{"id":221905,"date":"2026-06-18T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:07:12","slug":"harrisburg-senators-defeat-erie-with-birthday-home-runs-and-strong-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221905\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrisburg Senators defeat Erie with birthday home runs and strong offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNOW WGAL NEWS EIGHT SPORTS. WE START OFF ON THE DIAMOND IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THE SENATORS BACK AT HOME THIS WEEK HOSTING ERIE IN A SIX GAME HOME STAND. WE PICK IT UP IN THE SIXTH INNING. SENDS UP FIVE TWO ON ERIE. CORTLAND LAWSON IS GOING TO RIP THIS BALL TO LEFT FIELD. LEFT FIELDER CAN\u2019T MAKE THE DIVING CATCH, SO THE RUNNER SCORES ALL THE WAY FROM FIRST BASE. HE\u2019S IN THERE SAFE. MAKE IT A FOUR RUN HARRISBURG LEAD LATER IN THE EIGHTH, IT\u2019S ETHAN PETRIE\u2019S BIRTHDAY. SO HOW ABOUT NOT ONE BUT TWO HOME RUNS ON THE NIGHT? IT WOULD BE HE WOULD HAVE TWO OF THE FOUR THAT THE SENATORS HIT A SOLO SHOT\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Harrisburg Senators defeat Erie with birthday home runs and strong offense<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:35 PM EDT Jun 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Harrisburg Senators secured an 11-6 victory over Erie during their six-game homestand at FNB Field in the Susquehanna Valley. In the sixth inning, the Senators were up 5-2 when Cortland Lawson ripped a ball to left field, allowing the runner to score all the way from first base and extending Harrisburg’s lead to four runs. Later in the eighth inning, Ethan Petry celebrated his birthday with an impressive performance, hitting not one but two home runs on the night, including a solo shot to center field. The Senators took Game 2 of the series with a final score of 11-6.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Harrisburg Senators secured an 11-6 victory over Erie during their six-game homestand at FNB Field in the Susquehanna Valley. <\/p>\n

In the sixth inning, the Senators were up 5-2 when Cortland Lawson ripped a ball to left field, allowing the runner to score all the way from first base and extending Harrisburg’s lead to four runs. <\/p>\n

Later in the eighth inning, Ethan Petry celebrated his birthday with an impressive performance, hitting not one but two home runs on the night, including a solo shot to center field. <\/p>\n

The Senators took Game 2 of the series with a final score of 11-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOW WGAL NEWS EIGHT SPORTS. WE START OFF ON THE DIAMOND IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THE SENATORS BACK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[96624,136,138,137,8389,96625,96626,51241,96627],"class_list":["post-221905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cortland-lawson","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-seawolves","tag-ethan-petry","tag-fnb-field","tag-harrisburg-senators","tag-six-game-homestand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221905","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=221905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}