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Sounds Lose Wild Game to 'Topes, 15-12

May 9, 2010 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Nashville Sounds lost to the Albuquerque Isotopes, 15-12, on Sunday afternoon at Isotopes Park in the third game of a four-game series.

Matching the season-high of 12 runs scored in the defeat, the 15 runs allowed were also the most that Nashville (18-11) has surrendered this season, with a total of 45 combined runs being scored by both clubs through the first three games of the series.

In the top of the second inning, outfielder Drew Anderson smacked his first home run of the season over the center field wall to put the Sounds on the board at 1-0. Extending his hitting streak to a season-best eight games in the next frame, outfielder Trent Oeltjen then belted another solo home run to center field, his second on the year that made it 2-0 Sounds.

Albuquerque then took a 5-2 lead with a five-run rally that began on a leadoff single by Lucas May. Jamie Hoffman followed with an RBI-triple, with Chin-lung Hu tying the game at 2-2 with a base hit to right field. Timo Perez then gave the Isotopes a 4-2 lead with a two-run single, with Ivan De Jesus Jr. plating the final run of the frame with another RBI-single.

De Jesus Jr. added to the Albuquerque lead with another RBI-double off reliever Tim Dillard in the sixth inning. Later in the frame, May brought home Perez that made it 7-2 Albuquerque.

The Sounds struck back with three runs in the top of the seventh inning, beginning with a leadoff walk by pinch hitter Norris Hopper. Hopper then went to third on an Adam Stern single and later scored on a James McDonald wild pitch. Johnny Raburn followed with a base hit to score Stern and reduced the Isotopes lead to 7-3. Later in the inning, Oeltjen reached base on a fielder's choice, stole second and third base, and then came home on an Adam Heether sacrifice fly that reduced the Albuquerque advantage to three runs.

The Isotopes offense exploded for eight more runs off Sounds reliever Zach Braddock in the next frame, his first runs allowed in the 2010 season. Albuquerque produced RBI-base hits by Hu, Perez, and JD Closser before Hoffman belted a three-run homer to left field that made it 15-5 Isotopes.

In the next frame, Nashville scored six runs with no outs to reduce the Albuquerque lead with four runs at 15-11. Luis Cruz walked, then the Sounds hit three straight base hits, followed by an Oeltjen two-run double. Nashville's final run of the inning came from a Joe Koshansky double that plated Oeltjen.

Ben Johnson homered in the bottom of the ninth inning that brought the Sounds within three runs, but Nashville was unable to do further damage with the tying run at the plate with two outs.

McDonald (2-1) surrendered four runs on eight hits with six strikeouts to pick up the win. Releiver Jon Link gave up five of the six Nashville runs in the eighth before being removed for reliever Luis Ayala.

Sounds starting pitcher Marco Estrada (1-2) allowed five runs on eight hits with one walk and no strikeouts in four innings to take the defeat. John Axford threw 1/3 scoreless frames, with Chris Smith contributing a shutout inning while fanning one batter.

The Sounds look for the series split with tomorrow's 1:05 pm CT afternoon contest at Isotopes Park. Sounds left-hander Chuck Lofgren (4-2, 4.31) takes the mound against Isotopes lefty Scott Elbert (0-1, 7.77) in the finale of the four-game set.

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