He struck out six, walked five and allowed three hits, and by the time Duncan had to pull him, it looked like he was settling into a groove. But he stranded the bases loaded and ultimately got 10 outs for the RailRiders. Three walks and two strikeouts had the 24-year-old's pitch count north of 30 and the bullpen heating up. Making his Triple-A debut, Vásquez nearly failed to make it out of the first inning. "That's not normal this time of year," Duncan said of Bauers' drives. Lawrence surrendered just one other hit in five innings, didn't walk anybody and struck out eight. Bauers put them back ahead, this time cranking a changeup from Lawrence 107.8 mph on a line to right. "It's really just a testament to all the work that I've put in since I got traded over here, and I feel like ever since then I've just kept getting better and better to the point where I feel like they kind of revived my career," Bauers said.īy the time he came up again, Buffalo had tied the game in the fourth inning by finally tagging RailRiders starter Randy Vásquez with a run, though Ernie Clement's RBI double was set up by third baseman Andrés Chaparro's error. The 107.8-mph, 446-foot shot off Buffalo starter Casey Lawrence came on the heels of a big league spring training with the Yankees where the 27-year-old batted. The way he looked Friday, he picked up where he left off.īauers' first blast was a sky-scraping drive in the second inning that crashed down on the lawn in center for the first run of the evening. But when the team was in Rochester for a series, his elbow ballooned up, a bone chip needed to be removed and Bauers' season ended a month and a half too soon. The way they went about their work in the batting cage, the amount of preparation they put into each game - it was different and Bauers started trending upward.
Things started to change once he joined the RailRiders, however. At that point, the one-time highly touted Tampa Bay Rays prospect was coming off a handful of disappointing seasons in the majors, and had bottomed out in Triple-A with the Reds after hitting.
Bauers joined the RailRiders halfway through last season after the New York Yankees acquired him in a trade with the Cincinnati Reds.
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