scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes SCRANTON WILKES-BARRE RAILRIDERS (14-17) @ SYRACUSE CHIEFS (15-14) RHP Chance Adams (0-2, 4.70) vs. RHP César Vargas (0-2, 2.25) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Game No. 32 | Wednesday May 9, 2018 | NBT Bank Stadium | Syracuse, NY | | First Pitch 6:35 p.m. | Pregame Show 6:05 p.m. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chance Adams: Has not thrown more than 6.0 innings in any start this season // 4-of-27 GS last season of 6.0+ IP César Vargas: 2015 season (44G/0GS) spent in New York Yankees organization // 3G w/ SWB: 4R/4ER in 5.1 IP last time out upcoming schedule / results Date Location Result The Syracuse Chiefs led after two innings of play, and never looked back as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders lost Tuesday night for May 3 Pawtucket W 4-3 the ninth time in their last 10 road games to drop to 14-17 on the season. May 4 Pawtucket L 5-4 Syracuse opened the scoring in the bottom of the second off RailRiders starting pitcher Nestor Cortes. Matt Hague scored on a double May 5 @ Pawtucket L 2-0 by Jacob Wilson for the early 1-0 lead. An inning later, the Chiefs doubled the lead on a sacrifice fly from Adrian Sanchez to plate Hunter May 6 @ Pawtucket L 2-0 Jones and extend the lead to two runs. May 7 @ Syracuse W 8-3 May 8 @ Syracuse L 4-1 That lead proved to be more than enough for the Chiefs, though Scranton/Wilkes-Barre rallied in the top of the fourth inning. Clint Frazier May 9 @ Syracuse 6:35 p.m. led off the inning with a single to left and advanced into scoring position on a Mike Ford walk. Frazier advanced to third on a fly ball double May 10 vs. Rochester 6:35 p.m. play and scored on a two-out single to right field by Zack Zehner, second on the team with 13 RBI this season. May 11 vs. Rochester 6:35 p.m. Syracuse added a pair in the sixth inning on four consecutive singles with two outs and the bases empty, keyed by a two out, two-run May 12 vs. Rochester 4:05 p.m. single by Irving Falu for a 4-1 edge. Though they won 4-1, twice during the game the Chiefs had runners thrown out at the plate by the May 13 vs. Rochester 1:05 p.m. RailRiders preventing what could have been a more lopsided final score. May 15 vs. Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. news & notes 2018 vs. chiefs Overall Head-to-Head: 3-2 SLOW START: It was a quick start to the season last year for RHP Chance Adams with the Trenton Thunder, bullying his way into a promotion to Triple-A. In his first six starts of the season with Trenton the right-hander was 4-0 with a 1.03 Date Location Result ERA (35.0 IP, 23 H, 6R/4ER, 15 BB, 32 K), winning the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week for the week of April 16. April 6 PNC Field W 6-5 However, a slow-start is not something that is totally unfamilir to one of the top prspects in the Yankees system. In 2016, April 7 PNC Field L 4-3 Adams’ April with the Tampa Yankees got off to a slow start. Through five starts he had a 5.95 ERA with 20 H in 19.2 IP April 8 PNC Field W 5-4 (.263 BAA). Then starting in May, he was 4-0, 0.95 ERA, 38.0 IP, 21 H (21-for-133, .158 BAA), 48 K (11.4 K/9), 7 BB (1.7 May 7 NBT Bank Stadium W 8-3 BB/9) in his next seven starts to set the tone for the rest of the season. May 8 NBT Bank Stadium L 4-1 May 9 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. AN AWAKENING: Monday night featured an explosive eight runs on 10 hits in an 8-3 win for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre May 25 PNC Field 6:35 p.m. RailRiders over the Syracuse Chiefs. Despite that, they followed up with a quite offensvie night in Tuesday’s 4-1 loss. In May 26 PNC Field 4:05 p.m. the last 11 games for the RailRiders, the offense has been rather sluggish, combining for 29 runs (2.6/game) on 74 hits May 27 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. May 28 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. (6.7/game) and only twice have scored more than four runs in a game. June 14 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. st June 15 NBT Bank Stadium 7:05 p.m. FALLING BEHIND EARLY...: Sunday afternoon, the Pawtucket Red