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Bisons Fall on Fan Appreciation Night, 6-2

September 2, 2015 - International League (IL1)
Buffalo Bisons News Release


Buffalo Bisons Catcher Sean Ochinko's Attempts to Tag out Ricky Hague of the Syracuse Chiefs
Buffalo Bisons Catcher Sean Ochinko's Attempts to Tag out Ricky Hague of the Syracuse Chiefs
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It's almost fitting that in the Bisons' final home game of the 2015 season, it was a play at home plate that swung the Fan Appreciation Night contest for the Syracuse Chiefs.

Chiefs' outfielder Ricky Hague just beat a diving tag from Buffalo catcher Sean Ochinko in the seventh inning to kick-start the Syracuse offense in a 6-2 victory over the Herd on Wednesday night at Coca-Cola Field. The loss is the Bisons' fourth consecutive home defeat, dropping their record in downtown Buffalo to 34-38 for the season.

The team will finish the 2015 season with five games on the road in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Pawtucket. A crowd of 15,333 attended the game, giving the Bisons their highest home attendance (551,303) since the 2010 season.

The game was littered with plays at the plate. Buffalo's Ty Kelly was thrown out trying to score on Jon Diaz's single in the second inning while Alex Hassan returned the favor in the sixth, throwing out Syracuse's Matt Skole at home to end the inning. Even the first run of the game, scored by Bisons' Danny Dorn in the fifth inning, was mainly because Chiefs' catcher Steve Lerud couldn't handle a throw from left fielder Ricky Hague that beat Dorn to the plate.

It looked like it was the same story in the seventh. Ricky Hague came racing around third on a single from former-Bison, Darin Mastroianni. Melky Mesa's throw home beat the runner and Ochinko appeared to tag Hague on the shoulder with an incredibly lunge across the plate. However, much to the dismay of Ochinko and Bisons manager Gary Allenson who came out to argue, Hague was called safe to tie the game at one.

The play seemed to swing the momentum to Syracuse. Instead of a third out, the play continued the inning and the Chiefs took the lead on Emmanuel Burriss' single to left. They then tacked on four more in the eighth to pull away for the win.

The loss to Buffalo went to Ben Rowen, who allowed his first runs in 13 appearances for the Bisons. Donn Roach started for the Bisons and tossed six shutout innings in a no-decision.

BISONS NOTES:

Prior to the game, the Bisons announced their 2015 end of season awards with Matt Hague being named team MVP and Scott Copeland taking home Most Valuable Pitcher honors...Alex Hassan finished the game 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored...In the first season of the pitch clock, the average Bisons nine-inning home game was two hours and 35 minutes, 13 minutes faster than 2014.

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Buffalo Bisons Catcher Sean Ochinko's Attempts to Tag out Ricky Hague of the Syracuse Chiefs
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