Katin Homers But Nashville Held To Two Hits In Contest
Nashville, TN – The Nashville Sounds were on the short end of a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the PCL-leading Sacramento River Cats on Monday evening at Greer Stadium.
The teams played a one-run game for the third consecutive game in a tightly-contested series, and Nashville (13-24) suffered its league-leading 14th one-run loss of the year.
Three Sacramento hurlers combined to limit the Sounds to a season-low two hits on the evening – an Eric Farris single and a Brendan Katin home run.
Fautino De Los Santos and Joey Devine each worked a scoreless innings behind Outman, with Devine notching his third save of the year.
The visitors took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning against Sounds starter Frankie De La Cruz. Anthony Recker led off with a double into the left field corner and scored when Adrian Cardenas followed with an RBI single to center. Designated hitter Josh Donaldson continued the rally with a run-scoring double to left.
Sacramento upped its lead to 3-0 in the sixth. Donaldson doubled with one out off De La Cruz, then Michael Taylor (3-for-4) worked a nine-pitch at-bat into an RBI single to center.
Katin pulled the home team back within a run at 3-2 with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the seventh, belting a two-run homer to left off Outman. The blast, which also plated Brett Carroll (walk), was the Sounds slugger’s team-leading 10th of the year.
De La Cruz (0-2) suffered the loss despite turning in his fourth quality start of the year for Nashville. He gave up three runs on seven hits while walking three batters and striking out six in six innings of work.
Sean Green turned in a solid relief effort behind De La Cruz, recording five of his six outs via strikeout in two scoreless frames.
Sounds shortstop Edwin Maysonet went 0-for-4 to snap the club’s longest hitting streak of the year at nine games.
The teams wrap up the series with an 11:05am matinee on Tuesday morning, when thousands of area schoolchildren will pack the stands as a reward for reaching their educational goals in the popular Nashville Sounds Reading Club program.
Right-hander Josh Butler (2-2, 3.90) will make the series finale start for the Sounds and face Sacramento Guillermo Moscoso (3-2, 3.13).
Box Score
Sacramento River Cats (26-13) 3, Nashville Sounds (13-24) 2
May 16th, 2011
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | |
| Nashville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Sacramento | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks, 2B | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .313 |
| Timmons, 3B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .321 |
| Tolleson, SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .278 |
| Miller, Ja, CF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .295 |
| Recker, C | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .319 |
| Cardenas, LF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .368 |
| Donaldson, DH | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .204 |
| Taylor, M, RF | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .375 |
| Peterson, S, 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .304 |
| Outman, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| De Los Santos, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Devine, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 35 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | .279 |
| BATTING
2B: Cardenas (11, De La Cruz), Recker (13, De La Cruz), Donaldson 2 (8, De La Cruz, De La Cruz). TB: Recker 2; Cardenas 3; Donaldson 4; Taylor, M 3. RBI: Cardenas (17), Donaldson (16), Taylor, M (3). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Taylor, M; Miller, Ja; Timmons; Peterson, S. Team RISP: 3-for-10. Team LOB: 9. |
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| Nashville | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gindl, RF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .263 |
| Farris, 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .256 |
| Carroll, B, CF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .240 |
| Katin, DH | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .263 |
| Gamel, 1B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .307 |
| Maysonet, SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .298 |
| Brown, J, LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .257 |
| Rivera, Mi, C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| Nowak, 3B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .133 |
| De La Cruz, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Green, S, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Segovia, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 28 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | .247 |
| BATTING
HR: Katin (10, 7th inning off Outman, 1 on, 0 out). TB: Farris; Katin 4. RBI: Katin 2 (21). Team LOB: 4.BASERUNNING SB: Nowak (3, 2nd base off Outman/Recker). |
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| Sacramento | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outman (W, 4-1) | 7.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4.78 |
| De Los Santos (H, 2) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Devine (S, 3) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Totals | 9.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3.63 |
| Nashville | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De La Cruz (L, 0-2) | 6.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3.43 |
| Green, S | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5.87 |
| Segovia | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.74 |
| Totals | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 4.59 |
Pitches-strikes: Outman 97-57, De Los Santos 16-8, Devine 12-6, De La Cruz 108-65, Green, S 31-20, Segovia 11-7.
Groundouts-flyouts: Outman 6-6, De Los Santos 1-0, Devine 1-1, De La Cruz 7-4, Green, S 1-0, Segovia 2-0.
Batters faced: Outman 25, De Los Santos 4, Devine 4, De La Cruz 28, Green, S 8, Segovia 3.
Umpires: HP: Clint Fagan. 1B: Dixon Stureman. 2B: . 3B: Stephen Barga.
Weather: 56 degrees, overcast.
Wind: 2 mph, L to R.
T: 2:36.
Att: 1,776.
Compiled by MLB Advanced Media
