scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (12-4) at Rochester Red Wings (3-13) RHP Deivi García (1-0, 3.38 ERA) vs. RHP Tyler Eppler (0-1, 4.97 ERA) | Game 17 | Road Game 11 | Frontier Field | Rochester, NY | May 22, 2021 | First Pitch 5:05 p.m. | last time out... upcoming schedule / results ROCHESTER, N.Y. (May 21, 2021) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders never trailed as they defeated the Rochester Red Wings 6-3 on date opponent result Friday night at Frontier Field. May 13 Lehigh Valley W, 5-2 May 14 Lehigh Valley W, 6-4 The RailRiders used the long ball to take a 3-0 lead over the Red Wings in the top of the first. Three batters into the game, Rob Brantly May 15 Lehigh Valley L, 5-4 connected on a two-run homer to give the RailRiders the lead, and Armando Alvarez added a solo shot in the frame off Steven Fuentes May 16 Lehigh Valley W, 3-1 (0-2). Alvarez finished 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs scored and a walk. He now owns a seven-game hitting streak, the longest by a May 18 @ Rochester W, 11-6 RailRiders batter this season. May 19 @ Rochester W, 3-2 After Rochester answered with a run off Mike Montgomery in the bottom of the second, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre tallied a run without a hit in May 20 @ Rochester L, 5-3 the third to take a 4-1 lead. However, Rafael Bautista led off the bottom of the third with a solo home run to cut the lead to 4-2. Montgomery May 21 @ Rochester W, 6-3 (1-2) turned in his best start of the season, striking out a season-high eight batters and allowing just two runs on three hits and walking May 22 @ Rochester 5:05 p.m. two in 5.0 innings of work. The left-hander retired nine out of the final 10 batters he faced. May 23 @ Rochester 1:05 p.m. May 25 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. In the top of the seventh, a two-run double from Cristian Perez padded SWB’s lead to 6-2. Perez finished the game 1-for-4 with a double, May 26 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. a walk and two RBIs and has a hit in four out of five games played since being called up from High-A Hudson Valley. Rochester threatened May 27 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. and pushed across a run against Nick Nelson in the bottom of the eighth. After loading the bases with no outs, the Red Wings got a sacrifice fly from Yasmany Tomas before Nelson struck out the next two to limit the damage. Luis García turned in a 1-2-3 ninth inning to secure May 28 Buffalo 6:35 p.m. his fifth save of the season in as many chances. May 29 Buffalo 4:05 p.m. news & notes 2021 vs. rochester overall head-to-head: 3-1 FAST OUT OF THE GATE: With their 12th win of the season in 16 games on Friday, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders have kept themselves in elite company across minor league baseball. Entering play on Saturday there are seven teams across minor league baseball with 12-4 records, with only Jacksonville at that mark among Triple-A teams. Within the Yankees organization, the Tampa Tarpons also are off to a 12-4 start to the season. date location result Overall, the Yankees have the best organizational record in baseball (43-21, .672), a full four games better than Cleveland (39-21, .629). The RailRiders May 18 Frontier Field W, 11-6 are off to their best start to a season since the 2009 SWB Yankees went 17-3 in the month of April. May 19 Frontier Field W, 3-2 May 20 Frontier Field L, 5-3 LET IT ZEHN: Before this season, RailRiders OF Zack Zehner had drawn 41 walks in 546 plate appearances (142 G) in Triple-A between the 2018 and 2019 seasons (7.5 BB%). However, in an extremely small sample in Triple-A in 2021 Zehner has already drawn 9 BB in his first 26 PA (34.6 BB%), and May 21 Frontier Field W, 6-3 including his time with Double-A Somerset has 13 total BB in 38 PA in 2021 (34.2 BB%). Zehner leads all minor league players (min. 30 PA) in BB%, May 22 Frontier Field 5:05 p.m. with Delmarva’s Anthony Servideo (33.3%) sitting in second place, according to leaderboards at Fangraphs. Additionally, Zehner had been 3-for-6 May 23 Frontier Field 1:05 p.m. career in stolen bases