Buffalo pitchers let Omaha score nine runs on Thursday. They did score seven themselves but that wasn't enough. Dunedin's season opener was rained out.

Buffalo 7 Omaha 9

Bradenton at Dunedin - postponed

Three Stars

Third Star - Jon Clase

Second Star - Eloy Jimenez

First Star - Carlos Mendoza

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NOTES

Buffalo's pitching was not up to the job on Thursday. Grant Rogers had a rough first start last week and he was on the mound for start number two. It didn't start well. The first four hitters he faced reached base and three of them scored. A single and a double started the second inning and now he had allowed four runs. After the fourth run he retired eight of the next nine hitters. In four innings he walked two and struck out two.

Joe Mantiply followed and he was charged with one run in two innings. Jorge Alcala gave up four runs in the seventh. Adam Macko pitched a clean eighth.

The Bisons used two home runs to score their first three runs. Brandon Valenzuela hit a solo home run in the second inning. Eloy Jimenez added a two run shot in the third. Josh Rivera walked with the bases loaded in the eighth. That was followed by a Carlos Mendoza fielders choice and a two run single by Jon Clase.

Carlos Mendoza reached base five times. He had a hit, walked three times and reached on the fielders choice. Eloy Jimenez had two hits, Josh Kasevich had a hit and walked twice. Clase had a hit and a walk.