Bisons notebook
Twice given a lead, Herd’s Broadway can’t hold it
Buffalo Bisons pitcher Lance Broadway was the first-round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox in 2005 and began this season in Triple-A with the Charlotte Knights. Pitching against his old team Sunday, however, didn’t help change his luck in Coca- Cola Field.
Broadway had another rough outing at home, giving up seven runs and taking the loss in the Bisons’ 7-3 defeat.
Broadway is 1-1 with a 3.65 ERA in three outings on the road for Buffalo. At home, he’s 0-2, 10.93 in three starts.
“He’s got to have command. If he’s throwing strikes with all his pitches, he’s pretty good because he’s got good stuff,” said manager Ken Oberkfell. “A lot of times he gets himself behind in counts, throws a lot of pitches and puts himself in hitter’s counts.”
Broadway had already left the clubhouse by the time Oberkfell finished speaking and was unavailable for comment. He irked his manager by twice giving back leads; the Bisons scored in the first but his two wild pitches in the second helped Charlotte tie the game, and Broadway gave up two runs in the fourth after Emil Brown’s home run in the third put Buffalo in front, 3-1.
“A pitcher’s job is to go out and shut them down the next inning,” Oberkfell said. “Twice, we didn’t shut them down. . . . The most important thing is the next inning.”
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Jonathon Niese’s scoreless streak ended Thursday night in Gwinnett at 24x innin 3/4 1/3 , just shy of the Buffalo record by a starter of 26 set in 1990 by veteran Jerry Reuss. Records are sketchy but it appears Buffalo’s overall mark is 34 innings, set by reliever Blas Minor in 1992.
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The series continues tonight (7 p. m., Radio 1520 AM) with Buffalo’s Tobi Stoner (1-1) starting against Charlotte’s Lucas Harrell, who will be making his first Triple-A start after going 8-3 with a 3.25 ERA at Double-A Birmingham.
Harrell has been replaced at Chicago’s Double- A affiliate by former North Tonawanda star Ricky Brooks, who was 0-1, 4.26 in 10 relief outings at Class A Winston-Salem. Brooks, who played at East Carolina, made his Double-A debut with two scoreless innings of relief Friday night at Mississippi.
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