scranton/wilkes-barre railriders game notes Syracuse Mets (11-25) vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (23-11) RHP Akeem Bostick (0-1, 11.81 ERA) vs. RHP Deivi García (1-2, 6.26 ERA) | Game 35 | Home Game 17 | PNC Field | Moosic, PA | June 15, 2021 | First Pitch 7:05 p.m. | last time out... upcoming schedule / results TRENTON, N.J. (June 13, 2021) – A six-run eruption in the top of the fourth inning and a combined shutout by five pitchers led the Scranton/ date opponent result Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to an 8-0 win over the Buffalo Bisons on Sunday at Trenton Thunder Ballpark. Luke Voit went 1-for-3 with a double and June 11 @ Buffalo (Trenton) L, 4-2 an RBI in the first game of his MLB rehab assignment, playing five innings at first base. June 12 @ Buffalo (Trenton) W, 6-4 (10) June 13 @ Buffalo (Trenton) W, 8-0 The game remained scoreless into the top of the fourth, but the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre offense broke through against Anthony Kay (0-2), touching June 15 Syracuse 7:05 p.m. up the left-hander for six runs. Trey Amburgey kicked off the frenzy with a double and scored on a single by Estevan Florial. The RailRiders also June 15 Syracuse 7:05 p.m. benefitted from a three-run home run by Derek Dietrich and RBI doubles from Voit and Ryan LaMarre in the frame. June 17 Syracuse 7:05 p.m. Amburgey finished the game 1-for-4 with a double and a run scored to stretch his season-long hitting streak to 18 games, the longest in Triple-A June 18 Syracuse 7:05 p.m. East this season. Dating back to the end of the 2019 season, the outfielder has a hit in 20 consecutive games, and owns a 26-game on-base streak. June 19 Syracuse 6:05 p.m. June 20 Syracuse 1:05 p.m. Nick Nelson began the game on the mound for the RailRiders and turned in 3.2 scoreless innings in his first start of the year. Adam Warren June 22 @ Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. contributed 2.1 innings after, and Brooks Kriske and Sal Romano each twirled a single frame without allowing a run. June 23 @ Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. June 24 @ Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. In the top of the ninth, LaMarre drove a two-run home run to left off Kirby Snead to expand the RailRiders lead to 8-0. In the third game of his MLB June 25 @ Lehigh Valley 7:05 p.m. rehab assignment, LaMarre had a monster day, going 4-for-5 with a double and a home run and three RBIs. He also stole a base in the first inning. June 26 @ Lehigh Valley 6:35 p.m. SWB closer Luis Garcia worked around a pair of hits to set Buffalo down in the ninth to close out the win. June 27 @ Lehigh Valley 1:35 p.m. June 29 @ Worcester 6:35 p.m. news & notes 2021 vs. syracuse MEET THE METS: For the first time since the opening series of the season, the RailRiders take on the Syracuse Mets in a six-game series at PNC Field this week. After losing on opening night, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre reeled off five straight wins to close the series at NBT Bank Stadium overall head-to-head: 5-1 in an impressive offensive showing. The Baby Bombers hit .306 AVG/.426 OBP/.578 SLG in that series, slugging 15 home runs and scoring at date location result least 10 runs in a game twice. The RailRiders and Mets also played the longest game in SWB franchise history in a 4-hour, 9-minute marathon May 4 NBT Bank Stadium L, 5-2 on May 6, a 17-11 final. Unbelievably, that was the first of two four-hour games in that series (also May 9) and one of three four-hour games May 5 NBT Bank Stadium W, 7-5 that SWB has played this season. May 6 NBT Bank Stadium W, 17-11 May 7 NBT Bank Stadium W, 7-3 (6) MAMA SAID SHUT YOU OUT: Five RailRiders pitchers combined to pitch the second shutout of the year for the club on Sunday against Buffalo May 8 NBT Bank Stadium W, 4-2 in Trenton. Following the first start of the year for Nick Nelson (3.2 IP), Adam Warren (2.1 IP), Brooks Kriske, Sal Romano and Luis Garcia May 9 NBT Bank Stadium W, 15-10 (1.0 IP each) kept a tough Buffalo offense off the board for the rest of the game. The 8-0 victory was the first shutout for Scranton/Wilkes- June 15 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Barre since a 6-0 win over Lehigh Valley in the home opener on May 11. In 2019, the RailRiders staff racked up