Play-by-play announcer for
@NashvilleSounds
⚾ (AAA,
@Brewers
), college & high school 🏀 and 🏈. Chicago-area native, U. Iowa alum.
#T1D
. Posts are my own.
Keston Hiura has gone deep again, this time to the opposite-field, probably about 390-400' away.
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lead 6-1 in Jacksonville. Hiura has 2 homers and 5 RBIs tonight.
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Your 6th inning update on the 4 new dynamic
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OFs & Top 10
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prospects:
Sal Frelick 2-for-4, RBI
Esteury Ruiz 2-for-2, BB
Garrett Mitchell 1-for-3, 3-run HR
Joey Wiemer 2-for-3, RBI, 2 SB
And they join a team that's already loaded & been in 1st since May 5.
Keston Hiura doubles off the wall in left-center, his 6th double in 7 games for the
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. (And for those who love to follow my Hiura tweets with a comment about strikeout totals, that's fine, but his on-base percentage entering tonight: .444).
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Thank you,
@Athletics
, for this opportunity. If I knew the words to fully express my excitement and appreciation, I'd use them. I can't wait to sit with
@KenKorachRadio
and borrow
@vincebaseball
's chair for a night.
Esteury Ruiz will not stop. He doubles off the blue monster and is 2-for-3 with a walk and a steal tonight. Owns a 13-game hitting streak and is up to 68 steals on the year in the minors.
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still up 6-1 in Durham.
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Keston Hiura singles to LF on a 2-0 pitch, 108 mph off the bat, now 8-for-12 in this series against Gwinnett. Then Hernan Perez follows with a single, and the
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have a quick 1-0 lead.
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Sal Frelick has multiple hits tonight. This is not a rerun. He is 2-for-3 with a walk and a steal and has 22 (!) multi-hit games out of 44 with the
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. For context, Brice Turang in a terrific year has 39 multi-hit efforts in 128 games.
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Keston Hiura just destroyed a baseball off the batter's eye. 434' and 108 mph off the bat to dead center, his 8th homer for the
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this year in 50 games. He's gotten hot again late in the Triple-A season.
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Garrett Mitchell is 3-for-3 tonight with 3 infield singles and a stolen base for the
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. The pressure his speed puts on the D is remarkable. Sounds trail Gwinnett 5-3 mid-7.
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Sal Frelick 3-for-5 with a walk, double, 2 singles and 1 RBI in his
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and AAA debut. Impressive AB in the 9th went 9 pitches, from 0-2 to 3-2, a few foul balls, then a sharp single into RF.
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Keston Hiura ends a 9-pitch at-bat with a booming home run to left field. 3 HRs and 8 RBIs in the last 24 hours, and the
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trail 3-1 in the 4th in Jacksonville.
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Keston Hiura has homered again and has 4 RBIs as the
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are beating Omaha 8-3 after 7 innings. Hiura has 8 homers, 19 RBIs and a .962 OPS in 18 games this year.
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That moment you're in the 2nd inning and Sal Frelick already has another multi-hit game for the
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A double and an RBI single, his 6th multi-game in his first 10 with the Sounds.
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Keston Hiura crushes a 3-run homer to left field for his 2nd hit of the day, and the
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trail 5-4 in Louisville. In 7 games with the Sounds this year, Hiura has 4 homers and 13 RBIs.
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Thank you,
@Athletics
, for an amazing day in Chicago. Had a blast with
@KenKorachRadio
and pinch-hitting for
@vincebaseball
. First class treatment all the way, and great to see so many former and recent
@nashvillesounds
. A day and doubleheader I’ll never forget.
Another Keston Hiura double, this time a 2-run missile off the fence in dead center. Inches from a homer, and the
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lead Gwinnett 4-3.
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Rowdy Tellez finished the first night of his
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rehab assignment going 1-for-3, including a 10-pitch AB his 3rd time up, and playing 5 innings at first base. Expected to play a little longer tomorrow night.
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leading 4-1 in the 7th in Indianapolis.
Sal Frelick is 4-for-4 with a walk and 3 infield singles tonight, his first 4-hit with the
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. The speed again making the defense play faster than it wants to.
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14! 14 wins in a row for the Sounds. Down 5-1, they score 3 in the 8th and 2 in the 9th. Franklin Barreto's double ties it, and Anthon Garcia's base hit wins it. Unreal.