Sox scored their lone two runs of the game in the 1 June 16 NBT Bank Stadium 7:05 p.m. inning on a pair of sacrafice flies off starting pitcher LHP Justus Sheffield. Even though it was just his first career start June 17 NBT Bank Stadium 1:05 p.m. with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, it continues a trend by RailRiders starters this season in which they allow August 28 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. early runs. In the first two innings of games this season, opponents are outscoring the RailRiders 38-12 (-26) which has August 29 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. immediately put SWB in an early hole. In fact, of the 30 games this season the opponent has scored first only 17 times August 30 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. (57%), but the RailRiders were 4-12 when allowing the first run of the game before Monday’s comeback 8-3 win. 2017 Results: RailRiders Won 11-6 ...MAKING IT CLOSE LATE: Meanwhile, the RailRiders are doing their best to make a run at teams when trailing in the later innings. SWB is +30 in run differential in the 7th, 8th and 9th innings, outscoring their opponents 51-21 in that time. All-Time Series: RailRiders Lead 276-221 Despite those impressive numbers, the RailRiders are just 2-15 when trailing after six innings and 1-12 when trailing after eight innings -- the lone comeback win in the 9th inning being the five-run bottom of the 9th on Opening Night in which railriders at a glance Abiatal Avelino capped a 6-5 win with a walk-off three-run home run. 2018 Overall Record: 14-17 Place: 6th I.L. North current roadtrip statistics GB: 2.5 Lehigh Valley (16-14) Home: 10-7 Away: 4-10 SWB G AVG AB H R HR BB K SB Last 5: 1-4 Last 10: 4-6 Hitting 4 .195 128 25 (6.3) 9 (2.2) 0 9 (2.2) 37 (9.3) 0 -------------------------------------------------- 2018 Hitting Leaders: SWB W-L ERA IP H R ER BB K HR AVG: Ryan McBroom .257 Pitching 1-3 3.00 33.0 26 (6.5) 11 (2.8) 11 (2.8) 17 (4.3) 30 (7.5) 1 HR: Kyle Higashioka 4 RBI: Kyle Higashioka 15 around the organization SB A. Avelino, S. Robinson 5 New York Yankees (MLB) Trenton Thunder (AA) Tampa Tarpons (A+) Charleston Riverdogs (A) -------------------------------------------------- W 3-2 vs. Boston Red Sox L 2-0 vs. Reading Fightin’ Phils L 5-3 @ Daytona Tortugas DNP 2018 Pitching Leaders: Wins: Brady Lail 3 T-Best Record in MLB with Boston Have been held to just 5H last 2G Series opener tonight @ Lakewood Red Sox (25-10, .714) Dillon Tate: 7.0 IP, 2R/2ER, 3 K Trailed 4-0 in 4th before rally fell short ERA: Josh Rogers 3.15 -------------- Luis Severino: 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 11 K Caleb Frare: 2.0 IP, 0 R, 4 K Estevan Florial: 3-5, 2 R, K, SB Dalton Lehnen (2-1, 1.95) vs. K: Josh Rogers 36 G. Stanton: 2-3, 2 HR (9), 2 RBI *13.2 IP, 0 R, 17 K (11.2 K/9) Alexander Palma: 2-4, K Will Stewart (3-0, 1.86) SV: Four Tied 1 Gleyber Torres: 1-2 -- .333 AVG LH - 2-for-22 (.091 BAA) pitching probables broadcast/media information Date Opponent RailRiders Starter Opponent Starter Radio: 1400 AM 1340 AM 1440 AM Thursday, May 10 vs. Rochester LHP Josh Rogers (2-3, 3.15) RHP Zack Littell (1-0, 0.00) 106.7 FM 100.7 FM Friday, May 11 vs. Rochester LHP Justus Sheffield (0-1, 3.86) LHP Stephen Gonsalves (2-0, 0.63) Internet: TuneIn App (Search: “RailRiders”) RadioBOLD App Saturday, May 12 vs. Rochester LHP Daniel Camarena (2-1, 4.66) RHP Myles Jaye (1-2, 5.92) Television: MiLB.tv Sunday, May 13 vs. Rochester TBA RHP Aaron Slegers (3-1, 2.41) @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 28 CHANCE ADAMS | RHP | 6’1” | 220 LBS | 23 | Scottsdale, AZ | Chaparral H.S. (AZ) | Dallas Baptist University | Selected in the 5th round of the 2015 First-Year Player Draft | MLB Service Time: 0.000 | 2018: Tabbed by Baseball America as the number four prospect and number six by MLB.com in the Yankees system... Surrendered five runs, four earned in Opening Day no-decision vs. SYR... Pitched five scoreless innings in 4/11 no-decision against LHV, striking out six... Allowed three runs on five hits in 4/16 Loss @ GWN...Allowed three runs on two hits over 5.2 IP in 4/22 no-decision against Toledo..