By CHUCKIE MAGGIO
The Rochester Red Wings could have credited Greyhound for their win over Buffalo on June 8, 1991.
The Red Wings’ smooth Thruway drive was interrupted by their bus overheating outside Batavia, leaving them stranded en route to Pilot Field. Thankfully for Rochester, a passing Greyhound bus picked the team up and ensured the game would be played as scheduled. Play ball.
Rochester’s bats, unaffected by transportation troubles, knocked 11 hits in a 7-3 victory, the Red Wings’ 11th win in 14 games.
A six-run sixth powered the Wings’ offense, spurred by Jack Voigt’s triple, a Tony Chance double and Scott Meadows’ two-run single. Cecil Espy belabored the point in the Buffalo outfield, allowing Voigt’s triple to roll past him and losing track of Chito Martinez’s fly ball for another triple.
Anthony Telford was a workhorse on the mound, throwing 128 pitches in 8.2 innings in an eight-hit, three-run effort.
“That’s outstanding,” Telford told the Democrat and Chronicle of the team’s showing. “If we do that at home this month, we’ll be awesome.”
After a long, successful eight-game road trip that included a bus breakdown, the Red Wings were pleased to return home to Silver Stadium.
Rochester batting
| Batter | ab | r | h | rbi |
| Jack Voigt | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rod Lofton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Steve Jeltz | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shane Turner | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Tony Chance | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chito Martinez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Jeff Tackett | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Benny DiStefano | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Scott Meadows | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Oddibe McDowell | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Buffalo batting
| Batter | ab | r | h | rbi |
| Cecil Espy | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Keith Miller | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Jeff Schulz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Joey Meyer | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Joe Redfield | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Scott Little | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jeff Banister | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Armando Moreno | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tom Dunbar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlos Garcia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rochester 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 0- 7
Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2- 3
E- Moreno DP- Buffalo 1 LOB- Rochester 7, Buffalo 9 2B- Espy, Schulz, Chance 3B- Voigt, Martinez SB- Espy, Turner, Meadows
Rochester pitching
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Telford (W, 5-5) | 8.2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| de la Rosa | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Buffalo pitching
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Kevin Blankenship (L, 1-2) | 5.2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Carl Hamilton | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mark Huismann | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
WP- Blankenship, Telford, Hamilton
Time- 2:46 Attendance: 18,888
Also on this day: Pete Watts’s sacrifice fly in the 11th inning gave Rochester a 1-0 victory over Tidewater in 1974, the Red Wings’ fifth extra-inning win in six tries this season… Mike Fiore recorded three home runs the day after Jim Fuller’s three-homer game to lift Rochester to a 4-3 win over Charleston in 1976… Billy Moore’s go-ahead eighth-inning home run powered the Red Wings to a 5-4 win over Syracuse at Silver Stadium in 1989… The Red Wings won a 14-12 barn burner to top the Oklahoma City 89ers in a Triple-A Alliance game at All-Sports Stadium in Oklahoma City.
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