Postgame Thoughts (August 31, 2011)

Home run #11 for Mittelstaedt

Bees 4, Wisconsin 1
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Brooks Hall reached 100 innings this season with his three innings tonight (100-1/3 to be exact)
Tough call on a play at the plate in the second inning. If it goes the way the Rattlers saw it, Jason Rogers has an outfield assist and the game is 1-0 heading to the third.
But, it didn’t go the Rattlers way.
Dan Britt with three scoreless innings and Greg Holle with two scoreless innings out of the Rattlers bullpen.
For a team that is awful defensively (182 errors this season) Burlington made some slick plays tonight.
Both of the 4-6-3 double plays they turned in the game made me do a double take.
But, hey. They are going to the playoffs.
TJ Mittelstaedt appears to be finishing strong.
First, 13-for-27 during the just completed homestand to raise his average from .282 to .297.
Then, he goes 2-for-3 with a homer and a stolen base tonight. He bumps his average up to .300 after this performance and matches his season high hitting streak of six games.
Not bad for a 44th round pick
Oh, AND the dirtbag stole his 28th base of the season.
This kind of snuck up on me. Cody Hawn is now hitting .293 on the season. He – like Mittelstaedt – is in the Top 10 in hitting for the Midwest League with five games left in the season.
Non-baseball but still minor league related note: The music guy in Burlington may have the most eclectic playlist in baseball. This is one of the songs they play after games as fans leave Community Field:

I’ll need to keep track of their songs tomorrow night for the whole playlist so I can make a mix tape.
See, a mix tape is…
Oh, tape is recording material that is stuck inside a cassette..
Cassettes are….
Oh, I’ll see you tomorrow.