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Nashville Sounds lose to Round Rock Expess 7-6 in 11 Innings

Sean Halton Homers Twice In Losing Effort As Nashville Blows Five-Run Lead

Nashville SoundsRound Rock, TX – Round Rock overcame a five-run deficit to force extras and a two-out Ryan Spilborghs single in the bottom of the eleventh inning gave the Express a 7-6 victory over the Nashville Sounds late Wednesday evening at The Dell Diamond in the opener of a five-game series.

The contest was the Sounds’ PCL-leading 16th extra-inning affair of the year (6-10 in those games).

The Sounds (61-71) scored in the top of the first inning, eventually built a five-run advantage, and led for the entire game until Round Rock rallied in the bottom of the ninth against Rob Wooten to send it to extras. Since the promotion of All-Star closer Jim Henderson to the Milwaukee Brewers on July 26th, the Nashville bullpen has nine blown saves in 12 opportunities.

Nashville Sounds Baseball. (Mike Strasinger / Nashville Sounds)
Nashville Sounds Baseball. (Mike Strasinger / Nashville Sounds)

In the decisive Round Rock eleventh, Leonys Martin led off with a single to right against Nashville reliever Brandon Kintzler (0-1) and was sacrificed to second. After a fielder’s choice advanced Martin to third, Spilborghs ended the contest with a two-out single to left.

Third baseman Sean Halton enjoyed his third two-homer game of the season for Nashville and upped his team-leading RBI total to 49 by plating four runs in the contest.

Shortstop Eric Farris (4-for-6)  led five Nashville players with multi-hit efforts in the game, his second four-hit effort of the year and the seventh by a Sound this season.

Sounds starter Brian Baker continued his strong second half, holding Round Rock to two runs in five innings of work and was in line to earn wins in back-to-back starts for the first time all season before the late blown save by the Nashville bullpen. The right-hander has posted a 2.74 ERA (17er/55.2ip) in his last 11 PCL outings.

Nashville grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning against Round Rock starter Greg Reynolds. Farris led off the game with a double to left and later scored the game’s first run on a Khris Davis sacrifice fly.

In the second, Halton — who made his first professional appearance at third base with a start at the hot corner due to the call-up of Jeff Bianchi and Taylor Green being unavailable due to illness — doubled the Sounds’ lead to 2-0 with a towering solo homer to left.

Halton broke the game open in the fourth when he blasted his second home run of the night, a three-run shot to left-center off Reynolds that extended the Sounds’ advantage to 5-0. It was his team-leading 14th roundtripper of the season.

Baker opened the night with four scoreless frames to run his personal streak to 15.0 consecutive scoreless innings for Nashville before the Express finally broke through in the fifth.

Julio Borbon opened the Round Rock fifth with an infield single before shortstop Alberto Gonzalez put the home team on the board when he followed with his first homer of the year, a two-run shot to left that reduced the Nashville lead to 5-2.

The Express rally continued as the next three hitters reached base to load the bases with still no outs. Baker recovered to induce a 1-2-3 double play from Yangervis Solarte then struck out Spilborghs to escape the inning with no further damage.

Borbon pulled the Express within a pair of runs in the sixth when he ripped a two-out solo homer to right off Sounds reliever Amaury Rivas to make it a 5-3 game.

Nashville tacked on an important insurance run in the top of the eighth when second baseman Adrian Williams, who went 2-for-5 in his first career Triple-A start, singled against Fabio Castillo and scored on Logan Schafer’s team-leading eighth triple of the year to extend the Sounds’ lead to 6-3.

Round Rock made it a one-run game in the bottom of the eighth when Spilborghs greeted reliever Tim Dillard with a two-run homer to right, his eighth big fly of the year. Solarte, who opened the inning with a double against Juan Perez, also scored on the roundtripper, which reduced the Nashville advantage to 6-5.

Later in the eighth, the Express placed the potential tying run into scoring position when Borbon doubled with two outs against Wooten, but the Nashville right-hander punched out Gonzalez for the final out of the frame.

The Sounds attempted to tack on a run in the ninth. Jordan Brown doubled and tried to score on catcher Humberto Quintero’s two-out single to center but was thrown out at the dish by Martin.

The Express rallied to pull even at 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth against Wooten.

Martin led off with an infield single and moved to third on a Nelson single that deflected off the glove of a diving Williams on the right side of the infield to put runners on the corners. Kata followed with a grounder to second which Williams double-clutched then misfired to the plate to allow Martin to score the tying run.

With runners on the corners and no outs, Wooten was able to escape the jam without further damage with the help of an atypical double play. Solarte hit a grounder to first and Brown looked the runner back to third then stepped on the bag for the first out. During the play, Kata made contact with Williams in between first and second and stopped running, allowing Brown to throw him out at second to complete the twin-killing, leading to a lengthy Round Rock argument that culminated in the ejection of Express manager Bobby Jones. After an intentional walk, Wooten struck out Brandon Snyder for the third out of the inning.

The teams continue the series with another 7:05pm meeting on Thursday night. Right-hander Tyler Thornburg (1-1, 2.25) will toe the rubber for the Sounds. Round Rock will counter with left-hander Chad Bell (3-4, 4.76).

Box Score

Round Rock Express (62-70) 7, Nashville Sounds (61-71) 6
August 22nd, 2012

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Nashville Sounds 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 15 1
Round Rock Express 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 7 17 1



Two out when winning run scored.

