{"id":199514,"date":"2026-05-22T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:24:07","slug":"scranton-wilkes-barre-hangs-on-to-win-slugfest-over-ironpigs-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199514\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre hangs on to win slugfest over IronPigs | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN &#8211; Felix Reyes and Bryan De La Cruz homered but a late IronPigs rally came up short in an 8-7 loss to Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre on Thursday at Coca-Cola Park.<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto Martinez Jr. sparked a five-run second inning with a two-run home run for the RailRiders. Lehigh Valley clawed back from a 7-3 deficit but stranded runners on second and third in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>The IronPigs will try to even the series on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN &#8211; Felix Reyes and Bryan De La Cruz homered but a late IronPigs rally came up short&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88436,88437,88036,5526,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-199514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-bryan-de-la-cruz","tag-ernesto-martinez-jr","tag-felix-reyes","tag-lehigh-valley-ironpigs","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514","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=199514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}