By now everyone has heard, but I’ll provide the link anyway: the US lost its opener to South Korea 8-7 (the details of Brian Barden‘s day will be included after the jump).

I love reading articles like this: Baseball America discusses the “rebirth” of the Cardinals minor league system as exemplified by the talent accumulating at Memphis [unfortunately the article is subscription only].

The Quad Cities Times has a profile of Adron Chambers.

The system had all six teams in action today and all the details are after the jump.

South Korea 8, USA 7

• Brian Barden had a great game hitting out of the #9 slot in the lineup. He was 3-4 with a double.

Round Rock 1, Memphis 2

• Jess Todd had another outstanding start for Memphis. He went 6.2 innings, allowing only four hits, one walk and one earned run while striking out six. He also had ten groundouts to four flyouts in the game. The Destroyer was on tonight.
• Kelvin Jimenez pitched a perfect 1.1 innings and Jason Motte got two strikeouts in his perfect inning to preserve the victory.
• The Redbirds only got three hits on the night: a single by Uncle Rico Washington and doubles by Jarrett Hoffpauir and Mark Johnson, but they made the most of them with the doubles following immediately behind one of Rico’s two walks which resulted in all the runs the team would need.

San Antonio 1, Springfield 1

• Brandon Dickson‘s adjustment to AA has not yet ended. He gave up four runs, three earned, on six hits and four walks over 4.1 innings. He also struck out four.
• Josh Dew allowed two unearned runs on a hit and a walk in 1.2 innings.
• The back end of the bullpen settled down as Marco Gonzalez, Jon Mikrut and Zach Zuercher didn’t allow a hit or a run as each pitched an inning.
• After a mediocre stint at Palm Beach, Brandon Buckman continued his assault on the Texas League, going 4-5 with a double. He is batting .462 in the seven games since his promotion.
• Daryl Jones was 1-3 with two walks.

Brevard County 3, Palm Beach 4 (in 11 innings)

• Pete Kozma struggled mightily, striking out three times and going 0-5.
• Luke Gorsett hit a two-run bomb.
• Brian Cartie was 1-3 with a double and a walk.
• Tyler Herron got the start and had a little bit of a rough game. He allowed three runs on nine hits and a walk over 5.1 innings.
• The relief pitching was excellent, as Wayne Daman (1.2 innings), the Casey Mulligan Experience (1 inning) and Fernando Samuel (1 inning) didn’t give up a hit for the rest of regulation.
• Pete Parise pitched the two extra innings, allowing three hits but no runs and picking up the win.

Quad Cities 5, Beloit 3

• Deryk Hooker‘s debut for Quad Cities went pretty well. He gave up one run on five hits over five innings and struck out a pair.
• Kenny Maiques pitched a scoreless 1.2 innings, but walked four.
• Dylan Gonzalez pitched the final 2.1 innings, giving up two runs on a hit and two walks.
• Brett Wallace was 3-5 and Jon Edwards was 2-5.
• Francisco Rivera was 2-3 with a walk and Oliver Marmol was 2-4 with a double and a stolen base.

Batavia 3, Tri-City 2

• Brett Lilley was 2-5 with a double.
• Beau Riportella was 2-4 with a double.
• Miguel Tapia got the start and had a little trouble. He lasted three innings and gave up two runs on four hits and three walks. He did manage to strike out three.
• Scott Gorgen didn’t give up any runs, but he allowed three hits and four walks in his 3.1 innings. He struck out four.
• Adam Reifer walked a pair and struck out a pair in a scoreless ninth inning.

Johnson City 1, Greenville 0

• Nico is in a little bit of a slump. He went 0-4 tonight and is 2 for his last 16.
• Curt Smith also was 0-4 and he struck out three times.
• Jarred Bogany had a nice night, going 3-4 and driving in the only run of the game.
• Edgar Lara was also 3-4 with two doubles.
• Osvaldo Morales was 1-3 with a double and a walk.
• Luis Mateo was 2-4.
• Scott McGregor has been on fire since getting promoted to Johnson City, he’s only allowed two earned runs in 22 innings (including tonight). Tonight he went six innings allowing only two hits and striking out five.
• Jose Mateo pitched two innings in relief allowing a hit and two walks and Jorge Rondon pitched a perfect ninth inning.

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