The Columbus Clippers (17-15) swept the Rochester Red Wings (16-16) with a 5-1 win Thursday night at Huntington Park. Trevor Bauer was great as the Clippers got their third straight quality start and he got the win. They have won four straight games, a season high.
Bauer (4-0, 0.89 ERA) went seven and two-thirds inning with one unearned run on two hits and walked two and tied a season high with nine strikeouts. Scott Diamond (2-4, 7.53 ERA) took the loss in a complete game effort. Diamond put in eight innings of work and allowed five runs on nine hits with three strikeouts and four walks.
Columbus struck first with a run on a Tim Fedroff fielder’s choice in the first, but Rochester tied it with an RBI single by Eric Farris in the fifth.
With the game tied 1-1 bottom five “El Jefe” Jesus Aguilar took matters into his own hands. Aguilar had runners on first and second when he found a gap in left-center. A two-run double made it 3-1 Clippers on Aguilar’s team-leading 18th and 19th RBI. With Aguilar on second and two outs Giovanny Urshela, who has started in five games since being called up from Double-A Akron May 3, sent his second homer in Triple-A over the left field wall to make it 5-1 Columbus in the fifth.
Urshela has a hit in every game he’s started for the Clippers, a five-game hitting streak. The Clippers got a quality start in the last three games of the series (Bauer, Travis Banwart, Kyle Davies). Fedroff extended his on base streak to 23 with a single in the third.
The Clippers host the Syracuse Chiefs for four games starting Friday night. Taylor Hill (4-1, 1.82 ERA) will be on the hill for Syracuse against T.J. House (1-2, 2.12 ERA) for Columbus at 7:15 p.m. from Huntington Park.
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