Spencer Jones\u2019 grand slam highlighted another big offensive day by the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders as they beat the Rochester Red Wings, 16-5, in the series finale Sunday at ESL Ballpark in New York.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 blast was one of four homers by the RailRiders (6-3), who collected 18 hits in winning their fourth straight game. Every player in the lineup except Jones had mulitple hits, led by Ali Sanchez with three. Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre now heads home for its opener at PNC Field on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. against the Durham Bulls.<\/p>\n
Oswaldo Cabrera, the game\u2019s second batter. gave the RailRiders a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when he hit a 3-2 pitch from Rochester starter Andry Lara out to right-center field for his first home run of the season.<\/p>\n
Luis Gil, the 2024 American League Rookie of the Year with the New York Yankees, started for the RailRiders. Gil was a bit wild early as he walked three of the first batters he faced, then allowed a two-run single to Andres Chaparro that gave the Red Wings a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
But the RailRiders responded in the top of the second and reclaimed the lead for good. With one out, Ernesto Martinez Jr. homered to right-center field to tie the score at 2. Sanchez walked and Braden Shewmake doubled. Jonathan Ornales and Jasson Dominguez followed with RBI singles to put the RailRiders in front, 4-2.<\/p>\n
Zack Short homered to left field off Gil with one out in the bottom of the second to cut the Rochester deficit to 4-3. But Ornales drew a bases-loaded walk in the top of the third and Yanquiel Fernandez tripled and scored on a throwing error from the outfield in the top of the fourth to give the RailRiders a 6-3 lead.<\/p>\n
Then, in the top of the fifth, Sanchez led off with a single. One out later, Ornales singled. With two outs, Cabrera walked to load the bases and bring up Jones, who with the wind blowing out, hit an 0-1 pitch from Trevor Gott out to right-center field for a grand slam. It was his second home run of the season and put the RailRiders in front, 10-3.<\/p>\n
In the top of the eighth, the RailRiders added five more runs. Oswaldo Cabrera led off with a single, moved to second on a groundout by Jones and scored on a single by Fernandez. With two outs, Rochester brought in position player Phillip Glasser to pitch. Martinez greeted him with a single and Sanchez followed with a home run to left field that made it 14-3. Shewmake then singled, Ornales walked and Dominguez had a RBI single for a 15-3 advantage.<\/p>\n
Sanchez had a RBI single in the top of the ninth to finish the scoring for the RailRiders. Rochester scored twice in the bottom of the ninth off Carson Coleman on a sacrifice fly by Harry Ford and a single by Abimelec Ortiz to provide the final margin.<\/p>\n
Gil allowed three runs on four hits in 4.2 innings with four walks and six strikeouts. When he reached 90 pitches, with a 3-2 count to Chaparro, he was relieved by Yovanny Cruz, who retired Chaparro on a groundout, then struck out the side in the bottom of the sixth to get the win.<\/p>\n
RailRiders 4, Rochester 3: At Rochester on Saturday, Seth Brown and Paul DeJong each hit solo home runs in the top of the seventh inning to rally the RailRiders past the Red Wings.<\/p>\n
Brown led off the inning with his homer off Erik Tolman to tie the game, 3-3. One out later, DeJong homered to put the RailRiders ahead.<\/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. Yerry De los Santos (1-1) got the win, retiring all eight batters he faced in 2.2 innings of relief with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Jones\u2019 grand slam highlighted another big offensive day by the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders as they beat the Rochester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-158159","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\/158159","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=158159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}