Marcus Semien’s first game in a Sounds uniform was a memorable one as he lifted Nashville past Oklahoma City 5-4 with a two-run, walk-off single. The win snapped a seven-game drought against the Dodgers.

The Sounds jumped out to an early lead as Semien, with the team on a rehab assignment from Oakland, scampered home on a wild pitch from Dodgers starter Scott Barlow. Nashville doubled its lead the next inning. Beau Taylor roped a double down the right field line and came home to score when Yairo Munoz lined a pitch back up the middle into center field.

In the top of the fourth inning Oklahoma City cut the lead in half. Willie Calhoun led off with a soft line drive into center field followed by a ground rule double to straight-away center field from Scott Van Slyke. Kyle Farmer drove in the first run for the Dodgers on a ground out to third. Bobby Wilson knotted the game at two runs apiece as he laced a single to left field.

Nashville loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning but came up empty. Mark Canha smoked a ground rule double into right center field, which kept Ryan Lavarnway from scoring. Taylor was intentionally walked to set up a double-play situation, which is exactly what Joe Broussard was able to induce. Matt McBride tapped a ground ball to the shortstop, Farmer who was able to begin the inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.

The game remained tied at two until the top of the seventh inning. Brett Eibner worked a two-out walk, which brought Willie Calhoun to the plate. Calhoun then unloaded on a 1-0 pitch from Felix Doubront and deposited it just inside the right field foul pole to put the Dodgers on top 4-2.

The Sounds sliced the lead in half in the bottom of the seventh inning. Kenny Wilson opened up the frame with a single and came around to score as Joey Wendle beat out a double-play attempt for a 1-4-6 fielder’s choice.

Matt McBride struck out to begin the bottom of the ninth inning but the next three batters all reached base to give the Sounds the victory. Munoz singled and advanced to third on Wilson’s double. Semien then stepped up to the dish and put the finishing touches on the ball game with a line drive walk-off single to center field to plate Munoz and Wilson.

In his second career Triple-A start, Ben Bracewell lasted four innings and yielded a pair of runs on six hits. He walked two and struck out three.

Munoz collected his first multi-hit game at the Triple-A level. The 22-year-old Dominican collected a trio of singles to go 3-for-4 on the evening.

Game three of the four-game series is set for Sunday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander David Hale (1-0, 3.60) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Scott Barlow (1-0, 0.00) for the Dodgers. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Foltynewicz [Photo courtesy of MLB]

The 25-year-old Atlanta Braves right-hander flirted with the franchise’s first no-hitter since 1994 in a 3-1 win over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. Oakland first baseman Matt Olson logged the first hit against Foltynewicz in style, clearing the right-field fence in the first at-bat of the final frame to break up the party.

Braves manager Brian Snitker immediately congratulated and relieved his young starter, who hit his career high with 119 pitches.

The remaining Oakland crowd gave Foltynewicz a standing ovation as he walked off the field.

“I don’t even know what to say right now,” Foltynewicz said after the outing. “It was a great time out there. Just everything, the energy. I was working well. I was working fast, just working downhill.

“My off-speed wasn’t really there. It was kind of a weird night. I was kinda like really effectively wild, you know? Some pitches, four in a row I wouldn’t get close to the zone and then I’d put (together) a really good sequence to get some hitters. It was a really fun night out there.”

The eight-inning effort lowered Folty’s ERA by 38 points. He finished the effort with eight strikeouts and four walks. But he was thinking about history all along.

Kent Mercker was the last Braves pitcher to complete a no-hitter on April 8, 1994, with Javy Lopez behind the plate. Before that? Setting aside a 1991 combined no-hitter, Phil Niekro was the second-to-last Braves starter to refuse his opponent a single hit — shutting out the Padres back in 1973.

The Oklahoma City Dodgers scored multiple runs in the first three innings and raced to a 12-6 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of a sellout crowd of 11,080 at First Tennessee Park Friday night.

Oklahoma City hitters racked up five multi-hit games, including a four-hit night from former Sound Max Muncy and a three-hit games from Alex Verdugo. The one-two combo at the top of the lineup combined to score six runs and drive in four.
Verdugo and Muncy each had three hits in the first three innings, and Muncy added his fourth of the game in as many innings.

The Dodgers scored two in the first, five in the second, four in the third, and a single tally in the fourth. Sounds (38-42) starter Corey Walter was charged with a career-high 11 earned runs in just 2 2/3 innings.

Nashville’s offense did what it could to keep the game tight in the first couple of innings but Oklahoma City’s prodigious offensive night was too much to handle.

A sacrifice fly from Renato Nunez evened the game in the first, but the five runs the Dodgers scored made it a 7-2 game.

Mark Canha got one back in the bottom of the second when he cracked his seventh homer of the season. Yairo Muñoz added a sacrifice fly to trim the deficit to 7-4, but that’s as close as the game would be the rest of the way.

Oklahoma City sent nine batters to the plate in both the second and third innings as they scored nine runs over the two frames.

The Dodgers’ bullpen trio of Ross Stripling, Josh Ravin, and Jacob Rhame limited the Sounds to one run over the final six innings.

Catcher Ryan Lavarnway tossed a 1-2-3 top of the ninth inning and had two hits at the dish. Canha and Matt McBride added multi-hit games for the Sounds.

The Sounds cut the lead in half in the bottom of the ninth inning when Beau Taylor picked up his first career Triple-A RBI on a ringing double off the center field fence.

Game two of the four-game series is set for Saturday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Ben Bracewell (0-1, 0.00) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Scott Barlow (1-0, 0.00) for the Dodgers. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.