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Held In Check: SWB loses 5-1 at Louisville Friday

Bats starter Plutko limits RailRiders to three hits in complete-game effort
Bryan De La Cruz hit his sixth home run of the year, but the RailRiders lost 5-1 Friday. (Kirsten Peters)
June 20, 2025

LOUISVILLE, KY (June 20, 2025) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders lost 5-1 to the Louisville Bats Friday night at Louisville Slugger Field. Bats starter Adam Plutko held the RailRiders to three hits in a complete game win. Box Score Bryan De La Cruz staked the RailRiders to a 1-0 edge in

LOUISVILLE, KY (June 20, 2025) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders lost 5-1 to the Louisville Bats Friday night at Louisville Slugger Field. Bats starter Adam Plutko held the RailRiders to three hits in a complete game win.

Box Score

Bryan De La Cruz staked the RailRiders to a 1-0 edge in the second with a leadoff home run off Plutko. The outfielder lined a 2-0 cutter to straightaway center for his sixth of the season.

The Bats tied the game on a fielder’s choice in the bottom half of the inning.

Louisville took a 3-1 lead in the fourth against Carlos Carrasco on an RBI single by Will Banfield and a fielder’s choice from Blake Dunn. The Bats added two more in the fifth on a Rece Hinds home run and a P.J. Higgins run-scoring single.

Following the De La Cruz home run, Plutko retired 16 consecutive batters. A Jose Rojas single in the seventh snapped the string but was the last base runner of the game for the RailRiders.

Plutko (2-4) earned the win with the Bats’ first nine-inning complete game since May 16, 2016. Carrasco (0-2) took the loss after allowing the first three runs over 4.1 innings of work.

Sean Boyle will start game five of the series for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre while Louisville counters with Aaron Wilkerson. First pitch is set for 7:15 P.M. The RailRiders return to PNC Field on Tuesday, June 24, to host the Worcester Red Sox. Tickets are available online at www.swbrailriders.com.