Nashville Sounds Baseball

Nashville Completes First Winning Road Trip Since 2011

Oklahoma City, OK – Jimmy Nelson worked his fifth straight quality start and Nashville batters slugged three homers for the second straight game to propel the Sounds to an 8-5 victory over the Oklahoma City RedHawks in the finale of a four-game series on Sunday afternoon at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

With the victory, the Sounds wrapped up their first winning multiple-series road trip since August 2011, closing the swing with a 5-3 mark. Nashville (12-11) now possesses a winning record for the first time since the third day of the season.

The Sounds scored a season-best eight runs by cranking out a season-high 14 hits on the afternoon, including a 4-for-4 effort by third baseman Taylor Green. Every member of the Nashville lineup either rapped a knock or drove in a run in the contest.

Oklahoma City opened the contest by taking a 1-0 first-inning lead against Nelson as Robbie Grossman led off with a single and later scored on a groundout.

Jeremy Hermida (3-for-4) powered the Sounds into the lead in the fourth when he slugged a two-out, two-run homer to left off RedHawks starter Bobby Doran, the outfielder’s second big fly of the year. Robinzon Diaz followed with a double and scored the third run of the frame for Nashville on a single by Green to make it a 3-1 contest. All three runs in the inning were unearned following a two-out throwing error by shortstop Ronald Torreyes.

The Sounds plated more two-out runs in the fifth when Caleb Gindl and Hunter Morris put together Nashville’s first pair of back-to-back homers this season, both off Doran. The roundtrippers were Gindl’s second and Morris’ fourth of the year.

After Oklahoma City got a run back in the sixth when Gregorio Petit doubled and scored on a Domingo Santana single, Nashville extended its lead to 7-2 in the top of the seventh with a pair of runs off David Martinez.

With the bases loaded, Sean Halton lifted a sacrifice fly to right to bring home Irving Falu, who extended the Sounds’ longest hit streak of the year to nine games with a single earlier in the frame. Gindl, who had doubled, scored a second run on the play as the result of a throwing error by first baseman Jon Singleton.

After Nashville added its season-high 8th run in on a Falu sacrifice fly, Oklahoma City took immediate advantage of Nelson’s departure in the bottom of the eighth by touching Kyle Heckathorn for three runs to pull within striking distance at 8-5. Torreyes led off with his first homer of the year, a solo shot to left, before the ‘Hawks later added two more runs on back-to-back two-out RBI doubles off the bats of Max Stassi and Enrique Hernandez.

The Sounds return to Music City tomorrow to begin an eight-game homestand with a 7:05pm opener of a four-game series against New Orleans (AAA-Seattle Marlins).

Right-hander Hiram Burgos (1-3, 6.50) will make the start for the Sounds to face Zephyrs right-hander Jay Rogers (0-1, 5.51).

Box Score

Nashville Sounds (12-11) 8, Oklahoma City RedHawks (13-11) 5

April 27th, 2014

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Nashville Sounds 0 0 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 8 14 0 Oklahoma City RedHawks 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 5 10 2 Nashville AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Orr, 2B 5 0 1 0 0 1 4 .357 Falu, 3B 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 .254 Gindl, CF 5 2 2 1 0 1 1 .250 Morris, H, 1B 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 .266 Halton, LF 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 .225 Hermida, RF 4 1 3 2 1 1 1 .300 Diaz, R, C 5 1 1 0 0 0 4 .226 Green, T, DH 4 1 4 1 0 0 0 .283 Gomez, H, SS 4 0 1 0 0 1 4 .179 Nelson, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Heckathorn, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Leach, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Hand, D, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 39 8 14 7 2 5 16 .253 BATTING

2B: Diaz, R (3, Doran), Gindl (5, Martinez, D), Gomez, H (6, Martinez, D).

HR: Hermida (2, 4th inning off Doran, 1 on, 2 out), Gindl (2, 5th inning off Doran, 0 on, 2 out), Morris, H (4, 5th inning off Doran, 0 on, 2 out).

TB: Hermida 6; Gomez, H 2; Falu; Orr; Diaz, R 2; Morris, H 4; Gindl 6; Green, T 4.

RBI: Hermida 2 (8), Green, T (6), Gindl (6), Morris, H (10), Halton (6), Falu (5).

2-out RBI: Hermida 2; Green, T; Gindl; Morris, H.

Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Orr; Diaz, R; Gindl.

SF: Halton; Falu.

Team RISP: 1-for-8.

Team LOB: 8.FIELDING

Outfield assists: Gindl (Santana, D at home).

DP: (Gomez, H-Orr-Morris, H).

Okla. City AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Grossman, CF 4 1 1 0 1 2 0 .306 Torreyes, SS 5 1 2 1 0 0 2 .314 Petit, G, 3B 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 .333 Singleton, 1B 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 .303 Santana, D, LF 4 0 2 1 0 0 2 .302 Stassi, C 4 1 2 1 0 1 3 .277 Hernandez, E, 2B 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 .293 Castro, E, DH 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 .143 a-Meyer, J, PH-DH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .229 Simunic, RF 4 0 0 0 0 2 1 .243 Doran, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Martinez, D, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Lo, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 5 10 5 3 7 14 .284 a-Grounded out for Castro, E in the 8th. BATTING

2B: Petit, G (9, Nelson), Stassi (7, Heckathorn), Hernandez, E (3, Heckathorn).

HR: Torreyes (1, 8th inning off Heckathorn, 0 on, 0 out).

TB: Petit, G 3; Torreyes 5; Hernandez, E 2; Grossman; Stassi 3; Santana, D 2.

RBI: Petit, G (10), Santana, D (17), Torreyes (14), Stassi (19), Hernandez, E (7).

2-out RBI: Hernandez, E.

Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Stassi; Torreyes; Meyer, J.

GIDP: Hernandez, E.

Team RISP: 3-for-9.

Team LOB: 6.FIELDING

E: Torreyes (7, throw), Singleton (3, throw).

PB: Stassi (1).

DP: (Torreyes). Nashville IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Nelson (W, 3-1) 7.0 6 2 2 2 6 0 1.97 Heckathorn 0.2 4 3 3 1 0 1 9.00 Leach (H, 2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.75 Hand, D (S, 4) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2.84 Totals 9.0 10 5 5 3 7 1 3.76 Okla. City IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Doran (L, 0-1) 5.0 8 5 2 0 1 3 7.15 Martinez, D 3.0 5 3 3 2 3 0 4.13 Lo 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2.57 Totals 9.0 14 8 5 2 5 3 4.54

IBB: Morris, H (by Martinez, D).

Pitches-strikes: Nelson 100-68, Heckathorn 18-11, Leach 1-1, Hand, D 6-6, Doran 69-45, Martinez, D 49-32, Lo 12-8.

Groundouts-flyouts: Nelson 9-2, Heckathorn 1-0, Leach 1-0, Hand, D 1-1, Doran 9-2, Martinez, D 2-4, Lo 2-0.

Batters faced: Nelson 28, Heckathorn 6, Leach 1, Hand, D 3, Doran 23, Martinez, D 16, Lo 4.

Inherited runners-scored: Leach 1-0.

Umpires: HP: Shaun Lampe. 1B: Thomas Newsom. 3B: Brian Hertzog.

Weather: 80 degrees, sunny.

Wind: 27 mph, Out to CF.

T: 2:39.

Venue: Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

April 27, 2014

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