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Veteran right-hander Chris Smith came through with a brilliant outing to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 5-1 win over the Omaha Storm Chasers in front of 6,001 fans Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park.

With a taxed bullpen, Smith worked a career-high eight innings. On his 110th pitch of the night, he struck out Reymond Fuentes to end the eighth inning – setting a career-high in innings pitched.

Nashville’s (47-33) three-run second inning was more than enough support. Joey Wendle walked to start the inning and got into scoring position on a wild pitch. Matt Olson plated Wendle with the first run of the game when he drilled a double off the right field wall.

The scoring continued when Tyler Ladendorf followed Olson with a sharp base hit to left. The left fielder Fuentes overran the ball allowing Olson to score and Ladendorf to second.

Ladendorf later scored on a groundout by Chad Pinder to extend the Sounds’ lead to 3-0.

Omaha (32-45) got on the board in the fifth with a run-scoring groundout but Nashville came right back with a run of their own.

With one out in the bottom of the fifth, Wendle launched his seventh home run of the season – a solo shot to up the lead to 4-1.

Smith was dialed in from the start as he struck out a pair in the first inning. He retired the side in order in the second, racked up two more strikeouts in the third and then struck out the side in the fourth.

It’s the fifth win of the year for the right-hander who notched his seventh quality start. The Sounds are 8-1 over his last nine starts.

Olson and Ladendorf had multi-hit games at the plate to led the charge offensively.

The Sounds continue the homestand Thursday when they welcome the Oklahoma City Dodgers to First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Angel Castro (0-5, 5.50) starts for Nashville against right-hander Jose De Leon (0-0, 3.44) for Oklahoma City. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

CHS Softball player Tori Bell after being honored to the TSCA Class AAA Middle Tennessee All-State team(Photo provided by Rennie Bell)

For the 2nd year in a row, Coffee County Lady Raider Tori Bell was selected to the Tennessee Softball Coaches Association(TSCA) Class AAA All State Team for Middle Tennessee.  Bell received her award as part of the Tennessee All Star Game held at Columbia State Community College on Tuesday June 21st.  The junior catcher led Coffee County in home runs and in defensive average this season which helped earn her a spot of the squad for the 2nd time. Bell hit .323 on the year with 21 RBI and 4 home runs and had an amazing .998 fielding average for Coffee County.
“Tori bought into the program this year and was a good leader for us” said CHS head coach Steve Wilder. “She was our rock as far as hitting and we are excited to get her healthy this summer” added Wilder.

Also named to the team were:

Peyton Wilson – Clarksville
McKenzie Rose – Clarksville
Ashley Scott – Dickson Co
Makray Odom – Dickson Co
Chealsey Pridgen – Northeast
Alicia Veltri – Northeast
Carly Sperlich – Beech
Kennedy McCurry – Beech

The TSCA also named 9 members of the Lady Raider program to their All Academic team. Named to the team were: Abby Woods, Claire Spellings, Rhianna Roberson, Maegan Phillips, Paige Baker, Kaylee Skipper, Ashlynn Morton, Haley Hinshaw and Tori Bell. Members of the All Academic team are juniors or seniors who have maintained a 3.5 GPA.

Behind a three-run home run by Lonnie Chisenhall and another solid outing from Trevor Bauer, the Indians extended their MLB-best winning streak to 10 games with Monday’s 8-3 win over the Braves at Turner Field, their longest in a single season since ending the 2013 campaign with a 10-game win streak.

