PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Sounds Use Big First Inning To Derail Express

Published on August 18, 2008 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


ROUND ROCK, Texas - The Nashville Sounds put up six runs in the top of the first inning and cruised to an 8-2 victory over the Round Rock Express on Monday evening at The Dell Diamond.

Five Nashville hitters turned in multiple-hit efforts in the club's 13-hit output as the Sounds won for the third time in their last four games.

Lindsay Gulin (6-7) turned in his seventh quality start of the year to notch the victory for the Sounds. He allowed one run on seven hits while striking out six batters over six innings of work.

The Sounds got out of the gates quickly, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring six runs in the top of the first inning against Express starter Jack Cassel. Hernan Iribarren - who recorded a pair of hits in the frame to become the first Nashville player to accomplish that feat since 2006 - led off the game with a triple and scored the first run on Joe Dillon's one-out RBI single.

Jay Gibbons added a run-scoring single before Chris Woodward delivered the frame's biggest knock, a bases-loaded, three-run triple to center to make it a 5-0 contest. Vinny Rottino plated the sixth Sounds run with a sacrifice fly.

Round Rock got on the board in the third against Gulin when Tommy Marzella led off with a bunt single and later scored on Ray Sadler's two-out RBI single to reduce the Nashville lead to 6-1.

Gibbons increased the Sounds' advantage to 7-2 in the top of the seventh with a one-out RBI double off Ray King that scored Dillon before Round Rock got the run back in the home half of the frame on Chris Johnson's two-out RBI single against Luis Pena.

The Sounds tacked on their final run in the eighth when Vinny Rottino led off with a walk off Nick Regilio, moved to second on a Brendan Katin single, and scored on Tony Gwynn's one-out RBI single.

Joe Bateman worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings behind Pena before Tim Dillard took over for Nashville and kept the Express off the board in the ninth.

Cassel (8-4) was saddled with the loss after giving up six runs on eight hits in six innings.

The teams wrap up the series with a 7:05 p.m. CT finale on Tuesday. Left-hander Sam Narron (7-4, 4.64) will make the start for Nashville to face Round Rock right-hander Runelvys Hernandez (7-6, 4.56).

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