The New York Mets today announced that they have recalled OF LUCAS DUDAfrom the Buffalo Bisons.

 Duda has hit .257 (19-74) with four doubles, three home runs nine RBI in 21 games with the Bisons. The outfielder has been one of the hottest bats in the Bisons lineup of late, with a .400 (12-30) average since April 25 with three doubles, three home runs and seven RBI in his last eight games.

Jason Bay was placed on the Paternity Leave List to be with his wife, Kristen, for the birth of the couple’s third child.

The IronPigs’ lineup featured the Philadelphia Phillies’ top prospect Domonic Brown on a rehab assignment, but it was a 24-year old catcher in his first Triple-A game that had the biggest hit of the day.

Joel Naughton’s bloop single over a drawn-in infield scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning of a 3-2 victory over the Bisons on Tuesday afternoon from Coca-Cola Park.

The loss dropped the Bisons to 4-9 on the road this season. Buffalo was 3-5 on their most-recent roadtrip that ended with Tuesday’s loss. The Herd will return downtown on Thursday for the start of an eight-game homestand.

Naughton was promoted from Single-A Clearwater to Lehigh Valley on April 29, but the catcher had yet to appear in a game for the IronPigs. In fact, the seven-year pro had yet to appear above the Single-A level in his career.

With a morning first pitch following the Bisons’ 10-inning win on Monday night, Naughton got the start. In the seventh inning, former Bison Josh Barfield led off with a double and advanced to third base when Jose De La Torre struck out Brian Bocock on a wild pitch. That forced the infield to come in and Naughton came through with the game-winning hit into shallow left field.

Jon Malo gave the Bisons an early lead with a sac fly in the second inning, but that was erased with Delwyn Young’s two-run homer off starter Pat Misch in the bottom of the frame. Ruben Tejada doubled home a run in the fifth inning to tie the game at two.

BISONS NOTES: Raul Chavez posted a season-high three hits in going 3-4 in the game. ..IronPigs’ right fielder Domonic Brown went 1-4 with a double in the game…Buffalo turned three doubleplays in the loss.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 (10:35 a.m.) – Coca-Cola Park
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com

Buffalo Bisons (11-15, T4th(-5.5), North)
LHP Pat Misch (0-2, 7.64)

Lehigh Valley IronPigs (13-12, 3rd(-3.0), North)
LHP Ryan Feierabend (0-2, 9.72)

TODAY’S GAME: This morning, the Buffalo Bisons face the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the final game of a four-game from Coca-Cola Park (10:35 a.m.). Trailing 1-2 in the set, the Herd needs a win today to earn a split of the four-game series as well as of its eight-game roadtrip. Tomorrow is the Bisons first off day of the 2011 season.

VS. IRONPIGS: The Bisons are 3-4 against the IronPigs this year as the teams split a four-game set at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo, April 22-25. With a win today, the Bisons can also even up the all-time series record. Lehigh Valley holds the 28-27 advantage over the Herd since the I-Pigs debut in 2008.

ZIPPIDY DUDA: OF LUCAS DUDA has five multi-hit performances in the last eight games. The outfielder has hit an even .400 (12-30) since April 25 with three doubles, three home runs and seven RBI. Duda has hit .340 (18-53) with two home runs and 11RBI in 14 career games against the IronPigs.

BACK AT IT: OF KIRK NIEUWENHUIS had a 16-game hit streak from April 11-26, the longest stretch in the IL this season. After a couple of hitless games, the outfielder is back at it. Nieuwenhuis enters today’s game with a four-game streak over which he has averaged .389 (7-18). Nieuwenhuis has reached base in all but one game this year and sports a .436 on-base percentage.

THE TOUGH WAY: C SALOMON MANRIQUEZ has fashioned a four-game hit streak around just one start. Manriquez is four for his last six in a stretch that included a pair of pinch-hit singles and a single in last night’s game after he came on as a defensive replacement. Manriquez has hit .400 (6-15) with a home run and an RBI in nine games this year.

