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Wings Shutout at Lehigh Valley

April 17, 2016 - International League (IL1)
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Allentown, PA - The Red Wings continued their early season struggles against Lehigh Valley and the young arm of Zach Eflin as they were shutout for the second time this season 3-0.

Rochester (4-6) was held to a season-low two hits and only had one runner reach second base in the contest and are now 1-4 against the IronPigs this season.

Eflin made his second Triple-A start of his career, both against the Wings, before a Coca-Cola Park crowd of 10,100 and looked like a seasoned veteran on the bump. Eflin tossed eight innings of shutout baseball, yielding just two hits with five strikeouts.

Eflin only faced one batter over the minimum through eight innings and only allowed one batter to reach second base. In the first inning Jorge Polanco managed to single on a sharp liner to left but he was thrown out in an attempt to advance to third base off a throwing error on a 2-3 strikeout throw down to first when Kennys Vargas was at the dish.

This contest featured the same pitching matchup as the first game of the doubleheader on April 12 with Eflin going up against Wings' lefty Logan Darnell.

Darnell gave up six earned runs, including two home runs, the first time around against Lehigh Valley, but Darnell had the Wings scoreless through the first six frames on Sunday afternoon.

Darnell scattered four hits through six innings and had to work out of trouble just once. He gave up a two-out triple to Taylor Featherston in the bottom of the sixth but came back to force a fly out and ended the threat.

Lehigh Valley broke through in the bottom of the seventh inning. J.P. Arencibia singled to start the inning and two batters later Cameron Perkins stepped to the plate and belted a two-run homer off a breaking ball that stayed up in the zone to make it 2-0.

Eflin returned for the eighth inning and sat down the Wings in order to make it 17 straight retired batters for the right-hander.

Lehigh Valley notched an insurance run in the eighth inning. David Martinez was on in relief and allowed a leadoff double to Darnell Sweeney. Sweeney advanced to third and would later score in the frame off a Martinez wild pitch to make it 3-0 IronPigs.

Eflin gave way to Edward Mujica in the ninth inning to attempt to finish off the Red Wings. James Beresford led off the frame by reaching on a dropped ball by first baseman Tommy Joseph and advanced onto second after the ball dribbled its way into right field.

Mujica did not let the error affect him as he struck out the next two batters swinging and forced a groundout to end the game while earning his second save of the season in back-to-back games.

Darnell took the loss going 6.2 innings while allowing two runs (both earned) on six hits with three punchouts.

Eflin moves to 2-0 after going eight frames of two-hit baseball and five strikeouts. He now has an ERA of 0.64 on the season and has only surrendered one run in 14 innings pitched.

Polanco and Beresford are the lone Wings to obtain hits against Eflin. Both of them went 1-for-3 on the afternoon.

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