Wings Wait Out Rain, Top Chiefs

April 23, 2007 - International League (IL1)
Rochester Red Wings News Release

Jason Miller started - then stopped - then started up again, tossing four scoreless innings to help the Red Wings to a 6-2 win over Syracuse Monday night at Frontier Field. Tommy Watkins had two hits and drove in two runs for Rochester, who beat Syracuse for the seventh straight game going back to last season

The teams completed one scoreless inning when a rainstorm hit the area, with high winds and lightning contributing to a delay of one hour, 41-minutes. When play resumed, Wings starter Miller came back out to the mound, while Syracuse brought Ryan Houston (0-1) in to replace original starter Dustin McGowan. Reliever Miller was making a spot start for the Wings.

In the Red Wings third, Watkins went to right field on a 1-2 pitch from Houston for a double, bringing home both Chris Heintz and Denard Span for a 2-0 Rochester lead. Watkins hustled to third on the play, then scored when Glenn Williams doubled to almost the exact same spot as Watkins' hit.

Miller worked a total of four innings, allowing a pair of hits and two walks. Brian Bass took over in the fifth inning and tossed a scoreless frame, then allowed a two-run homer to John-Ford Griffin in the sixth - bringing the Chiefs to within a run at 3-2. The Wings answered back in the bottom of the sixth. Matthew LeCroy walked to start the inning, and scored with Matt Tolbert when Span drilled a hard ground ball that second baseman Russ Adams couldn't handle.

In the bottom of the eighth, Jose Morales homered to right field to finish the scoring.

Carmen Cali relieved Bass (1-0) in the seventh and closed out the game, picking up his first save with the Wings.

NOTES: RHP Jeff Manship (left) is the Minnesota Twins Minor League Player of the Week, after striking out 17 with no walks in 13 1/3 innings (two starts) for Class A Beloit. Manship was drafted last June after playing college ball at Notre Dame...Red Wings Chief Operating Officer Naomi Silver will be honored as part of Penfield Little League's 55th Annual Opening Day April 28, at the town's complex on Atlantic Avenue...OF Lew Ford (knee) is playing in extended spring games at the Twins' camp in Ft. Myers, getting in shape before goin on a rehab assignment. Ford was placed on the big league in March.

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