{"id":141401,"date":"2026-03-18T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:08:12","slug":"baseball-turns-away-scranton-10-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141401\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Turns Away Scranton, 10-5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Babson-Beavers.png\" alt=\"Babson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Babson<\/p>\n<p>3\/19\/2026 | 9:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 19 (Thu) \/ 9:00 AM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Babson-Beavers.png\" alt=\"Babson\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Babson&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/babson\/53\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    DAVENPORT, Fla. \u2013 The Franklin &amp; Marshall baseball team (9-3) earned its third win of the RussMatt Invitational as it defeated Scranton (9-4), 10-5, Tuesday afternoon. The Diplomats jumped out to an early advantage with three runs in the first and didn&#8217;t surrender the lead for the entirety of the contest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/nolan-mccloskey\/18174\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18174\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan McCloskey<\/a> led off the bottom of the first inning with a single up the middle and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tanner-wolpert\/18189\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18189\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Wolpert<\/a> walked, <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/matt-hollender\/18166\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18166\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Hollender<\/a> ripped a single into left field to plate McCloskey for the first run of the game. Two batters later, <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gideon-schwartz\/18182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18182\" target=\"_blank\">Gideon Schwartz<\/a> laced his first-career triple into right field to put F&amp;M ahead, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton responded with a run in the top of the second, but the Diplomats went right back to work in the bottom of the third. Wolpert led off the frame with a double into left field and advanced to third on a wild pitch. The next batter, <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/nick-digiacomo\/18163\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18163\" target=\"_blank\">Nick DiGiacomo<\/a> hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Wolpert and cushion F&amp;M&#8217;s lead at 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals narrowed the deficit to one with two runs on three hits in the top of the fifth. In the bottom of the frame, <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/michael-von-zuben\/18188\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18188\" target=\"_blank\">Michael von Zuben<\/a> singled before Wolpert tripled down the right field line to push the Diplomats&#8217; lead to 5-3. Hollender followed with a single into right field as F&amp;M grew its lead to three.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the sixth, F&amp;M got two runners into scoring position with one out. <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/landon-hallett\/18195\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18195\" target=\"_blank\">Landon Hallett<\/a> capitalized on the opportunity with a single through the right side of the infield to score <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/nick-lorenzo\/18170\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18170\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Lorenzo<\/a> for the Diplomats&#8217; seventh run of the game. After a walk to McCloskey loaded the bases, an error during the next at-bat allowed Hallett to score, extending F&amp;M&#8217;s lead to 8-3. Two batters later, Hollender roped a two-RBI single through the right side of the infield to give F&amp;M a 10-3 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton scored two runs in the top of the ninth, but the Royals stranded two runners to give the Diplomats their third win in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Hollender led F&amp;M with three hits and four RBI in the contest. DiGiacomo, Hallett, and Wolpert followed with two hits and one RBI each in the win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/colin-mackenzie\/18171\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18171\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Mackenzie<\/a> (1-1) earned his first win of the season on the mound, striking out four and allowing two earned runs in 5.0 innings pitched. <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/luca-marshall\/18173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18173\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Marshall<\/a> was solid in relief, allowing just two base runners in 2.0 innings of work. <a href=\"https:\/\/godiplomats.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/chet-kosnar\/18197\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18197\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Kosnar<\/a> ended the game on the mound, striking out two and allowing no earned runs in 2.0 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin &amp; Marshall returns to action on Thursday against Babson. First pitch is scheduled for 9:00 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: vs. Babson 3\/19\/2026 | 9:00 AM &#13; Mar. 19 (Thu) \/ 9:00 AM&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-141401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}