Dickey, Sounds Derail Express, 9-2
Published on August 18, 2007 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
ROUND ROCK, Texas - R.A. Dickey worked a complete game and Nashville batters crushed three home runs to power Nashville to a 9-2 victory over the Round Rock Express on Saturday evening at The Dell Diamond in the opener of a four-game series.
With their fourth consecutive victory, the Sounds (77-50) improved to a season-best 27 games over .500 and reduced their magic number to 10 to clinch their third consecutive division title.
Dickey (11-5) pulled into a tie for the Pacific Coast League lead by earning his 11th victory of the season. He went all nine frames, allowing two runs on six hits, to notch his third complete game of the year, which tied for the league lead.
In his 12 starts since rejoining the Sounds' rotation in mid-June, the knuckleballer has posted a 7-1 record and 2.01 ERA (19er/85.0ip).
Nashville grabbed an early lead with a four-run second inning against Express starter Jared Gothreaux. After Andy Abad crossed home with the game's first run on a Chris Barnwell groundout, Callix Crabbe delivered a three-run homer to right, his seventh longball of the year.
The Sounds added three in the third when Laynce Nix (4-for-4) homered for his fourth straight game, belting a three-run blast to right off Gothreaux for his 19th roundtripper of the season. The red-hot outfielder is batting .517 (15-for-29) during his season-best seven-game hitting streak.
The home run parade continued for the Sounds in the fourth when Drew Anderson smacked a two-run shot to left off Express reliever Joshua Miller to extend the lead to 9-0.
Round Rock broke up Dickey's shutout bid in the sixth when Danny Ardoin scored on a Brooks Conrad sacrifice fly. The Express made it a 9-2 game in the eighth when pinch-hitter Brian Gordon delivered a two-our RBI single.
Gothreaux (5-8) took the loss after allowing seven runs on eight hits in only 2 1/3 frames of action for Round Rock.
The teams continue the series with a 6:05 p.m. CT contest on Sunday night. Left-hander Zach Jackson (9-9, 4.64) is scheduled to take the hill for the Sounds to face Round Rock southpaw Troy Patton (4-1, 3.89).
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