Nashville hits four home runs, tops Durham for ninth straight win

Nashville’s offense turned Durham’s latest trip through the series into a stress test, and the Bulls did not pass it. The Sounds blasted four home runs Wednesday and rolled to a 10-2 win, their ninth straight, after already stealing the opener the night before with a five-run ninth-inning rally.

That first game set the tone for the matchup. Durham carried a 5-1 lead into the ninth before Nashville erased it, and Freddy Zamora delivered the biggest swing of the night with his first home run of the season, a three-run shot that capped a 6-5 comeback. The rally pushed Nashville’s streak to eight at the time and left Durham trying to recover from a collapse before facing the same lineup again less than 24 hours later.

The Wednesday result suggested the damage was not a fluke. Nashville did not need late drama to control the second game, only sustained power, and the four-homer attack made the 10-2 final look lopsided from the start. For Durham, that kind of night exposed the danger of falling behind a Nashville club that has found ways to win in every form, from comeback mode to straightforward slugfest.

The pattern is familiar. Nashville had beaten Durham 12-2 in another power-heavy game on July 8, 2025, when the Sounds hit five home runs and Jared Oliva went deep twice at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina. When a Triple-A lineup can score five in the ninth one day and then pile up homers the next, it is more than a hot streak; it is a matchup problem that forces every opponent to manage innings carefully and every pitching staff to show its full depth.

That matters for Durham, which had also just come off a 7-6 comeback win over Gwinnett, highlighted by Tatem Levins’ two-run homer and Dominic Niman’s save in his Triple-A debut. Those flashes offered some relief, but the Nashville series showed how quickly one opponent can expose the thin margin between holding a lead and absorbing a blowout.