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Rochester Red Wings Game Notes

Published on April 25, 2013 under International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release


Rochester Red Wings (5-14) @ Syracuse Chiefs (8-10)

NBT Bank Stadium - Syracuse, N.Y. - 5:00 p.m.

RHP Shairon Martis (1-1, 5.06) vs. RHP Yunesky Maya (0-2, 6.00)

TODAY'S GAME: Before the Red Wings and Chiefs play game 3 of their series tonight, they will wrap up game 2 (5 p.m.) which was suspended by rain in the 11th inning last night with the Wings leading 6-5. Approximately 30 minutes following the conclusion of game 2, the Wings and Chiefs will play game 3 -- a 9-inning game. After the 4-game set the Wings will return home to open a 4-game series against the first-place Buffalo Bisons at Frontier Field Saturday-Tuesday.

WHERE THEY LEFT OFF...: When the Wings and Chiefs pick things up again at 5:00 p.m. tonight the Wings will have the bases loaded with Brandon Boggs at bat with one out and a 2-0 count. The Wings snapped a 5-5 tie in the 11th on an RBI single from Chris Herrmann that scored Evan Bigley from 3rd... After falling behind 5-0, the Wings used a 4-run 8th inning to tie the game at 5-5. Bigley hit his first home run of the season in the 5th inning to put Rochester on the board.

MORE ROSTER MOVES: R HP Anthony Slama was placed on the disabled list with a lower back strain, retroactive to 4/23. Slama was 0-4 with an 18.47 ERA (13 ER/6.1 IP) in 8 games with the Wings this season. He left his outing on Monday after allowing a tied for career-high 5 runs in just 0.1 innings... Taking Slama's spot on the roster will be RHP Bobby Lanigan who was promoted from New Brtiain (AA) on Thursday. Lanigan was 2-1, 7.04 (6 ER/7.2 IP) in 7 games with the Rock Cats this season. The 25-year-old made his Triple-A debut last season with the Wings going 6-2, 4.69 ERA in 22 games after 6/20 promotion.

VS. CHIEFS: The Red Wings went just 5-11 against the Chiefs in 2012, their worst mark against any division rival last year... The Wings haven't won a season series against Syracuse since 2009 (their 1st year as a Nationals affiliate) when the Wings won 9 of 16 games... Since then, they are just 14-34 against their NYS Thruway rival in the last 3 seasons.

-Last season, the Red Wings swept the opening 2-game series of the year @ SYR

-The last time the Red Wings won a 4-game series at Syracuse was 7/7-7/10/09 (3-1)

DYNAMIC DEBUT: INF Nate Hanson went 2-for-3 with a 2-run home run in his Triple-A debut for the Red Wings on Tuesday night... He became the 3rd Red Wings player to hit a home run in his Triple-A debut this season, joining Oswaldo Arcia and Chris Colabello who each went deep Opening Day (4/4) @ BUF.

TRIPLE-LESS: The Red Wings are now the only team in all of minor league baseball without a triple after Clinton of the Midwest League recorded their first three-bagger of the season on Monday... The Wings are now just 1 of 2 teams in all of baseball without a triple. The Atlanta Brave are still in search of their first as well.

-Last season, the Wings were T-5th in the IL with 27 triples... Clete Thomas led the Wings w/ 5 triples last year.

BRING BACK THE D: After committing just 4 errors through the first 12 games of the season, the Wings have now made 10 errors in their last 7 games -- including a season-high 4 Tuesday night against Syracuse. The most errors the Wings committed in any game last season was 3.

NO LEADS SAFE IN 'CUSE: Syracuse bolted out to a 5-0 lead on Wednesday before a 4-run 8th inning from Rochester knotted the game at 5-5 before play was suspended in the 11th... It was the Wings that jumped out to a 5-0 lead Tuesday after 2.5 innings, however the Chiefs came all the way back to tie in the 8th before winning in the 13th inning... In their last game (9/2) at Syracuse in 2012, the Red Wings blew a 6-0 first inning lead -- their largest lead relinquished to lose last season.

HOMER FRIENDLY NORTH : After a combined 8 home runs in the first one-plus games of this series, Syracuse (20 HR) and Rochester (19 HR) are now 1-2 in HR's hit this season in the IL... In fact, 5 of the top 6 teams in home runs hit so far this season are IL North squads... BUF is 3rd with 18 HR, PAW is 5th with 16 HR and LHV is 6th with 15 HR.

-The 3 HR hit by the Wings last night snapped a tied for season high 3-game streak without hitting a home run.

ARCIA HOMERS : Former Red Wing, Oswaldo Arcia, hit the first home run of his Major League career on Tuesday in game 1 of a doubleheader against the Miami Marlins... His 3-run shot off RHP Jose Fernandez in the 4th inning turned out to be the game-winning home run... Arcia hit 3 homer runs in 10 games with the Red Wings this season.

-At 21 years, 11 months, 14 days he became the 9th youngest Twins player to homer in a game.. Youngest since Mauer in 2004

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