Cleveland jumped out to an early lead in the first, when Francisco Lindor scored on an RBI single by Mike Napoli. Atlanta quickly responded with a run of its own in the bottom of the third — driven in by a sacrifice fly from Nick Markakis — but Chisenhall’s three-run blast in the fourth gave the Indians the lead for good.
After allowing a solo home run to Tyler Flowers in the fourth, Bauer surrendered only two more hits to the next 10 batters he faced before turning the game over to the bullpen after six strong innings. The Indians have won five of Bauer’s past six starts.
“He’s got that big breaking ball,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said of Bauer. “And it’s kind of like, I really think with his fastball, you really don’t set location or anything like that, because he throws it both sides of the plate and he just, he’s not real easy to hit at.”
Cleveland has now scored at least six runs in seven straight games, and its starters are 7-0 with a 2.05 ERA during the winning streak.
“We turn the page so fast,” Indians manager Terry Francona said of his team’s streak. “It doesn’t matter what happened 10 days ago. It has nothing to do with tomorrow. What was important was tonight, and we played good enough to win. So now we’ll turn the page and come back and see if we can do it again tomorrow.”
Chisenhall’s home run marked his fourth of the season, all of which have come since May 31. Before then, the Cleveland right fielder was hitting .271 with seven extra-base hits and six RBIs. But over his past 23 games, Chisenhall is batting .321 with 10 extra-base hits and 15 RBIs, making him a valuable asset for the Indians with outfielder Michael Brantley still on the disabled list.
“You know, it’s contagious,” Chisenhall said. “I believe that. I don’t know how many hits we had, but I looked up and we had 12 or 13 at one point. It’s fun going into the batter’s box after the guy in front of you and the guy behind you has been [hitting well].”
Braves right-hander John Gant left the game in the third inning with a left oblique strain. He allowed one run on three hits with two strikeouts in two-plus innings. With a 2-2 count on Bauer, a trainer and Snitker made a visit to the mound. After throwing a warmup pitch, Gant was removed from the game and replaced by Tyrell Jenkins, who went four innings in relief and picked up the loss.
Cabrera makes big league debut: With Atlanta’s bullpen taking over early after Gant’s exit, the Braves got their first look at flamethrower Mauricio Cabrera, who was called up from Double-A Mississippi on Monday. The 22-year-old made his Major League debut, allowing one hit over an inning of work in the seventh. Cabrera threw seven pitches, six of which were fastballs, all of which were at least 100 mph. The right-hander’s first pitch in the bigs came in at 101 mph to pinch-hitter Carlos Santana, and later in the inning, he delivered one at 102 mph to Jason Kipnis. The only pitch that wasn’t triple-digits was a 68-mph changeup to Lindor.
Bauer entered Monday’s game having walked just nine batters in his past five starts. The right-hander struggled with his command early against the Braves, though, walking three of the first eight batters he faced. But instead of letting the bases on balls plague him as they have throughout his young career, Bauer settled in and allowed none of those runners to score en route to his sixth win of the season.
“He’s done that before,” Francona said. “I think he’s getting better at that, though, and about not walking people. I think he used to not care, and we tried to convince him that’s a hard way to pitch. But he’s done a much better job. He’s got the weapons to pitch around rallies, and he doesn’t ever back down. So he has the ability to get out of stuff like that.”
Matt Wisler takes the mound for Atlanta in the second game of the Braves’ three-game set with Cleveland. The 23-year-old right-hander has registered quality starts in his last two outings.  First pitch is set for 6:10 p.m. CT.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast as part of the Atlanta Braves Radio Network beginning with the pregame show at 6:00 PM.

Renato Nunez ended a 12-inning marathon when he singled home Chad Pinder from third to give the Nashville Sounds a 3-2 walk-off win over the Omaha Storm Chasers Monday night at First Tennessee Park.

Nashville was in charge for most of the night until Omaha scored single runs in the eighth and ninth innings to send the game into extras.

Joey Wendle started the bottom of the ninth with a double, and then started the bottom of the 11th with a single. He was left stranded in scoring position both times.
Nashville reliever Patrick Schuster kept giving the offense opportunities to win it. The southpaw went 3 1/3 scoreless innings and eventually earned the win.

Pinder started the 12th with a double to the wall in left-center. After a fly out put Pinder at third, Nunez drilled a line drive over the head of left fielder Travis Snider. Pinder trotted home with the winning run to push the Sounds’ record to 46-33.

