Cubs Hit Four Homers To Sink Sounds, 7-3
Published on April 27, 2009 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Iowa Cubs bested the Nashville Sounds by a 7-3 count in a slugfest that featured five home runs, four by the visitors, on Monday evening at Greer Stadium.
Cubs first baseman Jake Fox belted two home runs to up his league-leading total to 11 roundtrippers on the year, while Sounds third sacker Mat Gamel smashed his team-leading seventh longball in the contest. Fox (29) and Gamel (25) ranked 1st and 2nd in the circuit in RBIs.
Gamel got the evening's scoring going when he slugged his team-leading seventh home run of the season in the bottom of the first inning, an opposite-field, two-out solo shot to left-center off I-Cubs starter Randy Wells.
Fox answered Gamel's shot with one of his own to lead off the second, belting a towering homer over the left field foul pole to even the contest at 1-1. The roundtripper off Sounds starter Nick Green was the PCL-leading 10th of the young season for Fox, who paces the circuit in several offensive categories.
Nashville pulled back ahead by a run in the home half of the second when Hernan Iribarren singled with one out and later scored on a Carlos Corporan RBI single to right.
The Sounds extended the lead to 3-1 in the third on Brendan Katin's two-out RBI single, which plated Tony Gwynn, who singled earlier in the frame and has hit safely in 16 of his last 17 contests.
The visiting Cubs used the longball to tie things up once again in the fourth when left fielder Doug Deeds belted his first home run of the year, a two-run shot to left. Bobby Scales, who singled off Green to open the inning, also scored on the blast, which made it a 3-3 contest.
Fox gave the Cubs their first lead of the evening in the top of the sixth when he clubbed his second homer of the night off Green, an impressive opposite-field shot to right into the wind.
Brad Snyder provided three insurance runs for Iowa in the top of the eighth when he closed out the evening's scoring with a three-run bomb off Cubs reliever Chris Narveson, his fifth tater of the year which brought the score to its final 7-3.
Wells (3-0) earned the win for the I-Cubs with a quality start. He allowed three runs on seven hits and struck out seven over six innings.
Green (1-2) took the loss for Nashville after allowing four runs on eight hits in six innings of work. He struck out five batters and walked none.
The teams wrap up the series with an 11 a.m. finale on Tuesday morning, which will be attended by thousands of area schoolchildren as a reward for reaching their goals in the popular Sounds Reading Club program.
Right-hander Tim Dillard (3-0, 1.59) will look for his fourth victory in four starts this season when he takes the hill to face Iowa southpaw J.R. Mathes (3-1, 3.75).
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