Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders Game Notes
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scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes lehigh valley ironpigs (20-14) @ scranton/wilkes-barre railriders (16-19) RHP Drew Anderson (No Record) vs. LHP Nestor Cortes (0-2, 4.97) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Game No. 36 | Tuesday May 15, 2018 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | | First Pitch 6:35 p.m. | Pregame Show 6:05 p.m. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drew Anderson: Only career Triple-A start, 9/01/2017 vs. SWB -- (ND) 6.2 IP, 5 H, 2R/ER, 2 BB, 7 K Nestor Cortes: 4/27 @ LHV: 2.0 IP, 5R/5ER -- 4 other MiLB games this season: 14.0 IP, 3R/3ER (1.93 ERA) last time out... upcoming schedule / results The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders pitching staff struck out a season-high 14 batters in a 3-1 loss against the Rochester RedWings on Date Location Result Sunday afternoon at PNC Field. May 10 vs. Rochester PPD (Field) May 11 vs. Rochester L 5-4 (8) Rochester scored first in the top of the second inning, when Kennys argasV and Wynston Sawyer drove singles off Daniel Camarena vs. Rochester W 7-0 (7) ahead of a three-run home run from Nick Buss. May 12 vs. Rochester PPD (Rain) May 13 vs. Rochester L 3-1 The big fly was the only blemish against the southpaw in the game, who lasted 5.1 innings yielding just the three runs on four hits, walking three and striking out eight. The eight punchouts were a new Triple-A career-high for Camarena (2-2), who last struck out eight on June May 15 vs. Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. 24, 2016, while with Double-A Trenton. May 16 vs. Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. May 17 vs. Lehigh Valley 10:35 a.m. In the bottom of the third, Clint Frazier got the RailRiders on the board with a mammoth solo home run off Miles Jaye to narrow the gap to May 18 @ Buffalo 7:05 p.m. 3-1. The round-tripper was Frazier’s third of the season, and second in as many contest. May 19 @ Buffalo 1:05 p.m. Frazier was strong at the plate for the RailRiders, finishing 3-for-5 with a home run and an RBI.The outfielder now has an 11-game on- base streak, during which he is hitting .395 (17-for-43). 2018 vs. ironpigs news & notes Overall Head-to-Head: 2-2 Date Location Result AN AWAKENING, (STILL NEEDED): Last week featured three strong offensive performances in the RailRiders 3-3 week April 9 PNC Field W 5-3 @ Syracuse and vs. Rochester where the offense scored 7+ runs, but it managed only one run in 2-of-3 losses as well. April 10 PNC Field W 5-2 April 11 PNC Field L 2-0 Overall, the week was an improvement for SWB who scored 29 runs (4.8/game) on 50 hits (8.3/game) on the heels of a April 27 Coca-Cola Park L 6-1 rather sluggish previous nine games, where they combining for 20 runs (2.2/game) on 58 hits (6.4/game) and only twice April 28 Coca-Cola Park PPD (Rain) scored more than four runs in a game in that stretch. April 29 Coca-Cola Park L 4-0 (7) April 29 Coca-Cola Park L 3-0 (7) NUMBERS ARE (RED) ROCKETING UP: OF Clint Frazier was 3-for-6, 2 2B, HR, 2 R, RBI, 2 BB in Friday’s May 15 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. doubleheader, before goint 3-for-5 with a home run in his secon straight game vs. Rochester. Those numbers continue May 16 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. May 17 PNC Field 10:35 a.m. an upward trend for the outfielder as he works his way back towards the big leagues battling concussion symptoms June 19 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. throughout Spring Training and the early part of the season. After going 0-for-4 in first game with RailRiders this June 20 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. year, Frazier is 17-for-his-last-43 (.395 AVG), 4 BB/1 HBP (.458 OBP), 3 2B/2 3B/3 HR (.767 SLG) in his last 11G. June 21 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. June 25 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. READY TO PITCH: In Friday’s Game One, the Rochester Red Wings plated 4-of-5 inherited runners off the RailRiders June 26 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. bullpen. LHP Oliver Perez allowed both runners he inherited to score