Dillon Overton and Bruce Maxwell helped the Nashville Sounds snap a four-game skid with an 8-2 win over the New Orleans Zephyrs in front of 5,604 fans Sunday afternoon at First Tennessee Park. With the win, Nashville heads into the Triple-A All-Star break with a 49-42 record and on top of the American Southern Division. Overton was brilliant once again as the left-hander tallied his ninth consecutive win while pitching with Nashville. Since May 17, Overton has won every game he has taken the mound. He allowed two runs on eight hits over seven innings and improved his record...

With Jose Quintana and Julio Teheran on the mound Saturday afternoon at U.S. Cellular Field, the contest between the Braves and White Sox figured to be a low-scoring affair. Teheran had received the fewest amount of runs per game at 2.5 and Quintana ranked third at 2.9 among qualified pitchers. But it was Todd Frazier and the White Sox offense that outlasted the Braves in a 5-4 victory to even the series at one game apiece and give the White Sox a chance for their sixth straight series win going into the All-Star break. Frazier, who will be defending...

A 14-hit outburst wasn’t enough for the Nashville Sounds in an 8-6 loss to the New Orleans Zephyrs in front of a sellout crowd of 10,018 fans Saturday night at First Tennessee Park. Every Nashville player in the starting lineup had at least one hit while Jaycob Brugman and Colin Walsh had three apiece. The offensive outburst went for naught when the Zephyrs erupted for six runs in the fifth inning. Starter Chris Smith was cruising and the Sounds held a 3-0 lead going into the top of the fifth before disaster struck. RBI singles came from Brugman, Walsh...

Chris Sale will be making his fifth straight All-Star appearance, and there’s a chance the White Sox ace could be named the American League starter. But the southpaw didn’t exactly strengthen his resume during an 11-8 loss to the Braves Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field. “[Sale] wasn’t as sharp as he usually is,” Braves catcher and Sale’s former personal catcher Tyler Flowers said. “These are the kinds of days you hope to face guys of that caliber and just try to be ready for the mistake and take advantage of it.” Sale tied his career-high by allowing eight...

The New Orleans Zephyrs sent the Nashville Sounds to their sixth straight home loss with a 5-1 setback in front of 7,444 fans Friday night at First Tennessee Park. The two teams made it through six innings before severe weather forced the game to come to a halt. Xavier Scruggs wasted little time getting New Orleans on the board in the top of the first inning. The first baseman belted a solo homer off Zach Neal – one of two he hit in the game – to make it 1-0. He was at it again in the third when...

The Cubs and Braves had to wait to play a makeup game on Thursday night because of rain back in April. Chicago’s bullpen was short-handed, and starter Kyle Hendricks was pressed into relief duty, so of course the game went extra innings. It’s been that kind of stretch for the Cubs. Tyler Flowers smacked an RBI single with two outs in the 11th inning and Nick Markakis hit two home runs, including a game-tying homer in the ninth, to lift the Braves to a 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Cubs trailed, 2-0, in the eighth...

The Nashville Sounds were held to five hits in a 1-0 loss to the New Orleans Zephyrs in front of 7,487 fans Thursday night at First Tennessee Park. It’s the fourth time in the last six games the Sounds have been held to one run or less. Overall, Nashville has lost seven of their last eight games and is hitting just .207 as a team in the month of July. Starter Jesse Hahn was dialed in from the beginning and turned in his first quality start since May 28 when he was with the Athletics. The right-hander allowed one...

The first-place Nashville Sounds begin the final homestand prior to the All-Star break when they welcome the New Orleans Zephyrs to First Tennessee Park from July 7-10. The four-game set against the Miami Marlins affiliate is the final series before the Pacific Coast League takes on the International League at the Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 13 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Sounds begin play after the All-Star break on an eight-game road trip and do not return to First Tennessee Park until Friday, July 22. Below is a preview for each game of the homestand: Thursday, July...