Minor League Discussion & Boxes 9-7-2007

[Outshined_One]

Box Score

 

Tennessee lost Game 2 of their playoff series 5-0, getting no-hit Box Score

 

CF E. Patterson 0/4, K

C C. McGehee 0/4

RF T. Colvin 0/1, 2 BB, K

3B K. Reynolds 0/3, K, E (1, throw)

SP J. Berg 6 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 3/2 K/BB, 9-5 GO-FO

RP J. Estrada 1 perfect, 1/0 K/BB, 0-2 GO-FO

RP J. Ceda 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/0 K/BB, 0-2 GO-FO

 

OVERALL: 0-1

Edited September 8, 2007 by Outshined_One

[Guest]

Probable Starters:

 

RHP Justin Berg (7-7, 4.95 ERA, 140 IP, 69 K/69 BB, .293 BAA) at RHP Corey Thurman (5-8, 4.36 ERA)

[Guest]

With a righty on the mound for Huntsville today, Cortes and Reynolds are back in Tennessee's lineup -

 

CF E. Patterson

LF J. Cortes

C C. McGehee

RF T. Colvin

1B I. Salas

3B K. Reynolds

2B N. Spears

SS R. Chirinos

P J. Berg

[Guest]

Colvin walked in his first PA for Tennessee!

 

0-0 in the bottom of the 3rd in Hunstille.

[Guest]

Uhh, we're going to the top of the 9th inning and Tennessee is being no-hit.

 

They're down 5-0. Tyler Colvin is 0/1 with 2 walks and a strikeout, though!

[Guest]

Ceda had a successful AA debut at least (but gave up his first hit in eons). Berg's line: 6 IP, 5 R, 2 ER, 8 H, 3 K/2 BB. All 5 runs came in the 6th.

 

The Smokies will send up Eric Patterson, Jorge Cortes and Casey McGehee (combined 0/8 with one walk) to try to break up the no-no in the 9th inning.

[Drew Doughty]

who's pitching for huntsville? anyone worthwhile?

[Guest]

It was an 8-pitch AB but Eric Patterson grounds out. 8.1 combined no-hit innings for Huntsville. Cortes due up.

[Guest]

Cortes grounds out 1-3. 8.2 no-hit innings and Casey McGehee up to bat.

[Guest]

who's pitching for huntsville? anyone worthwhile?

 

Corey Thurman went 6 IP - he's 28 years old. Dave Johnson threw the 7th and 8th (went to UCLA) and the 9th was by Pena who was throwing upper 90s gas.

 

Sounds like Pena is worthwhile.

[Guest]

McGehee grounds out and the Smokies are no-hit.

 

Final is 5-0 and the best-of-5 series is tied 1-1.

 

In case you needed any more reason to hate the Huntsville Stars, they're the AA affiliate of the Brewers.

[imb]

So Ceda starts out in AA next year?

[Guest]

Nah, I think he'll start next year at high-A.

[Guest]

SmokiesBaseball.com[/url]"]Smokies succumb to Stars' no-hitter, 5-0

 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The Tennesse Smokies fell victim to a no-hit pitching performance by the Huntsville Stars pitching staff Friday night, succumbing 5-0 to the home team at Joe Davis Stadium. Stars' hurlers Corey Thurman, Dave Johnson and Luis Pena combined on the historic feat, and evened the Southern League Divisional Series at 1-1.

 

Thurman was able to shake off two first-inning walks Friday night to retire 16 Smokies in a row. He used a commanding fastball to keep the Smokies off-guard, striking out seven over six innings.

 

The Stars' bullpen would not let Thurman's performance go to waste. Johnson followed with three strikeouts in two innings, including a third-strike wild pitch to the Smokies' Nate Spears in the eighth. The road team could do nothing against Pena either, with three ninth-inning groundouts to secure the no-hit bid.

 

With Stars pitching stifling the Smokies offense, the Stars' five-run sixth inning was more than enough to win. Hernan Iribarren and Adam Heether kicked off the Stars' attack with back-to-back singles. After Lou Palmisano reached on an error by Smokies infielder Kyle Reynolds, Michael Brantley delivered a two-run single to give the Stars a 2-0 lead. The bases would load up again for the home team, where pinch-hitter Mike Goetz's single brought in two more. A sacrifice groundout by the Stars' Steven Sollmann concluded the scoring for the home team.

 

The best-of-five series is now tied at 1-1 and will shift to Smokies Park on Saturday. Tennessee will start Jeff Samardzija (3-3, 3.41), while the Stars are sending Derek Miller (6-2, 3.18) to the mound. Tickets are available by calling the Smokies ticket office at (865) 286-2300 or by ordering online at http://www.smokiesbaseball.com.

 

Knoxville News-Sentinel[/url]"]Stars strike back, collaborating on no-hitter

Series tied 1-1 going to Smokies Park today

 

MARK McCARTER

 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Paybacks are tough, they say.

 

On June 21, Huntsville pitcher Corey Thurman yielded a home run to Tennessee pitcher Mark Holliman, who went on to pitch a no-hitter against the Stars.

 

On Friday night, Thurman was one of three Huntsville pitchers to turn the tables on Tennessee, combining for a no-hitter in a 5-0 Stars' victory.

 

Thurman, a 28-year-old former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher who as recently as 2005 was pitching in independent ball, struck out six in six innings, walking only two, before being lifted for a pinch-hitter. Dave Johnson followed with two innings of hitless relief, followed by Stars' closer Luis Pena, who hit 100-plus mph on four of his ninth-inning deliveries.

 

With the series evened at 1-1, the playoffs move to Smokies Park in Sevierville at 5:05 p.m. today, with Huntsville sending Derek Miller (6-2) against Tennessee's Jeff Samardzija (3-3).

 

Game four will be in Huntsville Sunday at 7:05 EDT; game five, if needed would be at Joe Davis Stadium Monday at 8:05.

 

It was the first no-hitter by a Huntsville pitcher in a home game in franchise history and only the third in club history.

 

The last no-hitter in a Southern League playoff game came in 2005 when Jacksonville's Chad Billingsley and Jonathan Broxton combined to stop Birmingham in the series opener.

 

"I've seen some no-hitters but I've never been a part of one," Thurman said. "After Holliman got his against us, I was thinking tonight I'd much rather do it this time of the year."

 

Thurman, who began the season slowly and painfully, battling food poisoning, saved his best for the postseason. He was almost doing a tightrope walk early, walking a pair of batters in the first and throwing two dozen pitches in the inning. But after putting Tyler Colvin on with a walk, he retired the last 16 men he faced, five by strikeout.

 

The Stars broke open the shutout with a rat-tat-tat sixth inning against Smokies' starter Justin Berg (7-7), who is 0-2 in two previous starts against Huntsville.

 

After a pair of hits and a Kyle Reynolds error on a bunt loaded the bases for Huntsville, Michael Brantley swatted a single through the right side to score a pair of runs.

 

Mike Goetz, pinch-hitting for Thurman later in the inning in only his sixth Huntsville at-bat since a promotion from rookie ball, added two more runs with a chopper over short. Steve Sollmann's infield hit plated the fifth run.