Lost in the hoopla of the walk-off win was the effort from starter Chris Jensen. The right-hander tossed 6 2/3 shutout innings in his third Triple-A start.

Jensen stranded a pair of baserunners in the first and third innings and got stronger as the night went on. From when he retired Hunter Dozier to end the third, to when he was pulled after retiring Irving Falu with the second out of the seventh, he faced the minimum.

Omaha’s (32-44) John Lannan was nearly as good as Jensen. Nashville finally got to the veteran left-hander in the sixth inning. Pinder doubled with one-out and came around to score on a line drive single to left by Nunez.

The Sounds extended their lead to 2-0 thanks in part to Omaha’s shaky defense. Rangel Ravelo and Tyler Ladendorf reached on infield singles, and Ravelo came around to score after an error by first baseman Tony Cruz.

Omaha’s first run of the night came home in the eighth on Brett Eibner’s RBI triple high off the wall in right field. They tied the game in the ninth when former Sound Irving Falu sliced a double into the right-center gap to score Jorge Bonifacio.

The fourth and final game of the series is set for Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Chris Smith (4-6, 4.47) starts for Nashville against right-hander Miguel Almonte (3-5, 5.04) for Omaha. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

Freddie Freeman hit a first-inning home run off Bartolo Colon, and Bud Norris added yet another impressive start to his recent ledger as the Braves secured a four-game series split with Sunday afternoon’s 5-2 win over the Mets at Turner Field.

Freeman’s opposite-field home run proved to be the only costly blow delivered against Colon, who scattered six hits and allowed just the one run over seven innings. The Mets veteran’s effort was trumped by Norris, who recorded a season-high eight strikeouts and allowed just four hits over seven scoreless innings.
“We’ve been playing pretty well for the last couple weeks,” Freeman said. “Our starting rotation, minus a couple games, has kept us in games, and we’re starting to swing the bats better. It seems like the Mets have been in the middle of our nice little run and we’ve played them well.”
Adonis Garcia’s three-run home run off Logan Verrett highlighted a decisive four-run eighth inning produced by the Braves, who won five of seven games played against the Mets this month. Yoenis Cespedes’ RBI groundout and Wilmer Flores’ RBI single accounted for the two runs the Mets tallied against Alexi Ogando in the ninth inning.
“We aren’t hitting right now, but look, we’re two games back in the loss column,” Mets manager Terry Collins said, alluding to his team’s upcoming three-game series against the Nationals. “We’ll take it. The worst-case scenario going into the All-Star break is just don’t lose any more ground.”
Norris has produced a 2.15 ERA in the five starts he’s made since ending his bullpen stint to make an emergency start in place of Mike Foltynewicz. The veteran right-hander notched three of his strikeouts during a perfect first inning and pitched around the consecutive singles James Loney and Flores recorded to begin the fifth. Norris’ recent success has increased the possibility that the Braves will attempt to gain some value for him before the non-waiver Trade Deadline.
“You’ve really got to minimize things here and there,” Norris said. “It was nice that I didn’t walk anybody and we got another win. We’ve just got to keep this thing going.”
True to his scouting report, Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo hacked at the first pitch he saw in his big league career. He fouled off that Norris fastball and wound up finishing 0-for-4 in his debut, including a fielder’s choice with two men on base and no outs in the fifth. The Mets called up Nimmo prior to Saturday’s game in an attempt to jump-start a scuffling offense, but he did not play until Sunday.
“After the first pitch of my first at-bat, it was kind of like, ‘OK, it’s the same game,'” Nimmo said. “I was really just more excited than anything to get it going. Coming up there for your first at-bat, you’re wondering what it’s like. Then you go up there and you’re like, ‘OK, it looks the same.'”
Freeman recorded at least three hits for the sixth time within the past 13 games. The Braves first baseman began his latest three-hit game by hitting Colon’s first-pitch fastball into the first row of the left-field seats. He has batted .385 (20-for-52) against the Mets this season and .481 (13-for-27) in his career against Colon.
“I just treat [Colon] like I do a knuckleballer,” Freeman said. “You know he’s going to throw strikes, so I just go up there swinging. Today, he was [throwing] a little bit slower than normal. So I just kind of wanted to sit back and get a good pitch to hit. He seemed to be doing that early in counts. So I came out aggressive like I normally do.”
Along with providing the decisive blow with his fourth home run within a span of 48 at-bats, Garcia also made two dazzling defensive plays. The Braves third baseman caught Neil Walker’s pop fly before nearly falling into the stands in the second inning. Then in the ninth, he slid along the grass to make an over-the-shoulder catch on Loney’s pop fly behind third base.
John Gant will take the mound when Atlanta opens a three-game series against Cleveland on Monday at 6:10 p.m. CT at Turner Field. The Indians have lost seven of the nine games played in Atlanta dating back to the 1995 World Series.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast of that game as part of the Braves Radio Network.  The pregame show will begin at 6:00 PM.

