Jim Goulart

Final, Game One: Helena 8, Ogden 4 Game Two: Helena 5, Ogden 0, suspended after one inning, rain Brewers win Game One 8-4, Game Two Suspended Helena Brewers HELENA, MT - The Helena Brewers and Ogden Raptors were supposed to play 14 innings on Tuesday night in Helena. They got in 8 ½. The Brewers took game one of the scheduled doubleheader by a final score of 8-4. The Brewers have a 5-0 lead in the top of the 2nd of game two, which will resume on Wednesday at 5:05 PM (6:05 Central). Following the conclusion of that game the Brewers and Raptors will wrap up this wet series with another 7-inning game to end the first half of the season. GAME ONE, Brewers Win 8-4 The Brewers offense came to play on Tuesday afternoon, scoring eight runs in the first four innings en route to an 8-4 victory in game one of the scheduled doubleheader with the Ogden Raptors. Wes Wilson got Helena on the board in the bottom of the 1st with a one-out double to score Ryan Aguilar and tie the game 1-1. From there the Brewers kept on hitting. Joantgel Segovia drove in two in the 2nd with a double, and he came home two batters later on a Demi Orimoloye single to put the Brewers ahead 4-2. Ronnie Gideon's fourth home run of the season increased the Helena lead to 5-2 in the 3rd, and the Brewers added three more in 4th. Six different Brewers finished with at least one RBI. Segovia led the way going 3-for-3 with two driven in. Gentry Fortuno (3-3) earned his 3rd victory of the season, allowing two runs on two hits and a walk in three innings of work. Colton Cross slammed the door shut in the 7th, striking out a pair and lowering his ERA to 2.03. In Game 2, a five-run, seven-hit first inning vaulted the Brewers, who saw Wilson hit an RBI triple and Cooper Hummel rope a two-RBI double. The Brewers improved to 10-7 at home. *** PHOTOS: Helena Independent Record *** Helena Game One Box Score Second half schedule starts Friday by the way; the three Brewer pitchers only walked one combined; Gilbert Lara has not played since leaving the game early on the 23rd (after a 5th inning strikeout that day); ten hits, three for extra bases (including the Gideon home run), and six walks for the H-Crew offense; mix in clean defense (just one passed ball), and a very solid evening here... Helena Game One Game Log *** In the shortened nightcap, after a scoreless top of the 1st via RHP Wuilder Rodriguez, this happened, sweet -- Helena Bottom of the 1st Ryan Aguilar doubles (1) on a line drive to right fielder DJ Peters. Joantgel Segovia singles on a bunt ground ball to pitcher Willian Soto. Ryan Aguilar scores. Joantgel Segovia to 2nd. Throwing error by pitcher Willian Soto. With Weston Wilson batting, wild pitch by Willian Soto, Joantgel Segovia to 3rd. Weston Wilson triples (2) on a line drive to right fielder DJ Peters. Joantgel Segovia scores. Demi Orimoloye singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jordan Paroubeck. Weston Wilson scores. Nathan Rodriguez lines out to center fielder Cody Thomas. Jonathan Oquendo singles on a line drive to right fielder DJ Peters. Demi Orimoloye out at home, right fielder DJ Peters to second baseman Samuel Ortiz to third baseman Jared Walker to catcher Gersel Pitre. Jonathan Oquendo to 2nd on the throw. Trever Morrison singles on a sharp ground ball to first baseman Ibandel Isabel. Jonathan Oquendo to 3rd. Cooper Hummel doubles (4) on a fly ball to center fielder Cody Thomas. Jonathan Oquendo scores. Trever Morrison scores. Pitching Change: Gregor Mora replaces Willian Soto. Caleb Whalen flies out to left fielder Jordan Paroubeck.

Final: Colorado Springs 5, Nashville 2 Peralta, Sox Silence Sounds In 5-2 Win Peralta earns first win as Sky Sox win fifth straight By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox *** Colorado Springs Box Score Way to be a professional about your AAA stint, Wily, keep it up; we see you, Colin Walsh, and your .301/.417/.386 line (.803 OPS); congrats, Garrett Cooper, on that first AAA at-bat... Colorado Springs Game Log Oh joy, a Wednesday matinee, quick turnaround time, need to see a nice outing from RHP Aaron Wilkerson...

