PawSox Pay Tribute to Lou Schwechheimer Who Leaves After 37-Years at McCoy

Ken Bell

kbell@abc6.com

The PawSox paid tribute to Vice-President and General Manager Lou Schwechheimer who ended his 37-years with the club. 

The players gave Schwechheimer a victory in the season finale.

PawSox news release…

(Pawtucket, RI) The Pawtucket Red Sox closed 2015 with a bang, erupting for 14 hits against Marcus Stroman and the Buffalo Bisons in a 10-2 win on Monday afternoon at McCoy Stadium. Matt Spring and Marco Hernandez – who drove in four runs on four hits – each homered in the season finale in front of a Labor Day crowd of 6,028.

William Cuevas dominated the pitching matchup with Stroman and earned his third AAA win with six strong innings. He allowed only one run on four hits with three strikeouts and a walk. The righthander pitched at least five innings and allowed two runs or fewer in all seven of his Pawtucket starts. 

The PawSox jumped on Stroman early, and could have plated far more than the four runs he surrendered. In the bottom of the first inning, the Sox strung together three hits but Carlos Rivero was thrown out at the plate.   They broke through in a second inning that featured two of Stroman’s four walks. 

With the bases loaded and one out, Mike Miller grounded into a force out that plated Matt Spring and got Pawtucket on the board. Hernandez then ripped his second hit in as many at bats to score Aneury Tavarez and make it a 2-0 ballgame. 

In the bottom of the third, the Sox chased Stroman. The righthander – making a rehab assignment for the Toronto Blue Jays – walked two more and surrendered a pair of runs when Tavarez doubled down the left field line.

Buffalo got on the board in the top of the sixth with a pair of doubles, the last of which came off the bat of I.L. MVP Matt Hague. Hague ended the season with 92 RBIs, 33 doubles and a .338 batting average. The PawSox got the run right back in the bottom of the inning when Hernandez homered with one out.

The Sox plated four more runs in the seventh inning, highlighted by Spring’s sixth home run and a two-run Hernandez double. 

Matt Barnes pitched a scoreless seventh and Madison Younginer hurled the final two innings of 2015 for Pawtucket. The last two frames were punctuated by a pair of spectacular defensive plays; in the eighth, Mike Miller made a behind-the-back flip to second for the second out of the inning, and Carlos Rivero made a leaping grab at third for the final out of the season.   

The PawSox will be back at McCoy Stadium when they open the 2016 season on Thursday, April 7 against Buffalo at 7:05.