Sounds Drop Game Two to Indianapolis on Wednesday Night
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Sounds Drop Game Two to Indianapolis on Wednesday Night

Published on August 12, 2026 under International League (IL)
Nashville Sounds News Release


NASHVILLE- The Sounds dropped game two of a six-game series against the Indianapolis Indians on Wednesday night at First Horizon Park. Sal Frelick continued his Major League rehab assignment with the Sounds and reached base four times, including his third straight game with a hit. Nashville stranded 11 runners in the 4-3 loss.

Indianapolis jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on back-to-back home runs in the top of the first inning of Sounds' starter Colton Gordon. Nick Yorke started the back-to-back and added his second home run of the night with another solo blast in the third to give the Indians a 3-0 advantage with just three hits off Gordon. The southpaw worked a couple of three-up, three-down innings in the fourth and fifth innings. Consecutive two-out baserunners reached in the top of the sixth, including the first single allowed by the left-hander, but he stranded them both. He finished his fifth start with Nashville after beginning the top of the seventh on the mound, working a season-high 6.1 IP (4 H, 4 ER) with seven strikeouts. The lone walk allowed in his outing came around to score on a two-out RBI single off Gerson Garabito and end a shot at his second straight quality start, and third overall with Nashville.

Nashville stranded five baserunners through the first two innings, including a bases-loaded opportunity in the first. They finally broke through with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth. Tyler Black drew a leadoff walk, and Frelick kept the inning alive with a two-out hustle double. Bo Naylor scored both with a two-RBI single to cut the deficit to one run at the time.

Garabito worked a four-pitch top of the eighth inning to retire the side in order. Nashville's second bases-loaded opportunity of the night came in the bottom of the eighth without a hit. Luis Matos drew a leadoff walk, and Black was hit by a pitch before Ethan Murray reached on an error. Eduardo Garcia flied out to right field, but deep enough to allow Matos to score and once again cut the deficit to a run at 4-3.

Grant Anderson took over in relief in the top of the ninth inning and worked around a one-out free pass with a pair of infield pop ups to send the game to the bottom of the ninth. Blake Burke collected his first Triple-A hit with a single to start the inning and put the potential tying run aboard. Jacob Hurtubise ran for Burke but a double play erased the imminent threat and a strikeout of Akil Baddoo ended any late-inning comeback aspirations Nashville had.

Even through the first two, the Sounds and Indians continue their series on Thursday night at First Horizon Park. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.

POSTGAME NOTES:

BETTER CALL SAL: Major League rehabber Sal Frelick went 1-for-2 with a double, two walks, and a hit by pitch to reach base four times on Wednesday night. He has posted a hit in three straight games during his rehab assignment and added his 15th double of the season (14 w/MIL) and the 19th career double with the Sounds (90 G). He has recorded a .273 batting average (3-for-11), a double and three runs in his rehab assignment with Nashville. Frelick has posted a .310 batting average (111-for-358), 28 XBH and 43 RBI in three seasons with Nashville ('22, '23, '26). Among all Brewers' minor leaguers with at least 200 games played since 2021 when Frelick was selected 15th overall by the Brewers, he leads the organization in AVG (.314) and tied for 10th in triples (10).

BOJANGLES: Bo Naylor had a productive night in Wednesday's game going 1-for-5 scoring the first two runs of the game for Nashville in the bottom of the fourth inning. The 2-RBI night marked Naylor's first multi-RBI game with the Sounds and his first since July 30 at Toledo when he was with the Columbus Clippers (CLE). It marked his 104th overall multi-RBI game since the start of his professional career in 2018. Naylor has posted a .239 batting average (394-for-1650), added 169 XBH, 270 RBI and 265 runs in regular season minor league career

CHILL OUT: Colton Gordon made his fifth start of the season for the Sounds and had a shaky start to the game, allowing three home runs, two of which came from Nick Yorke in the first three innings. The left-hander settled in retiring 12-of-the-next-15 batters he faced allowing a single, a walk, and seeing a runner reach on one of the two Nashville errors for the game. It was the fourth time a Sounds pitcher has allowed 3 home runs in a game this season, the first time since Lyon Richardson allowed three homers at Charlotte on July 9. The three home runs allowed tied Gordon's single-game career-high. It was the fifth time in his career, and the second this season, including his June 3 start at El Paso. Four of the five 3-HR games Gordon has allowed have now come during his 64 games in Triple-A since 2023. The other was with Houston on August 2, 2025, at Boston. The two homers by Nick Yorke were the second 2+ homer game allowed by the Sounds pitching staff in the last four games (Ramon Urias, August 8 at Memphis). 11 different Nashville pitchers have allowed 2+ HR in a game this season. As a pitching staff, Nashville has still allowed the fewest home runs in the International League this season (96). The next closest is Lehigh Valley (PHI) who has allowed 117. Nashville has the second-fewest home runs allowed in Triple-A behind Sacramento (94). Since the start of the 2021 season when Nashville joined the IL, the Sounds have allowed the fewest home runs in all of Triple-A, allowing 765; Oklahoma City ranks second over the same span with 858.

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