RedHawks "Steal" 4-3 Win From Sounds
Published on June 10, 2008 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
OKLAHOMA CITY - Joaquin Arias stole home to score the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning for the Oklahoma RedHawks and hang a disappointing 4-3 defeat on the Nashville Sounds on Tuesday evening at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.
After Zach Jackson retired the first batter of the ninth, Arias and ex-Sound Nelson Cruz posted back-to-back singles to put runner on the corners. With Chris Davis at the plate, Cruz broke for second and drew a throw before Arias sprinted home to barely elude a tag from Vinny Rottino and end the contest.
The Sounds had rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the final two innings, tying the game in the top of the ninth on Callix Crabbe's two-out, two-run triple.
Nashville (27-37), which lost for the sixth time in six games against the RedHawks this season, fell to a season-low 10 games out of first.
The RedHawks took a 1-0 lead when Davis led off the bottom of the second inning with a solo home run to right off Lindsay Gulin, the first baseman's third longball of the year. Left fielder John Mayberry doubled the home team's advantage to 2-0 in the fifth with a leadoff solo homer to left off Gulin, his sixth big fly of the season.
Oklahoma tacked on its third run in the seventh against reliever Zach Jackson. Davis drew a two-out walk and scored when Mayberry followed with an RBI double to left.
After being held to four hits through seven scoreless frames by three Oklahoma hurlers, Nashville finally got on the board in the eighth when newly-added outfielder Lorenzo Cain recorded his first career Triple-A RBI, driving in Crabbe from third on a fielder's choice groundout against Kazuo Fukumori.
With the Sounds down to their last out, Crabbe knotted the contest at 3-3 in the top of the ninth with a two-out, two-run triple off RedHawks reliever Wes Littleton, plating Brendan Katin and Chris Woodward. The three-bagger was Crabbe's third in 21 PCL games, tying him for the team lead.
After intentionally walking Tony Gwynn and allowing a steal of second, Littleton struck out Cain to avoid further damage and strand a pair of Sounds runners in scoring position.
Littleton (3-1) backed into the win for Oklahoma after suffering his first blown save of the year but benefitting from the bottom of the ninth rally.
Jackson (1-5) was saddled with the loss after allowing two runs on three hits over three innings of work.
Rottino (2-for-4) singled in the top of the second inning to extend Nashville's longest hitting streak of the season to 19 games.
The teams continue the series with an 11:05 a.m. meeting on Wednesday morning. Right-hander Jeff Weaver (2-3, 5.51) will man the bump for Nashville to face Oklahoma left-hander Matt Hairston (0-0, 6.75).
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