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Two Much Fun: RailRiders blank Mets twice Wednesday

SWB shuts out Syracuse 5-0 and 2-0, sweeping doubleheader to open series
Sean Boyle matched a career-high with nine strikeouts on Wednesday, helping SWB top Syracuse 2-0 in game two of a twinbill. (Cheryl Pursell)
April 30, 2025

SYRACUSE, NY (April 30, 2025) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders shut out the Syracuse Mets twice Wednesday night, winning 5-0 and 2-0 at NBT Bank Stadium. Three pitchers combined to blank the Mets in each game, leading the RailRiders to their second doubleheader sweep of the year. Box Score- Game One

SYRACUSE, NY (April 30, 2025) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders shut out the Syracuse Mets twice Wednesday night, winning 5-0 and 2-0 at NBT Bank Stadium. Three pitchers combined to blank the Mets in each game, leading the RailRiders to their second doubleheader sweep of the year.

Box Score- Game One

Box Score- Game Two

In game one, Allan Winans and Dom Hamel matched zeros over the first three innings. Hamel faced one over the minimum with a second inning walk. Winans allowed a pair of hits but worked around them both, thanks in part to a third inning 6-4-3 double play.

In the top of the fourth, Jorbit Vivas and Everson Pereira reached on back-to-back singles and T.J. Rumfield walked to load the bases. With one away, Vivas scored on a sac fly from Dominic Smith to stake the RailRiders to a 1-0 edge. Jose Rojas followed with his third home run of the year; a three-run shot to right giving Scranton/Wilkes-Barre a 4-0 lead.

Pereira led off the sixth with a single and scored on a base hit from Alex Jackson, who was back in the lineup for the first time since April 11, for a 5-0 advantage.

Winans worked 4.2 scoreless innings, allowing four hits and striking out four. Eric Reyzelman inherited a runner and stranded him on. Geoff Hartlieb (2-1) pitched the final 1.2 innings to cap the RailRiders fourth shutout bid of the season.

Hamel (1-2) took the loss after allowing the first four runs.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first in game two. A pair of singles set Rumfield up for an RBI single of his own, driving in Vivas. The RailRiders doubled the lead in the fifth. Vivas was hit by a pitch and scored on a Rumfield sacrifice fly for a 2-0 margin.

RailRiders starter Sean Boyle (3-3) made the limited lead stick, matching a career-high with nine strikeouts over 5.1 innings. Rob Zastryzny worked two-thirds of an inning in back of Boyle and Yerry De Los Santos pitched the last of the seventh for his first save of the season.

Brandon Sproat (1-3) allowed both runs and took the loss.

The RailRiders also swept a twinbill on April 13 against Rochester. SWB has now worked five shutouts over the first 28 games this year.

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Syracuse continue this series on Thursday at 6:35 P.M. Zach Messinger gets the nod for the RailRiders, while the Mets have yet to announce a starter.