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July 30, 2019 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


SYRACUSE METS (53-54) @ SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (61-46)

RHP Ervin Santana (2-1, 4.01) vs. RHP Adonis Rosa (3-0, 3.78)

| Game No. 108 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | July 30, 2019 | First Pitch 12:05 p.m. |

MOOSIC, PA (July 29, 2019) -- The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders led entering the ninth inning, but despite surrendering the game-tying run came away victorious against the Syracuse Mets, using a thundering walk-off home run by Wendell Rijo hit a thundering walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth to win 5-4 Monday night.

In the ninth, the Mets tied the game 4-4 on a wild pitch by RailRiders pitcher J.P. Feyereisen. The Mets loaded the bases with three straight hits- including a pair of bunt singles- to begin the inning. After inducing a pop out and recording a strikeout, the tying run scored with Feyereisen looking for one more out to notch the save. Instead, in the bottom of the inning Rijo nailed the game-winning home run that took the opener of the two-game series.

The game began with the RailRiders getting on the board first in the bottom of the first when Breyvic Valera plated Mike Ford on a groundout and the home team took a 1-0 lead.

In the top of the second, Syracuse took a 2-1 edge with a two-run home run by Braxton Lee. Syracuse extended the lead when second baseman Luis Guillorme knocked an RBI single in the top of the fifth making it 3-1 Mets.

WALK-OFF WINNER: The RailRiders surrendered the tying run in the top of the 9th inning Monday night to the Syracuse Mets, only to see INF Wendell Rijo connect for a walk-off home run in the bottom of the frame. It is the ninth walk-off win for the RailRiders this season, and third walk-off homer: 4/27 INF Cliff Pennington vs. Syracuse (10th inning); 5/1 INF/OF Ryan McBroom vs. Rochester (10th inning)

THE MIDAS TOUCH: For whatever reason, the Louisville Bats turned into Murderer's Row in six games against RailRiders pitching this season. In those games, the Bats have scored 38 runs (6.2/G) and connected for 19 HR (3.17 HR/G) in 52.0 IP by the RailRiders, slugging .612. In the season series, 28-of-38 (74%) runs scored by the Louisville Bats were accounted for by homers. In their 100 other games this season, the Bats have hit 118 HR (1.18 HR/G) and slugged .435. Meanwhile, the RailRiders pitching staff has been one of the best in the International League at resisting home runs, giving up just 111 HR in 840.1 IP (HE every 7.2 IP) against non-Louisville hitting, but a HR every 2.2 IP against Louisville. The RailRiders surrendered just one homer Monday night vs. Syracuse.

MAKING MOVES: With 33 games remaining in the regular season, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are keeping up their torrid pace... of roster moves. As the calendar gets ready to turn to August, SWB had made 227 total moves (April, 44 | May, 64 | June, 59 | July, 61) which is far ahead of last season's pace in which the RailRiders had made 207 total moves through July (April, 36 | May, 53 | June, 43 | July, 76) in a year in which they made 275 roster moves (1.99 moves/game) during the regular season. SWB is averaging 2.12 moves/game this season.

RECORD SETTERS: When Mike Ford blasted a two-run home run clear out of Huntington Park in the sixth inning Thursday afternoon, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders set the franchise record with 165 HR in the first 103 games of the season (1.60 HR/G), which far exceeds the rate for the 132 HR they hit all of last season (0.96 HR/G) and eclipsed the previous franchise record of 164 HR (1.15 HR/G) over 142 games set by the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons in 1998.

OTHER NUMBERS UNDER FIRE: With the new baseball in Triple-A, a number of other offensive records (and dubious pitching records) will be under assault as the calendar turns to August, including Slugging Percentage which is at .494 entering Tuesday, well ahead of the .449 mark put up in 1998 and .022 points ahead of the Rochester Red Wings who are second in the league. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre franchise record for runs in a season is 746, set in 1998 (5.25 per game), and this season's team is currently 5th in the International League in runs with 585, but they are on pace to break the franchise record with 5.47 per game.

A QUICK PROJECTION: Monday featured a win by both the RailRiders (61-46, .570) and the team closest to them in the IL North standings, the Buffalo Bisons (56-51, .523). Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has 33 games to go in the regular season and holds a 5.0-game lead on the Bisons for first place (the largest lead this season was +8.0 GB June 20 following Game No. 70). That means if the RailRiders were to go 17-16 (.515) the rest of the way, the Bisons would need to go 22-11 (.667) to catch them in the division. However, these two teams play four games over four days at PNC Field to wrap-up the regular season leading into Labor Day.

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