Packed house sees home finale
Coming into Saturday night's game, Jason Hirsh (4-0, 1.37 ERA) was one of the Yankees' hottest pitchers. When he left due to injury after fielding a ball in the first inning, the bullpen did a pretty good job of emulating his previous work. Coming in cold, Luke Prihoda (1-0) tossed 3 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball, allowing just a walk to Jason Pridie in the fourth. Pridie was also the only Wings player to get a hit through four innings, a lead-off single in the first.
The Yankees offense acted in accordance with its pitching, overwhelming, and Wings starter Philip Humber had a hard time keeping up.
Shelley Duncan, who hit the go-ahead home run to win yesterday's game, commenced the scoring by lining a double off the left field wall, scoring Colin Curtis.
In the second inning, a lead-off walk to John Rodriguez set the stage for a Reegie Corona two-run blast, his second home run in as many nights. That shot gave Scranton a 3-0 lead.
The Red Wings didn't get another hit until there were two outs in the fifth. Drew Butera laced a double down the left field line off the Yanks second reliever, Amuari Sanit. Sanit pitched 2 1/3 innings, yielding just the one hit.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre tallied one run in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to make the score, 6-0. Humber finished with a line of 4 2/3 innings pitched, seven hits and five earned runs. He walked five and struck out six.
Scranton brought their total to double digits in a peculiar way in the seventh inning off reliever Jose Lugo. Without allowing a single hit in the inning, Lugo allowed four runs to score (two earned) by allowing five walks and giving up two sacrifice flies. Lugo was relieved by Tim Lahey after getting just one out.
In the bottom of the seventh, fan-favorite Tommy Watkins pinch-hit for team MVP Justin Huber. Watkins popped out to second base in his only plate appearance.
Zach Kroenke earned his fourth save of the season by shutting out the Red Wings for the final four innings. His only blemish was yielding Rochester's third and final hit of the game, a single to third by Dustin Martin.
WINGS THNGS: Rochester Police Officer Anthony DiPonzio threw out the final first pitch of the season, and brought the lineup card out to home plate. Check out the Pics of the Day in our Multimedia section on Tuesday for two photo galleries from Saturday's game....RHP Boof Bonser was scheduled to pitch for Class A Fort Myers Saturday night. |
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