The Columbus Clippers (37-33) beat the Buffalo Bisons (32-35) 8-4 Monday night. Columbus got two big innings to take the series opener. The win is the fifth straight on the homestand and sixth in a row overall.
Tyler Cloyd (4-4, 4.69 ERA) had a decent outing and took the win. He allowed four runs on 10 hits with no walks and three strikeouts in six innings of work. Deck McGuire (3-1, 4.50 ERA) had his first poor outing with Buffalo. He only lasted three and one-third innings and allowed six runs, five earned, on six hits with three walks and four strikeouts.
The Bisons struck first with a single in the second. After A.J. Jimenez led off the frame with a double, Jared Goedert drove him in with a hit up the middle. Goedert was caught off first base as Clippers first baseman Jesus Aguilar cut the throw home and second baseman Elliot Johnson was waiting for the throw at first.
The Clippers plated a pair in the bottom of the frame. After a one-out single by Ryan Rohlinger followed by a Luke Carlin double the Clippers had runners on second and third. Justin Sellers tied the game on a single. Tyler Holt gave Columbus a 2-1 lead on an RBI groundout.
Dan Johnson crushed a homer to right to lead off the fourth inning. It was Johnson’s International League-leading 15th and the homer allowed by Cloyd was his 14th, most allowed in the IL.
The Clippers retook the lead with a huge fourth inning. Luke Carlin reached on a throwing error by McGuire, Sellers doubled and Holt singled to load the bases. Tim Fedroff broke the tie with an RBI single to right. Aguilar singled to make it 4-2. Johnson really broke it open with a two-run double. Carlos Moncrief hit a sacrifice fly to make it a five-run inning and gave Columbus a 7-2 lead.
Johnson was at it again in the fifth. He hit a two-run shot in the inning to cut the Clippers lead to three. It was his 16th and the 15th allowed by Cloyd in 2014.
Moncrief threw out his IL-leading 14th base runner in the sixth inning when Adron Chambers tried to stretch a single to a double.
Game two of the series will be a 7:05 p.m. first pitch Tuesday night. Kyle Davies (3-4, 4.26 ERA) will toe the rubber for the Clippers against Sean Nolin (2-3, 3.30 ERA) for the Bisons.
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