in Triple-A, and is already 3-for-3 in 2021. July 20 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. BULLS ON PARADE: The RailRiders bullpen has emerged as one of the strengths of the team through the first 15 games of the season. Even after July 21 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. surrendering a 3-1 lead on Thursday night, SWB’s Bullpen ERA is a solid 3.49 (30 ER/77.1 IP), good for eighth in the 20-team Triple-A East. Scranton/ July 22 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Wilkes-Barre’s bullpen leads Triple-A East in wins (10), saves (8) and strikeouts (104), and ranks second in the league in batting average against (.179). July 23 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Across all levels of the minor leagues, SWB’s bullpen is t-4th in W (1st: Tampa, 12) and SV. The 12-man unit is posting ratios of 12.10 K/9, 5.23 BB/9 July 24 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. and a 1.22 WHIP. July 25 PNC Field 1:05 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 again, hitting Sept. 7 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. 25 home runs in their first 16 games this season. The 25 round-trippers hit by SWB puts the club in a tie for second place in Triple-A East with Charlotte Sept. 8 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. and Gwinnett, trailing Durham (31). The RailRiders are tied for fifth in minor league baseball in home runs, and it is a true team effort, as onlyChris Sept. 9 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Gittens (t-9th, 4) ranks in the top 15 in home runs in Triple-A East. Sept. 10 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. WALK-A-THON: Through 16 games this season, the RailRiders have drawn 93 walks, tied for the most in all of Triple-A baseball with Gwinnett. No Sept. 11 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. other team in the minors’ highest level has taken more than 79 bases on balls. Overall, the RailRiders are 5th in all of minor league baseball in walks, Sept. 12 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. with Tampa (Low-A, NYY) leading the way with 109 walks. SWB’s team .369 OBP is best in the Triple-A East League, and ranks 7th across all levels of the minors. There are currently three teams in Triple-A East with team OBPs greater than .360. Rochester (.294) has the lowest OBP of the 20-team 2019 results: Rochester, 11-8 league. The Red Wings also have the second-lowest team SLG (.334) in the circuit, and have an abysmal .628 team OPS, the lowest in all of Triple-A. all-time series: RailRiders Lead 274-230 OH SAY CAN YOU GENESEE?: The current six-game road trip marks the one and only trip to Frontier Field for the RailRiders during the 2021 season, with the final 12 games against the Red Wings to be played in Moosic. Despite an all-time winning record against Rochester, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has railriders at a glance historically struggled in Roc City, going only 1-7 last year and a combined 4-11 at Frontier Field in 2018 and 2019. In the RailRiders era (2013-Present), SWB has only one winning season in Rochester, when they went 4-3 in 2017. Including the three wins in 2021, SWB is 129-140 (.480) all-time in Rochester. 2019 regular season: 76-65 #SQUADUP: The RailRiders received three players this week from Double-A Somerset, and all three have made meaningful impacts in the series GB: +1.0 -- 1st, IL North against Rochester. INFs Hoy Park, Brandon Wagner and OF Thomas Milone have combined to hit .356(16-for-45) with 8 R, 4 2B, 1 HR, 9 RBIs, 9 BB, Home: 45-26 Away: 31-39 15 K and 2 HBP. In Wednesday’s 3-2 win over the Red Wings, Park and Milone drove in all three SWB runs, while all three have contributed strong 2019 hitting leaders: play on the defensive end as well. 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-) 26-19, 3rd AL East (1.5 GB) 11-5, 1st AA Northeast NE (2.0 GA) 8-8, t-2nd High-A East North (2.0 GB) 12-4, 1st Low-A Southeast West (4.0 GA) 2019 pitching leaders: W, 2-1 vs Chicago White Sox W, 14-3 at Hartford Yard Goats L, 4-1 at Brooklyn Cyclones W, 9-7 vs Fort Myers Mighty Mussels Wins: J.P.