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Recent MiLB Articles

• Indians Can’t Come Up With Enough Fireworks

  Louisville Bats 4, Indianapolis Indians 2 boxscore . . The Indianapolis Indians and the Louisville Bats moved their action to Victory Field in Indianapolis tonight, but unfortunately for the Indians, they could not rival the stadium or the city fireworks with enough in-game fireworks to earn a win. Tribe starter Corey Hamman made his home debut for the Indians, going ... [Link]

• 7/4 Daily Wrap

  Topes lose 9-6 to New Orleans Tommy Murphy: 3/5 r 2b sb(1) cs po… just signed him Jai Miller: 1/4 rbi bb 3k Dallas McPherson: 1/5 Tagg Bozied: 1/5 r hr(14) 2rbi k John Baker: 2/5 r k Andrew Beattie: 1/4 r hr(7) 2rbi k Lorenzo Scott: 3/4 r k Gaby Hernandez: (L, 2-8) 2ip 4h 5r(5er) 4bb k Scott ... [Link]

• Minor League Recap: 4th of July Style

  Scranton loses to Syracuse, 8-5 Kei Igawa got the start and allowed 4 runs on 5 hits and 1 walk, striking out 4 in the process in his 5 innings of work. J.B. Cox struggled in relief, allowing 4 runs (grand slam) on 4 hits and 2 walks in 2 innings of work, striking out 3 in the process. Justin ... [Link]

• Indians Come Back Twice But Fall One Short

  Louisville Bats 12, Indianapolis Indians 11 boxscore The Indianapolis Indians and the Louisville Bats engaged in some early fireworks tonight at Slugger Field in Louisville, as the two teams combined for 23 hits and 23 runs, including four homers. Unfortunately, only one of those homers belonged to the Indians — Adam Boeve’s (photo) 10th of the season — and though ... [Link]

• Game Recaps (7/3/08)

  News of the PCL All-Star Game rosters has come out today. The Rainiers representative will be… RHP Jared Wells. Yes, I’m serious. In much more awesome news, second-round pick OF Dennis Raben has signed and will be reporting to Everett (suddenly, I need to see an Aquasox game again), and Lailoken dropped by the comments section pointing out that BA ... [Link]

• Minor League Recap 7/3

  Scranton’s game vs. Lehigh Valley was suspended Trenton shuts out Portland, 4-0 Jason Jones continued to dominate, giving up just 2 hits in 7 scoreless innings, and striking out 7. This lowered his ERA to 2.28 on the season. If there was any justice in the world, he would be in the AAA rotation. He has done nothing but pitch ... [Link]

• 7/3 Daily Wrap

  Albuquerque loses 6-3 to Round Rock Jai Miller: 2/4 r 2k sb(13) John Gall: 0/2 2bb sb)8) Dallas McPherson: 1/4 r hr(30) 2rbi k sb(8) Jason Wood: 0/4 Mike Rabelo: 1/4 Andrew Beattie: 1/4 2k Chase Lambin: 1/3 r hr(8) rbi… hitting .339 now Dan Barone: (L, 0-3) 3ip 7h 5r(5er) 0bb k hr Ross Wolf: 1ip 1h 1r(1er) 2bb ... [Link]

• Collin Cowgill continues smashing start in Yakima

  5th Round draft pick CF Collin Cowgill hit 3 homers and drove in 5 runs in the Bears’ comeback win over the Spokane Indians. After striking out in his first at-bat, Cowgill hit 2-run homers in the 3rd and 5th innings. The Bears led 5-4 heading into the 9th but the Indians scored twice off Bryan Woodall to take a ... [Link]

• 7/3/08 MiLB Notes…

  –Personal favorite Tommy Hunter (Roll Tide!) made his AAA debut last night. Probably not the debut he hoped for, but still a solid effort. He went 6.1 innings, giving up 3 runs on 9 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4. Not bad for a kid who graduated college last June! –The PCL AAA All-Star Team Roster was announced today. ... [Link]

• Tigers’ Farm Moves (7/3)

  Toledo The Mud Hens lost Aquilino Lopez to Detroit because of Zach Miner’s demotion. With Miner not being ready to man the fifth spot in the Toledo rotation, the Hens also called up Anastacio Martinez. I assume he’s filling the spot left vacant when Preston Larrison received his unconditional release. Erie Losing Anastacio Martinez shouldn’t affect the Wolves too much, ... [Link]

