IL1 Syracuse Mets

Red Wings Rally Late, Beat Chiefs

September 1, 2012 - International League (IL1)
Syracuse Mets News Release


The Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, fell to the Rochester Red Wings, 8-4, on Saturday night in Syracuse. In their penultimate home game of the 2012 season, the Chiefs saw Rochester score four ninth-inning runs.

Rochester (71-71) got on the board in the top of the first inning against Roark. Eduardo Escobar led off the game with a single, the Red Wings only hit to the outfield in the frame. Then, Escobar stole second base. With one out, Brian Dozier reached on an infield single to short stop to put runners on first and third base. Wilkin Ramirez followed with an RBI fielder's choice on another grounder to short that drove in the game's first run.

The Chiefs (69-73) jumped in front in the bottom of the third inning. Jesus Valdez's two-out, two-strike single to center field brought Corey Brown and Josh Johnson home to give the Chiefs a 2-1 lead.

Mark Teahen stretched the Syracuse lead in the bottom of the fifth inning. The left-hander blasted a pitch from Rochester's Caleb Thielbar over the wall in right field for a solo homer that gave the Chiefs a 3-1 lead. All three of Teahen's home runs this season have come against Rochester.

The 3-1 Syracuse lead evaporated in the top of the seventh inning. Chiefs reliever Atahualpa Severino allowed a walk and a single to start the frame before he was replaced by Pat Lehman. An out later, after an intentional walk loaded the bases, Dozier hit another infield single to short that scored Michael Holliman to cut the Chiefs deficit to 3-2. Ramirez followed with a line-drive single to right field that brought J.R. Towles home with the game-tying run. The Red Wings then went in front on Clete Thomas's run-scoring single to left field that drove in Tsuyoshi Nishioka for the go-ahead run.

Syracuse had one last push in the bottom of the eighth inning. Chris Marrero's RBI-triple -- past a diving Ramirez in right field -- scored Valdez to knot the game up at four.

The Red Wings, though, seized the lead for good with four two-out runs in the top of the ninth inning. After Erik Arnesen retired the first two batters, Ramirez doubled. Then, Thomas blasted a ball over Corey Brown in center field, Ramirez scored the eventual game-winning run easily, and Brown bobbled the ball allowing Thomas to come all the way around and score. That triple and error put Rochester up 6-4. Back-to-back doubles by Rene Rivera and Brian Dinkelman gave the Wings a 7-4 lead. Then, Holliman capped the evening's scoring with an RBI single to put Rochester in front by four.

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