STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS<\/p>\n
The RailRiders fought back from a four-run deficit to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, but Jacksonville scored one in the seventh and three in the eighth to pull away from Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, 9-6, on Wednesday afternoon at PNC Field.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders (39-30) are two games behind Indianapolis (42-29), which beat Gwinnett, 6-5, on Wednesday afternoon, and 1\u00bd games behind Rochester (41-29), which was scheduled to face Buffalo on Wednesday at 6:05 p.m., in the International League second-half standings with four games to play. Syracuse (39-30) is also two games back and was scheduled to play Lehigh Valley on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. Worcester (38-30) is 2\u00bd games back and was scheduled to play Durham on Wednesday at 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n
After Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre tied the game at 5 in the bottom of the sixth, Jacksonville regained the lead in the seventh, as Brayden Taylor laced an RBI ground-rule double to right center for a 6-5 advantage.<\/p>\n
In the eighth, Brendan Jones hit an RBI single to right, Brandon Compton grounded an RBI double down the right-field line and Jonathon Long grounded out to score Compton for a 9-5 advantage.<\/p>\n
Marco Luciano lined an RBI single to right in the ninth to cut the deficit to 9-6, but Max Schuemann grounded into a double play and Tyler Hardman flied out to right to end the game.<\/p>\n
In the top of the first, Taylor hit a sacrifice fly to right that scored Cam Cannarella, and Juan Matheus lined a two-run double to left to give Jacksonville a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
In the bottom half of the inning, Jasson Dom\u00ednguez crushed a home run 430 feet to left center to cut the deficit to 3-1.<\/p>\n
The Jumbo Shrimp (30-40) answered in the second, as Cannarella hit an RBI ground-rule double to left center and Jonathon Long lined an RBI single to center to give Jacksonville a 5-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders chipped away when Luciano\u2019s sacrifice fly scored Dom\u00ednguez in the third and Dom\u00ednguez grounded an RBI single to right in the fourth. Then, Jarred Kelenic smashed a two-run homer to right to tie the game at 5 in the sixth.<\/p>\n
The series continues Thursday at 7:05 p.m. with Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Kyle Carr (0-2, 5.06) and Jacksonville\u2019s Jace Beck (1-2, 6.82) the probable pitchers.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Staff report<\/p>\n
Yanks reinstate Schmidt from IL<\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 The New York Yankees returned right-handed pitcher Clarke Schmidt from his rehabilitation assignment and reinstated him from the injured list Wednesday, aiming to integrate the 30-year-old into their bullpen for the postseason following his 14-month recovery from elbow surgery.<\/p>\n
Schmidt had an internal brace procedure on his ulnar collateral ligament July 11, 2025, and began minor league rehab Aug. 29. The 2017 first-round draft pick was used exclusively as a starter since 2023, but with Cam Schlittler, Max Fried, Carlos Rod\u00f3n and Gerrit Cole in the rotation, Schmidt will transition to relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long journey, a lot of work that goes into this. A lot of long days, early mornings,\u201d Schmidt said before Wednesday afternoon\u2019s game against the Minnesota Twins. \u201cI\u2019ve just been itching to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees designated popular multi-position player Oswaldo Cabrera for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for Schmidt. Cabrera missed most of the 2025 season with a severe ankle injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m blessed to have a lot of guys on this team that you just admire and respect and love doing the job with on a daily basis,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cOswaldo\u2019s right there at the top of that list.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS The RailRiders fought back from a four-run deficit to tie the game in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1423,51447,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-287689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-mlb","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\/287689","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=287689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}