Nashville Sounds lose 6-5 to Albuquerque Isotopes in Rain-Shortened Game

Albuquerque, NM – The Nashville Sounds suffered a rain-shortened one-run loss to Albuquerque on Monday evening, falling 6-5 in five innings at Isotopes Park in the opener of a three-game series.

The defeat, Nashville’s fourth in a row, was the Sounds’ league-leading 18th one-run loss of the year.

The Sounds swatted a trio of home runs in the top of the third inning against Jonathan Sanchez to take an early 4-0 lead.

Caleb Gindl (2-for-3) went back-to-back with Statia by drilling a solo shot to left, his 10th big fly of the year and Nashville’s fourth set of consecutive roundtrippers.

Later in the frame, Josh Prince (2-for-2) got into the act by mashing a 400-foot solo shot to left-center. The outfielder’s eighth homer of the year upped the Sounds’ advantage to 4-0.

Albuquerque responded immediately against Nelson, batting around and plating five runs in the home half of the third to pull ahead, 5-4.

With the bases jammed following two singles and walk, Nelson hit Ian Stewart with a pitch to force home John Baker. The right-hander then issued a run-scoring walk to Alex Castellanos to reduce the lead to 4-2. Nick Buss followed with a game-tying bloop single to center that evened the score at 4-4. Brian Barden followed with a grounder that plated Castellanos with the go-ahead run.

Scooter Gennett extended his season-best hitting streak to 13 games with a leadoff double in the fifth. He is batting .388 (19-for-49) since rejoining the Sounds from the Milwaukee Brewers. After advancing to third on a groundout, he tied the game at 5-5 when he scored on Caleb Gindl’s RBI single to right that came on a 3-2 offering from Sanchez.

For the second time on the night, Albuquerque answered a Sounds rally with one of its own in the bottom of an inning, pulling back ahead with a run against Nelson in the home half of the sixth.

With runners on the corners with one out following a pair of walks followed by a flyout, Buss shot an RBI single to right to give the ‘Topes a 6-5 lead.

Immediately following the conclusion of the fifth inning, which was played in the rain, the tarp was placed onto the field and the game was called following a 58-minute delay.

Nelson (1-3) took the loss for the Sounds after allowing six runs in his five innings of work. He was credited with a complete game in the rain-shortened affair. Sanchez (2-0) got the win for Albuquerque.

The teams continue the series with another 8:05pm CT contest on Tuesday. Left-hander Chris Narveson (2-4, 5.35), who twirled eight scoreless frames in his last outing, will man the bump for the Sounds to face Albuquerque right-hander Matt Palmer (4-3, 4.10).

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