Seth Brown and Paul DeJong each hit solo home runs in the top of the seventh inning Saturday, enabling the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to overtake the Rochester Red Wings, 4-3, at ESL Ballpark in New York.<\/p>\n
Erik Tolman, Rochester\u2019s fourth pitcher, entered the game to begin the seventh with the Red Wings leading, 3-2. Brown greeted him by sending an 0-1 pitch out to right field for his first home run of the season to tie the game. One out later, DeJong hit an 0-2 pitch out to left-center field for his second homer of the season and a 4-3 RailRiders lead.<\/p>\n
From there, the bullpen protected the advantage. Angel Chivilli worked two scoreless innings and Kervin Castro worked around a pair of two-out singles in the bottom of the ninth for the save as the RailRiders (5-3) won their third straight and assured themselves of no worse than a series split.<\/p>\n
Dom Hamel started for the RailRiders and allowed three runs (two earned) and three hits in 3.1 innings. He walked three and struck out the same. Yerry De los Santos (1-1) retired all eight batters he faced in 2.2 innings with four strikeouts to get the win.<\/p>\n
In the top of the second, the RailRiders jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Brown led off with a single and Ernesto Martinez Jr. followed with a double. DeJong his a sacrifice fly to left to score Brown. Payton Henry then singled to score Martinez.<\/p>\n
Rochester answered in the bottom of the second. Andres Chaparro led off with a single. Hamel struck out the next two batters and hand an 0-2 count on Riley Adams. But Adams hit the next pitch over the left-field fence for a game-tying home run.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings then went ahead in the bottom of the fourth. Phillip Glasser led off with a single and stole second. He moved to third on a wild pitch by Hamel and when catcher Henry\u2019s throw to third sailed into left field, Glasser scored.<\/p>\n
Luis Gil is scheduled to start the series finale for the RailRiders on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. Righthander Andry Lara (0-0, 2.25) goes for Rochester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Brown and Paul DeJong each hit solo home runs in the top of the seventh inning Saturday,…\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-157467","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\/157467","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=157467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157467\/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=157467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}