The Nashville Sounds hit three home runs including one from Oakland A’s outfielder Josh Reddick in a 9-4 win over the Omaha Storm Chasers in front of 7,562 fans Sunday night at First Tennessee Park.

Bruce Maxwell added a solo blast and Renato Nunez launched a two-run shot to help Nashville (45-33) bust out of an offensive slump.

Aaron Kurcz set the tone in a spot start for the Sounds as he retired the first six batters he faced. He went on to throw 3 2/3 scoreless innings. The bullpen combination of Ryan Brasier, J.B. Wendelken and Andrew Triggs went the rest of the way in the win.

Nashville started the scoring in the third and never looked back. Maxwell hit the first home run of the night to right-center off Omaha (32-43) starter Christian Binford.

Reddick got in on the act in the fourth when he started the inning with a solo smash of his own to extend the lead to 2-0. He finished the night 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI.

Omaha got on board in the sixth with a single tally but a four-run bottom half of the inning gave the Sounds control the rest of the way.

The first five batters of the inning reached as Chad Pinder, Joey Wendle, Nunez and Maxwell all had hits in the frame. Nunez, Matt Olson and Maxwell all had an RBI in the inning.

Jorge Bonifacio drilled a two-run homer for the Storm Chasers to pull within 6-3 in the top of the seventh. But again, Nashville answered with more runs of their own.

Doubles from Reddick and Ryon Healy gave the Sounds a 7-3 lead before Nunez delivered the final blow of the night with his two-run blast to left field. It’s the team-leading 12th home run of the season for Nunez who drove in three runs to up his RBI total to 44.

Brasier went 2 1/3 innings and earned the win in relief. Wendelken allowed the homer to Bonifacio but worked two frames before handing off to Triggs who tossed a scoreless ninth.

Game three of the four-game series is set for Monday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Chris Jensen (0-2, 5.25) starts for the Sounds against left-hander John Lannan (5-7, 5.27) for the Storm Chasers. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

Julio Teheran and Jacob deGrom waged an impressive pitching battle and maintained their status as two of baseball’s most unfortunate pitchers in terms of run support. Once they exited on Saturday night at Turner Field, Kelly Johnson damaged his former team with a pinch-hit home run that provided the Mets a 1-0, 11-inning win over the Braves.

