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Wings Drop Third Straight to Louisville

June 26, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release


The Louisville Bats broke open a close game to defeat the Red Wings 7-4 Sunday afternoon at Frontier Field.The win gave the Bats a three-game sweep of the Wings, and dropped the Wings into a first place tie with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

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With humid 91° conditions at game time, the Bats jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning after just five pitches from starter Jason Wheeler. Steve Selsky's one-out, two-run double out the Bats ahead. Wheeler settled down to set down the next two batters on grounders to strand Selsky.

Louisville had top pitching prospect and former first round pick Robert Stephenson on the mound Sunday. Stephenson was roughed up by Buffalo in his last start (six earned runs, four walks in four innings June 21), and the Wings quickly got on the scoreboard in their half of the first. James Beresford worked Stephenson for a lead-off walk, and came around to score on a one-out triple by Jorge Polanco. It was Polanco's sixth triple of the season, tying him for second-best in the league.

Chris Berset's one-out double off the left field wall gave the Bats a runner in scoring position in the second, but Bryson Smith popped out to Jorge Polanco in shallow right field and Tony Renda grounded out to Polanco to end the frame.

Louisville loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the third after Scott Schebler singled for the second time of the day, Selsky got hit by a pitch and Jermaine Curtis walked. Wheeler was able to get out of the jam, however, as Seth Mejias-Brean popped up to Kennys Vargas.

John Ryan Murphy's double to left led off the bottom of the third, but the Wings left him stranded after a Beresford strikeout and groundouts by Miguel Sano and Polanco.

After Eddie Rosario walked to start the fourth inning, Vargas doubled to right to put runners on second and third with no outs. Two batters later, Adam Brett Walker drove in both runners with a double to right-center to give the Wings a 3-2 lead.

Selsky knotted the score up at three with a two-out solo shot off the left field scoreboard in the fifth. It marked the fourth straight game Wheeler has given up a home run.

Sano, in Rochester on a rehab assignment, recorded his first Triple-A hit in the bottom of the fifth with a line-drive single to left.

Trevor May took over in the top of the seventh inning, the first appearance of his rehab assignment with the Twins. Wheeler worked six innings and allowed seven hits, three earned runs and a walk while striking out three. Wheeler threw 88 pitches, 58 for strikes.

May hit the first batter he faced, then a perfectly executed hit and run put runners at the corners with none out. May (0-1) struck out Scott Schebler on three pitches, then a wild pitch made it a second and third situation with one out. Selsky's groundout to shortstop brought in the go ahead run, and Ryan O'Rourke relieved May. O'Rourke struck out Donald Lutz for the third out, but the Bats had the lead at 4-3.

Stephenson (5-4) racked up eight strikeouts through six innings, his second best strikeout total this season. He allowed five hits, three earned runs, and three walks while throwing 108 pitches - 68 for strikes. Chad Rogers relieved Stephenson, and with one out Beresford singled to extend his hitting streak to eight games. Sano scorched a groundball to short, and the Bats turned two to end the inning.

David Martinez took over on the mound to start the eighth inning for the Red Wings, and allowed back to back hits after one out to give the Bats another second and situation. With the Wings infield playing in, Martinez struck out Smith for out number two. But Renda grounded a single just under the glove of a diving Tommy Field at shortstop, and the Bats moved ahead 6-3. The Bats added another run on an infield hit for a 7-3 advantage.

Vargas hit his 12th home run of the season off Chad Rogers in the bottom of the eighth inning, to make the score 7-4. Vargas boosted his league-leading RBI total to 51.

Nick Greenwood worked 1.1 innings of scoreless relief. In the bottom of the ninth, the Wings staged a rally attempt when they put two runners on with two out. Sano grounded into a game-ending double play to end the contest, with Dayan Diaz picking up his first save.

NOTES: Twins INF/OF Miguel Sano played his third game of a rehab assignment from the Twins, going 1-for-5 with a single as the DH...The Bats took their first series win in Rochester since 2007, and first sweep in Rochester since June 1990.

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