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OK, once you've calculated your Fantasy Football score for the day, make sure you tune in to this webcast, it deserves our attention -- deciding game five, it'd be great to see posts regarding game comments and situations here.

 

Sunday's Daily Menu:

 

All starts Central Time --

 

Nashville: RHP Mike Meyers at home vs. Oklahoma (Rangers), 5:40 PM pre-game, 6:00 gametime -- best-of-five series tied, 2-2

 

Audio link:

www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/

 

Nashville Site Gamecast Feed:

www.nashvillesounds.com/live/xlive.htm

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Keep in mind, the gamecast feature linked in the prior post is excellent for immediate updates...

 

ha ha to me; all year I have following using the OTHER link; and I never one time tried this link that gives play by play and what happened immediately

 

it is now like going from water in drips to ever following Miller (with no calories)

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Final: Nashville 7, Oklahoma (Rangers) 3

Sounds win the best-of-five series, 3-2, but Jeff Bennett's injury puts a damper on things; details shortly from the Sounds' site...

 

Nashville Box Score:

First time in eight tries that the Sounds win a series after being down 2-1; fantastic series win for this cast of "leftovers" after all the call-ups -- good for them and Manager Frank Kremblas; good-guy Chris Barnwell with three hits and two RBI...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

 

Nashville Game Log:

Mike Adams bailed out Jeff Housman with a huge eighth-inning double play ball...

 

www.minorleaguebaseball.c...a_nasaaa_1

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Nashville Site Game Summary:

 

NASHVILLE ? The Nashville Sounds popped champagne and celebrated on the field at Greer Stadium for the second consecutive Sunday evening tonight after defeating the Oklahoma RedHawks, 7-3, in the final game of the best-of-five PCL American Conference Finals. The victory gave the Sounds a 3-2 series win.

 

Nashville advances to the Pacific Coast League Championship Series for the second time in three seasons. They also become the first Sounds club to recover from a 2-1 series deficit and go on to win that series, accomplishing the feat in the franchise?s eighth try.

 

The Sounds, who were swept by Sacramento 3-0 in the 2003 Finals, had locked up the American Conference Northern Division title exactly one week earlier, also at home.

 

Oklahoma failed to reach the league finals for the second consecutive season after holding a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five conference round for the second campaign in a row. The Iowa Cubs rallied against them in 2004.

 

The Sounds took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning with three consecutive two-out hits off Oklahoma starter Michael Tejera. With two down, Ryan Knox singled to left then scored on Chris Barnwell?s RBI double to right-center. Steve Scarborough followed with a single to right to bring in Barnwell.

 

Nashville increased the lead to 4-0 in the third with another pair of two-out knocks. Catcher Mike Rivera drove in Corey Hart, who had doubled, with an RBI single to left, moved to third on a two-base fielding error by Oklahoma left fielder Jason Botts, then scored on Nelson Cruz?s run-scoring single to left-center, which chased Tejera.

 

Chris Richard put the RedHawks on the board in the fourth when he slugged a two-out solo homer to right-center off Mike Meyers, bringing the score to 4-1.

 

Former Sound Keith McDonald pulled Oklahoma within a run in the fifth with a two-run blast to center off Meyers, his second home run of the playoffs after hitting only two longballs during the entire regular season. Will Smith, who preceded McDonald and drew a walk, scored on the roundtripper.

 

The Sounds added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth when Nelson Cruz scored on Oklahoma reliever Steven Rowe?s bases-loaded wild pitch and Trent Durrington followed with a sacrifice fly to score Knox.

 

Barnwell ? who paced the Sounds offense with a 3-for-4 effort and produced five hits in 10 at-bats during the series ? capped off the evening?s scoring with an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to increase Nashville?s lead to its final 7-3.

 

Gary Glover (2-0), working on three days of rest after starting Game One on Wednesday, earned his second win of the series with 2 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Meyers, who allowed three runs over 4 1/3 frames but did not last long enough for the decision.

 

The Nashville relief corps as a whole tossed 4 2/3 shutout innings to close out the victory and have not allowed a run in their last 8 2/3 frames, dating back to the second game of the series on Thursday in Oklahoma City.

 

Righthander Jeff Bennett, who threw 15 pitches over 1 2/3 innings on Saturday night, opened the ninth and faced four batters, striking out two, before pulling himself from the game with an apparent right elbow injury while throwing his second pitch to McDonald.

 

Tejera (0-1) took the loss after allowing four runs (three earned) on eight hits in only 2 2/3 innings of work.

