Pineda’s two homers carry Red Wings past Bisons 6‑3
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Interstat) — Leandro Pineda hit two home runs and drove in two runs to lead the Rochester Red Wings to a 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Bisons on Wednesday afternoon at Frontier Field.
Pineda homered in the second and eighth innings. Cayden Wallace and Liover Peguero also homered for Rochester, which scored four runs in the second. Jack Sinclair earned the win, improving to 6-2, with two scoreless relief innings. Gus Varland recorded his fifth save.
Buffalo took a 1-0 lead in the first on Sean Keys’ RBI single. The Bisons scored single runs in the fifth and eighth, but Rochester’s bullpen held. Josh Stephan took the loss, falling to 7-8, allowing five earned runs over 5 2/3 innings. Ricky Tiedemann threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief.
Buffalo had seven hits and grounded into two double plays, while Rochester had six hits. The Red Wings improved to 76-50, and the Bisons dropped to 62-64. Attendance was 6,766, and the game lasted 2 hours, 24 minutes.