Buffalo ends Rochester’s 3-game winning streak win a 5-1 victory.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Red Wings regular season ended with a 5-1 loss to the division champion Buffalo Bisons Sunday afternoon at Frontier Field.
The Wings – who finished 47-69 on the season – grabbed the lead on an infield RBI single by Ali Castillo in the second inning.
The game remained 1-0 until the sixth inning when a dropped fly ball by left fielder Rafael Bautista led to two unearned runs for the Bisons.
Buffalo tacked on a run in the seventh and two in the eighth.
The Wings had 10 hits on the afternoon – all singles. Bautista (three hits) was the only Wings player who collected multiple hits.
Rochester went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position and left 11 on base.
The Wings open the “10-game Final Stretch” on Wednesday in Worcester for five games. The team then returns to Frontier Field to take on Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for five games.