion. Perhaps Reggie Keen's hand injury at Helena prompted this.

Link Report Bonus --Link while active, text follows: Ex-Star Corey Hart now All-Star ... and a star of Home Run Derby Mark McCarter, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- Corey Hart lifted himself from a name barely known outside the baseball world into the mainstream on Monday night when he socked 13 homers in the first round of the Home Run Derby in Anaheim, part of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game festivities. Hart, a Milwaukee Brewers outfielder, will be in the starting lineup in tonight's All-Star Game. All that got me thinking about the accompanying photo, one of the most memorable pictures I've been involved with at The Times. Corey Hart, left, Dave Krynzel, bottom, J.J. Hardy, top, in 2003 photo of Huntsville Stars prospects http://media.al.com/huntsville-times-sports/photo/coreyjpg-726830079146add9_large.jpg In 2003, Hart was part of a trio of rising young stars in the Milwaukee system, along with J.J. Hardy and Dave Krynzel. Hart and Krynzel were 21, Hardy just 20. Thinking of them as kids, we decided to pose them on a wooden swing set in the small playground behind the left field stands at Joe Davis Stadium for a photo that would lead our season-opening coverage. Then they started acting like kids. They began trying to see how high they could swing. The photographer kept clicking away. Then came a sound much louder than a camera's click. It was a crack. The wood in the swing set broke. Happily, there were no casualties. It would not be an easy thing to explain to Milwaukee management that the three brightest prospects in the system had broken legs in a swing set accident caused by a newspaper photograph. We wound up posing them, as you see, on a different piece of playground equipment. With no small amount of trepidation, I called Bryan Dingo, then the Stars' general manager and said, "Um, The Times owes you a swing set. Send me a bill." Thankfully, the company that built the set replaced it, figuring that if three major league prospects could do that much damage, imagine what a gaggle of eight-year-olds might do. I'm glad to see Hart have so much success. He was always an unassuming, nice guy. I wrote a lot about him in 2003, when he was named the Southern League MVP. When I've gone to Brewers games through the years, he's one of the first guys to stop by and say hello if I'm loitering in the dugout or clubhouse before the game. It didn't surprise me the other day when I was talking to Sandy Guerrero, the former Stars' coach, who was going to pitch to Hart during the Home Run Derby. "Corey's nervous," Guerrero said. He didn't show it in the first part of the Derby. Looked just as calm as he did on a swing set seven years ago.

PCL American North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Iowa 49 41 .544 - - 27-24 22-17 6-4 W3 Omaha 48 41 .539 0.5 55 23-22 25-19 6-4 L1 Memphis 49 42 .538 0.5 54 26-19 23-23 5-5 W1 Nashville 48 42 .533 1.0 54 23-18 25-24 4-6 L1 SOU North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Carolina 11 8 .579 - - 4-2 7-6 7-3 W3 Chattanooga 10 9 .526 1.0 51 7-6 3-3 4-6 L2 Huntsville 10 9 .526 1.0 51 3-3 7-6 6-4 W2 * Tennessee 9 10 .474 2.0 50 5-4 4-6 4-6 W1 West Tenn 6 13 .316 5.0 47 4-6 2-7 2-8 L3 FSL North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Tampa 10 6 .625 - - 5-3 5-3 5-5 L1 Daytona 11 7 .611 - - 7-1 4-6 6-4 L1 Brevard County 10 8 .556 1.0 52 7-4 3-4 6-4 W1 Clearwater 9 10 .474 2.5 50 7-2 2-8 4-6 W1 * Dunedin 8 10 .444 3.0 50 5-4 3-6 5-5 W1 Lakeland 5 12 .294 5.5 48 3-5 2-7 4-6 L1 MID Western Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Quad Cities 11 5 .688 - - 5-2 6-3 7-3 W3 * Cedar Rapids 10 7 .588 1.5 - 6-2 4-5 7-3 W3 Kane County 10 8 .556 2.0 53 6-3 4-5 7-3 W1 Clinton 9 8 .529 2.5 53 5-4 4-4 4-6 L1 Wisconsin 9 9 .500 3.0 52 7-2 2-7 5-5 W3 Burlington 8 9 .471 3.5 52 7-2 1-7 5-5 L4 Beloit 7 10 .412 4.5 50 5-4 2-6 4-6 L2 Peoria 4 12 .250 7.0 49 2-6 2-6 2-8 L4 PIO North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Great Falls 13 9 .591 - - 6-6 7-3 6-4 W1 Helena 12 10 .545 1.0 16 7-3 5-7 3-7 L3 Billings 11 11 .500 2.0 15 7-5 4-6 7-3 W5 Missoula 8 14 .364 5.0 12 5-5 3-9 4-6 L1 AZL Central Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak AZL Brewers 13 5 .722 - - 2-3 1-1 3-4 L1 AZL Dodgers 9 9 .500 4.0 35 2-1 1-2 3-3 L3 AZL Indians 8 10 .444 5.0 34 1-1 4-1 5-2 W5 AZL Reds 7 11 .389 6.0 33 0-2 2-2 2-4 L2

