IL1 Rochester Red Wings

Wings Fall 2-1 Thursday in Buffalo

Published on April 14, 2016 under International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release


The Red Wings got eight strong innings from Pat Dean, but could not muster some of the late inning magic from Wednesday as they fell 2-1 to the Buffalo Bisons before a home-opening crowd of 13,102 at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo Thursday afternoon.

Dean made his second start of the season and got off to a quick start again. The southpaw took a no-hitter into the fifth inning in his first start against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre last week and he sat down the first 10 batters he faced on Thursday

Andy Burns laced a liner into left-centerfield in the fourth to give Buffalo its first base runner of the game. Burns was caught stealing second and Dean managed to retire the next two batters to keep it 12 up and 12 down through the first four frames.

Former Wing Scott Diamond was equally as sharp from the early going. Buck Britton made his way to second in the first inning but was the only runner to reach scoring position through the first five innings.

Diamond motored his way through the first five innings, allowing just four hits with four strikeouts, but Rochester got on the board in the sixth frame. Darin Mastroianni singled on a line drive to left followed by Britton who doubled on a winding liner back to leftfield that allowed Mastroianni to wheel home from first to make it 1-0 heading to the seventh.

Dean entered Thursday's contest with a 19 2/3 scoreless inning streak against the Bisons dating back to May 29 of last season. The southpaw went 3-0 with a 0.42 ERA (1 ER, 21.2 IP) against Buffalo last season, but that streak was finally snapped in the bottom of the sixth.

Dalton Pompey doubled to left with two outs and was driven in on a Burns' broken-bat dribbler up the middle to square the game up 1-1.

Buffalo pulled ahead in the bottom of the seventh for good. Jesus Montero reached on a fielding error and was brought home two batters later on an RBI double to the corner from Junior Lake to grab the 2-1 lead.

The Red Wings entered the ninth still trailing 2-1. Kennys Vargas drew the two-out walk bringing up Wednesday's walk-off hero Reynaldo Rodriguez but he flew out to right to end the ball game.

Dean went the distance for the Red Wings, tossing eight innings of five-hit baseball. He allowed two runs (one earned) with a walk while throwing just 94 pitches (69 for strikes).

Diamond got the win for Buffalo, going seven innings while yielding six hits and one earned run with five strikeouts. David Aardsma notched his third save of the season.

Britton was the only Wing to record a multi-hit game. He went 2-for-4 from the dish and had the team's lone RBI.

WINGIN' IT NOTES:

- Taylor Rogers made his major league debut against the Chicago White Sox in the top of the ninth inning on Thursday simultaneously with the ninth frame of the Red Wings' game. Rogers replaced former Wing Trevor May in the top of the ninth and allowed one hit while forcing a groundout and popout in his big league debut.

- Max Kepler stepped to the plate twice for Minnesota on Thursday, going 0-for-1 while drawing a walk. Kepler also made a fantastic running snare in centerfield that drew attention on various social media platforms.

- Half of Buffalo's games this season have been one-run affairs. The Bisons now have split those games 2-2. Rochester has now played in two run one-run contests and has also split those games.

- Pat Dean has been stellar against Buffalo in his last four outings. Dating back to May 29 of last season, Dean has faced the Bisons four times with an ERA of 0.62 in 29.2 innings pitched. He has allowed 23 hits, three runs (two earned), four walks and eight strikeouts

- Right-hander Alex Meyer (0-0, 0.00) is set to duel with lefty Wade LeBlanc (1-0, 1.80) in the second game of two against Buffalo tomorrow night at 6:05 p.m at Coca-Cola Field. You can listen on WHTK 1280 to Josh Whetzel or follow along live on MiLB.tv.

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