A rough road trip came to a happy end with a 3-1 victory over the Columbus Clippers on Friday night in Columbus behind a dominant pitching performance from Ramon Ortiz.
Ortiz threw a complete game allowing just one run on two hits both in the fourth inning to pick up his second win as a Bison. He retired the final 16 batters of the game. He becomes the third Bisons pitcher with a complete game this season, joining Pat Misch and R.A. Dickey.
After going 0-2 with an 8.53 ERA after his first four starts with Buffalo, Ortiz has come into his own in his last four starts, going 2-1 and cutting his ERA more than in half as it now sits at 3.94. Ortiz has four quality starts in a row in which he's given up just three earned runs in his last 29 innings on the mound. During that span he has walked just two batters compared to striking out 19.
Buffalo jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Fernando Martinez's eleventh homer of the year. The Bisons would never relinquish the lead. Lucas Duda continued his hot hitting going 2x4 with a double, triple and RBI.
The Bisons two-city eight-game road trip comes to an end after the Bisons went just 2-6 on the trip, including getting swept in a four game series at Toledo. The Herd earned a series split with the Clippers with tonight's win.
The Herd will open an eight-game home stand tomorrow night with the first game of a four-game set with the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. The Bisons will than play four more with the Clippers at Coca-Cola Field.
BISONS NOTES: Justin Turner went 1x3 in the game extending his hitting streak to seven games...The time of the game was 2:09, nearly an hour quicker then the previous three games in the series...Nick Evans went 1x4 in his first game with the Bisons this year after being brought up from Double-A Binghamton
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