Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders Game Notes Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (6-3) Vs
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scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes Lehigh Valley IronPigs (6-3) vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (7-2) LHP Cristopher Sánchez (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. RHP Brian Keller (0-0, 3.38 ERA) | Game 10 | Home Game 4 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | May 14, 2021 | First Pitch 6:35 p.m. | last time out... upcoming schedule / results date opponent result MOOSIC, Pa. (May 13, 2021) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders notched their first come-from-behind victory of the season on Thursday night May 9 @ Syracuse W, 15-10 at PNC Field, defeating the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 5-2. May 11 Lehigh Valley W, 6-0 May 12 Lehigh Valley L, 3-2 The IronPigs took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second against Nick Green when a throwing error allowed a run to score. Green allowed another run in May 13 Lehigh Valley W, 5-2 the fourth, but was solid in 3.2 innings in his second start of the season with the RailRiders. May 14 Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre got on the board in the bottom of the third when Armando Alvarez doubled and scored on an error when Greg Allen hit a fly May 15 Lehigh Valley 4:05 p.m. ball to right field that was dropped by Ryan Cordell. 2021 vs. lehigh valley After the IronPigs took the lead back in the top of the fourth, Robinson Chirinos hit a two-run home run in the bottom half of the frame to put the RailRiders on top 3-2. The opposite-field blast for Chirinos was his second of the season. overall head-to-head: 2-1 date location result In the bottom of the fifth SWB extended its lead to 5-2 courtesy of a two-run single by Ryan LaMarre off Kyle Dohy. May 11 PNC Field W, 6-0 May 12 PNC Field L, 3-2 The RailRiders bullpen was terrific in support of Green, with Reggie McClain, Addison Russ, Brooks Kriske and Luis Garcia combining for 5.1 scoreless May 13 PNC Field W, 5-2 innings. McClain (2-0) got the win, while Garcia racked up his team-leading second save of the season. The staff combined to strike out 10 Lehigh May 14 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. Valley batters, and has recorded 92 strikeouts through its first 76.0 innings pitched this season. May 15 PNC Field 4:05 p.m. May 16 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. news & notes June 1 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. June 2 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. June 3 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. LET’S GET IT STARTED (IN HERE): After posting a 6.75 ERA (15 ER/20.0 IP) in the season-opening series at Syracuse, RailRiders starting June 4 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. pitchers have been much better at PNC Field through two games. Deivi García, Brody Koerner and Nick Green have combined for a 1.45 June 5 PNC Field 4:05 p.m. ERA (2 ER/12.1 IP) in this series against Lehigh Valley. With a small sample size of eight games played, the last two games have dropped June 6 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. RailRiders’ starters ERA down to 4.73, while the overall staff ERA has fallen from 6.24 entering Tuesday’s home opener, to 4.50. In 2019, SWB June 22 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. posted a 4.98 ERA at home in 71 games, and 4.94 overall. June 23 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. June 24 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. DINGER ALERT: After shattering the SWB franchise record with 212 home runs in 2019 (previously 164 in 1998), the RailRiders are at it June 25 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. again, hitting 15 home runs in the team’s first six games. However, the RailRiders did not hit a home run in their two games at PNC Field this June 26 Coca-Cola Park 6:35 p.m. season, but Robinson Chirinos’4th-inning blast off David Parkinson on Thursday night changed that. Nonetheless, the 16 round-trippers June 27 Coca-Cola Park 1:35 p.m. hit by SWB puts the club in fourth place in the Triple-A East League, trailing Durham (20), Gwinnett (17) and Nashville (17). The RailRiders August 10 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. are tied for fifth in minor league baseball in home runs and are one of six teams who have hit at least 15 long balls. Incredibly, the Lehigh August 11 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Valley