when OF Jake Cave delivered a two-out, two- June 27 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. June 28 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. run, go-ahead single in the top of the 5th inning, and RHP Cody Carroll entered with the bases loaded in the 8th inning August 24 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. and 2-of-3 runners scored. This season, the RailRiders have allowed 17-of-41 (41.5%) inherited runners to score, and August 25 Coca-Cola Park 6:35 p.m. a large part of that is that bullpen arms are allowing first hitters to bat 18-for-71 (.254 BAA) with a .321 OBP (26-for-81). August 26 Coca-Cola Park 1:35 p.m. August 27 Coca-Cola Park 7:05 p.m. DOESN’T LIKE WAITING: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s C Erik Kratz is tied for the team lead with C Kyle Higashioka and OF Zack Zehner for the team lead with 4 HR this season. He is tied despite the fact that Higashioka (93 AB) and Zehner 2017 Results: IronPigs Won 11-7 (103 AB) have accumulated significantly more at-bats than Kratz (40 AB). The 37-year old homered in his most recent All-Time Series: RailRiders Lead 84-70 AB which snapped a 14-AB homerless drought, which was the longest of the season for him. So far his year has gone like this: 7 AB // HR // 8 AB // HR // 7 AB // HR // 14 AB // HR railriders at a glance 2018 Overall Record: 16-19 current homestand statistics Place: 5th I.L. North GB: 4.5 Lehigh Valley (20-14) SWB G AVG AB H R HR BB K SB Home: 11-9 Away: 5-10 Hitting 3 .230 87 20 (6.7) 12 (4.0) 5 11 (3.7) 27 (9.0) 1 Last 5: 2-3 Last 10: 4-6 -------------------------------------------------- SWB W-L ERA IP H R ER BB K HR 2018 Hitting Leaders: AVG: Ryan McBroom .255 Pitching 1-2 2.63 24.0 18 (6.0) 8 (2.7) 7 10 (3.3) 27 (9.0) 0 HR: K. Higashioka, Z. Zehner, E. Kratz 4 around the organization RBI: K. Higashioka, Z. Zehner 16 SB A. Avelino, S. Robinson 5 New York Yankees (MLB) Trenton Thunder (AA) Tampa Tarpons (A+) Charleston Riverdogs (A) -------------------------------------------------- DNP W 3-2 (10) vs. Akron RubberDucks vs. Dunedin Blue Jays W 12-9 @ Hagerstown Suns 2018 Pitching Leaders: Fell behind 5-1 in the 2nd Begin 2-game series @ Wasington Dillon Tate: 6.0 IP, 3 H, 0R/0ER, 6 K Wins: B. Lail, J. Rogers 3 *7R Top of the 3rd; 12-5 lead T5 ---------------- Billy McKinney: 0-4, 2 K PPD due to Rain to 5/15 ERA: Josh Rogers 2.61 Dom Thompson-Williams: Masahiro Tanaka (4-2, 4.66) vs. Greg Bird: 0-3 *DH Tuesday beginning at 5:00 PM *4-5, 3 R, 5 RBI, 2B, 2 HR K: Josh Rogers 41 Gio Gonzalez (4-2, 2.22) Chris Gittens: 0-1, 3 BB, R, RBI Steven Sensley: 3-4, R, BB SV: Cody Carroll 2 pitching probables broadcast/media information Date Opponent RailRiders Starter Opponent Starter Radio: 1400 AM 1340 AM 1440 AM Wednesday, May 16 vs. Lehigh Valley RHP Chance Adams (0-2, 5.67) RHP Enyel De Los Santos (4-0, 0.84) 106.7 FM 100.7 FM Thursday, May 17 vs. Lehigh Valley LHP Josh Rogers (3-3, 2.61) RHP Tom Eshelman (1-3, 6.87) Internet: TuneIn App (Search: “RailRiders”) RadioBOLD App Friday, May 18 @ Buffalo LHP Daniel Camarena (2-2, 4.72) TBA Television: MiLB.tv Saturday, May 19 @ Buffalo TBA TBA @swbrailriders @swbrailriders 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 10 NESTOR CORTES | LHP | 5’11” | 205 LBS | 23 | @Cortes_1210 Surgidero de Batabano, Cuba | Hialeah H.S. (FL) | Rule 5 Return 4/10/2018 from Baltimore Orioles | MLB Service Time: 0.012 | 2018: Assigned to Triple-A SWB 4/20 -- took the place of RHP Anyelo Gomez (DL)... Selected by the Baltimore Orioles 12/14/2017 in the Rule 5 Draft and made the Orioles Opening Day Roster... Appeared in 4G with the Orioles before being Designated for Assignment 4/10: 4.2 IP, 10 H (.455 BAA), 4R/4ER (7.71 ERA), 4 BB (3.00 WHIP), 2 HR, 3 K... First appearance of the season for the RailRiders was 4/21 vs. Toledo out of the bullpen: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 2 K... The next time out was his second appearance overall but his first start of the year -- 4/27 @ Lehigh Valley: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 5R/5ER, 3 BB, 5 K, allowed 2nd inning grand slam to Roman Quinn... In his second start of the season with SWB, tossed 3.2 shutout innings to set the table for an early lead and eventual walk-off win 5/3 over Pawtucket..