Sounds Drop Series Finale To I-Cubs, 5-4
Published on July 19, 2009 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
DES MOINES -- Matt Camp delivered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning and the Iowa Cubs held on to edge the Nashville Sounds by a 5-4 score on Sunday afternoon at Principal Park in the finale of a four-game series.
With the win, the Cubs secured a three-games-to-one series victory over the first-place Sounds (52-42) and trimmed Nashville's lead in the PCL American North to three games.
Sunday's contest was the final game between the clubs in 2009. Nashville won the season series against the I-Cubs by a 9-7 margin.
Camp's single off Nashville reliever Ryan Houston (5-2) scored Bobby Scales from second base. Scales led off the inning with a walk and had moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt by Luis Rivas.
Iowa's Greg Reinhard (2-3) was credited with the win. Blake Parker, pitching for the second consecutive game, pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 11th save.
Luis Rivas staked Iowa to a 3-0 lead with a three-run triple in the first inning. On an 0-2 pitch from Sounds starter Chris Narveson, Rivas connected on a shot into the right-center field gap that was just beyond the grasp of a diving Jason Bourgeois. The triple was Rivas' first of the year.
Nashville scored single runs in the second and third innings on RBI singles by Freddy Parejo and Brendan Katin to trim the Iowa advantage to 3-2. Katin's 20th home run of the season in the sixth, off Cubs starter Mitch Atkins, capped the Nashville comeback and tied the game 3-3.
A bases-loaded single by Darwin Barney in the sixth inning temporarily gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead. Barney's single plated Jason Dubois from third base, but Scales was thrown out trying to score on an errant throw from the outfield.
The Sounds re-tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the eighth when Adam Heether delivered an RBI single.
Houston (5-2) took the loss for the Sounds after allowing the game-deciding run in his lone inning of work.
In his first start of the season, Narveson allowed four runs on four hits over 5 1/3 innings and took a no-decision.
The Sounds travel to Memphis tonight to continue their longest road trip of the year at AutoZone Park with a four-game series beginning on Monday evening. Nashville has yet to announce its starting pitcher for Monday's 7:05 p.m. contest. Memphis will send right-hander Clayton Mortensen (7-5, 4.09) to the hill.
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