IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on June 9, 2019 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


SYRACUSE METS (30-31) @ SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (34-25)

Game 1: RHP Chris Mazza (1-2, 3.00) vs. RHP Raynel Espinal (2-4, 5.40)

Game 2: RHP Casey Coleman (1-2, 3.00) vs. LHP Daniel Camarena (0-2, 5.72)

| Game No. 60 & 61 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | June 9, 2019 | First Pitch 12:05 p.m. |

MOOSIC, PA -- Led by two home runs from Logan Morrison and a stellar start by Brody Koerner, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders defeated the Syracuse Mets 3-1 on Saturday afternoon at PNC Field.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre received a terrific start from Brody Koerner, who supplied the team with its fifth straight quality start. The right-hander allowed an RBI double to Travis Taijeron in the top of the second, but did not allow another run in his 7.0 innings of work.

Twice generating inning-ending double plays and striking out a season-high seven, Koerner scattered six hits while recording his second quality start of the season for SWB. He completed his outing by retiring the final seven Mets batters he faced.

Logan Morrison got the RailRiders on the board with a leadoff solo home run in the bottom of the third against Walker Lockett to tie the game at 1-1. Trey Amburgey followed the long ball with a double to left, but was thrown out trying to score on a groundball later in the inning.

In the bottom of the seventh Ryan McBroom dropped a one-out single to right which was lost in the sun by Arismendy Alcantara. Morrison stepped to the plate and immediately made Syracuse pay as he crushed his second home run of the game against Lockett, a 400-plus-foot drive onto the grass berm in right center to put the RailRiders ahead 3-1.

EXTRA OFFENSE: SWB has had plenty of offensive success against the Syracuse Mets this season, using strong hitting to win 7 of the first 9 games of the year head-to-head entering this weekend's series. As they welcome their IL North Division rival to town for four games over three days, they looked to keep those hot bats going. On the season entering Friday, the RailRiders are leading the IL with a .276 AVG this season and is second in both OBP (.355) and SLG (.488). In 9G against Syracuse, the team is slashing .322/.396/.596 in a big uptick in performance over what they've done against other teams in the league. The first two games of the series featured strong pitching on both sides, with SWB scoring just four runs and slashing just .241/.313/.466.

DOUBLEDIPPING: By June 9th of last year, the RailRiders had played just two doubleheaders and finished the year playing two games on the same date eight times over the course of the entire season. Sunday's doubleheader marks the seventh time in the first 61 games of the year that the RailRiders will play multiple games on the same day this year. There are two more doubleheaders on the schedule in the coming weeks, and the RailRiders are expecting to have played nine doubleheaders over the first 87 games of the year -- exceeding their total from all of 2018 just over halfway into the year.

ALL (GOOD?) THINGS COME TO AN END: The RailRiders hit the weekend with a series against the Mets wrapping up a gauntlet stretch of games. Early in the season, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders had their schedule broken up by a handful of postponements and suspensions due to weather -- seven over the first five weeks of the season. Though many of the games were made up the following day, they had a number postponed a few weeks. Following the day-off May 20th, the RailRiders began a stretch on the 21st against the Pawtucket Red Sox that featured 23 games over 20 days before their next scheduled off day with all 23 games having come against each of their five IL North Division rivals. They are currently 13-7 on this run of games heading into the final game of the stretch, with one game against Rochester postponed until July 5th due to weather.

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