As also posted in full in the "Houser - TJ" thread on this forum... Adrian Houser was ‘ready to take off’ before Tommy John surgery Biloxi Shuckers right-hander Adrian Houser suffered an injury June 23 The former second-round pick underwent Tommy John surgery last week Houser is expected to miss 12 to 18 months Patrick Ochs, Biloxi Sun-Herald Biloxi Shuckers pitching coach Chris Hook feels prized pitcher Adrian Houser was just starting to find his groove.

Adrian Houser was ‘ready to take off’ before Tommy John surgery Biloxi Shuckers right-hander Adrian Houser suffered an injury June 23 The former second-round pick underwent Tommy John surgery last week Houser is expected to miss 12 to 18 months Patrick Ochs, Biloxi Sun-Herald Biloxi Shuckers pitching coach Chris Hook feels prized pitcher Adrian Houser was just starting to find his groove. Then he was struck by what almost seems inevitable in today’s game and will likely be out until the 2018 season. Against Montgomery on June 23, Houser didn’t feel quite right and was pulled after just four innings with what was initially diagnosed as forearm tightness. He later found out he had a “significant partial tear” to his ulnar collateral ligament. After receiving several opinions, Houser opted for Tommy John surgery and will likely be out 12 to 18 months as a result of extensive rehab. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel’s Todd Rosiak reported Brewers team physician William Raasch performed the procedure in Milwaukee. “To me when I watch guys, I can see there are times in the season where they really start clicking,” Hook said. “When they start clicking, they just take off. Of course, Jorge (Lopez) had that in mid- to late May last year and just took off for the rest of the season. I think Houser was in that type of mode. It was coming and unfortunately he had that little bump in the road.” Statistically speaking Although Houser was just 3-7 on the year with a 5.25 ERA, he had shown a lot of improvement in June, earning the Shuckers Pitcher of the Month honor. Houser went 1-2 in four starts in June but boasted a 2.35 ERA, allowing six earned runs in 23 innings with three quality starts. He also struck out 20 against six walks while holding opponents to a .253 batting average. Hook pointed to Houser’s fielding independent pitching — which tries to measure what a player’s ERA would look like with a league average defense behind him — of 3.67 as reason for optimism. “Houser was ready to take off. He had some bad innings — he didn’t really have bad games — so his ERA and those things were kind of skewed. When you look at the advance metrics, he was right where he needed to be,” Hook said. “We were very encouraged on his stuff and location. His delivery was all getting better and he was the Pitcher of the Month in June, so we know he was coming on.” Staying positive Houser has remained upbeat. After the surgery, he tweeted: “This is just a bump in the road that I will work hard to overcome and come back stronger from. It’s a long rehab process, and I’m ready to get to work so I can get back to competing and helping the Brew Crew wherever I can in the future. Go Brew Crew!” The Brewers also seem confident Houser, who Baseball America ranked as Milwaukee’s 20th best prospect, will bounce back from the injury. “You realize injuries are part of it and you feel bad when it happens,” Brewers farm director Tom Flanagan told Rosiak. “But at the same time, we know it’s a surgery that has a very high success rate, and we’re confident in our people to rehab Adrian and in Adrian to give the effort he’s going to need. “In time he’ll do that and get back out there for us.” According to Baseball America, the 6-foot-4, 235-pound Houser has a 92-94 MPH fastball that tails away from left-handed batters and he mixes in a slider, curveball and changeup.

