(BISONS.COM) The way this season has gone for the Bisons, most people probably chalked Monday night's game in the loss column for the Herd. Then the eighth inning happened.
The Herd exploded for eight runs in the eighth as the Bisons stormed back to take the series finale from the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, 9-4, Monday night at Coca-Cola Field.

Buffalo stepped to the plate in the eighth inning trailing 4-1. Rene Rivera's booming home run to left got the rally started and brought the Herd to within one. Buffalo loaded the bases with one out for Argenis Reyes who ripped a double down the right field line scoring two and putting the Bisons ahead to stay. After two walks, Chip Ambres, who started the inning with a single, put the icing on the cake for the Herd, lacing a single to left scoring two more.

When it was all said and done, the Bisons sent 11 batters to the plate, collected six hits, three walks and scored a season-high eight runs in the eighth inning. It was just the second time all season that the Bisons came back to win a game trailing after seven innings.

Lehigh Valley, woeful with runners on base all game long, scored two runs in the seventh on two bases-loaded walks and a run in the eighth on a wild pitch that gave the I-Pigs the 4-1 edge.

The I-Pigs were 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position and left 14 runners on base.

Both teams had plenty of scoring opportunities in the early innings, but neither club could produce the key hit.

Buffalo's starter, Kyle Snyder, left nine runners on base in his five innings of work. The lanky veteran allowed six hits and four walks but yielded just one run.

Meanwhile, former Blue Jay and IronPigs starter, Gustavo Chacin skirted with trouble himself in the early innings. The Bisons left two runners on base in three of the first four innings but failed to push a run across.

Just when it seemed Chacin had settled into a groove, retiring six Bisons in a row, Jason Dubois, mired in a 0-13 slump, turned on a 3-2 fastball, driving it over the left field wall to even the game at one.

It was Dubois' first home run since rejoining the Herd on August 10 from the Chicago Cubs organization. Dubois hit 22 home runs for the Herd in 2006 on his way to being named a CO-MVP for Buffalo with Ben Francisco.

The Bisons head down the thruway to take on the Syracuse Chiefs Tuesday and Wednesday at Alliance Bank Stadium before returning to Coca-Cola Field for two doubleheaders on Thursday and Friday against the Chiefs.