The Bisons score the game-winning run on a sac fly in the 6th to beat Rochester.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Rochester Red Wings closed out their road trip with a 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Bisons before 11,358 fans on Father’s Day from Coca-Cola Field.
Reese McGuire delivered what proved to be the game-winning run for the Bisons on a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie off Rochester reliever Jake Reed.
The Red Wings grabbed the lead in the second after Jake Cave walked and Kennys Vargas doubled. Cave scampered home on a wild pitch with Gregorio Petit batting.
The Bisons forged ahead with a pair of runs in the home half. Anthony Alford smashed a home run to tie the game, and Reese McGuire came home with the go-ahead marker on a throwing error by third baseman Taylor Featherston.
The Red Wings evened the count in the fifth when Zack Granite scored on an error.
Buffalo starter Taylor Gurrieri held the Wings to 4 hits and only allowed 1 earned run while striking out 4 batters in 5 innings pitched. He got out of two separate jams in the game.
Rochester threatened with no outs and runners on the corners in the third but Gurrieri worked out of the inning unscathed. He picked off Granite at first base and caught Gordon looking for a strikeout. Then, he got the power-hitting Chris Carter to fly out to left field to end the inning.
Gurrieri got into another jam putting two runners aboard with one out in the fourth, but he induced two ground ball outs to escape the trouble.
*NOTES — The Red Wings are off Monday and open a 3-game series against the Syracuse Chiefs on Tuesday at 7:05 pm at Frontier Field…Jake Cave has reached base safely in 15 straight Triple-A games since May 27 while also recording a hit in 11 of his last 13 games with Rochester. He is batting .325 (42-for-129) with 6 doubles, 1 triple, 4 home runs, 17 RBI, and 13 runs scored in 33 games since May 1. Cave’s average is fourth-best in the International League over that period…Rochester is 9-for-the-last-81 with runners in scoring position, including 1-for-40 on the last homestand, and 15-for-100 with RISP the last 16 games…Rochester’s bullpen has pitched to a 2.49 ERA (67 ER, 242.1 IP) so far this season while surrendering 88 total runs on 212 hits and 84 walks with 278 strikeouts. That ERA has risen from 2.19 over the last 17 games since May 28.