By IAIN HIGGINS
Red Wings third baseman Shane Andrews drilled a game-deciding two-run triple in the eighth inning and a sacrifice fly in the sixth in a 6-4 win over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons in front of 7,234 fans at Frontier Field on this day in 2003.
Both at-bats came after Red Barons manager Marc Bombard instructed pitcher Brian Powell to walk Todd Sears in favor of facing Andrews. Powell had started each of Andrews’s at-bats with a fastball, allowing the veteran third baseman to connect on the first pitch of his eighth inning at-bat and bring Michael Restovich and Sears home.
“He’s got to walk Sears there. It’s the right play. And yet, I’m going ‘You’re going to respect me as well’ and make them think about it the next time,” Andrews commented.
Andrews spent seven seasons in the majors before coming to Rochester in 2003. He donned a uniform for the Montreal Expos, the Chicago Cubs, and the Boston Red Sox, and posted a .220 major league batting average with 86 home runs and 263 RBI in 569 games played.
Also On This Day- On August 21, 2001, Red Wing center fielder Tim Raines Jr. faced off against his father, Ottawa Lynx DH Tim Raines Sr. in a double header in Ottawa. The Wings split the double header in which Raines Jr. went 2-for-7 and Raines Sr. went 1-for-7.
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