Anthony Rendon reached base four times, the Washington bullpen allowed two runs over 5 2/3 innings, and the Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 10-5 on Sunday. Rendon scored twice and drove in a pair as the Nationals salvaged a split of the four-game series with the Braves to enter the All-Star break with a 9 1/2-game lead over Atlanta in the National League East. Washington starter Joe Ross left the game with an apparent injury with one out in the fourth. Reliever Matt Grace (1-0) allowed two runs, one earned, over 2 2/3 innings. Joe Blanton, Enny Romero and...

Breyvic Valera launched a solo home run in the top of the 10th inning to help the Memphis Redbirds to a 2-1 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of a sellout crowd of 10,148 Sunday night at First Tennessee Park. The two teams played to an even 1-1 game after nine innings of play. Valera’s go-ahead shot came on a 1-1 pitch from Kyle Finnegan with two outs in the inning. Armed with a one-run lead, Redbirds reliever Josh Lucas set the Sounds down in order in the bottom of the 10th to notch his sixth win of...

Strengthening the theory of momentum being the next day’s starter, the Braves quickly distanced themselves from Friday night’s crushing loss with the help of Julio Teheran, who bested All-Star Stephen Strasburg in more ways than one during Saturday afternoon’s 13-0 win over the Nationals at Nationals Park. Teheran set the tone as he scattered four hits over seven innings and contributed a pair of run-producing singles before Strasburg exited after the third with the Braves owning a 6-0 lead. Atlanta would be in position to sweep this four-game series had closer Jim Johnson not let a three-run, ninth-inning lead...

The Memphis Redbirds scored two runs in the ninth inning to steal a 3-2 win from the Nashville Sounds in front of another sellout crowd of 11,484 at First Tennessee Park Saturday night. The Sounds (42-47) were in control for most of the night before the Redbirds’ two-out rally in the final inning. Nashville reliever Josh Smith retired the first two batters in the frame before Patrick Wisdom singled to left. Smith had two strikes on Todd Cunningham before he worked a walk to put runners at first and second. The hit and walk came back to hurt when...

For 8 1/2 innings, it seemed like the Braves were about to make the National League East race a little more interesting, but the Nationals maintained their division dominance by staging a fierce ninth-inning rally on the way to claiming a 5-4 walk-off win in 10 innings on Friday night at Nationals Park. After contributing to the three-run ninth the Nats constructed against Braves closer Jim Johnson, who has blown seven of 26 save opportunities, Daniel Murphy delivered a walk-off single — and an emphatic bat flip — against Ian Krol to allow the Nationals to regain a 9...

Mark Canha’s base hit in the bottom of the ninth inning scored Joey Wendle to give the Nashville Sounds a 3-2 win over the Memphis Redbirds in front of a sellout crowd of 11,596 at First Tennessee Park Friday night. Canha’s single off Redbirds reliever Kevin Herget gave the Sounds their third walk-off win in less than a week. They scored back-to-back walk-off wins over the Oklahoma City Dodgers on July 1st and 2nd. With the score tied 2-2 going into the ninth, Sounds reliever Patrick Schuster faced the minimum in the top half of the inning when he...

The mandatory summer dead period for all TSSAA sports, which began on Sunday, June 25, ends at midnight on Saturday. Beginning on Sunday, coaches and players can hold workouts and teams can open up school facilities for summer workouts and conditioning as outlined in the TSSAA handbook for each individual sport. Local middle school and high school football, volleyball, cross country and soccer teams can begin preseason conditioning prior to their first official practice day on July 24th. High school golf can begin organized practice sessions on Monday, July 10th. The Coffee County Central High School golf teams will...

The Nashville Sounds Baseball Club returns home Friday, July 7 to begin a three-game homestand with the American Southern Division rival Memphis Redbirds – the Triple-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. After the three-game series, the Sounds head into the three-day All-Star break, followed by a three-city, 12-game road trip and do not return to First Tennessee Park until Tuesday, July 25. All weekend, the Sounds will host the “Shoe-bacca” shoe drive benefiting Soles4Souls – a Nashville based non-profit providing relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. Below is a preview for each game...