PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Join our team as we kick off this week’s latest local sports news, featuring the WVIA News Team and FOX56 Sports Director Bob Ide.<\/p>\n
Roger and Bob are in the WVIA Podcast Studio talking baseball today. Friday is opening day for the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, kicking off the season with a 1:05 p.m. game in Buffalo against the Bisons. The expected high temperature? About 30 degrees.<\/p>\n
No matter. RailRiders manager Shelley Duncan is excited to hit the ground running in 2026 with a strong lineup including infielders Oswaldo Cabrera and Ernesto Martinez Jr., outfielders Jasson Dom\u00ednguez and Spencer Jones.<\/p>\n
Bob was at the RailRiders’ media day this week, where he heard more from Duncan.<\/p>\n
“You go down the order, and we’ve got some veterans … two veteran catchers, we’ve got really smart infielders,” Duncan said. “Just all around, it’s some pretty good talent.”<\/p>\n
We’ll also talk about Gerry McNamara being named Syracuse University’s head basketball coach, with a formal press conference set for Monday.<\/p>\n
Bob also discusses the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins clinching a berth in the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Join our team as we kick off this week’s latest local sports news,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-150323","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\/150323","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=150323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}