Follow Monday's action as it happens: Arizona Rookie (Maryvale) DSL Brewers

If the DSL holds prior practice, the Brewers and Cardinals will probably play two today (rainout July 9th), with each team playing the host in one contest. If that's the case, we'll link to it during the overnight.

Tuesday's Daily Menu: Times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: Idle until Thursday; PCL vs. IL AAA All-Star game is Wednesday on MLB Network Huntsville: Idle Brevard County: Idle Wisconsin: Idle Helena: Idle Arizona Rookie (Maryvale): at the Reds' complex in Goodyear; 9:00 PM; never audio for games in this league DSL Brewers: at the DSL Cardinals, 9:30 AM

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Corner infielder Chris Nowak, a 27-year-old, 6'5" 225 lb. corner infielder who has played in the Tampa Bay system since being drafted in the 19th round in 2004 (career stat line of .291 / .376 / .435 -- OPS of .812 in over 2600 pro at-bats), has been signed by the Brewers and reports to Huntsville this week. Link Infielder Chris Nowak, released by the AA Montgomery Biscuits on Friday, has signed with the Milwaukee Brewers and is headed to Double-A Huntsville. Nowak is set to join the Stars after the All-Star break, Huntsville manager Mike Guerrero said. Nowak was deactivated by the Biscuits last week and asked for his release Friday. He started the year with Triple-A Durham but wasn't on the active roster there before dropping to the Biscuits on April 24. The 27-year-old was hitting .248 with 33 RBIs and, when he was deactivated, led current Biscuits with seven home runs. Nowak had a .291 average in seven seasons in the Tampa Bay organization. He was Montgomery's most valuable player in 2008. Nowak was the MVP of the 2007 Southern League championship series against Huntsville. He finished 11-for-18 with three home runs. Nowak also hit a single that started a successful ninth-inning rally in the decisive Game 5 of the series. *** Although he attended college in the state of South Carolina, Nowak was born in Milwaukee. Expect him to DH and see action at first base, maybe a bit of third base and left field. No corresponding move has been announced. Nowak would seem to profile in Steffan Wilson's current role.

Kudos to the charitable workings of the Nashville Sounds front office staff -- this has been in the works for some time now, but we'll give a one-time shout-out and congrats for their efforrts as the plan starts to come to fruition.

Brad Krause with commentary and photos from the 15-12 Rattler extravaganza Monday.

