Railriders roll in Buffalo

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders and the Buffalo Bisons started up a three game series in Buffalo on Friday night. Luis Santiago got the start for Buffalo. The Railriders started Domingo Acevedo. Santos started the first inning 1-2-3. Acevedo answered with a 1-2-3 inning of his own. Gleyber Torres hit a two out single but a strikeout kept the game scoreless going to the bottom of the second. Mike Ohlman drew a leadoff walk. After back to back flyouts, Jake Elmore drew a walk but a flyout ended the second. Wilkin Castillo hit a one out double to right, then Tyler Wade walked. Dustin Fowler would hit a double to center to score Castillo and Wade for a 2-0 Railriders lead. Fowler would go to third on a wild pitch. Tyler Austin would draw a walk, then Fowler would score on a sacrifice fly to center by Ji-Man Choi for a 3-0 lead. A strikeout would end the inning. Gregorio Petit drew a two out walk but a popout would end the third. Torres would hit a double to right then Donovan Solano drew a walk. After a strikeout and a flyout, Tyler Wade would hit a double to left to score Torres for a 4-0 lead. A strikeout would end the inning. Mike Ohlman hit a single to center to leadoff the bottom of the fourth but Acevedo would retire the next three to keep the four run lead. Santos threw a 1-2-3 fifth for the Bisons. Ian Parmley hit a two out double to left then Petit hit a single to score Parmley to cut it to 4-1. Rowdy Tellez and Ohlman drew walks to load the bases, but a flyout would end the inning. Murphy Smith would come in to pitch for the Bisons in the sixth. Torres led off with a walk then Solano would single but Torres would be out trying to go to third. A flyout and a lineout would end the Top of the sixth. Acevedo threw a 1-2-3 sixth for the Railriders. Wade led off with a single to center then Dustin Fowler followed with a single to left. Tyler Austin would bring home Wade on a single to make it 5-1 Railriders. After a popout, Clint Frazier would hit his 12th home run of the season, a three run shot to left to make it 8-1. Torres hit a single to left. After a lineout, Mark Payton would draw a walk but a groundout would end the Top half of the inning. Acevedo threw another 1-2-3 inning in the seventh for the Railriders. John Stilson would come in to pitch for the Bisons in the eighth. Wade would hit a triple to center with two outs, but a groundout would end the top of the eighth. Tommy Layne came in to pitch the eighth for the Railriders and threw a 1-2-3 inning. Stilson would throw a 1-2-3 ninth for the Bisons. Jason Leblebijian drew a leadoff walk but Layne would get a 6-4-3 double play for the first two outs. The Railriders would go to Ben Heller for the final out and he would get a flyout to center to give the Railriders an 8-1 victory over Buffalo.

Thoughts on the game: Acevedo had a great game on the mound. He went seven innings, gave up three hits and struck four while giving up one run. Gleyber Torres had a great game, getting three hits and Clint Frazier hit a home run.

News: Several transactions happened today. Mason Williams and Kyle Higashioka were called up due to the injuries to Gary Sanchez and Aaron Hicks. Ben Heller and Tommy Layne reported to the Railriders. Giovanny Gallegos was sent down but has not reported just yet,

Railriders 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 8
Buffalo 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1

Railriders
2B Wade 4 2 2 1
CF Fowler 5 2 2 2
DH Austin 4 1 2 1
1B Choi 4 0 0 1
RF Frazier 5 1 1 3
SS Torres 4 1 3 0
3B Solano 4 0 1 0
LF Payton 3 0 0 0
C Castillo

2B: Castillo, Fowler, Torres, Wade
3B: Austin
HR: Frazier

Buffalo
CF Parmley 4 1 1 0
3B Petit 3 0 1 1
1B Tellez 3 0 0 0
C Ohlman 2 0 1 0
DH Saltalmacchia 4 0 0 0
2B Lebleijian 3 0 0 0
LF Elmore 3 0 0 0
RF Opitz 4 0 0 0
SS Diaz 3 0 0 0

2B: Parmley

Pitching
Railriders
Acevedo (W) 7 IP 3 H 1 R 1 ER 5 BB 4 K
Layne 1.2 IP 0 H 0 R 0 ER 1 BB 2 K
Heller 0.1 IP 0 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 0 K

Buffalo
Santos (L) 5 IP 5 H 4 R 4 ER 3 BB 10 K
Smith 2 IP 6 H 4 R 4 ER 2 BB 0 K
Stilson 2 IP 1 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 3 K