-By Darryl Harding Sr
A beautiful day for baseball with perfect 75° weather and clear skies. The Worcester Red Sox host the Buffalo Bison in this fourth game of the series.
Woosox currently have a 2-1 lead in games for the homestand and bring right handed starter Tyler Uberstine to the mound. Uberstine, drafted in 2021 and hailing from Santa Monica, California, came on with 64 strikeouts in eleven games played.
Commencing with an immediate walk, Uberstine relinquished a run on a Buffalo double giving up to DH Leo Jimenez. Settling in after the one run. Uberstine breezed through six innings without any additional runs.
For the Bison, southpaw starter Adam Macho donned the mound. Although beginning with a 1-0 advantage, Macho allowing one run in both the second and third innings.
An RBI double by C Seby Zavala, in the second, tied the game and an RBI single by 1B Blaze Jordan gave the Woosox the lead.
Not only excellent pitching but a bang bang play by CF Jhostynxon Garcia in the top of the sixth kept the Bison from catching up. With one out and bases loaded Garcia caught a fly and rifled a rocket to catch Jimenez at the plate holding the Woosox 2-1 lead.
Woosox skipper Chad Tracy commented on Garcia’s play to home-base, “Big-time turning point… 2-1 game…they’re gonna tie the game there…He [Garcia] makes that throw and then all of a sudden… we create that separation. So big-time defensive play for sure.”
Uberstine pitched brilliantly through six innings throwing eighty-four pitches overall with fifty-one in the strike zone. Walking three with six hits and three strikeouts.
A narrow lead was now blown wide open as Woosox bats came alive. Macho, replaced after four innings, was spelled by right handed reliever Bobby Milacki.
Effectively increasing their lead Woosox continuously barraged Buffalo fielders with sharp hard hit balls in play. LF Karson Simas blasted a two RBI single giving a 4-1 lead to the Sox.
Milacki was replaced by RHP Tommy Nance, who fared no better against the Worcester onslaught. Two additional runs scored on a Jordan RBI triple and another one on a SS Vaughn Grissom sacrifice fly.
With a 7-1 advantage, Woosox bullpen did not falter, recording scoreless innings by RHP Olds, RHP Alex Hoppe and RHP Jose Adames to finish out the contest.
Battling the Bison again tomorrow at 405pm, Woosox look to continue their winning ways as of late.