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Bisons Win Streak Ends at Seven

June 25, 2021 - International League (IL)
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Just when looked like the Buffalo Bisons had stolen yet another comeback victory the Syracuse Mets' Brandon Drury had other plans, belting a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth to break their 15-game losing streak 9-8.

With one out in the eighth and Khalil Lee on first, Buffalo's Hobie Harris came to the mound with an 8-7 lead that the Bisons had grabbed in the seventh, their first lead all night. But with the weight of a double-digit losing streak weighing on the Mets shoulders Drury hit his third home run of the season to push Syracuse in front for good.

The loss also handed the Bisons their first loss of the series and only their second loss in the past ten games.

Prior to the Drury's blast, the scales teetered in both team's favor all night beginning with the Bisons' starter Zach Logue facing a three-run deficit in the first three innings.

Logue missed with the slider twice in the first inning leaving the ball up in the zone against Lee, who singled back up the middle, and Drury, who drove a ball of the left-field wall to double that brought Lee home and gave the Mets a 1-0 lead.

Syracuse then started the third inning with consecutive hard hit-line drive doubles. Cameron Maybin drove home Brandon Nimmo and to extend their lead. Nearly out of trouble in the third, Logue surrendered a two-out groundball single to Orlando Calixte that brought Nimmo to the plate and gave the Mets a 3-0 advantage.

Buffalo finally began to push runs across against the Mets' starter Jesus Reyes in the fourth. Christian Colon led off the inning with a double into the left-field gap and was driven home by a Juan Graterol groundout. Nash Knight also doubled in the frame to drive Dilson Herrera home and cut the Mets lead to one, 3-2.

The lead was quickly increased back to two after Martin Cervenka launched his fourth home run of the year off the left-field scoreboard to begin the bottom of the fourth inning off Logue. Herrera did however counter with his fourth long ball of the season in the sixth to slash the lead to 4-3.

After what happened over the final innings, Logue's second start of his Triple-A career felt by old news. Nonetheless, his night was done after five innings, and while it was not as glamorous as his Triple-A debut last week against the Rochester Red Wings, seven innings, one hit and no runs, it was still a solid performance for the 25-year-old.

The lefty finished the night surrendering four runs on six hits, struck out four and exited trailing 4-2. He had a sharp breaking slider that was induced three groundouts but was inconsistent at times hanging up over the bottom of half of the zone resulting in line drive and bloop singles.

The Mets offense continued to have offensive answers every time the Bisons cut into the lead striking for two runs off Jeremy Beasley by means of an RBI single from Cesar Puello and a bases-loaded walk of Maybin to expand the lead to 6-3 in the sixth after Logue left the game.

But the Mets just could not put the Bisons away. With four-time MLB all-star Dellin Betances in the game, Buffalo drew two walks and a hit by a pitch before Colon cleared the bags to tie the game at six with a groundball double down the left-field line.

Richard Urena quickly followed with another clutch hit to drive home Colon and take the lead.

Urena continued to come up big late in the game for the Bisons during this series with a game-tying home run in the eighth inning of game one, a game winning the 2-run long ball in the sixth inning Thursday and a single to take the Bisons' only lead of the night Friday.

Graterol drove Urena home to pick up his second RBI of the game and to add another score to Buffalo's five-run seventh and give them a 7-5 lead.

The Mets made the bottom of the seventh worth their while as well trimming the lead to Bisons lead to one on a Puello RBI single and loading the bases against Jackson McClelland before Travis Bergan induced a flyout to end the inning.

But after all the back and forth Drury had the final say with his eighth-inning long-ball.

After breaking their seven-game win streak with the loss, the Bisons (25-19) will have a chance to begin a new win streak and take their second consecutive series victory Saturday from NBT Bank Stadium against the Mets (12-33).

First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. with righty super-reliever Connor Overton expected to take the mound for the Bisons opposite the Mets Robert Stock.

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