Norfolk 7, Buffalo 5  By Andrew O’Brien The Buffalo Bisons led 3-1 in the fifth inning, but the Norfolk Tides exploded for five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Monday night en route to a 7-5 win in the opening game of a four-game series. Colin McHugh got his first Triple-A start after getting promoted from Binghamton on Sunday. McHugh (0-1) went five innings, allowing four runs on five hits while striking out [...]

Pawtucket 6, Buffalo 1 Sunday was the final game of the four-game set, and the end result was no different from the first three. The Bisons fell 6-1 to the PawSox, drifting eight games behind in the divisional race heading into an 8-game road trip to Norfolk and Durham. Inefficient starting pitching doomed the Herd this weekend, and the case was no different Sunday. Garrett Olson got the start for Buffalo, and a 39-pitch first [...]

Pawtucket 8, Buffalo 5 By Dave [Retire 31] The Bisons took an early lead, Saturday night, but after a comedy of errors and the bullpen not holding the lead, they dropped another winnable game 8-5 to the Pawtucket Red Sox. Jeurys Familia started for the Bisons, and he needed all the defense he could get. After walking the first three batters to start the second inning, he was able keep them all from scoring by [...]

Tough night for the Mets, as the Reds took the lead in the first and never looked back in this 4-1 defeat. Summary It was a low scoring affair tonight, and not much went in favor of our hometown heroes. They fell behind in top of the first and never really got back on track after that, even though Jon Niese recovered pretty well. Jon Niese took the mound this evening and did not pitch [...]

 Pawtucket 8, Buffalo 3 By Dave [Retire 31] The Buffalo Bisons gave up four home runs, and then attempted a late inning rally, but to no avail as they lost 8-3 to Pawtucket. Dylan Owen with the start Friday night for Buffalo, got tagged really early giving up a solo homer on the second pitch of the game. He induced three straight groundouts to end the inning. In the third inning, Owen was tagged for [...]

Pawtucket 5, Buffalo 0 By Joe D. There’s only one storyline for the Bisons in this game and it was the stellar performance by one, Matt Harvey, who put on a dazzling display of pitching in his ten strikeout, seven inning show last night. He made just one bad pitch and it cost him big-time as it sailed over the wall for a three-run homer to put Pawtucket up 3-0 over the The Herd. Harvey [...]

Game 1: Reading 3, Binghamton 1 By Tim Burns The Binghamton Mets jumped out to the early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first in game one of their double header against the Reading Phillies on Wednesday night, but in the end found themselves on the losing end of the final score by a 3-1 tally. The B-Mets first only run was scored by Josh Rodriguez, who was on first base when Jefry Marte [...]

Bisons 8, Norfolk 7 By Andrew O’Brien The Norfolk Tides committed three errors in the seventh inning and the Buffalo Bisons plated three runs en route to an 8-7 victory on Tuesday night. Buffalo jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the bottom of the second inning when Sean Kazmar hit a two-out double to score Josh Satin and Valentino Pascucci. Then, in the bottom of the third inning, Satin launched a [...]

The Amazins’ bounce-back and take advantage of their chances in a 11-2 victory of the Rays. Summary We needed this, we really did. This had bounce-back win written all over it, and with the way the ball was hit tonight, it was probably tattooed on the ball. A certain Chris Young equaled exactly half of his work from last year, by making his second start, on route to his first win of this season.(Jokes aside, [...]

Norfolk 5, Buffalo 4 By Joe D. The Bisons fell to the Norfolk Tides 5-4 in a rain-shortened affair last night in Buffalo, in a game that was telelcast live on SNY. Jeurys Famila started for the Herd and for four innings he was cruising along as the Bisons built a 4-0 lead and the Tides couldn’t do much against Familia who looked solid. But then came the fifth inning and the rain really started to [...]

Buffalo 4, Norfolk 2 By Sean Kenny The Bisons offense managed to capitalize on the hits that they did scratch across, and the quartet of pitchers today proved effective in their 4-2 win against the Norfolk Tides Dylan Owen started again today, and was effectively wild on the day, limiting the Tides to two runs on four hits while walking three and striking out two in four and two-thirds innings. Owen threw 65 pitches, 37 [...]