Oswaldo Cabrera homered twice among his three hits Sunday afternoon and the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders knocked off the Charlotte Knights in the series finale, 9-5, to gain a split of the six-game set at PNC Field in Moosic.<\/p>\n
Jasson Dominguez also homered and drove in four runs for the RailRiders (28-20, 64-57), who scored in five consecutive innings starting in the bottom of the third.<\/p>\n
With two outs, Dominguez walked. J.C. Escarra hit a high fly ball that the center fielder lost in the sun and dropped in for a double, scoring Dominguez. Marco Luciano followed with a single to score Escarra and make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the fourth, again with two outs, the RailRiders extended their advantage. Kenedy Corona walked and stole second. After Anthony Volpe walked, Dominguez belted a three-run home run for a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Jason Matthews\u2019 RBI single in the top of the fifth put the Knights on the scoreboard. But Cabrera got the run back in the bottom-half of the inning with his first home run to right field.<\/p>\n
Charlotte struck for two runs in the top of the sixth to get within 6-3. But Dominguez singled home Ernesto Martinez Jr., who led off with a double, in the bottom of the sixth to give the RailRiders a 7-3 lead.<\/p>\n
A bunt groundout by Rikuu Nishida scored Andy Weber and pulled the Knights within 7-4. Again, the RailRiders answered. Luciano drew a leadoff walk and Cabrera hit his second home run of the game to right field for a 9-4 lead.<\/p>\n
Weber\u2019s one-out home run in the top of the ninth capped the scoring.<\/p>\n
Travis MacGregor started the bullpen game for the RailRiders and pitched three perfect innings with four strikeouts. Luis Gil (1-0) threw 1.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits, no walks and striking out three to get the win.<\/p>\n
Prior to Sunday\u2019s game, the New York Yankees recalled righthanded pitcher Brendan Beck. Pitchers Harrison Cohen and Trent Sellers were promoted to the RailRiders from Double-A Somerset.<\/p>\n
This week, the RailRiders play a key six-game series at Worcester starting Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. at Polar Park. The RailRiders are 1.5 games behind the Indianapolis Indians in the International League second-half standings, while the Red Sox are 3.5 back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oswaldo Cabrera homered twice among his three hits Sunday afternoon and the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders knocked off the Charlotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-271076","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\/271076","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=271076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}