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Near-Perfect Outing Nets Meadows PCL Pitcher-of-the-Week Honor

July 21, 2003 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


NASHVILLE — Sounds right-hander Brian Meadows has been named the Pacific Coast League Pitcher-of-the-Week for the July 14-20 period, his second weekly honor this season, following a two-hit shutout and record-setting performance against the Omaha Royals.

Meadows made a run at tossing the Sounds' second perfect game of the season but settled for a complete-game, two-hit shutout in a 2-0 victory on Friday, July 18 at Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium. Former Sound and current Toronto Blue Jay John Wasdin logged a perfecto for Nashville on April 7 against Albuquerque in his first start of the season.

The 27-year-old Meadows opened Friday's contest by retiring the first 21 Royals batters before outfielder Dee Brown led off the bottom of the eighth with a double off the wall in left-center to end the perfect game and no-hit bid. Mike Kelly recorded a one-out single in the ninth for Omaha's only other hit.

Meadows fanned two and did not walk a batter in the outing, eclipsing a 45-year-old Pacific Coast League record by extending his amazing streak to 69 2/3 innings since he last issued a base on balls at the Triple-A level. His last PCL walk was drawn by Tacoma catcher Pat Borders on July 17, 2002 (2nd inning, none out). Vancouver's George Bamberger held the previous mark by logging 68 2/3 frames without a walk from July 10 to August 14, 1958.

Meadows' dominating performance resulted in Nashville's league-leading 10th shutout victory of the year. He threw 90 pitches in the outing -- 70 for strikes -- and did not go to a three-ball count on a hitter all night in becoming the only PCL hurler to record seven consecutive victories this season.

He picked up the PCL weekly award for the April 14-20 period earlier this season after going 2-0 with a 0.69 ERA (1er/14.0ip) while walking no batters and striking out nine over two starts during that week.

Meadows' selection is Nashville's fourth this season. He joins himself, Wasdin, and outfielder John Barnes as Sounds players recognized by the PCL this season, and his two weekly awards are the most obtained by a Sound in one season since Kris Benson was twice honored during the 1998 campaign.

The four weekly awards are the most accumulated by a Nashville club since 1998, when pitchers Benson (twice) and Kevin Pickford along with infielder Kevin Grijak were all honored during the Sounds' initial year in the PCL.

Meadows (7-0, 1.41 in nine PCL outings) is scheduled to make his next start on Wednesday evening in the Sounds' 7:05 p.m. CDT contest at Oklahoma.

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