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August 23, 2019 - International League (IL1)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE (68-60) @ LEHIGH VALLEY IRONPIGS (60-67)

RHP Adonis Rosa (5-0, 3.33) vs. RHP Ramon Rosso (2-2, 4.57)

| Game No. 130 | Coca-Cola Park | Allentown, PA | August 23, 2019 | First Pitch 7:05 p.m. |

MOOSIC, PA (August 22, 2019) -- After a 41-minute rain delay the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox 4-3, Thursday night at PNC Field. Michael King matched his career-high of striking out 11 batters and Chance Adams recorded his first save of the season to lead the RailRiders to victory.

King began the contest by striking out the side in the top of the first inning. The righthander was perfect through three innings and finished with 11 punchouts in 6.2 innings, the most by a RailRiders pitcher this year. He allowed a two-run home run to C.J. Chatham in the sixth, but that was all the Red Sox could do against him.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre got on the board early in the bottom of the first as Breyvic Valera hit an RBI single and plated a run, giving the home team a 1-0 lead. Keeping the momentum, Gosuke Katoh nailed a two-base hit and plated two runs for the RailRiders in the bottom of the fourth, extending their advantage to 3-0.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre plated an additional run in the bottom of the fifth as Kyle Higashioka grounded out and Billy Burns scored, extending the advantage to 4-0. Following the Chatham homer, Pawtucket attempted to rally in the top of the ninth inning as Cole Sturgeon hit an RBI double to right field, and plated a run. With the Paw Sox now only trailing by one, Adams entered the game out of the bullpen and recorded his first save of the season for the RailRiders and shut them down.

WALKING TO THE FINISH: INF Gosuke Katoh has been in the midst of a hot stretch of his season where he has been finding his way on base in any way possible for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. In 18G since returning from the Double-A Trenton Thunder, the infielder is batting 18-for-55 (.327 AVG), 2 2B, 2 HR, 10 RBI, 17 BB (.486 OBP) and 3-for-4 SB. Entering Thursday's game, Katoh has reached safely in 20-of-his-last-30 plate appearances (.667 OBP), going 8-for-18 (.444 AVG) with 12 BB.

A TALE OF TWO WEEKS: Over 7G to kick off a recent stretch for the RailRiders, they had not scored more than 4 runs in a game, plating just 16 runs (2.28/game) in that stretch in which the team batted .174 (38-for-218). Since then, the last 8G have been a lot more favorable for the RailRiders offense as they have scored 54 runs (6.8 runs/game) and batted 87-for-284 (.306 AVG) in that time.

HANGING ON: The RailRiders used a pair of wins Sunday and Monday to snap a six-game losing skid, winning the two games by a combined 20-4. In its previous 16G before the two wins, the team was 3-13 falling from 16-games above .500 with a 6.0-game lead in the division to just a 1.0-game lead in the division. They now hold a modest lead over the Syracuse Mets (1.05GB) with the Buffalo Bisons (3.0 GB) and Rochester Red Wings (4.0 GB) hot on their heels. Before this recent span of games, the last time the lead in the division was as small as 1.0 games entering Sunday's series-finale was May 30th when they improved to 48-40 on the season as they were growing the lead in the division after just taking over first place from the Syracuse Mets.

MAKING MOVES: With 11 games remaining in the regular season, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are keeping up their torrid pace of roster moves. Following a year in which they made 275 roster moves total (1.99 moves/game) during the regular season. SWB has now made 308 heading into Friday's series opener against Lehigh Valley, which breaks the 2015 season record of 305 moves in a year. The team is averaging 2.37 moves/game this season and is on pace for 331 roster moves through the end of the regular season.

LOTS OF FACES: When RHP Ryan Dull entered in out of the bullpen in the top of the 8th inning he became the 75th player to appear in a game for the RailRiders this season. With Luke Voit expected in Friday's lineup, he will break the franchise record as the 76th player to appear in a game for SWB this season. LHP Joe Mantiply made his SWB 2019 debut Sunday and in doing so became the 74th player to appear in a game for the RailRiders this season. LHP Tyler Lyons entered out of the bullpen Friday night for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders for his New York Yankees organizational debut against the Gwinnett Stripers as the No. 73 player in a RailRiders uniform. This number now far exceeds the 2018 team's total roster of 69 players, and far surpasses the 2017 mark of 65.

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