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The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders throttled the Lehigh Valley IronPigs 15-4 on Tuesday evening at Coca-Cola Park. Yanquiel Fern\u00e1ndez homered twice and drove in six as the RailRiders captured the 2026 IronRail Series opener.<\/p>\n
Duke Ellis led off the third with a single, stole second, and scored on a Fern\u00e1ndez single for a 1-0 Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre advantage. Lehigh Valley leveled it in the bottom of the fourth with a solo home run from Dylan Carlson.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders regained the lead in the top of the fifth. Jonathan Ornelas singled and stole second. Ellis dropped a sac bunt that MLB rehabber Max Lazar threw past first, allowing Ornelas to score. With one on and one out, Fern\u00e1ndez launched his 10th home run of the year, a 401-foot blast to right for a 4-1 edge. The IronPigs countered with two runs in the bottom of the inning to narrow the lead to one.<\/p>\n
Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre tacked on three in the top of the sixth, keyed by an RBI double from Ornelas and a two-run single from George Lombard Jr. for a 7-3 lead. Both teams plated a run in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders added back-to-back home runs in the eighth to build a 12-4 advantage. Oswaldo Cabrera hit a three-run homer, and Seth Brown followed with a solo shot. In the ninth, Fern\u00e1ndez went yard again with two on, capping his second six-RBI game of the season.<\/p>\n
Brendan Beck worked four-plus innings, allowing three runs on six hits with five strikeouts. Yerry De Los Santos (2-2) earned the win with 2.2 innings of relief. Zach Messinger followed De Los Santos with 2.1 scoreless innings. Ryan Cusick (0-4) took the loss, allowing the first two runs over three-plus innings.<\/p>\n
All night batters reached, and eight of nine players had at least one hit. Ornelas paced the attack with four hits. Lombard Jr., Fernandez and Brown added three hits each.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders and IronPigs meet for a school day game on Wednesday at 11:05 a.,. Adam Kloffenstein starts for Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre against Tucker Davidson and Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
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