scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes pawtucket red sox (38-40) vs. scranton/wilkes-barre railriders (37-39) LHP Jalen Beeks (5-4, 2.40) vs. RHP Chance Adams (2-3, 5.21) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Game No. 78 | Friday June 29, 2018 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | | First Pitch 7:05 p.m. | Pregame Show 6:35 p.m. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jalen Beeks: MLB Debut, June 7 vs. Detroit Tigers -- Loss, 4.0 IP, 7 H, 6R/6ER, 3 BB, 4 K Chance Adams: Pitched first three innings of suspended game Sunday @ Rochester -- 3.0 IP, R/ER last time out... upcoming schedule / results date opponent result ALLENTOWN, PA (June 27, 2018) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders got a dazzling performance from starting pitcher Nestor June 22 @ Rochester L 3-1 Cortes, and the offense scored a flurry of early runs to jump out to a lead off Tom Eshelman in a 6-3 win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. June 23 @ Rochester W 4-2 Cortes had gone seven innings three times in his career entering Thursday night, but never in a game above High-A Tampa, and not since June 24 @ Rochester Susp. (B4) the 2016 season. He ran into trouble only once in the fourth inning. With a 4-0 lead for the RailRiders and one out and the bases empty, June 25 @ Lehigh Valley L 3-2 Mitch Walding reached on an error. The next man up was Joey Meneses who launched an opposite-field homer to cut the deficit in half, June 26 @ Lehigh Valley W 3-2 4-2. June 27 @ Lehigh Valley L 4-2 June 28 @ Lehigh Valley W 6-3 That would be it off Cortes, who scattered only two more hits throughout the outing. Over his last five starts, Cortes has gone 26.1 innings, June 29 Pawtucket 7:05 PM allowing 17 hits (17-for-92, .185 BAA), 3 ER (1.03 ERA), lowering his season ERA with the RailRiders from 6.75 to 3.83. June 30 Pawtucket 6:35 PM July 1 Pawtucket 1:05 PM The RailRiders began the scoring with Billy McKinney’s 11th home run of the season leading off the 2nd inning, and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre July 2 @ Buffalo 7:05 PM never looked back. His homer was his 11th since May 29- over his last 106 at-bats (9.6 AB/HR)- which is tied for the most in Minor League July 3 @ Buffalo 6:05 PM Baseball since that date. McKinney (2-for-4) was one of four RailRiders with multi-hit nights, including Rey Navarro (3-for-4), Zack Zehner July 4 Buffalo 7:05 PM (2-for-4) and Clint Frazier (2-for-5) who had an RBI double as part of a three-run 2nd inning to open up that early 4-0 lead. July 5 Buffalo 12:05 PM news & notes 2018 vs. pawsox overall head-to-head: 3-5 GETTING SOME LENGTH: LHP Josh Rogers is the one pitcher who has consistently given SWB starts that save the bullpen this season. This season, Rogers has gone 6.0+ innings in 10-of-15GS (66.7%), while the rest of the team has date location result just 12 such starts in the other 62G (19.4%). LHP Nestor Cortes matched his career-high with 7.0 IP Thursday night May 3 PNC Field W 4-3 against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, marking the 10th time this season a RailRiders has gone 7.0+ innings (Rogers, 6x). May 4 PNC Field L 5-4 May 5 McCoy Stadium L 2-0 PUTTING OUT FIRES: The RailRiders continue to get a strong performance out of its bullpen over the last week-plus. In May 6 McCoy Stadium L 2-0 9G since June 17, the bullpen arms not named Giovanny Gallegos have combined for 30.2 IP, 16 H, 4R/4ER (1.17 ERA), May 21 McCoy Stadium L 5-4 7 BB, 28 K (8.2 K/9). Gallegos had struggled over his last three appearances with the RailRiders, allowing runs in all 3G: May 22 McCoy Stadium L 7-6 4.2 IP, 7 H (7-for-21, .333 BAA), 4R/4ER, 0 BB, 8 K. However, upon arriving in the big leagues, earlier this week he went May 23 McCoy Stadium W 7-1 3.0 IP without allowing a run and striking out 6 batters. In two appearances with the New York Yankees this season, the May 24 McCoy Stadium W 3-1 righty has tossed five scoreless innings with 7 K and 0 BB. June 29 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. June 30 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. July 1 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. WORKING BACK: