Brito's homer not enough as Bisons eliminated from postseason contention
On a night the Bisons absolutely needed a win, their Most Valuable Player came to shine… But in the end, it wasn't enough to keep the Bisons postseason hopes alive.After receiving the team's highest honor pregame, Sócrates Brito clubbed a three-run home run and threw out two runners on the
On a night the Bisons absolutely needed a win, their Most Valuable Player came to shine… But in the end, it wasn't enough to keep the Bisons postseason hopes alive.
After receiving the team's highest honor pregame,
With four games left against the RailRiders this weekend in Moosic, PA, the best Buffalo can do is 73 wins on the season. With Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and the Mets already at that total, a three-way tie breaker (based on head-to-head records) would go to the RailRiders.
With the Bisons trailing 2-1 in the top half of the fifth inning, Brito kept the score right where it was by making a perfect throw home when speedster
Then in the bottom half of the fifth, Brito left little doubt in giving the Herd their first lead of the game. With the score knotted at two, Brito launched a no-doubt three-run home run into the right field berm. His 16th home run of the year gave the slugger 63 runs driven in for the campaign and put the Herd up 5-2.
The teams traded longballs all night with a nice breeze blowing across the field.
Kivlehan, who started the year with the Indianapolis Indians, has hit 25 of his 29 International League home runs with the Bisons. He is just the 11th Herd slugger to reach the 25-homer plateau and the first since All-Star Mauro Gomez hit 29 for Buffalo in 2013.
Rochester answered Brito's home run in the seventh inning as Astudillo hit a three-run homer out to left off reliever
But Buffalo came right back. Voted by his teammates as the 2019 Most Inspirational Player,
The final home run, however, bellowing to Rochester. Two batters into the eighth,
Stewart took the loss for Buffalo, allowing five runs in 2.2 innings of reliever of