Obermueller Outduels DiFelice In 3-1 Isotopes Win
Published on August 11, 2007 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Former Sounds hurler Wes Obermueller worked 8 2/3 strong innings to lead the Albuquerque Isotopes to a 3-1 victory over Nashville on Saturday evening in front of 8,759 fans at Greer Stadium.
Obermueller (1-1), who pitched for Nashville during the club's PCL championship campaign in 2005, notched his first PCL win of the year. He allowed one unearned run on seven hits over his 8 2/3 innings while striking out nine batters.
Nashville pitchers allowed only three hits and struck out 16 batters in the losing effort. The Sounds (71-49) out-hit the opposition for the third straight game but have dropped all three contests.
MTSU product Brett Carroll scored two of the three Isotopes runs, including one on his 14th home run of the season.
Sounds starter Mark DiFelice (2-1) matched a career high with 11 strikeouts and surrendered only two hits over seven innings but took a hard-luck loss, his first in six PCL outings this season. The right-hander lowered his ERA to 2.78 with the effort.
The Isotopes manufactured a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning against DiFelice. Eric Reed led off with a double to right, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on a John Gall sacrifice fly.
Obermueller worked into and out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the fourth inning to nix Nashville's best scoring opportunity of the evening. After Drew Anderson led off with a walk, Brad Nelson and Vinny Rottino followed with singles to fill the bags. Obermueller caught three straight Sounds batters looking at strike three - Charles Thomas, Chris Barnwell, and Ozzie Chavez - to escape the jam unscathed.
Albuquerque used a Jason Phillips sacrifice fly to double its lead to 2-0 in the fifth. Carroll scored unearned on the play after reaching to open the frame when centerfielder Gabe Gross dropped his fly ball.
Carroll increased the visitors' lead to 3-0 in the top of the seventh when he belted a 1-1 DiFelice offering off the scoreboard in left-center. The one-out solo homer was his 14th of the season.
Nashville broke up Obermueller's shutout bid in the bottom of the ninth against after Thomas drew a one-out walk and Barnwell singled. Chavez followed with a sacrifice fly to left to make it a 3-1 contest.
Roy Corcoran took over on the Albuquerque hill and retired pinch-hitter Andy Abad, the potential tying run, on a flyout to notch his 11th save of the year and second in two nights.
Gross (2-for-4) extended his hitting streak to 10 games for Nashville with a fifth-inning single. Anderson had his season-best 12-game hitting streak halted with an 0-for-3 evening for the Sounds.
The teams continue the series with another 6 p.m. meeting on Sunday evening. Right-hander Seth McClung (1-0, 0.00) will make his second start of the year for the Sounds to face Isotopes right-hander Nic Ungs (4-4, 5.40).
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