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Sounds Defeat Royals In Home Finale, 6-2

August 30, 2007 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds wrapped up their regular season home schedule on a high note on Thursday evening at Greer Stadium, defeating the division-rival Omaha Royals, 6-2, in the finale of a four-game series.

Nashville (86-54) recorded its ninth consecutive winning homestand (6-4) and finished the year with 48 victories at Greer Stadium, their most home wins since joining the Pacific Coast League in 1998.

With a crowd of 3,983 fans on hand for the regular season home finale, the Sounds finished with a seasonal attendance of 411,959, the team's second-highest total in the last 14 years.

Sounds starter Adam Pettyjohn (12-4) pulled into a tie for the PCL lead with his 12th Nashville victory and earned his 16th overall win of the year, one shy of the minor league lead, which is currently held by two hurlers

The southpaw allowed two runs on five hits while striking out seven batters over seven-plus innings before leaving the game in the top of the eighth after being struck on the right shin by a Derek Wathan single.

Pettyjohn's 16 wins this season are one shy of the minor league lead, which is currently held by two hurlers.

The visitors took an early 1-0 lead when Mitch Maier drilled a leadoff solo homer to right off Pettyjohn. The blast was his third of the series and his 14th of the year.

Nashville tied it in the bottom of the third when Chris Barnwell single to open the inning and later scored unearned on an errant throw by Royals catcher Paul Phillips following a Tyler Lumsden wild pitch.

Omaha used the longball again in the fourth, taking a 2-1 lead on Justin Huber's third home run of the series - a two-out solo shot to center off Pettyjohn.

The Sounds grabbed their first lead of the evening in the bottom of the frame, pulling ahead 3-2 with a pair of runs off Lumsden. With one out, Charles Thomas singled and scored when Andy Abad followed with an RBI double. After Mike Rivera singled to put runners on the corners, Chris Barnwell (3-for-3) plated Abad with the go-ahead run on a single to left.

The Nashville pitching staff toppled a franchise record in the seventh inning when Pettyjohn struck out Chris Lubanski to end the frame. The punchout was the club's 1,118th of the season, one better than the previous record of 1,117 set by the 2005 staff.

Vinny Rottino (2-for-3) gave the home team some breathing room in the bottom of the seventh inning with a three-run home run off Omaha reliever Jarod Plummer, who made his career Triple-A debut in the contest. The four-bagger, which scored Ozzie Chavez and Crabbe, was Rottino's 12th big fly of the season and gave the Sounds a 6-2 cushion.

Chavez extended his longest hitting streak of the year to 10 games with a seventh-inning single.

The Sounds travel to Memphis on Friday to complete the 2007 regular season with a four-game series at Auto Zone Park against the cross-state rival Redbirds. Nashville has won eight of the 12 games between the clubs in 2007.

Right-hander Mark DiFelice (4-1, 2.73) will start Friday's 7:10 p.m. series opener and face rehabbing Memphis left-hander Mark Mulder, who will make his first Triple-A appearance of the year.

Baseball will return to Greer Stadium on the weekend of September 7-9, when the Sounds will participate in postseason action for the fourth time in the last five years. Nashville will host the final three games, as necessary, of the best-of-five American Conference Finals against a yet-to-be-determined opponent. Three teams are still alive in the four-team American Southern Division with four games to play.


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