PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Sounds Take Second Straight From 'Topes, 9-4

Published on May 29, 2008 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


ALBUQUERQUE - The Nashville Sounds recorded their fourth win in the last six games on Thursday evening at Isotopes Park, defeating Albuquerque 9-4.

Laynce Nix and Tony Gwynn led Nashville (23-30) with three hits apiece and combined to score five of the club's runs. Ex-Sound Chris Barnwell homered and drove in three of the four Albuquerque scores on the evening.

Left-hander Sam Narron (3-0) earned his third win in three starts for the Sounds. The left-hander allowed four runs on 10 hits over seven innings of work.

Nix (3-for-4) continued his recent hot hitting when he spotted the Sounds a 1-0 lead with a two-out solo homer to right in the top of the first inning. The blast, off Albuquerque starter Bobby Keppel, was the outfielder's seventh of the year.

Albuquerque jumped ahead 2-1 in the second inning. Isotopes center fielder Jai Miller evened the contest with a two-out longball of his own, a solo shot to center off Narron. The ‘Topes proceeded to load the bags on singles by Andrew Beattie and Keppel followed by a Robert Andino walk before Barnwell (3-for-4) put the home team in the lead with an RBI single. Narron avoided further damage by inducing an inning-ending groundout from John Gall, leaving the bases full.

The two-out scoring rallies continued in the top of the third as the Sounds re-took a 3-2 lead on Brad Nelson's two-out, two-run single to right. Nix (double) and Gwynn (single) scored on the knock.

Nashville catcher Vinny Rottino followed with a double to extend his hitting streak to nine games, matching his season-best effort and the longest streak by a Sound all year. Nelson was thrown out at home on the play, however, to end the inning.

The Sounds increased their lead to 6-2 in the fourth with a three-run frame highlighted by Narron helping his own cause with a two-run double.

Albuquerque got a run back in the bottom half of the inning when Barnwell recorded his second RBI single of the night, plating Beattie to make the score 6-3.

Nashville netted an unearned run in the sixth when Brendan Katin doubled and scored when Miller mishandled an Ozzie Chavez fly ball in center field. The Sounds plated two more in the seventh when Gwynn scored on a wild pitch and Rottino drove in Nix with a sacrifice fly, increasing the lead to 9-3.

Barnwell's solid night at the plate continued in the bottom of the seventh when he slammed his fourth home run of the year, a one-out solo shot to left off Narron that closed out the evening's scoring.

Keppel (6-4) was saddled with the loss after giving up seven runs (four earned) on nine hits in six frames.

Jason Shiell and Luis Pena each worked a scoreless inning behind Narron to close out the Nashville victory.

Sounds second baseman Callix Crabbe went 0-for-5 to snap his season-best hit streak at eight games.

The teams wrap up the series with an 8:05 p.m. CT finale on Friday evening. Left-hander Lindsay Gulin (1-4, 3.05) will make the start for the Sounds to face Albuquerque right-hander Gaby Hernandez (2-3, 5.79).

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