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The Rochester Red Wings defeated the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 3-2, with Chandler Champlain pitching seven strong innings. The win improved the Red Wings' record to 23-20, while Champlain remains unbeaten at 4-0.
Chandler Champlain pitched seven innings and the Rochester Red Wings used a two-run seventh to beat the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 3-2 on Friday night at ESL Ballpark.
The win moved the Red Wings to 23-20 while Lehigh Valley dropped to 20-23.
Champlain improved to 4-0, allowing five hits and two runs over seven innings with one walk and three strikeouts.
Trey Lipscomb gave Champlain an early lead in the second, hitting a two-out solo home run to center off IronPigs starter Alan Rangel. Rangel held Rochester to one run on three hits over six innings with seven strikeouts and one walk.
Lehigh Valley answered in the fourth when Otto Kemp reached and scored from first on Liover Peguero’s RBI double to left. The IronPigs moved in front 2-1 an inning later, as Christian Cairo walked, stole second and came home on Sergio Alcántara’s sacrifice fly to left.
Champlain and the Rochester defense escaped a bigger jam in the seventh after Bryan De La Cruz opened the frame with a double to right. Cairo’s sacrifice bunt moved De La Cruz to third, but a fielder’s choice from Caleb Ricketts resulted in De La Cruz being cut down at the plate before Champlain struck out Carter Kieboom to end the inning.
Rochester flipped the game in the bottom half against reliever Zach Pop. Yohandy Morales, who finished 2-for-2 with a double and a walk, started the rally with a double to right. He advanced to third on an Andrés Chaparro groundout and scored when lined an RBI double to left to tie the game 2-2.
The final score was 3-2 in favor of the Rochester Red Wings.
Chandler Champlain pitched seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs, improving his record to 4-0.
After the win, the Rochester Red Wings' record improved to 23-20.

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Andrew Pinckney followed by rolling an RBI single to right, bringing in Ortiz for a 3-2 Red Wings lead. Pinckney’s hit capped a three-hit inning off Pop, who was charged with the blown save and the loss in 1⅔ innings.
Zach Penrod handled the last six outs for Rochester to earn his second save. He worked two hitless innings, allowing one walk and striking out three, and closed it out in the ninth when Peguero and Cairo both struck out on foul tips around a De La Cruz lineout that Lipscomb handled at shortstop.
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This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Rochester Red Wings rally late to beat IronPigs