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Final: Wisconsin 2, Peoria (Cardinals) 1 Rattlers edge Peoria for second straight win Magnifico & Lorenzo combine for 10K By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers PEORIA, IL - Damien Magnifico and Leonard Lorenzo combined to hold the Peoria Chiefs to a run on three hits as the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers offense squeezed out just enough for a 2-1 victory at Peoria Chiefs Stadium on Friday night. The duo of Rattlers hurlers combined to strike out ten Chiefs batters as the Rattlers won their second straight game to open the 2013 season. Peoria (0-2) took the lead in the second inning and the ball never left the infield for them to score their run. Charlie Tilson beat out a bunt up the third base line for a single with one out. An errant pickoff attempt by Magnifico allowed Tilson to take second. Ildemaro Vargas was next and his chopper to third was turned into an out by Alfredo Rodriguez. But, Tilson broke for third on the throw to first by Rodriguez. Rattlers first baseman Michael Garza tried to throw back to third to get Tilson. However, the throw was wild and Tilson scored to put Peoria up 1-0. The Rattlers (2-0) tied the game in the top of the fourth inning with some situational hitting. Clint Coulter started the inning with a double. Garza sent a grounder to the right side of the infield to move Coulter to third. Chris McFarland knocked in Coulter with the tying run on a sacrifice fly to center. Wisconsin took the lead in the top of the fifth. Michael Reed singled and stole second to start the inning. A bloop single to right by Tyrone Taylor put runners on the corners with no outs. Peoria went to the bullpen and their reliever got the first out. Then, Mitch Haniger came through with a fly ball deep to left that scored Reed with the run that put the Rattlers up 2-1. Magnifico pitched five innings and allowed the one unearned run on three hits. He walked two and struck out five. Rattlers reliever Leonard Lorenzo took over in the bottom of the sixth inning. Lorenzo retired all twelve batters he faced in his four innings of relief to nail down the win. The right hander out of the Dominican Republic struck out five in his four innings to earn his first professional save. Game three of the series is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Brent Suter is set to be the starting pitcher for the Rattlers. Peoria has named Tyrell Jenkins as their starter. Game time is 1:00pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 12:40pm. Wisconsin Boxscore Just fantastic pitching in this one, Damien Magnifico only gave up 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out 5 through his 5 innings. The only run scored on another throwing error (2 throwing errors for the Rattlers again tonight), I hope that's not going to be a theme for this team, because through 2 games they appear to be a very solid team with the glove. Leonard Lorenzo was even better than Magnifico closing it out with a perfect 4 innings and he also struck out 5. I really like tandems in A ball, it gives the pitchers plenty of time to work on their game in addition to stretching out their arms. The only problem with the pitching thus far has been 3 throwing errors in 2 games. It was quiet night offensively with only 6 hits, but Orlando Arcia, Mitch Haniger, and Clint Coulter all doubled in the contest. Micheal Reed easily stole a base but Haniger managed to get picked off of 2B. The team seems to be my kind of athletic bunch by scouting reports and Chris' calls of the game action, I'm itching to see them play next week. Tough test tomorrow for the T-Rat position players as one of STL's top prospects Tyrell Jenkins is taking the mound. Here's the 2012 scouting report for Jenkins: Wisconsin Recap For the second straight game the Rattlers loaded the bases in the 1st and got nothing. Wisconsin Top of the 1st Tyrone Taylor lines out to second baseman Breyvic Valera. Orlando Arcia doubles (2) on a line drive to left fielder Jordan Walton. Mitch Haniger walks. Parker Berberet walks. Orlando Arcia to 3rd. Mitch Haniger to 2nd. Clint Coulter pops out to second baseman Breyvic Valera. Mike Garza strikes out swinging.

Why do we need to acquire someone when Morris is sitting at AAA? It would only be temporary until Hart returns anyway.

That got a chuckle out of me as well. The other fun fact he mentioned was that every OF for the young Cards is a LHB.

Funny you mention it, I'm downloading it from Steam right now while I listen to the T-Rats game, I went back and forth deciding what to buy it for but I can play the game and listen to baseball on the computer. I have a buddy who's been championing Bioshock since the original when I played was COD, GOW, and RPGs, this will be my first game of the series.

That's good news that Ortega will be stateside, but what about our man of mystery Gian Rizzo who put's up video game stats but only appeared in 11 games last season? What does this kid throw? Is he healthy? So many questions and so little information for these DSL player.

It's no secret Arcia is one my favorites since he was in my top 10 as a 16 year old, I'm digging the buzz he's starting to generate. Minor League Opening Day Roster Analysis: Milwaukee Brewers For your information here's the rest of the division: Cardinals Cubs Pirates Reds

I love these top 10 features between MiLB and BA. Lots of divisional mentions, I'm not going to break them all out. From a Brewer perspective Segura makes the NL list at #10 and Arcia makes the MWL list at #4. The Top 10 Youngest Players In Each League On Opening Day

MLB Suspends Angels, Reds Minor Leaguers

All division prospect reports are contained within the Link Report.

