Rochester, NY --- Micah Johnson's bunt single in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and lifted Durham to a 3-1 win over Rochester before 10,793 fans at Frontier Field on Saturday night.With Rochester's only left-handed reliever entering the game, Johnson pulled a bunt toward first base, legging it out
Rochester, NY --- Micah Johnson's bunt single in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and lifted Durham to a 3-1 win over Rochester before 10,793 fans at Frontier Field on Saturday night.
With Rochester's only left-handed reliever entering the game, Johnson pulled a bunt toward first base, legging it out as Andrew Velazquez sprinted home from third base. Johnson, who was previously 3-40 against lefthanded pitching, deftly dropped the first pitch from Gabriel Moya into an unplayable spot to lift the Bulls (35-25) to their four straight win on their current road trip.
Durham added an insurance run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly to deep center off the bat of Willy Adames, scoring Nick Ciuffo from third.
Forrest Snow (W, 3-4) notched his first win since May 3rd, working six solid innings. Snow only needed 81 pitches to match his season-high in innings, allowing just three baserunners. Snow did not walk a batter and fanned four.
After Kean Wong opened the game with a double to right on the first pitch of the night, three batters later Brandon Snyder grounded a single to right to bring Wong home.
In the second, Rochester (28-29) tied the game on a two-out soft single to left-center from Willians Astudillo to bring home Cameron Rupp from second base.
Leading 3-1 in the eighth, Hunter Wood (S, 3) entered to face Nick Gordon with the tying runs in scoring position. Wood fanned Gordon to strand the runners, then worked a perfect ninth to record his third save.
Durham stranded 13 baserunners, including leaving the bases loaded three times.
The Bulls close out their six-game road trip on Sunday afternoon at 1:05 PM ET aiming for a three-game sweep of the Red Wings. Chih-Wei Hu (1-5, 5.30) will oppose Zack Littell (1-1, 2.57).
