{"id":211358,"date":"2026-06-05T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:56:10","slug":"railriders-suffer-walk-off-loss-in-ninth-at-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211358\/","title":{"rendered":"RailRiders suffer walk-off loss in ninth at Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders were walked-off 3-2 by the Syracuse Mets Thursday night. The teams were tied 2-2 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, but Matt Rudick roped an RBI single for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The RailRiders got the first run of the game in the third inning. George Lombard Jr. laced a single and moved to second on an error. Oswaldo Cabrera notched an RBI single for an early lead.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Hardman led off the fourth with a solo shot to centerfield for a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>A two-run homer from Christian Arroyo tied things up in the fifth frame.<\/p>\n<p>The tie continued into the bottom of the ninth inning. Christian Pache led off with a base hit and moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt. A wild pitch put Pache on third. With a five-man infield, Rudick smacked the ball to right field to walk-off the game 3-2 for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer Rodr\u00edguez tossed 5.2 innings, allowing two runs while striking out six. The Yankees No. 2 prospect struck out Major League rehabber Francisco Alvarez three times. Yovanny Cruz (L, 5-2) was credited with the final run of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The RailRiders continue their series against the Mets at NBT Bank Stadium. Friday will feature Yankees No. 21 prospect Brendan Beck facing off against Mets No. 5 prospect Jack Wenninger. First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders were walked-off 3-2 by the Syracuse Mets Thursday night. The teams were tied 2-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-211358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211358","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=211358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}