I think there's little doubt that we desperately need the pre-draft Bradley who worked in the low to mid 90s with plus stuff back... and then we need 2 more LHP like that... and another couple of high ceiling RHP... I despise losing that pick for Lohse, he'd better pull another sub 3.5 ERA out of his rear...

How guys like Cingrani and Odorizzi were so low in top 100 is beyond me. Cingrani fans 14 in Triple-A debut for Bats

An interest piece, unfortunately it is subscriber content, but the Rangers certainly continue to be a progressive organization. Several Teams Asking More Of Their Shortstop Prospects

I don't think this discussion is very productive so this will be my last post on the subject. I also don't think it's fair to characterize the post as a lazy assessment of a player's performance, it's a comment on a snap shot in time. In some rare cases when there is a big game, a top prospect is making a debut/pitching, or many posters are excited about a particular event like a potential no hitter the LR can be like an in game thread from the MLB side. That's how I took the particular comment, and again I was pretty much thinking the exact same thing at the exact same time, and the game story written by BC actually highlighted how poorly Bradley pitched early, the comment spot on given the time it was posted. I realize this is a big year for Bradley, I realize many posters and family members are pulling extremely hard for him, I realize how badly the Brewers need him to find his velocity and stuff, but he did start poorly and a couple of comments along those lines should be expected. If someone does say something I certainly don't think it's necessary for them to repost something later, especially if they quit following the game. I don't expect everyone who reads the forum to sit and listen to the minor league games like I do nor am I willing to make any assumptions about what people have going on in their personal lives at any given moment in time.

Rattlers open season with 11-inning win at Peoria Wisconsin edges Chiefs 5-4 By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers PEORIA, IL - The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers started defense of their Midwest League crown with an extra-inning victory over the Peoria Chiefs on Thursday night. Michael Reed scored the go-ahead run in the top of the eleventh inning to give the Rattlers a 5-4 win in the season opening game for both teams. Tyrone Taylor and Orlando Arcia set the table for Wisconsin's first two runs in the top of the third. Taylor, who drew a four pitch walk to start the game, got aboard with an infield single in the third. Arcia followed with a double to right that hit the wall on one hop. Mitch Haniger followed with a line drive to right that carried over the head of the right fielder. Both Taylor and Arcia scored on the play to put the Rattlers up 2-0. Peoria (0-1) got to Rattlers starting pitcher Tyler Wagner with a two out rally in the bottom of the fourth. David Washington doubled down the line at third. Jacob Wilson followed with a double to the gap in left-center to drive in Washington. The Rattlers (1-0) got that run back in the top of the sixth inning. Clint Coulter started the inning with a walk. He tried to score from first on a double by Mike Garza but was thrown out at the plate. Garza took third on the throw home and the Chiefs decided to bring the infield in with Chris McFarland due to bat. McFarland spoiled the strategy by drilling a single through the middle of the diamond to drive in Garza for a 3-1 lead. Tyler Wagner turned that lead over to the bullpen after he pitched a scoreless fifth inning. Wagner allowed one run on four hits with a walk and two strikeouts. The Chiefs would rally to take the lead with two outs in the seventh inning against the bullpen. Reliever Mike Strong struck out the first two batters in the seventh inning, but issued a walk and gave up a single to the eighth and ninth place hitters in the order. That brought Michael Swinson to the plate and he singled to drive in a run to make the score 3-2. Strong looked like he would get out of the inning when he got Breyvic Valera to ground weakly back to the mound. But, Strong's throw to first was wild and two runs scored on the play to put the Chiefs up 4-3. Wisconsin used a pair of defensive miscues in the top of the eighth to get the game back to even. Coulter singled to start the inning and was sacrificed to second by Garza. McFarland's grounder to third went through the legs of the third baseman to let Coulter take third base. Then, the left fielder overran the ball to let Coulter race home with the tying run. Wisconsin almost let the game get away in the eighth and ninth innings. Strong loaded the bases with one out in the eighth inning. Taylor Wall came into the game and got an inning ending 6-4-3 double play from the first batter he faced. In the ninth, Wall retired the first two batters he faced. Then, he walked the next three batters to load the bases AND fell behind Jacob Wilson 3-0. Wall recovered to run the count full on Wilson and got him to fly out to the track in left field. Reed started the Wisconsin eleventh inning by drawing a walk. Taylor dropped a sacrifice bunt to move Reed to second and a wild pitch with Orlando Arcia at the plate sent Reed to third. Arcia would send a slow chopper up the third baseline that was booted to let Reed score the go ahead run. Austin Blaski, who pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the tenth, worked a scoreless bottom of the eleventh to close out the Chiefs. Game two of the four game series in Peoria is Friday night. Damien Magnifico is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Lefty Dail Villanueva is set to start for the Chiefs. Game time is 6:30pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:10pm. Wisconsin Gameday Wisconsin Boxscore This was very entertaining game, take that #1 rate farm system by BA! Taylor Wall saving the day for Strong was just awesome, he would have been my player of the game for that double play. Not mentioned above was Tyrone Taylor's outstanding diving catch on the warning track to end the 3rd, hopefully Chris covers that in the 9 after 9. That inning was looking pretty bad and then a pick off at 2B and the outstanding catch in CF ended the fake rally. It sounds like Taylor can really run, he covered a ton of ground on that play, from the call Chris didn't think Taylor had a shot off the bat. Orlando Arcia seems to be a very good SS, though he did nearly air mail a throw earlier in the 3rd; the play reminded me a bit of Escobar back in the day hurrying a throw and costing an out. It wasn't scored an error because they got the out at 2b so won't show up in the box. Chris said the coaching staff had been real impressed with his defense, which if true would lessen the sting of Rivera's lack of ascension offensively. Arcia hit the ball hard in every AB until the nubber that won the game. Finally Chris McFarland made a couple of nice picks from Chris' calls, hopefully this T-Rats team plays defense like last year's squad. I'm loving the top of WI's order... Taylor, Arcia, Haniger, and Clint Coulter in the top 5, it's so nice having legitimate prospects up and down the line-up. Speaking of Coulter, he did run into 2 outs on the bases, one was pretty bad getting nabbed at 3rd, he's still pretty raw as a baserunner. However he seemed to be on top of the pitchers though there were a couple of sequences where there was a disconnect with the pitcher that required a mound visit later in the game, but nothing I would read into. For example Tyler Wagner was pounding the zone until the 3rd when he started the inning with 6 straight balls but Coulter was out there right away to talk to him. Speaking of Wagner, he didn't miss many bats but he did throw 40 of 67 pitches for strikes which was impressive. Wisconsin Recap I thought we were cruising to extras until Wall made it interesting in the 9th walking the bases loaded with 2 out: Peoria Bottom of the 9th Alex Mejia flies out to right fielder Mitch Haniger. Michael Swinson grounds out, second baseman Christopher McFarland to first baseman Mike Garza. Breyvic Valera walks. Patrick Wisdom walks. Breyvic Valera to 2nd. David Washington walks. Breyvic Valera to 3rd. Patrick Wisdom to 2nd. Jacob Wilson flies out to left fielder Michael Reed.