• Game Recaps (7/2/08)

  If I had info on the signing period, there’d be a post about it already. Sorry. Colorado Springs 9 (COL 0), Tacoma 2 RHP Sean White (5.76, L) faced a bad combination of multiple hits and home runs, giving up nine runs through seven innings on thirteen hits (3 HR!!), a wild pitch, two walks, and four Ks. The early ... [Link]

• Indians Break Losing Streak

  Indianapolis Indians 8, Louisville Bats 5 boxscore The Indianapolis Indians broke a 4-game losing streak tonight with a win over the Bats at Slugger Field in Louisville, KY. The Tribe took advantage of two three-walk innings by Louisville pitchers to put up a 3-run and a 5-run inning, and overcame two Bats’ home runs. Indians’ starter Jimmy Barthmaier and Bats’ ... [Link]

• 7/2 Daily Wrap

  Albuquerque loses to Round Rock, 7-4 Lorenzo Scott: 2/5 r 2k sb(6) Jai Miller: 2/5 r 2k John Gall: 2/5 rbi Dallas McPherson: 0/3 r bb 2k Tagg Bozied: 1/2 rbi 3bb Mike Rabelo: 2/4 r hr(1) 2rbi Andrew Beattie: 0/4 Chase Lambin: 2/3 bb Bob Keppel: (L, 7-8) 5ip 12h 7r(7er) 2bb 3k Matt Lindstrom: 1ip 0h 0r 0bb ... [Link]

• Pearce Gets the Call

  Steve Pearce was promoted to the Pittsburgh Pirates today, joining the team in Cincinnati where they are in the middle of a series with the Reds. Pearce has been playing both right field and first base for the Indy Indians. He has a .259 batting average, 11 homers, and has led the Indians with 23 doubles, and 50 RBI. Though ... [Link]

• AAA and AA All-Stars

  Five more Pirate minor-leaguers have been named to their respective league’s All-Star teams. The Indianapolis Indians’ OF Andrew McCutchen has been named to the International League All-Star team. Listed as the Pirates’ Top Prospect, McCutchen has played for the Indians for all of the 2008 season. He currently has a .284 batting average, with 19 doubles, 8 homers, and 33 ... [Link]

• Topes and Mudcats All Stars named

  John Baker, John Gall, Dallas McPherson and Chris Seddon were all named to the PCL All Star Team. Catcher John Baker is hitting .317/.393/.500 with 6 homeruns in 180 at bats this year behind the plate. Journey-man John Gall is hitting .333/.385/.524 with 10 homeruns in 288 at bats. Third baseman Dallas McPherson is leading the world with 29 homeruns ... [Link]

• Tigers’ Minor League Recap (7/1/08)

  Toledo The Mud Hens avoided a blowout with a late push, but still lost to Columbus, 9-7. The Hens trailed 9-1 after the Clippers batted in the seventh, but posted two runs in the eighth and four in the ninth to make the Clips sweat a little. The two runs in the eighth came when Brent Clevlen (2 for 5, ... [Link]

• Game Recaps (7/1/08)

  The international signing period opens tomorrow, with a number of big name players being open for bidding with bonuses the likes of which we haven’t seen before. The Athletics are the favorite to land top prospect RHP Michel Inoa, but there are plenty of other talents available. One strongly linked to the M’s is Dominican OF Julio Morban, a left-hander ... [Link]

• Bats Silence Tribe

  Louisville Bats 5, Indianapolis Indians 0 boxscore Indianapolis Indians’ starter Jason Davis held the Louisville Bats to only 6 hits over his 7 innings at Slugger Field in Louisville tonight. Unfortunately, the Bats used those 6 hits, plus a walk and a hit batter, to score 5 runs, while the Bats’ pitchers held the Indians to 4 hits and did not ... [Link]

• 7/1 Daily Wrap

  Albuquerque loses 6-2 against Round Rock Lorenzo Scott: 1/4 r k Jai Miller: 1/4 2k John Gall: 0/4 Dallas McPherson: 1/3 r hr(29) 2k bb k Jason Wood: 0/4 Tagg Bozied: 1/4 k Andrew Beattie: 2/3 2b John Baker: 0/2 bb k Dallas Trahern: (L, 3-7) 5.1ip 9h 5r(5er) 0bb 3k hr Ross Wolf: .2ip 1h 1r(1er) 0bb 0k hr ... [Link]