Buffalo blasts Iowa 15-1 behind three-homer outburst

Buffalo turned a 15-1 rout of Iowa into its loudest offensive night of 2026, with Sean Keys, Jay Harry and Charles McAdoo combining for three homers and six RBIs at Principal Park. The Bisons did not just win in Des Moines, they buried the Cubs behind a middle-of-the-order surge that kept the pressure on from the third inning onward.

Keys started the damage with a solo homer in the third, then Harry blew the game open with a three-run shot in the fifth. McAdoo added the third homer in the burst, and the trio’s combined power accounted for six runs batted in as Buffalo kept stacking traffic and extra-base contact instead of settling into a quiet lead. Willie MacIver added three hits to round out an offense that produced across the lineup, not just from the headline swingers.

The 15 runs were Buffalo’s season high and its largest margin of victory of the year to that point. That mattered even more because the Bisons had lost 18-11 to Iowa the day before, a game in which Keys had already delivered his first multi-homer outing for Buffalo. Instead of carrying that loss into another high-scoring but messy night, the Bisons answered with control, depth and enough power to turn a road game into a runaway by the middle innings.

The game drew 4,186 fans, started at 6:46 p.m. and lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes, a long evening made shorter by Buffalo’s relentless offense. The teams were scheduled to meet again in Des Moines on Friday, June 26, with the Bisons carrying a result that stood out not just because of the score, but because of how it was built: a trio in the heart of the order driving the kind of outburst that can change the tone of a road series.