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Sounds drop pair to Grizzlies

July 28, 2005 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


NASHVILLE - The Nashville Sounds dropped a pair of games on Thursday evening at Greer Stadium as the Fresno Grizzlies pounded out 15 runs on 20 hits on the evening in posting 9-4 and 6-5 victories.

With the losses, Nashville (59-47) had its lead reduced to six games over Memphis in the PCL American Conference Northern Division.

Fresno jumped out to a 6-0 advantage in the top of the second inning of the nightcap using a trio of longballs against Nashville starter Jeff Housman. Former Sound Yamid Haad gave the visitors a 3-0 lead with a three-run homer off the guitar-shaped scoreboard in left-center. The blast, which came with no outs, was the catcher's tenth of the year and scored Jed Hansen and Mike Cervanek. After Doug DeVore drew a walk, Grizzlies shortstop Angel Chavez followed with his eighth home run of the season, a wind-aided two-run shot to right. Two batters later, Julio Ramirez ripped his 18th tater of the year, a solo shot that wrapped around the left field foul pole.

Housman put the Sounds on the board in the bottom of the second with an RBI groundout and Warren Morris made it a 6-2 game one inning later with a leadoff solo homer to center off Grizzlies starter Matt Cain, the infielder's seventh of the year.

All-Star outfielder Corey Hart pulled the home team within a run at 6-5 in the sixth when he crushed his 12th longball of the season, a three-run shot to right-center off Cain that plated Warren Morris and Prince Fielder.

Cain (7-5) picked up the victory, allowing five runs on six hits in five innings, and racked up a season-high 11 strikeouts, matching the most punchouts by a Fresno hurler in 2005. Jack Taschner tossed a scoreless bottom of the seventh to pick up his sixth save.

Housman (4-9) fanned a career-high 11 batters for the Sounds but allowed six runs on 10 hits over his six frames to take the loss. All six of his runs came on a season-high three home runs allowed.

The evening's first game was the completion of Wednesday's contest between the clubs that was suspended due to rain at the conclusion of the third inning. Nashville led 1-0 at the time after Dave Krynzel tallied the game's first run in the top of the first when he scored on a double play grounder by outfielder Corey Hart.

Fresno wasted no time getting down to business once play resumed on Thursday, plating nine runs in the first half-inning of play which was the top of the fourth. The Grizzlies used five hits and took advantage of four Nashville fielding errors in the frame to do their damage. Highlighting the outburst were two-run doubles by Angel Chavez and Todd Linden, both of which came against Sounds left-hander Mitch Stetter.

Reliever Clint Weibl opened the game for Nashville in relief of Gary Glover, who fanned five batters over three scoreless frames on Wednesday prior to the suspension. Weibl (2-4) took the loss after failing to retire any of the five batters he faced, allowing five runs (four earned). The right-hander left the game after being struck in the pitching hand by a Julio Ramirez liner.

The Sounds rallied for three runs in the bottom of the frame, highlighted by back-to-back homers by Fielder (two-run HR) and Nelson Cruz on consecutive pitches from Fresno reliever Jeremy Fikac. The blasts, Fielder's 21st and Cruz's sixth as a Sound and 22nd of the year, were the first set of consecutive jacks by Nashville players this season.

Neither team scored the rest of the way as Fikac (4-7), who received the win, and Brandon Villafuerte blanked the Sounds over the last five frames and Sounds relievers Stetter and Mike Meyers combined to post goose eggs over the final five frames.

The teams wrap up the series with a 7 p.m. meeting on Friday evening at Greer Stadium. Right-hander Ben Hendrickson (5-7, 4.27) will start on three days' rest for the Sounds. The Grizzlies will send right-hander Matt Kinney (3-6, 6.16) to the hill.

It will be an exciting night at the ballpark. The first 2,000 fans through the turnstiles will receive a Queen Esther bobblehead, courtesy of Monell's, as part of Purity Faith Night. It is the first of three limited-edition biblical collectibles that will be distributed this season. Locally-based Christian recording group Denver and the Mile High Orchestra will perform a pre-game concert along with Yolanda Stewart. A post-game Shoney's fireworks spectacular will follow the action on the field.

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