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Wednesday's Daily Menu:

All times Central; pitchers subject to change --

Link here for the live audio choices - audio will no longer archive.

For this Brevard County series, you can pick up the Hammerheads' audio via this link.

Nashville: LHP Manny Parra at home vs. Round Rock (Astros), 11:45 AM pre-game; 12:00 PM gametime

Huntsville: RHP Josh Butler at Birmingham (White Sox), 10:50 AM pre-game; 11:05 gametime

Brevard County: RHP Mark Rogers at Jupiter (Marlins), 6:05 PM gametime

Wisconsin: LHP Efrain Nieves at Burlington (Royals), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:30 gametime; RHP Cody Scarpetta will back Nieves up

Dominican Summer League Brewers / Orioles: at the DSL Mets (see this thread for some roster background) -- all games are 10:30 local time in the Dominican, and no need to ask about web audio; we usually won't see updated box scores until the overnight...

This link will be included in each daily report when the Nashville Sounds are scheduled to play. Normally it is updated a few hours prior to gametime.

Nashville Media Notes (Adobe .pdf format):

www.nashvillesounds.com/pdf/notes.pdf

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We're going to include the link to Kraig McNutt's Nashville blog in the same post as the Nashville media notes link going forward.

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AAA All-Star voting is here with your MiLB.com online account.

Pacific Coast League (AAA) - PCL American North Division Standings
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Team                   W     L     PCT     GB     HOME      ROAD      STREAK   
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Nashville              39    27    .591    -      22-15     17-12     W1       
Iowa                   34    32    .515    5.0    18-14     16-18     W1       
Memphis                31    34    .477    7.5    19-14     12-20     L1       
Omaha                  25    40    .385    13.5   11-21     14-19     L3       
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Southern League (AA) - SOU North Division Standings
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Team                   W     L     PCT     GB     HOME      ROAD      STREAK   
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Huntsville             37    26    .587    -      14-16     23-10     L1       
Carolina               36    28    .563    1.5    21-14     15-14     W2       
Tennessee              28    37    .431    10.0   15-18     13-19     L2       
Chattanooga            26    38    .406    11.5   13-17     13-21     W1       
West Tenn              25    40    .385    13.0   12-18     13-22     L2       
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Florida State League (A+) - FSL North Division Standings
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Team                   W     L     PCT     GB     HOME      ROAD      STREAK   
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Brevard County         40    19    .678    -      15-11     25-8      L1       
Daytona                31    29    .517    9.5    16-11     15-18     W2       
Clearwater             30    31    .492    11.0   15-16     15-15     W1       
Dunedin                29    33    .468    12.5   11-20     18-13     L1       
Tampa                  28    34    .452    13.5   15-19     13-15     L3       
Lakeland               26    32    .448    13.5   15-17     11-15     L3

Final: Birmingham (White Sox) 11, Huntsville 5

Huntsville Site Game Summary

Late Rally Leads Barons Past Stars
Butler Impressive in First Start with Huntsville
By Brett Pollock / Huntsville Stars

Tyler Flowers smashed a home run and drove in five runs in Birmingham's 11-5 comeback win over Huntsville Wednesday afternoon in the opener of a six-game set at Regions Park. The Stars fell to 37-27 and saw their lead in the North Division temporarily trimmed to a game over Carolina, which opens a five-game series tonight at Tennessee. The Barons won their sixth straight game to improve to 44-20 on the season and 21-8 at home.

Josh Butler went six innings in his double-A debut and left with the lead after allowing a pair of runs on four hits, walking one and striking out six. Mike McClendon took over in the seventh and gave up a sacrifice fly to Javier Colina that cut the Stars lead to 5-3 with two outs. C.J. Retherford's single, the third straight for the Barons, scored C.J. Lang to trim the lead to one. Flowers then sent a sinking line drive into left field that got past a diving Drew Anderson allowing John Shelby and Retherford to cross the plate to give the Barons their first lead of the day. McClendon was tagged with the loss after yielding the four runs on five hits and has now been scored on in five straight outings on the road.

The Barons loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth against Omar Aguilar, who appeared to get out of trouble by getting Retherford to bounce into a force out at second base but the throw from shortstop Johnny Raburn was offline allowing Shelby to slide in safely and Colina to score to make it 7-5 Barons. Aguilar then wild pitched in another run and gave up a three-run home run to Flowers, his ninth of the season. Clevelan Santeliz earned the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings in relief to improve to 3-0.

