Ricky Romero starts tonight for the Herd in Louisville. That should go well.

Buffalo is hitting 296/374/465 (839 OPS) as a team. The next highest team OPS is Syracuse at 711. That's an incredible gap.

Buffalo's pitching is in the bottom half of the league, though.

I am going to that game tonight. Can't wait to see what Romero has!

Let us know how it goes!

It went...not good. A very labor intensive 3 2/3. I'll
post more on it later.

Please spare us the details.

On the bright side, Romero lasted 3 1/3 innings more tonight than in Tampa and he pitched to the score! Oy vey, what a fugly pitching line - 3.2 10 6 6 5 0 14.73. Poor LouisvilleJaysFan, having to witness that pitching carnage.

Some things of note:

1st Inning:

Ricky never looked comfortable and it started when the first batter he faced, who just so happened to be Billy Hamilton, got on. The next batter, Henry Rodriguez, hit what we would be a double play ball on most any other player in the minors, but Goins took a quick look to 2nd and decided not to even chance it. With Hamilton on 2nd, all hell broke loose for Ricky. Hamilton steals 3rd on the 1st pitch of the 3rd batter and then Ricky proceeds to throw the 2nd pitch to Felix Perez in front of the plate and Thole didn't get his mitt down quick enough...the ball spurts out and Hamilton is home.

2nd inning:

Ricky lets up a couple hits, but works through. The last batter of the inning hit one right at Romero and he deflected it, luckily that batter was a rather portly catcher and Ricky was able to get to the ball and toss him out.

3rd inning:

Hamilton hits a softie to Ricky's right and Ricky struggles to pick up the ball, of course, that's all Hamilton needs and he's aboard. Ricky was visibly pissed off that he could not field the ball, hitting the his glove with his hand and saying a choice word or two to himself. Gose actually had Hamilton nailed at home, but Thole dropped the ball on the tag and 2nd run of the game scored for Louisville. It gets pretty ugly after that and following the Phipps single, Korecky is already throwing in the Bison bullpen. Ricky gives up another hit, but then gets out of the inning.

4th inning:

Ricky struggles mightily and is replaced by Korecky.

Overall:

Romero threw several pitches in the dirt, at least four skipped in front of the plate. His fastball was consistently around 91 according to the stadium gun. Louisville was making good contact on whatever he threw, there weren't a lot of foul balls...save for Hessman in the 4th, who fouled off 4 or 5 to get to his eventual walk. Ricky never looked comfortable and in control, likely because every inning started as a battle and endured that way.

Other things of note:

Sierra was hit in the head with a pitch in the first. Big gasp from the crowd, the trainer comes out and Sierra shakes it off and proceeds down to first. Later, Sierra's homerun was a monster to the deepest part of the park. It bounced on top of the Overlook Grill before coming back to the patio area. Gose came out and did a routine with the Zooperstars before the bottom of the 3rd. He seems like a fun guy and a good sport, didn't show much with the bat though.

Thanks for the scouting report, LouisvilleJayFan. Glad Sierra is okay!

Thanks LJF.