A 3 and 0 record, coupled with a 10 to 2 win over Tullahoma on Saturday gave the Coffee County CHS Red Raider baseball team the championship of the Crethan Hansert Memorial for the first time since 2012. Coupled with their victories over Marshall County and the Diamond Dogs on Thursday, the Red Raiders finished the tournament with a 3 and 0 record tied with Franklin County who was also 3 and 0 in the round-robin format. In breaking the tie, the number of runs allowed was the first tiebreaker. Coffee County allowed 5 runs in the tournament while...

The Manchester Youth Baseball League battled the weather to crown champions in 4 age divisions on Friday night.  Games in the 2 oldest age divisions were shortened due to a heavy downpour.  The planned awards ceremony was postponed to Monday night due to the rain….but the games went on.   The night began with an exciting T-Ball contest that saw Dr. Jay’s upset the top ranked Hullett’s Service team 27 to 19.  Dr. Jay’s were led in hitting by Seth Beaty who had 2 home runs and 2 triples.  Jett Trussler and Kaysen Lowery also had home runs for...

Julio Teheran gave up only one hit in seven scoreless innings, Pedro Ciriaco’s pinch-hit single in the seventh scored the only run and the Atlanta Braves shut out the New York Mets 1-0 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.   The Mets have lost five straight and scored no more than one run in four of the losses.  Matt Harvey (7-5) matched Teheran through six scoreless innings before giving up Ryan Lavarnway’s two-out double and Ciriaco’s run-scoring single up the middle.  Teheran (5-3) improved to 4-0 at Turner Field. He allowed two walks — both to Curtis Granderson —...

The Nashville Sounds celebrated Father’s Day at First Tennessee Park on Sunday, but were on the wrong end of a 7-1 tilt and lost the series finale against the Omaha Storm Chasers. The loss marked the third time that Nashville has been swept in a four-game set this season. The Sounds were outscored 17-7 in the series and dropped to 11 games below .500 for the second time this season. Craig Gentry opened the Father’s Day contest by banging his second long ball in the last five games. The game-opening homer, which pushed the outfielder’s hitting streak to 11...

A.J. Pierzynski finished a home run shy of the cycle and ignited the two-run sixth-inning that enabled the Braves to overcome the two solo home runs Williams Perez surrendered during Saturday night’s 6-4 win over the Mets at Turner Field.  Pierzynski opened the sixth inning by bouncing an opposite-field double past third base. After Andrelton Simmons and Eury Perez followed with consecutive singles, Pedro Ciriaco provided a go-ahead sacrifice fly that scored Pierzynski only after Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud dropped the ball and injured his left elbow while applying the tag on Pierzynski’s knee. The Mets tallied four hits...

Behind a four-run eighth inning, the Omaha Storm Chasers came from behind to hand the Nashville Sounds their fourth-straight home loss, 5-3 on Saturday night. It was a historic night at beautiful First Tennessee Park as the facility reached capacity for the third-straight night. The sellout streak is a record for Nashville baseball during the PCL era (1998 – present). Nashville fell behind 1-0 early and they did not record a hit until the fifth inning. Niuman Romero ended the cold spell with a single, but was thrown out at home trying to score from first on a Craig...

When Matt Wisler learned on April 5 that Jace Peterson had made Atlanta’s Opening Day roster, he sent his former roommate a congratulatory message. Approximately an hour later, after learning that he had been included in the trade that sent Craig Kimbrel to San Diego, Wisler sent Peterson another message that said, simply, “We might be teammates this year.” The former Padres products certainly made the most of their opportunity to play together on the big stage. Peterson’s two-run double in the eighth inning provided Wisler all the support he needed to celebrate the sparkling Major League debut he...

The Sounds and Storm Chasers were scoreless through nine innings in Friday night’s pitchers’ duel at First Tennessee Park, but Omaha scored in the tenth and secured a 1-0 win. The neck of the guitar-shaped scoreboard at First Tennessee Park displayed zeros on both sides for nine innings. Finally in the tenth, Omaha’s designated hitter Casey Kotchman lifted a sacrifice fly to left that scored Paulo Orlando for the game’s only tally. It was the second straight one-run contest that went the Storm Chasers’ direction to open the series. The first eight frames of the Friday night game breezed...