Missed opportunities by the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders enabled the Syracuse Mets to rally for a 7-4 victory in 13 innings Tuesday night in the opener of a six-game series at PNC Field in Moosic.<\/p>\n
Syracuse scored twice in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game and force extra innings. Then, after the RailRiders squandered chances in the 11th and 12th innings, the Mets scored three times in the top of the 13th.<\/p>\n
With Matt Rudick at second base as the automatic runner, Nick Morabito put down a sacrifice bunt and a throwing error on the play allowed Rudick to score. Following a pitching change, Morabito stole second and went to third on a single by Ji Hwan Bae. One out later, Bae stole second and Christian Arroyo followed with a two-run single to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n
Mike Baumann came out of the Syracuse bullpen in the bottom of the 13th and retired the RailRiders in order.<\/p>\n
Yankees No. 2 prospect Carlos LaGrange started and gave up a bases-loaded walk in the second inning, enabling Syracuse to take a 1-0 lead. That was the lone run Lagrange yielded in five innings with three hits, three walks and eight strikeouts. Harrison Cohen relieved in the sixth and Hayden Senger homered with two outs to make it 2-0 Mets.<\/p>\n
Jack Wenninger held the RailRiders to one hit through five scoreless innings with three walks and seven strikeouts. In the bottom of the sixth, the RailRiders scored a run off reliever Luke Jackson without the benefit of a hit. Kenedy Corona walked and was wild pitched to second. After George Lombard Jr. walked, Corona moved to third on a fly out and scored on a sacrifice fly by Marco Luciano.<\/p>\n
Then in the bottom of the seventh against reliever Nate Lavender, Payton Henry walked with one out and Jonathan Ornelas homered to left field with two outs to put the RailRiders in front, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Seth Brown extended that lead to 4-2 in the eighth with a leadoff home run to right field. But in the top of the ninth, the Mets came back against Rafael Montero. Bae reached on an error by Lombard and scored on a double by Ryan Clifford. Arroyo then singled to bring home Clifford with the tying run.<\/p>\n
Carson Coleman held Syracuse scoreless in the 10th and 11th innings, and Danny Watson kept the Mets off the scoreboard in the 12th,\u00a0but the RailRiders could not capitalize. In the bottom of the 11th, automatic runner Oswaldo Cabrera was thrown out at home plate trying to score on a single to left by Ernesto Martinez Jr. Then in the 12th, they loaded the bases with two outs, but Anderson Severino got a strikeout to end the threat.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the teams are scheduled to play a school-day special at 11 a.m. at PNC Field. Brendan Beck (2-2, 5.11 ERA) gets the start for the RailRiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missed opportunities by the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders enabled the Syracuse Mets to rally for a 7-4 victory in 13…\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-192164","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\/192164","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=192164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192164\/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=192164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}