Lehigh Valley scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning to rally past the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 8-6, in a see-saw game Saturday night at PNC Field in Moosic.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs erased deficits of 3-2, 5-4 and 6-5 to stop the RailRiders\u2019 four-game winning streak. Coupled with Rochester\u2019s win over Syracuse on Saturday, the RailRiders (35-25, 72-62) fell into second place in the International League second-half standings, one game behind the Red Wings. Those teams begin a six-game series in Rochester on Monday.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the eighth inning, the RailRiders took a 6-5 lead when Yanquiel Fernandez led off with a single. Duke Ellis came in to pinch run and stole second and third, extending his single-season franchise record to 49 and career mark to 91. One out later, Kenedy Corona laid down a squeeze bunt to score Ellis.<\/p>\n
However, Lehigh Valley opened the top of the ninth with three straight hits off reliever Bradley Hanner (6-3). Pinch-hitter Gabriel Rincones Jr. doubled. Robert Moore had a RBI double to tie the game and when the ball got past right fielder Corona for an error, Moore went to third. Christian Cairo lined a single to center field past the drawn-in infield to score Moore and put the IronPigs on top, 7-6. With two outs, Carter Kieboom provided an insurance run with a RBI single that plated Cairo.<\/p>\n
Kirby Snead came on in relief in the bottom of the ninth for Lehigh Valley. He walked Marco Luciano to lead off the inning, but got a strikeout and game-ending double play to earn his second save. Max Lazar (5-1) was the winning pitcher.<\/p>\n
Xavier Rivas started for the RailRiders and allowed two runs with two outs in the top of the first inning on a RBI single by Kameron Misner and a wild pitch. But in the bottom of the second, Tyler Hardman hit a three-run home run to put the RailRiders in front, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Without the benefit of a hit in the top of the third, the IronPigs tied it. Colby Thomas walked and was wild-pitched to second. After Keaton Anthony walked, Thomas stole third and scord on a sacrifice fly by Kieboom. Lehigh Valley then took a 4-3 lead in the top of the sixth when Kieboom scored from third on a two-out throwing error by third baseman Max Schuemann.<\/p>\n
Back came the RailRiders in the bottom of the seventh. Jarred Kelenic singled with one out, stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Paul McIntosh. Anthony Volpe followed with a single to score Kelenic and tie the game at 4. With one out, Volpe stole second and Luciano was hit by a pitch. Following a pitching change, Oswaldo Cabrera singled to right field on a 3-2 pitch to score Volpe and make it 5-4 RailRiders.<\/p>\n
But Misner hit a two-out home run on a 1-2 pitch in the top of the eighth inning to pull Lehigh Valley even, 5-5.<\/p>\n
By winning Saturday, Lehigh Valley took a 12-11 lead in the season series. No matter what happens in Sunday\u2019s finale at 1:35 p.m., it will retain the IronRail Trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley scored three runs in the top of the ninth inning to rally past the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4341,51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-280658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ironpigs","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\/280658","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=280658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}