R.J. Seidel Earns First Triple-A Win With Solid Outing
Nashville, TN – Scooter Gennett belted his first home run of the year and Sean Halton smacked a grand slam to power the Nashville Sounds to a 6-1 win over the division-rival Iowa Cubs on Thursday evening at Greer Stadium.
Chris Narveson made the first start of his rehabilitation assignment with Nashville as he recovers from a sprained middle finger on his pitching hand. The southpaw worked two scoreless frames, allowing a game-opening single before retiring his next six batters faced. He threw 12 of his 22 pitches for strikes.
The Sounds grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. After Josh Prince drew a leadoff walk from Iowa starter Brooks Raley, he raced all the way home from first on Stephen Parker’s RBI double to right.Gennett (3-for-5) doubled the home team’s advantage to 2-0 in the third when he belted his first home run of the season, a leadoff solo shot to right off Raley.
R.J. Seidel (1-2) followed Narveson to the hill for the Sounds and turned in a stellar outing to earn his first career Triple-A victory. The right-hander allowed one run on six hits over 5 2/3 frames while striking out five.
Raley (4-4) took a quality-start loss for the I-Cubs. The southpaw allowed two runs on six hits over six innings of work.
Halton gave the Sounds some breathing room in the seventh when he crushed a grand slam to left off Cubs reliever Marcus Hatley. The bases-loaded jack was the outfielder’s fifth roundtripper of the year and plated Gennett (single), Hainley Statia (walk), and Khris Davis (walk) to up the lead to 6-0.
The I-Cubs got onto the board in the top of the eighth when Brian Bogusevic’s two-out single plated Darnell McDonald to make it a 6-1 game.
The Sounds will look to secure their first winning series of the season when the teams wrap up the four-game series with a 7:05pm finale on Friday evening. Right-hander Johnny Hellweg (3-4, 3.99) will make the start for the Sounds and face Iowa right-hander Yoener Negrin (0-1, 2.73).
Box Score
May 30th, 2013
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
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Iowa Cubs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | |
Nashville Sounds | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | x | 6 | 9 | 1 | |
Iowa Cubs | |||||||||||
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Player | Pos | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
Logan Watkins | 2B | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .229 |
Darnell McDonald | RF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .211 |
Brett Jackson | CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .234 |
Brian Bogusevic | CF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .361 |
Dave Sappelt | LF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
Brad Nelson | 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .277 |
Blake Parker | P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Donnie Murphy | 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .265 |
Edwin Maysonet | SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .261 |
Brent Lillibridge | SS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .263 |
J.C. Boscan | C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .287 |
Luis Flores | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .181 |
Brooks Raley | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
Marcus Hatley | P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Hisanori Takahashi | P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
a- Ian Stewart | PH-1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .139 |
Totals | 35 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | .255 |
TB: Sappelt; Nelson; Raley; McDonald; Bogusevic; Stewart, I; Watkins 2.
RBI: Bogusevic (20).
2-out RBI: Bogusevic.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: McDonald; Maysonet; Nelson 2; Watkins.
Team RISP: 1-for-5.
Team LOB: 9.BASERUNNING
SB: Watkins (5, 2nd base off Seidel/De La Rosa, A).
FIELDING
E: Raley (2, throw).
Outfield assists: Sappelt (Statia at home).
DP: (Sappelt-Boscan).
Nashville Sounds | |||||||||||
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Player | Pos | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
Scooter Gennett | 2B | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .313 |
Hainley Statia | SS | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .200 |
Khris Davis | LF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .267 |
Sean Halton | 1B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .241 |
Josh Prince | CF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .234 |
Jesus Sanchez | P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Stephen Parker | 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .250 |
Anderson De La Rosa | C | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .288 |
Cole Garner | RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .170 |
Chris Narveson | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
R.J. Seidel | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
Caleb Gindl | CF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .254 |
Totals | 33 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | .249 |
2B: Parker, S (10, Raley).
HR: Gennett (1, 3rd inning off Raley, 0 on, 0 out), Halton (5, 7th inning off Hatley, 3 on, 1 out).
TB: Prince; Halton 4; Parker, S 2; Gennett 6; Davis, K 2; Statia.
RBI: Parker, S (17), Gennett (13), Halton 4 (20).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Narveson; Prince 2.
Team RISP: 2-for-9.
Team LOB: 8.BASERUNNING
SB: Davis, K (4, 2nd base off Raley/Boscan), Gennett (8, 2nd base off Hatley/Boscan).
FIELDING
E: Davis, K (3, fielding).
Iowa Cubs | |||||||||||
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Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |||
Brooks Raley (L, 4-4) | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4.37 | |||
Marcus Hatley | 0.2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19.29 | |||
Hisanori Takahashi | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.52 | |||
Blake Parker | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.04 | |||
Totals | 8.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4.86 |
Nashville Sounds | |||||||||||
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Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |||
Chris Narveson | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
R.J. Seidel (W, 1-2) | 5.2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3.51 | |||
Jesus Sanchez | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
Totals | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4.78 |
WP: Seidel.
Pitches-strikes: Raley 91-58, Hatley 25-12, Takahashi 5-4, Parker, B 16-12, Narveson 22-12, Seidel 91-59, Sanchez, Je 20-13.
Groundouts-flyouts: Raley 9-2, Hatley 2-0, Takahashi 0-0, Parker, B 0-0, Narveson 2-2, Seidel 6-2, Sanchez, Je 0-1.
Batters faced: Raley 26, Hatley 7, Takahashi 1, Parker, B 4, Narveson 7, Seidel 24, Sanchez, Je 6.
Inherited runners-scored: Takahashi 1-0, Sanchez, Je 2-0.
Ejections: Iowa Cubs center fielder Brett Jackson ejected by 3B umpire D. Reyburn (6th); Iowa Cubs Manager Marty Pevey ejected by 3B umpire D. J. Reyburn (6th); Iowa Cubs catcher J. Boscan ejected by HP umpire Chris Segal (7th)
Umpires: HP: Chris Segal. 1B: Kolin Kline. 2B: Jordan Ferrell. 3B: D.J. Reyburn.
Weather: 86 degrees, partly cloudy.
Wind: 4 mph, L to R.
T: 2:59.
Att: 6,397.