Ernesto Martinez Jr. hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth to turn a two-run deficit into a one-run lead, and the RailRiders never trailed again in their 6-5 victory over Lehigh Valley on Sunday at PNC Field.<\/p>\n
Keaton Anthony hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the first to give the IronPigs (32-37) a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Otto Kemp added a solo homer in the third for a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Marco Luciano\u2019s RBI single in the third cut the deficit to 2-1, but Dylan Carlson answered with an RBI groundout in the fourth to increase the Lehigh Valley lead to 3-1.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fourth, Martinez crushed a laser to right with an exit velocity of 112.3 mph for a 4-3 RailRiders (34-34) lead.<\/p>\n
Tyler Hardman extended the lead with a solo homer in the sixth, and Jonathan Ornelas tacked on an RBI single in the seventh for a 6-3 advantage.<\/p>\n
Felix Reyes cut the deficit to 6-5 with a two-run homer in the eighth, but Dylan Coleman locked down his second save of the season, getting Paul McIntosh to fly out to center and Carlson to ground into a double play.<\/p>\n
Next up, the RailRiders have a six-game series at Columbus starting Tuesday at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernesto Martinez Jr. hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth to turn a two-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-219315","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\/219315","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=219315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}