IL Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

SWB RailRiders Game Notes - June 13, 2021

Published on June 13, 2021 under International League (IL)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (22-11) vs. Buffalo Bisons (17-16)

RHP Nick Nelson (0-0, 2.45 ERA) vs. LHP Anthony Kay (0-1, 6.62 ERA)

| Game 34 | Road Game 18 | Trenton Thunder Ballpark | Trenton, NJ | June 13, 2021 | First Pitch 1:00 p.m. |

EXTRA, EXTRA!: Saturday night's 10-inning affair with the Buffalo Bisons was the first extra-inning game of the season for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. It took until Game 33 of the season for the RailRiders to need extra frames to decide a game after 16 extra-inning contests in 2019. SWB went 10-6 in those contests.

COMEBACK KIDS: The RailRiders have erased multi-run deficits two times en route to victory during the current series with the Bisons. On Tuesday, they trailed 5-0 and eventually won 7-5, with a two-run single from Derek Dietrich in the top of the eighth putting SWB ahead for good. Then on Saturday, the RailRiders erased an early 4-0 advantage to win 6-4 in 10 innings. Andrew Velazquez put the RailRiders on top in the 10th inning when he scampered home on a wild pitch. Overall, the RailRiders have 10 come-from-behind wins this season.

ON A SILVER TREY: RailRiders outfielder Trey Amburgey has been among the best hitters in all of minor league baseball this season, and entering play Sunday afternoon, has at least one hit in all 17 games he has played. That stands as the longest active hitting streak in Triple-A East, and is the the longest in the league this season. Dating back to the end of the 2019 season, Amburgey has hit in 19 consecutive games and has at least one hit in 24 of his last 25 contests, and has reached base safely in all of those games. He is hitting .398/.470/.727 (35-for-88) in that span. The SWB franchise record for longest hitting streak belongs to Pablo Ozuna, who hit in 27 straight games in 2004 for the Red Barons, while the longest on-base streak is Brandon Drury's 32-game streak in the 2018 season.

OTHER STREAKS OF NOTE: In addition to Trey Amburgey's impressive run, the RailRiders offense features two other players with double-digit on-base streaks. Outfielder Greg Allen is riding a season-long 13-game on-base streak into play on Sunday afternoon, and infielder Hoy Park has reached base safely in 12 consecutive games. Allen has also played in two other games this season in which he did not record an official plate appearance, therefore not jeopardizing his streak and spent time on the injured list in the middle of his streak.

A NIGHT OF FIRSTS: Thursday night's doubleheader with Buffalo will be the first true doubleheader of the season for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Previously they played a quasi-doubleheader on May 27 against Buffalo at PNC Field, resuming a suspended game from the night before then playing the regularly-scheduled contest. In 2019 the RailRiders played 11 doubleheaders, going 14-8 overall in those skirmishes. SWB played three twin-bills with Buffalo alone in 2019, splitting one at Sahlen Field on June 3 and one at PNC Field on June 27, and notching a sweep of one at Sahlen Field on June 5 as well. Because of the two doubleheaders in three days, the RailRiders and Bisons played each other six times from June 3-6. Game 2 of Thursday's twin bill also marked the first time that the RailRiders have been shut out this season, and the first time that a RailRider has been ejected from a game, with Manager Doug Davis, Mike Ford, and Socrates Brito all being run from the game in the top of the third.

BLANKED: When the RailRiders dropped Game 2 of Thursday's doubleheader to the Buffalo Bisons at Trenton Thunder Ballpark 10-0, it marked the first time this season that the RailRiders failed to score a run in a game. Not only was it the first time that the RailRiders have been shut out this season, but it was the first time that SWB had been shut out in a game since June 27, 2019, when ironically the Buffalo Bisons beat the RailRiders 1-0 in Game 2 of a doubleheader at PNC Field. In between, the RailRiders had gone 93 straight games without being shut out. This season SWB has only scored fewer than two runs in a game on one other occasion, a 3-1 loss at Rochester on May 23.

THIS ROAD TRIP FEELS...FAMILIAR: With the Buffalo Bisons having to play their entire home schedule this season at Trenton Thunder Ballpark, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders will play this series in a familiar setting for many players. From 2003 through 2020, the Trenton Thunder were the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. Sixteen members of the RailRiders roster suited up for the Thunder under its Yankees affiliation. Adding an extra layer of complexity to the arrangement, Buffalo wears Trenton Thunder jerseys while playing at home, including the alternate "Trenton Pork Roll" identity on Fridays. The new Trenton Thunder Draft League team is playing its home games this season not at Trenton Thunder Ballpark, but at nearby Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J.

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