Courtesy of the Rochester Red Wings
Alex Meyer twirled six shutout innings as the Red Wings clipped the Gwinnett Braves, 3-2, Saturday night at Coolray Field.
With the victory, the Wings have won 20 of their last 26 games including seven straight series openers. Rochester (36-26) is now 10 games over the .500 mark for the first time since finishing the 2013 regular season at 77-67.
Meyer (4-2) – who allowed just four hits (all singles) and one walk – struck out eight to take over the International League lead with 75 punch outs on the season.
For Meyer, it was the 7th time in 12 starts this season that he has allowed one or fewer earned runs as the Twins top pitching prospect lowered his ERA to 3.30.
Meyer turned things over to Ryan Pressly, who worked a spotless seventh inning before running into trouble in the eighth. With one out in the inning, Pressly walked back-to-back hitters to load the bases. Manager Gene Glynn called on southpaw Aaron Thompson, who struck out lefty Mark Hamilton, before allowing a two-out, two-run single to Christian Bethancourt which trimmed the lead to 3-2.
Thompson ended the threat getting Joey Terdoslavich to ground out weakly to third.
Michael Tonkin entered in the ninth and retired the side in order to earn his tied for team-leading fourth save of the season.
The Wings are now 11-for-11 in save chances over the last 23 games after going just 6-for-11 to begin the season.
The Wings beat Yunesky Maya on Saturday after Maya allowed just three hits in seven shutout innings in his last start against the Wings on Monday night at Frontier Field.
Deibinson Romero drove in the Wings first run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning scoring Eric Farris who doubled to lead-off the inning.
The Eric’s, Fryer and Farris, delivered back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth to extend the lead to 3-0.
The Wings had several chances to extend the lead, but went just 2-for-16 with runners is scoring position as they stranded 12 men on base on the night.
The Wings seek a third straight win in game two of the series on Sunday afternoon (2:05 p.m.). LHP Logan Darnell (1-3, 2.58) will make the start for Rochester.
WINGS THINGS: OF Wilkin Ramirez (1-for-4) extended his hit streak to 10 games over which he’s batting .350 (14-for-40). The 10-game streak is the second longest streak by a Red Wing this season (Parmelee, 15 games)…Chris Colabello (3-for-5) notched his first multi-hit game with the Wings this season and his first since April 23 with the Twins. He now has a six-game hitting streak over which he’s 8-for-22 (.364)…The Wings are now 11-2 vs. Gwinnett over the last two seasons.
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