Dirty Water: PawSox claim opener 11-8
MOOSIC, Pa. (May 21, 2019) - After a league-wide day off Monday, the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and Pawtucket Red Sox played a game Tuesday night that had the airs of two teams that never wanted to be without baseball again - an 11-8 win for the PawSox that took 3:49 to
MOOSIC, Pa. (May 21, 2019) - After a league-wide day off Monday, the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and Pawtucket Red Sox played a game Tuesday night that had the airs of two teams that never wanted to be without baseball again - an 11-8 win for the PawSox that took 3:49 to complete.
The top half of the first inning saw a lot of action off RailRiders starting pitcher
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre got back within three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning with a pair of runs to make it 8-5, later trailing 9-6 after five complete innings in the books. They plated a run in the seventh inning but could not draw closer than 9-7, with Pawtucket stretching its lead to 11-7 in the 9thinning before settling for an 11-8 victory.u1:p
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The RailRiders offense was highlighted by
The previous long 9-inning game this season for the RailRiders was 3:23, 26 minutes shorter than Tuesday's affair.u1:p
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The RailRiders and PawSox return to action Wednesday with game two of their three-game series. RHP