Johnson, who spent this season’s first two months with the Braves, opened the 11th inning with a home run off Dario Alvarez. The solo shot provided the Mets their fourth win in their past five games and ended a 23 2/3-inning scoreless streak for Atlanta’s bullpen.
“You get excited coming here to play,” Johnson said. “Any time you’re playing against a former team, you get a little extra pep in your step. You like to go and prove yourself.”
Coming off the one-hit shutout he tossed at Citi Field on Sunday, Teheran limited the Mets to five hits over eight scoreless innings. The Braves right-hander has completed a career-best 23 consecutive scoreless innings over his past three starts and 24 consecutive scoreless innings against the Mets within a three-start span that dates back to last year.
deGrom proved every bit as impressive as he scattered seven hits and did not allow a run over a season-high eight innings. The Mets have not scored a run while deGrom has been in the game within any of his past three starts. They have provided him a total of two runs of support over his past five starts.
“I’m on Julio’s side, but both [starting pitchers] were impressive tonight,” Braves center fielder Ender Inciarte said. “So, you can see when a game goes zero-zero through the 10th inning, it’s because two starters are dealing.”
It was an ex-Met against an ex-Brave when Johnson stepped to the plate against Alvarez to lead off the 11th. Less than three weeks after they traded him to the Mets for the second time in a calendar year, Johnson burned his old team with a line-drive homer to right. All three of the left-handed Johnson’s homers this season have come off lefty pitchers.
“I felt like it was going to be out, I did,” Johnson said. “When I saw it hit the top of the wall I was a little bit humbled. That’s a big gap out there.”
The Braves grounded into three double plays within the first four innings and were unable to capitalize after notching three singles against deGrom in the sixth. Teheran recorded the first of these three singles, but he was held at third base when Nick Markakis drilled a two-out single to left field. Adonis Garcia followed with an inning-ending groundout.
“That’s a good call,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said of third base coach Bo Porter’s decision to hold Teheran. “You can’t run that guy into an out right there. You’ve just got to hope you can get a big hit with the next guy. And then shoot, Adonis smokes a ball down the line. We just couldn’t scratch one over.”
Striking out seven and inducing three consecutive inning-ending double plays, deGrom was as sharp as he’s been all season. But the Mets gave him his usual run support: next to nothing. They have gone 21 consecutive innings without scoring a run while deGrom has been in the game, and have plated a total of two for him over his last 35 innings. He has not won since April 30 despite a 2.25 ERA over his last six starts.
As Teheran has posted a 1.72 ERA over his past 13 starts, he has steadily strengthened the argument that he should still be considered a top-flight pitcher. The Braves’ right-hander hit Curtis Granderson’s with a 1-2 slider in the third inning and two batters later allowed a single Yoenis Cespedes. But Cespedes was thrown out attempting to take second by third baseman Adonis Garcia, who took a throw from Inciarate in center. Neil Walker followed with a flyout that began a streak in which Teheran retired 16 of the final 17 batters he faced.
“I didn’t feel like I needed to change anything,” Teheran said. “Obviously after you throw a one-hit shutout, you don’t want to put anything else in your head. You just come in thinking if you have to make adjustments, you make adjustments. I’m just trying to compete every time.”
Brandon Nimmo, the Mets’ No. 4 prospect, should make his debut in the starting lineup in Sunday’s series finale at Turner Field against the Braves at 12:35 p.m. CT. The Mets called up Nimmo prior to Saturday’s game, optioning fellow outfielder Michael Conforto to Triple-A Las Vegas. Nimmo will play behind starting pitcher Bartolo Colon, 20 years his senior.  Atlanta will counter with Bud Norris in the series finale against the Mets on Sunday. Norris has allowed two earned runs or less in three of the four starts he has made since being placed back in the Braves’ rotation.  Thunder Radio will bring you the action on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network beginning at noon.

The Omaha Storm Chasers spoiled the party by beating the Nashville Sounds, 4-2, in front of 11,684 fans Saturday night at First Tennessee Park. It’s the largest crowd in ballpark history and the eighth sellout of the 2016 season.

The Storm Chasers got on the board immediately when Reymond Fuentes and Ramon Torres started the game with back-to-back singles. Hunter Dozier brought in the first run of the night with a sacrifice fly.

Nashville bounced right back in the second with the help of Omaha’s shaky defense. Matt McBride extended his hitting streak to eight games with a one-out double down the left field line to get into scoring position. He came around to score when Omaha shortstop Ramon Torres threw away a ground ball hit by Rangel Ravelo.

