Almonte’s 4-RBIs lead Sound’s to victory over Isotopes

Erick Almonte

Erick Almonte’s 2-for-5 (4-RBI) led the spiraling Nashville Sounds to victory tonight to halt a season-high seven game slide against Albuquerque.  Almonte has been hitting solidly all year, mostly in a pinch hit role, and continued his hot bat in the starting position tonight at 1B. He slammed his first HR of the season [LISTEN].

J.J. Hardy also supplied some firepower by going 3-for-5. Adam Heether went 2-for-4 and hit his 14th homer. Nashville eeked out the victory even though they were only 2-for-10 with RISP.

It was Joe Koshansky’s two out pinch hit home run (21) that provided the eventual game-winning run for the Sounds.

Chase Wright took the win (W, 8-7) by going six strong innings, yielding three runs, on six hits, walking two. Chris Smith earned his 15th save of the season.

Game did not play. Katin was 0-for-3. Arlis caught and went 0-for-3. The Sounds were 12-for-38 at the plate tonight.

August 23, 2009 7:05 PM CT

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Nashville	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	1	0		6	12	0
Albuquerque	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0		5	10	1

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W: Chase Wright (8-7); L: Hyang-Nam Choi (9-2); SV: Chris Smith (15)