ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp were swept on Sunday in an 11-2 loss to the Rochester Red Wings at ESL Ballpark.
The Red Wings (56-38, 11-10) opened up the scoring with a massive third inning. Jumbo Shrimp (50-44, 8-12) reliever Amos Willingham (0-2) issued a leadoff walk to Riley Adams before Cayden Wallace singled. Maxwell Romero Jr. followed with an RBI single for the game’s first run. Christian Franklin then walked to bring up Abimelec Ortiz, who crushed a grand slam to make it 5-0. Two batters later, Andrew Pinckney doubled before scoring from second on a passed ball.
Pinckney walked with one out in the fifth and Trey Lipscomb singled. Joey Wiemer brought in Pinckney with an RBI double before consecutive RBI singles from Adams and Wallace made it 9-0.
Jacksonville got on the board in the sixth. Kemp Alderman led off with a double. After a strikeout and an error, he scored on Gage Miller’s RBI single.
Rochester added their final two runs in the bottom of the sixth. Ortiz walked and Brady House and Pinckney singled to load the bases with no one out. A Lipscomb RBI ground out led to another run. After a walk to Wiemer, Adams’ sacrifice fly widened the gap to 11-1.
With the same score in the ninth, Jared Serna led off with a single before going to second on defensive indifference. After a pair of strikeouts, an error kept the inning going for Alderman, whose single scored Serna to set the final margin at 11-2.
After Monday’s off day, the Jumbo Shrimp begin a six-game series at the Worcester Red Sox with Tuesday’s 6:45 p.m. ET first pitch.. Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on ESPN 690AM and www.ESPN690.com.
ABOUT THE JUMBO SHRIMP: The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins and compete in the International League. The 2025 International League and Triple-A National Champions, the Jumbo Shrimp call VyStar Ballpark home for baseball but also a wide variety of additional community focused events with a goal of providing Affordable, Family, FUN to Northeast Florida. Winners of many marketing and sales awards and recognition since the team was rebranded prior to the 2017 season, the Jumbo Shrimp continually lead the state of Florida in attendance across all minor league professional sports organizations.