Worcester broke open a tie game with a four-run fourth inning, as the Red Sox pulled away from the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 8-3, on Friday at Polar Park.<\/p>\n
Oswaldo Cabrera hit an RBI double to give the RailRiders (19-17) a 1-0 lead in the top of the first.<\/p>\n
Tsung-Che Cheng responded with a solo homer in the second to tie the game at 1.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fourth, Matt Thaiss hit an RBI double, and Nick Sogard hit a three-run homer to right-center to give Worcester (21-15) a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Anthony Volpe hit an RBI double, and Cabrera added an RBI groundout in the fifth, but Jason Delay\u2019s fifth-inning RBI single and Kristian Campbell\u2019s two-run double in the sixth pushed the Red Sox\u2019s lead to 8-3.<\/p>\n
Worcester won three of the four games with two left to play in the series.<\/p>\n
The series was scheduled to continue Saturday at 4:05 p.m. with Brendan Beck (2-2 record, 5.11 ERA) slated to pitch for the RailRiders and Michael Sansone (1-2, 5.17) getting the ball for Worcester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcester broke open a tie game with a four-run fourth inning, as the Red Sox pulled away from…\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-187869","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\/187869","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=187869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187869\/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=187869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}