Gulin pitches Nashville to win over 51s
Lindsay Gulin pitched six strong innings, and Angel Salome drove in two runs Saturday to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 5-1 Pacific Coast League victory over the 51s at Herschel Greer Stadium in Nashville, Tenn.
Gulin (2-2), a 32-year-old left-hander who spent part of the 2002 season and all of 2003 with the 51s, limited Las Vegas (14-22) to one run on four hits and one walk. He struck out one.
Buck Coats doubled on Gulin's first pitch, and that was the 51s' lone extra-base hit. Coats stole third and scored on a groundout by Randy Ruiz.
From there, Sounds pitchers, thanks to three double plays, faced the minimum three batters in every inning except the eighth. Dave Johnson pitched the final three innings for Nashville (21-16), shutting out the 51s on one hit and striking out three.
Las Vegas starter Brian Burres (1-4) gave up three runs on seven hits and one walk in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out five.
Cole Gillespie led off the bottom of the third with his first homer of the season to tie the score at 1. The Sounds then scored twice in the sixth, on RBI singles by Salome and Hernan Iribarren, before T.J. Beam relieved Burres with one out and the bases loaded and struck out the next two batters.
But Nashville scored twice in the seventh, on a run-scoring double by Alcides Escobar and an RBI single by Salome.
Escobar, Salome and Erick Almonte each had two of the Sounds' nine hits.
