The Rochester Red Wings saw their 10-game winning streak come to an end Thursday night, falling 8-4 to the Syracuse Mets at ESL Ballpark.
Syracuse took the lead early. In the top of the second inning, Ben Rortvedt singled to right field, bringing home Ryan Clifford and Andy Ibáñez to give the Mets a 2-0 advantage.
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Rochester quickly responded in the bottom half of the inning. Riley Adams drew a bases-loaded walk to score Seaver King, and Phillip Glasser followed with a sacrifice fly to left field, plating Joey Wiemer to tie the game at 2-2.
The Mets regained control in the fourth inning. Ibáñez and Yonny Hernández reached base ahead of Rortvedt, and Cristian Pache delivered a triple to right field, clearing the bases and giving Syracuse a 5-2 lead. Jackson Cluff added a sacrifice fly to right, bringing in Pache to extend the lead to 6-2.
The Red Wings chipped away at the deficit with single runs in the fourth and sixth innings. In the fourth, Christian Franklin singled to center, scoring Robert Hassell to make it 6-3. In the sixth, Wiemer singled, stole second and moved to third on a throwing error. Franklin then delivered his second RBI single of the night, scoring Wiemer to cut the deficit to 6-4.
Clifford answered for the Mets in the seventh inning with a solo home run to right field, pushing the lead to 7-4. Ibáñez added an RBI single in the ninth, plating Christian Arroyo to extend the lead to 8-4.
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Ibáñez finished the night with four hits, while Pache drove in three runs and Rortvedt added two RBIs for Syracuse, which totaled 13 hits on the night.
Franklin went 2-for-5 with two RBIs for Rochester, and Glasser and Adams each drove in a run as the Red Wings collected eight hits without committing an error.
While the loss snaps a 10-game winning streak for Rochester, but the team has still won 15 of its last 17 games.
Information gathered from milb.com.
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