Sounds Split Twinbill With RedHawks
Published on June 17, 2006 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds split a doubleheader with the Oklahoma RedHawks in front of 9,116 fans on Saturday evening at Greer Stadium, winning the opener by a 3-1 count before falling 9-2 in 10 innings in the nightcap.
Nashville (39-31) prevailed in the evening's first contest despite finishing 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
The Sounds jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opener with a pair of runs off Music City native R.A. Dickey in the bottom of the second inning. With one out and the bases loaded, Jermaine Clark grounded into an RBI forceout that erased Mark Johnson at second but plated Nelson Cruz with the game's first run. During the following at-bat, Dickey uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Graham Koonce to score from third for a 2-0 Nashville lead.
Oklahoma plated a run in the fourth when Drew Meyer scored on an RBI groundout by former Sound Adam Hyzdu, which reduced the Sounds' lead to 2-1.
Nashville second baseman Zach Sorensen belted his first home run of the season in the bottom of the fifth inning, a leadoff solo shot off Dickey, to put the home team on top by two.
Knuckleballer Jared Fernandez (2-1) worked all seven innings of the opener to earn the victory with his first complete game of the year. He held Oklahoma to one run on five hits to pick up his first win since mid-April.
Dickey (2-5) took the loss and fell to 3-11 lifetime against the Sounds after allowing three runs on five hits over five innings.
The nightcap loss, which snapped a four-game winning streak, marked Nashville's sixth extra-inning game of the year. With the 9-2, 10-inning win, Oklahoma improved to 5-0 in extra-inning contests this season.
The RedHawks broke a 2-2 tie with a seven-run outburst against the Sounds bullpen in the top of the tenth inning, equaling the biggest single-frame scoring output permitted by Nashville this season.
Former Sound Adrian Brown led off the top of the tenth with a single to left, was sacrificed to second, and scored the go-ahead on a Joaquin Arias single to left off Mike Meyers.
Oklahoma later added six runs with two outs beginning with a Jason Hart two-run single against Chris Mabeus, who replaced Meyers on the hill. After a bases-loaded walk issued to Nick Trzesniak, Brown recorded his second knock of the frame to up the visitors' advantage to 7-2. Drew Meyer wrapped up the evening's scoring with a two-run double to the gap in right-center, a play that concluded with Brown being thrown out at the plate to end the inning.
Brent Abernathy gave Nashville a 1-0 lead in the nightcap with a one-out RBI single off RedHawks starter Kevin Walker in the bottom of the first inning. The knock, which scored Jermaine Clark, snapped a season-high 16 at-bat hitless stretch for the veteran infielder.
Catcher Mike Rivera doubled the Sounds' advantage to 2-0 in the second when he slugged his ninth home run of the year, a leadoff solo shot to left off Walker.
RedHawks center fielder Laynce Nix tied the contest at 2-2 in the top of the fourth with a two-run homer to right-center off Nashville starter Justin Lehr. The blast was Nix's eighth of the year.
The offenses remained silent over the next five innings before the RedHawks' game-winning outburst in the tenth.
Oklahoma reliever Erasmo Ramirez (4-0) picked up the victory after tossing a pair of scoreless innings. Meyers (2-4) took the loss after allowing four runs in his 1 2/3 frames of work.
Neither starter factored in the decision in the nightcap as Lehr allowed two runs in five innings and Walker gave up two runs (one earned) in three innings during his spot start for Oklahoma.
The teams wrap up the series with a 6 p.m. finale on Sunday evening. Left-hander Dana Eveland (3-2, 1.93) will man the bump for the Sounds to face Oklahoma southpaw and former Brewers farmhand Derek Lee (2-3, 4.08).
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