The Columbus Clippers (20-17) lost to the Rochester Red Wings (17-20) 6-0 in six innings. A five-run fifth inning powered by four homers in the inning helped the Red Wings soar Tuesday night before a rain delay occurred in the bottom of the sixth and the game was deemed final.
Trevor Bauer (4-1, 2.15 ERA) proved he is in fact human in the start. After six consecutive quality starts and no losses to start the season Bauer gave up four homers against Rochester. He went five and two-thirds innings and allowed six earned runs on nine hits with three walks and four strikeouts. The outing almost doubled his ERA from 1.12 before the start.
Trevor May (2-3, 4.11 ERA) was the good Trevor as he got the win in his second try against the Clippers in 2014. May went six innings and allowed three hits and two walks with six strikeouts. He was at 85 pitches before the rain.
The scoring started with a run on a bases-loaded walk by Wilkin Ramirez to put the Red Wings up in the bottom of the first.
The Clippers would not counter and there was no scoring until the big inning for Rochester. The Red Wings scored five in the fifth. Eric Farris led off the inning with a solo homer. James Beresford then singled in front of an Oswaldo Arcia two-run blast. A solo bomb by Deibinson Romero made it back-to-back off of Bauer. Chris Herrmann made it three consecutive and four in the inning.
Right after Scott Barnes was set to come into the game and made his final warm-up pitches the skies opened up over Frontier Field. A one hour and fourteen minute rain delay followed before the game was called.
Going into the game Tuesday Rochester had six homers at home all season. The homers by Farris, Arcia, Romero and Herrmann were the first of the season for each man. The win for the Red Wings stopped an eight game losing streak.
Game two will have T.J. House (1-2, 1.77 ERA) for the Clippers against Scott Diamond (2-4, 7.53 ERA) for the Red Wings in a matchup of a couple of lefties at 7:05 p.m.
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