Most peculiar. Poor Fabio Castro (5-5, 3.76 ERA) goes from being stood up one night, and then hit on incessantly the next (boxscore, play-by-play). Unfortunately for Fabio, the ones hitting on him last night were in Bisons unis ([cough] not that there's anything wrong with that). Unsuspecting fans witnessed two oddities last night - an inside the park home run and a triple play. The former occurred when Lynx right fielder, Matt Padgett, was unable to field a fly ball cleanly in the fourth inning. The ball took a strange, hard bounce off the wall and caromed away from Matt at a 90 degree angle. By the time the ball found its way to the infield, Buffalo's Joe Inglett made it all the way around. The first triple play for the Lynx since 1999 was the result of some very savvy baseball by Lynx second baseman, Joe Thurston. With men at first and second, Joe intentionally let an infield fly rule ball fall in front of him. Both baserunners were either confused by the tactic, or didn't hear the ump call batter Ben Francisco "out"; they both left the safety of the bags they were on and got tagged out. For today's tilt, centrefielder Javon Moran has promised to catch a fly ball in his hat.
OoLF bright spot: Gary Burnham kept the pressure on with a 2 run shot to right centrefield in the 9th. He now takes the club lead from Brennan King with 11 HRs.
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