Rafael Lantigua hit a two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning to give the Bisons the only lead they would need in a 4-2 win over the Worcester Red Sox on Sunday afternoon at Polar Park. The third baseman’s second homer of the season snapped a 2-2 tie and improved the Herd’s record to 7-0 on Sunday’s this season.
Davis Schneider also homered in the win and five Buffalo hurlers combined to strike out 11 WooSox batters in ending the club’s 13-game roadtrip on a winning note. The Bisons will now return home for 12 straight at Sahlen Field beginning Tuesday night against Syracuse.
With the game tied at two and with Cam Eden on base after a lead-off single, Lantigua went the opposite way on a 91 mph sinker from Worcester reliever Joe Jacques and drove it out of the ballpark to right-center. The homer traveled 382 feet to give the Herd a 4-2 lead.
Just an inning earlier, the Bisons used the longball to tie the game for the second time. Schneider belted his club-leading fifth home run of the year on a two-out full-count pitch from Justin Garza. Four of Schneider’s five home run have come over the last two weeks.
Worcester took the lead early on Sunday as Daniel Palka’s RBI-single in the first inning opened the scoring. The Bisons answered in the third on Spencer Horwitz’s sacrifice fly, his 15th RBI on the year. Niko Goodrum’s single with two on in the fifth gave the WooSox their temporarily 2-1 lead.
Mitch White got the start for the Bisons and scattered six hits over four innings of one-run baseball. He struck out seven batters. Trent Thornton improved to 2-0 on the year with 1.2 innings of scoreless relief. He came on with two on base and only one out in the sixth and retired the next two batters to keep the Bisons deficit at 2-1.
Luke Bard earned his first save of the year with a pair of strikeouts in a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
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