TO SUM IT UP: Jesus Feliciano singled home a pair with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to send the Bisons to a 6-5 victory at Coca-Cola Field. The rally came after Louisville had taken a 5-4 lead with two runs of their own in the top half of the inning.

FAST FACTS: The victory was the Bisons’ third walk off win of the season… With 2 RBI, Ruben Tejada leads the Bisons with 17 RBI… Tejada is 11-28, 15RBI with RISP… After having three straight days off, Fernando Martinez broke and 0-12 with two hits, going 2-4… Nick Evans is 7 for his last 15 AB, adding 6 walks in the past 5 games… With his PH single, Salomon Manriquez is 3-5 off the bench… Outfielder Lucas Duda was optioned to the team from New York, but did not make it in time to play Thursday night… The Bisons played error free baseball – Bisons have just 2 miscues in the past nine games… Infielder Russ Adams has been placed on the restricted list and is not currently with the club…D.J. Carrasco made his Coca-Cola debut and allowed three runs in five innings – his longest outing of the season… Louisville has lost 3 of it’s last 5 games to the Bisons in the final at-bat.

Buffalo	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Tejada, SS	5	0	2	2	0	0	0	.284
Hernandez, Lu, 2B	4	1	1	0	1	0	3	.167
Nieuwenhuis, CF	5	0	1	0	0	1	2	.310
Evans, N, 3B	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	.235
Thayer, D, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
a-Manriquez, S, PH	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.350
Martinez, F, RF	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	.286
Feliciano, J, LF	4	1	2	2	1	0	3	.270
Nickeas, C	3	1	1	1	0	0	2	.125
Pascucci, 1B	4	0	1	1	0	1	3	.184
Carrasco, D, P	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000
Fossum, P	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500
Malo, 3B	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167
Totals	36	6	11	6	5	3	18

Buffalo	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Carrasco, D	5.0	7	3	3	1	3	1	6.00
Fossum	2.2	1	0	0	2	2	0	3.52
Thayer, D (BS, 2)(W, 2-0)	1.1	2	2	2	0	1	0	2.81

Thursday, May 5, 2011 (7:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com

Buffalo Bisons (11-16, 5th(-6.0), North)
RHP D.J. Carrasco (0-1, 6.75)

Louisville Bats (16-10, 2nd(-5.0), West)
 vs. RHP Scott Carroll (1-0, 3.82)

TODAY’S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons host the Louisville Bats for the first game of a four-game series at Coca-Cola Field (7:05 p.m.). Today’s game begins an eight-game homestand as the Herd will welcome in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, May 9-12. Buffalo is coming off a 3-5 roadtrip to Rochester and Lehigh Valley. Today’s game against the IL West Bats is their first non-divisional game of the 2011 season.

VS. BATS: The Bisons were 5-3 against Louisville last season, including a 3-1 mark against the Bats at Coca-Cola Field. Since rejoining the International League in 1998, the Herd has lost just one four-game set to Louisville in Buffalo. The Bats swept a four-game set at Coca-Cola Field in 2008. Overall, the Bisons are 32-20 against the Bats at home.

HEY MR. DJ: RHP D.J. CARRASCO will make his Coca-Cola Field debut tonight with his second start as a Bison. Carrasco was optioned by the Mets on April 26 and made one relief appearance and one start on the roadtrip. In his start on Saturday, the righty allowed five runs (three earned) in three innings of work in a loss to the IronPigs. Carrasco was 0-1 with a 5.91ERA in eight games with the Mets to start 2011.

ZIPPIDY DUDA: OF LUCAS DUDA has been optioned back to the Bisons. The outfielder was promoted to New York, May 3-4 as OF Jason Bay left the team for the birth of his son. Duda has had five multi-hit performances in his last eight games with Buffalo. The outfielder has hit an even .400 (12-30) since April 25 with three doubles, three home runs and seven RBI.

RUN STOPPER: C RAUL CHAVEZ has thrown out 52.6% of would-be base stealers, tops in the International League. In fact, that success rate is 15% higher than any other catcher. Chavez has thrown out 10 of 19 would-be base stealers and also has five hits in his last eight at-bats.
 
BISONS BITS: The Bisons committed just two errors on their recent eight-game roadtrip…Of the Bisons 20 home runs this season, 15 are solo home runs and none are three-run or grand slams…Bisons pinch hitters have averaged .286 (6-21) with a home run and one RBI.

Thursday, May 5, 2011 (7:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com

Buffalo Bisons (11-16, 5th(-6.0), North)
RHP D.J. Carrasco (0-1, 6.75)

Louisville Bats (16-10, 2nd(-5.0), West)
vs. RHP Scott Carroll (1-0, 3.82)

TODAY’S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons host the Louisville Bats for the first game of a four-game series at Coca-Cola Field (7:05 p.m.). Today’s game begins an eight-game homestand as the Herd will welcome in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, May 9-12. Buffalo is coming off a 3-5 roadtrip to Rochester and Lehigh Valley. Today’s game against the IL West Bats is their first non-divisional game of the 2011 season.

