Sounds Lose to Express, 8-3
May 3, 2010 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1) - Nashville Sounds News Release
ROUND ROCK, Tex. - The Round Round Express scored the final seven runs in the last four innings to drop the Nashville Sounds, 8-3, on Monday evening at The Dell Diamond in the opener of a four-game series.
Express outfielder Brian Bogusevic went 3-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs, while Chris Shelton added three hits in the Round Rock win.
Nashville drops to 16-7 after snapping a seven-game winning streak with the defeat.
The Sounds jumped on the board to score their first run in top of the second inning as outfielder Trent Oeltjen led off with a single to reach base. Round Rock starting pitcher Wesley Wright hit Chase Wright with a 3-2 pitch and then proceeded to walk the next two Nashville hitters, bringing Oeltjen home from third base for a 1-0 lead.
Round Rock tied the game in the bottom of the fourth inning with a leadoff solo home run to center field from Bogusevic, his third of the year.
After an Adam Heether walk in the next frame, Erick Almonte belted his first home run of the season, a two-run homer to left field that broke a Sounds 57-inning homerless draught over a six-game stretch.
The Express again tied the contest in the bottom of the sixth inning, as Oswaldo Navarro led off the frame with a triple off Wright. Bogusevic followed with his second RBI of the game, singling home Navarro for the first run. With no outs in the inning, Tim Dillard came into the game to relieve Wright and surrendered a game-tying RBI-double to Matt Kata as Shelton was thrown out at third on the play. Dillard continued the inning and recorded the next two outs to get out of the jam.
Round Rock took the lead in the following inning, posting two runs off Dillard. After Edwin Maysonet and Yordany Ramirez singled, Bogusevic singled to center to plate both runners for his third and fourth RBIs of the contest. Shelton then drove in the next run with a base-knock that made it 6-3 Round Rock.
Round Rock tacked on two more runs for a 8-3 advantage when Maysonet added a two-run double in the eighth inning off A.J. Murray.
Chase Wright earned a no-decision, allowing three runs on five hits with two walks and three strikeouts in five innings. Dillard (0-2) took the loss, giving up three runs on five hits in 1 1/3 innings pitched. Murray added 1 2/3 innings, surrendering two runs on two hits.
Wesley Wright pitched six innings while earning a no-decision, giving up three runs on seven hits with three walks and two strikeouts. Wilton Lopez (2-1) earned the win, throwing a scoreless frame in relief for the Express.
Ray Olmedo extended his team-high hitting streak to eight games with a 1-for-3 performance.
The Sounds and Express continue with the second game of a four-game series at 12:05 pm CT on Tuesday afternoon at The Dell Diamond in Round Rock. Sounds right-hander Marco Estrada (1-0, 2.71) takes the hill for Nashville against Round Rock right-hander Josh Banks (1-3, 3.64).
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