Rochester’s comeback bid falls short against the Red Sox.
By Nick Grasso / Rochester Red Wings
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An improbable six-run comeback fell just short as the Rochester Red Wings dropped their third straight game to the Worcester Red Sox by a score of 8-6 on Thursday afternoon at Frontier Field.
LHP Josh Rogers got his first Triple-A start of the season on a rehab assignment from the Washington Nationals. He struggled mightily through 3 2/3 innings, giving up four hits and seven runs including three multi-run homers.
The Wings finally got on the board in the seventh on an RBI double from DH Josh Palacios that scored SS Ildemaro Varags. They scored again on another RBI double, this time from 2B Jake Noll, as 1B Joey Meneses reached home and cut the lead to 7-2. Rochester wouldn’t go away in the seventh, tallying four more runs to slice the Worcester lead to just one run, but RHP Jefry Rodriguez gave up an eighth-inning homer that put Worcester back up by two.
LHP Francisco Perez held the Red Sox scoreless in the ninth, setting the stage for a bottom-of-the-ninth Rochester comeback that fell just short.