It remained 1-1 until the fifth inning as both starters settled in. In desperate need of a long outing from a starter, Angel Castro pitched into the seventh for the Sounds.

Irving Falu’s big night started in the fifth when he doubled to the gap in left-center to bring in a pair of runs to extend Omaha’s lead to 3-1.

Falu was at it again in the seventh when he clubbed another run-scoring double to make it 4-1. Both extra-base hits came with two outs for the former Sound.

Kris Medlen went 4 2/3 innings in a Major League rehab assignment before handing the game over to the Omaha bullpen.

Nashville got to the bullpen in the seventh – again with the help of Omaha’s defense. Joey Wendle reached on an error to start the frame and came around to score on a base hit by Ravelo.

From there, the Sounds had opportunities to score but couldn’t come through with runners on base. Despite putting multiple runners on base in each of the final three innings, they went just 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position.

Castro was tagged with the loss and Benino Pruneda earned the win after tossing 1 2/3 innings in relief.

Game two of the four-game series is set for Sunday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Christian Binford (1-5, 5.49) starts for Omaha and Nashville has not announced a starter. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.

James Loney’s three-run home run provided enough cushion for the Mets to weather a six-run flurry produced against Steven Matz and claim an 8-6 win over the suddenly pesky Braves at Turner Field on Friday night.

After Loney’s homer off Aaron Blair provided the Mets an 8-0 lead in the fifth inning, the Braves tallied six runs in the bottom half of the frame against Matz, who had retired 11 of the 12 batters he’d faced through the first four innings and ended up allowing six earned runs over 4 1/3 frames. Atlanta recorded just two hits against three Mets relievers, including closer Jeurys Familia, who recorded the game’s final four outs with the help of some heads-up defense. One of those was a sensational game-ending pick at first base by Loney after a wild third strike that scooted away from Travis d’Arnaud.
“He made two real good plays over there tonight, besides hitting the homer,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “So it was a good night for him.”
The Braves had won seven of their previous eight games, including each of the four played against the Mets within this span. But they were unable to overcome the struggles endured by Blair, who allowed eight earned runs and seven hits over 4 1/3 innings. New York secured its third win in its past four games after Atlanta put two on with none out in the ninth.
Third baseman Wilmer Flores dove to catch Chase d’Arnaud’s sacrifice-bunt attempt, but the ball popped out of his glove. This simply set the stage for Flores to step on third and throw to second to complete a double play. The wacky game ended when a replay review confirmed d’Arnaud’s throw to first base beat Jace Peterson, who was attempting to reach on a dropped third strike.
“These guys don’t get down and they’re never out,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “That’s about as good of a trait as they can have. The way they hung in there tonight, I had a good feeling something good was going to happen.”
To become the first Met to convert 25 straight save opportunities to open a season, Familia had to record the game’s final four outs — the first of them with a runner in scoring position. The closer began by inducing an inning-ending groundout from Adonis Garcia in the eighth, then used two fine defensive plays behind him to escape a two-on, no-outs jam in the ninth. That was good for Familia’s 25th save, snapping a tie with Armando Benitez for the longest streak to start a season in franchise history.
The Braves recorded eight hits through their first nine at-bats of the fifth inning and three hits within their other 27 at-bats of the game. Mets center fielder Yoenis Cespedes lost a Nick Markakis fly ball that resulted in one of three consecutive doubles that began the fifth. Brandon Snyder’s opposite-field three-run home run was the most costly blow delivered against Matz.
“Obviously, being down eight runs is tough, but nobody is trying to give up,” Snyder said. “To see the guys come back and start rallying like that, it kind of picked the fans up and got everybody into it. We came up a little short, but I think it just kind of shows that we’re here to play and we’re going to fight until the last out.”
A Mets team that entered the night with a Major League-leading 53.2 percent of its runs via homers scored five against Blair without the benefit of a long ball. That changed when Loney clubbed a three-run homer off Blair with one out in the fifth, staking the Mets to an 8-0 lead. Blair was out of the game one batter later.
“For me, it’s getting good pitches to hit,” Loney said. “Wherever they go, they go. There’s never been a hit that I didn’t like.”
Loney’s three-run home run
Loney’s three-run home run
James Loney connects and drives a three-run home run to right field to give the Mets an 8-0 lead in the top of the 5th inning
Patience is running thin: Snitker indicated the club will further discuss whether to give another start to Blair, who has allowed at least six runs in four of his past seven starts. Loney got hit with an 0-2 curveball during a two-run second inning and was behind in the count 0-2 before drilling both his double in the fourth and his homer in the fifth. The Braves’ rookie hurler has struggled with command in the past, but Snitker felt he threw too many “hittable” strikes when ahead in the count during this game.
“You look at his ball-strike ratio and it was pretty good,” Snitker said. “But you can be wild in the strike zone, too, and miss your mark. I think he was. I saw the 0-2 breaking ball to Loney [on the home run]. It was [more like an] 0-0 pitch, not an 0-2 pitch. It was just things like that. The command with the strikes just wasn’t good, and he got hurt.”

