Lyon, Petersen lead Red Wings past Mets in doubleheader opener
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Interstat) — Isaac Lyon threw five scoreless innings, and Sam Petersen drove in three runs to lead the Rochester Red Wings to a 5-0 victory over the Syracuse Mets on Friday afternoon in the first game of a doubleheader at NBT Bank Stadium.
Rochester scored twice in the fifth inning. Sam Petersen crossed on Phillip Glasser’s groundout, and Trey Lipscomb followed with a run-scoring fielder’s choice after a Syracuse throwing error. Petersen added a three-run homer in the sixth, scoring Andrew Pinckney and Maxwell Romero Jr. to make it 5-0.
Lyon, the winning pitcher, allowed two hits and struck out five over five innings to improve to 9-5. Jack Wenninger took the loss after giving up two earned runs and four hits in four innings; he struck out five. Kyle Nicolas struck out three in relief, and Paxton Schultz added a scoreless inning.
Rochester had six hits; Syracuse had three. The Red Wings improved to 80-54, while the Mets dropped to 71-64. The game lasted 2:07 before an announced attendance of 3,751.