Adam Kloffenstein and Rafael Montoro combined on a two-hit, seven-inning shutout as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders blanked the Buffalo Bisons, 2-0, in the first game of a doubleheader Friday at PNC Field in Moosic.<\/p>\n
Buffalo took the second game, 8-3, to earn a split.<\/p>\n
Kloffenstein allowed one hit \u2014\u00a0 a one-out single to Riley Trotta in the top of the fifth \u2014 with one walk and seven strikeouts in six innings. Montero relieved in the seventh and gave up a one-out single to Charles McAdoo. However, he struck out the final two batters looking.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the second, the RailRiders took a 1-0 lead. Oswaldo Cabrera doubled, moved to third on a groundout to second by Seth Brown and scored on a sacrifice fly to right by Ernesto Martinez Jr. Then in the third, consecutive one-out singles by Jonathan Ornelas, George Lombard Jr. and Spencer Jones made it 2-0.<\/p>\n
A five-run top of the first inning by the Bisons against RailRiders starter Dom Hamel enabled them to take control of the nightcap. Trotta had an RBI single, Josh Rivera a three-run triple and William Simoneit an RBI groundout.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders got two runs back in the bottom of the first on a home run by Jones and an RBI double by Cabrera. But Simoneit hit a two-run home run in the top of the third to give Buffalo a 7-2 lead. Cabrera had another RBI double in the bottom of the third. Rivera closed out the scoring for the Bisons with an RBI single in the fifth.<\/p>\n
On Saturday at 3:05 p.m., the series is scheduled to continue with the RailRiders\u2019 Brendan Beck going against Buffalo righty C.J. Van Eyk. It concludes Sunday at 1:35 p.m. with Luis Gil to start for the RailRiders against Jose Berrios on a rehab assignment with the Bisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Kloffenstein and Rafael Montoro combined on a two-hit, seven-inning shutout as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders blanked the Buffalo…\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-182431","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\/182431","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=182431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182431\/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=182431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}