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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (SportsDay Media) – 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 t...

Brian Miller homered in a four-run sixth inning on Friday to allow the Jumbo Shrimp to leapfrog the Tides 6-3. After Luis Aviles Jr. tripled and later scored on a fielder’s choice in the second, Jordan Westburg laced a three-run homer in the third to put Norfolk in front.  The score remained that way until the sixth. Erik González notched a two-run single to tie the game before Miller’s two-run shot gave Jacksonville the advantage. Lewin Díaz clubbed a solo homer in the seventh to extend the Jumbo Shrimp lead to 6-3. Nick Neidert, Andrew Nardi and George Soriano combined to cede just two earned runs in 7.1 innings of relief.  TO THE MAX  Jumbo Shrimp right-hander Max Meyer starts Saturday’s contest against Norfolk, marking his fourth outing since coming off the injured list on June 22. The Woodbury, Minn., native has yielded one run or fewer in each of those first three starts off the IL, going 1-1 with a 1.32 ERA with just five hits and one walk allowed ag...