J.C. Escarra homered with one out in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRlders to a 5-4 victory over the Worcester Red Sox on Sunday afternoon at PNC Field in Moosic.<\/p>\n
Escarra finished with three hits and two RBIs, while George Lombard Jr. and Oswaldo Cabrera each added two hits for the RailRiders (13-6 second half, 50-43 overall), who won both games played in the scheduled three-game series. Saturday\u2019s game was postponed by rain.<\/p>\n
Worcester rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth inning to tie the game, 4-4, on a one-out RBI single by Nate Eaton, a two-out pinch-hit RBI single by Mickey Gasper and a RBI double by Brett Harris. Then, in the top of the ninth, the WooSox put the go-ahead run at third base when Braiden Ward tripled with two outs. But Yovanny Cruz struck out Nick Sogard to keep the game tied.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the ninth, Escara hit an 0-1 pitch from Sam McWilliams over the fence in right field for the game-winner. It is his fourth home run of the season.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders used the long ball to build a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Eaton helped give Worcester a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when he singled with two outs, advanced to third on a double by Andrew Knziner and scored on a wild pitch by RailRiders starter Alexander Cornielle.<\/p>\n
But in the bottom of the second, Cabrera homered to right on a 2-0 pitch from WooSox starter Osvaldo Berrios to tie the game at 1. It is Cabrera\u2019s 10th home run.<\/p>\n
It stayed tied until the bottom of the sixth. Spencer Jones led off with a double that chased reliever Tyler Samaniego in favor of Seth Martinez. Marco Luciano greeted Martinez by sending a 3-2 pitch over the left-center field fence for his seventh home run and a 3-1 RailRiders lead.<\/p>\n
Consecutive two-out doubles by Lombard and Escarra in the bottom of the seventh extended the margin to 4-1.<\/p>\n
Cruz (7-3), the eighth RailRiders pitcher used in the game, got the win. Worcester used seven pitchers with McWilliams (1-1) taking the loss.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the RailRiders continue their homestand when they begin a six-game series against the Syracuse Mets at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.C. Escarra homered with one out in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRlders to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-247596","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\/247596","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=247596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}