VIDEO: Yes, on that Aroldis Chapman sidenote, Yankee fans' eyes were on Space Coast Stadium Tuesday night

Final: Arizona Cubs 6, Arizona Brewers 4 This was the first game of the second half of the AZL season; the A-Crew was 12-16, eight games behind the AZL Indians, in the first half. Maryvale Box Score After four good July outings, 22-year-old RHP Nattino Diplan had a bit of a clunker here, he was the 2nd of five Brewer pitchers to see action on this night. This was the second time 11th round 18-year-old Chad McClanahan, the second most expensive Brewer draft signing, played first base instead of third. He committed two errors on this night, but also had two base hits, including a double. Gabriel Garcia played third base, double and walk at the plate (1.189 OPS). Maryvale Game Log Weather: 108 degrees, clear. Wind: 1 mph, Varies. If the wind is only 1 MPH, how can you tell if the direction varies? Summer breeze in Arizona...

DSL Brewers Top of the 2nd Javier Castillo pops out to shortstop Oliver Carmona. Luis Avalo hit by pitch. Jose Pena singles on a line drive to center fielder Rayneldy Rosario. Luis Avalo to 2nd. Jose Pena out at 2nd, center fielder Rayneldy Rosario to shortstop Oliver Carmona to first baseman Angel Molina. Jesus Lujano singles on a ground ball to third baseman Miguel De La Cruz. Luis Avalo to 3rd. With Luis Manon batting, Luis Avalo steals (1) home. Jesus Lujano steals (4) 2nd base. Luis Manon called out on strikes. DSL Angels Bottom of the 2nd Defensive Substitution: Marcos Pinero replaces left fielder Jose Pena, batting 8th, playing left field. *** Will have to monitor the playing status of 17-year-old LH bat Jose Pena after that sequence.

MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers It's a shortcut intro tonight, folks; you can refer to a Daily Menu from when all the affiliates played (last Saturday), if you need help finding audio or MiLB.TV or such, but I imagine you can find that info easily enough if interested. Thanks!

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Previously unannounced moves: Via the Shuckers staff and for the 'Tees, Donny Rieber, Jr. -- RH reliever Gage Smith from Biloxi to Brevard County 1B/C Mitch Ghelfi gets the bump from Wisconsin to Brevard County Manatee RH starter Eric Hanhold placed on the 7-day DL retro to 7/24 *** Congratulations, Mitch!

Whoa, she's broken now. Delicate, tired, flower she is.

Once in a while we ask the Brewers about maybe being cousins, like Nattino and Marcos Diplan (they're not, apparently.) Whenever we've wondered that, the birthplaces have never matched, which doesn't rule things out, but not likely.

Let me know what you're trying to query on. For instance, I just plugged in show me all "Claimed off Waivers" since June 25th, 2004, and it came up fine.

Final: Arizona Brewers 7, Arizona Cubs 4 Yeah, club those Cubbies! Maryvale Box Score 17-year-old competitive balance pick catcher Mario Feliciano is doing just fine thanks through his first 11 pro games. As Toby noted above, drafted as a catcher (and played one game there thus far, along with first base), 18-year-old "now-shortstop" (one error here) Gabriel Garcia has nine extra base hits through 13 games - were the Brewers brilliant drafting him in the 14th round, or lucky he was still there? RF Jay Feliciano had three hits including a triple. Maryvale Game Log 36th round RHP Parker Bean of Liberty University made a one-inning start, only his 2nd appearance and first since his July 7th debut, so he's coming back from some sort of minor injury; only one earned run (three unearned) and no walks (one HBP) in five innings for Lind trade acquisition RHP Carlos Herrera. *** Weather: 103 degrees, unknown. Wind: 8 mph, In from CF. Unknown? Was it sunny or not?

VIDEO via KRDO: A few Colorado Springs highlights

Via @BrewersPD, this is for those ticket buyers living in Arizona -- This season, Brewer Arizona Fall League players will play for the Salt River Rafters with players from ARI, ATL, COL, and DET.

