July 27, 200620 yr ATLANTA -- CSS will televise the Greensboro Grasshoppers at Rome Braves for week six of its 10-week, 2006 Minor League Game of the Week broadcast schedule. The game will be televised live on CSS (Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast), Thursday, July 27th at 7 p.m. ET. CSS is a regional sports channel that reaches 4.5 million cable subscribers in 11 states across the southeast. To find CSS in your television market, log-on to www.css-sports.com. The Grasshoppers are the Class A, South Atlantic League affiliate of the Florida Marlins. Greensboro is 50-50 overall and 14-16 in the second half of the SAL season. Greensboro boasts five players rated in Baseball America's Top-30 of the Marlins organization: 7) RHP Chris Volstad (2005 1st Round pick out of Palm Beach Gardens (FL) HS), 10) LHP Aaron Thompson, 15) OF Kris Harvey (former Clemson star and son of former Marlins closer Bryan Harvey), 16) RHP Ryan Tucker, and 20) LHP Sean West. Marlins' 2006 1st Round pick, RHP Brett Sinkbeil out of Missouri State (Thursday's scheduled starting pitcher), is also pitching for the Grasshoppers while catcher Andrew Jenkins (.287, 4 HR, 57 RBI), a 2005 11th round pick out of Oregon State, has been among Greensboro's offensive leaders. The Rome Braves are the Class A, South Atlantic League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. Rome is 55-46 overall, 13-18 in the second half. The Braves were the first half champions of the SAL Southern Division with a 42-28 record. Rome sports eight players rated in Baseball America's Top-30 of the Braves organization: 2) SS Elvis Andrus (DL), 8) Eric Campbell (DL), 9) LHP Beau Jones, 18) LHP Jake Stevens (2003 3rd round pick out of Cape Coral (FL) HS), 26) RHP Jairo Cuevas, 27) RHP Jeff Lyman, 29) OF Jon Mark Owings (DL, 2004 17th round pick out of Gainesville (GA) HS), and 30) OF Jordan Schafer (2005 3rd round pick out of Winter Haven (FL) HS). The Braves 20th-rated prospect, catcher Max Ramirez was playing for Rome until this past week when he was traded by Atlanta to Cleveland for Indians closer Bob Wickman. The Braves also have four of Atlanta's recent 2006 draft picks on the roster: Second round selection, RHP Dustin Evans of Georgia Southern and Adairsville (GA) HS, 4th round choice, LHP Lee Hyde of Georgia Tech and Fayette County (GA) HS, 5th round selection, LHP Kevin Gunderson of NCAA College World Series champion Oregon State and 12th round choice, 1B Josh Morris of the Georgia Bulldogs and Cartersville (GA) HS. For a third consecutive season, CSS Sports Anchor Matt Stewart is calling the play-by-play for the network's minor league baseball coverage. He is joined this season by former minor league manager Nick Belmonte, who has worked with CSS for a number of years on its college baseball coverage. To find a complete schedule of the CSS Minor League Game of the Week, log-on to www.css-sports.com.
July 28, 200620 yr I watched the game from the 7th-inning on, the rest is on TIVO. Johnathon Fulton had a monster 2-run homerun over the scoreboard in left field. I didn't see Sinkbeil pitch, I'll watch his performance later. It sounds like Brett threw a good ballgame. Now, it's the top of the ninth, Greensboro's up 3-1. They looked solid from what I saw. :thumbup
July 28, 200620 yr I missed the game, When I got home it was already over, saw Sinkbeils line though... 5.2ip 4h 1r 1er 2bb 5k (ND) looking good
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