Beavers Leads Tides to Seventh Straight Win
NORFOLK, Va --- The Norfolk Tides (69-79, 32-40) defeated the Nashville Sounds (76-67, 38-30), 8-4, on Thursday at Harbor Park. The win was Norfolk seventh straight victory. Norfolk scored first on back-to-back doubles by Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers in the third inning. Nashville responded with two runs in the
NORFOLK, Va --- The Norfolk Tides (69-79, 32-40) defeated the Nashville Sounds (76-67, 38-30), 8-4, on Thursday at Harbor Park. The win was Norfolk seventh straight victory.
Norfolk scored first on back-to-back doubles by Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers in the third inning. Nashville responded with two runs in the fourth, starting with a Wes Clarke RBI double and a Francisco Mejia RBI single to make it 2-1, Sounds.
Clarke would get another run for the Sounds in the sixth on an RBI groundout. But Daniel Johnson came through in the bottom-half of the inning with a two-run single to tie the game at 3-3.
Nashville took their final lead of the game when Chris Roller blasted a solo homer in the seventh, his ninth of the season. Norfolk went on to score five unanswered runs, starting the seventh when Basallo drew a bases-load walk and Beavers hit a go-ahead two-run single. In the eighth, Jordan Westburg knocked an RBI single and Noelberth Romero knocked a sac fly to finalize the 8-4 victory.