PHOTO Gallery via the Post-Crescent: Monday's Timber Rattlers' game

Timber Rattlers are team in transition following several moves Tim Froberg, Appleton Post-Crescent VIDEO Interview with Jake Gatewood at the link (previously linked within the Rattler Radio Blog postgame entry) GRAND CHUTE - Roster revisions and team reboots are part of the ever-changing world of minor league baseball. Affiliates of Major League Baseball teams are asked to retool on the fly with new pieces and parts. The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are no exception. The team that took the field Monday afternoon at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium bore little resemblance to the one that opened the 2016 Midwest league season 3½ months ago. Of the 10 players that comprised Monday’s starting lineup in a 6-2 loss to Lake County, five were members of Wisconsin’s opening-day lineup, but catcher Max McDowell and right fielder Carlos Belonis were the only ones playing the same positions. The starting second baseman was Isan Diaz — the Timber Rattlers’ starting shortstop for much of the season — which was no surprise since Diaz has been projected as a second baseman since the day the Brewers acquired him in a trade with Arizona last winter. Diaz’s partner on the left side of the infield for most of 2016, Jake Gatewood, was also manning a new position on the right side. Gatewood has been the Rattlers’ third baseman for over 100 games this season, but was learning the ropes at first base Monday, while Milwaukee’s second-round pick in the June draft, Lucas Erceg, was holding down Gatewood’s spot at the hot corner. The starting shortstop was versatile Luis Aviles, who has played well this season while seeing action at seven different positions. In the outfield, Monte Harrison — another highly regarded opening-day starter — was nowhere to be found after breaking the hamate bone in his left hand earlier this summer. But there was a Trent Clark sighting. Clark — Milwaukee’s No. 1 pick in the 2015 draft — has finally returned to the Wisconsin lineup after missing a month with a hamstring problem. Like many minor league clubs, the Rattlers (50-51) are a team in transition. “You’re a low A ball team and that means there’s a lot of transition going on, some years more so than others,” said Wisconsin manager Matt Erickson. This is one of those years with a constantly changing cast, particularly with position players. The arrival of fresh faces like Erceg are typical for this time of the season. But the position changes reflect a shift in philosophy by Milwaukee’s new front office led by GM David Stearns. Stearns and the Brewers want versatile players and aren’t afraid to take them out of their comfort zone and experiment with them at different spots. “It’s a different way of thinking,” said Erickson. “I know over the last few years, the front office was more apt to keep people at the same position and same level if they could to try and create some comfort. It seems like this regime is more apt to move guys and change positions to try and add more versatility to their games. We happen to have the personnel right now to do that.” Gatewood is expected to shuttle between third and first the rest of the season, while also getting a look in the outfield. It’s the second position switch for the 20-year-old Gatewood, the 41st overall selection in the 2014 draft and a shortstop until this season. “No one has given up on him at that position (third base),” said Erickson. “Actually, there has been a lot of good things said about his development there. I think he steadily got better there and he’s probably played his best third base the last couple weeks. The decision to move him was to add more versatility to his game. “He passes the eyeball test for sure: a tall target at first base with good footwork around the bag.” If the position switch was bothering Gatewood, it didn’t show in his final at-bat Monday when he launched a solo home run over the left field wall, his 11th of the season. “It’s been fun,” said Gatewood of his new duties at first base. “I’m not a stranger to new positions. I’m kind of comfortable being uncomfortable you could say. It is what it is. It’s what I have to do right now.” The 6-foot-5 Gatewood hadn’t played first base since his Little League days. “Haven’t played first since I was eight-years-old,” Gatewood said. “It’s pretty much third base backwards. But you have to be at the bag all the time. What’s hard for me are pickoff attempts because when pitchers throws over there, their ball tends to have a lot of movement on it.” The 21-year-old Erceg is off to strong start, both at third base and at the plate. He made a nice over-the-shoulder grab of a foul ball Monday and went 2-for-4 to raise his batting average to .440. However, his inexperience also showed when he was picked off first by Lake County starting pitcher Brock Hartson. ”He shows a feel for the game, but what sticks out are his and his ability to put the barrel on the ball,” Erickson said. The 19-year-old Clark started in centerfield Monday and went 1-for-5 in his return. Clark showed the hamstring injury is behind him by legging out a hustle double on a bloop hit that would have been a single for most players. Clark previously injured the hamstring twice before being placed on the disabled list. ”The problem the first time was dehydration,” said Clark. “Then when I pulled it the second time, it was running form. I always stressed my hamstring when I ran. I wasn’t running on my toes. I had a lot of heel contact and I was over-striding. ”My main focus the past month has been getting the right form and running on my toes.” Clark had a fast start with Wisconsin before cooling off and is hitting just .225 with two homers, 10 RBIs and one steal. ’”I'm a little rusty and my timing was off today,” Clark said. ”But it’s good to be back. I’ve got to get back to that same game approach and same game shape every single day.” Erickson said that the 20-year-old Harrison — a second-round pick by Milwaukee in 2014 — is getting close to resuming competitive baseball action. ””He’s about two weeks from getting into games in Arizona," said Erickson. ”If everything goes well, it’s very possible he’ll be back here to end the season.” The Rattlers were outhit 13-8 in Monday’s loss to the Captains. Milwaukee outfielder Domingo Santana was scratched from the original starting lineup after experiencing tenderness in his elbow and didn’t play what was expected to be the finale of a three-game rehab stint with the Timber Rattlers. Santana has returned to Milwaukee for further evaluation after going 2-for-7 as a Rattler. ””He wanted to stay and play right field today,” said Erickson. "Then he came in and said it was uncomfortable. We talked to Milwaukee and they decided to scratch him and send him back.”

