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Published on July 22, 2022 under International League (IL)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (44-46) vs Lehigh Valley IronPigs (49-41)

Game 91 | Home Game 43 | Coca-Cola Park | Allentown, PA | Friday, July 22, 2022 | First Pitch 7:05 PM

RHP Hayden Wesneski (5-7, 3.51) vs LHP Michael Plassmeyer (2-0, 2.88)

WESNESKI: Six shutout innings, 3 H, 3 BB, 6 K, earning win vs Louisville 7/14 (6-1 W)

PLASSMEYER: Earned win, 5.0 IP, 4 H, ER, HR, HBP, 4 K @ Charlotte 7/15 (7-3 W)

LAST TIME OUT

MOOSIC, PA (July 17, 2022) - The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (44-46) defeated the Louisville Bats 8-6 on Sunday afternoon to clinch a series victory. Ronald Guzmán went 2-for-4 with his fifth home run of the season.

The RailRiders jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the first. The scoring started after a defensive miscue on the infield allowed Estevan Florial to score from second. Later in the frame, Tyler Wade drove two runs in with a single to right to make it 3-0. Armando Alvarez then capped the inning one batter later with a two-run blast to left for his tenth home run of the season. Louisville answered with four tallies in the second against RailRiders' starter Clarke Schmidt. Lorenzo Cedrola, TJ Friedl and Jose Barrero produced the run-scoring hits to pull the Bats within 5-4. Friedl finished the series 10-for-22 with a home run and 7 RBI. Schmidt allowed four runs over 3.2 frames with a season-high eight strikeouts.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame. Oswald Peraza brought Florial home with an RBI single to give SWB a 6-4 advantage. Rob Brantly followed that with a double in the third that plated the seventh RailRiders' run. The teams then traded punches in the fifth with Alejo Lopez driving in one for the Bats and Guzmán answering with a solo big fly to right to give Scranton/Wilkes-Barre an 8-5 lead. Louisville trimmed one run off their deficit in the seventh. Aristides Aquino hit a solo home run off fellow MLB rehabber Ron Marinaccio. Greg Weissert then came in from the RailRiders' bullpen and logged his first six-out save of the season in the 8-6 final.

NEWS & NOTES

FIRST THINGS FIRST - The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders return to the diamond after the All-Star break to make their first trip to Coca-Cola Park and face the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. This is the first three-game series of the season for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and their first trip to this ballpark this season. These two won't play a six-game series at Coca-Cola Park until the RailRiders' final road trip of the year in late September.

MOVE AND GROOVE - The Yankees have made a series of moves since the All-Star break that have affected the RailRiders. Reliever Vinny Nittoli was released on July 18. Domingo German's rehab assignment finished and he was sent to New York on Thursday. Yesterday as well, JP Sears was added to the Yankees roster as their "27th Man" in their doubleheader and then returned. Today, Ron Marinaccio's rehab assignment was transferred to Double-A Somerset. Ben Rortvedt's rehab assignment was transferred to SWB.

FINISHED STRONG - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre finished the proverbial first-half just two games under .500 (44-46). The team was a season-worst seventeen games under the .500 mark at 19-36 on June 8, putting them 15.5 games back of first while holding last place in the IL East. Since June 9, the RailRiders have gone 25-10.

ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI - This is the RailRiders first trip to Coca-Cola Park this season. In 2021, the RailRiders went 12-6 in Allentown while going 21-15 overall in the season against LHV. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has not faired well against the IronPigs this season, losing nine-of-twelve games against them at PNC Field while being outscored 74-42.

BEN'S BIZ - Ben Rortvedt will continue his rehab assignment with the RailRiders after playing four games with Hudson Valley. The catcher is coming back from a right oblique strain. He went 1-for-12 with the Renegades with three walks and six strikeouts. He has never played for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Prior to this season, Rortvedt had spent his entire career in the Minnesota Twins organization. He was traded to the Yankees from the Twins on March 13 of this year in a deal that included Gary Sanchez, Gio Urshela, Josh Donaldson and Isiah Kiner-Falefa.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY - Since July 7, Rob Brantly has gone 9-for-15 with a double. He has driven in three runs in a four-game span. His three-hit performance last Friday (July 15) was his first game in six days (July 9).

PHIL OF THE FUTURE - Phillip Evans has been hot recently. In the month of July, Evans is batting .371, going 13-for-35. He has also walked eight times in the last eleven games. The California native is on an eleven-game on-base streak and has hits in ten of his last thirteen games.

WADE, WADE, COME BACK WADE - Tyler Wade made his 2022 RailRiders debut last Saturday, picking up a single in the fifth inning as a part of a 1-for-4 performance. Wade, who was recently traded back to the Yankees organization from the Angels, played 255 games with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre prior to last week. The single was his first RailRiders hit since August 15, 2019 while at Charlotte. It was his first RailRiders game at PNC Filed since August 11, 2019 while facing the Gwinnett Stripers.

ON DECK - The RailRiders are on the road for a nine-game road trip, their longest of the season thus far. The RailRiders return home on Tuesday, August 2 to host the Buffalo Bisons. Get 2-for-1 lawn or bleacher seats online only and enjoy $2 Landshark Lager tallboys for two hours after gates open, presented by PrimoHoagies and The River.

STREAKY -Greg Weissert has not been charged with a run in fourteen straight appearances, the longest stretch for any RailRiders pitcher this season. This scoreless streak has lasted 13.2 innings... Jimmy Cordero is on a five-game scoreless streak... Shane Greene is on a five-game scoreless streak...Phillip Evans is on an eleven-game on-base streak...

AROUND THE ORGANIZATION - The New York Yankees (64-30) were swept in a doubleheader by the Houston Astros to start the post-All-Star break half. Houston walked off 3-2 in game one and held off a comeback in the ninth in game two 7-5. Aaron Judge launched a three-run shot late but ultimately fell. The Yankees are in Baltimore tonight with Jameson Taillon facing Tyler Wells at 7:05 PM... The Somerset Patriots (53-34) lost 12-11 on Sunday to the Portland Sea Dogs. Jeisson Rosario hit for the cycle. Sean Boyle was named Double-A Eastern League Pitcher of the Week for July 11 - July 17. They host the Reading Fightin Phils at 7:05 PM with Will Warren on the mound... The Hudson Valley Renegades (44-37) finished with a 9-6 win over the Jersey Shore BlueClaws on Sunday. The 'Gades scored four times in the top of the eleventh after trading runs in the tenth. They send Josue Panacual to face Wilmington tonight at 6:35 PM... The Tampa Tarpons walked off on the Daytona Tortugas 5-3 thanks to a Christopher Familia homer. They're back in action to host the Lakeland Flying Tigers tonight at 6:30 PM...

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