scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (9-3) at Rochester Red Wings (2-10) RHP Brody Koerner (0-0, 1.17 ERA) vs. LHP Ben Braymer (0-1, 9.39 ERA | Game 13 | Road Game 7 | Frontier Field | Rochester, NY | May 18, 2021 | First Pitch 7:05 p.m. | last time out... upcoming schedule / results MOOSIC, Pa. (May 16, 2021) – Led by a season-high 15 strikeouts from a dominating pitching staff, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders date opponent result defeated the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 3-1 on Sunday afternoon at PNC Field. May 13 Lehigh Valley W, 5-2 May 14 Lehigh Valley W, 6-4 Deivi Garcia got the start for the RailRiders and was terrific for the second straight outing against the IronPigs. The right-hander allowed May 15 Lehigh Valley L, 5-4 just one unearned run on two hits in 5.0 innings, walking one and striking out nine. In two starts this week against Lehigh Valley, Garcia May 16 Lehigh Valley W, 3-1 did not allow an earned run in 10.0 innings, recording 16 strikeouts, two walks and allowed only five hits. May 18 @ Rochester 7:05 p.m. May 19 @ Rochester 1:05 p.m. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre got on the board in the bottom of the fourth when Chris Gittens connected for a leadoff home run. It was Gittens’ team-leading fourth long ball of the year, and his second in as many days. He finished the game 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI May 20 @ Rochester 7:05 p.m. while extending his on-base streak to 11 games to start the season. May 21 @ Rochester 7:05 p.m. May 22 @ Rochester 5:05 p.m. After the IronPigs tied the game in the top of the fifth, the RailRiders re-captured the lead in the bottom of the sixth. The team loaded the May 23 @ Rochester 1:05 p.m. bases with no outs against David Paulino, and a walk and a hit batter brought in two runs as SWB took a 3-1 advantage. May 25 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. May 26 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. Brooks Kriske worked around a hit and a walk in the sixth to keep Lehigh Valley off the scoreboard. Nestor Cortes turned in 3.0 scoreless May 27 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. innings to close out the victory and record his first save of the season. The RailRiders bullpen has thrown 9.0 scoreless innings over the last two games, and has allowed only three runs in its last 30 innings since Sunday, May 9. Cortes has turned in 8.2 scoreless innings across May 28 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. three appearances to start his season. May 29 Buffalo 4:05 p.m. news & notes 2021 vs. rochester overall head-to-head: 0-0 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 pitchers were terrific against Lehigh Valley, posting a 3.04 ERA (8 ER/23.2 IP). That figure includes Mike Montgomery allowing 5 ER in 4.0 IP in Saturday’s tilt. With a small sample size of 12 games played RailRiders’ starting pitchers’ ERA has fallen to 4.74, while the overall staff date location result ERA has fell from 6.24 entering Tuesday’s home opener, to 3.93 entering Tuesday’s road contest at Rochester. In 2019, SWB posted a 4.98 May 18 Frontier Field 7:05 p.m. ERA at home in 71 games, and 4.94 overall. May 19 Frontier Field 1:05 p.m. May 20 Frontier Field 7:05 p.m. BULLS ON PARADE: The RailRiders bullpen has emerged as one of the strengths of the team through the first 12 games of the season. After 9.0 scoreless innings against Lehigh Valley in the final two games of the last series, the ‘pen has allowed only one run in its last 20.2 innings May 21 Frontier Field 7:05 p.m. across four games, and three runs in 30.0 dating back to Sunday, May 9. As a 12-man unit, the bullpen has combined for 46 strikeouts and May 22 Frontier Field 5:05 p.m. 14 walks in that time. Overall, the bullpen sports a 3.34 ERA (22 ER/59.1 IP) and is 6-for-7 in save opportunities. The bullpen ranks eighth May 23 Frontier Field 1:05 p.m. in the Triple-A East League in ERA, seventh in innings pitched, and is first in strikeouts. In fact, the bullpen’s 86 strikeouts are 12 more than July 20 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. second place Durham, and its 13.05 K/9.0 IP ratio is 13th-best in the minors. July 21 PNC Field 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 July 22 PNC Field 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 first two games at PNC July 23 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Field this season, but Robinson Chirinos’4th-inning blast off David Parkinson on Thursday night changed that. Nonetheless, the 19 round- July 24 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. trippers hit by SWB puts the club in third place in the Triple-A East League, trailing Durham (26) and Gwinnett (20). The RailRiders are tied July 25 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. for seventh in minor league baseball in home runs and are one of nine teams who have hit at least 19 long balls. Sept. 7 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. WALK-A-THON: Through 11 games this season, the RailRiders have drawn an astonishing 69 walks, the second-most in all of Triple-A Sept. 8 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. baseball behind Gwinnett (76). No other team in the minors’ highest level has taken more than 61 bases on balls. Overall, the RailRiders Sept. 9 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. are eighth in all of minor league baseball in walks, with Tampa (Low-A, NYY) leading the way with 71 walks. SWB’s team .371 OBP is second Sept. 10 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. best in the Triple-A East League, trailing Gwinnett (.382) and Buffalo (.374), and ranks 12th across all levels of the minors. There are currently four teams in Triple-A East with team OBPs greater than .370. Rochester (.282) has the lowest OBP of the 20-team league. The Red Wings Sept. 11 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. also have the second-lowest team SLG (.314) in the circuit, and have an abysmal .596 team OPS. Sept. 12 PNC Field 1:05 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: Rochester, 11-8 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 271-229 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: Last Tuesday’s RailRiders home opener was Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s first game at PNC Field since Game 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 GB: +1.0 -- 1st, IL North the longest in franchise history, surpassing the 577-day streak from Sept. 5, 2011 - April 4, 2013 when SWB played the entire 2012 season Home: 45-26 Away: 31-39 away from Moosic owing to renovations at PNC Field. In 2019, the RailRiders were 45-26 (.634) at home, and are 215-143 (.601) at PNC Field 2019 hitting leaders: since the 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-) 22-19, 4th AL East (2.5 GB) 7-5, t-1st AA Northeast NE (2.0 GA) 6-6, t-2nd High-A East North (2.0 GB) 9-3, 1st Low-A Southeast West (2.0 GA) 2019 pitching leaders: L, 5-2 at Texas Rangers W, 10-4 vs. Aberdeen Ironbirds W, 4-1 at Lakeland Flying Tigers Wins: J.P. Feyereisen 10 L, 6-0 at New Hampshire Fisher Cats Voit: 2-4, HR (1), RBI E. Duran: 4-5, 2 2B A.