Sounds Drop 2nd Straight Game To Express, 6-2
Published on May 4, 2010 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
ROUND ROCK, Texas - The Nashville Sounds suffered a 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Round Rock Express on Tuesday afternoon at The Dell Diamond in the second game of a four-game series.
The Sounds (16-8) have dropped two straight contests following their PCL-best seven-game winning streak.
Nashville took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Adam Stern led off the contest with a single against Express starter Josh Banks and later scored on Joe Koshansky's two-out RBI single to right.
Round Rock responded in the bottom of the opening frame, plating a pair of runs against Sounds starter Marco Estrada to grab a 2-1 advantage.
Edwin Maysonet (3-for-3) drew a one-out walk and moved to second when Luis Cruz made an error on Brian Bogusevic's infield grounder. After Chris Shelton singled to load the bases, Express left fielder Collin DeLome ripped a two-run double to right to put the home club out in front.
The Express blew the game open in the seventh with a four-run rally against Nashville reliever David Johnson, extending the lead to 6-1.
Former Sounds outfielder Jason Bourgeois got things started when his RBI single to left plated Drew Meyer, who had opened the frame by greeting Johnson with a triple. Later in the inning, Bourgeois scored on a wild pitch before Shelton swatted his fourth home run of the year, a two-out, two-run shot to left-center off the Nashville right-hander.
Koshansky wrapped up the afternoon's scoring in the eighth inning when his RBI single off Express reliever Yorman Bazardo plated Ray Olmedo, who singled earlier in the frame to extend Nashville's longest hitting streak of the year to nine games.
Banks (2-3) picked up the win with a quality start for the Express. He held the Sounds to one run on six hits over 6 2/3 frames of action.
Estrada (1-1) took a hard-luck defeat despite his third quality start of the year for Nashville. The right-hander allowed two runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out a season-high eight batters in six innings of work.
The teams continue the series with a 7:05 p.m. meeting on Wednesday evening. Left-hander Chuck Lofgren (4-1, 4.33) will man the bump for the Sounds to face Round Rock southpaw Polin Trinidad (0-0, 4.12).
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