{"id":238661,"date":"2026-07-08T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:26:07","slug":"central-heights-duke-ellis-homers-in-scranton-wilkes-barre-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238661\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Heights\u2019 Duke Ellis homers in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BUFFALO, N.Y. (KTRE) &#8211; Former Central Heights Blue Devil Duke Ellis hit his fourth home run of the season in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s 18-3 win over Buffalo on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 28-year-old stole a base, giving him a team-high 35 this season and putting him one behind the league leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ellis started in left field and batted eighth. He went 2-for-4 with two walks, two RBI and two runs. In the fourth inning, Ellis reached base following a walk. He stole second base and was stranded at third base to end the inning. In the sixth inning, after a walk to Ernesto Martinez Jr., Ellis hit a two-run home run over the right-field wall, giving the RailRiders a 7-1 lead. In the ninth inning, Ellis singled on a line drive and came in to score later on a line drive by Yanquiel Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This season, Ellis is hitting .237 with 15 RBI and 36 runs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre (45-41) continues its series against Buffalo (42-46) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (KTRE) &#8211; Former Central Heights Blue Devil Duke Ellis hit his fourth home run of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4662,74202,1611,74200,68105,51245,178,180,179,74201],"class_list":["post-238661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-baseball","tag-beastexas","tag-buffalo","tag-central-heights","tag-duke-ellis","tag-milb","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238661","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=238661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}