Early leads key in doubleheader sweep

Doubleheaders continue to suite the Bisons just fine.
For the second time in the same series, the Herd won a pair of games against their closes trival. This time, Buffalo defeated the Red Wings 11-2 in game one rout before earning a 3-1 win in game two from Frontier Field on Sunday afternoon.
The Herd's latest triumphs build off 9-8 and 2-1 wins in the series opening doubleheader on Friday night.
Jordan Romano made his Triple-A debut and improved to 9-0 on the season (baseball's only nine-game winner) and benefiting from all the offense in game one. Between the two games on Sunday, Buffalo hitters produced 21 hits. Richard Ureña was particularly effective with four hits including a two-run homerun in Game one.
It didn't take long for the Bisons to wake up the bats against Red Wings' starter Trevor May. Buffalo scored in each of the first three innings and again in the sixth to swing their way to a 11-2 victory in game one.
The win was truly a collective effort by the Herd offense. Every Buffalo hitter in the lineup reached base at least once throughout the course of the game.
The Herd claimed a 2-0 lead in their opening frame when Richard Urena clubbed his first homerun this season as a member of the Bisons-a two-run blast to right field.
By the third inning, the Bisons were in cruise control, protecting a 7-1 lead after a four-run frame.
In that inning, the Bisons knocked May out of the game, who struggled to find the zone. The righty was on a rehab assignment recuperating from Tommy John surgery dating back to last March. Four walks, a hit batter and a high pitch count plagued his 2.2 innings of work.
The Herd loaded the bases with two outs. Ian Parmley cleared the bases, squeaking a single on the ground through the gap between first and second. Jason Leblebijian and Reese McGuire scored on the hit, and a third run came home on the play after a throwing error committed by Rochester catcher Willians Astudillo. Roemon Fields' single plated Parmley for the fourth run of the inning.
Those runs helped righty Jordan Romano capture the winning decision in his Triple-A debut with the Bisons. He dealed against the Red Wings, tossing 5.0 innings in a commendable two-run outing.
He allowed just two hits in the first four innings and four total hits, none of which were for extra-base.
Romano got the starting nod after being called up to Buffalo earlier in the day. The former Blue Jays' tenth-round selection posted awe-inspiring numbers playing for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Prior to his promotion, he collected a Minor League-best eight wins in nine games started and tossed a superb ERA to the tune of 2.04.
The 25-year-old became the second starting pitcher to make his Triple-A debut this week for the Bisons after Sean Reid-Foley got the start against Syracuse on Thursday afternoon.
Romano got into some early trouble, but it never put a damper on his auspicious premiere.
He walked the first two Red Wings' hitters to begin the game. Despite giving up one run in the first, he escaped the jam with a heads up play on a 1-5 put out. Romano then fanned Astudillo to end the frame.
In the second, the Red Wings threatened with runners on first and second with nobody out in the inning, but Tellez came to the rescue. The first baseman snagged a sharp liner from Leonardo Reginatto and took it to the bag himself to double off Taylor Featherson, ending the inning.
After a stagnant fourth and fifth inning, the Bisons padded their lead to nine in the sixth, solidifying the blowout win.
Three straight singles loaded the bases for the second time in the game. Rowdy Tellez and Anthony Alford both provided RBI-singles to right field to plate the first two runs. Then, Reese McGuire's single scored Tellez. The fourth run was gifted on a wild pitch thrown by Red Wings' reliever Luke Bard.

In game two of the doubleheader, the Bisons two-run first inning provided all the offense the Bisons required to take their second straight from the Red Wings in a 3-1 victory.
Buffalo didn't waste much time once again to get runs across the plate, touching up righty Adalberto Mejía early.
The first four hitters that came to the dish all recorded hits, and Tellez's eighth double of the season scored Fields and Urena.
The Bisons added a much-needed insurance run in the fifth on Lourdes Gurriel Jr.'s RBI single. He slashed a ball into left field that brought Urena home just in the nick of time before Rochester third basemen slapped a tag on Danny Jansen, who attempted to advance to third on the hit.
The Bisons' sent Deck McGuire to the bump for the start in Game two. He wasn't eligible to pick up a win in a four-inning start but left the game without sacrificing an earned run. He held the Red Wings to five hits.
The Red Wings scored one in the second and had a chance to tie the game in the third, but the threat did not come to pass after Zack Granite was tagged out by Jansen in a pickle between third base and home plate.
The duo of Luis Santos and Tim Mayza was solid against Rochester. The pair of right-handers pitched three innings in relief and each added a strikeout to their final line.