Carlos Lagrange pitched four scoreless innings of relief to earn his first Triple-A victory as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders defeated the Syracuse Mets, 6-3, in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday at NBT Bank Stadium in New York.<\/p>\n
Syracuse came back to win the second game, 13-2, and salvage a split.<\/p>\n
Several reports Tuesday said the New York Yankees planned to move Lagrange, the hard-throwing righthander who is the organization\u2019s No. 4 prospect, to the bullpen.<\/p>\n
He came on in relief in the second inning Wednesday after opener Rafael Montero threw a scoreless first inning with one hit and two strikeouts. Lagrange (1-3) allowed one hit \u2014 a single to Yonny Hernandez with one out in the fourth \u2014 walked two, struck out seven and hit one batter. He threw 62 pitches, 36 for strikes.<\/p>\n
In the top of the third inning, the RailRiders gave him offensive support by scoring three times. With one out, Duke Ellis singled and George Lombard Jr. was hit by a pitch. A wild pitch by Syracuse starter Kodai Senga, on a MLB rehab assignment, advanced the runners to third and second, respectively. Spencer Jones followed with a RBI single to score Ellis and send Lombard to third, from where he scored on a sacrifice fly by Oswaldo Cabrera. Tyler Hardman followed with a single, moving Jones to second. Seth Brown then singled to score Jones and make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
It stayed that way until the top of the seventh when the RailRiders had another three-run rally on four consecutive two-out hits. Hardman and Brown hit back-to-back home runs. Ali Sanchez singled and scored on an Ernesto Martinez Jr. double.<\/p>\n
Those runs were needed since Syracuse spoiled the shutout bid with three runs in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n
Bradley Hanner relieved Lagrange and pitched a scoreless sixth with one walk and one strikeout. But Peter Strzelecki came on in the seventh and he gave up a two-run home run to Ben Rortvedt and RBI single to Nick Morabito. Yerry De Los Santos replaced Strzelecki and threw one pitch to Christian Arroyo to get the final out.<\/p>\n
Zach Messinger started Game 2 for the RailRiders and allowed a run in the top of the first. Morabito led off with a single, took second on a wild pitch, stole third and when the throw sailed into the outfield, Morabito scored. It was the first run Messinger gave up since April 23 \u2014 a span of nine appearances and 18.2 innings.<\/p>\n
Syracuse extended its lead to 5-0 in the bottom of the third against reliever Eric Reyzelman. Arroyo had a two-run double, Andy Ibanez a RBI single and Ryan Clifford scored on the back end of a double steal.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Ornelas homered with two outs in the top of the fourth to cut the RailRiders\u2019 deficit to 5-1. Then in the top of the eighth, Cabrera led off with a double, stole third with two outs and scored on a throwing error from the catcher to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n
But the Mets erupted for eight runs in the bottom of the sixth off reliever Danny Watson and position player Edinson Duran. Arroyo had a two-run single. Ji Hwan Bae scored on a wild pitch. Ibanez had a sacrifice fly. Kevin Parada had a three-run double and scored on a single by Matt Rudick.<\/p>\n
On Thursday at 6:35 p.m., the series continues with the RailRiders (30-28) sending righthander and No. 2 prospect Elmer Rodriguez (1-3, 2.91) to the mound against Syracuse righty Xzavion Curry (0-0, 6.16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Lagrange pitched four scoreless innings of relief to earn his first Triple-A victory as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders…\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-210572","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\/210572","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=210572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210572\/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=210572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}