BTW, am I only the one digging the new affiliation scoreboard on MILB.com? I used to have tabs open for every team's box, now I can just refresh 1 page. Maybe someday they will bring back archived audio and my life will have reached its pinnacle. Chris must be digging it as well, he mentioned it during the T-Rats broadcast. Here's tonight's scoreboard in case you aren't finding it. edit. Added the scoreboard link which I should have right away.

You guys do realize that Bradley post came at 18:52? Meaning right after his first 2 innings... It may have been a knee jerk reaction, but it was exactly the same thing I was thinking when Chris relayed the BC score during the T-Rats game. For the record while we do make an effort to keep things positive in the LR think I don't think that college players, especially first round picks, should be given the "kids glove" treatment. As long as comments are regarding a player's performance rather than some misplaced personal attack I'm alright with them. MH may feel differently than I do and his word will be the final say, but I do feel that as a site we really need to quit overreacting to criticism. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. -Winston Churchill

At least Gameday is working great for the T-Rat game. Strong is single handedly throwing this game away, he's thrown balls away down each baseline in consecutive innings, his error last inning cost the T-Rats 3 runs (1 ER). McFarland just made a nice pick to hold the runner at 3rd, hopefully the Rattlers can get out of the inning without another error costing more damage. edit. Ha-ha woot... 6-4-3 double play... out of the 8th unscathed, tie game to the 9th.

I'll just get this out of the way now so I don't muddy up my LR on the T-Rats tonight but I find it very weird that Peoria is now the STL affiliate instead of the Cubs. The Cubs are now Kane County who used to be the Royals... and so on. I'm sure by mid season I'll be used to it but right now it doesn't seem right.

Similar to the above post, our own Huntsville rotation is the team in the SL, no other divisional rotations are featured. The Minors' top pitching rotations

I don't remember MiLB doing this before, I probably just missed it, but I like the idea. The Reds AAA club lead off the article and the Cubs' Daytona (FSL) line-up is farther down. Minors' top lineups, league by league

Cubs' 1st round pick Albert Almora who's apparently coming off of a broken hamate bone and our own Victor Roache are highlighted in this article. 2012 draftees to taste full-season ball

Cingrani and Hamilton highlight the divisional prospects in this list, lots of familiar names though. Myers, Hamilton top list of IL prospects

No Brewer prospects make the list but the PCL is absolutely loaded to begin the year. Profar, Taveras top set of stellar PCL prospects

Umm this is a tad unbelievable in the modern era of baseball, high school level or not, I'm shocked someone didn't step up to protect this kid's arm... Exhausted Tomohiro Anraku Loses 17-1 In Koshien Final After 772 Pitches In Nine Days