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September 5, 2022 - International League (IL)
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders News Release


Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (69-59) vs Durham Bulls (73-56)

Game 130 | Road Game 64 | Durham Bulls Athletic Park | Durham, NC | Monday, September 4, 2022 | First Pitch 5:05 PM

RHP Sean Boyle (2-1, 4.17) vs RHP Easton McGee (5-7, 5.34)

BOYLE: Earned win, 5.2 IP, 8 H, 1 ER, HBP, BB, 8 K (Triple-A season-high) vs Syracuse 8/31 (6-1 W)

MCGEE: Took loss in relief, 1.2 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 2 HR, HBP, BB @ Charlotte 9/1 (7-2 L)

LAST TIME OUT

MOOSIC, PA (September 3, 2022) - The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (69-59) defeated the Syracuse Mets 5-1 on Sunday afternoon, improving to a season-best 10 games over .500. Chris Owings went 1-for-4 with a go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning.

Zach Greene started the RailRiders' second consecutive bullpen game and pitched three scoreless innings with three strikeouts. Greene has allowed just three earned runs over his last 18 frames on the mound (1.50 ERA). Anthony Volpe registered the first hit of the day for SWB in the third. Volpe finished the day 1-for-3 at the plate with a walk and stolen base. The Yankees' top-ranked prospect is batting .417 (5-for-11) through his first three Triple-A games. Locked in a scoreless tie in the seventh, the RailRiders broke through for the game's first lead. With Blake Perkins on third base, Chris Owings smoked one to left for his fourth home run with the club. Ronald Guzmán doubled home a pair of crucial insurance runs in the eighth to make it 4-0. Guzmán logged five hits over the last two contests. Two batters later, Blake Perkins drove in one more with an infield single.

Syracuse broke up the shutout bid in the ninth, but Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's bullpen held strong in the 5-1 final with José Mujica, Michael Gomez and Luke Bard combining to pitch six strong innings. SWB relievers gave up just six earned runs over 26.2 frames of work this week (2.02 ERA).

Gomez earned his (3-5) earned his third win with 2.1 scoreless innings of relief. Bard (1) tallied his first save. Eric Orze (4-3) suffered the loss for Syracuse.

NEWS & NOTES

FIRST THINGS FIRST - The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are on the road for a pivotal six-game series against the first-place Durham Bulls. They enter the series tied for second with Jacksonville, three and a half games back. The RailRiders have not found themselves in first place since April 9 when they were 4-1.

I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS - The RailRiders are facing the Durham Bulls for the first time since June 23, 2019, 1,170 days ago. The RailRiders have not been to Durham Bulls Athletic Park since June 16, 2019.

ME, MYSELF AND I - The RailRiders-Bulls game is just one of two total Minor League games being played today. The Worcester Red Sox are on the road to face the Lehigh Valley IronPigs at 5:05 PM. Up through 2019, Labor Day once signaled the end of the Minor League season. SWB played their final regular season scheduled game on September 2, 2019 against Buffalo.

PHILLING GOOD - Phillip Evans is 17 for his last 39 (.436) in his last eleven games since August 19. He has five RBI and has struck out just three times during this stretch.

RYAN'S WORLD - Ryan LaMarre is 12 for his last 29 (.414) in his last eight games since August 19. He has hits in seven of those games. Prior to this stretch, LaMarre had gone 14 for his first 67 (.209) in 27 games.

STREAKY - Phillip Evans has an eleven-game on-base streak... Chad Bell has an eight-game on-base streak... Ryan LaMarre has a six-game hit streak...

YOO HOO, BIG SUMMER BLOWOUT - The RailRiders scored 14 runs on 16 hits on Saturday night against Syracuse. It matched a season-best with a nine-run victory, something they've now down five times. The team went 7-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Seven of their runs scored in the game came with two outs.

TWICE THE FUN- The RailRiders walked off in game two on Friday night against the Mets thanks to a Ryan LaMarre sacrifice fly for a 3-2 win in ten innings. Rob Brantly followed suit with a walk-off single on Saturday night. They have walked off in back-to-back games for the first time this year after having not walked off since May 29 against Jacksonville. In 2021, the RailRiders walked off on the Mets twice in the same series as well on June 16 and June 20. Brantly hit a homer in that June 16 game for the win.

NEW FRIEND - Yankees consensus number one prospect Anthony Volpe was promoted to Triple-A Friday for the first time in his career. Volpe ends his time with the Patriots in the top three in all 15 major offensive categories. He tallied his first Triple-A hit with a single in the bottom of the seventh inning in a 1-for-4 effort. MLB Pipeline currently ranks him the number five overall prospect in baseball, with Baseball America placing him at number ten. It took him 253 games across three seasons to reach Triple-A.

SO LONG, PARTNER - In the top of the fifth in game one of the doubleheader on Thursday, Oswald Peraza was removed from the game and was seen receiving hugs from his teammates in the RailRiders dugout. Peraza, 22 years old, was called up by the New York Yankees for the first time in his career. The consensus number two prospect leaves SWB as the home run and RBI leader. His final at bat produced a solo home run for his 100th hit of the season. 149 days prior on April 5 (Opening Day), Peraza hit a solo homer in the second at bat for any RailRider this season. Both solo home runs came against Syracuse. He started his first big league game on Saturday night, going 0-for-3.

ON DECK - Scranton/Wilkes-Barre heads on the road for a six-game series on Monday in Durham, NC. They return home on September 13 for their final six-game homestand of the season to host the Worcester Red Sox.

AROUND THE ORGANIZATION - The New York Yankees (80-54) edged past the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 to salvage the series finale. Aaron Judge hit his 53rd home run. Oswaldo Cabrera drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly. The Yankees played day baseball against the Minnesota Twins today with Jameson Taillon on the mound... The Somerset Patriots (76-48) lost the finale in extras to the Binghamton Rumble Ponies 5-4. The Patriots committed four errors, matching a season-high. Somerset is off today and will start a new series tomorrow in Hartford... The Hudson Valley Renegades (69-56) fell 6-1 to the Jersey Shore BlueClaws. They're in Wilmington to face the Blue Rocks tomorrow night... The Tampa Tarpons (60-63) dropped both ends of a doubleheader to the Dunedin Blue Jays. They now find themselves in third place, two and a half games back of the Florida State League West second-half standings. Their finale series of the season starts tomorrow with a suspended doubleheader against the Daytona Tortugas...

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