Saturday’s game between the Nashville Sounds and New Orleans Baby Cakes has been postponed due to rain at Shrine on Airline in New Orleans. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday, September 2 when the Sounds return to New Orleans on the final weekend of the season. Game one of the doubleheader will start at 4:00 p.m. CST. The two teams will continue the series Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Right-hander Zach Neal (1-4, 4.09) is scheduled to start for Nashville against right-hander Scott Copeland (6-9, 6.00) for New...

Rumored Atlanta trade chip Jaime Garcia pitched seven solid innings and slugged a grand slam Friday night as the Braves handed former teammate Alex Wood his first loss of the year and the Dodgers their second loss in a row, a 12-3 rout at Dodger Stadium. Garcia’s third career homer, on an 0-2 pitch, was the first slam by an Atlanta pitcher since 1966. It capped a five-run fifth inning and ended the night for Wood (11-1), whose ERA jumped from 1.56 to 2.17. Tyler Flowers slugged a three-run homer off reliever Grant Dayton in the sixth inning, also...

The Nashville Sounds launched four home runs and got a solid performance from starter Chris Jensen en route to a 7-5 win over the New Orleans Baby Cakes Friday night in New Orleans. Franklin Barreto got the party started immediately when he drilled the first pitch of the game from William Cuevas over the center field wall for a leadoff home run and 1-0 lead for Nashville. Ryan Lavarnway, Chad Pinder, and Yairo Munoz added solo blasts for the Sounds (47-52). The four homers are the second-most for Nashville in a single game this season. It was plenty of...

As the fall sports season gets ready to crank up, Thunder Radio sports continues our series of previews for the fall prep sports teams.  Each day, we will spotlight a different team as we count down to the opening of practices and games of the upcoming season.  Today, we look at the Coffee County Middle School football team. Coach Bryan Morgan begins his 2nd season at the helm of Red Raider program as his young football team has spent this week working out in shorts and shoulder pads.  Practices with full pads begins on Monday as Morgan wants “to...

The Coffee County Central High School golf team completed their final tune-up for the regular season on Thursday as they took part in the James C Uselton Invitational Preseason Tournament in Tullahoma.  All 5 Red Raider golfers carded scores in the 80’s for the 18 hole stroke play event at Lakewood Country Club. Junior Samuel Prater picked up right where he left off in 2016 as he shot the low score for the Raiders with an 80.  Senior Reid Lawrence was 2 strokes back at 82 while junior Austin Farris got around the par 72 course in 83 strokes. ...

The Coffee County Lady Raider volleyball team had a record of 1 and 2 in their trio of matches on Thursday at the Eagleville camp.  Coffee County opened the day with a 3 set loss to Community by scores of 23-25, 25-18 & 10-15.  Coffee County bounced back to defeat Grundy in 3 sets 25-17, 23-25 & 15-12.  The Lady Raiders closed out the day with their best performance at the camp thus far in a straight set loss to Smyrna.  Coffee County dropped the 2 sets 22-15 and 23-25. Coach Andrew Taylor was again pleased with his young...

  The Braves crashed the party at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night with a 6-3 victory, snapping the Dodgers’ 11-game win streak. It was just Los Angeles’ fifth loss in its last 36 games. Freddie Freeman had two hits and two RBIs, while Kurt Suzuki added a two-run homer to back a strong start from Mike Foltynewicz, as the Braves ended their three-game skid. Foltynewicz allowed three runs in 6 1/3 innings, striking out five. The Braves right-hander has gone 5-0 in his last nine starts, striking out 51 and walking 21, while posting a 3.33 ERA and limiting...

Renato Nunez clubbed a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 7-5 win over the Iowa Cubs Thursday afternoon at Principal Park. The home run by Nunez was his Minor League Baseball-leading 25th of the season and snapped a 5-5 deadlock in the series finale. It was the second consecutive day the Sounds beat Iowa after trailing for most of the game. The Cubs scored four runs in the second inning to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Nashville closed the gap to 4-3 in the middle innings before...