After Felix Perez homered for the Louisville Bats to give them a 1-0 in the top of the third inning, the Rochester Red Wings showed some offensive muscle of their own in the bottom half of the inning. The Red Wings sent ten men to the plate, got seven hits, and scored four runs to help power themselves to a 5-3 win over the Bats.

The Red Wings took the four game series from the Bats. It is the Red Wings first four-game series win of the season and their first home series victory against the Bats since 2004.

When Pedro Villarreal was promoted to the Louisville Bats on May 5, the book on him was that he threw a lot of strikes. He proved it in his first start May 9 against the Norfolk Tides and again Tuesday night against the Rochester Red Wings.

Villarreal tossed a stellar 6-2/3 innings giving up three runs on nine hits while striking out two and walking none. At one point, Villarreal retired ten straight Rochester hitters. It was the second straight outing (13-2/3 total innings) he did not walk a batter.

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The Louisville Bats simply can’t score first. Saturday night was no different as, for the 26^th time in 37 games, the Bats allowed the first run of the game and eventually fell to the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs 5-3 in ten innings.

In the tenth, Bats reliever Carlos Fisher (0-2) gave up a two-run double to Tuffy Gosewisch to give the Iron Pigs the 5-3 lead.

The Bats came back and took the lead Saturday night but gave the lead up in the seventh and went to extras.