Nashville Sounds lose to Fresno Grizzlies, 10-5

Nashville Sounds Baseball

Fresno, CA – The Nashville Sounds were doubled up by the Fresno Grizzlies on Friday evening at Chukchansi Park, falling 10-5 in the third game of a four-game set.

Nashville grabbed a 3-0 first-inning lead against Fresno starter Andrew Kown. Eric Farris (3-for-5) led off the ballgame with a single, stole two bases, and scored the night’s first run on a Khris Davis RBI single. Later in the frame, catcher Humberto Quintero (2-for-4) delivered a two-out, two-run double.

Fresno pulled back even in the contest with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the first, stemming from a two-out Sean Halton throwing error, and one more score in the second against Hiram Burgos. Eli Whiteside knotted the game at 3-3 when he plated Brock Bond with a sac fly in the second.

The Sounds reclaimed the lead in the third when Taylor Green belted his third home run of the year, a one-out solo jack to right off Kown that made it a 4-3 contest.

Nashville right fielder Jordan Brown kept the one-run cushion in place in the bottom of the inning when he made a leaping grab at the wall to rob Conor Gillaspie of a homer.

The Grizzlies pulled back in front in the fifth, when they sent 11 men to the plate against a pair of Sounds hurlers en route to a seven-run inning and a 10-4 lead. Whiteside delivered a pair of hits in the frame, including a two-run single. Ryan Lollis, Justin Christian, and Todd Linden added RBI hits in the inning while Bond drew a bases-loaded walk.

Burgos (0-1) took the loss for Nashville after being tagged for nine runs (seven earned) on seven hits over 4 1/3 innings during his second Triple-A start.

Caleb Gindl closed out the evening’s scoring in the top of the sixth when his two-out single off Fresno reliever Wilmin Rodriguez plated Jeff Bianchi to bring the score to its final 10-5 standing.

Kown (5-6) picked up the win for Fresno after allowing four runs in five innings of work.

The teams wrap up their four-game season series with a 9:05pm CT finale on Saturday evening. Right-hander Claudio Vargas (4-1, 4.24) will man the bump for the Sounds to face Fresno right-hander Yusmeiro Petit (5-3, 3.17).

Box Score

Nashville Sounds (51-63) 5, Fresno Grizzlies (60-53) 10
August 3rd, 2012

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nashville Sounds	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	9	1
Fresno Grizzlies	2	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	x	10	13	0

Nashville	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Farris, 2B	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	.286
Gindl, CF	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	.250
Davis, Kh, LF	5	1	1	1	0	0	4	.350
Green, T, 3B	4	1	1	1	0	1	3	.268
Halton, 1B	3	0	1	0	1	1	3	.268
Brown, J, RF	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	.301
Quintero, C	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	.242
Maysonet, SS	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	.218
Burgos, P	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Perez, J, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
a-Bianchi, PH	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	.303
Dillard, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
b-Gonzalez, A, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.241
De Los Santos, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Totals	34	5	9	5	5	4	17	.256
a-Walked for Perez, J in the 6th. b-Grounded out for Dillard in the 8th.
BATTING 2B: Quintero (1, Kown). HR: Green, T (3, 3rd inning off Kown, 0 on, 1 out). TB: Farris 3; Quintero 3; Halton; Davis, Kh; Green, T 4; Gindl. RBI: Davis, Kh (6), Quintero 2 (9), Green, T (15), Gindl (35). 2-out RBI: Quintero 2; Gindl. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Maysonet 3; Davis, Kh 2. GIDP: Halton, Brown, J. Team RISP: 3-for-9. Team LOB: 8.BASERUNNING SB: Farris 3 (30, 2nd base off Kown/Whiteside, 3rd base off Kown/Whiteside, 2nd base off Kown/Whiteside), Gindl (4, 2nd base off Kown/Whiteside). FIELDING E: Halton (5, throw). DP: 2 (Green, T-Farris-Halton, Maysonet-Farris-Halton). Pickoffs: Quintero (Noonan at 1st base).

 

 

Fresno	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Christian, LF	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	.361
Lollis, R, CF	4	2	2	2	1	1	1	.329
Gillaspie, 3B	2	2	0	0	2	0	1	.295
Linden, 1B	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	.280
Noonan, SS	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	.305
Bond, 2B	3	1	1	1	1	0	2	.342
Whiteside, C	3	1	2	3	0	0	1	.248
Stromsmoe, RF	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	.249
Kown, P	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	.077
Rodriguez, W, P	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
a-LaTorre, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.278
Edlefsen, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Totals	33	10	13	9	4	3	12	.282
a-Singled for Rodriguez, W in the 8th.
BATTING 3B: Bond (2, Burgos), Lollis, R (2, Burgos). TB: Lollis, R 4; Whiteside 2; Linden 2; Stromsmoe 2; Bond 3; LaTorre; Christian; Noonan 2. RBI: Noonan (55), Whiteside 3 (18), Christian (32), Lollis, R 2 (15), Linden (53), Bond (26). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Whiteside. SF: Whiteside. GIDP: Stromsmoe, Bond. Team RISP: 5-for-12. Team LOB: 4.BASERUNNING CS: Stromsmoe (3, 3rd base by Burgos/Quintero). PO: Noonan (1st base by Quintero). FIELDING DP: 2 (Noonan-Bond-Linden, Rodriguez, W-Noonan-Linden).

 

 

Nashville	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Burgos (L, 0-1)	4.1	7	9	7	3	1	0	7.84
Perez, J	0.2	2	1	1	1	0	0	2.33
Dillard	2.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	10.45
De Los Santos	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	6.98
Totals	8.0	13	10	8	4	3	0	4.57

 

Fresno	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Kown (W, 5-6)	5.0	7	4	4	2	4	1	5.95
Rodriguez, W (H, 2)	3.0	2	1	1	2	0	0	6.56
Edlefsen	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.58
Totals	9.0	9	5	5	5	4	1	4.74

IBB: Gillaspie (by Burgos).
HBP: Green, T (by Kown).
Pitches-strikes: Burgos 74-42, Perez, J 29-18, Dillard 25-17, De Los Santos 15-11, Kown 101-59, Rodriguez, W 48-29, Edlefsen 20-10.
Groundouts-flyouts: Burgos 5-2, Perez, J 1-0, Dillard 4-1, De Los Santos 0-0, Kown 5-2, Rodriguez, W 5-2, Edlefsen 2-1.
Batters faced: Burgos 22, Perez, J 4, Dillard 8, De Los Santos 4, Kown 24, Rodriguez, W 12, Edlefsen 4.
Inherited runners-scored: Perez, J 2-2.
Umpires: HP: Stephen Barga. 1B: Michael Lusky. 3B: Greg Schoonard.
Weather: 97 degrees, partly cloudy.
Wind: 12 mph, Out to RF.
T: 3:05.
Att: 7,201.