Jansen's hot bat helps beat Braves, 4-3

Danny Jansen hasn't needed to adjust to Triple-A pitching, but Triple-A pitchers better start adjusting to Danny Jansen.
The 22-year old Bisons backstop homered off the left field foul pole in the sixth inning of a 4-3 fridaynightbash! over the Gwinnett Braves from Coca-Cola Field. The Herd has now won six of its last seven contests and is 12-5 in the month of August.
Playing in just his 10th career Triple-A game, Jansen collected his fourth multi-hit performance in front of a crowd of 12,386 in downtown Buffalo. He singled and scored the Herd's first run of the game in the second inning and then broke a 3-3 tie with his first career home run at the highest minor league level.

By going 2-4 on the night, the catcher raised his Triple-A average to .483 (14-29) since joining the Herd on August 4, with an incredible .594 on-base percentage. He's hit in every Bisons game he's started.
Jansen got the Bisons attach going in the second inning with a two-out single to centerfield. Two pitches later, Gregorio Petit grounded a double down the third base line. When the ball got caught up in the left field corner, Bisons manager Bobby Meacham wheeled Jansen home from first to tie the game 1-1.

Buffalo built a 3-1 lead on an RBI-double from Michael Saunders and a run-scoring single from Rowdy Tellez in the third, but that lead evaporated with a two-run Rio Ruiz home run off Herd reliever Mike Bolsinger in the top half of the sixth.

Jansen then delivered the game-winning hit with two outs in the bottom of the sixth as he pulled a 1-1 offering from Kris Medlen to left with the ball ricocheting halfway up the pole.
Bolsinger (4-2) earned the win with three innings of relief work. Murphy Smith made the spot start and allowed just one run in four innings of work. The righty found out about 45 minutes before first pitch that he would get the nod in place of TJ House, who was a late-minute scratch.
Chris Smith got the final out for his ninth save of the season. With the bases loaded, Xavier Avery hit a hot smash that was bodied down to the ground by first baseman Rowdy Tellez, who shoveled the ball to Smith just in time to beat Avery's headfirst slide.
The same two tames will take the field on Saturday at 6:05 p.m. for Superhero Night at the ballpark, presented by NCCC. Ballpark gates open at 4 p.m. with over 50 superheroes and villains from the WNY Superhero Alliance in attendance.
BISONS NOTES: The spot start was Murphy Smith's fifth start of the season. He has allowed one run or fewer in four of them…Rowdy Tellez has hit in 15 of 16 games this month with a .365 average and 11 RBI in August…Roemon Fields stole his 38th base of the season. He has 12 more than any other hitter and is now just three shy of Tony Womack's 1994 single-season team record of 41.