Link while active, text follows: A large crowd, 7,782 strong, gives Huntsville a proud All-Star evening Mark McCarter, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- Just when the skepticism level was creeping into the danger level, just when the notion of the Huntsville Stars hosting a Southern League All-Star Game kept bringing to mind the old newsreel footage of the Hindenburg, this happens: Some 7,782 friends and neighbors showed up to watch. The game was entertaining and well-played. Things went off without a hitch. And, did I say that 7,782 showed up to watch? In a city that's last in the league in attendance? That's more fans than Birmingham drew last year, more than the Montgomery Biscuits drew in 2006. More than anybody's drawn as far back as Google can carry you. So what if more than a few of the tickets were freebies? The fact that the crowd stretched clear down into the elbow of the left field stands, that people had to brush away dust that had been sitting on some seats since Michael Jordan was trying to play baseball, so what? The North won the game 3-2 - it has won all six years of this North vs. South format - and the Jacksonville's Matt Dominguez won the MVP award with about 800 feet worth of home runs. The real winner? Huntsville. "I'm so proud of Huntsville right now," said Jimmy Jones, a former Stars catcher who has volunteered tirelessly in support of the game. It was barely more than a year ago when Milwaukee assistant general manager Gord Ash famously, and not inaccurately, said that "this is a very apathetic baseball town, and something's going to have to change." Something changed, if only for a few lovely hours, on Monday night. How wonderful if the Southern League All-Star Game is a catalyst. Especially since many of us feared it might be a catastrophe. How wonderful if these paying customers would return a few more times and sponsors got back on board and ownership gave the franchise the sort of attention on a regular basis it did these past three days. How wonderful if this evening shook up the apathy. It was a typical All-Star Game, with some goofiness, though nothing quite as bizarre as in the 1986 edition of the All-Star Game. That night, the Oak Ridge Boy and Stars' part-owner Richard Sterban was inserted into right field for the last out of the game. Because of the shortage of pitching and reluctance to use anyone for more than two innings' work, Josh Collmenter was the North's starting pitcher. At 6-1 and an ERA skimpier than a Speedo, he was a deserving starter. Except that he pitches for Mobile. And was selected to the South team. "Benedict Arnold," he called himself. Sometimes you fear the Stars' organization is more concerned with hokey promotions - for instance, the five masochists who are going to climb into a car Wednesday night to see who can stay in there the longest - than it is with doing all it should to restore the team's spot in the community fabric. And it certainly was not an All-Star Extravaganza to take advantage of all that Huntsville has to offer. The visiting players and league guests were pretty much limited to hotel ballrooms and the ballpark for the festivities; small budgets equal modest events. You'd have liked to have seen a little more glamour. But Huntsville offered its support to the All-Star Game, and that's what truly counts. Now, the burning question, how to build on the magic of this event when it's all Stars and not All-Stars? The Southern League All-Star Game featured an announced crowd of 7,782 on Tuesday a Joe Davis Stadium. Photo by Dave Dieter/The Huntsville Times http://media.al.com/huntsville-times-sports/photo/southern-league-all-starsjpg-182d09fa0ccbfc0f_large.jpg The Southern League All Star game was held Monday night at Joe Davis Stadium for the first time in 18 years. Joe Carlucci shows off his award winning pizza spinning skills prior to start of game. Southern All Star Game gallery (21 photos)

