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The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders were swept by the Syracuse Mets in a doubleheader Saturday afternoon, falling 9-4 and 7-4 at NBT Bank Stadium. The RailRiders have dropped three straight and four of five on the road trip, suffering their first series loss of the season.<\/p>\n
Ryan Clifford\u2019s first home run of the season staked Syracuse to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of game one.<\/p>\n
Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre countered with two runs in the third. Ernesto Martinez Jr. walked and scored on a near-home run from Jonathan Ornelas. Center fielder Cristian Pache pulled the ball back from over the wall but couldn\u2019t complete the catch, resulting in a triple. A Jasson Dominguez groundout plated Ornelas to cut the deficit to 3-2.<\/p>\n
Three third-inning home runs built the Mets\u2019 lead to six. Ronny Mauricio led off the inning with a solo homer. Vidal Brujan and Onix Vega added two-run shots for an 8-2 Syracuse lead.<\/p>\n
Max Schuemann\u2019s fourth-inning solo home run narrowed the gap to five, but the Mets added a run in the fifth on a wild pitch. Yanquiel Fernandez\u2019s RBI single in the sixth closed the scoring at 9-4.<\/p>\n
Carl Edwards Jr. (1-2) earned the win, and Adam Kloffenstein (0-1) took the loss, allowing the first six runs, five earned, on six hits.<\/p>\n
In game two, Clifford again opened the scoring. After former Syracuse Met Dom Hamel retired the side in the first, Clifford hit a solo home run to right-center in the bottom of the second for the 1-0 Mets edge. Syracuse added a pair of runs in the third on a groundout and an RBI double from Clifford for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones drilled his fifth home run of the season in the fourth, putting Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre on the board. The Mets responded with a run on a sac fly in the home half of the innings and plated three more in the fifth for a 7-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
In the seventh, Paul DeJong hit a solo home run off Brandon Waddell, and Payton Henry added a two-run opposite-field shot, but the RailRiders\u2019 comeback ended there.<\/p>\n
Waddell (2-0) earned the win in back of Bryce Conley, and Hamel (0-3) was tagged with the loss, allowing all seven runs on nine hits over 4.2 innings.<\/p>\n
Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre and Syracuse wrap the series on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. Brendan Beck and Jonah Tong start for the RailRiders and Mets, respectively. Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre is back at PNC Field for a two-week homestand beginning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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