IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on July 8, 2014 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


MAMA SAID: A team in desperate need of some help received it from an unexpected source, Mother Nature. The RailRiders trailed the Knights, 6-3, when an existing rain turned into a downpour. With Corban Joseph due up and one out in the home fourth, a 51-minute delay ultimately resulted in the game's suspension. The two clubs will pick up where they left off at 5:35 p.m. today. The game will be played to a nine-inning regulation finish. A seven-inning game will follow.

NIGHTMARE NIGHT: A nearly four-hour Sunday nightmare finished with the RailRiders falling to the Charlotte Knights, 13-9. The two clubs combined for 30 hits including 10 extra-base knocks by the RailRiders. SWB outhomered Charlotte in the loss, 5-0. Seven different Charlotte hitters collected an RBI while six different RailRiders bats did the same.

TOUGH TIMES: The RailRiders have lost six of their last eight. Sunday's setback dropped the team to a season-worst-tying six games below .500. The last-place team entered today a season-worst 12.0 games out of first after Syracuse's win over Gwinnett yesterday, 5-3.

ADIOS PELOTA: Sunday saw the RailRiders blast five homers in a game for the first time since a July 2, 2013 win at Pawtucket. Rob Refsnyder, Adonis Garcia, Kyle Roller, Corban Joseph and Austin Romine delivered the damage in that order.

PNC POWER: Sunday's five round-trippers tilted SWB's power totals in favor of the normally pitcher-friendly PNC Field. In eight fewer games (49-41) and 307 fewer at-bats (1,679-1,372) the RailRiders have hit more homers at PNC Field (37) than on the road (33). Last year's RailRiders paced the IL with 133 home runs in the first year of the reconstructed PNC Field. However, that squad hit 73 (55%) of them on the road.

BACK-TO-BACK JACKS: Joseph and Romine hit back-to-back homers in the seventh off winning pitcher Maikel Cleto (2-0). They became the first SWB duo to go back-to-back since Corey Patterson and John Ryan Murphy took Charlotte's Simon Castro out of the yard on Aug. 13, 2013.

EXTRA, EXTRA!: Romine doubled twice along with his homer. In his last 13 games he has gone just 8-for-46 (.174), but six of those hits have gone for extra bases with 10 RBIs in the process.

LONG TIME, FIRST TIME: At 3:42, Sunday night was SWB's longest nine-inning home game since at least 2004. It was the squad's longest nine-inning game overall since taking 3:41 to win at Indianapolis in 2010, 10-7. That game started on May 20, endured a 1:50 delay, and was suspended before its May 21 conclusion. The franchise's all-time wins leader, Kei Igawa (33), got the win in relief of an ineffective Ivan Nova. Jonathan Albaladejo earned the 13th of his franchise-record 43 saves that season. He also owns the career saves mark at 54.

NEVER NERVOUS: Yangervis Solarte fell a homer shy of the cycle on Sunday. Through two SWB games played he has gone 6-for-8 with three extra-base hits.

OFF THE RAILS: Corban Joseph snapped an 0-for-13 slide with a pinch-hit single for Scott Sizemore in Sunday's fifth inning...He is 3-for-4 as a pinch hitter this season...He entered the game hitting just .123 (8-for-65) at PNC Field before going 2-for-3 with a homer, his first at PNC Field since May 25, 2013 versus Durham...The RailRiders used a season-high six pitchers for a third time...Taylor Dugas and Antoan Richardson became the second and third position players to take the bump for the RailRiders this season...Combined with the efforts of former RailRider Russ Canzler, SWB position players have combined on three scoreless innings of two-hit baseball this season...The RailRiders and MyNet announced that both of Thursday's doubleheader games will be on live TV throughout the region along with a special between-games program from the field.

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