Though Jacob deGrom has quietly rounded into form with a 2.81 ERA over his last five starts, a lack of offensive support has left him 0-3 in those games. He’ll look to snap a personal nine-game winless streak when the Mets and Braves return to Turner Field on Saturday for a 6:15 p.m. ET game.  Atlanta will counter with Julio Teheran, who has posted a 1.89 ERA over his past 12 starts. Teheran tossed a one-hit shutout at Citi Field on Sunday. He has completed 16 consecutive scoreless innings against the Mets dating back to last year.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast as part of the Atlanta Braves Radio Network beginning with the pregame show at 6:00 PM.

Five errors led to the downfall of the short-handed Nashville Sounds in a 7-4 loss to the Iowa Cubs Friday night at Principal Park.
The season-high in miscues led to a three-run second inning the Sounds (44-32) couldn’t recover from. With the game even at 1-1, starter Jesse Hahn had to face several extra batters in the frame after an error by Ryon Healy and two from Renato Nunez.
When the damage was done, Iowa (35-37) held a 4-1 lead heading to the third. The Sounds battled back and scored a pair of runs to pull within one.
Bruce Maxwell reached on an error and Jaycob Brugman drew a walk to put runners at first and second with nobody out.
The error and free pass came back to hurt the Cubs when Tyler Ladendorf drilled a double off the left field wall to plate a run. Nunez followed with a sacrifice fly to make it a 4-3 game in favor of Iowa.
Nashville starter Jesse Hahn had to leave the game after just two innings. The right-hander was visited by athletic trainer Brad LaRosa in the first inning after he had a misstep near home plate following a wild pitch.
The game was forced into the hands of the bullpen just one night after starter Eduard Santos went just one inning in game two of Thursday night’s doubleheader.
In the bottom of the fourth, Munenori Kawasaki plated a pair of runs with a single to left field. The Cubs added another run in the seventh when Jeimer Candelario doubled home a run against lefty Daniel Coulombe to make it 7-4.
The bullpen trio of Ryan Doolittle, Coulombe and Andrew Triggs covered six innings in the loss.
The Sounds’ offense didn’t do much after Iowa’s Drew Rucinski was pulled after five. Armando Rivero threw three innings in relief and allowed just one hit – a single off the bat of Joey Wendle in the sixth. Joel Peralta tossed a 1-2-3 ninth inning to notch the save
The Sounds return home for an eight-game homestand set to begin Saturday at First Tennessee Park. In game one against the Omaha Storm Chasers, right-hander Angel Castro (0-4, 5.48) starts for the Sounds. Omaha has not announced a starter. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.