MEMPHIS, Tennessee – The Memphis Redbirds outlasted the Nashville Sounds (Triple-A affiliate, Milwaukee Brewers) by a 7-6 final in 10 innings on Wednesday night. It was the 17th extra-inning game of the season for the ‘Birds – they have won nine of those games.
Memphis (43-49) opened the scoring in the bottom of the second on an RBI single from Conner Capel, a chopper up the middle that scored Ali Sánchez. After that, Nashville (50-42) surged in front, scoring the next five runs of the game to take a 5-1 lead. Pablo Reyes drove in runs in the third and fifth innings. He finished the game with three hits.
From there, the Redbirds chipped away. Juan Yepez brought the home team closer with a mammoth two-run home run over the left-field wall in the sixth. He has now hit 15 home runs this season in Triple-A.
After the Sounds scored a run in the top of the eighth to make it 6-3, Memphis roared back and tied it with three runs in the bottom half of the eighth. Sánchez’s two-run double in the frame tied the game and eventually sent it into extras.
Kodi Whitley worked masterful scoreless relief innings in the ninth and tenth to ensure it was a 6-6 score entering the bottom of the tenth. The righthander tossed two scoreless frames with four combined strikeouts. In the tenth, the Redbirds walked off winners when a Nashville throwing error allowed Kramer Robertson to score the game-winning run.
