The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders rallied from a three-run deficit to tie the game in the ninth inning, but Allan Castro’s home run in the bottom of the 12th gave Worcester a 10-8 win Thursday night.
Trailing, 7-4, in the ninth, Oswaldo Cabrera doubled and scored on a Seth Brown triple. Brown was balked home to cut the WooSox lead to one. With two outs, Ellis walked and stole second. Kenedy Corona’s first RailRiders hit was a double to drive in Ellis to tie the game at 7.
It stayed that way until the 11th when each team netted a run on sacrifice fly outs.
After catcher/ first baseman Nathan Hickey retired Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in the top of the 12th, Castro lined a homer to right in the bottom of the frame to end the game.
Worcester took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Braiden Ward was hit by a pitch, stole second, advanced to third on an error and scored on a Nick Sogard single.
Duke Ellis gave Scranton/Wilkes-Barre a 3-1 lead in the top of the second with his first home run of the season, a 356-foot blast right.
The Red Sox tied the game bottom of the second on a pair of run-scoring groundouts.
An Anthony Volpe sacrifice fly scored Ellis in the top of the fourth to give the RailRiders a 4-3 lead, but again, Worcester responded quickly. Former Yankees minor leaguer Anthony Seigler hit a solo home run to tie the game at 4, and Tsung-Che Cheng’s sacrifice fly gave the WooSox a 5-4 lead.
Ward walked to lead off the bottom of the eighth, stole second, and scored on an error to extend the Worcester lead to 6-4.
Matt Lloyd added a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth for a 7-4 edge.
Catcher Edinson Duran (0-1) pitched the final 2.1 innings for the RailRiders and took the loss. Hickey (1-0) garnered the win.
Ellis, who had four hits, was a triple shy of the cycle. Brown also had four hits for SWB.
Anthony Volpe, who was recently sent down from New York following a rehab assignment, went 1 for 6 with a pair of strikeouts to see his batting average drop to .226 in Triple-A this season.