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May 7, 2015 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


YESTERDAY: The RailRiders survived both Mother Nature and the Gwinnett Braves to pick up a 5-3 victory on Wednesday afternoon at PNC Field. The teams waited through a 54-minute rain delay before taking the field. The win evened the three-game series and pushed the RailRiders to within a game of .500.

THE HIT MAN: Slade Heathcott posted a pair of the RailRiders' seven hits and drove in two of the five scores yesterday. He leads the team with 12 multi-hit games and owns a squad-best five mutli-RBI showings. His 34 hits on the season have him tied for fourth in the league with Lehigh Valley's Brian Bogusevic. Since he suffered an 0-for-6 night in the 15-inning game against the IronPigs on April 20, Heathcott has hit .426 (23-for-54) to lift his season-long average by over 100 points (.234-.337). The usual leadoff man paces the team with 15 RBIs.

R&R: Rob Refsnyder entered today on the longest hitting streak of his Triple-A tenure and the team's longest of the season, a 10-game run that started in game two of the April 25 doubleheader against Pawtucket. During his string of swinging success, the RailRiders' second baseman is 15-for-37 (.405) with four doubles and seven RBIs.

TRIPLE THREAT: Ben Gamel's four triples have him trailing only Toledo's Daniel Fields (5) for the IL lead. Gamel has more triples than four IL teams (Buffalo, Lehigh Valley, Norfolk and Pawtucket).

THE MEN WHO KNOCK: RailRiders pitchers have allowed 82 base knocks over the last seven games. Foes have amassed double-digit hits in all but one of those games (Gwinnett stroked nine yesterday). The team is 4-3 during this stretch. For the year, RailRiders hurlers have surrendered 248 hits, the third-most in the IL. Only Lehigh Valley (286) and Louisville (256) have yielded more hits.

STOP, THIEVES!: The RailRiders sit at the bottom of the IL for patrolling the bases. The team has nabbed just three of 35 attempting to steal (.086). No IL team has a worse efficiency or has allowed more total swipes. Gwinnett has gone 6-for-6 in stolen-base attempts on the series including three by top prospect Jose Peraza. The G-Braves have taken four bags on the SWB battery twice this season (April 29). Gwinnett leads the league with 34 stolen bases. The RailRiders rank last with just seven successful swipes in 16 attempts.

SAVE ME: Jose Ramirez logged his team-best fourth save in five tries yesterday. He has half of the team's total and has notched a save in each of his last three appearances. He has owned left-handed hitters who have gone 3-for-24 (.125) against him, all singles, with nine strikeouts.

FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING: Last week, the RailRiders lost back-to-back games at Gwinnett for the first time in a single season. Before the Monday and Tuesday setbacks, the last consecutive losses at Coolray Field had come in the final 2010 clash on June 7 and in the first 2011 meeting on April 30. The Braves moved their Triple-A team from Richmond to Gwinnett in 2009. SWB had won eight straight in Lawrenceville entering last week's set.

OFF THE RAILS: SWB's Cole Figueroa entered today as the IL's toughest hitter to whiff (31.0 PA/K)...Kyle Roller's 17 walks have trailing only Durham's Vince Belnome (22) for the league lead...Roller's Sunday home run came with nobody on base...Rochester (9) is the only IL squad outside of SWB shy of double figures in stolen bases and the league mean average is 20.3...The RailRiders have not owned a winning record since they started 1-0...The 2014 team's final taste of the air above sea level came after a 7-4 win over Toledo on June 9, 2014...That SWB team then lost five in a row and never got back over .500...Starter Bryan Mitchell got the win yesterday and for the third time in four nods posted a quality start.

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