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SWB Game Notes

August 26, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Southpaw starter Jordan Montgomery set the tone as his RailRiders blanked the Syracuse Chiefs (Washington Nationals) last night, 4-0. The Chiefs (58-74) have lost eight straight to the RailRiders.

JORDAN RULES: Montgomery struck out eight men for the third straight start and lowered his Triple-A ERA to 0.58. He has not allowed a run in 25 straight innings. He could challenge the SWB franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings by an individual pitcher set at 29.1 by Tim Mauser from May 15-June 1, 1991. Over his 31 innings with SWB, Montgomery has allowed 22 hits (.200 BAA), nine walks (WHIP 1.00) and 34 strikeouts. He did not surrender a hit last night until Pedro Severino began the fifth with a double. A pair of walks created a bases-loaded jam before he whiffed Christopher Bostick and induced a pop to short from Michael Taylor to quell the threat. With men in scoring position, IL foes have hit .050 (1-for-20, 9K) against Montgomery. He had similar success at Double-A where Eastern League bats hit .160 (16-for-100) in such circumstances.

THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER: SWB lowered its magic number to secure a playoff spot to three and could clinch post-season play at PNC Field by sweeping Rochester tonight and tomorrow. The magic number to win the division is six.

TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS: The RailRiders' 23 shutout wins pace the minors and continue to redefine the single-season franchise record. The 2009 SWB Yankees previously held the franchise record with 16 blankings.

FTW!: The RailRiders' 83 wins make for SWB's highest total since the 2012 vagabond then-SWB Yankees took the IL North with 84. Even with a cancelled contest that lessened the RailRiders' 2016 schedule to 143 games, the team is on pace to win 90 games. No IL club has won 90+ games since the then-SWB Red Barons won a franchise-record 91 affairs in 2002. The RailRiders boast Triple-A's best record and stand tied with Double-A Reading for the most wins in baseball.

ALL IN: Elsewhere on the farm, both Low-A Charleston and Advanced-A Tampa have secured postseason berths in the South Atlantic League and Florida State League respectively. Double-A Trenton has a magic number of four to secure an Eastern League playoff spot and sits just 2.5 games back of first-place Reading for the division. The Thunder and R-Phils face each other over their final four regular-season games Sept. 2-5. The Short Season-A Staten Island Yankees own the NY-Penn League's wild-card chase by 2.5 games with a magic number of nine.

R&R: Rob Refsnyder went for 1-for-3 with his first Triple-A bruise of 2016. In 13 games played since his return from the bigs, he has gone 21-for-47 (.447) with six RBIs and five walks for a .491 OBP. He has hit safely 31 of his last 33 Triple-A games, slashing .400/.438/.520/.958 with nine doubles, two homers, 11 RBIs and 18 runs scored in that time. The run has shot his average up from .190 to .333.

LORD I WAS BORN A GAMELING MAN: Ben Gamel homered in the eighth, extending the IL's longest active hitting streak to 15 games. Gamel (June 29-July 17) and Refsnyder (Apr. 26-May 12) share SWB's longest hitting streaks of the season, a pair of 16-gamers. During his latest streak he has gone 24-for-63, slashing .381/.403/.556/.959 with 12 RBIs. The All-Star ranks among the IL's best in average (5th, .313), hits (T-1st, 146), steals (5th, 19) and run scored (1st, 76).

SOL MAN: Donovan Solano has multiple hits in seven of his last 10 games played. He ranks among the IL's best in batting average (6th, .308) and hits (T-1st, 146). In 23 games played this month, he has slashed .386/.402/.523/.925 with 15 RBIs and nine runs scored.

CLASSICAL GAS: Mason Williams singled and delivered a sac fly as the leadoff man. Since he was activated off the SWB disabled list on Aug. 13, he has slashed .359/.395/.436/.831, going 14-for-39 with six RBIs, three walks and nine runs scored in 10 games played.

OFF THE RAILS: Each of the RailRiders' nine men in the order had one hit...Clint Frazier tripled for the second time in as many days as the six-hole hitter...Before those two games, he exclusively hit in the top third of the order over his first 20 SWB games...Relievers James Pazos and Nick Goody combined on 3.1 perfect innings with four strikeouts.

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