Syracuse scored three runs in the eighth inning, and held off the RailRiders in the ninth for a 4-3 victory Sunday at NBT Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Mets (33-30) took the seven-game series, 4-3.<\/p>\n
With the score tied at 1 in the bottom of the eighth, Ji Hwan Bae scored on Ryan Clifford\u2019s sacrifice bunt, and Matt Rudick followed with a two-run home run to right-center for a 4-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders (31-31) battled back in the top of the ninth, as Yanquiel Fern\u00e1ndez scored on Ernesto Martinez Jr.\u2019s groundout and Kenedy Corona hit an RBI double to cut the deficit to 4-3.<\/p>\n
However, with the bases loaded, Dylan Ross struck out George Lombard Jr. to secure the save.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders return to PNC Field where they\u2019ll host the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in a six-game series starting Tuesday at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game<\/p>\n
Syracuse responded to being no-hit by the RailRiders on Friday night with 10 hits and a 5-0 win over Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday at NBT Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n
Ji Hwan Bae made sure to end any chance of a second straight no-hitter in the bottom of the first with a home run to right for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Ryan Clifford tacked on a two-run homer to right in the third for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Cristian Pache hit an RBI double to left in the sixth, and Matt Rudick scored on a wild pitch in the seventh for the Mets (32-30).<\/p>\n
The RailRiders (31-30) had seven hits, including two from Oswaldo Cabrera, but couldn\u2019t drive in a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse scored three runs in the eighth inning, and held off the RailRiders in the ninth for a…\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-213277","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\/213277","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=213277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213277\/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=213277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}