Debut of Weekly Minor League Wrap Up

This is our new Weekly Minor League Wrap Up.  A quick hit around the minors to let you know what kind of week minor league teams and players had.  Will try and get a new update posted at least once a week.  Will also read and discuss during our weekly radio show, MiLBRadio.com, Wednesday's 11pm East/8pm West. 

 Minor League Notes for 4/9 through 4/15:

Indianapolis Indians:  4/9--OF Andrew McCutchen (No. 2), 3B Neil Walker (No. 6) and RHP Daniel McCutchen (No. 9) were all ranked by Baseball America as the Pirates organization's top prospects heading into the 2009 season.  Both Andrew McCutchen and Neil Walker played the entire 2008 season with the Tribe last season. (Source: Indianapolis Indians)

Gwinnett  Braves:  4/9-- Braves starter Tommy Hanson had a strong outing, going 4 1/3 innings with 10 strikeouts while only giving up three hits. Kris Medlen (1-0, 0.00) picked up the win for Gwinnett.  The Charlotte Knights 14 strikeouts matched the teams high from last season. (Source: Charlotte Knights)

Wisconsin Timber Rattlers: 4/9-- Start new Milwaukee affiliation with win vs. Quad Cities in front of recorded 5400 fans (opening day record). (Source: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers)

Salt Lake Bees: 4/9, 4/10--Salt Lake Bees postponed home opener due to tragic death of Nick Adenhart. The team announced it will honor the memory of the former Bees pitcher by wearing a No. 32 patch on the team's jerseys for the 2009 PCL season. The patch will debut as the Bees hosted the Reno Aces in the rescheduled season opener at Spring Mobile Ballpark. (Source: Salt Lake Bees)

Albuquerque Isotopes: 4/10--Isotopes reunited with the Dodgers and welcome back Tommy Lasorda in front of just over 10,000.  They defeated the Omaha Royals for 3^rd consecutive season on opening day. (Source: Omaha Royals)

Altoona Curve: 4/10--Curve Pitcher Jared Hughes tosses 6 no hit innings before being lifted due to pitch count.  Reliever Shawn Nottingham comes in and gives up lead to take the loss 2-0 (Source: Altoona Curve)

Charlotte Knights: 4/11--Knights give up 19 runs to Gwinnett and only score 3. This is the most runs allowed by a Knights team since 2003. (Source: Charlotte Knights)

Hickory Crawdads: 4/11-- The Hickory Crawdads no-hit the Bowling Green Hot Rods, 5-0, in the first of back-to-back seven-inning shutout wins before 2,537 fans in their doubleheader.  The no-hitter in game one was the third no-hitter in Crawdads history and first since 2004.  LHP Martin Perez (#5 BA Texas) started game one for Hickory, and was followed by RHP Tyler Tufts (1-0) and RHP Fabio Castillo in the no-hit performance.  Perez dealt four innings, striking out six and walking just three.  Tufts followed with a pair of shutout innings and registered the win.  Castillo came on for the final three outs in the top of the seventh, slamming the door with a three-up, three-down inning and a game-ending strikeout to complete the no-hitter. (Source: Hickory Crawdads)

Indianapolis Indians: 4/12--Third baseman Neil Walker's  one-out walk-off double in the 14th carried Indianapolis to its first victory of the season as they defeated the Toledo Mud Hens 3-2 in a marathon four hour and 19 minute game.  The contest was the second longest at Victory Field both in time and total innings. The longest inning game took place on April 19, 2006 when the Indians were defeated by the Ottawa Lynx 4-2 in 15 innings, while the longest game time-wise took place on July 19, 2001, when the Tribe defeated Columbus 6-5 in four hours and 35 minutes. (Source: Indianapolis Indians)

Norfolk: 4/12--Norfolk Tides catcher Matt Wieters, ranked the #1 prospect in baseball by Baseball America, finished the series against Durham 1-11 with two walks and five strikeouts. (Source: Durham Bulls)

Portland Beavers: 4/14--San Diego signs Chad Gaudin to a minor league deal and send him to Portland to replace Josh Banks (DL). (Source: Portland Beavers)

Lancaster JetHawks: 4/15--The Lancaster JetHawks set a franchise record by striking out 18 Inland Empire 66ers en route to a come-from-behind 3-2 win on a frigid night at Clear Channel Stadium Tuesday.  The 18 strikeouts- nine from Shane Wolf, seven from Chia-Jen Lo and two from Bryan Hallberg- were the most by the JetHawks in a single game in their history. It was the most times a San Bernardino team has fanned in a nine-inning game since June of 1994, when they were the San Bernardino Spirit. (Source: Inland Empire)

Arkron Aeros: 4/15--Carlos Santana belted a grand slam in the bottom of the first inning and that one swing proved to be the difference as Akron defeated Altoona 4-1. Santana on the season .263/2HR/10RBI. (Source: Akron Aeros)

Salt Lake Bees: 4/15--4 Bees players, infielder Brandon Wood, infielder Matt Brown, catcher Bobby Wilson and outfielder Brad Coon all placed on the inactive list to attend the funeral of Nick Adenhart. (Source: Salt Lake Bees)

Fort Wayne TinCaps: 4/15--The Fort Wayne TinCaps are 6-0 to start the 2009 Midwest League season.  They took advantage of the few opportunities presented in the Wednesday's game to defeat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 6-0. (Source: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers)

Durham Bulls: 4/15--The Bulls overcome 3-0 deficit to tie it in the eighth and win it in bottom of the 13^th inning with a walk-off, two-run blast from Adam Kennedy to keep their perfect season alive with a 5-3 win over the Gwinnett Braves. The ballclub from Durham now moves to 6-0, their best start in Triple-A. (Source: Durham Bulls)

Quad Cities River Bandits: 4/15-- Quad Cities (2-4) hurlers Hector Cardenas and Kevin Thomas brought the River Bandits their first win of the season with the combined no-hitter, holding Beloit to just three base runners that and facing just two batters more than the minimum. The no-no was the first by a Quad Cities pitcher since August 12, 2001 (Source: Quad City River Bandits)

South Bend Silver Hawks: 4/15--Trevor Harden (#13 BA Arizona) gets first victory of the season despite allowing Lansing's first home-run of the season to Lugnut  Justin McClanahan.  T.J. Hose pick up his first save of the year. (Source: South Bend Silver Hawks)

Peoria Chiefs: 4/15--Josh Vitters (#1 BA Cubs) collected three hits including a tie-breaking RBI single in the seventh inning as the Peoria Chiefs complete the three game sweep over the Dayton Dragons with a 3-2 victory. (Source: Dayton Dragons)

Augusta GreenJackets: 4/15--Augusta shortstop Ehire Adrianza (#6 BA San Francisco) went 2-for-3 and drove home three runs to help the GreenJackets defeat the Charleston RiverDougs, 8-6, despite late rally by the RiverDogs in front of 3,087. Augusta pitcher Aaron King (#21 BA San Francisco) pitched 4 innings and allowed one earned run with 2 walks and 2 strike outs. (Source: Charleston RiverDogs)

Memphis Redbirds: 4/15--Pitcher Mitchell Boggs (#14 BA St Louis) was recalled by the Cardinals and emergency started Katsuciko Maekawa was crushed and the Redbirds gave up 7 first inning runs on their way to a loss at the hands of the New Orleans Zephyrs. (Source: New Orleans Zephyrs)

Lynchburg Hillcats: 4/15--Jordy Mercer's three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning, his first as a Hillcats, turned a two-run deficit into a one-run lead and propelled Lynchburg to a 5-4 win.