IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on August 23, 2015 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The RailRiders authored six extra-base hits behind Kyle Davies en route to an 11-5 thrashing of the Red Wings on Saturday night at PNC Field. The win gave the RailRiders the series win and a 6.5-game lead over the second-place Red Wings with 17 games left to play.

JUDGE GOES BOOM: Aaron Judge fell a triple shy of the cycle and reached safely in all five plate appearances. His most impressive showing came in the seventh with a line-drive homer that slammed into the NEPA Sports Radio The Game sign raised above the pedestrian bridge in left-center. His eighth Triple-A tater made him the first Yankees' minor leaguer to reach 20 home runs in 2015. He blasted a dozen at Double-A Trenton. He also leads the farm with 70 RBIs.

BASH BROTHERS: The farm system's second-best home run hitter, Gary Sanchez, connected on a three-run shot of his own in the eighth inning. Sanchez, who matched Judge's effort at Double-A, hit his fifth home run with SWB. His 17 composite home runs have him trailing only Judge in the system while his 61 RBIs rank third behind Judge and Advanced-A Tampa's Dustin Fowler.

ROMINE'S REDEMPTION, PART III: Austin Romine missed nearly a week after Rochester starter Lester Oliveros drilled him in the head with a fastball on June 12 after allowing back-to-back home runs to Rob Refsnyder and Kyle Roller. Romine returned to action six days later and delivered six RBIs including a grand slam to straightaway center in a June 18 win at the Red Wings' Frontier Field. He delivered the walk-off contact for the series-opening win in 14 innings on Friday and followed that last night with a 3-for-4 effort that included a two-run double and a run scored.

WINNER, WINNER: Davies earned his team-best ninth win, tying him for the most on the Yankees' farm and sixth in the IL. Over his last 10 starts he has gone 4-1 with a 2.15 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and .218 BAA. SWB has had a pitcher win double-digit games just once in the RailRiders era (Chris Bootcheck, 2013, 10-7).

VERY NICE, GREAT SUCCESS!: This series SWB climbed over .500 at home for the first time since besting Syracuse on Opening Night. The club is 13-3 at PNC Field since July 24.

CRYSTAL BALLIN': The RailRiders have three games remaining against second-place Rochester and five versus third-place Buffalo. SWB has magic numbers of 11 and 10 with Rochester and Buffalo respectively. Any combination of SWB wins and losses by each foe totaling to those figures would cement a higher finish for the RailRiders. SWB's magic number for both Lehigh Valley and Syracuse's divisional eliminations sits at two.

TIGHTROPE WALKERS: Sixteen (53%) of SWB's last 30 games have been decided by one run and 22 (73%) have come down to two or less. It has gone 21-9 (.700) over the longer span and owns the IL's best one-run record at 26-16 (.619).

ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN: Ben Gamel has hits in 23 of his last 25 with multiple knocks in 15 of those games. In that time, he has slashed .390/.446/.660/1.106 with 14 extra-base hits (5-3B, 4HR), 18RBIs and 21 runs scored. SWB's MVP candidate picked up his IL-best 13th outfield assist last night and co-paces all of MiLB with 14 triples, two shy of the single-season franchise record set by Shane Victorino in his 2005 IL MVP season. Gamel entered today with the IL's third-best batting average (.305). He also ranks among the IL's best in hits (4th, 135), slugging (2nd, .474), extra-base hits (T-5th, 43), runs scored (T-2nd, 69) and total bases (4th, 210).

OFF THE RAILS: The paid crowd of 8,843 made for the team's 14th fixed-seat (7,115+) sellout...Kyle Roller went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored...He posted a pair of multi-hit showings on the week against the Red Wings...Rob Refsnyder went 2-for-5 with three RBIs and a stolen base...He is tied for the best on-base percentage among active IL players at .369.

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