PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Sounds Wrap Homestand With 8-3 Victory

Published on August 17, 2007 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds closed out their homestand with an 8-3 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs on Friday evening at Greer Stadium in the finale of a four-game series.

With the win, Nashville (76-50) improved to a season-best 26 games over .500 and wrapped up its eighth consecutive winning homestand.

The Sounds belted three home runs in the contest to highlight the come-from-behind victory.

The visitors grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on veteran Fernando Tatis' opposite-field, one-out homer to right off Sounds starter Seth McClung. The tater, his 19th of the season, accounted for the first run allowed by the Nashville right-hander in 14 1/3 innings since joining the club in late July.

The Zephyrs doubled the advantage to 2-0 in the second when Chip Ambres led off with a solo homer to center off McClung, his 19th longball of the year. New Orleans added a run later in the frame when former Sound Chad Hermansen singled and scored on a one-out RBI double off the bat of Robinson Cancel.

Nashville rallied to grab a 5-3 lead with a five-run fourth inning that chased Z's starter Philip Humber from the contest. Humber had held the Sounds hitless through the first three frames.

Sounds third baseman Brad Nelson tied the game at 3-3 with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the fourth inning when he swatted a three-run home run that sailed over the right field foul pole. The blast, which scored Tony Gwynn and Drew Anderson, was his 19th of the year. Andy Abad followed Nelson's shot with one of his own, a solo shot to right-center that gave Nashville a 4-3 lead. The back-to-back shots were the Sounds' third set this season and second in three contests.

McClung helped his own cause later in the frame when he ripped his first career hit, an opposite-field RBI double off the left field wall that plated Ozzie Chavez.

Nashville added a run in the fifth when Gwynn, who had extended his season-best hitting streak to nine games earlier in the contest, doubled to right and scored on an Anderson run-scoring single.

Rivera wrapped up the Sounds' scoring in the seventh with a two-out, two-run homer to right-center off Zephyrs reliever Ambiorix Burgos, the backstop's 17th blast of the year.

McClung (2-0) allowed three runs on five hits while striking out a season-high eight batters over his five innings of work.

Humber (10-9) gave up five runs on four hits in just 3 2/3 innings, only the second time he failed to last at least four frames in an outing this season.

The Sounds travel to Round Rock, Texas tomorrow for a four-game road series against the Express (AAA-Astros) before returning to Greer Stadium on Wednesday to open a nine-day, 10-game homestand against Oklahoma and Omaha.

Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (10-5, 3.69) will man the bump for the Sounds in Saturday's 7:05 p.m. CT series opener. Round Rock will counter with right-hander Juan Gutierrez (5-9, 3.96).

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