 

The Sounds advance to the Pacific Coast League Championship Series, which opens at 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening at Greer Stadium. Following an off day on Monday, Nashville will take on the winner of this evening?s late Tacoma-Sacramento contest and host the first two games of the best-of-five series on Tuesday and Wednesday evening.

 

AUDIO: The Final Out Of The Game

 

www.nashvillesounds.com/a...209-11.mp3

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tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....328/SPORTS

 

Sounds beat Oklahoma to earn PCL title berth

Nashville to face Tacoma in opener here tomorrow

By MAURICE PATTON

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

After making a late push to reach the postseason, the Nashville Sounds came up with another clutch performance to advance into the PCL championship, defeating Oklahoma 7-3 in Game 5 of the American Conference playoffs.

 

The Sounds won the series 3-2 and will make their second PCL championship series appearance in three seasons. Nashville will play Tacoma, a 5-2 winner in 11 innings over Sacramento late last night, beginning tomorrow at Greer Stadium.

 

"Whoever we play has got a series on their hands," said Nashville reliever Jeff Bennett, who recorded two outs in the ninth inning before leaving due to elbow pain.

 

Chris Barnwell led the charge offensively, going 3-for-4 with a double and a pair of RBIs. Seven Sounds contributed at least one hit. Meanwhile, Bennett and six other pitchers combined to hold the RedHawks ? the Rangers' top affiliate ? to four hits.

 

"That's probably one of the top hitting teams in the league," said Gary Glover (2-0), who pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings. "You've got to hand it to every pitcher on this team, all the way through. We had timely hitting, but pitching and defense is how we won the series."

 

In their first season as the Class AAA affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Sounds will try to win their first league championship since the 1982 team won the Southern League (Class AA) crown.

 

Nashville opened with a 5-4 win in Game 1 at Oklahoma before losing the second game there and Game 3 at Greer Stadium. Backed against the wall, the Sounds won 3-1 Saturday.

 

The Sounds led the American North division most of the year and had a 9½-game lead on Aug. 12, but lost 16 of 19 games and saw the lead dwindle down to a single game before clinching the division championship on the next-to-last day of the regular season.

 

"We struggled late in the year, kinda lost what we were trying to get done, offensively in particular," Manager Frank Kremblas said. "We got out of our area of comfort; some guys tried to do more than they could."

 

Last night's game was the first of the series that was decided by more than two runs.

 

What they said: "Tacoma and Sacramento are two decent teams, and whoever wins out of that, we're going to have our hands full. But from what I've seen of this team, I think everybody's up to the challenge." ? Glover, the third of seven Nashville pitchers, who worked 2 1/3 scoreless innings for the win.

 

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Bennett's early exit caused by elbow pain

Reliever expects to play in championship series

By MAURICE PATTON

Tennessean Staff Writer

 

The excitement of reaching the Pacific Coast League championship series was tempered a bit for the Nashville Sounds last night ? at least temporarily.

 

Two strikes short of the final out of the game, reliever Jeff Bennett walked off the field indicating pain in his right (throwing) elbow.

 

Alec Zumwalt came on and finished off Keith McDonald to wrap up the Sounds' 7-3 win over Oklahoma in the American Conference playoffs, giving Nashville a 3-2 series win.

 

"I've never had elbow problems before, and it scared me," said Bennett, who initially felt "a pop" on the slider he threw to Rashad Eldridge for his second strikeout in the ninth inning. "In a situation like that, you don't want to come out. I threw the first fastball (to McDonald), and it hurt, but I said, 'Keep throwing fastballs and get out of it'. I threw the next one and it hurt too much.

 

"I didn't want to be dumb. I knew the bullpen could pick me up, and I didn't want to do anything and not be able to play (the next series)."

 

Evaluated by the Sounds' medical staff, Bennett said he expected to be available in the PCL championship series that begins tomorrow.

 

Bennett played on the 2003 Sounds team that advanced into the PCL finals before being swept by Sacramento in three games.

 

Sizing up the opposition: The Sounds lost three of four games to Tacoma during the season.

 

Nashville defeated Tacoma ? the Seattle Mariners' Triple-A affiliate ? 9-5 in 14 innings to open the road series on May 19, then lost 5-1, 6-3 and 7-3 over the next three days.

 

"They've lost a lot of guys since we played them," Nashville Manager Frank Kremblas said.

 

Getting ahead early: Nashville took an early 4-0 lead last night with a pair of two-out, two-run rallies in the second and third innings against Oklahoma starter Michael Tejera.

 

Chris Barnwell's RBI double keyed the second-inning spurt, while Mike Rivera's run-scoring base hit sparked the third-inning uprising.

 

"We've been playing with intensity," said Barnwell, who added a run-scoring single in the eighth for the final run of the game. "Our intensity had to go up, and it's definitely better now than it was. Sometimes it takes these situations to get you locked in."

