SWB Game Notes
May 30, 2014 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The recipe was the same, the taste of its mixing, a bit different. Fall behind early, chip away late, add a hefty helping of the Louisville bullpen and stir. Alas, Thursday night the RailRiders' rally from a five-run hole came up a run short in a 6-5 loss to the Bats at Louisville Slugger Field. Former New York Yankee and RailRider Chien-Ming Wang (5-4) posted a quality start for Louisville en route to the win.
@BIGNUDE: Zach Nuding (2-3) suffered the loss in his sixth Triple-A start of the season. Nuding has huge home-road splits. At PNC Field, he owns a 2-0 record with a 0.69 ERA. The IL has hit .190 against him in NEPA. On the road, he is 0-3 with a 10.38 ERA and a .388 batting average against.
LET'S GET HIM ON: Scott Sizemore reached base four times in the loss. He singled, doubled, walked and reached on an error. After going 1-for-20 (.050) on the Lehigh Valley/Pawtucket road trip from May 13-20, he has gone 13-for-33 (.394), raising his season-long contact clip from .240 to .278 in the process.
IN A PINCH: For the third time this season, manager Dave Miley called upon a pinch hitter. For the first time, that man delivered a knock. Corban Joseph connected on a run-scoring single in the ninth inning when he hit for Antoan Richardson against Chad Rogers. Joseph's two-out contact drew his team within a run. Joseph did not play for more than a week before Tuesday's contest. He has played in each of the team's last three games, going 5-for-10 with two extra-base hits and five RBIs.
A MILLION (OR SEVEN) WAYS TO WIN IN THE WEST: The RailRiders fell to 7-1 against IL West foes with Thursday's loss. SWB swept Indianapolis in a four-game set at PNC Field from May 5-8 before taking three of four at Louisville. The RailRiders are four games in to a stretch that sees 20 of 24 games come against IL West competition. The Bats got a rare win against an IL North opponent. They are now 7-17 against the North and 18-11 against everyone else. Louisville is 1-3 against Pawtucket, Rochester, Syracuse and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
ANNA BEGINS: This series serves as a secondary homecoming for RailRiders infielder Dean Anna. While Chicago is his hometown city, he played the end of his college career at Ball State in Muncie, Ind., about a one-hour drive away from Victory Field. Anna is glad to be anywhere other than PNC Field where he has gone 1-for-33 (.030). He snapped an 0-for-23 funk on Tuesday. Since his slump-busting contact, he has gone 6-for-11. He doubled in a run, got grazed by a pitch and scored twice last night. Anna was a 26th-round pick by the Padres in 2008 (795th overall). He rose to Triple-A Reno with the Padres and claimed the PCL's batting title last season with his .331 average. The Yankees acquired him in a trade this off-season and he started the season as a Yankee.
FROM A TO Z: Anna's uncle, Tom Wetzel, played football at nearby Butler, earning letters from 1977-79 under Bill Sylvester. Sylvester, who received the Distinguished American Award from the National Football Foundation/College Hall of Fame's Central Indiana Chapter last year, is the second-winningest coach in Butler history, the school's former AD and a major influence in bringing the 1980 Final Four to Indy. Denny Crum, who played under John Wooden at UCLA, coached the Louisville Cardinals to their first national title that year by beating his alma mater and Larry Brown's Bruins in the title game, 59-54. The tournament's Most Outstanding Player was Darrell Griffith, a.k.a. "Dr. Dunkenstein" who spent his whole pro career with the Utah Jazz.
IT'S GONNA BE MAY: At 16-12 in May, the RailRiders have locked up their first winning month since July of last season (16-13). One more win would mean the franchise's best month since a 22-9 August in 2012.
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