Jose Rojas\u2019 two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a tie score and propelled the Syracuse Mets to an 8-6 victory over the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Tuesday at NBT Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n
Nick Morabito gave Syracuse a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first, but Spencer Jones stole home in the top of the second to knot the score at 1.<\/p>\n
Hayden Senger and MJ Melendez hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the second to give Syracuse (8-8) a 4-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
Senger added another two-run homer in the bottom of the fourth for a 6-1 lead, but the RailRiders rallied in the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n
Ernesto Martinez hit a two-run homer, Payton Henry hit a solo homer, Max Schuemann hit an RBI single and Spencer Jones tied the game at 6 with an RBI double.<\/p>\n
However, Rojas ended the comeback with a two-run homer that scored Christian Arroyo.<\/p>\n
Jasson Dominguez went 1 for 3 with a double and a run, and Oswaldo Cabrera went 1 for 5 for the RailRiders (9-7).<\/p>\n
The series continues Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Elmer Rodriguez (0-1, 1.80 ERA) and Syracuse\u2019s Christian Scott (0-1, 6.48 ERA) are the probable pitchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Rojas\u2019 two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a tie score and propelled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-167038","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\/167038","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=167038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}