Listi homers twice as Pigs beat RailRiders
Published on June 28, 2019 under International League (IL1)
Lehigh Valley IronPigs News Release
(Allentown, Pa) - The Lehigh Valley IronPigs (36-41) snapped their most recent losing streak by beating the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (46-33) by a score of 4-3 on Friday night. The Pigs lead the IronRail Series 6-4 this season.
Austin Listi homered off Adonis Rosa in the bottom of the second inning to give Lehigh Valley a 1-0 lead. He homered again off Rosa in the bottom of the fifth inning to get the IronPigs their second run of the game.
The RailRiders scored their three runs off Enyel De Los Santos in the top of the fifth inning to take a 3-1 lead. Breyvic Valera hit an RBI single and Tyler Wade smacked a two-run triple.
The Pigs tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning as Ali Castillo hit a sacrifice fly off Jonathan Holder (0-1) to score Rob Brantly. Andrew Romine gave the Pigs a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning as he hit an RBI single off Holder to score Malquin Canelo.
Edubray Ramos (1-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless top of the eighth inning. Yacksel Rios earned his seventh save of the season by pitching a scoreless top of the ninth inning.
The IronPigs and RailRiders play at 6:35 p.m from Coca-Cola Park on Saturday night.
The 2019 IronPigs season is the team's 12th as the top affiliate for the Philadelphia Phillies and 12th at Coca-Cola Park. Follow the IronPigs on Twitter at @IronPigs and like them on Facebook via www.facebook.com/LHVIronPigs.
The 2019 IronPigs season is presented by Capital BlueCross.
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