Pictures of a home run record

A few days late, but here is a series of photographs detailing the record-breaking home run of Khris Davis.  Click for a larger image.

SWING AND A DRIVE!

Rounding third

And heading into Timber Rattlers history.

Yes. They were excited for him.

Yep. Excited.

Three! Count 'em! THREE Postseason All-Stars!

Unprecedented.

Three Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have been named to the 2010 Midwest League Postseason All-Star Team. Second baseman Scooter Gennett, outfielder Khris Davis, and closer Jon Pokorny were elected to the team in a vote by the managers of the 16 teams in the Midwest League. These three Rattlers are the first postseason all-stars for the Timber Rattlers since Matt Tuiasosopo was the shortstop on the 2005 team.

Click the link for all of the details. Why unprecedented? Here is why:

The naming of three Timber Rattlers to this season's postseason All-Star team marks the most Wisconsin players on the team in franchise history.  The previous high had been two in four straight seasons form 1998 to 2001.

And here is a list of all Timber Rattlers players to make the Postseason All-Star Team:

PAST TIMBER RATTLERS MWL POSTSEASON ALL-STARS
PLAYER            POS   SEASON
Matt Tuiasosopo   SS     2005
Shin-Soo Choo     OF     2002
Pedro Lirano      2B     2001
Jamal Strong      OF     2001
Shawn McCorkle    1B     2000
Chris Snelling    OF     2000
Juan Silvestre    OF     1999
Clint Chrysler    LHRP   1999
Jermaine Clark    2B     1998
Ryan Anderson     LHSP   1998

Khris Davis Week Continues

Timber Rattlers outfielder was named the Midwest League Batter of the Week earlier today.

Also, the Timber Rattlers production crew put together this piece on his Home Run Derby win in Fort Wayne last week.

Khris Davis: Home Run Champ

The above photo has been shamelessly swiped from Dan Watson of the Fort Wayne TinCaps.

Check out MiLB.com's slideshow of the night. Make sure to get to the last photo and try to find Nick Bucci as Davis is being congratulated.

Here is the News-Sentinel's story on last night.

I erroneously thought I had all the bases covered in preparing for the Midwest League All-Star Game and Skills Competition at Parkview Field

No one told me there would be a salute to Ken Griffey Jr.

Yet there was Wisconsin’s Khris Davis, evoking Junior. Hat turned backward, same upright stance. Same positive outlook, same flawless swing, same crushing connection.

On a night when most of the 4,000 fans in attendance Monday wanted to see the TinCaps’ strapping first-baseman Nate Freiman collect the Home Run Derby hardware, Davis stole the show with his dead-on Griffey impersonation.

“My hitting coach told me to stand upright and think about pulling the ball,” Davis said. “I copied Griffey, basically.

“My dad told me to do that. I tape my bat like him. I have Nike everything. My hat backward. I copied his stance. I did what he did.”

Go and read it all.

Digging the long ball

Khris Davis is representing the Timber Rattlers in the Home Run Derby in Fort Wayne next week.

When I told him about the invite he said no. Then, Michael Marseco did a sales job on Davis to convince him to do it.

On the latest episode of Timber Rattlers Field Pass on Sports 32, I interviewed Davis and asked him about the home runs he has been hitting because a lot of them have been real tape measure jobs.


He said that he doesn't consider himself a power hitter. He prefers his father's description of his style as "A hitter with power."

I guess we'll see on Monday next week.

You make the call

Running a little late this morning and I have to check out in a few minutes. But, I did want to put up this post.

Khris Davis homered in the first inning for the Rattlers last night. Well, it wasn't exactly a home run. Click here for the twitter description of it.


Below are two pictures. The first is a wide shot of the stadium from the press box. The second is a shot to show where the ball when out and there is a distance marker in there to give an idea.

So...Stadium:

The ball went out above the roof of that concession stand right around..............HERE!!
..............................vvvv!!

So, how far did it fly?

Khris Davis profiled

The once and future beat writer at the Post Crescent is profiling players this season. Today's subject was Khris Davis.

A taste.

Q: Well, since you are here [in Wisconsin], anything you're interested in checking out?

A: I heard about the cheese curds. My host family brought some home, so I'm going to get down with some of those. So definitely the cheese curds — and the brats, of course.

Click through for the rest.