Bisons top Clippers, 6-3, thanks to blast from Tellez

For years, the Bisons staff members have spray painted white baseballs on the parking lot beyond right field to mark the spot where some of the ballpark's longest home runs have landed. After Friday night, someone is going to have to make a run to the hardware store! 
In his fifth game back with the Herd, first baseman Rowdy Tellez hit a monstorous three-run home run over the Bully Hill Party Deck and onto the asphalt to lead the Bisons to a 6-3 win over the Clippers.
Sitting on a 1-0 breaking ball, Tellez turned on the offering from Clippers reliever Josh Smith and sent it deep into the fridaynightbash! sky for his first Triple-A home run of the season.
The blast was the sluggers 20th career Triple-A home run after he hit six with the Herd in 2017 and 13 more a season ago. He hit 14 homers over 78 games to begin this season with Toronto.
Tellez's homer was the final shot in a back-and-forth contest between two teams battling for a postseason berth. Columbus took a 1-0 lead in the first on Brandon Barnes RBI-single three batters into the contest. It then took the Herd just three hitters to respond as Bo Bichette's single and Sócrates Brito's double put both runners in position to score on Dalton Pompey's grounder up the middle.

After the IL West division leaders tied the game at two with a run in the sixth, Reese McGuire put the Bisons back on top with his fifth home run of the season: a towering blast that snuck just inside the right field foul pole. Columbus tied the score again the in top half of the eighth when outfielder Daniel Johnson doubled home Max Moroff with a fly ball over the head of Jonathan Davis.
The win for Buffalo went to Zack Jackson, who allowed a run in 1.1 innings of work. At 8-0 on the season, he is now just one victory shy of the modern era record for consecutive winning decisions, set by southpaw Aaron Laffey in 2007.
Conor Fisk started for the Bisons and was tremendous following the Barnes' RBI single in the first inning. The righty retired the final 13 batters he faced and allowed just one run in five innings.
Game two of the 3-game series at Sahlen Field is Saturday night at 6:05 p.m. The game is part of the Bisons 'Blue Jays Weekend' promotion that will feature a pre-game autograph session from Blue Jays greats Devon White and Duane Ward. TICKETS
BISONS NOTES: Ty Tice retired all three batters he faced in the ninth inning for his third save of the season… Aaron Laffey went 9-3 in 16 games for the Bisons in 2007. He was the team's Most Valuable Pitcher… Sócrates Brito finished the game 2-3 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored and a walk.