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May 14, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


COMEBACK TRACK: A three-run eighth carried the RailRiders to a 4-2 come-from-behind series-opening win over the Indianapolis Indians on Friday night.

R&R: Rob Refsnyder went 0-for-4 with a strikeout to end a pair of lengthy streaks. He had reached safely in 20 straight games and owned a 16-game hitting streak. Both had ranked as the IL's longest active runs. The hitting streak is the best outright in the circuit all season and the on-base run ranks third after Charlotte's Leury Garcia got aboard yesterday, stretching his run to 21. The IL's on-base standard for 2016 was a 25-gamer set by Indy's Josh Bell from April 10-May 7. An acute awareness of the strike zone has Refsnyder ranked fifth in the league's PA/K ratio (9.07:1). His hitting run lifted his average by 97 points (.190-.287). He entered the last road trip in a 4-for-30 (.133) funk, but had gone 22-for-55 (.400) until last night. He has not been nabbed in six stolen-base tries on the year. He took 14 bags in 16 tries between SWB and the big leagues last season.

HE'S BACK: Gary Sanchez went 0-for-4 with a strikeout in his first big league start last night, a 7-1 Yankees loss to the White Sox. Earlier today he was optioned back to SWB. Sanchez left SWB sharing the IL lead in doubles and ranked second with 17 extra-base hits: 11-2B, 1-3B, 5HR. A .175 bat after his first 10 games, thereafter he went 25-for-71 with 11 extra-base hits and 15 RBIs in 17 games, slashing .352/.387/.592/.978. His 21 RBIs ranked second on the squad and tied him for fifth in the circuit. When he was behind the plate, opposing base stealers were caught eight times in 16 attempts for the IL's second-best caught-stealing percentage. Sanchez hit safely in each of his last nine SWB games, posting multiple knocks in five of those affairs. During his hit streak he went 16-for-40 with six extra-base hits (three homers) and 10 RBIs while slashing .400/.415/.700/1.115. The team went 15-10 when he started behind the plate and the pitchers owned a 2.84 ERA, a team number that would rank second to only Indy in the IL.

GUILTY AS CHARGED: Aaron Judge drove in his team-best 22nd RBI with a fourth-inning double on Thursday. He ranks among the IL's best in homers (T-2nd, 7), RBIs (4th, 22), extra-base hits (3rd, 16) and total bases (3rd, 65). His five outfield assists pace the team and trail only Buffalo's Junior Lake (7), Durham's Jaff Decker (6) and Norfolk's Dariel Alvarez (6) in the IL. Over his last 11 games, Judge has five homers and 11 RBIs.

I'M JUST A CAVEMAN: Jake Cave delivered the game-winning two-run single in the eighth inning. In just three games, he has gone 5-for-14 (.357) with a double, triple, homer, five RBIs and four runs scored.

NOT-SO-GENTLE BEN: In his first game with SWB since returning from the Yankees, Ben Gamel posted a run-scoring hit in the eighth to tie the game. Despite serving as SWB's leadoff man, Gamel has knocked in at least one run in five of his last six games. He slugged his first MLB hit versus Kansas City on Monday.

THAT'S A START: SWB's Luis Cessa logged his first quality start as a RailRider with six innings of two-hit, one-run ball. He tossed a pair of quality starts in the IL over his short seven-start run with Toledo after he was traded from NYM-DET. The first came on Aug. 11, 2015 at Indy. His best effort came on Aug. 31, 2015 versus Louisville (7IP, 4H, 1R/0ER, 1BB, 7K). Cessa's counterpart, Frank Duncan, allowed just one baserunner over six scoreless innings. In his Triple-A debut, he struck out five, walked none on 68 pitches (48 strikes).

OFF THE RAILS: Adonis Garcia set the RailRiders era record with a 21-game hit streak from July 17-Aug. 30, 2014 that tied for the longest in the IL that season...Red Barons shortstop Pablo Ozuna set the overall SWB mark, a 27-gamer from July 27-Aug. 24, 2004...Chris Parmelee began 2016 in a 2-for-26 (.077) funk with 0XBH, 1RBI, 10K...He has since gone 22-for-69, 8XBH, 7RBI, 9BB, 13R over 19 games, slashing .319/.397/.493/.890...Over his last 18 games, Donovan Solano has gone 26-for-74 (.351) including his team-best 38th hit of the year last night...He ranks fourth in the IL, one spot in front of Refsnyder, with his 9.27 PA/K rate; ranks fifth in the IL in hits; and leads the loop with five sacrifice flies for an SWB team that has an IL-high 16...Only two teams in all of MiLB have more sac flies than SWB: the Low-A Clinton LumberKings (SEA, MID - 18) and the Low-A Hickory Crawdads (TEX, SAL - 18).

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