Jasson Dominguez had three hits, including a two-run home run, and Jonathan Ornelas had four doubles, an RBI and a run to lead the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders to a 5-2 victory over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the series opener Tuesday at PNC Field.<\/p>\n
Dominguez\u2019s fourth homer of the season gave the RailRiders (32-31) a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third.<\/p>\n
An inning later, Kenedy Corona\u2019s double scored Ornelas, and George Lombard Jr.\u2019s sacrifice fly scored Corona for a 4-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Ornelas tacked on an RBI double in the fifth for a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Carter Kieboom\u2019s two-run double in the seventh cut the deficit to 5-2, but the IronPigs (29-35) didn\u2019t get any closer.<\/p>\n
Elmer Rodriguez (2-3) earned the victory, allowing three hits, one run and two walks while striking out four in 6.1 innings. Carlos Lagrange came on in relief, allowing three hits, one run and one walk while striking out three.<\/p>\n
The series continues Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. with Lehigh Valley\u2019s Brian Keller (0-1 record, 2.00 ERA) slated to start and the RailRiders starter to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jasson Dominguez had three hits, including a two-run home run, and Jonathan Ornelas had four doubles, an RBI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-215566","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\/215566","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=215566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}