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The Lehigh Valley IronPigs scored early and often and leaned on their bullpen late, topping the Rochester Red Wings 6-4 Tuesday at ESL Ballpark.
Rochester jumped in front with a three-run first but was held scoreless over the final six innings, dropping to 49-31 while Lehigh Valley improved to 38-44.
Lehigh Valley took an early lead when Dylan Moore and Keaton Anthony started the game with back-to-back singles, and Bryan De La Cruz singled to bring Moore home.
Rochester responded quickly. Seaver King’s single set up Yohandy Morales, who hit a double to score King, and Harry Ford followed with a two-run single to left that plated Morales and Brady House for a 3-1 lead.
The IronPigs clawed back in the second as Steward Berroa singled, Carlson followed with a knock to move him to third, and Moore lifted a sacrifice fly to left to pull Lehigh Valley within 3-2. In the third, Otto Kemp’s leadoff single set the table for Paul McIntosh, who drilled a two-run homer to left off Chandler Champlain to flip the score to 4-3.
Rochester briefly tied the score in the bottom of the third. Abimelec Ortiz singled, House drew his second walk of the night, and Ford singled, scoring Ortiz and moving House to third to tie it 4-4. The Red Wings’ rally ended when Joey Wiemer grounded into a double play.
Lehigh Valley took the lead for good in the fourth without the benefit of a clean base hit. Carlson reached when Ortiz misplayed a grounder at first, then advanced all the way to third on a pair of throwing errors by Ortiz and Ford before scoring on Anthony’s single to left for a 5-4 edge.
Rochester’s offense could not solve the IronPigs bullpen after Tucker Davidson exited. Morales’ fifth-inning single and Ortiz’s hit-by-pitch were erased by a House double play, and the Red Wings managed just one hit — an Andrew Pinckney single in the sixth — against relievers Michael Mercado, Tanner Banks and Nolan Hoffman the rest of the way.
Carlson provided the final cushion in the eighth. After Cole Henry retired the first two batters, Carlson lifted his sixth homer of the season into the right-field seats, extending the IronPigs’ lead to 6-4.
Banks struck out two in a scoreless eighth, and Hoffman needed just nine pitches in the ninth to secure his fourth saveInformation gathered from milb.com.
This story was created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Ford drives in three runs, but Red Wings fall to IronPigs
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Rochester jumped in front with a three-run first but was held scoreless over the final six innings, dropping to 49-31 while Lehigh Valley improved to 38-44.
Lehigh Valley took an early lead when Dylan Moore and Keaton Anthony started the game with back-to-back singles, and Bryan De La Cruz singled to bring Moore home.
Rochester responded quickly. Seaver King’s single set up Yohandy Morales, who hit a double to score King, and Harry Ford followed with a two-run single to left that plated Morales and Brady House for a 3-1 lead.
The IronPigs clawed back in the second as Steward Berroa singled, Carlson followed with a knock to move him to third, and Moore lifted a sacrifice fly to left to pull Lehigh Valley within 3-2. In the third, Otto Kemp’s leadoff single set the table for Paul McIntosh, who drilled a two-run homer to left off Chandler Champlain to flip the score to 4-3.
Rochester briefly tied the score in the bottom of the third. Abimelec Ortiz singled, House drew his second walk of the night, and Ford singled, scoring Ortiz and moving House to third to tie it 4-4. The Red Wings’ rally ended when Joey Wiemer grounded into a double play.
Lehigh Valley took the lead for good in the fourth without the benefit of a clean base hit. Carlson reached when Ortiz misplayed a grounder at first, then advanced all the way to third on a pair of throwing errors by Ortiz and Ford before scoring on Anthony’s single to left for a 5-4 edge.
Rochester’s offense could not solve the IronPigs bullpen after Tucker Davidson exited. Morales’ fifth-inning single and Ortiz’s hit-by-pitch were erased by a House double play, and the Red Wings managed just one hit — an Andrew Pinckney single in the sixth — against relievers Michael Mercado, Tanner Banks and Nolan Hoffman the rest of the way.
Carlson provided the final cushion in the eighth. After Cole Henry retired the first two batters, Carlson lifted his sixth homer of the season into the right-field seats, extending the IronPigs’ lead to 6-4.
Banks struck out two in a scoreless eighth, and Hoffman needed just nine pitches in the ninth to secure his fourth saveInformation gathered from milb.com.
This story was created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Ford drives in three runs, but Red Wings fall to IronPigs
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