IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

April 29, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


LAST TIME OUT: The RailRiders were shut out for just the second time this year as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs avoided a PNC Field sweep with a 2-0 win Wednesday night. The RailRiders won two of three in the set.

GOING GREEN: Chad Green (0-3) allowed one unearned run over 6.2 innings for his third loss. He gave up three hits (all singles), walked none and struck out nine. He set the team's new in-season standard for strikeouts in an appearance and lowered his ERA to 1.44, good for ninth in the IL. However, Green stands as the lone winless pitcher among the top 12 in ERA.

ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN: Ben Gamel, last season's IL Rookie of the Year, went 1-for-3 with a walk. He leads SWB with six steals and owns a .314 average in 18 games played. Over his last nine games, the usual leadoff man has gone 13-for-32 (.406) with three steals and six runs scored.

PARM CHARM: Former Red Wing Chris Parmelee (2012-14) went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored on Tuesday. He got Wednesday off. After starting the year 2-for-26 (.077) with 10 strikeouts, he has gone 12-for-29 (.414) with four extra-base hits, four RBIs and just six whiffs over eight games.

DUAL THREAT: Ten of catcher Gary Sanchez's 15 hits on the young year have gone for extra bases: seven doubles, one triple, two homers. He co-leads the IL in extra-base hits and doubles and also paces the IL's catchers with 136 total fielding chances and no errors. He also leads the loop's backstops with 129 putouts. When he's been behind the plate, opposing base stealers have been caught four times in six attempts (.667), good for the IL's best caught-stealing rate among qualifying catchers. A .175 bat through his first 10 games this year, he has gone 8-for-24 (.333) in six games since with four RBIs.

GOING, GOING GONE: Lehigh Valley's Tommy Joseph launched a ninth-inning solo home run. SWB pitching has surrendered a dinger in five consecutive games. The franchise had not endured a run like this since it allowed a homer in five straight from Aug. 4-9, 2014. That spurt began with two games at Syracuse and ended with the first three of a home series against Columbus. The last six-gamer came that same summer from July 12-21, straddling the All-Star break. It began with a Dan Rohlfing shot off of Francisco Rondon in Rochester and bled into the Charlotte/Gwinnett road trip.

BIG-TIME BIG FLIES: SWB pitching has allowed 15 homers through the team's first 20 games. Only Durham (20 homers in 22 games) and Charlotte (18 homers in 21 games) have allowed more thus far in the IL. Despite its enormous confines and the chill of April weather, 12 of the home runs have come over SWB's 13 games played at PNC Field.

RED WINGING IT: SWB has dropped 16 of its last 22 in the Flower City. The team has won consecutive games at Frontier Field just once since taking the first three during an April 2013 visit on the back end of that season's first road trip.

OFF THE RAILS: Lehigh Valley entered the series at PNC Field hitting a league-best .291...The 'Pigs went 17-for-99 (.172) in losing two of three on the series...With 11 strikeouts on Wednesday, SWB's staff has whiffed double-digit men nine times on the year...The team's strikeout sum (178) ranks third in the IL behind only Durham (216) and Gwinnett (186)...Only Durham (10.1) has a better K/9 IP rate than SWB (9.1)...SWB right-hander Conor Mullee ranks among the IL's best relievers in BAA (1st, .042, 1-for-24); K/9 IP (5th, 13.5); BB/9 IP (T-1st, 0) and fewest baserunners/9 IP (1st, 2.25)...All of the RailRiders' 15 hits over their last two games have been singles...The team's .346 slugging percentage ranks ninth...Last year's unit finished fourth at .389.

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