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Five Homers Lead WooSox to 9-4 Win at Buffalo

August 25, 2021 - International League (IL)
Worcester Red Sox News Release


BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Worcester Red Sox (51-46) clubbed five home runs in a runaway victory against the Buffalo Bisons (56-38) on Wednesday night, a 9-4 win at Sahlen Field.

Working against Buffalo starter Bowden Francis, the WooSox hit three first-inning solo home runs, all over the left field wall and all in within the first five batters of the game. Yairo Muñoz, Joey Meneses and Connor Wong delivered the long balls-Meneses and Wong went back-to-back to make it 3-0 through one.

Before the night was over, Worcester would score nine runs, put up 15 hits and tie a season best with five home runs. Six of nine starters managed one hit, while two of those players tallied multi-hit efforts.

Muñoz quickly became the first to reach two hits with an RBI single to left in the second, scoring Jonathan Arauz. After Christian Colon homered for Buffalo in the bottom of the second, the WooSox came back with runs in each of the next two innings.

First, Arauz singled home Jeter Downs in the third, and then, in the fourth, Muñoz made it a three-hit, two-home run effort with a long ball to left to make it 6-1 Worcester. The swing gave Muñoz his first multi-homer game since May 9, 2016, when he was in Double-A.

Richard Urena put the Bisons' second run on the board in the fourth with an RBI single, but once again, the WooSox offense answered. In the sixth, Connor Wong doubled to right to score Muñoz. With Franchy Cordero on third after Wong's hit, Jeter Downs got an RBI on a groundout to first to extend the lead to 8-2.

Meneses joined Muñoz in the eighth with a solo home run to left center, giving the 29-year-old three Triple-A home runs in 2021 after blasting 23 in 2018, his International League MVP season. Buffalo got the run back and more on RBI singles from Kellin Deglan and Colon in the bottom of the eighth to make it 9-4.

On the mound, Kyle Hart got the win after allowing one earned run over five innings with three strikeouts. Austin Brice followed with a scoreless sixth and seventh, Jose Adames hit 100 miles-per-hour on the Sahlen Field radar gun-but allowed the two eighth inning runs-before a runless ninth by Phillips Valdez.

The WooSox continue the six-game series Thursday at 7:05 p.m. against the Buffalo Bisons, the team's first and only road trip to Sahlen Field. Radio coverage starts live at 6:45 p.m. on 98.9 Nash Icon and the WooSox Radio Network. Worcester's Daniel Gossett (6-3, 4.57) faces Zach Logue (6-2, 3.33).

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