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Sounds Shut out Again by Omaha, 1-0

June 12, 2010 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


OMAHA, Neb. - The Nashville Sounds were shut out for the second straight night by the Omaha Royals, failing 1-0 on Saturday evening at Rosenblatt Stadium.

Gaby Hernandez (5-4) became the second Omaha starter in two nights to toss seven scoreless innings against the Sounds, duplicating Luis Mendoza's Friday effort. Hernandez allowed five hits and struck out three batters in his 99-pitch outing to secure his second win in two starts against Nashville this season.

Federico Castaneda followed with 1 2/3 hitless frames before Blaine Hardy was summoned to retire Mat Gamel on a game-ending flyout to secure the victory and earn his second save of the year.

Omaha pitchers retired 13 of the final 14 Nashville batters to close out the victory. Brendan Katin, who drew a one-out walk in the final frame from Castaneda, was the lone Sounds baserunner over that stretch.

Nashville (33-28) suffered its seventh loss in the last nine contests and was knocked out of first place for the first time all season when the cross-state rival Memphis Redbirds defeated Albuquerque to pull a game ahead in the American Conference Northern Division standings.

The back-to-back nine-inning shutout defeats were the first suffered by the Sounds since they were blanked by New Orleans on July 12 and 13, 2008, at Greer Stadium.

It was a pitchers' duel early on as Hernandez and Sounds right-hander Mike McClendon kept the game knotted in a scoreless deadlock for the first 5 1/2 innings before Omaha broke through in the bottom of the sixth.

Alex Gordon led off the Royals' sixth with a single to right off McClendon and later scored the game's only run on Scott Thorman's RBI single to right.

McClendon (2-2) took a tough-luck loss for Nashville despite throwing a quality start. The right-hander allowed one run on nine hits over six innings, his longest outing of the season.

The Sounds had runners in scoring position in the third, fourth, and fifth frames but were unable to push a run across.

Gamel went 2-for-4 on the evening to account for two of Nashville's five hits in the game.

The teams wrap up the series with a 1:35 p.m. CT matinee on Sunday afternoon. Left-hander Sam Narron (0-1, 4.50) makes his second start for the Sounds in the contest. Omaha will counter with right-hander Anthony Lerew (4-3, 3.14).

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