Wednesday night, RHP A.J. Cole faced five batters, didn’t record an out and allowed three runs. Cole July 6 McCoy Stadium 7:05 p.m. joins RHP Tommy Kahnle and RHP Adam Warren as three pitchers who have appeared with the RailRiders in 2018 on July 7 McCoy Stadium 6:35 p.m. rehab. In their three rehab appearances: 1.2 IP, 6 H (6-for-10, .600 BAA), 8R/8ER (43.20 ERA), 4 BB, 2 HBP (7.20 WHIP), K July 8 McCoy Stadium 1:35 p.m. August 31 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. CAN’T QUITE GET THERE: Over the last 17 games, the RailRiders own an 11-6 record to bring them up to as high as 4th September 1 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. place in the International League North standings. The RailRiders left Coca-Cola Park Thursday night, having not lost any September 2 McCoy Stadium 6:15 p.m. of their last five series (3-0-2). The RailRiders enter their series against Pawtucket trying to draw themselves back to .500 September 3 McCoy Stadium 1:35 p.m. for the first time since being 19-19 May 17 (Game No. 38). They are 0-5 in five chances to get back to .500 since May 17. 2017 results: RailRiders Won 13-5 POWERING UP: In the blink of an eye, the SWB RailRiders are the leading HR-hitting team in the International League. At all-time series: RailRiders Lead 244-242 the end of April, the team had 15 HR in 23G (0.65 HR/G) which was good for 6th in the 14-team I.L. Since then, Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre has 62 HR in its last 53G (1.17 HR/G) including 30 in 25G so far in June (1.20 HR/G). 2018 railriders at a glance 2018 overall record: 37-39 last roadtrip statistics Place: T-4th I.L. North GB: 6.5 Lehigh Valley (45-33) swb g avg ab h r hr bb k sb Home: 22-17 Away: 16-22 hitting 6 .215 195 46 18 6 19 41 1 Last 5: 3-2 Last 10: 5-5 swb w-l era ip h r er bb k hr 2018 hitting leaders: AVG: Tyler Wade .266 pitching 3-3 2.55 53.0 39 17 15 18 42 3 HR: Billy McKinney 11 around the organization RBI: R. McBroom, B. Drury 29 SB Tyler Wade 9 New York Yankees (MLB) Trenton Thunder (AA) Tampa Tarpons (A+) Charleston Riverdogs (A) L 3-0 @ Philadelphia Phillies W 8-5 vs. Binghamton Rumble Ponies L 8-5 vs. Fort Myers Miracle W 6-1 vs. Rome Braves 2018 pitching leaders: Luis Cessa: 3.0 IP, 5 H, 3R/3ER, 2 K Abiatal Avelino: 4-4, 2B, 4 R, BB Brandon Wagner: 2-5, 2 K Dalton Lehnen: 6.0 IP, 5 H, 0R, 7 K Wins: Josh Rogers 6 G. Gallegos: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0R, 6 K Ryan McBroom: 2-3, HR (2), 4RBI, BB Hoy Jun Park: 3-4, HR (6), 3 R, 2 RBI *Win -- 6-3, 2.67 ERA ERA: Josh Rogers 3.32 Aaron Hicks: 2-4, 2 K Brian Keller: 5.0 IP, 3R/3ER, 5 K Rashad Crawford: 3-4, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI Pablo Olivares: 2-5, 2B, R, K K: C. Adams, J. Rogers 71 Rhys Hoskins (PHI): 2-4, HR, 3 RBI Caleb Frare: 2.1 IP, 2R/1ER, 3 K Donny Sands: 2-4, R Chris Hess: 1-4, 3B, R, RBI SV: Cody Carroll 7 upcoming pitching probables broadcast/media information date opponent railriders starter opponent starter Radio: 1400 AM 1340 AM 1440 AM Saturday, June 30 Pawtucket LHP Josh Rogers (6-5, 3.32) LHP Josh D. Smith (4-3, 2.61) 106.7 FM 100.7 FM Internet: TuneIn App (Search: “SWB RailRiders”) Sunday, July 1 Pawtucket RHP David Hale (3-2, 4.20) RHP Justin Haley (4-6, 3.06) RadioBOLD App Monday, July 2 @ Buffalo TBA TBA Television: MiLB.tv Monday, July 3 @ Buffalo TBA TBA Adam Marco (@amarco_16) Adam Giardino (@adamgiardino) International League | Triple-A Affiliate, New York Yankees (2007) | PNC Field -- 235 Montage Mountain Road -- Moosic, PA 18507 | (570) 969-2255 | www.swbrailriders.com tonight’s starting pitcher 28 CHANCE ADAMS | RHP | 6’1” | 220 LBS | 23 | Scottsdale, AZ | Chaparral H.S. (AZ) | Dallas Baptist University | Selected in the 5th round of the 2015 First-Year Player Draft | MLB Service Time: 0.000 | 2018: Tabbed by Baseball America as the number four prospect and number six by MLB.com in the Yankees system... Surrendered five runs, four earned in Opening Day no-decision vs. SYR... Pitched five scoreless innings in 4/11 no-decision against LHV, striking out six... Allowed three runs on five hits in 4/16 Loss @ GWN...Allowed three runs on two hits over 5.2 IP in 4/22 no-decision against Toledo..