BUFFALO, NY – With a 16-hit outing, the Buffalo Bisons offense exploded like fireworks on Monday night as they beat the Worcester Red Sox 8-1 at Sahlen Field.
Worcester got the scoring started in the top of the second inning when Narciso Crook made the score 1-0 as he doubled on a sharp line drive to right, scoring Ronaldo Hernandez.
The Herd answered back in the bottom of the third as Nathan Lukes hit a long double to the left field corner and Cameron Eden turned on the jets, scoring from first base and tying the score at 1-1. Buffalo took the lead 3-1 as Addison Barger singled to left, allowing Lukes and Rafael Lantigua to touch home. The scoring kept on coming for the Bisons in the third thanks to Jordan Luplow’s RBI double that scored Barger, 4-1.
Spencer Horwitz helped the Herd add on an insurance run in the bottom of the fourth as he hit a bases loaded sacrifice fly that was good for his 36th RBI of the season and a 5-1 game as it scored Tyler Heineman from third base.
The bats stayed alive for the Bisons in the bottom of the fifth inning as Luplow hammered the ball over the left center wall for a solo home run that made it a 6-1 ball game.
Heineman used the short ball to extend Buffalo’s lead to 7-1 as he singled to right and scored Luis De Los Santos. Lantigua had a productive out as he made it a 8-1 ball game with a sacrifice fly that scored Heineman from third.
With only four hits allowed and no earned runs, the Bisons pitching staff was firing from all cylinders tonight. Relief pitchers Hagen Danner, Yosver Zulueta, and Jimmy Burnette combined for four scoreless innings and registered zero hits against. Bisons starter RHP Paxton Schultz posted five strikeouts in five innings of work.
The Bisons will head to Rochester on Tuesday to face the Red Wings in the first game of a six-game series. RHP Casey Lawrence will be on the mound for the Bisons and RHP Jackson Rutledge gets the ball for the Red Wings with a 6:45 p.m. scheduled first pitch.
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