The Buffalo Bisons had a chance to snap their losing skid against an opponent mired in one of their own, but failed to do so as the Syracuse Chiefs escaped with a 5-3 victory at Coca-Cola Field on Thursday.
Down 5-0 in the seventh, the Bisons scored twice as Chris Colabello singled to CF and moved up a bag on Jesus Montero’s liner off of Jason Martinson’s glove at short. Domonic Brown then came through with an RBI double to cut the deficit to four.
With two out and the bases loaded, Dalton Pompey bounced a routine grounder to second but Christopher Bostick booted it, allowing Buffalo’s second run to score. Ryan Goins then scorched a grounder down the first-base line but the hot-shot was handled by Caleb Ramsey, ending the rally.
The Herd tallied once more in the eighth as Colabello belted a ball just beyond the wall in right-center field.
“I’m just trying to get back to being myself. Things have been going a little fast for me,” said Colabello postgame.
“You can have a lot of out-of-body experiences when you’re getting back to hitting again because things go a little fast on you. Little by little you start to get back into it.”
The first baseman’s second home run with the Herd cut the Chiefs lead to 5-3.
Buffalo brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth with two out, but Rafael Martin got Dalton Pompey to groundout as he earned his 20th save.
“If you look at the difference between the two teams tonight, they drove in some runs with guy in scoring position. I think Domonic was the only hit that we got with someone in scoring position,” noted manager Gary Allenson.
“5-0 seemed like 10-0 the way we’ve been swinging the bats. But we came back, so that was a plus.”
Chiefs’ starter A.J. Cole managed to spread eight hits and walk around seven innings. The 6-foot-5 righty allowe two runs, one earned, as he moved back to .500 at 7-7.
For the sixth time in seven starts, Drew Hutchison lasted exactly six innings. The right-hander allowed just four hits but was tagged with three runs and the loss, bringing his record to 6-5 this season. Hutchison struck out six more batters, bringing his total to 110 over 102 innings.
BISONS NOTES:
Prior to Thursday’s action, the Blue Jays signed catcher Erik Kratz to a minor league deal. Kratz is expected to join the Herd on Friday…Tony Sanchez has been granted his release as a corresponding move…Ryan Tepera was also activated by the Bisons earlier in the day…With the seventh-inning double, Domonic Brown extended his hitting streak to 13 games…Buffalo’s nine-game drought matches its longest since May 22-30 of 2003.
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