Final: Colorado Springs 6, Round Rock 5, ten innings The Sky Sox have been thoroughly entertaining for their loyal home fans this season... EY Steals Record As Sky Sox Complete Sweep Manny Pina's walk-off sacrifice fly gives Sky Sox 6-5 win over Express By Aaron Cheris / Colorado Springs Sky Sox *** TWEET: Watch the walkoff! *** Colorado Springs Box Score You read about the Kyle Wren extravaganza earlier in this thread. Huge staff-saving efforts by RHP's Tyler Cravy and Austin Ross, as noted in the linked game summary... Colorado Springs Game Log Congrats EY, Jr. -- all indications are you one classy and well-respected dude...

Helena -- Monday Night Rained Out, Doubleheader on Tuesday Brewers and Raptors Will Get Underway at 5:05 (6:05 Central) Helena Brewers HELENA, MT - Monday night's scheduled game between the Helena Brewers and Ogden Raptors has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will be made up on Tuesday, July 26 as part of a doubleheader with the first game scheduled to begin at 5:05 (6:05 Central). Each game is scheduled for seven innings, and game two will start approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one.

Woodruff repeats as Southern League Pitcher of the Week Woodruff earned the win and homered in Sunday's 1-0 win at Pensacola Biloxi Shuckers *** Isan Diaz is the Midwest League Player of the Week. You'll see one more familiar name among all the league winners.

Sky Sox Blog prior to Monday's matinee -- Kyle Wren reached base another three times on Sunday with two hits and a walk. He brought home the fourth run of the game with a single in the fourth inning. His average? Upped to .361…His OBP, you ask? A mere .456 through 43 games with the Sky Sox (HOLY COW). Wren then proceeded to go 5-for-5 with two doubles and a walk on Monday. In 44 games and 149 AAA at-bats in 2016, Wren's line is now .383/.475/.490 (.965 OPS), with 12 stolen bases in 14 tries. 57 hits, 11 for extra-bases, but that's not Wren's game. You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better 44 game stretch in Link Report (circa 2001) history. There's probably a Prince Fielder comparable in there somewhere.

That Part One aired back on April 24th. AUDIO via the Sky Sox Sunday pre-game: Part Two with Counsell (reminiscing on his Sky Sox days) From April 24th to June 13th to July 25th -- Here's Part Three of the discussion.

RHP Jorge Lopez down to Biloxi, OF Keon Broxton to Milwaukee, and catcher Parker Berberet up from Biloxi in other moves involving the Sky Sox, along with the Garrett Cooper tweet listed a couple of posts above as he nets his well-earned bump from AA. Info courtesy of the excellent Sky Sox blog -- note Cooper's move won't be official until activated at Colorado Springs.

RHP Drew Gagnon, who has been on the Sky Sox DL since the 4th of July, has been activated for the Monday matinee Colorado Springs game.