ROCHESTER -- The Buffalo Bisons took an early lead, but a tough day on the mound for Brandon Knight helped Rochester take a 7-3 win at Frontier Field on Monday night.

The win for the Red Wings gives them a split of the four-game series.

Knight (4-9) gave up six runs on 12 hits in four innings with two wild pitches. Box score

The Herd went up, 2-0, in the first inning with an RBI double by Emil Brown and Mike Lamb's sacrifice fly. But that's all the offense the team

would get until the ninth.

In the bottom of the first, the Red Wings took a 3-2 lead. RBI singles by Steven Tolleson and Justin Huber tied the game, 2-2. A wild pitch by Knight moved runners into scoring position and allowed a ground out by Danny Valencia to score a run and give Rochester the 3-2 lead.

In the fourth, Jason Pridie's two-run double extended the Red Wings' lead to 5-2. Another wild pitch by Knight moved Alexi Casilla to second. Casilla then scored on a triple by Tolleson.

Pridie homered to right field in the sixth for a 7-2 lead.

Javier Castillo had an RBI double in the ninth with two outs to score the final run for the Herd.

Earlier, Bisons left-hander Jonathon Niese was named the International League Pitcher of the Week after throwing the team's first nine-inning

shutout in more than five years Sunday.

The Bisons return home for two games against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees tonight and Wednesday (7:05 p.m., Radio 1520 AM).