 

Group effort: Sounds starter Mike Meyers came within two outs of qualifying for the victory.

 

However, Mitch Stetter and Gary Glover picked up the next two outs to preserve a one-run lead.

 

Glover, who started and won Game 1 in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, allowed just one runner over 2 1/3 scoreless innings.

 

Jeff Housman, Mike Adams, Bennett and Zumwalt held the RedHawks scoreless from there.

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Sounds advance to PCL title series

By Nate Rau, nrau@nashvillecitypaper.com

 

It?s a difficult task to predict just how the 2005 Nashville Sounds will be remembered. Will it be for their more than 20 late-inning comeback victories? Or maybe for the players with potential to be major league stars who passed through Music City, like Rickie Weeks, Prince Fielder and Corey Hart?

 

Perhaps the 2005 Nashville Sounds will be remembered as Pacific Coast League champions. Nashville is three wins away from a PCL title after downing visiting Oklahoma 7-3 Sunday in Game 5 of the American Conference Finals.

 

Nashville will meet Tacoma in Game 1 of the PCL Championship Series Tuesday at Greer Stadium.

 

?With those guys gone, it means everybody else has to step up one through nine,? infielder Chris Barnwell said. ?Everybody in the bullpen has to step up. That?s why it means so much.?

 

Ryan Knox began a two-out rally in the second inning with a base hit. Knox then scored on a double by Barnwell. Steve Scarborough followed with an RBI base hit of his own.

 

Two-out rallies were the theme for the Sounds. Mike Rivera and Nelson Cruz each had RBI base hits with two outs in the third inning. After the Sounds jumped to the 4-0 lead, Oklahoma pulled starter Michael Tejera in favor of Matt Roney.

 

Mike Meyers got the start for the Sounds and had a shutout going in the fourth inning. That?s when Oklahoma?s Chris Richard hit a ferocious homer, which found its way out of the stadium and onto Chestnut Street.

 

The RedHawks played long ball again in the fifth inning, when catcher Keith McDonald hit a two-run shot to trim the lead to 4-3.

 

Nashville padded its lead with a pair of runs in the sixth inning. Trent Durrington had a sac fly RBI in the inning, which scored Knox.

 

Sounds manager Frank Kremblas made full use of his bullpen with the team?s season on the line. He went to Gary Glover, who started Game 1 Wednesday, in the fifth. Glover didn?t allow a run in 2.1 innings of work for the Sounds.

 

One downer for the Sounds was an elbow injury sustained by closer Jeff Bennett in the ninth. Bennett was spelled by Alec Zumwalt, who got the final out.

 

?The next best thing to being in the big leagues is playing for a championship here,? pitcher Ben Hendrickson said.

 

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Sounds credit Kremblas

By Nate Rau, nrau@nashvillecitypaper.com

 

There were only 3,210 fans at Greer Stadium for Nashville?s Game 5 victory, but they made their presence felt.

 

It was a raucous crowd of devoted fans who watched the Sounds move within three wins of a PCL title. The Greer faithful stayed on while the team had its second on-field champagne celebration in a week.

 

?When I played, there was never any crowds here, even on a Friday or Saturday,? Sounds manager Frank Kremblas said. ?This year?s been outstanding.

 

?Our best fans probably are here. It?s good to have them out here, because it?s nice to hear them yell.?

 

Sounds players directed credit to Kremblas for the team?s continued succes this season.

 

?For one thing, we have an outstanding manager who plays half-way-crazy ball,? infielder Chris Barnwell said. ?If you do your job, you know he?s going to keep pressure on the other team.?

 

Ben Hendrickson will start Game 1 of the PCL Championship Series against Tacoma. Hendrickson predicted a championship for Nashville.

 

?I?m going to say we?ll win in four,? Hendrickson said.

 

Sounds manager Frank Kremblas gets soaked with champagne by catcher Mike Rivera after Nashville's 7-3 win over Oklahoma put them in the PCL finals. Nashville City Paper Photo by Mike Strasinger.

 

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Game 5 loss finishes RedHawks' season

 

By Bob Hersom

The Oklahoman

 

NASHVILLE - This year's RedHawks season ended just like last year's RedHawks season, with some good news but too much bad news.

 

The good news: The RedHawks are one of only three Triple-A teams to make the 2004 and 2005 playoffs.

 

The bad news: The RedHawks have lost two straight playoff games each year, after being one win from the Pacific Coast League finals.

 

Nashville, by beating the RedHawks 7-3 Sunday night at Greer Stadium, scored one more run than the RedHawks had in three games here. The Sounds will play in the PCL Championship Series this week against Sacramento or Tacoma.

