Wings Split Twinbill with Pawtucket
Published on May 7, 2016 under International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release
Pawtucket, R.I. - The Rochester Red Wings were held to a season-low one hit and gave up a season-high three home runs and tied another season high with 13 allowed hits in a 8-0 game one loss to the Pawtucket Red Sox.
Pawtucket starter William Cuevas (4-1) held the Red Wings (13-16) in check for a majority of the evening. Kennys Vargas lifted a soft liner to left in the top of the first but that was the only hit allowed by Cuevas in 5.1 innings of work. Cuevas walked five batters and struck out seven.
The Paw Sox (14-14) got off to a quick start. David Martinez (1-2) surrendered a hit each of the first four batters of the game with Marco Hernandez and Chris Marrero each knocking a two-run dinger to make it 4-0 after the first inning.
Martinez settled in after the first four batters. He retired the next three in the first inning and wound up facing the minimum through the next 3.2 innings until he gave up a single to Ryan LaMarre in the bottom of the fourth.
Trouble returned in the bottom of the fifth. Jantzen Witte launched the third homer of the game, a solo homer to left field, to make it 5-0. It was the first three-homer game for Pawtucket this season. The Paw Sox plated four runs on six hits, which tied a season-high for the Sox in a single frame, in the inning to make it 8-0 after five innings.
Martinez went 4.2 innings and allowed eight runs on 12 hits with three strikeouts.
The Wings went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position and left six on base.
Game Two
Pawtucket, RI --- The Rochester Red Wings entered game two against the Pawtucket Red Sox without having won a game in a doubleheader this season, but a two-out, two-RBI double from Kennys Vargas in the bottom of the fifth changed that and lifted Rochester to the 3-2 win and the split in the twinbill.
The Red Wings (14-16) entered Saturday night having been swept in both doubleheaders earlier in the season.
The Wings sent lefty Jason Wheeler (1-1) to the mound for his third start of the season. Wheeler's last time out he went the distance, going eight innings of one-run baseball, but dropped a tough 1-0 decision in Syracuse.
The Paw Sox (14-15) loaded the bases on Wheeler in the bottom of the first bringing Rusney Castillo to the dish. Castillo, who did not play in game one, sent a soft liner just out of the reach of Vargas for a two-RBI double to take a 2-0 lead after the first inning.
Wheeler looked sharp after the shaky first inning. He retired the side in the side in the bottom of the second and sat down seven of eight from the final out in the bottom of the third to the last out in the fifth frame.
Wheeler went five innings and allowed a pair of runs on three hits with four walks and six strikeouts.
Robby Scott took the bump for Pawtucket for his second start of the season. His other start came on April 20 against Rochester when he went 4.1 innings of two-hit baseball in a spot start for game one starter William Cuevas.
Pawtucket had the Red Wings on a 9.1 innings hitless stretch that started in the first inning of game one and spanned into the fourth inning of game two until Max Kepler stepped to the dish. Kepler jumped on a high fastball from Scott and drilled it into center for his third triple of the season. Two batters later John Ryan Murphy, making his Red Wings debut, dropped a bloop single into left scoring Kepler from third. Rochester had a pair of runners in scoring position but Buck Britton went down on strikes to end the inning.
Scott gave way to Paw Sox reliever Noe Ramirez (0-3) midway through the fourth. Scott took the no-decision after going 3.1 innings and allowing one run on one hit with three walks and three strikeouts.
Ramirez retired the first two batters of the top of the fifth but gave up a single to James Beresford and walked Kepler, which brought Vargas to the plate. With two outs, Vargas smashed a two-RBI double to the gap in right-center to help the Wings grab a 3-2 lead after five frames.
Marcus Walden took over for Wheeler in the bottom of the sixth. He gave up a single to Castillo and Jantzen Witte but left both runners stranded.
Walden stayed on for the ninth and set down the side and picked up the two-inning save, his second of the season.
Ramirez took the loss for his work in the fourth and fifth innings. He has taken the loss in all three games he has appeared in since being optioned from Boston on April 25.
Kepler went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks and another pair of runs scored for the Wings. Vargas went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk.
The Wings were out hit 5-4 by Pawtucket in the game. The four hits is the lowest hit total in a game that Rochester has won this season.
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