{"id":187720,"date":"2026-05-09T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187720\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:02:15","slug":"central-heights-duke-ellis-has-4-hits-drives-in-3-runs-in-railriders-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187720\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Heights\u2019 Duke Ellis has 4 hits, drives in 3 runs in RailRiders loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WORCESTER, Mass. (KTRE) &#8211; Former Central Heights Blue Devil Duke Ellis exploded for four hits and drove in three runs in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s 10-8 loss to Worcester on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 28-year-old started in left field and batted eighth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ellis went 4-for-5 with a walk, three RBI and three runs. In the second inning, Ellis hit a three-run home run, his first of the season, to put the RailRiders up 3-1. In the fourth inning, Ellis hit a leadoff double to right field. He stole third base, his 14th steal of the season, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Volpe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This season, Ellis is hitting .289 with seven RBI, 13 runs and 15 stolen bases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre (19-16) and Worcester (20-15) continue their series on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORCESTER, Mass. (KTRE) &#8211; Former Central Heights Blue Devil Duke Ellis exploded for four hits and drove in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4662,74202,74200,68105,51245,178,180,179,74201,54043],"class_list":["post-187720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-baseball","tag-beastexas","tag-central-heights","tag-duke-ellis","tag-milb","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-wilkes-barre","tag-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187720","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=187720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}