IL1 Rochester Red Wings

Long Balls Help Earn Doubleheader Split

Published on July 11, 2015 under International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release


SYRACUSE, NY - Oswaldo Arcia hit his seventh home run in his last 11 games and Reynaldo Rodriguez hit a grand slam in game two as the Rochester Red Wings and Syracuse Chiefs split a doubleheader Friday night at NBT Bank Stadium.

Game One

The Red Wings were held to just three hits and fell to the Chiefs 4-0 in game one. Taylor Rogers (7-6) pitched a six-inning complete game and allowed 10 hits and three walks while striking out five. For Syracuse, A.J. Cole (1-4) earned his first win of the season by tossing 6.0 shutout frames.

Trea Turner and former Wing Darin Mastroianni each tripled and tallied two hits each while Turner also drove in two runs.

Game Two

It was a different story from the outset of game two as the Red Wings (48-41) took a 2-0 lead in the first against Taylor Hill (3-4). Arcia doubled to put runners on second and third with one out, Rodriguez hit a sac fly to score a run and an error allowed Arcia to score.

Rochester held that lead until the bottom of the third when Turner and Jason Martinson homered on back-to-back pitches for the Chiefs (34-56) against Logan Darnell. Darnell was making a spot start and didn't qualify for the win but pitched well, surrendering just the two solo home runs among four hits and a walk. He threw 51 pitches and didn't strike anyone out.

Immediately after Syracuse tied the game, Chris Herrmann doubled with two outs and scored on Argenis Diaz's single to give the Wings a 3-2 lead.

Arcia then hit his two-run blast in the fifth inning to extend the advantage to 5-2. Herrmann would add a sac fly in the frame to push the lead to four runs.

Four consecutive batters reached to begin the sixth, the last by Arcia to force in a run, before Rodriguez hit his grand slam. The five-run inning for Rochester came on just one hit as the Wings led 11-2.

Mark Hamburger (3-1), who took over for Darnell in the bottom of the fourth, earned the victory with 2.2 scoreless innings.

Rochester scored 11 runs on eight hits but drew eight walks as a team. The five RBI from Rodriguez matches a team-high this season.

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