VS. BATS: The Bisons were 5-3 against Louisville last season, including a 3-1 mark against the Bats at Coca-Cola Field. Since rejoining the International League in 1998, the Herd has lost just one four-game set to Louisville in Buffalo. The Bats swept a four-game set at Coca-Cola Field in 2008. Overall, the Bisons are 32-20 against the Bats at home.

HEY MR. DJ: RHP D.J. CARRASCO will make his Coca-Cola Field debut tonight with his second start as a Bison. Carrasco was optioned by the Mets on April 26 and made one relief appearance and one start on the roadtrip. In his start on Saturday, the righty allowed five runs (three earned) in three innings of work in a loss to the IronPigs. Carrasco was 0-1 with a 5.91ERA in eight games with the Mets to start 2011.

ZIPPIDY DUDA: OF LUCAS DUDA has been optioned back to the Bisons. The outfielder was promoted to New York, May 3-4 as OF Jason Bay left the team for the birth of his son. Duda has had five multi-hit performances in his last eight games with Buffalo. The outfielder has hit an even .400 (12-30) since April 25 with three doubles, three home runs and seven RBI.

RUN STOPPER: C RAUL CHAVEZ has thrown out 52.6% of would-be base stealers, tops in the International League. In fact, that success rate is 15% higher than any other catcher. Chavez has thrown out 10 of 19 would-be base stealers and also has five hits in his last eight at-bats.

BISONS BITS: The Bisons committed just two errors on their recent eight-game roadtrip…Of the Bisons 20 home runs this season, 15 are solo home runs and none are three-run or grand slams…Bisons pinch hitters have averaged .286 (6-21) with a home run and one RBI.

The New York Mets today announced that they have selected the contract of Buffalo Bisons’ LHP MIKE O’CONNOR.

O’Connor, 30, was 2-1 with a 3.31ERA (16.1IP, 6ER) in 10 games with the Bisons this season. He left the Bisons with an 8.1-inning scoreless streak, dating to April 23 vs. Lehigh Valley.

The 6-3, 187-pound native of Dallas, TX last pitched in the majors in 2008 with Washington, where he went 1-1 with a 13.00ERA (9.0IP, 13ER). O’Connor owns a 4-9 career record and a lifetime ERA of 5.45 (114.0IP, 74ER) in 26 major league games, 21 starts.

Five-Time National League All-Star, long-time “Voice of the Bisons” to be inducted as 82^nd and 83^rd Member of the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame

The Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame announced today that former Bisons catcher TONY PENA and long-time “Voice of the Bisons,” JIM ROSENHAUS have been elected to the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame.

Pena and Rosenhaus will be formally inducted on the Bisons Hall of Fame Day, Sunday, July 24 prior to the team’s 1:05 p.m. game against the Pawtucket Red Sox.

Tony Pena – Pena was signed as an undrafted free agent by Pittsburgh in 1975 and shot through the Pirates minor league system as one of their top prospects. In 1979, Pena played 134 games with the then Double-A Buffalo Bisons of the Eastern League and put together one of the finest single seasons in franchise history. The catcher hit .313 with 16 doubles, four triples, 34 home runs and 97RBI at War Memorial Stadium.

Pena went on to play 18 major league seasons with Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Houston and the Chicago White Sox. He caught 1,950 of his 1,988 career games, the sixth-most games at catcher in Major League Baseball history. The five-time National League All-Star also won four Gold Gloves; three in the N.L. (1983-85) and one in the American League (1991).

Pena managed the Kansas City Royals for four seasons, compiling a 198-285 record from 2002-2005. He was named American League Manager of the Year in 2003 after guiding K.C. to an 83-79 mark. Pena currently serves as Joe Girardi’s bench coach with the New York Yankees.

 Jim Rosenhaus – Rosenhaus was “The Voice of the Bisons” for 11 seasons from 1996-2006. His 1,628 games were just 44 contests shy of the most in team history (Pete Weber). Rosenhaus is the only broadcaster to call three Bisons championships (1997, 1998, 2004). He also served as the play-by-play announcer for the 2002 Triple-A All-Star Game.

Rosenhaus’s time with the Bisons was also highlighted by his active involvement in the club’s community outreach programs and speaker’s bureau, as well as serving as the club’s director of baseball operations.

Rosenhaus began his broadcasting career in 1991 with the Single-A Kinston Indians of the Carolina League. From 1993-1995, he served as the voice of the Wilmington Blue Rocks where he called the team’s first ever game and a Carolina League title in 1994.

For the past four years, Rosenhaus has served as the host of the “Indians Warm-Up” pre-game show on the Cleveland Indians Radio Network. He also serves as the engineer/producer of each broadcast and calls play-by-play for one inning in each game of the 2011 season.

With his induction, Rosenhaus joins Roger Baker, Ralph Hubbell, Bill Mazer, Stan Barron, Pete Weber and his long-time broadcast partner, Duke McGuire, as broadcasters in the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame.