PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Beavers Edge Sounds In Last At-Bat, 4-3

Published on August 3, 2007 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


PORTLAND, Ore. - Brian Myrow delivered a one-out, bases-loaded single against Greg Aquino to give the Portland Beavers a 4-3 victory over the Nashville Sounds on Friday evening at PGE Park.

It was the third time in three nights that the game between the clubs was decided with a ninth-inning run. Portland registered a last at-bat 4-3 win in Wednesday series opener before Gabe Gross belted a ninth-inning homer to give the Sounds a 1-0 win on Thursday.

With the loss, Nashville (68-45) had its lead reduced to 6 ½ games over Iowa in the PCL American Conference Northern Division.

Catcher Mike Rivera (2-for-4) gave the Sounds a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning with a leadoff solo homer against Portland starter Roger Deago. The blast to left was the backstop's 15th of the season. Nashville doubled its lead to 2-0 later in the frame when Chris Barnwell reached on a two-our ground-rule double and scored when Ozzie Chavez followed with an RBI single.

The Beavers got a run back in the fourth against Nashville starter Zach Jackson when former Sound Frank Menechino singled with one out and scored on Craig Stansberry's subsequent RBI double to right.

Portland grabbed a 3-2 lead in the fifth against Jackson. Centerfielder Yordany Ramirez led off the inning with a game-tying solo homer to left, his third longball of the season. Terrmel Sledge followed with a single and scored the go-ahead run later in the frame on Hiram Bocachica's one-out RBI single.

The Sounds rallied to knot the contest at 3-3 in the ninth when pinch-hitter Drew Anderson and Ozzie Chavez posted back-to-back doubles against Portland reliever Jared Wells, who suffered his second blown save of the year. Anderson's double extended his hitting streak to eight games, the longest active streak by a Nashville player.

Wells (3-7) backed into the victory as a result of the late Beavers rally after giving up the lead in the top of the frame. Aquino (2-2) was saddled with the loss.

Second baseman Rickie Weeks went 1-for-3 in his first game with the Sounds after being optioned from Milwaukee on Wednesday.

The teams wrap up the series with a 9:05 p.m. CT finale on Saturday. Left-hander Adam Pettyjohn (8-2, 3.33) will man the bump for the Sounds to face rehabbing southpaw Shawn Estes (NR) of Portland.

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