The largest crowd in First Tennessee Park history of 11,759 fans watched the Oklahoma City Dodgers finish off a four-game sweep of the Nashville Sounds with a 4-1 win Sunday night. It’s the first time the Sounds (47-37) have been swept in nearly a calendar year. The last time was August 15-18 of last season when the El Paso Chihuahuas came into First Tennessee Park and won four straight. Both starters were locked in early and didn’t allow any runs. Zach Neal, working in his first game since being optioned from Oakland, worked four shutout innings after being used...

The Braves were determined not to let Jose Fernandez beat them twice in two days. They pounced on the hard-throwing right-hander in the first inning on Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer, but the big damage came in a seven-run sixth inning that powered the way to a 9-1 win over the Marlins on Saturday at Turner Field. Jace Peterson put an exclamation point on the inning with a three-run homer on Fernandez’s 100th and final pitch. The night before, it was Fernandez who was celebrating at second base with a flexed biceps pose after collecting the go-ahead two-run double in...

The Oklahoma City Dodgers got another strong performance from a starting pitcher in a 5-1 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of 8,754 fans Saturday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Trevor Oaks allowed one run over eight innings and earned his first Triple-A win. Dodger starters have allowed only two earned runs in 19 innings over the first three games of the series. Oaks struck out five and didn’t allow a run until Bruce Maxwell hit a solo homer in the fifth inning. By that time, Oklahoma City built a 4-0 lead thanks to Micah Johnson’s RBI...

The Coffee County Middle School softball team was presented a pair of checks totaling $8000 on Saturday at Al White Ford/Lincoln. The checks were their reward for their participation in the Lincoln “Driven to Give” event earlier this spring. The Lady Raiders lined up 400 test drives of new Lincoln vehicles for the event coordinated through Al White Ford/Lincoln and funded by the Lincoln Motor Company. CCMS Softball coach Lana Creek was effusive in her praise for the folks that made the event such a huge success. “Big thanks to Al White Motors for giving us this opportunity” said...

Over 30 young ladies from throughout middle Tennessee joined Motlow State head softball coach Janice Morey, assistant Randy Morey, and a number of members of the Lady Bucks’ team recently for the Softball Skills Development Camp on the Motlow Moore County campus. Campers received valuable coaching in hitting, defense, base running, bunting and more during the three day...

Julio Teheran endured his worst start of the season and A.J. Ramos suffered his first blown save in nearly 10 months. It was only fitting that the Marlins claimed Friday night’s 7-5, 12-inning win over the Braves courtesy of the pinch-hit double Jose Fernandez hit off the pitcher he might have opposed in Saturday’s start. Fernandez drilled his game-winning, two-run double to the left-center field gap off Casey Kelly, who had been considered Atlanta’s potential starter for Saturday until he was forced to enter this game in the eleventh inning. “That’s always been like a dream, to play in...

The Oklahoma City Dodgers got a dynamite performance from starter Jharel Cotton in a 9-6 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of 8,538 fans Friday night at First Tennessee Park. Cotton allowed two unearned runs on just two hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out nine batters on the way to his seventh win of the season. Oklahoma City’s Rob Segedin started his 4-for-4 night with a base hit to right-center to start the second inning. He moved to third on O’Koyea Dickson’s double and then scored on a groundout by Zach Walters. The Sounds (47-35) came...

Nashville Sounds infielder Ryon Healy was named to the Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game today as announced by Major League Baseball. Now in its 18th year, the All-Star Futures Game features top Minor League prospects competing as part of All-Star Sunday at Petco Park in San Diego. Healy will be part of the U.S. Team taking on the World Team. Healy will be teammates with former Vanderbilt Baseball standouts Dansby Swanson and Carson Fulmer. In 39 games with the Sounds, he’s hitting .346 (53-for-153) with 31 runs scored, 25 RBI, 15 doubles, 5 home runs and 18 multi-hit games....