Dietrich Enns allows just one run over 6 innings to earn the win.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Dietrich Enns turned in a solid outing and Willians Astudillo provided the punch in the middle of the order as the Red Wings topped the Pawtucket Red Sox, 5-1, in the opener of three-game set from McCoy Stadium Monday night.
Rochester has now won back-to-back games for the first time since a 4-game winning streak April 12-16. The Wings bats came alive for 11 hits in the game.
Enns (1-3) went 6 innings allowing just 4 hits and 1 run. He escaped a jam in the third inning and then went on to retire the last 12 PawSox hitters he faced to pick up his first win as a Red Wing.
He’s now allowed just 2 runs over his last 2 starts (13.0 IP) after allowing eight runs combined over his first 2 starts of the season (7.0 IP).
The Wings (9-10) wasted no time getting to business off Paw Sox starter Chandler Shepherd. Astudillo and Brock Stassi collected RBI base hits in the first before Jermaine Curtis knocked home a run with a groundout that staked Rochester to an early 3-0 lead after an inning.
Astudillo added an RBI single in the fourth inning and Jake Cave brought home the Wings fifth run with a sac fly in the eighth.
The Wings had scored a total of 4 runs in Enns’ first 3 starts of the year.
DJ Baxendale (2 IP) and Mason Melotakis (1 IP) cleaned it up for Enns and the Red Wings.
The Red Wings send Twins prospect Stephen Gonsalves to the mound on Tuesday to make his Triple-A season debut after going 3-0, 1.77 ERA in 4 starts for Chattanooga (AA). He’ll face former Red Wing RHP Justin Haley (0-3, 4.50).
*NOTES — In roster moves on Monday, RHP Luke Bard was actived after being returned to Minnesota from Los Angeles-AL (Rule 5 Draft ; and RHP John Curtiss was recalled by Minnesota after striking out 17 over 9.1 IP with Rochester this season…The Red Wings went 6-1 at McCoy Stadium last season, winning 6 games in Pawtucket for the first time since becoming affiliated with the Minnesota Twins. It marked only the fourth season that the Wings had a winning record on the road against the PawSox since 2003. Rochester is just 96-140 at Pawtucket since 1990…Jake Cave provided the Wings league-leading 14th sacrifice fly of the season in the 8th inning…Rochester is batting .190 (30-for-158) with runners in scoring position to start the season and nine of those have come in nine extra innings. The Wings are 7-for-51 (.137) with men in scoring position since April 22.