Quintin Berry is “the greatest of all time” in stolen bases at Clearwater. He stole two bases tonight to put his season total at 42 to break the previous record of 40 set by Reggie Taylor in 1997. Congratulations “Q” you ARE the greatest! In addition to that he extended his consecutive games hitting streak to 25 games.
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The Clearwater Threshers were in Port St. Lucie on Saturday night for the third of four games.  After a rainout on Thursday night the teams split a double header on Friday.  On Saturday night the Threshers jumped out early on the Mets when when Clay Harris got the first of his three home runsto give the Threshers an early 3-0 lead.  Harris would eventually homer in his first three at bats of the game as the Threshers jumped out to a 7-2 lead after five innings with five of the RBIs credited to Harris.

Appearantly the Mets were not as happy about Harris’ night as some of us were, and he was hit by a pitch in his fourth at bat by Mets hurler Casey Hoorelbeke.  This prompted the benches to be cleared for both teams, but without any real harm done.  In the next inning Threshers starter Edgar Garcia was ejected from the game when he promptly hit the first batter he faced . 

Apparently not phased by the fact that the bases were loaded in the eighth inning when Clay Harris stepped to the plate for a fifth time Casey Hoorelbeke of the Mets hit Harris for the second time in the game and was ejected while Clay was credited with a career high sixth RBI on the night.

In the ninth inning Tuffy Gosewsich was hit by a pitch that got another Mets pitcher ejected, and in the end the Threshers got the last laugh winning easily by a score of 11-3.

Front page story at MiLB.com here

Story from the Threshers blog here

All-Star Weekend in Brevard County was good for all four of the Threshers stars who played in the game and for the Threshers’ coaching staff who coached the Western Division All-Stars to a 9-3 win over the Eastern All-Star squad. All three of the Threshers’ pitchers held the East squad scoreless in their work on the hill while Gus Milner accounted for two West division runs in the game.
Edgar Garcia – RHP pitched the second inning for the West giving up no hits and striking out one batter. The effort was good enough to earn him the pitcher-of-the-game award for the winning West team.
Brett Harker – RHP threw the sixth inning giving up no runs on two hits with two punch outs, and Matt German – LHP got in 0.2 innings of work with the final out in the seventh inning and the first out of the eighth giving up no runs on two hits with a strikeout. As mentioned “Gus” Milner – OF scored twice in the game going 1-4 plus a walk.

I’ve got a bunch of good photos that I will be uploading over the course of the night on Sunday, so check out the “Photo Gallery” link at my website. As soon as the pictures are prepped and uploaded they will be available there.