Frederick Gaudreau sure is doing his best to earn his own locker with the Nashville Predators with a Stanley Cup Final debut for the ages. And with Pekka Rinne turning in his best performance in this series, the Predators are going back to Pittsburgh having tied up the defending champs at 2-2, turning this into a best-of-three sprint to the Stanley Cup. Gaudreau, an undrafted free agent playing just his sixth postseason game, scored the go-ahead goal 3:45 into the second period, and Rinne made 23 often-spectacular saves as the Predators beat the Penguins, 4-1, on Monday night. The...

A suddenly red-hot Odubel Herrera recorded three hits and Tommy Joseph drilled a towering first-inning home run against Bartolo Colon, whose latest ugly outing enabled the Phillies to open a four-game series with Monday night’s 11-4 win over the Braves at SunTrust Park. Herrera highlighted his third consecutive multi-hit game with a two-run homer during a five-run fourth inning, which chased Colon and enabled the Phillies to cruise toward their third consecutive win. Joseph gave starting pitcher Nick Pivetta an early cushion when he capped a three-run first inning with a two-run homer that traveled a projected 386 feet...

The Omaha Storm Chasers held off the Nashville Sounds and grabbed a 4-2 win in game one of a four-game series at Werner Park Monday night. Nashville (29-26) collected 10 hits and had the lead off man on five different times, but went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position in a night of wasted opportunity. Omaha got an early edge when Jorge Soler belted a solo home run to start the bottom of the second inning. Two batters later, Sounds starter Daniel Gossett surrendered another homer – a solo blast by Bubba Starling to give the Storm Chasers an...

The Coffee County Red Raider basketball team wrapped up play in the Oakland team camp on Friday with a pair of wins. The Raiders opened the day with a loss to Oakland and a win over Mt. Juliet Christian before taking on East Hickman. The Red Raider defense made a huge late stand after Dearron and Darius Rozier collided and had to leave the game. Trailing by 1, Garrett Booth pulled down an offensive rebound in the final seconds and hit a jump shot while being fouled. He calmly sank the free throw to give the Raiders a 2...

The visitors struck first, but on this night, that just wasn’t going to fly. Five different goal-scorers converted for the Nashville Predators as they won their first Stanley Cup Final game in franchise history with a 5-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Three. The result cuts Pittsburgh’s series lead in half, pulling Nashville to within one game of tying the Final after a blowout win at Bridgestone Arena. It was a complete effort from the Preds, similar to the ones they’ve shown in Games One and Two of the final, minus the defensive lapses that cost Nashville...

The Braves had been winless in all four previous rubber games this season, but that streak ended on Sunday as Reds rookie starter Amir Garrett struggled in his return from the disabled list. Atlanta jumped out to a big early lead before emerging with a 13-8 victory over Cincinnati to take two of three in the series. Ender Inciarte led the way with a 5-for-5 game and a career-high five RBIs. Three home runs against Garrett staked the Braves to a 9-2 lead through three innings. Danny Santana hit a two-run shot to left field in the top of...

The Nashville Sounds blanked the Iowa Cubs 6-0 Sunday afternoon to clinch the four-game set. Paul Blackburn had his sinker ball working all afternoon for the Sounds en route to seven shutout innings. Blackburn kept the ball down all afternoon long as he induced 15 compared to two fly outs to go along with four punch outs en route to seven shutout innings. He was highly efficient as well, needing just 83 to get through said seven innings. The right-hander sat down 14 straight I-Cubs from the third to the seventh. The streak was broken when Jaimer Candelario blooped...

For the second straight day, the Braves and Reds battled it out in extra innings. But unlike Friday night, Atlanta got the upper hand Saturday at Great American Ball Park, as Matt Adams’ solo home run in the top of the 12th — his second homer on the day — gave the Braves a 6-5 win and evened the series. Adams had been batting .222 since he was traded from the Cardinals to Atlanta on May 20 and had a .100 average in his previous five games before a 3-for-6, two-homer, five-RBI performance Saturday. One of the homers was...