 

"It was the same old story as last year," RedHawks manager Bobby Jones said. "Our offense went south. Good pitching's going to stop good hitting, and they have good pitching over there and we just didn't do anything."

 

All of the RedHawks' runs scored on home runs -- a 450-foot, solo shot by Chris Richard and a two-run homer by Keith McDonald, his second homer of the playoffs. The homers cut Nashville's lead from 4-0 to 4-3.

 

Richard, a former Oklahoma State star, ended the season with a 12-game hitting streak and .462 batting average in September.

 

"We had a great year, but we played a good team and we just didn't get the bats going because they pitched well," Richard said.

 

McDonald, who played for Nashville last year, led the RedHawks with five RBIs in the playoffs.

 

"Timely hitting didn't come for us during the series, but they did a great job pitching us," said McDonald, who plans to have knee surgery and retire from pro baseball. "Not scoring runs hasn't been characteristic of our team."

 

RedHawks pitcher R.A. Dickey, whose hometown is Nashville, saluted his teammates after finishing his sixth season with the Oklahoma City team.

 

"It was a great ride. We put ourselves in position to do something pretty special, and we were just two hits away or two pitches away from doing it," Dickey said.

 

"The constitution of the people representing the clubhouse is really one of the best I've played on from a chemistry standpoint. To even get into the playoffs was a real tribute to Bobby and the guys in here."

 

Nashville knocked RedHawks starter Michael Tejera out of the game with two out in the third inning. Tejera, in his third start after spending all season the bullpen, was rocked for eight hits and four runs (three earned) in 22/3 innings.

 

The Sounds' starting pitcher, Mike Meyers, allowed only three hits in 41/3 innings. But two of those hits were the home runs by Richard and McDonald. The RedHawks' only other run off Meyers was scored by Will Smith, who reached on a full-count walk.

 

In Nashville's two-run sixth inning, the Sounds loaded the bases on a hit batter, walk and perfect bunt -- the only hit off reliever Matt Roney.

 

Roney was replaced by Steve Rowe, whose first three pitches struck out Steve Scarborough. But Rowe's fourth pitch was wild, allowing Nelson Cruz to score from third. And Nashville scored on a sacrifice fly moments later, for a 6-3 lead.

 

The Sounds added an unearned run in the eighth inning.

 

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Story line: Nashville, after being one loss from elimination, won the final two games of its best-of-five PCL American Conference series with the RedHawks.

 

Star of the game: Nashville third baseman Chris Barnwell was 3-for-4 with two RBIs.

 

Turning point: Chris Barnwell's perfect bunt between third base and the mound, the only hit off Matt Roney, loaded the bases in the sixth. Nashville went on to score two runs on a wild pitch and sacrifice fly for a 6-3 lead.

 

Noteworthy: Former Westmoore and Oklahoma star Corey Hart played for the first time in the five-game series. He started at second base, batted third, and had a walk and double in four trips.

 

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www.oklahomaredhawks.com/news/?id=843

 

Monday Sep 12, 2005

 

Nashville opened a 4-0 lead through three innings Sunday night and went on to beat the RedHawks 7-3 in the fifth and deciding game of the American Conference Championship Series at Greer Stadium.

 

The RedHawks, one victory away from taking the series after Friday's thrilling win, dropped the final two in Nashville for their first series loss since late July.

 

The Sounds will host Tacoma on Tuesday in game one of the PCL Finals.

 

The RedHawks' offense went silent during the final three games in Nashville, managing just six runs on 15 hits in the last three games, one of them a 2-1 win on Friday.

 

Oklahoma, which had won 12 straight series finales and nine straight series going back to early August, was unable to come back from the early 4-0 deficit. Chris Richard belted his second homer of the series in the fourth to make the score 4-1.

 

Keith McDonald, who said during the season he's leaning toward retirement, hit a two-run homer in the fifth to close the gap to 4-3. But the Sounds scored two runs in the sixth while hitting just one ball out of the infield to add insurance. They tacked on an unearned extra run in the eighth.

 

Michael Tejera, making his first start of the series, took the loss while Gary Glover earned the win in relief. Glover also won game one as a starter.

 

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In what might have been his final game, catcher Keith McDonald went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer Sunday in Nashville. Kyle Nosal photo.

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Sounds players celebrate after defeating the RedHawks to win the PCL American Conference title in Game 5 7-4.

 

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Sounds right fielder Nelson Cruz, right, barely squeaks by Red Hawks catcher Keith McDonald to score in the sixth inning off of a wild pitch. Running in is pitcher Matt Roney, left.

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