Wings blank 'Riders 1-0
Adam Brett Walker's home run backed another solid start from David Martinez, and the Red Wings beat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 1-0 Sunday afternoon at Frontier Field.
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Martinez made his third start of the season Sunday, and benefited from a couple of nice catches by outfielders Max Kepler and Darin Mastroianni. Martinez looked equally as strong in his second inning of work, notching a pair of punchouts, as he set the RailRiders down in order.
Martinez looked sharp again in his third frame of work. He was able to get the first two hitters of the inning to hit lazy ground balls, before he ended the inning with his third strikeout of the afternoon. Scranton starter and former Wing Anthony Swarzak looked strong himself in his half of the third. He worked a 1-2-3 inning and picked up his fifth strikeout of the day.
In the top of the fifth, Martinez allowed his first two hits of the game and it looked as if the RailRiders would push the first run of the game across. But Martinez got the outs when he needed them and the score remained 0-0.
Walker led off the bottom of the fifth with a laser home run into the left field bullpen to give the Red Wings the 1-0 lead. It was Walker's team-leading third homer of the season.
The RailRiders put the tying run at second with two outs in the sixth inning, after a double by Slade Heathcott. Martinez battled big league veteran Nick Swisher through a nine-pitch at-bat, getting a groundout to strand Heathcott.
Martinez (1-1) notched his season-high seventh strikeout to open the eighth inning, allowed a single to the ninth place hitter Pete Kozma, then was relieved by Buddy Boshers with the top of the order due up. Boshers got a groundball double play with Ben Gamel at the plate, ending the top of the eighth.
Martinez worked 7.1 innings, also a season-high, and allowed just four hits. He walked one to go with the six strikeouts, and threw 95 pitches, 63 for strikes.
Boshers got the first out of the ninth, then allowed an infield single by Slade Heathcott. Manager Mike Quade brought in reliever J.R. Graham with Swisher due up, and Swisher grounded out to Kennys Vargas for the second out. A flyball to center ended the game, with Graham picking up his third save.
Each team had five hits. Martinez has allowed just five earned runs over 20 innings (2.25 ERA) in his three starts. Swarzak dropped to 1-3 with the loss.
| NOTES: The second half of the game was played in misting rain and windy conditions...Double-A Chattanooga outfielder Daniel Palka is the Twins minor league Player of the Week...Palka played six games for the Lookouts, hitting .619 (13-for-21) with four doubles, two home runs, eight RBI, six runs scored and six walks...in 20 games for Chattanooga this season, he has hit .338 (27-for-80) with seven doubles, three home runs and 15 RBI...he was acquired by the Twins via trade with Arizona on November 10, 2015, in exchange for catcher/outfielder Chris Herrmann.
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1973 - Jim Fuller went 5-for-6 with a triple, a home run, and 4 rbi, as the Red Wings defeated the Toledo Mud Hens 16-4 in Toledo. The game put Rochester into first place in the American Division of the International League.
1928 - Rochester's home opener draws an overflow crowd of 16,566 to Baseball Park, with many
fans herded into the spacious outfield behind ropes. Any drives hit into the masses were to be a
ground rule double. Making their home debut as the "Red Wings", named for their new affiliation with
the St. Louis Cardinals, Rochester hosts a Jersey City club made up of several players from the 1927
Rochester Tribe team. The unusually unruly crowd is stunned when the Skeeters score five times in
the top of the 9th to tie the game 6-6. In the bottom of the 9th, Johnnie Mokan doubles into the crowd
in left field to score Harry Layne with the game winner. The Red Wings, managed by Billy
Southworth, went on to win the first of four consecutive IL pennants in 1928.
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1992 - Rickey Henderson starts his own club with his 1,000th career steal. He already holds the major league stolen base record.
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