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May 11, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


YESTERDAY: The RailRiders suffered their fourth shutout loss of the season on Tuesday afternoon at PNC Field. The Pawtucket Red Sox took home a 3-0 win, their first victory against the RailRiders this year.

R&R: Rob Refsnyder singled in the opening inning. He has reached safely in 18 straight games and owns the IL's longest active hitting streak, a 14-gamer. Refsnyder's run has lifted his average by 82 points (.190-.272). He entered the last road trip in a 4-for-30 (.133) funk, but has gone 18-for-47 (.383) since. Charlotte's Leury Garcia and Toledo's Chad Huffman entered today sharing the IL's longest active on-base streak with Refsnyder at 17 games.

DUAL THREAT: Gary Sanchez owns the IL lead in doubles and ranks second with 17 extra-base hits: 11-2B, 1-3B, 5HR. A .175 bat after his first 10 games, he has since gone 22-for-63 with 11 extra-base hits and 14 RBIs in 15 games played, slashing .349/.388/.619/1.007. He co-leads the team with 20 RBIs. He trails only Toledo's Steven Moya (23) and Louisville's Jermaine Curtis (21) for the IL lead. When he has been behind the plate, opposing base stealers have been caught eight times in 15 attempts for the IL's second-best caught-stealing percentage at .533. Sanchez has hit safely in seven straight games with multiple knocks in four of those affairs. During his hit streak he has gone 13-for-32 with six extra-base hits (three homers) while slashing .406/.424/.781/1.205.

I AM THE LAW: Aaron Judge ranks among the IL's best in homers (T-2nd, 7), RBIs (T-3rd, 20), extra-base hits (3rd, 14) and total bases (2nd, 60). He caught Nick Williams napping at second base for a fly-ball double play on Sunday. His five outfield assists pace the team and trail only Buffalo's Junior Lake (7) for the IL lead. He nailed the speedy Williams at home plate during a fly-ball double play on Saturday and retired Tommy Joseph at third base to end the fifth inning at Lehigh Valley on Friday night. Over his last 10 games, Judge has gone homered five times with nine RBIs and six walks against eight strikeouts.

I'M JUST A CAVEMAN: Earlier today, the New York Yankees made several changes to the RailRiders' roster. Outfielder Slade Heathcott (retro to May 10) and right-hander Kyle Haynes hit the DL. SWB also received outfielder Jake Cave from Double-A Trenton. Cincinnati took Cave in the Rule 5 Draft last December. He then hit .255/.349/.364/.713 in 55 spring at-bats before losing the fifth outfielder role to Tyler Holt. He then cleared waivers and was offered back to/accepted by the Yankees. Cave began this year at Double-A Trenton and hit .288/.353/.510/.863 in 27 games for the Thunder with three homers and 17 RBIs. He played mostly left field and usually hit second with Trenton this year. Entering this season, 330 of his 380 games (87%) played had come in the leadoff role.

LAST TIME AROUND: Cave spent seven games with the RailRiders at the end of last season. He went 11-for-24 (.458) with four extra-base hits including a 5-for-5 effort at Syracuse on Sept. 6 as the leadoff man with a double to tie his career-high mark and the SWB franchise record for hits in a game. His two other five-hit games both came with Adv.-A Tampa in 2014. He went 5-for-5 in a 4-3 win over Lakeland on April 27, 2014 and enjoyed a 5-for-6 showing in a 9-3 win over Clearwater June 25, 2014. Along with Cave, Cole Figueroa also had a five-hit game last year when he went 5-for-5 with a double, a homer and five RBIs at Pawtucket on May 27. It marked the first time SWB had two men post five hits in a game in the same season for the first time since Mark Budzinski and Jim Rushford in 2004.

OFF THE RAILS: Cesar Puello started both in center field and as the clean-up man for the first time with SWB...The paid attendance of 8,141 made for the team's second fixed-seat sellout of the year...The RailRiders left 11 men on base and went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position...The last time yesterday's starters, Haynes (1-1) and Henry Owens (2-1), pitched in the SWB/PAW rivalry, it came on April 13 at Pawtucket when Haynes got his lone win and Owens suffered his sole defeat in an SWB shutout victory, 1-0...Donovan Solano doubled and walked on a 3-for-4 day...Over his last 16 games he has gone 22-for-62 (.355)...Chris Parmelee began 2016 in a 2-for-26 (.077) funk with no extra-base hits, one RBI and 10 whiffs...He has since gone 21-for-62, 8XBH, 7RBI, 9BB, 13R over 17 games, slashing .339/.423/.532/.955.

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