Three times in the first game of Sunday\u2019s doubleheader, the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders took a lead, only to have Buffalo rally and tie each time.<\/p>\n
The fourth time, however, finally stuck.<\/p>\n
A run in the top of the 10th inning lifted the RailRiders to a 5-4 win over the Bisons in the opener at Sahlen Field in New York. However, Buffalo used a six-run fourth inning to take the nightcap, 7-3, and earn a split.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones\u2019 RBI single in the top of the third of Game 1 scored Ali Sanchez and gave the RailRiders a 1-0 lead. But in the bottom of the third, singles by Josh Kasevich and Carlos Mendoza and a sacrifice fly by Jonatan Clase enabled the Bisons to tie it at 1.<\/p>\n
In the top of the fourth, Ernesto Martinez Jr. led off with a double. With two outs, he stole third and scored on a wild pitch. Sanchez followed with a walk, advanced to third on a single by Braden Shewmake and scored on a single by Jasson Dominguez.\u00a0But Buffalo pulled even again in the bottom of the fifth. Kasevich walked with one out, went to third on a single by Rafael Antigua, who advanced to second on the throw to third. Both runners scored on an error by first baseman Martinez Jr. on a ball hit by Clase.<\/p>\n
It stayed a 3-3 game into extra innings. Dominguez\u2019s single in the top of the ninth scored speed-up runner Duke Ellis from third base to make it 4-3. However, in the bottom of the ninth, Brandon Valenzuela\u2019s RBI single scored speed-up runner Charles McAdoo to tie the game again, 4-4.<\/p>\n
Finally, in the top of the 10th, Max Schuemann doubled into the left-field corner to score speed-up runner Oswaldo Cabrera and give the RailRiders a 5-4 lead. Danny Watson retired Buffalo in the bottom of the 10th to save the victory for Yovanny Cruz.<\/p>\n
Carlos Lagrange, the New York Yankees\u2019 No. 2 prospect, made his Triple-A debut in the opener for the RailRiders. The righthander allowed one run on one hit in four innings with no walks and three strikeouts. He threw 68 pitches, 39 for strikes.<\/p>\n
Solo home runs in the first two innings of the second game by Jones and Yanquiel Fernandez gave the RailRiders a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
But in the bottom of the third, Buffalo got one run back off starter and loser Dom Hamel. With one out, Clase singled, stole second, took third and scored on wild pitches.<\/p>\n
Then in the fourth, the Bisons struck for six runs. Josh Rivera walked, C.J. Stubbs singled and Ryan McCarty singled. When the throw to the plate was wild, Rivera scored the tying run. Mendoza hit a sacrifice fly to put Buffalo in front. Walks to Clase and R.J. Schreck loaded the bases. Riley Tirotta delivered a two-run single. After Harrison Cohen relieved Hamel, Tirotta stole second and when the throw skipped into the outfield for an error, Schreck scored. Kasevich\u2019s RBI single capped the outburst and made it 7-2.<\/p>\n
Peyton Henry he led off the top of the fifth with a double, moved to third on a groundout by Shewmake and scored on a groundout by Jonathan Ornelas. However, the RailRiders were shut down the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Following an off day Monday, the RailRiders (2-1) begin a six-game series in Rochester on Tuesday at 4:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three times in the first game of Sunday\u2019s doubleheader, the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders took a lead, only to have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-152875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-rail-riders","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152875","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=152875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}