scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (40-21) vs. Worcester Red Sox (35-27) RHP Glenn Otto (Triple-A Debut) vs. TBA | Game 62 | Road Game 34 | Polar Park | Worcester, MA | July 16, 2021 | First Pitch 6:35 p.m. | last time out... upcoming schedule / results WORCESTER, Mass. (July 15, 2021) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders struck out a season-high 15 batters and pounded out 11 hits in an 11-3 date opponent result win over the Worcester Red Sox on Friday night at Polar Park. July 9 Syracuse L, 2-1 (10) July 10 Syracuse - Game 1 L, 6-5 (8) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre jumped on the board in the bottom of the second, scoring four runs against Worcester starter Kevin McCarthy. Ryan LaMarre Syracuse - Game 2 W, 1-0 and Greg Allen scored on Armando Alvarez’s two-run single to begin the rally, and Andrew Velazquez followed with an RBI triple. Three batters later, Estevan Florial brought in Velazquez with an infield single to run the lead to 4-0. July 11 Syracuse L, 9-8 (10) July 13 @ Worcester W, 5-2 The RailRiders tacked on three more in the top of the third. Back-to-back RBI doubles by Allen and Alvarez and an RBI single from Velazquez gave July 14 @ Worcester - Game 1 W, 4-3 SWB a 7-0 lead. Alvarez finished 2-for-5 with two runs scored, a double and three RBIs. @ Worcester - Game 2 L, 3-2 July 15 @ Worcester W, 11-3 Meanwhile, Matt Krook was dealing for the RailRiders, striking out eight batters and allowing just two unearned runs on three hits in 5.0 innings of work. The eight punch-outs for Krook (2-1) is his highest career total in Triple-A baseball. July 16 @ Worcester 6:35 p.m. July 17 @ Worcester 4:05 p.m. In the top of the sixth Scranton/WB touched up Matthew Kent for three runs on one hit, scoring runs on a Chris Gittens RBI double, a wild pitch, and July 18 @ Worcester 1:05 p.m. a LaMarre groundout. After Worcester tallied a run against Asher Wojciechowski in the eighth, LaMarre led off the ninth with a solo home run to extend the RailRiders’ lead to 11-3. 2021 vs. worcester Wojciechowski finished the game on the mound for the RailRiders, tossing the final 4.0 innings to earn his first career save. The right-hander allowed four hits and struck out seven in his outing. Krook and Wojciechowski combined for 15 strikeouts, tying a season-high set on June 6 against Syracuse. overall head-to-head: 5-4 date location result news & notes June 29 Polar Park W, 9-7 June 30 Polar Park Susp. - T3 TREY DAY: After months of anticipation and literally thousands of reply tweets sent to the RailRiders social media accounts begging for such a move, July 1 Polar Park - Res. L, 6-2 the New York Yankees on Thursday announced the signing of OF Trey Amburgey to a major league contract and his addition to the Yankees 26-man July 1 Polar Park - Game 2 W, 1-0 (5) roster ahead of Thursday’s game with Boston. In parts of two seasons with the RailRiders, Amburgey hit .283/.341/.514 with 29 home runs and 97 RBIs in 162 games. From August 26, 2019 through July 10 (G2), 2021, the slugging outfielder had a franchise-record 42-game on-base streak. Amburgey July 2 Polar Park Postponed was a 13th round pick of the Yankees in the 2015 MLB Draft out of St. Petersburg College in Lake Worth, Florida. July 3 Polar Park L, 4-3 July 4 Polar Park L, 5-4 IT’S THE FINAL STRETCH (DA NA NA NA): In lieu of a traditional playoff in Triple-A Baseball, Major League Baseball announced on Wednesday that all Triple-A teams will compete in a 10-game postseason tournament called the Triple-A Final Stretch from September 22 through October 3. Each July 13 Polar Park W, 5-2 league will have a regular season champion, crowned for having the best record across 120 games, and a Final Stretch champion, crowned for having July 14 Polar Park - Game 1 W, 4-3 the best record in the added 10 games. Unlike any tournament you may be familiar with, the Triple-A Final Stretch has a set schedule of opponents Polar Park - Game 2 L, 3-2 and you continue to play even if you are eliminated from contention. MLB announced the RailRiders will play Syracuse from 9/22-26 at PNC Field and finish the Final Stretch at Rochester from 9/28-10/3. MLB also announced it will give a prize to the winners of the Final Stretch. July 15 Polar Park W, 11-3 July 16 Polar Park 6:35 p.m. SPLITSVILLE: Yesterday’s