The Braves stayed within striking range against Jose Fernandez, and they pounced after the Marlins’ ace exited. Jace Peterson belted a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth inning and came through again with a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning that rallied Atlanta to a 3-2 win on Tuesday at Marlins Park. The Braves were limited to one infield single by Nick Markakis off Fernandez until the eighth. Atlanta rallied on Peterson’s two-run homer off David Phelps for his first blast of the season. In the 10th, Peterson slapped the decisive single off lefty Mike Dunn, extending the...

Tuesday night’s game between the Nashville Sounds and Iowa Cubs has been postponed due to rain at Principal Park. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Thursday, June 23. Game one will begin at 5:08 p.m. with game two scheduled to begin approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one. Both contests will be seven innings. Game one of the four-game series is now set for Wednesday afternoon at Principal Park. First pitch between the Sounds and Cubs is scheduled for 12:08...

Left-hander Dillon Overton threw 7 1/3 dominant innings to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 4-0 win over the Round Rock Express in front of 6,081 fans Monday night at First Tennessee Park. The Sounds (42-28) took three games from the Express (38-32) in the five-game series and now lead the American Southern Division by four games at the midway point of the 2016 season. The 7 1/3 innings set a career-high for Overton who improved to 8-4 on the season with the win. He has gone 25 1/3 innings without allowing an earned run. Over his last seven...

An undermanned Red Raider baseball team fell in the semifinal round of the 13th annual Crethan Hansert Memorial Baseball Tournament at Powers Field.   Missing several starters, Coffee County was eliminated in the semifinals by Warren County.  Warren County defeated Tullahoma in the finals to earn the tournament title. Coffee County struggled at the bat and in the field on Sunday as the Raiders were held to 5 hits.  Noah Anderson and Austin Tensfield had a pair of doubles to account for the only extra base hits on the game.  Hayden Skipper had a single and scored Coffee County’s lone...

Julio Teheran recorded his first career one-hit shutout as the Braves extended their season-best winning streak to five games and completed a three-game sweep with Sunday afternoon’s 6-0 win over the Mets at Citi Field. Michael Conforto’s third-inning leadoff single accounted for the only hit surrendered by Teheran, who retired 27 of the 28 batters he faced, including each of the final 21.. The Braves staked their ace to a two-run lead in the third inning, when Ender Inciarte and Nick Markakis recorded two-out RBI singles off Jacob deGrom, who allowed three earned runs and five hits over six...

The Round Rock Express trimmed the American Southern Division race to three games with a doubleheader sweep over the Nashville Sounds in front of 7,388 fans Sunday afternoon at First Tennessee Park. The Sounds’ offense struggled and managed two runs in game one and just one run in game two. Round Rock used a four-run third inning to help score a 5-2 win in the first game Sunday afternoon. Doug Bernier started the scoring with a solo homer off Nashville starter Jesse Hahn. After singles from James Jones and Hanser Alberto put runners at the corners with one out,...

The Coffee County Red Raider baseball team battled their way to a split on Saturday in pool play to advance to Sunday’s semifinals of the 13th Annual Crethan Hansert Memorial Baseball Tournament.  In the morning contest, the Red Raiders used a strong hitting attack to drop Central Magnet 9 to 3. In the nightcap, errors led to 6 unearned runs as Coffee County fell 8 to 3 to Grundy County. Coffee County will take on Warren County in the 2nd semifinal game on Sunday.  That game is set to get underway at 4:00 PM.  In the first semifinal, Lincoln...