Keston Hiura has just homered again - opposite-field for the 2nd time today, and the
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lead 6-1 in Gwinnett. Hiura has 5 homers in 19G with the Sounds and has reached safely in all of them.
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Joey Wiemer just stole his 5th base as a
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and 30th of the year, his 2nd straight season with 30+ stolen bases. Last year 30 steals, caught 6x. So far this year 30 steals, caught just 3x.
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Now here's a
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lineup for 5:35 CT series opener at Norfolk (BAL). Frelick, Mitchell & Wiemer AAA debut, plus Turang = 4 of
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Top 5 prospects.
5:20 pregame
@949theFan
incl. more on moves & an unprecedented influx of top prospects. Then Boushley vs. DL Hall.
Jesus Luzardo just dropped these 3 pitches in a row.
1. Quick-pitch slow CB 69 mph away
2. Hard CB in
3. 97 mph FB
And a 20-year-old lefty. Wow.
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Ridiculous stolen base stats (among other stats) for the 4 new
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outfielders:
Sal Frelick 15-for-20
Garrett Mitchell 7-for-8
Joey Wiemer 25-for-26
Esteury Ruiz 61-for-72
108 steals in 126 attempts!
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outfielder Lorenzo Cain is here in Gwinnett with the
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and currently taking BP in preparation for starting his rehab assignment. Manager Rick Sweet says Cain is expected to play tomorrow in G1 of the doubleheader here.
Garrett Mitchell turns a single for most into a hustle double. He's 3-for-4 with 2 doubles, an infield hit, and a walk. Now hitting .333 in 18 games with the
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. 9-2 lead in Durham.
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Garrett Mitchell drills a 3-run homer to right-center for his first
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hit, and it's 4-0 in the 4th. 5 homers overall for Mitchell this year in 46 games.
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Update: Frelick has lined a 2-run homer to right field. He now has 21 multi-hit games in 42 games with the
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. His batting average is .366 and the OPS is .908. Sounds trail Louisville 7-4 mid-7.
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Sal Frelick's double in the 5th in Louisville moved his on-base streak to 37 games, the 2nd-longest by a
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since at least 2005.
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Nick Martini, 66, 2018
Sal Frelick, 37, 2022
Eugenio Velez, 36, 2013
Trevor Rosenthal sees the minimum in the 7th, throwing 19 pitches, 14 strikes. Struck out 1, walked 1 and got a 4-6-3 double play. Hit 97-98 mph several times.
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still up 5-2 in Jacksonville.
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Brice Turang launches a homer to right field, his 7th of the year and 4th in the last 25G. And with that, Turang moves his hitting streak to 13 and on-base streak to 20.
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beating Norfolk 7-2 in the 7th.
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Dustin Fowler with the
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since being optioned by the
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: 17-for-32.
He's 7-for-11 here in Colorado Sprinigs and now has 20 multi-hit games in 38 games overall as a Sound.
Sal Frelick reaches on an infield hit in the 6th and has another multi-hit game, his 10th in 16 games since coming up to the
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. He is 10-for-15 in the series and batting .459 at Triple-A.
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Jake Cousins worked a 1-2-3 1st inning as the
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opener on
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rehab. 14 pitches, 10 strikes. Was 95-96 mph on his fastball per stadium gun.
Freddy Peralta's night is over for the
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after 52 pitches - 38 strikes - and 3 1/3 innings, 3 hits, 1 run, 0 walks, 5 strikeouts (4 on fastballs and 1 on a change-up). Hit 96 mph a few times. Looking good!
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Ethan Small's final line tonight: 5ip, 0r, 1h, 5bb, 6k (82/51). Lowers his ERA to 0.49 (1er/18.1ip) on the season, and in 13 starts at Triple-A starts beginning last season, his ERA is 1.52.
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Sal Frelick has a 4th straight multi-hit game with the
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, and we're in the 3rd inning tonight. Single up the middle, then a stolen base. He's 9-for-17 so far at Triple-A.
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Brice Turang has homered in 3 straight. This one gives the Sounds their 6th walk-off win of the year, a series win, and caps off a fantastic night at the yard for a sellout crowd of 10,167. (Gladiator GIF of Are You Not Entertained?!).
With his stolen base in the top of the 5th in Louisville, the
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' Esteury Ruiz has 20 steals with the Sounds in 31 games and 80 on the year, the most in the minors.
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Sal Frelick homers for the 2nd game in a row and the 4th time in the last week. A 3-run missile and the
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lead 11-0 in Louisville. Frelick has reached safely in 38 in a row!