 



Nashville AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Farris, SS 6 1 4 0 0 1 1 .280
Schafer, CF 3 0 1 1 2 0 3 .272
Davis, Kh, LF 4 1 0 1 1 2 6 .275
Brown, J, 1B 6 1 1 0 0 0 7 .302
Halton, 3B 6 2 2 4 0 0 1 .269
Gindl, RF 6 0 3 0 0 1 1 .253
Patterson, C, DH 4 0 0 0 2 2 2 .254
Quintero, C 5 0 2 0 0 2 2 .266
Williams, Ad, 2B 5 1 2 0 0 2 2 .333
Baker, B, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Rivas, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Perez, J, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Dillard, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Wooten, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Kintzler, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 45 6 15 6 5 10 25 .258
BATTING
2B: Farris 2 (18, Reynolds, G, Reynolds, G), Brown, J (21, Tateyama).
3B: Schafer (8, Castillo, F).
HR: Halton 2 (14, 2nd inning off Reynolds, G, 0 on, 0 out; 5th inning off Reynolds, G, 2 on, 2 out).
TB: Farris 6; Williams, Ad 2; Quintero 2; Brown, J 2; Schafer 3; Halton 8; Gindl 3.
RBI: Davis, Kh (19), Halton 4 (49), Schafer (36).
2-out RBI: Halton 3; Schafer.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Brown, J 3; Williams, Ad; Quintero; Davis, Kh.
SF: Davis, Kh.
Team RISP: 2-for-14.
Team LOB: 13.FIELDING
E: Williams, Ad (1, throw).
DP: 2 (Baker, B-Quintero-Brown, J, Brown, J-Farris).

 

 

Round Rock AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Borbon, LF 6 2 3 1 0 0 0 .305
Gonzalez, Al, SS-1B 6 1 2 2 0 1 1 .435
Martin, CF 6 2 5 0 0 0 0 .374
Nelson, B, 1B 5 0 2 0 0 1 3 .284
1-Butler, Jy, PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .284
Hernandez, L, SS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .262
Kata, 3B 4 0 0 1 2 2 1 .268
Solarte, 2B 6 1 3 0 0 0 7 .280
Spilborghs, RF 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 .291
Snyder, B, DH 5 0 0 0 0 3 5 .246
Hill, K, C 5 0 0 0 0 2 2 .222
Reynolds, G, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Cotts, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Castillo, F, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Tateyama, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Snyder, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 47 7 17 7 3 11 22 .278
1-Ran for Nelson, B in the 9th.
BATTING
2B: Martin (15, Baker, B), Solarte 2 (28, Baker, B, Perez, J), Borbon (22, Wooten).
HR: Gonzalez, Al (1, 5th inning off Baker, B, 1 on, 0 out), Borbon (10, 6th inning off Rivas, 0 on, 2 out), Spilborghs (8, 8th inning off Dillard, 1 on, 0 out).
TB: Nelson, B 2; Solarte 5; Borbon 7; Spilborghs 5; Gonzalez, Al 5; Martin 6.
RBI: Gonzalez, Al 2 (3), Borbon (51), Spilborghs 3 (49), Kata (56).
2-out RBI: Borbon; Spilborghs.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Nelson, B 2; Hill, K; Spilborghs 2; Gonzalez, Al; Snyder, B 2.
SAC: Hernandez, L.
GIDP: Solarte 2.
Team RISP: 2-for-13.
Team LOB: 13.FIELDING
E: Gonzalez, Al (1, fielding).
Outfield assists: Martin (Brown, J at home).
DP: (Nelson, B-Hill, K-Kata).

 

 

Nashville IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Baker, B 5.0 9 2 2 1 4 1 4.39
Rivas (H, 7) 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 1 5.17
Perez, J (H, 8) 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 0 3.79
Dillard (H, 3) 0.1 1 1 1 0 1 1 9.64
Wooten (BS, 4) 1.2 3 1 1 1 2 0 3.97
Kintzler (L, 0-1) 1.2 2 1 1 1 0 0 3.60
Totals 10.2 17 7 7 3 11 3 4.35

 

Round Rock IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Reynolds, G 4.2 8 5 5 3 2 2 4.94
Cotts 1.1 2 0 0 0 2 0 5.02
Castillo, F 2.0 2 1 1 0 3 0 3.52
Tateyama 2.0 2 0 0 2 2 0 1.19
Snyder (W, 3-5) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.86
Totals 11.0 15 6 6 5 10 2 4.69



Perez, J pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

WP: Reynolds, G.
IBB: Patterson, C (by Tateyama), Spilborghs (by Wooten), Kata (by Kintzler).
HBP: Schafer (by Reynolds, G), Spilborghs (by Baker, B).
Pitches-strikes: Baker, B 84-50, Rivas 14-11, Perez, J 23-14, Dillard 7-5, Wooten 32-19, Kintzler 26-13, Reynolds, G 80-50, Cotts 18-15, Castillo, F 33-23, Tateyama 34-21, Snyder 15-11.
Groundouts-flyouts: Baker, B 6-2, Rivas 1-0, Perez, J 1-0, Dillard 0-0, Wooten 3-0, Kintzler 5-0, Reynolds, G 8-3, Cotts 1-0, Castillo, F 0-2, Tateyama 0-3, Snyder 0-1.
Batters faced: Baker, B 25, Rivas 4, Perez, J 4, Dillard 2, Wooten 9, Kintzler 8, Reynolds, G 25, Cotts 6, Castillo, F 8, Tateyama 9, Snyder 4.
Inherited runners-scored: Dillard 1-1, Cotts 2-0.
Ejections: Round Rock Express Manager Bobby Jones ejected by 3B umpire Kolin Kline (9th)
Umpires: HP: Brandon Misun. 1B: Chris Segal. 3B: Kolin Kline.
Weather: 90 degrees, partly cloudy.
Wind: 7 mph, In from RF.
T: 4:06.
Att: 8,142.

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