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Saturday 5/31/08
YANKS GET BEST OF WINGS IN EXTRAS Despite Francisco Liriano pitching six plus innings of one-run baseball, the Rochester Red Wings lost, 5-2 in 10 innings, to the IL North Division-leading Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on Saturday night at Frontier Field.
To make matters worse, the Wings finished up the month of May with a 10-20 record. It was their first 20-loss month since August 2002 when they went 11-20.
Even though it was a poor result for Rochester, things started out well to begin the game.
It seemed a lot like May 30 for Darnell McDonald as he, for the second night in a row, homered in the first inning to give the Wings a 1-0 lead. The blast that sailed far into the picnic area in left field off of Yankees starter Jeff Karstens also accounted for his third home run in three consecutive nights. The first was a sixth inning center field shot on May 29 against the Charlotte Knights.
The Yankees (36-21) got to Liriano fairly fast as well. After Justin Christian led off the inning with a single, Eric Duncan dipped a double into center to score Christian, two batters later, from second. The run knotted the game at 1.
Rochester (23-34) regained the lead again in the fourth, taking a 2-1 lead. After two singles to center by Randy Ruiz and Jose Morales and a Sergio Santos walk to load the bases, Chris Basak hit a one-out, sac fly to score Ruiz.
After that inning, Karstens exited in favor of Scranton reliever Heath Phillips. Karstens allowed two runs on six hits as well as walking and striking out two.
Liriano came out a few innings later. He finished pitching 6 1/3 innings while allowing just one run on three hits. He also struckout seven and yielded just one walk.
Unfortunately for Liriano, his chance for his first win of the season didn't last long. Reliever Bobby Korecky came in for Liriano after he had struck out the first batter of the sixth. On the next batter, Korecky gave up a double to Nick Green. The next batter, Duncan, got a single that advanced Green to third. Green scored after Korecky threw a wild pitch, tying the score at 2.
After that inning Korecky calmed down. The next inning he pitched was scoreless and he exited with 1 2/3 innings pitched, two hits and one walk. The relief appearance was Korecky's first with the Wings since April 23 due to being called up to the Minnesota Twins. He was sent back down on May 30. Julio DePaula came in to pitch the top of the ninth inning and held Scranton to just one hit that inning.
The Red Wings had a chance to win in the ninth but couldn't capitalize.
After both Morales and Santos struck out to start the inning, but after that Basak reached on an error, Watkins singled and Jason Pridie made it to first on a wild pitch strikeout to load the bases. McDonald struckout after Pridie to end the threat.
In the top of the tenth, the Yankees took the opportunity the Wings didn't use.
Chris Stewart started the inning with a lead-off double. He was replaced by pinch runner Bernie Castro, who advanced on a sacrifice by Brett Gardner. Castro scored when DePaula threw a wild pitch that went under the glove of Morales. The run put the Yanks up, 3-2.
The next few batters added insult to injury. After Alberto Gonzalez singled, Jason Lane belted a home run to make the score, 5-2. After that at-bat, DePaula (1-2) exited and was replaced by Mariano Gomez, who finished up the inning.
David Robertson (2-0) earned the win for Scranton Wilkes-Barre after pitching 2 1/3 scoreless innings with two hits and six strikeouts.
YANKS GET BEST OF WINGS IN EXTRAS Despite Francisco Liriano pitching six plus innings of one-run baseball, the Rochester Red Wings lost, 5-2 in 10 innings, to the IL North Division-leading Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on Saturday night at Frontier Field.
To make matters worse, the Wings finished up the month of May with a 10-20 record. It was their first 20-loss month since August 2002 when they went 11-20.
Even though it was a poor result for Rochester, things started out well to begin the game.
It seemed a lot like May 30 for Darnell McDonald as he, for the second night in a row, homered in the first inning to give the Wings a 1-0 lead. The blast that sailed far into the picnic area in left field off of Yankees starter Jeff Karstens also accounted for his third home run in three consecutive nights. The first was a sixth inning center field shot on May 29 against the Charlotte Knights.
The Yankees (36-21) got to Liriano fairly fast as well. After Justin Christian led off the inning with a single, Eric Duncan dipped a double into center to score Christian, two batters later, from second. The run knotted the game at 1.
Rochester (23-34) regained the lead again in the fourth, taking a 2-1 lead. After two singles to center by Randy Ruiz and Jose Morales and a Sergio Santos walk to load the bases, Chris Basak hit a one-out, sac fly to score Ruiz.
After that inning, Karstens exited in favor of Scranton reliever Heath Phillips. Karstens allowed two runs on six hits as well as walking and striking out two.
Liriano came out a few innings later. He finished pitching 6 1/3 innings while allowing just one run on three hits. He also struckout seven and yielded just one walk.
Unfortunately for Liriano, his chance for his first win of the season didn't last long. Reliever Bobby Korecky came in for Liriano after he had struck out the first batter of the sixth. On the next batter, Korecky gave up a double to Nick Green. The next batter, Duncan, got a single that advanced Green to third. Green scored after Korecky threw a wild pitch, tying the score at 2.
After that inning Korecky calmed down. The next inning he pitched was scoreless and he exited with 1 2/3 innings pitched, two hits and one walk. The relief appearance was Korecky's first with the Wings since April 23 due to being called up to the Minnesota Twins. He was sent back down on May 30. Julio DePaula came in to pitch the top of the ninth inning and held Scranton to just one hit that inning.
The Red Wings had a chance to win in the ninth but couldn't capitalize.
After both Morales and Santos struck out to start the inning, but after that Basak reached on an error, Watkins singled and Jason Pridie made it to first on a wild pitch strikeout to load the bases. McDonald struckout after Pridie to end the threat.
In the top of the tenth, the Yankees took the opportunity the Wings didn't use.
Chris Stewart started the inning with a lead-off double. He was replaced by pinch runner Bernie Castro, who advanced on a sacrifice by Brett Gardner. Castro scored when DePaula threw a wild pitch that went under the glove of Morales. The run put the Yanks up, 3-2.
The next few batters added insult to injury. After Alberto Gonzalez singled, Jason Lane belted a home run to make the score, 5-2. After that at-bat, DePaula (1-2) exited and was replaced by Mariano Gomez, who finished up the inning.
David Robertson (2-0) earned the win for Scranton Wilkes-Barre after pitching 2 1/3 scoreless innings with two hits and six strikeouts.
