The Syracuse Mets swept the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 9-4 and 7-4, in a doubleheader Saturday at NBT Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n
In Game 1, Syracuse\u2019s Ryan Clifford hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders battled back in the third on Jonathan Ornelas\u2019 RBI triple and Jasson Dominguez\u2019s RBI groundout to cut the deficit to 3-2.<\/p>\n
However, the Mets pulled away in the bottom half of the inning. Ronny Mauricio, Vidal Brujan and Onix Vega homered to give Syracuse an 8-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Max Schuemann homered in the fourth, Syracuse\u2019s Jackson Cluff scored on a Zach Messinger wild pitch in the fifth and Yanquiel Fernandez hit an RBI single in the sixth for the RailRiders.<\/p>\n
In Game 2, the RailRiders once again found themselves in a three-run hole after Clifford homered in the second and hit an RBI double in the third and Mauricio added an RBI groundout in the third.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones homered in the fourth to cut the deficit to 3-1, but Trace Willhoite\u2019s sacrifice fly in the fourth and Mauricio\u2019s two-run double and Brujan\u2019s sac-fly in the fifth gave Syracuse a 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Paul DeJong hit a solo homer and Payton Henry hit a two-run homer in the seventh to cut the deficit to 7-4, but that\u2019s as close as the RailRiders got.<\/p>\n
The final game of the series is Sunday at 1:05 p.m. with Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Brendan Beck (1-1, 4.87 ERA) and Syracuse\u2019s Jonah Tong (0-1, 7.04 ERA) the probable pitchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syracuse Mets swept the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 9-4 and 7-4, in a doubleheader Saturday at NBT Bank Stadium.…\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-170585","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\/170585","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=170585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170585\/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=170585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}