NASHVILLE (June 30, 2026) - Nashville started the Hot Chickens Farewell Tour with a comeback win in Tuesday's series opener at First Horizon Park over the visiting Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. Nashville fell behind by four early runs in the first before rattling off eight unanswered. Brewers no. 20-rated prospect Brock Wilken recorded three hits, but none bigger than his go-ahead home run in the bottom of the seventh,
Jacksonville jumped on Thomas Pannone for five hits and four runs in the opening frame of the ballgame. The lefthander settled into a groove after as he tossed four sraight innings without another run allowed with just two hits after the first to keep Nashville in the game. Right-hander Lyon Richardson inherited a runner on third when he took over on the mound in the top of the sixth. Jett Williams threw home to nab the runner at the plate before Richardson stepped off and caught Gage Miller trying to swipe second to close the line on Pannone and get Nashville though their fifth straight scoreless inning.
Williams brought in Nashville's first run of the game taking advantage of a bases loaded opportunity in the bottom of the second beating out a potential inning-ending double play to score Wilken who led off the inning with his first of three hits on the night. Brewers no. 9-rated prospect Jeferson Quero cut the Jumbo Shrimp lead to two with a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the third. Greg Jones started a two-out Nashville rally in the bottom of the sixth with a walk. He used his speed to steal second and advanced to third on a throwing error on the play. Eddys Leonard added his second hit of the night to make it 4-3 with a RBI single. Williams then knotted the score with his second RBI on a bloop single into shallow left field but was thrown out trying to advance to second.
Richardson was back out for his first full inning in the top of the seventh and spun a 1-2-3 inning to send the offense right back to work. With two aboard and two outs following a Luis Lara single, and the second walk of the game for Luke Adams, Wilken stepped to the plate and provided Nashville their first lead of the game with a go-ahead three-run home run to make it 7-4. It was his fourth go-ahead home run of the season.
Richardson kept Nashville in front working around a one-out single and walk with second double play turned by the Sounds defense.
Another Nashville two-out rally in the bottom of the eighth plated a run of insurance for Richardson and the Hot Chickens. Eduardo Garcia singled and Lara collected his second hit of the night with a RBI triple to extend the lead to 8-4. Richardson closed out the game on the mound, coving the final 3.2 IP in relief of Pannone. Richardson earned his first win with Nashville, allowing one hit and working around a pair of walks with two strikeouts as Nashville worked eight straight scoreless innings after the four spot in the first.
Nashville and Jacksonville continue their series on Wednesday night at First Horizon Park with first pitch scheduled for 6:35 pm.
POSTGAME NOTES:
BROCK 'N' ROLL: Brock Wilken tallied another multi-hit performance to his line in Tuesday night's game against the Jumbo Shrimp, going 3-for-4 on the night with his first 3-run blast of the season. The three hits marked his fifth multi-hit of the season and third 3-hit game. Wilken has recorded 44 RBI which ranks as the second-most on the team and the seven homers are tied for the second-most on the team with Luis Lara. Milwaukee's no. 20-rated prospect ranks tied for 9th in RBI (44) among minor league hitters in the Brewers' farm system. He is posting a .185 AVG (42-for-227) and 21 XBH for the Sounds this season. Of 47 career home runs in the minors, Tuesday night marked just his second career three-run homer.
QUERO BLAST: Jeferson Quero crushed his 10th homer of the season with a solo shot to left center field and cut into the Jumbo Shrimp lead 4-2 in the bottom of the third inning. The 10 homers ties for the team-high on the team with Eddys Leonard and Luke Adams. He has posted four homers in his last 11 games, adding 11 RBI along the way with a .409 AVG (18-for-44). Quero's 47 RBI leads the team, ranks fifth among minor league hitters in the Brewers' farm system and ties for 6th in homers. The Sounds have posted 36 homers in the month of June when they had 47 homers through the first three months of the season. The 36 homers in June are the fourth-most in the International League and the fifth-most in the Triple-A.
COMEBACK KIDS: The Nashville Sounds scored eight unanswered runs to secure the 8-4 comeback win after the Jumbo Shrimp scored four runs in the top of the first inning. Tuesday night was the fourth comeback win when down four runs this season and ties as the largest comeback win of the season (6/30 vs. JAX, 6/10 vs. DUR, 5/19 @ DUR, 4/5 vs. CLT). Nashville's largest comeback win was five runs during the 2025 season, and they did so two different times (May 22 vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, July 23 vs. Charlotte).
LYON KING: Lyon Richardson earned his first career win with the Sounds in the 8-4 victory over the Jumbo Shrimp Tuesday night (3.2 IP, H, 2 K, 2 BB). In five appearances with Nashville this season, he has posted a 1-0 record with a 1.38 ERA in 13.0 innings of work. The 26-year-old has posted a 14-26 record with a 4.29 ERA in 139 appearances (89 starts) with full-season minor league clubs since 2019.