six shutouts on the season. June 16 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Sunday’s contest continued a streak of 17.1 consecutive scoreless innings thrown by the SWB pitching staff, dating back to the second inning June 17 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. on Saturday. They have a long way to go to reach the SWB franchise record of 32.1 consecutive scoreless innings, set from June 23-28, 2007. June 18 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. ON A SILVER TREY: RailRiders outfielder Trey Amburgey has been among the best hitters in all of minor league baseball this season, and June 19 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. entering play Sunday afternoon, has at least one hit in all 18 games he has played. That stands as the longest active hitting streak in Triple-A June 20 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. East, and is the the longest in the league this season. Amburgey’s streak is the second-longest active streak in the minor leagues, with Cal July 6 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. Raleigh of Tacoma working on a 21-game hitting streak entering Tuesday night. Dating back to the end of the 2019 season, Amburgey has July 7 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. hit in 20 consecutive games and has at least one hit in 25 of his last 26 contests, and has reached base safely in all of those games. He is hitting July 8 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. .391/.462/.717 (36-for-92) in that span. The SWB franchise record for longest hitting streak belongs to Pablo Ozuna, who hit in 27 straight July 9 PNC Field 7:05 p.m. games in 2004 for the Red Barons, while the longest on-base streak is Brandon Drury’s 32-game streak in the 2018 season. July 10 PNC Field 6:05 p.m. July 11 PNC Field 1:05 p.m. OTHER STREAKS OF NOTE: In addition to Trey Amburgey’s impressive run, the RailRiders offense features two other players with double-digit July 27 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. on-base streaks. Outfielder Greg Allen is riding a season-long 13-game on-base streak into play on Sunday afternoon, and infielder Hoy Park July 28 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. has reached base safely in 13 consecutive games. Allen has also played in two other games this season in which he did not record an official July 29 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. plate appearance, therefore not jeopardizing his streak and spent time on the injured list in the middle of his streak. July 30 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. COMEBACK KIDS: The RailRiders erased multi-run deficits two times en route to victory during the last series with Buffalo. On Tuesday, they July 31 NBT Bank Stadium 6:35 p.m. trailed 5-0 and eventually won 7-5, with a two-run single from Derek Dietrich in the top of the eighth putting SWB ahead for good. Then August 1 NBT Bank Stadium 1:05 p.m. on Saturday, the RailRiders erased an early 4-0 advantage to win 6-4 in 10 innings. Andrew Velazquez put the RailRiders on top in the 10th inning when he scampered home on a wild pitch. Overall, the RailRiders have 10 come-from-behind wins this season. 2019 results: SWB RailRiders, 14-6 all-time series: RailRiders Lead 313-216 EXTRA, EXTRA!: Saturday night’s 10-inning affair with the Buffalo Bisons was the first extra-inning game of the season for the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. It took until Game 33 of the season for the RailRiders to need extra frames to decide a game after 16 extra-inning railriders at a glance contests in 2019. SWB went 10-6 in those contests. CALL IT A COMEBACK: The last time the Syracuse Mets played a game at PNC Filed was the memorable Game 141 of the 2019 season, when 2021 regular season: 23-11 the RailRiders completed the Miracle on Montage Mountain. Trailing 7-1 entering the bottom of the 7th and having just one hit to that point GB: +1.0 1st, AAA East Northeast off starting pitcher Ervin Santana, the RailRiders scored five times to make it a 7-6 deficit. When Syracuse responded with six runs in the top Home: 10-6 Away: 13-5 of the 8th inning it seemed as if the RailRiders’ fate was sealed, but instead they plated a season-best eight runs in an inning and grabbed a 14-13 lead en route to a win.