Once again, a member of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders garnered an International League weekly award.<\/p>\n
Righthander Alexander Cornielle was named IL Pitcher of the Week for the period of Aug. 24-30. He was honored for his shutout performance Friday night at Worcester, going eight innings \u2014 a season-high for a RailRiders pitcher \u2014 and allowed just two hits with two walks and six strikeouts in a 2-0 win. It was the team\u2019s ninth shutout of the season.<\/p>\n
Since coming off the 60-day injured list and joining the RailRiders in June, Cornielle is 4-3 in 12 starts with a 2.83 earned-run average and 53 strikeouts in 54 innings. However, in August, he was 2-1 in four starts with a 1.57 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 23 innings.<\/p>\n
Cornielle joins Brendan Beck as RailRiders to be named IL Pitcher of the Week this season; Beck won the award three times (May 11-17, June 1-8, July 20-26) and also was chosen IL Pitcher of the Month for June. Yanquiel Fernandez (May 18-24) and Tyler Hardman (July 6-12) were selected IL Player of the Week this season.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders are home at PNC Field this week for a seven-game series against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. They are scheduled to play a doubleheader Tuesday beginning at 4:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once again, a member of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders garnered an International League weekly award. Righthander Alexander Cornielle was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-276302","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\/276302","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=276302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}