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Updated: Sat Sep 06 03:21:31 EDT 2003

ST.LOUIS CARDINALS ORGANIZATION NOTEBOOK

MEMPHIS... RHP RHETT PARROTT spun eight scoreless innings (3 H, 1 BB, 5 SO) in a 3-0 win against New Orleans August 23. Parrott has gone 2-2 with a 2.43 ERA since his promotion from Class AA Tennessee July...

3B SCOTT SEABOL reached base safely in 24 consecutive games August 3-27 (23-85, 9 2B, 1 HR, 14 RBI, 1 SB)...

OF TODD DUNWOODY went 4-for-4 with a double, homer and three RBI on August 24 in an 8-7 win against Oklahoma. Dunwoody had not driven in a run in his previous 21 games, going just 3-for-54...

OF JON NUNNALLY hit a pair of home runs on August 22 in a 6-1 win against New Orleans....

TENNESSEE... C YADIER MOLINA hit safely in 13 straight games (21-46, 1 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBI) August 9-23...

RHP JULIO VILLALON lost six straight starts July 25-August 23 (25.2 IP, 42 H, 29 R, 25 ER, 15 BB, 18 SO)...

RHP JOSH KINNEY did not allow a run in nine outings August 10-26 (1 SV, 14.2 IP, 5 H, 1 BB, 22 SO)...

1B BUCKY JACOBSEN hit .360 (18-50, 2 2B, 5 HR, 11 RBI, 1 SB) in 13 games August 14-27. Jacobsen was leading the loop with 30 homers and a .565 slugging through August 27...

3B COREY ERICKSON was mired in a 5-for-51 slump (.098) in 17 games August 6-25....

PALM BEACH... RHP JARED SMITH pitched six scoreless innings, yielding three hits in a 3-1 win over Jupiter August 22...

RHP JUAN MEJIA won three straight starts August 15-26 (17 IP, 22 H, 10 R, 10 ER, 5 BB, 5 SO)...

RHP CRISTOBAL CORREA spun six scoreless innings (4 H, 1 BB, 6 SO) in an 8-0 win against Vero Beach August 25...

RHP MATT HAMMONS saved five straight games without allowing a run August 20-27 (5 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 7 SO)....

PEORIA... 2B CHAD EHRNSBERGER finished 4-for-5 with six RBI to lead the Chiefs past Kane County, 12-7, August 21. Ehrnsberger, who began the year with Kansas City in the Independent Northern League, slapped a run-scoring single and scored in the first inning and ripped an RBI double in the fourth. He cleared the bases with another two-bagger in the fifth to give Peoria a 10-6 advantage. He closed his night with another base hit to score a run in the seventh, producing his first four-hit game of the year. The next night, Ehrnsberger led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a homer and OF REID GORECKI followed with another solo homer three batters later to beat the Cougars, 2-1...

OF TERRY EVANS homered in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Chiefs over Quad City, 3-2, August 25. A 47th-round pick in 2001, Evans recorded his second hit of the game in the ninth inning, slugging a two-out offering from Peter Tautor over the left field wall to plate both the tying and winning runs....

JOHNSON CITY... SS TEE THOMAS ended the season mired in a 0-for-30 drought with 13 strikeouts in 11 games August 1-25...

OF PAUL FRISELLA hit .386 (22-57, 7 2B, 4 HR, 15 RBI, 1 SB) in 17 games August 3-23. Frisella finished the season leading the league in on-base percentage (.434)...

OF CODY HAERTHER was leading the league in hits (75) at the conclusion of the season....

NEW JERSEY... C BILLY SCHMITT singled home the game-winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning as the Cardinals edged Brooklyn, 8-7, August 24...

OF JOSE VIRGIL hit a two-run double in the top of the 11th inning to beat Brooklyn, 8-6, August 26. 1B JOE MATHER, who hit a solo homer in the sixth inning, produced the game-tying RBI single in the eighth. The next night, Mather highlighted a seven-run first inning with a grand slam and 3B MELVIN FALU capped a four-run fourth with a three-run blast as the Cardinals beat the Cyclones, 11-5. RHP JORDAN PALS spun 6 1/3 scoreless innings (3 H, 1 BB, 4 SO) in the win...

RHP DEREK ROPER pitched seven scoreless innings (5 H, 0 BB, 2 SO) in a 4-0 win at Auburn August 21....

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