Some bizarre Bisons numbers
Strange four-game split the Bisons just finished with Rochester. Buffalo was 0-24 when trailing after eight innings until Wednesday night's stunning six-run ninth set the stage for an 8-7 win in the 10th. Thanks mostly to departed closer Rick Bauer -- who's clearly been this team's MVP to date -- Bufffalo was 21-1 when leading through eight until Bubbie Buzachero blew a two-run lead Friday night and the Red Wings went on to win, 4-3, in the 11th.
So the team's road trip starts Saturday night with three in Pawtucket (Clay Buchholz is scheduled to start for the PawSox on Sunday) and continues with a four-gamer at Lehigh Valley, the Herd's first trip to Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pa.
The Bisons enter the trip just 28-34 and going nowhere in the IL North at 9 1/2 games out of first. They're only 15-17 at home (and just 2-9 on Thursdays and Fridays, when crowds tend to be better). Even more alarming is the offense, which shows no interest in the late innings. In the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth, Buffalo is being outscored by a combined total of 114-79.
Bauer is gone. Aaron Laffey, Jeremy Sowers and Adam Miller are gone. The season reaches the halfway mark June 16 and this looks like it could be one yawner of a summer.
---Mike Harrington
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