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IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

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June 8, 2015 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


YESTERDAY: The Rochester Red Wings (Minnesota Twins) had one lead all Sunday afternoon. It came at the ideal time. The first-place Red Wings (31-24) plated a pair in the ninth to produce a 4-3 walk-off win over the second-place RailRiders that kept the Red Wings in the IL North penthouse. It snapped the RailRiders' 10-game road winning streak.

ONE-RUN FUN: The RailRiders entered yesterday with the IL's best record in one-run games at 13-5. Rochester was tied with Buffalo (7-13) for the loop's worst record in one-run affairs.

ROAD WARRIORS: SWB had not won 10 straight road games since taking its first 10 in 2009. The 10th triumph in that run came 17-14 in a 13-inning game that took 4:43 at Rochester on April 25. The Red Wings then snapped the streak with a 7-3 win at Frontier Field on April 26. All seven runs came in the opening inning. No Yankees-affiliated SWB team has won more than 10 straight on the road.

HIGH FIVE: NEPA's team had won a season-high-tying five in a row overall. It also did so from May 14-18 when it swept Durham in four games on the road and took a home affair from Charlotte.

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: The RailRiders stand five games below .500 at PNC Field (14-19) and nine games over on the road (17-8). The team has hit .281 on the road compared to a .246 mark at home. On the road, SWB has scored 130 runs in 25 games (5.2/game). At home, the squad has plated 111 runs in 33 games (3.4/game). The pitching has performed slightly better at home (3.39 ERA) than outside of Moosic (3.47). No IL team has a better road winning percentage than the RailRiders (.680).

RED WINGING IT: The RailRiders have lost 11 of their last 13 games at Rochester's home, Frontier Field. That hurt the team en route to a 5-11 performance against the Red Wings last season. The SWB franchise had not logged a losing season against Rochester since the 2007 unit also went 5-11. The RailRiders have lost 18 of their last 24 against the Red Wings overall going back to 2013.

WHAT WENT RIGHT: Both Rob Refsnyder and Austin Romine homered in the eighth inning...Refsnyder lined his third of the season while Romine bombed his fourth...Each round-tripper cleared the wall in left field...Mason Williams doubled on a 3-for-5 day...He is hitting .319 through his first 17 games at the Triple-A level.

WHAT WENT WRONG: Branden Pinder blew a save for the third time in four tries with SWB this season...The RailRiders went 1-for-9 with men in scoring position and stranded eight men on base...Nick Noonan's game-ending throwing error was the lone miscue on the game between the two teams.

WALK IT OFF: Sunday marked the RailRiders' third walk-off loss of the season and first since April 30 at Charlotte. SWB entered the game 26-1 when leading after eight innings. The only other loss when leading entering the ninth came at Gwinnett on April 27 when Cedric Hunter hit a two-strike, two-out homer at Coolray Field for a walk-off finish.

FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME: The RailRiders and Bisons, divisional brothers, meet for the first of their 17 clashes, nine of which will take place in Buffalo. Under the balanced schedule in 2014, SWB went 7-9 against the Bisons including a 3-5 mark at Coca-Cola Field. The Bisons claimed five of the last six meetings between the clubs.

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