Park Bangs Three Homers in Wings 13-5 Win
July 28, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release
Pawtucket, Rhode Island --- Byungho Park lifted three of the club's season-high five homers as the Rochester Red Wings snapped a four-game skid with a 13-5 drubbing of the Pawtucket Red Sox on Thursday.
The Red Wings (61-46) were in danger of getting swept by Pawtucket in a four-game set in back-to-back seasons.
Wings' starter Jason Wheeler (8-2) picked up his eighth win but had to pitch his way in and out of trouble for a majority of the contest.
The Paw Sox (54-52) scored one run in the second, third and fourth innings but stranded runners in scoring position in each inning. Pawtucket left 10 men on base in the game.
Rochester exploded for six runs in the second frame that all came on two outs off of rehabbing Sean O'Sullivan. Daniel Palka capped the six-spot with a towering three-run shot to right-center field to make it 6-0.
The Wings chased O'Sullivan (6-3) out of the game after just three innings. The right-hander gave up six runs, all earned, on six hits with four strikeouts.
Park led off the sixth inning with his first homer. Buck Britton followed that by drawing a walk that brought Logan Schafer to the plate. Schafer connected and drove out his third homer of the season to make it 9-3.
The Sox got another run back in the home half of the inning off a Ryan Lamarre RBI single to make it 9-4.
Park would add more insurance in the top of the eighth off his second blast, this one a pulled shot down the line in left that extended the lead to 10-4. Pawtucket responded in the bottom half with another run but Park had one last at-bat coming in the ninth.
The Korean belted a mammoth three-run homer to straightaway center in the top half of the ninth to cap off a 3-for-5 performance with three runs scored and five RBI. Park hit long balls in three consecutive trips to the plate with his first homer not coming until the sixth inning.
Prior to this season the Wings had not had a player hit three home runs in a game since 1990 and now it has happened twice in the past 68 days as Adam Brett Walker hit three bombs in a game at Durham on May 21.
Park was not the only Wing to turn in a big game at the dish. Palka finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBI including his big homer in the second frame. Jorge Polanco went 3-for-5 with a pair of runs scored with another batted in and John Ryan Murphy also notched a three-hit game as he wound up 3-for-4 with one run and an RBI.
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