IL1 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB Game Notes

Published on July 2, 2019 under International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (47-35) @ PAWTUCKET RED SOX (33-48)

RHP Raynel Espinal (3-7, 4.71) vs. LHP Kyle Hart (3-2, 3.44)

| Game No. 83 | McCoy Stadium | Pawtucket, RI | July 2, 2019 | First Pitch 6:05 p.m. |

PAWTUCKET, RI (July 1, 2019) -- The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders got a dominating performance from Daniel Camarena Monday night to kick off a three-game series against the Pawtucket Red Sox, playing at McCoy Stadium for the first time this season.

Camarena allowed just a hit and a walk over his first six shutout innings, but in the process he induced a pair of double-play groundouts and faced the minimum 18 batters entering the seventh frame. He allowed a hit to Chris Owings in the inning, but escaped having allowed no runs over seven innings.

Offensively, the RailRiders got on the board quickly with a three-run first inning. Clint Frazier (3-for-5, 2B, 3 RBI) doubled home a pair of runs and later scored on Trey Amburgey's flared RBI double to right field to make it 3-0 before Pawtucket even stepped to the plate. The RailRiders added a run in the fifth and seventh inning to open up a 5-0 lead before the PawSox scored a run in the eighth inning off the SWB bullpen.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre rapped out 12 hits in the game as Tyler Wade (2-for-5, 2 R) and Ryan McBroom (3-for-4) also logged multi-hit games for the RailRiders.

BRINGING THE HEAT: J.P. Feyereisen tossed a scoreless ninth inning Monday night to close out a 5-1 win over the Pawtucket Red Sox. Over his last 9G, spanning 12.0 shutout IP, Feyereisen has allowed just 4 H (4-for-40, .100 BAA), 1 BB (0.42 WHIP) and struck out 21 batters (15.8 K/9). In the process he has lowered his season ERA from 3.04 to 2.09 as he was nominated to his second mid-season All-Star team (2016 Eastern League All-Star Game, Akron RubberDucks). For the season, Feyereisen leads all International League relievers in Batting Average Against (.142 BAA), Strikeout Rate (13.73 K/9) and is second in lowest baserunner rate (8.38 baserunners/9).

MAKING MOVES: With under 60 games remaining in the regular season, the five teams looking up at the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are looking to make moves in the standings. The RailRiders simply keep looking to make (roster) moves. As the calendar turned to July, SWB has made 167 total moves (April, 44 | May, 64 | June, 59) which is far ahead of last season's pace in which the RailRiders had made 131 total moves through June (April, 36 | May, 53 | June, 43) in a year in which they made 275 roster moves during the regular season.

SLIDING INTO JULY: The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders wake up Monday morning with a 4.0-game lead in the IL North Division after dropping a fourth straight game Saturday night to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. The last time they were only 4.0 games up in the division was following a loss 28 days ago June 7th against the Syracuse Mets. With a win Monday vs. Pawtucket the RailRiders were able to avoid their longest losing streak of the season and jump back to a 5.0-game lead in the division thanks to a loss by the Buffalo Bisons.

ONE WEEK TO GO: The entire International League has one week remaining until the unofficial midway point of the season with the Triple-A All-Star Game in El Paso, Texas. Last season's All-Star Break fell after game 87 of the season- it is expected to fall after game 89 this year- and the RailRiders were 46-41 (.529) on the year and 5.5 games in back of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs for first place in the division who were 52-36 (.591).

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 15 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), who has 10 homers this season including one home run he hit with the Sacramento RiverCats before being designated for assignment.




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