Bisons sweep twinbill from Red Wings

There were two very different games played at Frontier Field on Friday night, and the Bisons won them both.
Jason Leblebijian homered twice and drove in four as the Herd started the doubleheader with a 9-8 victory over the Red Wings. Justin Dillon then turned in a complete game three-hitter to lead Buffalo to the 2-1 victory over the closest rivals.
With the wins, the Bisons improved to two-games over the .500 mark at 20-18
The Bisons built off the offensive momentum from the late innings of Thursday's game to hold on for a 9-8 over the Red Wings.
In the loss in the series finale against Syracuse, the Herd scored the final seven runs of the game. They kept the hot bats going on a breezy night from Frontier Field, putting up six runs in first three frames.
Leblebijian delivered not one, but two, two-run homers in the win. After Buffalo had built a 4-3 lead, the slugger got all of an 0-2 offering from Rochester's starter Aaron Slegers and delivered an opposite-field blast to right field. He then added to the Herd's advantage in the fifth, by hitting a towering drive to left field in the fifth on a 1-2 fastball that caught too much plate.
Several other Bisons teed up the Rochester pitching staff as the club produced 13 hits, six for extra-base. In the second inning, Ian Parmley bolstered a rally that gave the Bisons a 4-3 lead with a three-run triple. It was his second triple in the three games.
Backstop Reese McGuire was 3-4 at the dish with three opposite-field singles.
Trailing the Bisons 9-5 with two outs two outs in the bottom of the seventh, the Red Wings made the game interesting. First baseman Kenny Vargas registered his second, three-run home run, sailing a ball over the left field fence to whittle the Herd lead to just one.
However, Justin Shafer closed out the win, needing just one pitch to get the final out. With the winning run at the plate, Shafer got Nick Buss to foul out to Leblebijian to seal the deal for his third save of the season.The win for Buffalo went to Tim Mayza, who allowed a run in his lone inning of relief. He is now 3-0 on the year.

Behind Justin Dillon's masterful performance, the Bisons outlasted the Red Wings, 2-1, to complete the sweep.  
In just his twelfth professional start, Dillon was solid yet again for the Herd. Dillon went the distance in the truncated seven innings of the doubleheader, allowing just one run on three hits. While he only struck out one batter, he kept Red Wing hitters off-kilter by using pinpoint accuracy with his fastball and an effective off-speed breaking pitch.
The Sacramento State graduate cruised through the Rochester lineup. Between parts of the first through the entirety of the fifth inning, 13 batters came to the plate and all 13 failed to get a hit off Dillon.
His only hiccup came in the sixth inning when Rochester shortstop Leonardo Reginatto took him deep for a solo shot. His lone strikeout of the game came in the seventh inning as he caught power-hitting Chris Carter looking with a great fastball.
Dillon then retired the hot bat of Vargas on a ground out and got catcher Wynston Sawyer to fly out to Roemon Fields patrolling right field to end the game.
In three starts with the Bisons, Dillon is now 2-1 with a 0.79 ERA
At the plate, the Herd got all the runs they would need with a two-run second inning. Two straight singles by Danny Jansen and Leblebijian (the teams only hits of the game) to lead off the frame and a walk drawn by Darnell Sweeney loaded the bases with nobody out. Red Wings starter, Myles Jaye, lost the strike zone and allowed three walks in the inning. The second walk brought home Jansen for the first run of the game and later, a sacrifice fly from the bat of Fields plated the decisive second run.