Sounds storm back with five-run ninth to stun Bulls 6-5
Down 5-1 entering the ninth, Nashville ripped five runs from Durham in one inning, capped by Freddy Zamora’s first homer of the season and Luis Lara’s RBI single.
The ninth inning turned into a wrecking ball in Durham, where the Nashville Sounds erased a 5-1 deficit with five runs and walked out of Durham Bulls Athletic Park with a 6-5 win on Tuesday afternoon. Freddy Zamora delivered the blow that changed everything, a three-run homer for his first long ball of the season, and Reiss Knehr finished it off for his second save as Nashville stretched its winning streak to eight games.
Durham had controlled the game for most of the afternoon and entered the final frame up four runs, but Nashville kept creating pressure until the Bulls finally cracked. The rally began with a walk, then Eddys Leonard doubled in a run for his 12th double of the season. Greg Jones was hit by a pitch, and Zamora followed with the swing that tied the game at 5-5. After another walk, Cam Booser entered, but the Sounds kept the line moving. Two straight singles followed, and Luis Lara punched the go-ahead RBI single that scored Jacob Hurtubise and made it 6-5 on Nashville’s final at-bat.
The comeback also exposed how quickly a Triple-A lead can disappear when a bullpen has to keep throwing strikes under pressure. John Rooney took the loss for Durham after the ninth-inning rally turned on him, and Knehr had to survive one last push in the bottom of the inning. Durham got a walk and a double from Raynel Delgado before Knehr closed the door and protected Nashville’s escape.
The game had already swung in both directions before that final burst. Nashville had opened the scoring in the fourth on a wild pitch after two walks, a hit batter and an error, but Durham answered with a four-run fourth inning and added another run in the sixth. Tatem Levins drove in three runs for the Bulls, while Cooper Kinney kept his hot stretch going with his third straight three-hit game. Thomas Pannone gave Nashville three scoreless innings to start, allowing two hits and striking out two, before Durham finally broke through.
The win came in the first of 18 meetings between the clubs this season, with Nashville improving to 27-19 and Durham falling to 19-27. On a day when one swing from Zamora and one RBI single from Lara flipped the scoreboard, the Sounds turned a game that looked finished into one of the wildest finishes of the Triple-A season so far.
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