BUFFALO:
Jason Pridie – CF
Jesus Feliciano – RF
Mike Jacobs – 1B
Mike Hessman – 3B
Alex Cintron – 2B
Andy Green – LF
Ruben Tejada – SS
Jean Luc Blaquiere – C
Bobby Livingston -LHP

LOUISVILLE:
Chris Burke – CF
Zack Cozart – SS
Luis Terroro – LF
Wladimir Balentien – RF
Danny Dorn – 1B
Chris Valaika – 2B
Todd Frazier – 3B
Corky Miller – C
Matt Maloney – LHP

The Buffalo Bisons today announced that C JEAN LUC BLAQUIERE has been promoted to the Herd from the Single-A St. Lucie Mets. He will fill the roster spot as the Mets released C SHAWN RIGGANS today.

Blaquiere, 24, hit .203 (15-74) with two doubles, one home run and 11RBI in 21 games with St. Lucie of the Florida State League. He’s averaged .261 (6-23) while hitting with runners in scoring position.

Blaquiere joined the Mets as a non-drafted free agent in 2004. Last season, the catcher hit .238 (57-240) with 11 doubles, five home run and 21RBI in 70 games with Single-A Savannah.

Riggans played in just two games for the Bisons with one hit in five at-bats. Monday night’s game with the Herd was his lone start with the club.

The New York Mets announced that they have recalled OF CHRIS CARTER from the Buffalo Bisons. The Bisons announced that OF D.J. WABICK has been promoted to the Herd from the Double-A Binghamton Mets.

Wabick, 25, has hit .222 (14-63) with five doubles, a home run and eight RBI in 19 games with the B-Mets this season. Last year, the left-hand hitting Wabick averaged .296 (126-426) with 31 doubles, four home runs and 55RBI in 120 games with Binghamton. He was named a 2009 Eastern League All-Star.

Wabick was selected by the Mets in the 25th round in the 2005 draft. He is a .293 hitter in 497 career minor league games.

Carter hit .336 (38-113) with six home runs and 22RBI in 29 games with the Bisons. He ranks third in the International League in extra-base hits (17), total bases (69) and slugging percentage (.611) and eighth in the circuit with a .336 batting average.

A handful of Bisons players took a behind the scenes tour of the Louisville Slugger Bat Company Tuesday morning. Everything happens in downtown when it comes to taking the raw lumber to final coat of paint or lacquer before the bats are shipped to the ballpark.

Here’s a list to help explain the pictures below:
1. Every MLB club is stamped on the player’s bat. If it’s in a Big League bat rack, it passed through this station in production.

2. Here are all the club stamps ‘flipped’ so you can read them easier.

3. Russ Adams scans for some bats to use in batting practice.

4. Off the lathe before sanding or treatment, the bats still have the knobs on each end.

5. Ike Davis has an order just about ready for the game in just a few days.

6. One of the very first scales that LS Bat Co. used to weigh bats.

7. Jack Voigt signed with LS in 1993 and his signature is one of thousands on the wall entering the Bat Co. Members of the Hall of Fame have a special section dedicated for just their bat stamps.

The Bisons’ bullpen woes continued on Monday night in a 7-6 loss to the Louisville Bats from Louisville Slugger Field.

Luis Terrero’s hit a three-run home run off of Bobby Parnell in the bottom of the seventh inning to send Buffalo to their fourth loss in the last five days.

Parnell entered the game for Pat Misch with one out in the seventh inning. The southpaw starter allowed four runs on six hits but left with a 6-4 lead.

Parnell walked Chris Burke on six pitches before Zack Cozart singled sharply to right on an 0-2 pitch. With the game-tying runs on base, Terrero jumped all over the first pitch he saw from Parnell and drove it to deep centerfield for his first home run of the season.

After allowing only 26 runs in April, Herd relievers have now yielded 34 runs in just nine games in May. The group has allowed 46 hits, six home runs and 14 walks in only 24.1 innings of work this month.

The Bisons had leads of 3-0, 5-3 and 6-4 but couldn’t hold the advantage despite pounding out 15 hits. Mike Hessman and Chris Carter produced back-to-back doubles as part of a three-run first inning. Carter drove home another run in the fourth inning and Hessman doubled in his league-leading 35th run in the seventh.

Hessman and Carter have become the International League’s top one-two punch. The duo holds the top spots in the league in both total bases and slugging percentage.

The Bisons also got three hits from Jesus Feliciano to raise his average to .349. Ruben Tejada was a perfect 4-4 at the plate.

But the Bats matched the Bisons offense and kept pace long enough to spoil Misch’s attempt at a third consecutive victory.

BISONS NOTES: Pat Misch also handled the bat quite well on Monday night, laying down three sacrifice bunts…The Bisons are now 0-5 on Mondays in 2010…Chris Carter extended his hit streak to 11 games. It ties Mike Cervenak as the longest stretch for a Bisons hitter this season.