Link while active, text follows: Timber Rattlers outfielder Khris Davis finding his power stroke By Cory Jennerjohn, Post-Crescent staff writer GRAND CHUTE — The sweat off the field is turning into highlights on it for Khris Davis. The endless hours spent throwing weights around and taking hacks in the indoor batting cage is turning Davis into Mr. Automatic at the plate. The Timber Rattlers left fielder is seven for his last seven with three home runs, a double, three singles and seven runs scored to go along with a 10-game hitting streak. He knocked another one out of Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium by sending a solo shot off the batting practice cage behind left as the Timber Rattlers beat Burlington 15-12 on Monday afternoon. "It's almost like a joke," said shortstop Michael Marseco. "At some point in the game, you know he's going to put an amazing swing on a pitch and he's going to trot the bases. It's just kind of his thing." The 2009 seventh-round draft choice now has 16 home runs. It took him 65 games to notch eight homers in the first half, but only 18 games to match that total in the second half. He needs just five homers to tie Juan Silvestre (1999) and Matt Hagen (2003) for the team record. "I'm just seeing a lot of mistakes and putting good swings on them," said Davis, who's batting .313 and leads the Midwest League in extra-base hits with 41. "It's pretty fun. I got to enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't last forever." Davis won the MWL All-Star Game home run derby on June 21 with 25 blasts in three rounds by mimicking his childhood idol. "I said I'd like you to try something completely different than your normal swing," said Timber Rattlers hitting coach Matt Erickson. "I said who's your favorite player and he said Ken Griffey, Jr. I said, let's have fun with it. Stand up a little bit more, do a little bit of Ken Griffey, Jr., and I'll be dang that the picture that I saw on the Web site was kind of funny. He had his hat on backwards, it was almost like he was like he was mimicking Griffey." And since he changed his swing and stance for the home run derby, he wasn't worried about altering his regular routine of working pitches the other way once he started playing games again. Davis, 22, has baseball running through his veins. He played in last year's College World Series for Cal-State Fullerton and his dad is a scout in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. But even all that isn't the end-all for this kid. Despite being named MWL player of the week June 28 by instilling fear in most Class A pitchers, he has a glaring hole in his game. "Throwing mechanics, the defensive side," said Timber Rattlers manager Jeff Isom. But Isom quickly added that even a subpar arm — that was on display in the second on a shallow single to left that easily scored two runs — can be masked. "The way he's swinging the bat, they're going to try to find a place for him in the lineup," Isom said. "Somewhere, someway, somehow." "Throwing-wise there's a lot of improvement for me to play at the next level," Davis said. "That's what I'm focusing on this year." If Davis works as hard in the cage as he does with his throwing motion, the Brewers could have themselves a diamond in the rough.

Rattlers Report: Wisconsin 15, Burlington 12 By Cory Jennerjohn, Appleton Post-Crescent The Timber Rattlers had a couple of unlikely heroes on Monday. Austin Stockfisch and Michael Marseco came into the game batting .169 and .197, respectively, and the No. 7 and 8 batters gave them a needed lift at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. After the Timber Rattlers got four straight walks in the seventh, Marseco laced a two-RBI double to left center and Stockfisch followed with an RBI single to tie the game at 12. The Rattlers tallied five runs. "They were busting me in all day," said Marseco, who was two-for-four with three RBI. "And I just had a feeling that they were going to go away with two strikes because you don't want to repeat the same pitch too many times." Stockfisch matched his season RBI total of four by going two-for-five with a pair of singles, raising his average 17 points. "Anytime I get a hit it's going up," Stockfisch said. "It's tough to get hits in the beginning of the game but when you have your best at-bats in your last two, is really sweet." They both struck again in the eighth. With the bases loaded, Marseco was hit by an 0-2 pitch on the left foot to bring in the go-ahead run and Stockfisch added more insurance with a two-run single to left center. Defensively, the Rattlers were happy to hold on. They committed six errors, which put the Timber Rattlers in last place in the Midwest League with 127 miscues. "I was telling the coaching staff it's like taking a Greyhound to Hawaii, you're just happy when you get there," said Timber Rattlers manager Jeff Isom. "You'll take the win any way you can get it." Today's game: The Rattlers are off Tuesday. Next game: The Rattlers host the Lansing Lugnuts on Wednesday at 7:05 PM. Up and throwing: TBA, Lansing vs. Del Howell, Wisconsin (1-4, 5.37 ERA). Attendance: 2,534. Average through 40 dates: 3,343.

The only teams in play on Tuesday the 13th are the AZL and DSL Brewers, who aren't eligible for the Beat the Streak contest. We suggest you don't pick any non-Brewers, because as it turns out, unlike the Major League Beat the Streak which penalizes you if you skip a day, the Minor League Game does not. So just wait until Wednesday.