IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

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Published on June 29, 2019 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (46-33) @ LEHIGH VALLEY IRONPIGS (36-41)

RHP Randall Delgado (1-2, 4.50) vs. LHP Cole Irvin (2-0, 2.50)

| Game No. 80 | Coca-Cola Park | Allentown, PA | June 29, 2019 | First Pitch 6:35 p.m. |

ALLENTOWN, PA (June 28, 2019) -- Friday night's game before a sellout crowd of 10,100 fans at Coca-Cola Park was deadlocked entering the bottom of the 8th inning, but a throwing miscue by the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders allowed an unearned run to score giving the Lehigh Valley IronPigs a 4-3 series-opening win.

In what proved to be the decisive inning, the RailRiders sent Jonathan Holder to the mound for a 2nd inning in his first game with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season. After allowing a run in the 7th inning, the 8th inning began with a single by Malquin Canelo. He was bunted into scoring position by Phil Gosselin and was there with two outs when Andrew Romine came to the plate.

The RailRiders opted to bring Danny Coulombe from the bullpen to face the switch-hitting Romine who bats 20 points lower from the right side of the plate. He smoked a hard groundball to the right side of the infield, in which first baseman Logan Morrison made an incredible diving stop to keep the ball on the infield, but then delivered a wayward throw to Coulombe covering the bag to allow Canelo to round third base and score the eventual winning run.

Adonis Rosa got the start for SWB and turned in his finest performance of the season despite picking up a no-decision. Over 6.0 innings he scattered 4 H and 7 K while allowing 2R on just a pair of solo home runs from Lehigh Valley's Austin Listi.

THIS FELT DIFFERENT: The RailRiders dropped a second straight game Friday night to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs via a one-run loss, dropping them to 11-13 in one-run games this season. However, the RailRiders held a 3-2 lead entering the 7th inning before giving up the tying run in the bottom of the 7th and surrendering the winning run in the 8th. Before Friday, the 2019 RailRiders had been 38-0 when leading after six innings.

A DIFFERENT SITUATION: The RailRiders entered Friday's series-opener against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs having to take on two of the top arms in the International League in RHP Enyel De Los Santos (3-3, 3.28) and LHP Cole Irvin (2-0, 2.50). SWB had faced De Los Santos once already this season, scoring four times in the bottom of the first inning, with Tyler Wade's two-run homer capping the early barrage. Friday night, De Los Santos had shut down the RailRiders' bats until the 5th inning. Over the first 4.2 innings he had allowed just three hits before three runs scored with two outs to give the RailRiders a 3-1 lead. Meanwhile, Irvin appeared in games April 10th and 17th and the RailRiders did not have the same level of success in notching just 1 ER off the southpaw in 12.2 IP (0.71 ERA).This continues a dominating trend for the two starters from a season ago, when Irvin and De Los Santos appeared in a combined 10G/10GS against SWB and was downright stingy: 3-2, 56.2 IP, 57 H (.261 BAA), 15R/15ER (2.38 ERA), 49 K, 10 BB

HANDLED AT HOME: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders welcomed the Buffalo Bisons to town Wednesday night for a three-game, two-day set between the top two teams in the International League North Division. Entering play Wednesday, the RailRiders held a 5.0-game lead on Buffalo, but the lead could have gotten reduced to 2.0 games had Buffalo continued its play as the hottest team in the IL. Instead, the RailRiders took the first two games of the series before dropping the nightcap of Thursday's doubleheader, 1-0 (7). The RailRiders and Bisons have now met 17 times this season entering Thursday's doubleheader, with the RailRiders holding an 11-5 advantage (Home: 5-6 // Road: 6-0). The two teams will not meet again until the final four games of the regular season August 30 - September 2 at PNC Field.

ON PACE: The RailRiders have a number of players at the midway point of the season who are locked-in on setting a new career-high in home runs in a season

Mike Ford: 18 HR (Career-High: 20 HR, 2017)

Ryan McBroom: 16 HR (Career-High: 22 HR, 2016)

Trey Amburgey: 13 HR (Career-High: 16 HR, 2018)

Breyvic Valera: 10 HR (Career-High)

Gosuke Katoh: 7 HR (Career-High)

MORE POWER: Logan Morrison homered just over a week ago to became the sixth member of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to record double-digit homers this season. He three more over the next three games and is now up to 14 longballs on the season. He has joined Mike Ford (16), Ryan McBroom (16), Kyle Higshioka (11), Trey Amburgey (10) and Brad Miller (10) among the team leaders. Last year's team had only six players with 10+ homers. Up next for the 2019 RailRiders: Breyvic Valera (9).

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