IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on April 30, 2016 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The RailRiders swept the host Red Wings in a Friday night doubleheader at Frontier Field, 6-4 and 10-2. The RailRiders have won four of their last five while the Red Wings have lost consecutive home games to SWB for just the second time since April of 2013.

ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN: Ben Gamel, last season's IL Rookie of the Year, singled home a run and scored in the nightcap. He leads SWB with six steals and owns a .311 average in 19 games played. Over his last 10 games, the usual leadoff man has gone 14-for-36 (.389) with three steals and seven runs scored.

PARM CHARM: Former Red Wing Chris Parmelee (2012-14) went 1-for-3 with an RBI double, a walk and a run scored in game two. After starting the year 2-for-26 (.077) with 10 strikeouts, he has gone 13-for-32 (.406) with five extra-base hits, five RBIs and just seven whiffs over nine games.

DUAL THREAT: Eleven of catcher Gary Sanchez's 16 hits on the young year have gone for extra bases: eight doubles, one triple, two homers. He leads the IL in extra-base hits and doubles and also paces the IL's catchers with 141 total fielding chances and no errors. He also leads the loop's backstops with 134 putouts. When he's been behind the plate, opposing base stealers have been caught five times in nine attempts (.556), 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 9-for-27 (.333) in seven games since with five RBIs.

GOING, GOING GONE: Rochester's Kennys Vargas smacked a two-run homer to right in the fourth inning of the opener. SWB pitching had then surrendered a dinger in six consecutive games. The run ended in the nightcap. The franchise had not endured a run like that since it allowed a homer in six straight from July 12-21, 2014, 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.

THE COKE SIDE OF LIFE: Phil Coke (1-0) allowed one unearned run over five innings of three-hit ball to post a win in game two. His seven strikeouts made for his highest total since he whiffed seven Kansas City Royals as a Detroit Tiger on April 9, 2011.

SLADE'S BLADE: Slade Heathcott was activated off the DL before the twinbill got underway. In his first action since April 20, he drove in two runs in each of the games, posting a pair of hits including a triple.

EASY EDDY: Eddy Rodriguez launched an impressive home run to left field in the nightcap, his first career dinger with SWB.

DIFFERENT DAYS: The RailRiders scored a combined 16 runs on 21 hits in the doubleheader. They went 10-for-22 with men in scoring position over the two games. Rochester plated six total scores on six hits and went 1-for-12 with men in prime real estate.

R&R: Rob Refsnyder entered Friday in a 4-for-30 funk with no RBIs over his prior eight games. He finished the night a 3-for-7 with a walk and three runs scored.

OFF THE RAILS: With 12 strikeouts in game two, SWB's staff has whiffed double-digit men 10 times on the year...The team's strikeout sum (195) ranks second in the IL behind only Durham (224)...Only Durham (10.0) has a better K/9 IP rate than SWB (9.2)...SWB right-hander Conor Mullee notched his second save with a perfect final frame in the opener...He ranks among the IL's best relievers in BAA (1st, .037, 1-for-27) and fewest baserunners/9 IP (1st, 2.00).

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