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Sounds Stay Hot, Defeat Royals 6-4

July 9, 2008 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


OMAHA - The Nashville Sounds belted a pair of longballs to record a 6-4 victory over the division-rival Omaha Royals on Wednesday afternoon at Rosenblatt Stadium.

The Sounds (38-56) have won four of their last five contests after dropping six of their previous eight.

Nashville took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning on Brendan Katin's 13th home run of the year, a two-run shot to center that scored Vinny Rottino (double). The blast came against Omaha starter Brandon Duckworth.

The Sounds doubled their advantage in the third. Callix Crabbe and Tony Gwynn opened the frame with back-to-back singles and Crabbe advanced to third on a Laynce Nix flyout. Brad Nelson hit a ground ball to first that scored Crabbe and a subsequent throwing error by first baseman Ryan Shealy allowed Gwynn to come plateward on the play to make it a 4-0 contest.

Omaha got a run back in the bottom of the third on a two-out Brayan Pena RBI single then pulled within a run at 4-3 in the fourth when Dave Matranga belted a two-run homer to left off Chris Narveson, his sixth longball of the year.

Nashville added a run against Royals reliever Leo Nunez to make it a 5-3 advantage in the seventh. Chris Woodward drew a one-out walk and later scored on Crabbe's RBI double to right.

The Royals pulled back within a run at 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh when Shealy touched rehabbing reliever Randy Choate for a one-out solo homer to left, his 13th big fly of the season.

Choate worked into and out of a jam in the eighth to keep the one-run cushion intact. After Omaha put runners on second and third with only one out, the veteran southpaw struck out Chris Lubanski then retired Pena on an inning-ending flyout to center.

Third baseman Adam Heether provided an insurance run for Nashville in the ninth when he led off the frame with his seventh home run of the year, a solo shot to left off Brad Salmon that increased the lead to 6-4.

Closer Luis Pena took over on the Nashville hill in the ninth and worked a perfect ninth, including a game-ending strikeout of Jason Smith, to lock down his 14th save.

Narveson (3-11) allowed three runs on six hits over five innings to record his first victory since May 7th, snapping a string of seven straight losing decisions.

Duckworth (3-9) took the loss for Omaha after allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits and striking out five batters in six innings of work.

The teams wrap up the series with a 7:05 p.m. CT finale on Thursday evening. Right-hander Richie Gardner (6-2, 4.13) will take the hill for the Sounds to face Omaha left-hander Dusty Hughes (1-0, 4.32).

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