{"id":230535,"date":"2026-06-28T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:58:12","slug":"swb-railriders-lucianos-homers-not-enough-to-fend-off-indianapolis-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230535\/","title":{"rendered":"SWB RAILRIDERS: Luciano\u2019s homers not enough to fend off Indianapolis \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Luciano had two home runs and three RBIs for the RailRiders, but Indianapolis scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to rally past Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, 4-3, on Saturday at Victory Field.<\/p>\n<p>Luciano\u2019s second homer, a two-run blast, gave the RailRiders (40-39) a 3-1 lead in the top of the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jhostynxon Garcia started a one-out rally in the ninth with a single. Jesus Castillo added a single, and Nick Cimillo walked to load the bases.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Ross\u2019 two-run single to left tied the game at 3 and chased reliever Eric Reyzelman, who only got one out after replacing Angel Chivilli to start the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Fletcher then singled off Dylan Coleman, and Termarr Johnson worked a walk to drive in the winning run.<\/p>\n<p>Luciano led off the game with a solo blast to left field, but Ross tied it in the bottom of the seventh for Indianapolis (33-47) with a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre starter Brendan Beck allowed five hits, one run and one walk while striking out five in seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>The series finale is Sunday at 1:35 p.m., with Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Alexander Cornielle (0-1 record, 5.14 ERA) and Indianapolis\u2019 Antwone Kelly (3-5, 5.43) the probable pitchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Luciano had two home runs and three RBIs for the RailRiders, but Indianapolis scored three runs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-230535","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\/230535","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=230535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}