IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on May 26, 2015 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


DONUT DELIVERY: Jaron Long (3-3) tossed a season-best 7.2 innings on the front end as the RailRiders shut out the Pawtucket Red Sox on Memorial Day Monday, 2-0. SWB notched its fourth shutout of the year while Pawtucket received its fifth blanking of 2015.

LONG OUTING: Long tossed his longest career Triple-A outing and fell just one out shy of the overall standard he set on Aug. 21, 2014 while with Double-A Trenton against New Hampshire (Toronto Blue Jays). Monday's effort marked the longest start by a RailRider since Zach Nuding tossed eight innings in a 2-0 shutout of Rochester on May 24, 2014. Long has won three of his last four starts, posting a 0.48 ERA in the victories.

WALKING IN THE SPIDERWEBS: Southpaw Tyler Webb kept the shutout going when he whiffed his fellow former South Carolina Gamecock, Jackie Bradley, Jr., and stranded an inherited runner to end the eighth. Webb has left all eight of his hand-me-down men on the bases and has dominated his fellow lefties. Southpaw swingers have gone 6-for-34 (.176) against Webb with eight strikeouts and just one walk (.200 OBP).

SAVE ME: Jose Ramirez logged his team-best sixth save with a scoreless ninth. Matt Daley led last year's RailRiders with nine saves while Jim Miller paced the 2013 club with six. SWB has not seen a pitcher post double-digit saves since both Kevin Whelan (12) and Ryota Igarashi (10) turned the trick in 2012.

ALL GOOD THINGS...: Rob Refsnyder went 0-for-4 to snap the IL's then-best on-base streak of the year at 25 games. His run started in game two of the April 25 doubleheader versus Pawtucket. In that time, he hit .347 while posting an OBP of .426 and 14 of his 17 RBIs. Buffalo's Matt Hague singled last night to set a new league-best bar with a 26-gamer that began on April 29.

ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOUR HOME?!: The RailRiders stand five games below .500 at PNC Field (11-16) and five games over on the road (12-7). The team has hit .277 on the road compared to a .247 mark at home. On the road, SWB has scored 92 runs in 19 games (4.8/game). At home, the squad has plated 90 runs in 27 games (3.3/game). The pitching has performed better at home (3.40 ERA) than outside of Moosic (3.81). No IL team has a better road winning percentage than the RailRiders (.632) and no IL squad has more home losses than SWB (16).

ROAD WARRIORS: The RailRiders have won five straight games away from PNC Field going back to their four-game sweep of Durham from May 14-17. The team's last six-game road winning streak was started at McCoy Stadium on May 18, 2014. The RailRiders claimed the final three in a four-game set at Pawtucket and began the next road trip with three straight wins at Louisville.

MEANWHILE, IN THE BRONX: Yesterday Slade Heathcott slugged his first career big league home run, a two-run job off of Greg Holland in the seventh inning. Southpaw Jacob Lindgren also appeared in relief for his big league debut and became the first Yankees' draft pick to make his MLB debut within one year of being drafted since Deion Sanders, a 30th-round pick in 1988, debuted on May 31, 1989 versus Seattle. Lindgren struck out two over the game's final two innings. He did not allow a hit or a run in the team's 14-1 blowout of Kansas City.

OFF THE RAILS: Ben Gamel recorded his 15th multi-hit game of the year...He co-leads the team in that category with Ramon Flores...Neither team registered an extra-base hit...While SWB went 1-for-8 with men in scoring position, Pawtucket registered an 0-for-2 showing...Tyler Austin has hit safely in five straight games, going 7-for-19 (.368) in that time.

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