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Garrett Mitchell singles and steals a base in the top of the 1st, and DL Hall fans 2 and hits 96 mph in the bottom half. Nice start for a couple of
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rehabbers with the
@nashvillesounds
in Jacksonville.
8th inning, Willy Adames get another at-bat, and absolutely CRUSHED a solo homer to left field over the 32' "blue monster" here in Durham.
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lead 8-2.
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This is the tattoo on the right leg of
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catcher Mario Feliciano, who joins me on tonight's pregame show to discuss
#RobertoClementeDay
and the significance throughout baseball and his native Puerto Rico of the great Clemente. 5:50 on
@ESPN949
Ethan Small gives the
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their longest outing of the year so far and first quality start. Final line: 6ip, 0r, 1h, 3bb, 7k (83/51). Retired 13 straight at one point, struck out side in order 2x. 6-0 in Gwinnett after 6.
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Sounds win! FOURTEEN in a row, one shy of matching a franchise record (2x). 7-4 final in Charlotte. Zack Godley 7ip, 1er, 1h for the W; Weston Wilson and Pablo Reyes each homered and had 3 hits. What a run for this crew.
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Lucas Erceg strikes out the side and works around a hit and walk in his
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and AAA pitching debut. Hit 100 mph on the gun. Sounds trail Norfolk 5-3 mid-7 in G2 of doubleheader.
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prospect and flamethrower Abner Uribe just had his smoothest inning so far as a
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. A 1-2-3 8th on 10 pitches, 8 strikes. Several heaters 100+ mph, including one at 102. 5-1 lead in Memphis.
Josh Lindblom leaves with 2 outs in the 3rd at 50 pitches, 32 strikes for the
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. Perhaps a limited workload tonight to keep an option open for later in the week given the
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short-handed rotation. Doesn't appear to be injury related.
For the 2nd night in a row, Sal Frelick gets a hit on the 1st pitch of the game. He singles to right, and Esteury Ruiz singles to left in his first
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org. AB, but the
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don't score against Matt Harvey.
What a gem tonight by Aaron Ashby for the
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, who lead 4-0 mid-8 in Memphis. Ashby's final line: 7ip, 0r, 2h, 3bb, 5k (91/56). 9 groundouts and a ton of early contact. Sat 93 mph w/ 5 that were 94+ mph. That's 3 really good ones in his last 4.
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Adrian Houser works a 1-2-3 3rd inning and is done for the night on
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rehab for the
@nashvillesounds
. Final line: 3ip, 1r, 0er, 0h, 3bb, 4k (48/24). Wouldn't read much into the 3 walks...both teams have, shall we say, inquired about the zone a bit so far tonight.
Esteury Ruiz has stolen 5 bases tonight, a new single-game
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record in the 44th season of the franchise, passing Otis Nixon, who stole 4 on 8/31/81 at Chattanooga. Oh, and we're only in the 4th inning. Sounds lead Jacksonville 6-2.
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Garrett Mitchell doubles to lead off the the 9th on a ball that would be a single for most. Just flying around 1st.
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leading 7-2 in the 9th in Norfolk. Mitchell 2-for-5 with a double and 3-run homer.
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There will be
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baseball on the radio tomorrow. For the first time in over 600 days. Mics on. Bats cracking. Gloves popping. Fans cheering. Amen.
Franklin Barreto is 3-for-4 tonight with a HR and 2 2Bs for the
@nashvillesounds
. He's hitting .382 with 5 HRs and 15 RBIs in the 15 games since making some stance, feet, and pre-pitch routine adjustments.
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Final line tonight for lefty DL Hall with the
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on
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rehab: 3ip, 1r, 5h, 1bb, 4k (62/42). Hit 95mph+ 13 times out of 28 heaters. Most pitches he's thrown in an outing since 4/20 at STL.
Here's the final line on Robert Gasser's solid season debut: 4+, 1r, 4h, 1bb, 5k (49/32). Started 6 up, 6 down, and we saw the full arsenal including a 95 mph heater. Good to see him back with the
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. 1-0 Louisville after 5.
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Keston Hiura turns around Jandel Gustave's 98 mph with a single to CF, and the
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are trying to rally in the 9th down 7-4 to Indianapolis. Hiura has hit safely in 10 in a row as a Sound, and 2-for-3 today with a BB and HBP.