IronPigs only hit two home runs thus far, the fewest of any Triple-A team. Only two MiLB teams (Fresno, 1 and South Bend, 0) have August 12 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. hit fewer than the IronPigs. August 13 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. August 14 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. SUPER BASH BROTHERS: RailRiders first baseman Chris Gittens is off to one of the hottest starts in minor league baseball, and enters August 15 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. Friday fifth in the Triple-A East League in OPS (1.263). He is one of two SWB players in the top-10 in the league, joined by Trey Amburgey August 24 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. (3rd, 1.478). However, by the metric weighted On-Base Average (wOBA), Gittens is fifth in all of Triple-A East (.531), trailing Jesús Sánchez of August 25 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. Jacksonville (1st, .729). Sánchez also paces the circuit in OPS (1.779). wOBA is a metric which more accurately weighs on-base percentage August 26 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. and slugging to measure a player’s total offensive contributions, with leaderboards found atFangraphs . By wOBA, Amburgey (.608) ranks August 27 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. August 28 Coca-Cola Park 6:35 p.m. fourth among hitters in the league, though he does not appear on the leaderboard due to his current status on the 7-day Injured List. August 29 Coca-Cola Park 1:35 p.m. September 14 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. THREE DOZEN SIDES OF BACON: The COVID-19 pandemic has created one of the most unusual season schedules in the history of the September 15 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre franchise. With the season beginning a full month later than traditional, all teams in the Triple-A East League will September 16 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. play 120-game schedules. The RailRiders, along with the rest of the Northeast Division teams, will exclusively play teams within the division. September 17 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. This leads to a schedule where SWB plays the rival Lehigh Valley IronPigs an unprecedented 36 times. The RailRiders currently lead the September 18 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. 2021 IronRail Series 2-1. September 19 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. MARATHON MEN: The RailRiders played their longest 9-inning game in franchise history on Thursday at Syracuse, clocking in at 4:09. That 2019 results: Lehigh Valley, 11-7 surpassed the previous record of 4:04, when the then-Red Barons locked horns with the Pawtucket Red Sox on Sept. 1, 2000. Thursday’s all-time series: RailRiders Lead 109-98 game also featured 13 walks by SWB pitchers, three shy of the club record set against Tidewater in 1991. Early in the season, it stands as the longest game in Triple-A East League history, but wasn’t even the longest 9-inning game in minor league baseball on May 6. That distinction belongs to the Lake County Captains (High-A, CLE) and Lansing Lugnuts (High-A, OAK) who completed a 7-6 Captains win in railriders at a glance 4:18. Not to be out-done, the RailRiders and Mets game on Sunday, May 9 lasted 4:03, making it the third-longest game in franchise history. 2019 regular season: 76-65 AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A MOOSIC PARTY: Tuesday’s RailRiders home opener was Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s first game at PNC Field since Game GB: +1.0 -- 1st, IL North 3 of the First Round of the IL Playoffs vs. Durham on Sept. 7, 2019. The span of 612 days between games at home in NEPA is the longest Home: 45-26 Away: 31-39 in franchise history, surpassing the 577-day streak from Sept. 5, 2011 - April 4, 2013 when SWB played the entire 2012 season away from Moosic owing to renovations at PNC Field. In 2019, the RailRiders were 45-26 (.634) at home, and are 213-142 (.600) at PNC Field since the 2019 hitting leaders: beginning of the 2015 season, and sport an average season record of approximately 42-28. AVG: Ryan McBroom .315 HR: Ryan McBroom 26 RBI: Ryan McBroom 66 around the organization SB Billy Burns 14 New York Yankees (MLB) Somerset Patriots (AA) Hudson Valley Renegades (A+) Tampa Tarpons (A-) 20-17, 3rd AL East (2.0 GB) 6-3, 2nd AA Northeast NE (1.0 GB) 4-5, t-3rd High-A East North (3.0 GB) 6-3, 1st Low-A Southeast West (1.0 GA) 2019 pitching leaders: L, 9-1 at Tampa Bay Rays W, 6-1 at New Hampshire Fisher Cats L, 9-5 vs.