BUFFALO, N.Y — From Call staff reports
. — Before they had won the opener game of a four-game series with Toledo last Tuesday, the IronPigs had lost the first two games for six straight series, and they headed for Buffalo this weekend looking for their first series victory this season.
Now, that accomplishment is within their grasp.
Nelson Figueroa pitched six scoreless innings for the second straight start while John Mayberry Jr. had three hits and drove in three runs to lead Lehigh Valley to a 10-1 thumping of the host Bisons Sunday afternoon at Coca-Cola Field.
The IronPigs (25-38) have now won the first two games of the four-game series and can clinch that first series victory with a win tonight behind Nate Bump. Lehigh Valley's last series victory came at the end of the 2009 season when it took four of five from Buffalo at Coca-Cola Park.
Leadoff hitter Willy Taveras had three hits and scored three runs as the top three hitters in the lineup -- Taveras, Melvin Dorta and Mayberry -- combined to go 8-for-12 with seven runs scored.
Figueroa (2-0), pitching against the team for which he was an International League all-star last season, scattered five hits, struck out six and walked one in his second start since arriving from the Phillies earlier this month.
Marshall Hubbard's two-out RBI double in the ninth off Brian Gordon gave Buffalo (33-31), which has lost seven straight, its only run.
Mayberry, who returned to the lineup Saturday after missing six games with a bruised left knee, doubled home two runs in the third after Cody Ransom's 14th homer had given the IronPigs a 1-0 lead in the previous inning. Andy Tracy followed Mayberry's double with a sacrifice fly to increase the lead to 4-0.
Mayberry's RBI single opened the scoring in a four-run fifth that doubled the lead to 8-0. Ransom added an RBI single in an inning that also featured a bases-loaded walk to Chris Duffy.
The IronPigs got their final two runs in the sixth on a Buffalo throwing error.
Ransom's two RBIs gives him 44, sixth-best in the league. His 14 homers are third-most in the league.
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