Huntsville Stars Game Notes

Published on June 16, 2013 under Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


The Stars

The Stars are in their 29th season as a franchise. Prior to becoming part of the Milwaukee Brewers organization in 1999, the Stars were the Double-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics for 14 seasons. Prior to the start of the 2013 season, the Stars have won three Southern League Championships ('85, '94, '01).

Introducing: The Lookouts

The Chattanooga Lookouts have been the Los Angeles Dodgers Double-A Affiliate since 2009. This season, the Stars already took four out of five games against the Lookouts at AT&T Field to begin the 2013 season. Overall, Huntsville is 5-3 against Chattanooga this year.

June Swoon

After finishing the month of May with a 15-13 record, the Stars are just 4-9 so far in June. As a team, Huntsville is just hitting .215 this month while averaging 3.3 runs per game. Overall, the Stars have been outscored 65-43 by their opponents in June.

Offensive Struggles

In addition to being held to just one run in each of the last two games, the Stars bats have been struggling for a far longer period than that. Over their last 10 games, the Huntsville offense is hitting just .185 while in the last five contests they are hitting .179 as a team.

Lookouts Killer

Playing eight games against the Lookouts this year, Stars outfielder Kentrail Davis has proved to be a thorn in the side of the Chattanooga pitching staff. The 24-year-old outfielder is hitting .520 (13-for-25) against the Lookouts with a homer and six runs batted in. Davis also has scored four runs and stolen three bases against Chattanooga.

National Pride

After finishing off three straight series against American League foes, the Chattanooga Lookouts will be the Stars first National League opponent in the last three weeks. Against NL teams, the Stars are 13-20 this season.

Eliminated

With the Stars loss on Saturday, they have officially been eliminated from playoff contention in the Southern League North for the first half of the season. Also, the loss ensured that Huntsville would finish at .500 or below for the fourth consecutive half dating back to 2011. The last time the Stars finished above .500 was the first half of 2011 (37-33).

Roster Moves

On Friday, RHP Frankie De La Cruz was transferred to the Stars from Triple-A Nashville while RHP Mark Williams was transferred to High-A Brevard County from Huntsvlle. De La Cruz, 29, was 1-6 with a 7.77 ERA in 11 games with the Sounds. Williams, 23, had a 5.82 ERA in nine appearances with the Stars since being promoted to Huntsville from Brevard County on April 21st.

Previous Game

On Saturday night, the Stars were held to just one run for the second straight game, falling to the Chattanooga Lookouts by a score of 8-1 at Joe Davis Stadium. A streak of four straight wins and seven straight quality starts for Stars RHP Taylor Jungmann was snapped on Saturday as the 23-year-old righty fell to 7-6 on the year after giving up five runs on five hits in 5.1 innings pitched. On offense, the Stars scored their only run on a wild pitch.

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