In a game with plenty of fireworks on Independence Day it was the Colorado Springs Sky Sox who emerged victorious over the Nashville Sounds 9-8 Tuesday night. The two teams combined for 17 runs on 24 hits but it was a costly error in the bottom of the eighth inning that pushed the Sky Sox over the top. With the score tied 8-8, one out, and a runner on second base for the Sky Sox in the bottom of the eighth inning, Lewis Brinson grounded a ball to Sounds shortstop Marcus Semien. Semien collected the ball smoothly but air-mailed...

The United States men’s soccer team will begin its pursuit of a continental championship in Nashville on Saturday. For the first time ever, Nashville will host a CONCACAF Gold Cup match as Nissan Stadium will be the venue. The US will take on Panama as part of a Group B doubleheader. The other game will feature Martinique vs Nicaragua. CONCACAF, the governing body for soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, announced the 14 host stadiums for the 2017 Gold Cup last fall. Nashville’s Nissan Stadium will host two Group B matches on July 8. The first...

Over the past year, Ender Inciarte has been accurately described as one of baseball’s top defensive outfielders and the consistent catalyst of a much-improved Braves offense. Now the Venezuelan center fielder can also be referred to as an All-Star. Inciarte learned of his first career All-Star selection just before recording three hits and adding yet another highlight catch to his collection during Sunday afternoon’s 4-3, 12-inning win over the A’s at the Oakland Coliseum. “I was very surprised, I really wasn’t expecting that,” Inciarte said. “I never thought about it the whole time. I can’t express with words how...

Nashville Sounds infielder Renato Nuñez and right-handed pitchers Paul Blackburn and Chris Smith have been named to the Pacific Coast League All-Star Team as announced by the league. The 2017 Triple-A All-Star Game is scheduled for Wednesday, July 12 at 8:00 p.m. CST. The Pacific Coast League All-Stars take on the International League All-Stars at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Washington. The game will be televised on MLB Network. Nuñez, 23, is leading the Pacific Coast League with 20 home runs and is tied for third with 37 extra-base hits. He’s hitting .252 (67-for-266) with 44 RBI, 39 runs scored...

The Oklahoma City Dodgers spoiled the Independence Day celebration with a come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of a sellout crowd of 11,764 fans Monday night. The largest gathering in First Tennessee Park history saw the Dodgers plate a pair of runs with two outs in the top of the ninth after a costly Nashville error. With two outs in the ninth, and the Sounds (40-43) leading 5-4, Drew Maggi hit a bouncer to third that Yairo Muñoz fielded and fired to first base. Sounds first baseman Jermaine Curtis dropped the ball and the game went...

The postseason honors continue to pile up for rising senior soccer player Benjamin Reid.  In an announcement you heard on Thunder Radio on Saturday, Reid was named to the first team Tennessee Sports Writers All-State team for Class AAA.  Reid, a defender, received the news while on the air for Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show live from Al White Ford/Lincoln.  Coach Robert Harper called in to make the announcement. Reid, who had previously been named the All-District defender of the year, was the lone District 8AAA player named to the squad.  He joins Oakland keeper Jakob Hurst as the only...

An early pitchers’ duel turned into a bullpen battle in extra innings, but Kurt Suzuki’s second homer of the day propelled the Braves to 12-inning, 4-3 win over the A’s Sunday afternoon, completing a series sweep at the Coliseum. Against his old team, Suzuki went to nearly the same spot with both his homers, including the game-winning shot in the 12th off A’s reliever John Axford. It’s just the third career multi-homer game for the catcher. “I told him yesterday, ‘I’ve got to break you out or these people around here are going to kill me,'” Braves manager Brian...

For the second straight night, the Nashville Sounds walked off on the Oklahoma City Dodgers in the bottom of the ninth inning to score a win at First Tennessee Park. Jaff Decker raced home from third on a throwing error by Oklahoma City’s Max Muncy to give the Sounds a 5-4 win in front of 9,407 fans Sunday night. With the game square at 4-4 in the bottom of the ninth, Decker’s two-out base hit sparked the game-winning rally. The speedy center fielder swiped second base and moved to third on Ross Stripling’s wild pitch. Marcus Semien drew a...