Kevin Melillo's two-run home run in the second inning got the scoring started. It was his sixth long ball of the year and first since May 31. Dayan Viciedo doubled with one out in the second, stayed put when David Cook walked and then both runners advanced when Vinny Rottino made a diving stop on a Stefan Gartrell ground ball to first base. Colina then looped a broken bat fly ball into shallow left field to plate both runners to tie the game.

Freddy Parejo started the fifth inning with a single and advanced to third base when Raburn singled. Adam Stern popped out for the first out of the inning before Shane Justis dropped down a sacrifice bunt to push Parejo across with the go-ahead run. Stern's sacrifice fly and a run-scoring double in the seventh by Jonathan Lucroy pushed the visitors lead to 5-2. Charlie Shirek lasted 6 2/3 innings in his second double-A start, giving up the five runs on eight hits, while walking one and fanning three.

The series continues Thursday night in with right-hander Donovan Hand taking the hill against Baron's right-hander Lucas Harrell. Coverage of the game begins at 6:50 pm central time and can be heard through the internet at www.huntsvillestars.com.

Huntsville Box Score
Omar Aguilar hasn't been able to overcome errors behind him, nine unearned runs allowed -- on top of a 7.43 ERA, his season to forget continues...

Huntsville Game Log

Final: Nashville 3, Round Rock (Astros) 2, 11 innings

Nashville Site Game Summary:
Link for celebration photo from today's game, link follows --

Sounds Close Homestand With 11-Inning Win

NASHVILLE - The Nashville Sounds wrapped up their homestand with a 3-2, 11-inning victory over the Round Rock Express on Wednesday afternoon at historic Greer Stadium in the finale of a three-game series.

Nashville (40-27) concluded its seven-game homestand with a 6-1 record, including taking two of three from the Express.

Left fielder Cole Gillespie led off the Nashville eleventh with a single through the right side of the infield off ex-Sound Jose Capellan and advanced to second on a Ryan Houston sacrifice bunt. Jason Bourgeois followed with a line-drive single to left that plated Gillespie with the winning run.

AUDIO: Bourgeois Game-Winning Single

The contest was the Sounds' sixth last at-bat win of the year and the club's third of the current homestand. Nashville improved to 4-1 in extra-inning play this season.

Round Rock scratched across the game's first run in the top of the first inning as a two-out walk came back to haunt Sounds starter Manny Parra. After the first two batters were retired, John Gall drew a free pass, moved to second on a Chris Johnson single, and the Express filled the bags when Mark Saccomanno drew a walk. Yordany Ramirez followed with a grounder to second that was slowed down by a wet infield and resulted in an RBI single as Gall came plateward.

The Sounds knotted the score at 1-1 in the fourth with a pair of doubles off Express starter Mark McLemore. Erick Almonte continued his torrid hitting with a leadoff double that dropped just inside the left field line and scored two batters later on an Adam Heether RBI two-bagger off the base of the wall in left-center.

Almonte is batting .370 (34-for-92) over his last 29 contests for Nashville. Heether finished a team-best 4-for-5 for the Sounds on the afternoon.

The Express pulled back ahead, 2-1, in the fifth with an unearned run. Chad Spann led off with a double left off Parra then advanced to third when catcher Carlos Corporan's pickoff attempt sailed into center field and scored on a Tommy Manzella single to right.

Nashville rallied to tie the game once again in the bottom of the eighth, squaring the score at 2-2 with a run off Express reliever Casey Daigle. Almonte led off with a single and advanced to second on the play when left fielder Brian Bogusevic mishandled the ball. Two batters later, Heether followed with a game-tying single to left.

Houston (4-1) worked a pair of scoreless innings to pick up the victory for the Sounds, while Capellan (1-8) was tagged with the loss after surrendering the game-winning run to conclude his 2 1/3-inning stint.

Parra took a no-decision for the Sounds in his first Triple-A outing of the season .The southpaw allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits over six innings of work, walking four batters and striking out four.

The Sounds hit the road on Thursday for a nine-day, eight-game road trip that includes stops in Oklahoma City (AAA-Rangers) and Albuquerque (AAA-Dodgers).

Left-hander Chris Cody (1-1, 1.35) will take the hill for Nashville in Thursday night's 7:05 PM series opener in Oklahoma City. The RedHawks will counter with right-hander Josh Rupe (0-4, 6.61).

Baseball returns to Music City on Saturday, June 27, when the Sounds begin a brief four-game homestand against the RedHawks with a 6:00 PM contest.

Nashville Box Score
Sorry to put a damper on things, just pointing out Alcides Escobar was 0-for-5 and Brendan Katin 0-for-5 with four K's, but obviously both have been studs as of late; guess you'd call Manny Parra's outing "successful", but with the four walks, nothing more glowing than that..

Nashville Game Log