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<\/span><\/p>\nTheir home city\u2019s heatwave may be easing this week, but the Durham Bulls\u2019 bats continued to scorch the Nashville Sounds Thursday night, with a multi-home-run barrage that carried them to a 9-7 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n Led by newcomer Jordan Qsar, who belted two homers, the Bulls overwhelmed the Sounds with power hitting for the second game in a row at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. They\u2019ve now hit 11 home runs in their last two games. Three have come off Qsar\u2019s bat.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think at the end of the day, the only adjusting is probably \u2013 you know \u2013 new atmosphere, new territory,\u201d said the outfielder, who played his fifth game for the Bulls Thursday night after coming from the Montgomery Biscuits. \u201cBut the game is the game. The only thing you can do\u2026.is keep doing what you\u2019ve been doing, and just keep playing and sticking to your approach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n On a cool evening that was a welcome respite from Durham\u2019s recent 90-plus degree days, the Bulls homered half a dozen times. The night before, the Bulls\u2019 five home runs catapulted them to a 17-4 walloping of the Sounds, who lead the Triple A’s International League West division.<\/span><\/p>\n The Bulls (27-24) occupy fourth place in the International East division.<\/span><\/p>\n After Nashville\u2019s Mark Mathias started Thursday\u2019s scoring with a two-run homer in the first inning, Qsar matched him in the second with a line-drive home run that also scored shortstop Xavier Edwards, another Bulls newcomer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n An<\/span>d Edwards wasn\u2019t finished. With Josh Lowe and Luke Raley on base in the third, he blasted a three-run homer, which Qsar and Jim Haley followed with back-to-back solo shots that propelled the Bulls to a 7-2 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n Not that the Sounds went quietly. In the fifth, Nashville designated hitter Garrett Whitley\u2019s solo homer and Pablo Reyes\u2019 bases-loaded walk trimmed the gap to 7-4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Even after the Bulls\u2019 solo home runs by Jonathan Aranda and Lowe in the bottom of the fifth extended the lead to 9-4, Nashville didn\u2019t go away. In the seventh, the Sounds loaded the bases and managed one run, when David Dahl scored on Mathias\u2019 double play. Later that inning, Tyler White hammered a homer, slicing the lead to 9-7.<\/span><\/p>\n But Bulls relievers Seth Blair and Cristofer Ogando kept the Sounds off the board the rest of the game. Blair got five outs in the seventh and eighth innings, and Ogando blanked Nashville in the ninth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe were throwing strikes [in] the seventh. And you know Blair and Ogando came in and they were throwing strikes\u2026.allowing the defense to play and they put up two big zeros to allow us to win the game,\u201d Bulls manager Brady Williams said.<\/span><\/p>\n Pitcher Easton McGee, who threw five innings and gave up three runs, got the win and improved his record to 3-3. Ogando picked up the save.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The six-game series continues tonight at 6:30 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe more the merrier, because home runs are on the board,\u201d Williams said of the Bulls\u2019 recent long-ball hitting. \u201cYou know, the one thing a home run does is it electrifies the group, you know, and the dugout gets fired up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n TOP: Durham Bulls Josh Lowe and Luke Raley score on an Xavier Edwards home run in the bottom of the third inning of Durham’s 9-7 win Thursday night over the Nashville Sounds. Photo by Ana Young, The 9th Street Journal.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their home city\u2019s heatwave may be easing this week, but the Durham Bulls\u2019 bats continued to scorch the Nashville Sounds Thursday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[103,300],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-durham-bulls","tag-durham-bulls-athletic-park","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n