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Bisons Swept Once More by RailRaiders

July 27, 2016 - International League (IL1)
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Bisons Swept Once More by RailRaiders
Bisons Swept Once More by RailRaiders
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Brady Lail was impressive in his longest outing of the year for the Riders. The 22-year-old fired seven full frames of shutout ball, using a couple of double plays to face just one over the minimum. Lail struck out two without issuing a walk, improving his record to 4-2.

Since returning the Herd on July 5th, Casey Lawrence took his first loss in five starts. Though he was on the hill for five runs, the Pennsylvania-born righty was only charged with two as he struck out a pair of RailRiders over 5.2 innings of work.

Buffalo's two errors were quite costly as the International League's best-hitting team cashed in immediately in both opportunities.

After Jake Cave reached on an infield hit to start the third inning, Jose Rosario's bunt was scooped up by Tony Sanchez and thrown away, allowing both runners to reach scoring positions.

Lawrence nearly escaped the inning without harm after a line out and a fielder's choice out at the plate. But, .299-hitting Ben Gamel doubled in a pair with a line drive to open the scoring.

The RailRiders loaded the bases with one out in sixth and appeared to hit into a routine force out at the plate. However, the short throw from first baseman Matt Dominguez sailed high and let two more runners cross home.

Rosario then drove a sac fly to deep center for the third run of the inning, making it a 5-0 contest.

Pat Venditte hurled an inning and a third and fanned a pair in relief of Lawrence.

Ben Rowen also punched out two but not before surrendering a solo blast to Tyler Austin for the sixth run of the afternoon.

Johnny Barbato and Kirby Yates each threw an inning of scoreless relief to hold down Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's franchise-best 17th shutout of the year.

Now saddled with an eight-game losing streak, the Herd heads home to take on the division-worst Syracuse Chiefs for a four-game set.

BISONS NOTES: The Bisons have now scored just five runs in their last six games...Buffalo has lost 10 of its last 11 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and, at 5-11, have officially lost the season series...The Herd falls to an even 10-10 in games with a shutout...The eight-game losing streak is the longest for the Bisons since dropping nine straight from May 22-30 in 2003.

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