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Bobby Wahl just had one of his most impressive innings as a
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. Almost had an immaculate inning. 10 pitches, 9 strikes, 3 strikeouts. Hit 98 mph several times and pitched backwards to first two hitters with CH and CB. Nasty.
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Lorenzo Cain's rehab game tonight is over after the planned 7 innings. Looked to be another productive night for him with the
@nashvillesounds
. Scheduled to be here through the weekend.
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Garrett Mitchell continues to look and play great for the
@nashvillesounds
on
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rehab. He just belted a 429' home run off Max Meyer to the deepest part of the park, his 4th homer in 10 games on rehab. Also has an outfield assist and a near-assist today in Jacksonville.
First night at
@FirstHorizonPrk
with near 100% allowed, and the fans have responded. 10,612 the attendance, the 100th sellout in ballpark history. Welcome back,
@nashvillesounds
fans.
Brice Turang goes deep to right-center, his 11th homer of the year and 5th in 16 games in August.
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lead 5-0 early in Jacksonville in G1 of the doubleheader.
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.
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for 5:35 CT in G2 at Norfolk (BAL). Esteury Ruiz makes
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org. debut from Hader trade. Hiura up, Ray to Double-A.
5:20 pregame on
@949theFan
incl. catching & field coord. Charlie Greene on Wiemer-Frelick-Mitchell arrival, plus Cs Feliciano & Reetz.
Freddy Peralta walks the leadoff man in the 2nd and then retires 3 straight, including a swinging K and looking K. Likely done for the day. 2ip, 1r, 1h, 1bb, 3k (33/22). Expected to start again for the
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on Friday.
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Keston Hiura's on-base streak reaches 20 as a
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, as he barrels a long single to the wall in dead CF (runners had to see if it would be caught before advancing). Part of a 4-run frame that includes a Tim Lopes 2-run HR. 4-0 lead on Charlotte.
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Brice Turang's hitting streak goes to 16 with a leadoff double in the 6th, and he later scores on an error by shortstop Gunnar Henderson, who likely was affected by the blazing speed of Garrett Mitchell.
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take a 2-1 lead in the 6th.
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MLB announces some all-star game replacements, and Chris Bassitt and Joey Wendle join Max Muncy, Matt Olson, Liam Hendriks and Nelson Cruz as former
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in the upcoming midsummer classic. Congrats to all!
.
@nashvillesounds
update:
Sal Frelick 2-for-5, 2 homers, 4 RBIs, 17th multi-hit game out of 36 at AAA.
Esteury Ruiz 3-for-5, single-game franchise record 5 steals (had that total thru 4 innings).
Sounds lead JAX 10-4.
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FIFTEEN!!
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win their 15th consecutive game! 8-4 over Round Rock to tie a franchise record. Barreto HR; Montas W; Fowler 3-for-4. The Sounds match the '99 club, which won 15 straight June 2-20. PCL record is 19.
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Sounds win! 3-1 over Gwinnett for W3 and 6th win in 8G. Keston Hiura went 3-for-4 with a double, single, and tie-breaking 2-run HR in the 8th to lead the way, and Eric Lauer struck out a career-high 12 over 5 innings.
Frankie Montas, likely as just a tune-up before a return to the
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after their break, works 5 scoreless innings for the
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. 79 pitches, 46 strikes, and a 2-0 lead over Omaha. Fun to see yet again how he's put it all together this year.
Aaron Ashby is dominating. 8 strikeouts over 4 scoreless innings, and 1 walk his only blemish. 43 pitches, 34 strikes.
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and Toledo are scoreless.
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My scorebook after 4 hours, 36 minutes of 13-inning craziness. The game ended with an infielder getting the L and a catcher getting the SV. A la Forrest Gump...I’m kinda tired. I think I’ll go home now.
Update: Garrett Mitchell has laced an opposite-field RBI double to left for the
@nashvillesounds
. So today he's 2-for-3 w/ HR, 2B, 2 BB and 2 outfield assists.
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Update: Garrett Mitchell with another outfield assist, a seed of a throw from RF to third base on a line to cut down speedy Victor Mesa trying to go 1st to 3rd.
Aaron Ashby strikes out the side and strands Nick Williams after a triple. Hit 98 mph several times.
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still tied 1-1 with Charlotte.
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Happy Luzardo Day.
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20-year-old LH Jesus Luzardo takes on Colorado Springs today at 2:30 CT as the Sounds look for a 13-game W streak.
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