READING, Pa. – The Reading Fightin Phils (55-56, 25-17) took down the Chesapeake Bay Sox (52-58, 23-19) 6-4 at FirstEnergy Stadium on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Neither side scored through the first two innings, as Reading and Chesapeake combined for just one hit in the first pair of stanzas.<\/p>\n
The Fightin Phils drew first blood in the bottom of third inning, as Raylin Heredia roped a single up the middle to score Raider Tello. Heredia’s 60th RBI of the season gave the R-Phils a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Baysox responded in the top of the fourth when Dom Keegan (3) swatted a solo home run over the left field wall. Keegan\u2019s swing tied the ball game up at 1-1.<\/p>\n
The Fightins retaliated immediately on a Luke Ritter double in the bottom of the fourth inning. Ritter\u2019s eighth double of the season scored Caleb Ricketts and pushed Reading back out in front 2-1.<\/p>\n
Al Pedrique\u2019s squad proved relentless tonight, scoring for the third straight inning on a Raylin Heredia (20) solo home run in the fifth stanza. The long ball is Heredia\u2019s career-best, now eclipsing his previous career-high (8) by 12 round-trippers. Alex Binelas followed up by drawing his second walk of the evening, and Aroon Escobar (Phillies No. 6 prospect) smacked an RBI double into the right-center field gap, plating Binelas and building the advantage to 4-1.<\/p>\n
The Fightins scored yet again in the sixth inning, this time on a Wuilfredo Antunez (13) solo home run to dead center field. This was Antunez\u2019s first homer as a member of the Fightin Phils, expanding the lead to 5-1.<\/p>\n
Chesapeake showed some fight in the seventh, loading the bases with nobody out against Reading reliever Saul Teran. Aron Estrada (Orioles No. 13 prospect) plated Thomas Sosa on a sacrifice fly to left field, cutting into the lead.<\/p>\n
Christian McGowan inherited the bases loaded with two outs, and he struck out Anderson De Los Santos to preserve the score at 5-2.<\/p>\n
Reading got its run back on the other end of the stretch with an Aroon Escobar RBI triple, scoring Heredia.<\/p>\n
The Bay Sox showed some late life, as De Los Santos (11) socked a two-run home run to right field, sending Estrada home to cut the lead to 6-4. Fightins closer Estibenzone Jimenez struck out Wehiwa Aloy to end the ball game, giving the R-Phils their second win of the week.<\/p>\n
Adam Seminaris (11-7) got the win for the Fightin Phils, tossing six innings of one-run ball while striking out nine without a walk.<\/p>\n
Pat Reilly (0-2) took the loss, firing four innings of two-run ball with four walks and seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
With the Portland Sea Dogs losing, Reading holds a three-game lead atop the Eastern League-Northeast division standings with 27 games to go. The Fightins are in pursuit of their first playoff berth since 2019.<\/p>\n
Reading returns to the field on Friday against the Chesapeake Baysox at 7 p.m. RHP Gage Wood is scheduled to start for Reading, and he will go opposite RHP Anthony Eyanson for Chesapeake. Pregame radio coverage is underway at 6:40 p.m. on the Reading Fighitn Phils Radio Network. A video stream is available via MiLB TV or the Bally Live App.<\/p>\n
The Fightin Phils remain home through Sunday against the Chesapeake Baysox, Double-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – The Reading Fightin Phils (55-56, 25-17) took down the Chesapeake Bay Sox (52-58, 23-19) 6-4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4773,51245,128,130,129,44158,726],"class_list":["post-265334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-milb","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-fightin-phils","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265334","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=265334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}