doubleheader with the Worcester Red Sox was the fourth twin bill of the season for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. July 17 Polar Park 4:05 p.m. Thus far, the RailRiders have split them all, winning the first game thrice (6/10 at Buffalo, 7/7 vs Syracuse, 7/14 at Worcester) and the second game July 18 Polar Park 1:05 p.m. once (7/10 vs Syracuse). Last night’s doubleheader also marked the third double feature for the RailRiders in the past eight days (7/7 and 7/10), completing a rough stretch of nine games in eight days. Overall, because of back-to-back seven-game series, SWB is in the midst of a stretch of 14 Aug. 3 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. games scheduled in 13 days. The RailRiders are 6-5 through the first 10 games of the run. Aug. 4 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Aug. 5 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. WOO HOO: The RailRiders continue their second series with the Worcester Red Sox tonight, playing games two and three in a seven-game, six-day set. This is the second consecutive such series for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The season series with the WooSox is condensed into 24 games in a span of Aug. 6 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. 54 days. SWB travels to Polar Park for 18 contests, with the WooSox heading to PNC Field only once. Worcester is tied with Syracuse for the second- Aug. 7 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. most frequent opponent of the RailRiders this season after the club’s 36 games with Lehigh Valley. Worcester took three of five games in the first Aug. 8 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. matchup of the year with SWB. Aug. 17 Polar Park 6:35 p.m. SEEING DOUBLE: After a slow start to the month of July offensively, the RailRiders have found their power stroke in Worcester. In the first four games of Aug. 18 Polar Park 6:35 p.m. the series, SWB batters have swatted 11 two-base hits, including five in game one of Wednesday’s doubleheader and five more on Thursday night. With Aug. 19 Polar Park 6:35 p.m. the recent uptick, the RailRiders have hit 113 doubles on the season, the most of any Northeast Division team (2nd, Syracuse, 102). Trey Amburgey Aug. 20 Polar Park 6:35 p.m. (t-6th, 15 doubles), Armando Alvarez (t-8th, 14), and Andrew Velazquez (t-10th, 13) all rank among Triple-A East leaders. Aug. 21 Polar Park 4:05 p.m. HIGHWAY ROBBERY: After stealing just 39 bases in their first 45 games, the RailRiders have been on a roll since the start of the last series at Worcester. Aug. 22 Polar Park 1:05 p.m. In its last 16 games, SWB is 25-for-32 (.781) in stolen base attempts, including a team-record tying seven on 6/29 at Worcester and another five on 2019 results SWB RailRiders, 13-8 7/6 vs Syracuse. Seven steals in a game tied a franchise mark set by the SWB Yankees on June 6, 2008 against the Norfolk Tides. Andrew Velazquez : accomplished the rare feat of stealing three bases in one inning, while Estevan Florial (2), Hoy Park and Ryan LaMarre (1 each) all stole bags against all-time series: RailRiders Lead 192-174 the Red Sox. The barrage has SWB up to 64 steals on the year, fourth in Triple-A East, with Worcester leading the way with 75. Velazquez is tied for the Triple-A East lead with 17 steals on the season. railriders at a glance BULLS ON PARADE: Since Kyle Barraclough relieved Albert Abreu in the sixth inning of the RailRiders game at Buffalo on Friday, June 11, the SWB bullpen has performed at an amazing clip. In the last 35 days, the bullpen has combined for a 2.26 ERA (36 ER/143.1 IP), while allowing just 108 hits, 48 walks and recording 174 strikeouts. The current stretch has lowered SWB’s bullpen ERA to 2.82 on the season, the third-best in MiLB (1st, Somerset, 2021 regular season: 40-21 2.66). The bullpen’s 31 wins are tied for second-most in the minors behind only Tampa’s 40. GB: +3.5 1st, AAA East Northeast Home: 18-10 Away: 22-11 HERE COME THE YANKEES: Around the halfway point of the season, the Yankees minor league system still stands alone across minor league baseball as the most successful. Not only are all four full season affiliates currently in first place in their respective divisions, but they have an average divisional 2021 hitting leaders: lead of nearly four games.