IL1 Rochester Red Wings

Stripers Rally to Top Wings

August 7, 2019 - International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release


The Rochester Red Wings hit a franchise record 155th home run of the season, but it was not enough to beat the Gwinnett Stripers as they lost 4-3 Wednesday night at Frontier Field. The series continues Thursday night at 7:05 p.m.with a Plates "bobble fork" giveaway.

Winning Pitcher:

Sobotka (2-1)

Losing Pitcher:

Bleich (3-3)

Save:

Minter (3)

The Red Wings started out the game in historical fashion against Gwinnett starter Kyle Wright. In the bottom of the second, Zander Wiel clobbered the team's franchise record setting 155th home run of the season to get the Wings out to a 1-0 lead.

Rochester starter Lewis Thorpe got off to a very strong start striking out the first four batters he faced and not allowing a hit until the fifth. His outing ended after throwing 6.0 innings, while only allowing one hit, no runs, and striking out seven. 46 of his 69 pitches were for strikes.

Wright finished with a line of 6.0 innings, five hits, one earned run and six strikeouts. He threw 94 pitches, 63 for strikes.

The Wings were able to plate an insurance run in the the bottom of the seventh against Gwinnett reliver Chad Sobotka. Ivan DeJesus Jr. led off the inning with his second single of the night in his Red Wings debut. In the next at bat, Caleb Hamilton ripped a double into the right-center gap, bringing in DeJesus Jr. from first and giving Rochester a 2-0 lead.

Fernando Romero came on in relief in the seventh and pitched a scoreless inning, but was replaced in the eighth by Jeremy Bleich after walking the first two batters of the inning. Bleich entered the game and immediately gave up a single to Andres Blanco, bringing in Ryan LaMarre from second. After the next two batters struck out, Pedro Florimon hit a two RBI triple to give Gwinnett the lead. Bleich threw a wild pitch, allowing Florimon to cross the plate and put the Stripers out in front by a score of 4-2.

Jake Reed entered the game to pitch in the ninth and gave up two hits but did not allow a run to score.

Rochester began to mount a comeback in the bottom of the ninth. After Drew Maggi and Ramon Flores both walked to get on base, Brandon Barnes dunked a single over the first baseman's head, bring in Maggi from second and allowing Flores to advance to third. The lead was cut to 4-3 but the comeback fell short with the tying run on third.

Rochester out-hit Gwinnett 9-5.

NOTES: RHP Kohl Stewert was recalled by Minnesota on Wednesday... INF Drew Maggi extended his on-base streak to 37 games with single in the bottom of the fifth inning.

THIS DAY IN RED WINGS HISTORY

1933 - 15,000 fans were at Red Wings Stadium for the first home night game against the Newark Bears. The final score was 4-0, and unfortunately the Red Wings did not come out on top. The lights from the stadium were so bright, people could read the paper on the porches on Norton Street without any problem.

1980 - The Red Wings scored eight runs in the 12th inning to top the Braves 11-3 in Richmond. The rally was punctuated by Floyd Rayford's grand slam. The win kept Rochester two games out of second place in the International League.

2005 - Luiz Maza homered twice as Rochester outlasted Ottawa 12-11 on Sunday afternoon at Lynx Stadium. Both teams combined for 32 hits, and Ottawa came up just short after rallying for four runs with four doubles in the bottom of the ninth. With first place Buffalo's 9-4 loss to Pawtucket, the Wings moved to within 1 1/2 games of the IL North Division lead.

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