PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Sounds Drop Homestand Finale In 10 Innings

Published on July 11, 2004 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


Nashville, TN— The Nashville Sounds played their longest game of the season on Sunday evening in the finale of a four-game homestand against the Omaha Royals and dropped their ninth extra-inning contest of the year as they fell 8-6 in 10 innings in a seesaw contest before 6,304 fans at Greer Stadium.

Omaha pulled away in the top of the tenth as the first four batters in the inning were able to get hits. PCL home run leader Calvin Pickering, who went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, led off the inning by crushing his second homer of the contest, a bomb off Mark Corey that cleared the picnic deck in right-center on the fly to grab the lead back for the Royals at 7-6. The dinger was Pickering's league-leading 28th of the year.

Catcher Raul Casanova – who finished 4-for-5 with three RBI – then singled over shortstop Tomas de la Rosa's head. Rick Short singled right after that to move pinch-runner Paul Phillips to third and put two runners on base. Mark Teahen got the final RBI of the night when he singled to right to score Phillips and give the Royals an 8-6 lead that they would never relinquish. Chris Fussell finally got Nashville out of the inning by retiring the next three batters in order, two on strikeouts.

After the Sounds saw an early two-run lead turn into a 6-5 deficit following a two-run Omaha rally in the top of the eighth inning, Nashville's Luis Figueroa singled to center in the bottom of the frame against former Sound Shawn Camp to score de la Rosa to tie the game at 6-6 and allow the Sounds the opportunity to gain the victory. The single by de la Rosa extended his hitting streak to a season-high nine games.

The Sounds could have capitalized even further, but centerfielder Rich Thompson, who had walked prior to Figueroa's at-bat, was gunned down at third on the play by Royals centerfielder Adrian Brown, erasing the chance for the potential go-ahead run to be in place at third base. To make matters worse, the very next batter for the Sounds, Mike Moriarty, followed with a single but Camp escaped further damage by inducing an inning-ending pop-up from Chris Truby.

The extra-inning affair was the Sounds' PCL-leading 15th of the season (6-9). No other league club has participated in more than 10 such contests.

Scott Sheldon recorded a season-high three hits for Nashville and Keith McDonald continued his torrid hitting with a 2-for-5 effort in the losing effort. The backstop has hit safely in 17 of his last 20 games at a .459 clip (28-for-61).

Matt White (1-1), the loser of the Sounds' only win in the series, was awarded the victory after pitching the final two innings, allowing no hits and striking out two. Corey (1-2) received the loss for the Sounds after blowing the lead in the eighth and surrendering the go-ahead runs in the tenth. He allowed three runs on four hits in 1 2/3 frames.

The Sounds take the next three days off for the Triple-A All-Star break before traveling to Omaha on Thursday to face the Royals at Rosenblatt Stadium. Right-hander Kevin Jarvis (0-4, 5.31) will take the hill for his second Nashville start in Thursday's 7:05 p.m. contest and face Omaha right-hander Jason Dickson (2-2, 5.74).

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