PCL1 Nashville Sounds

First-place Sounds sweep away Stingers, 8-2

Published on August 11, 2005 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


SALT LAKE CITY - The Nashville Sounds completed a four-game sweep of the fellow division-leading Salt Lake Stingers on Thursday evening, triumphing 8-2 in the finale of a four-game series at Franklin Cover Field.

The victory, the Sounds' fourth in a row and seventh in eight games on their current road trip, resulted in the club hitting two high-water marks. Nashville (67-52) improved to a season-best 15 games over .500 and stretched its lead over Memphis to a season-high 8 ½ games in the PCL American Conference Northern Division. The Redbirds had their scheduled series finale rained out in Colorado Springs.

The series sweep was Nashville's second of the season and first in the club's eight-year all-time series against Salt Lake. The Sounds scored eight runs in each of their four victories against the Stingers.

Julio Mosquera rapped out a season-high four hits, including a pair of doubles, and the ridiculously-hot Prince Fielder went 4-for-4 with three runs scored to lead the torrid Nashville offense, which matched a season high with 18 hits off Stingers pitching.

Fielder, who continues to punish the rawhide, is batting an incredible .655 (19-for-29) during his current seven-game hitting streak.

In the series, the Sounds batted a healthy .410 (66-for-161) against Salt Lake.

The Sounds jumped ahead 3-0 in the top of the first inning using three consecutive two-out RBI singles against Salt Lake starter Eric Cyr off the bats of Nelson Cruz, Tony Zuniga, and Mosquera.

Rehabbing Salt Lake third baseman Dallas McPherson put the home team on the board when he homered for the second straight contest, belting a two-run longball to left off Sounds starter Mike Meyers in the bottom of the frame to pull the Stingers within a run at 3-2. The blast was McPherson's fifth on the year for Salt Lake.

Nashville increased its advantage to 4-2 in the second when Steve Scarborough led off with a double and later scored on a Ryan Knox sacrifice fly. The Sounds added another run in the third when Fielder scored on Mosquera's second RBI knock of the evening to put the visitors on top, 5-2.

The Sounds tacked on a sixth run in the top of the eighth when Mosquera doubled and scored on a Scarborough RBI groundout.

Cruz capped off the Nashville victory with a two-run homer, his sixth with Nashville and 22nd overall roundtripper of the season. The blast, which scored Fielder and increased the lead to 8-2, came at the expense of Stingers reliever Dusty Bergman.

Dave Krynzel, who started in right field for the first time in his professional career, produced an eighth-inning single to extend his season-best hitting streak to 10 games, the eighth double-digit streak by a Sounds batter in 2005.

Zuniga went 2-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to a season-best six games, while outfielder Corey Hart's 10-game streak came to a close following an 0-for-4 evening.

Salt Lake shortstop Brian Specht went 0-for-3 to snap the longest active hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League at 17 games.

Meyers (6-4) earned a win for the second consecutive start after allowing two runs on eight hits through 5 1/3 innings, while Cyr (4-5) was saddled with the defeat after being touched for five runs on 13 hits in his 6 1/3 frames.

Nashville reliever Brett Evert offered a solid outing behind Meyers, hurling 2 2/3 hitless innings that included five strikeouts. Jose Capellan worked a scoreless ninth for the Sounds to complete the contest.

The Sounds travel to Memphis tomorrow to open a four-game series against the cross-state rival Redbirds. Nashville has won six of the first eight contests between the division rivals in 2005 and is 23-16 all-time at Memphis' Auto Zone Park.

Nashville right-hander Ben Hendrickson (5-9, 4.81) will toe the rubber in Friday's 7:05 p.m. CT opener. The Redbirds will counter will former Sounds right-hander Kevin Jarvis (10-3, 2.97).

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