The teams will play a doubleheader Wednesday at 5:05 pm.
MOOSIC, PA. — Tonight’s Rochester Red Wings game at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has been postponed due to severe weather.
The teams will play a doubleheader on Wednesday, May 29 at 5:05 p.m.
This is the seventh postponement of the season already for the Wings in 2019.
Rochester is scheduled to play three games at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before returning home for 3 games Friday-Sunday against Buffalo.
*NOTES — The Minnesota Twins selected the contract of LHP Devin Smeltzer from the Red Wings today. He was scheduled to start for Rochester tonight. Instead, he will make his MLB debut at Target Field against Milwaukee…The Wings have hit 56 home runs so far this season, which is eighth in the International League. The 56th and 57th homers of 2018 did not get hit until the team’s 83rd game on July 6. Only 5 teams in the history of the IL have hit 200 or more homers in a season: Baltimore in 1932 (232), 1930 (231), and 1935 (202), Pawtucket in 1996 (209), and Buffalo in 1998 (206). Four teams currently are on pace to hit 200 or more, and Gwinnett is on pace to shatter the league record with 246 home runs…The Red Wings were 1-for-39 with runners in scoring position to begin the last homestand entering the 1st inning Saturday night before collecting 3 hits in their first 4 such at-bats. Rochester is 11-for-30 with RISP combined in the last 3 games. The team’s season RISP average has dipped to .247 and the team’s average with RISP and 2 outs is down to .205, which are both last in the International League. The Wings hit a league-worst .212 with RISP in 2018.