No Doubt: SWB pumps out 17 hits in 7-2 win
TOLEDO, OH (June 23, 2022) –The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders pounded out seventeen hits en route to a 7-2 win over the Toledo Mud Hens. The RailRiders tallied six doubles while their pitching staff struck out seventeen batters. The RailRiders jumped on starter Nivaldo Rodriguez for a pair of runs in the
TOLEDO, OH (June 23, 2022) –The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders pounded out seventeen hits en route to a 7-2 win over the Toledo Mud Hens. The RailRiders tallied six doubles while their pitching staff struck out seventeen batters.
The RailRiders jumped on starter Nivaldo Rodriguez for a pair of runs in the top half of the second. Rob Brantly stayed hot with an RBI double to plate Ronald Guzmán. Armando Alvarez would score on a Miguel Andújar knock to take a 2-0 lead. Two innings later, SWB sent ten batters to the plate in the fourth.
Brantly drove home another with a ground-rule double. He’s now five-for-eight in the series with three doubles. Alvarez sent a towering home run halfway up the left field video board for two runs. Chris Owings later tallied his first RailRiders hit to bring home another. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre took a 6-0 lead out of the inning.
Armando CRUSHED this HOMER. 💥 pic.twitter.com/4MNkb0t9Lu
— SWB RailRiders (@swbrailriders) June 23, 2022
Ken Waldichuk didn’t allow a hit until the fourth. A solo homer got the Mud Hens on the board. Waldichuk struck out eight batters in five innings of work. The two teams traded runs in the seventh and eighth for an eventual seven-run, seventeen-hit night for the RailRiders. The SWB pitching staff struck out seventeen batters as well including twelve of the last fourteen outs recorded.
Waldichuk (2-2) got his second Triple-A win. Toledo starter Rodriguez (3-4) couldn’t get out of the fourth and took the loss. The two meet for game four on Friday night with Ryan Weber getting the start for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. All the action starts at 6:45 PM on the RailRiders pre-game show on swbrailriders.com.