TOUGH LOSS: The Bisons learned just prior to last night’s game that RHP JENRRY MEJIA has a complete MCL tear in his right elbow. Mejia left his last start on April 29 in Rochester after just four innings of work. The Mets #1 prospect by Baseball America was 1-2 with a 2.86ERA in five starts with the Bisons this season. With the roster room, INF JONATHAN MALO has been promoted from Single-A Brooklyn

METS UPDATE: The Mets (12-16) were off on Monday night. New York will open a six-game homestand tonight with the first game of a three-game set against San Francisco (7:10 p.m.). Former Bisons RHP R.A. DICKEY will start for the Mets. The knuckleballer is 1-3 with a 3.82ERA in five starts for New York.

A 10th-inning no-doubt home run from Russ Adams was the difference as the Bisons collected a 6-4 victory over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on Monday night. Lucas Duda also went deep and drove in three as the Herd snapped a two-game skid at Coca-Cola Park.

The Bisons now have a chance to split their four-game series in Allentown, PA with a Tuesday morning 10:35 a.m. start against the IronPigs.

Adams’s home run came with two outs and only after a close strike call to the previous batter. Valentino Pascucci watched a 2-2 breaking ball from Chance Chapman just miss the strike zone, much to the dismay of the righty and his battery mate, Erik Kratz. Pascucci walked on the next pitch and Adams blasted a 3-1 offering to deep right field for the game-winning hit.

Adam’s home run was his first of the season and helped the infield snap 1-15 roadtrip.

Manny Acosta worked the bottom of the 10th inning to earn his first win of the season.

For the second straight day, the beginning of the game belonged to the Bisons. The Herd struck for two runs in the first inning and two more in the third to build a 4-0 lead. Duda drove in three of the runs, with a two-run homer in the first and an RBI-single in the third.

But once again, the IronPigs rallied. After allowing just one hit in the first five innings, Josh Stinson allowed four hits in the sixth. Kratz’s two-out ground rule double pulled Lehigh Valley to within 4-2 and knocked Stinson from the game.

IronPigs shortstop Brian Bocock followed with a two-run single off reliever Dale Thayer to tie the game.
BISONS NOTES: The Bisons learned before the game that RHP Jenrry Mejia suffered a complete MCL tear in his right elbow in his last start, April 29 against Rochester…The Bisons had bases loaded in the eighth and ninth inning but could not score…Nick Evans stole his first base of the season.

TO SUM IT UP: Russ Adams hit a go-ahead 2-run HR(1) in the 10th to lift Buffalo over Lehigh Valley, 6-4, Monday night… Lucas Duda drove home 3 more RBI, including a first-inning 2R HR(3), for the Herd to assist in the winning effort… Buffalo has a chance to split the 4-game set at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday…

FAST FACTS: Starter Josh Stinson carried a no-hitter over the first 4.1IP… Buffalo is now 3-1 in extra-inning games… Adams broke an 0-10 slide by belting the go-ahead HR… Nick Evans is 5-10 in the series… Evans stole his first base of the season… Kirk Nieuwenhuis is 6-13, with 3XBH in the series… The Bisons are now 3-4 on the roadtrip… The Bisons had bases loaded in the eighth and ninth inning but could not score… The Bisons had 11 hits, the third 10+ hit total on the trip.

Buffalo	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Tejada, SS	5	1	2	0	0	2	2	.270
Hernandez, Lu, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	.148
Nieuwenhuis, CF	4	2	1	1	1	2	2	.326
Duda, LF-RF-LF	4	1	3	3	1	0	0	.257
Evans, N, 3B-LF	4	0	2	0	1	0	4	.231
Acosta, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Feliciano, J, RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.226
Thayer, D, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
a-Malo, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333
O’Connor, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Manriquez, S, 1B	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.400
Nickeas, C	4	0	0	0	1	0	5	.000
Pascucci, 1B-RF	3	1	0	0	2	1	4	.195
Stinson, P	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Adams, R, 3B	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	.183
Totals	35	6	11	6	7	7	23

Buffalo	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Stinson	5.2	5	4	4	3	1	0	6.41
Thayer, D (BS, 1)	1.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.84
O’Connor	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	0	3.31
Acosta (W, 1-0)	1.2	1	0	0	1	2	0	2.79